♂André Hordouille

André Hordouille (about 1565 – 8 March 1630) was a man of the Aisne, in northern France, whose family moved away from it in 1597 and whose son Quentin became a master carpenter at Montreuil, east of Paris. He was probably the eleventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Quentin Hordouille (died 1625).

From the Aisne

André is said to have been born about 1565. He married Madeleine LeNoir, a native of Leuze in the Aisne and the daughter of Jean LeNoir and Marguerite Thiébault, and in 1597 the family moved away from the Aisne. He could write his own name, and signed it “Andrien Hordolle”. By 1615 his son Quentin was settled at Montreuil. André outlived that son by five years: he died or was buried on 8 March 1630, and Madeleine survived him by three years.

The family

André Hordouille and Madeleine LeNoir’s son Quentin Hordouille became a master carpenter at Montreuil and married Marie Souhaitté there on 15 November 1615. The couple had four children between 1617 and 1625. Quentin died or was buried on 4 September 1625, seven weeks after the birth of his youngest son, Eustache, in a year when plague is said to have struck Montreuil. His daughter Marie, then about three, grew up to cross with her own family to New France.

Notes

Sources for his life

His signature (“signe Andrien Hordolle”), his death or burial on 8 March 1630 (“d/s 08-03-1630”), his wife’s parents and her birth at Leuze, the family’s departure from the Aisne in 1597, and his son Quentin’s trade, marriage, children and death or burial on 4 September 1625 come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in the entry for his granddaughter Marie Hordouille. His birth about 1565 and the plague of 1625 at Montreuil rest on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here.

His name

He signed as Andrien Hordolle. The Fichier Origine writes the family name Hordouille and also Hourdouil.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from his son Quentin runs through Quentin’s daughter Marie, her daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard, Françoise-Madeleine’s daughter Andrée Angélique Jeanne and Jean-Baptiste Godin, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (p. 747) places among the children of Andrée and Gabriel Godin. Bona Arsenault’s list of their children does not name him, so the line is probable rather than proved.