BACCARDAX

THE FIRST BACCARDAX ARRIVED IN POIRIERVILLE ON ILE MADAME IN THE 1850'S. MARTIN BACCARDAX WAS OF BASQUE DESCENT AND ORIGINALLY CAME FROM SARE, FRANCE. THIS TOWN IS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF FRANCE NEAR THE BORDER WITH SPAIN.

MARTIN BACCARDAX & HIS WIFE OLIVE WOULD BE THE GREAT-GRANDPARENTS OF REV. PETER BACCARDAX, PASTOR OF THE PARISH OF STE. CROIX. ALL THE BACCARDAX ARE DESCENDANTS OF THIS COUPLE.

REV. PETER BACCARDAX IS THE SON OF ALEXANDER BACCARDAX AND JEANNE BOUDREAU AND NEPHEW OF MONSIGNOR ALFRED BOUDREAU, JEANNE'S ONLY BROTHER. REV. PETER BACCARDAX HAS BEEN IN THIS PARISH SINCE 1957.

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