♂Abraham Landry

Abraham Landry (born about 1678) was an Acadian settler of Port-Royal and later of Pisiguit^W, the settlement on the Avon River in the Minas Basin. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through his children René Landry (born 1716) and Marie Madeleine Landry (born about 1723).

Life

He was a son of René Landry and Marie Bernard of Port-Royal. The census of 1700 found his mother a widow of fifty-five, with Abraham, aged twenty-four, among the six children still at home; the census clerk wrote her late husband’s name as Abraham, and a later hand corrected it to René in the margin. By 1703 he headed his own household at Les Mines, listed next to a Germain Landry, very likely the brother counted with him in 1700. He married Marie Guilbeau and settled at Pisiguit, in the parish of l’Assomption. The registers of Grand-Pré, which survive where those of Pisiguit do not, record the baptism of their son Alexandre, born 19 December 1708 and baptized at Pisiguit in April 1709, and the marriages at Grand-Pré in 1732 of two sons: Alexandre to Anne Flanc in February and Abraham to Élisabeth LeBlanc in June. The elder Abraham signed the February entry as the groom’s father; at the June marriage he made his mark. He was a witness again on 18 February 1737, when his son René married Marie Thériot at Grand-Pré, and the register still placed him and Marie Guilbeau in the parish of l’Assomption at Pisiguit. Stephen A. White’s dictionary of Acadian families names Marie Madeleine, who married Désiré LeBlanc about 1740, as another of their daughters; no surviving record states it, since the Pisiguit registers are lost, and a shared online tree gives her other parents, Jean Landry and Claire LeBlanc of Grand-Pré. An online family tree gives his death as about 1740.

Lines of descent

Two lines of descent run from him to Floyd Amatus Delahorne. One, eight generations up, runs through his son René Landry (born 1716) to Floyd’s mother, Ida Serrette (1903–1990). The other, nine generations up, runs through his daughter Marie Madeleine Landry (born about 1723) to Floyd’s father, Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929); that link rests on Stephen A. White’s compiled dictionary of Acadian families, as above. The two lines meet again in Floyd, whose parents both descend from him.