Dear Judy -- thanks for the head's up. .I have recently heard of a branch of the Loustalots that "went south." LOL! This could be a lead on them. .

God Bless,
Melinda Loustalot

My grandfather's sister, Anna Francine Dupuy married a Joseph Capdevielle in France. They had a daughter named Louisa. Louisa married a Bernard Loustalot. I believe he was born in Feas, France in 1886. They lived in La Puente, California for many years before they both died.
There are two daughters plus their families still living in California.
Coincidently, we had a close family friend named Emile Arnautou. He came to California from France but later lived in New York and Canada. He was high up at Met Life Ins. Co.
Don't know if this helps or not.
Good luck, Jackie

Hi, Jackie,

Yes, that does help; Emile Arnautou is my mom's cousin. My grandmother (my mom's mother) had two sisters, Gracieuse and Marie. Marie married Cyrille Arnagou; Marie and Cyrille had three children, Emile, Ferdinand and Maria.

That's the Emile Arnautou your family knew.

When I was a teenager, one time when we took a trip to New York, we visited Emile. But, I remember Emile and his wife Lena comeing to family dinners before that, when I was younger.

Do you still keep in touch with the descendants from your family from France? I moved to Honolulu from Los Angeles in 1979 and really haven't kept in touch with any of my cousins on either side of the family (on my mom's side or my dad's side).

One of my cousins on my mom's side found and contacted me after I'd started doing genealogical research; I had posted on Rootsweb/Ancestory in the Los Angeles message board asking for an obituary lookup after her grandfather (my mom's brother) passed away. We have since lost touch again.

When we were in touch, she had given me the e-mail addresses for our cousins and I was e-mailing them genealogical info about our family as I'd find it, but I'm the only one who seems to be interested. Could also be that they weren't interested in hearing from me after 25 years of not hearing from me!

Jeanne

Hi, Jackie,

Yes, that does help; Emile Arnautou is my mom's cousin. My grandmother (my mom's mother) had two sisters, Gracieuse and Marie. Marie married Cyrille Arnagou; Marie and Cyrille had three children, Emile, Ferdinand and Maria.

That's the Emile Arnautou your family knew.

When I was a teenager, one time when we took a trip to New York, we visited Emile. But, I remember Emile and his wife Lena comeing to family dinners before that, when I was younger.

Do you still keep in touch with the descendants from your family from France? I moved to Honolulu from Los Angeles in 1979 and really haven't kept in touch with any of my cousins on either side of the family (on my mom's side or my dad's side).

One of my cousins on my mom's side found and contacted me after I'd started doing genealogical research; I had posted on Rootsweb/Ancestory in the Los Angeles message board asking for an obituary lookup after her grandfather (my mom's brother) passed away. We have since lost touch again.

When we were in touch, she had given me the e-mail addresses for our cousins and I was e-mailing them genealogical info about our family as I'd find it, but I'm the only one who seems to be interested. Could also be that they weren't interested in hearing from me after 25 years of not hearing from me!

Jeanne

Hi Jeanne,
Thanks for the response. It is so interesting to find mutual friends on these ancestry boards.
Lena and Emile were very close friends with my parents. I remember them well. I know that we all lived in Alhambra, CA for awhile. That must be where they met. Lena lived until she was 100.
My mother was born in Escot, France which is close to Eysus. I have been doing quite a bit of genealogy on her side of the family. (Pouquette, Manaut, Lacourreye). In fact she had a cousin move to Hawaii years ago. He has since died but his wife and son still live there. He has a lot of relatives there. His name wss Manaut. My great grandmother was a Manaut.
I have also tried to research my father's side of the family with no luck at all. (Dupuy, Pedelaborde, Candalot, Lassalle). His mother was supposedly from Lourdios, but I find no record of her birth there. I can't find his father at all. Very frustrating. If any one out there can help in this area, I would love it.
I do sort of keep in touch with 2 cousins in France. My mother's relatives.
Good luck with your research,
Jackie

I did read that Lena had passed away at 100 years of age. She'd been living in a senior citizens' community in Boca Raton, Florida, I think.

When I was in high school and was taking French, I corresponded with my cousin Marie Louise Lagrave. She's one of the grandchildren of my grandmother's brother; her father, the brother's son, had inherited the family home and farm in Eysus.

I was in touch with some Arnautou relatlives for awhile (cousins from one of my grandmother's sisters side). One of them, Phil, sent me some photograhs of the Lagrave family home in Eysus when he went to visit the relatives that still live there.

I haven't done any research at all in France and the information I have on the Lagrave family is from a genealogical chart that Phil Arnautou sent me. His sister, Suzanne, sent me copies of my grandparents' marriage certificate and our great grandparents' marriage certificate from Notre Dame de Victoire in San Francisco. She also sent me a copy of a picture of our great grandparents when they were older, years after they'd left San Francisco and had gone back to the farm in Eysus. My great grandmother looked so exactly like my mother, it was like looking at her face old fashioned clothing!

Phil and Suzanne area grandchildren of Emile's brother Ferdinand.

Out of curiosity, I looked in the phone book just know to see if any Manauts were listed. There are two listed - a Frank J. and a John P., an attorney. There could be more, but they have unlisted phone numbers.

I'm really glad you found my thread and resonded to me. I'd like to keep in touch.

Jeanne

Hi Jeanne and Jackie,

I got automated notifications of your recent postings on this message board. It is so strange to hear you talk about familiar places and names from far away, in space and time.
I know Escot and Eysus. My family comes from Osse-en-Aspe, a mile away from Lourdios. When I was a kid, our family walks in Pau would bring us near the Arnautou jewelry store, where my father had bought my mother's engagement ring. She would tell me the story over and over in front of the window panes, how shy and uncomfortable he was about the whole business after over 7 years in Indochina. are your Arnautou from Pau? The jewelry store still exists today. Some of my ancestors had relatives connected with the Labrucherie. Some of their descendants are now famous in Argentina. By the way, do you know what the surname means in Bearnese?
All the best,
Jean-Luc

Hi, Jean-Luc!

Where are you from? I have a cousin named Jean-Luc who is relatead through my grandmother on the Lagrave side of the family. He has a twin brother named Jean-Marc and are from Quebec. Their father, Frank married my mother's cousin, Anna.

Are you the same Jean-Luc?

Yes, I believe this is the same Arnautou family that came from Pau.

Jeanne

That's wonderful that the Arnautuou's jewelry store is still there. The Lagrave home that my grandmother grew up in is still in Eysus and still in the family. I have cousins who live there.

Isn't the internet wonderful that we can correspond with people half-way around the world and find something in common with them?

Jeanne