Peters, LeMonnier and Lastrapes families papers, 1711-1968 | Louisiana Research Collection

This collection consists of documents for the Peters, LeMonnier, and Lastrapes families. These three families are connected by marriage, and eventually all resided in New Orleans, Louisiana. With family origins in France, many of the family documents within the collection are in French. The collection contains significant correspondence between the Lastrapes family in New Orleans and their relatives, the Souët family in Castelnaudary, France, where the family originated.

The collection includes birth, baptismal, marriage and death certificates, personal letters, newspaper clippings that concern the families, business letters and documents, and other personal paper material such as pictures and autograph albums.