Charles Trudeau (politician)

[2] His name includes a French honorific, dit Laveau (i.e. "called" Laveau), a tradition often used to carry forward the name of a revered woman in the family; in this case Charles's paternal great-great-grandmother, Marie Catherine de Lavaux (1621, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France – 1688, Montreal, Québec, Canada).

[3] Charles Laveau Trudeau was the surveyor general of Spanish Louisiana from the early 1780s until he resigned in 1805 in the U.S.

His name on maps and grants is recorded as Don Carlos Trudeau.

During his tenure as recorder, James Mather resigned and Trudeau became interim mayor.

[4] He is also the supposed biological grandfather of Marie Laveau, whose mother was Marguerite D'Arcantel (aka Marguerite Toussainte d'Arcantel Henry), a free woman of color.