♀Adelaide Martin

Adelaide Martin (3 August 1796 – 18 October 1822) was a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of a Canary Islands family and an Acadian mother born in exile in France. Seven months after her own wedding in 1816, her widowed mother married Jean Baptiste Dupuis, who was himself an ancestor of the same later family through an entirely separate line. She was the third great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Maximilien Daigle (born about 1816).

Early life

Adelaide was born on 3 August 1796 and baptized at St. Joseph’s church in Baton Rouge on 2 October 1796 as Adelaida Carmelita, daughter of Andrés and Mariana Landry. Her elder sister Henrieta Leonore, born in February 1795, was baptized the same day. Her godparents were Joseph Doiron and Francisca Eulalia Granger, her mother’s half-sister.

Her parents, André Martin and Marie Anne Landry, had married at St. Gabriel on 19 May 1794. Her father’s parents were natives of the Canary Islands, among the Isleño^W settlers of Spanish Louisiana; the clerks at Baton Rouge wrote the family’s name as Martin, Martinez and Martines. Her mother was born and baptized at Saint-Servan, near Saint-Malo in Brittany, on 30 May 1768, the daughter of Pierre Paul Landry and Anne Josèphe Thériot; the register of her parents’ marriage names the bride’s parents as “Paul & Anna Anterio [sic], of St. Malo, France”, and her 1785 crossing to Louisiana rests on a compiled list of the exiles. Adelaide grew up in a large family: six brothers and sisters were born between 1795 and 1807, and a further sister, Emerite, is known from her own child’s baptism in 1820. At the baptism of her youngest brother, Luciano, in 1807, the godmother was recorded as Adalaide Martinez, Adelaide then being ten years old. Her father probably died in 1814: a burial at Baton Rouge on 6 November that year records an Andrés Martin, aged 40 and married, without naming his wife.

Marriage and family

On 27 May 1816, in the St. Gabriel church record, Adelaide, “nat. Baton Rouge”, daughter of André Martin and Marie Anne Landry, married Joseph Beloni Daigle, recorded there as André Joseph Daigle, son of François Alexandre Daigle and Adelaide “Burk” (Bourg). Both of his parents had been born in France during the Acadian exile. The clerks later called him Joseph “Audre” and Beloni, but the records show one man, always with the same wife.

On 31 December 1816 her mother, by then the widow of André Martin, married Jean Baptiste Dupuis, an Acadian, at Baton Rouge. His son Eloi Dupuis was an ancestor of Ida Serrette (1903–1990) on her father’s side, while Adelaide was her ancestor on her mother’s; the two lines shared no blood, but from the end of 1816 they were joined by that marriage.

Adelaide’s son Maximilien was born about 1816; no record of his baptism has been found. Another son was born on 23 May 1818 and baptized at St. Joseph’s, Baton Rouge, on 10 July 1818, with her brother Zéphirin Martin as godfather. In 1820 her husband stood as godfather, at St. Gabriel, to a child of her sister Emerite.

Death

Joseph Beloni Daigle and Adelaide Martin died two days apart, he on 16 October 1822 and she on 18 October, and a doctor’s receipt filed in their joint succession charges for nursing both of them during their last illness. The place of death is not stated; the succession was opened in West Baton Rouge, where the family was living in 1820.

Notes

The St. Gabriel marriage survives in two copies that disagree on the year, one giving 1816 and the other 1827. The later year cannot be right, since the couple’s second son was baptized in 1818. An online family tree gives 1822 as the year of death of both Adelaide and her husband; the docket cover of their succession gives the days.