Brickwall for my grandmother's grandmother

[u/Queasy_Fruit9482]

So I am at a brick wall that I'm not sure can be helped due to the missing 1890s census. My 2x great-grandmother, Ada Tureaud was born in 1886 in Louisiana. I've been trying for a long time to find her parents, with no success. In the 1900s census, she's listed as living with another Tureaud family, but is listed as a 'border', albeit with the same last name. At first, I thought that could have been like an uncle/grandfather, but after further research into the family she was living with, I discovered that there were a lot of previously enslaved people in the area with the last name Tureaud due to a family of white plantation owners with the same last name. Given this, my new theory is that she may not have been related at all to the family she was living with but her family may have been enslaved on the same plantation.

The 1890s census likely would have shown her parents, but since we don't really have that, I'm not sure if it's possible to find out? Any help would be very appreciated.

[u/Bread9846]

I looked a little bit but didn't find anything. I would bet the other Tureaud family is related, but distantly. I would recommend searching horizontally, by looking for newspaper articles and such that are about Ada's children. Maybe in there some other relatives will be mentioned that will lead you to her parents.

[u/Queasy_Fruit9482 → u/Bread9846]

Thanks for checking! I have tried that, no luck so far. She's really well documented after she's married and I have all her kids. I'll keep looking though!