This church parish was founded in 1770 when a Spanish land grant set aside property for a Catholic Church and Cemetery to serve the people along the west bank of the Louisiana German Coast - people whose names had already been changed to French by the French priests. Kammer became Cambre' (my mother's maiden name); Wichner became Vicknair (my maternal grandmother's maiden name), Zwig became LaBranche and so on. Only if one traces his family genealogy in this part of the country can one find out if his descendants were from France or Germany.
My great-great-great-great grandfather, Jacques Perilloux, a French born soldier who came to New Orleans in the early 1740's to serve in a War, was one of the first people buried in this cemetery.