Whether names of Rousseau and Gaines are Cherokee.
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jsmithsays
Asking about broad surnames that might be found within the entire Cherokee population is not in-depth genealogy. You’d have to ask about specific individuals with those surnames and see who they are related to.
The only thing anyone could do with this information is run a quick, and very superficial, query on the two main final rolls used by Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band. In that case, there was a single Cherokee Minor By Blood with this Gaines surname and a single Freedmen listed on Dawes Roll. That represented the Western Cherokee communties around the turn of the 20th century. There were no Eastern Band Cherokee with that surname enumerated on the Baker Roll in the 1920s.
There are no Rousseaus enumerated.
Based on that very limited scope, no…the Rousseau and Gaines surnames were not well represented within the Cherokee population, historically speaking.
Asking about broad surnames that might be found within the entire Cherokee population is not in-depth genealogy. You’d have to ask about specific individuals with those surnames and see who they are related to.
The only thing anyone could do with this information is run a quick, and very superficial, query on the two main final rolls used by Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band. In that case, there was a single Cherokee Minor By Blood with this Gaines surname and a single Freedmen listed on Dawes Roll. That represented the Western Cherokee communties around the turn of the 20th century. There were no Eastern Band Cherokee with that surname enumerated on the Baker Roll in the 1920s.
There are no Rousseaus enumerated.
Based on that very limited scope, no…the Rousseau and Gaines surnames were not well represented within the Cherokee population, historically speaking.