GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Louisiana: LA-18

Our Lady of the Rosary Church
12911 East Main Street
Larose, LA 70373

Phone: 985-693-3433
Email: holyrosarylarose@htdiocese.org

 

History: Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Larose, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with a few Native American parishioners (e.g. Chitamacha, Choctaw, Houma) in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux (Archives: Thibodaux, Louisiana).

1850s-1873	New Orleans archdiocesan priests from northern Lafourche Parish attended Bayou Lafourche Chapel, Bayou Lafourche
1873-1977 (transferred to Houma-Thibodaux Diocese)	New Orleans archdiocesan priests founded and administered Our Lady of the Rosary/ Notre Dame du Rosaire Church, Larose
1977-present	Houma-Thibodaux diocesan priests administered Our Lady of the Rosary

New Orleans archdiocesan priests at Notre Dame du Rosaire attended chapels in southern Lafourche Parish that served Native Americans in part:

Ca. 1910-1915 (became a parish)	Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church/ Golden Meadow Chapel, Golden Meadow
Ca. 1910-1915 (became a parish)	Cote Blanche Chapel, Cut Off/ Cote Blanche

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1873-ongoing

Volume: Few records among several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Our Lady of the Rosary and its attended missions.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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