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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Rousseau (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Rousseau. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Parishes ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring parishes.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home parish. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next parish to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the parish to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring parishes instead of the parish in which they lived:  their home parish contained property and probate records; the parish to the east contained birth and death records; the parish to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Rousseau is located in Lafourche Parish.

To see how the shape of Louisiana's parishes may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following parishes adjoin and form the boundaries of Lafourche Parish: Assumption, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist & Terrebonne.

Below are the parishes that are near Rousseau. For each of these parishes, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rousseau:

  • Lafourche Parish     (The home parish of Rousseau)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Acadia
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Acadia is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
    • Thibodaux
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Godchaux
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Godchaux is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godchaux
    • Raceland
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Kraemer
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Raceland Junction
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Raceland Junction is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raceland Junction
    • Bayou Blue
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Bayou Blue is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Blue
    • Chackbay
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Chackbay is located in Lafourche Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chackbay
    • Mathews
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lockport
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Gheens
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Larose
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Cut Off
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Ascension Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Aben
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Aben is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aben
      • Aben has also been known as:
      • Abend
    • Burnside
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cofield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Cofield is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cofield
    • Donaldsonville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Darrow
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Sorrento
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Barton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Barton is located in Ascension Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
  • Assumption Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Chula
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Chula is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chula
    • Labadieville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Cedar Grove Plantation
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Brule
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Brule is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brule
    • Leche
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Leche is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leche
    • Supreme
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Supreme is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Supreme
    • Georgia
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Georgia is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgia
    • Albemarle
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Albemarle is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albemarle
    • Himalaya
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Himalaya is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Himalaya
    • Ingleside
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Ingleside is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleside
    • Percle
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Percle is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Percle
    • Rosedale
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Rosedale is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
    • Woodlawn
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Woodlawn is located in Assumption Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn
  • Saint Charles Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Des Allemands
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Bayou Gauche
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Bayou Gauche is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Gauche
    • Vallier
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Vallier is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vallier
    • Paradis
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Camardelle
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Camardelle is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camardelle
    • Boutte
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Killona
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Montz
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Montz is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montz
    • Taft
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Taft is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
    • Chaudiere Casse
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Chaudiere Casse is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaudiere Casse
    • Tabatiere Perdue
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Tabatiere Perdue is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tabatiere Perdue
    • Hahnville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Gypsy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Gypsy is located in Saint Charles Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsy
  • Saint James Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • South Vacherie
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • South Vacherie is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Vacherie
    • Lagan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Lagan is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagan
    • North Vacherie
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • North Vacherie is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Vacherie
    • Saint James
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hester
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Hester is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hester
    • Vacherie
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Convent
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Paulina
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Burton Lane
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Burton Lane is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burton Lane
    • Lutcher
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Lutcher is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutcher
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,127 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lutcher <1>
    • Uncle Sam
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Chatman Town
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Chatman Town is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatman Town
    • Free Town
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Free Town is located in Saint James Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Free Town
  • Saint John the Baptist Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Wallace
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Wallace is located in Saint John the Baptist Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
    • Mount Airy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Garyville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Edgard
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Reserve
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Laplace
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Frenier
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Frenier is located in Saint John the Baptist Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenier
  • Saint Martin Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Bayou Geneve
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Bayou Geneve is located in Saint Martin Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Geneve
    • Stephenville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Stephenville is located in Saint Martin Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stephenville
  • Saint Mary Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Amelia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Morgan City Beach
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Morgan City Beach is located in Saint Mary Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan City Beach
    • Morgan City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Berwick
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Fairville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Fairville is located in Saint Mary Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairville
  • Terrebonne Parish
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.
    • Gray
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Magnolia Plantation
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Magnolia Plantation is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Plantation
    • Minerva Plantation
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Minerva Plantation is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva Plantation
    • Schriever
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Bayou Cane
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Bayou Cane is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Cane
    • Broadmoor
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Broadmoor is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadmoor
    • Ardoyne
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Ardoyne is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardoyne
    • Houma
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Houma is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 32,467 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Houma <1>
    • Chacahoula
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Chacahoula is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacahoula
    • Donner
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Bourg
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Gibson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Theriot
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Theriot is located in Terrebonne Parish
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Theriot

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rousseau, see our Parish-by-Parish Page for Rousseau.

Cemeteries Near Rousseau ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rousseau.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Rousseau - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rousseau covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.

  • Bell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Third Zion Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Garden of Memories Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Halfway Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Francis Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Francis Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Francis Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Bayou Cane.
    • The St. Francis Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Francis de Sales Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1234261 <2>
  • Hadley Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Trosclair Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (72 more) ...
    • Myrtle Grove Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Matherne Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Mulberry Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Rousseau in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rousseau.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Rousseau, with the one closest to Rousseau listed first.

  • Ewing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Ewing is located in Lafourche Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ewing
  • Thibodaux Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Thibodaux Junction is located in Lafourche Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thibodaux Junction
  • Schriever
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Thibodaux
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Raceland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Central
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Central is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central
  • Ellendale
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Ellendale is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellendale
  • Chacahoula
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Chacahoula is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacahoula
  • Crescent
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Crescent is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent
  • Houma
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Houma is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houma
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 32,467 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Houma <1>
  • Southdown
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Southdown is located in Terrebonne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southdown
  • Lockport
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rousseau. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rousseau.

Newspapers Published in Rousseau ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rousseau.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rousseau, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rousseau.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Rousseau:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Rousseau, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rousseau) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.