Peerage Record – 40645

     Charlotte Surget Shields was born on 30 August 1853 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She was the daughter of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² She died on 3 September 1854 at age 1 at New York City, New York, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She was buried in September 1854 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²

     Henry Shields was born on 12 December 1851 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was the son of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² He died on 28 June 1860 at age 8 at Point Clear, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was buried in June 1860 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²

     Edward Shields was born on 5 July 1850 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was the son of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² He died on 17 September 1853 at age 3 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was buried in September 1853 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²

     Wilmer Henry Shields was born on 2 May 1849 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was the son of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² He married Evelina Hunter Tucker on 30 November 1876 at ‘Blandome’, Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A.^G.² He married Sarah Ogden on 27 February 1892 at Hayes Station, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.² He died on 20 November 1919 at age 70 at New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was buried in November 1919 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²

     Francis Surget Shields was born on 6 March 1846 at ‘Richland’, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was the son of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² He married Mary Koontz on 14 May 1879 at Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.² He died on 13 June 1922 at age 76 at ‘Green Leaves’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was buried in June 1922 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²
     Educated in France. Served in the Civil War.² He lived in 1920 at New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.^G.^3,2

     Gabriel Benoist Shields was born on 22 September 1844 at ‘Richland’, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was the son of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² He died on 1 October 1855 at age 11 at ‘Montebello’, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was buried in October 1855 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²
     Likely that his first name was Gabriel – named after his father – and called Benoist, his middle name. His sister Miss Ellen attached a handwritten tag to the back of a portrait of a young man identifying the subject as Gabirel Benoist Shields. Benoist died at age 11. It is highly unlikely the portrait is of Gabriel Benoist Shields, Sr. because his father died when he was very young and his mother would not have spent that much money to have her son’s portrait done. None of his siblings had childhood portraits done. Conclusion – the portrait is this Gabriel Benoist Shields, not his father as a child.²

     Ellen Shields was born on 25 January 1841 at Highlands Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She was the daughter of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² She died on 8 February 1924 at age 83 at New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She was buried in 1924 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²
     She was also known as Ellen Shields.²

     Elise Dunbar Shields was born on 31 March 1843 at ‘Claremont’, Louisiana, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She was the daughter of Major Gabriel Benoist Shields and Catharine Surget.² She died on 9 February 1897 at age 53 at New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.^G.² She was buried in February 1897 at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.²

     Charlotte Bingaman Linton married Francis (Frank) Surget, son of Francis Surget and Eliza Dunbar, on 30 March 1848 at Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 She died circa 1909 at Bordeaux, France^G.²
     Her married name became Surget.² She was also known as Charlotte Linton.²

     Levin Rothrock Marshall II was born on 6 January 1836 at Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He was born on 6 January 1836 at Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He married Charlotte Dunbar, daughter of Dr. William Dunbar and Mary Field, on 12 April 1858.² He died in July 1868 at age 32 at Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2 He died in 1868 at Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.^G.^1,2