Loustalot Facebook group

To touch base with Loustalot around the globe, here's good starting point. .

Loustalot Facebook group, click here. .

Connecting the dots -- how are the Louisiana and California Loustalots related?

I know that Louisiana and California aren't the only game in town when it comes to Loustalot landings on American soil, but it does seem that the two main branches landed there and prospered (tho I gotta say, procreation seems at lower levels than in the past, IYKWIM. . ) somewhat, at least in the early years of the 20th century. .

I've found a record at Ancestry from the New Orleans passenger lists (didn't I post that before? gotta check) of a Vincent Loustalot, b.1861 in France who departed from Pau, Basse-Pyrenees and arrived in New Orleans in around 1876. .that's earlier than the crowd who eventually populated  California (who were being born at that time) and claimed origination at Pau (at least my husband's family) but who may have actually lived up the road in the town of Lurbe in that region. .

that's more like it. . working as a cook in a bar in Stockton, California

In 1860, I've lost the Loustalots in Rhode Island (perhaps emigrated, died, or the name misspelled in the census and not actual Loustalots) but found a likely ancestor. .Louis Loustalot born in France in 1835, working as a cook in a bar in the San Joachin Valley. . now that's more like it.

A family name (Louis) the right origin (France) a cook (ALL Basque men cook, right?) in a bar (need I say more?) in California.. . in 1860. . definite beginnings. .