[Dixielandjazz] Them pesky Bocages

[Don Kirkman]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:55:22 EST, TBW504 at aol.com wrote:

>Few people know more about the Bocages than Kevin Herridge an ex-Brit now a 
>US citizen married to a Cajun. He is in contact with the surviving Bocage 
>members and by a strange coincidence  is related by marriage! Try the following for 
>size from my book "The Song for Me" greatly assisted by my friend Kevin:
>THE BOCAGE FAMILY
>The firm of O. J. Bocage & Sons, boat builders, was well established in 
>Algiers by the end of the nineteenth century. The boatyard was on the 500 block of 
>Powder Street facing the river, with the family living in adjacent residential 
>accommodation. The senior member, Octave Janvier Bocage, was born in Algiers 
>on April 1, 1835. He and his wife Germine1 (nee Gayot) had no fewer than 21 
>children, two of whom, Leopold Bocage (born June 25, 1859 - died Oct. 26, 1923)) 
>and Octave J. Bocage Jr. (born 1871), were partners in the business. Although 
>Leopold was christened as such he rather confusingly went by the name of 
>"Paul". He made musical instruments and played guitar in bands around Algiers 
>according to a Tulane interview. He married Emilie Lamothe (aka as Elizabeth, born 
>1859) in 1885 and witnesses were Jules and Joseph Manetta of another famous 
>musical family. 

Sorry to interrupt a terrific post, but was Emilie Lamothe perhaps
related to Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe Morton?  I assume the Creole
citizenry of Algiers and NO was small enough that there was a lot of
mingling of families in those days.

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Don
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