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From: "Terry Spear" <>
Subject: [Huguenot] Charles Adolphus Roux and Family of Poinsatte
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:25:04 -0600

I am new to this list, but have had such a time trying to find anything
concerning my great grandfather and my mother finally told me he was a
Huguenot from Alsace Lorraine, so found your list and hope someone out there
knows something more than I do! Charles Adolphus Roux and a brother and
his mother were from Alsace Lorraine though the family lived in Paris for
awhile. Have no idea of other names of family members or what happened to
the father, but the three came to the states and settled in Fort Wayne,
Indiana where there was supposed to have been a large Huguenot settlement.
Charles's brother married and had a daughter, Irene, who married a Leo
Poinsatte....the Poinsattes were also from Alsace Lorraine and all the
families spoke French when they visited. Charles Roux married Emma
MacNeill, originally from Canada but whom he met in Chicago, Illinois as she
was working as a maid for a wealthy family. She was born about 1869 and
Charles would have been around that age as well. He was six years old when
he came to the States. The Poinsattes all continued to live in Fort Wayne,
Indiana and had many successful businesses, Leo had the liquor
distributorship for the state and for Seven-Up some years later, but
sometime after 1914, the whole family changed the spelling of their name to
Poinsette. Roux had a successful butcher business in Portage-la-Prairie,
but ran off with Emma MacNeill's cousin after Emma and Charles had three
children, Louise Porteous Roux, twin sister, Lorretta Wayne Roux and Donald
Roux and several years of marriage. He married the cousin and had two more
children, but names are unknown. Lorretta and Louise had a sister act where
they would sing the France's national anthem and they called themselves,
Lorretta and Louise La Roux. A third cousin wrote concerning Emma's father
and someone in the family had written that Emma married a Charles La Roux.
Sometime later, the La was dropped because my mother said her mother said
her name was Roux. Anyone searching for anyone on this line? Thanks for
any help anyone can be!....Terry Spear of Crawford, Texas

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