Cajuns in the Piney Woods

Fifteen years after the 1755 Expulsion, Vincent Landry, listing his occupation as "singer of the Church" relocated his family from Nova Scotia to a distributary of the Mississippi River known as Bayou Lafourche (the fork). Within a few years Vincente Perez and an extended group sailed from Spain's Canary Islands and amiably settled in next door. Resultant neighborly intermarriages coupled with those of the German immigrant Himel and Hoffman families combined to produce a heritage known as Cajun, a verbal attempt at "(A)Cadien". Later, moving up-river to south Mississippi, these Cajuns met and married Bradys and Walshes, descendants of Scotch-Irish residents of the Natchez District, and Robinsons, Newmans, Mercers and Dittos living on the Amite River's East Fork, bringing the table setting to today's full circle.

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