ST. CHARLES PARISH, LOUISIANA LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES and SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUSTranscribed by Tom Blake, April 2001PURPOSE. Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. It is possible to locate a free person on the St. Charles Parish, Louisiana census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census.Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 St. Charles Parish, Louisiana census can check this list to learn if their ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the Parish. If the ancestor is not on this list, the 1860 slave census microfilm can be viewed to find out whether the ancestor was a holder of a fewer number of slaves or not a slaveholder at all. Whether or not the ancest...
