Rosalie

Date of birth:

1843* (estimated)

Place of Origin:

Oak Alley (creole)

Gender and Designation:

Female (Mulatto)

Skills or Duties:

Domestic

Relationships:

Mother: Meana (Mulatto); Siblings: Raphael, Charles, Marie Josephine, Elizabeth, and Genevieve

Notes:

Age 5 (R8.198); Age 16 (R5.075); Age 16 (R5.073); Age 16 (R5.074); Age 16 (R5.081)

References:

R8.198
- Jacques Telesphore Roman Succession, St. James Clerk of Court, Probate 0683
- Value: $1500 (includes mother and four siblings)
- Lists Meana as Rosalie's mother
- Lists Rosalie, Raphael, Elizabeth, Charles, and Genevieve as siblings
R5.075
- Inventory of Jacques Telesphore Roman's New Orleans home (owned by Henri Roman and Marie Octavie Roman Buchanan), New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 132
- Value: $1,200
R5.240
- Settlement and Partition of Oak Alley Plantation, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 174
- Purchase price: $14,750
- Vendor: Estate of Jacques Telesphore Roman; Vendee: Henri Jacques Roman
R5.081
- Bill of Sale, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 175
- Purchase price: $1,700
- Lists Rosalie as mulatto
- Lists Rosalie as a domestic and seamstress
R5.073
- Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 107
- Listed as being located at the Roman's home in New Orleans
- Lists Rosalie as mulatto
R5.074
- Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 108
- Listed as being located at the Roman's home in New Orleans
- Lists Rosalie as mulatto
R17.006.21
- Letter from Celina Pilie Roman to her son Henri Roman, Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LaRC 179 Roman Family Papers
- Dated: January 3, 1863
- Celina wrote that Rosalie threatened to leave multiple times but refused to go. Celina slapped her in an attempt to make her leave but Rosalie still refused to leave.
R17.006.23
- Letter from Celina Pilie Roman to her son Henri Roman, Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LaRC 179 Roman Family Papers
- Dated: January 7, 1863
- Celina wrote that Rosalie has tricked her but refuses to give details. Rosalie was described as a "dunce" but shipped her trunk to the plantation before leaving the city altogether. Henri was instructed to "put her to work in the fields and punish her well for me [Celina]".