Information Sheet

 

 

R            Saucier, Walter J.

12                    Saucier family genealogy, 1969.

                                    One folder, 32 pages.

 

 

 

This is “A List of Descent From Marie Jeanne Saucier by Her Marriages to Antoine Decelle Duclos and Jean Baptiste du (des) Martin.”  It includes all of the Duclos (Declue) family of Wash­ington County, Missouri, through the nineteenth century.  This is a photocopy from the Washing­ton County Li­brary.

 

Members of the Saucier and Duclos families arrived in Quebec from France in 1666 and 1645, respectively.  Members from both families served in the French military throughout the sev­enteenth and eighteenth centuries.  Francois Saucier, an engineer, designed Fort Chartres, near Kaskaskia, Illinois, in 1752.  Alexander Decelle Duclos commanded French troops at Fort Chartres prior to his death in 1775.  Descendants of these men located in Ste. Genevieve, Mis­souri, by the 1750s.

 

Walter J. Saucier, who helped compile the genealogies of the families, gave copies to the Washington County Library’s historical collection.  Saucier recommends J. F. McDermott, ed., Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), for further information on Francois Saucier and Marie Jeanne Saucier.

 

 

 

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