♀Andree Brun

Andree Brun (baptized 21 August 1646 – died 25 July 1727) was an Acadian woman of Port-Royal, twice married, first to Germain Theriot and then to Emmanuel Hebert, some ten years her junior. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), by five separate lines of descent, through four of her children.

Life

She was a daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Brode, baptized at La Chaussée, in the Loudunais in western France, on 21 August 1646 as “Andree, fille de Vincent Brin et Renee Braud”, with Estienne Baranger as her godfather. The Port-Royal census of 1671 lists the couple, aged sixty and fifty-five, with “Andree 24” among their three married children. In her own household in the same census she was twenty-five, the wife of the farmer Germain Theriot, with one child, Germain, aged two; the household had five cattle, two sheep and two arpents under cultivation. A compiled online tree dates her marriage to Germain to 30 January 1667.

Germain died young, by about 1680, leaving her with three Theriot children. She married again, to Emmanuel Hebert. The census of 1686 shows the blended household: Emmanuel, thirty, and Andree, forty, with their own children Guillaume, six, Marguerite, five, Jean, three, Jacques, two, and a baby of one month not yet baptized, together with the children “de sa femme en premières nopces avec Germain Terio”: Germain, eighteen, Pierre, fifteen, and Catherine, twelve. The farm then had four arpents, fourteen cattle, twenty-one sheep and eight hogs.

The census of 1693 lists Emmanuel at forty and Andree at forty-six, with the sons Guillaume, twelve, Jean, nine, Jacques, eight, Alexandre, seven, and Martin, six (born about 1687), and Andree’s daughter Catherine Theriot, twenty-two, still at home. In 1698 Emmanuel was forty-four and Andree fifty-two, and the children listed with them were Catherine, Guillaume, Marguerite, Jean, Jacques and Alexandre. The roll of 1700 gives her as Emmanuel’s wife, aged fifty-three, and that of 1701 as aged fifty-five; in 1707 he is listed at Port-Royal with his wife and no children at home. The 1714 roll, as printed by Lanctôt, lists him as “Emmanuel Hébert et femme”; the roll itself does not name her.

Andree died at Port-Royal on 25 July 1727. She was buried there the next day, 26 July, aged about eighty, and the burial entry calls her the wife of Emmanuel Hebert, an inhabitant of the parish, so he was still living at Port-Royal in July 1727.

Lines of descent

Floyd descends from Andree by five separate lines, through four of her children: Jacques Hébert, Pierre Theriot, Germain Theriot and Marguerite Hébert. All five come down Floyd’s mother’s side, through Ida Serrette. The two nearest, nine generations up, both run through Jacques, her son by her second husband, Emmanuel Hebert; the other three are ten generations up. The lines meet again in Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), whose parents both descend from Andree, in Madeleine Ordalie Cormier (1827–before 28 December 1867) and in Ida Serrette, Floyd’s mother. One line, through her son Pierre Theriot, rests on a link that is probable rather than recorded, and so does the link from Amelia to her mother, Melia Thibodeaux.

Notes

A 1988 article in the Attakapas Gazette by Massignon quotes the parish register of La Chaussée, in the Loudunais in western France, for 25 January 1645: the baptism of a Madeleine, daughter of Vincent Brin and Vincende Braude. The names and the date fit her eldest sister, and the quotation would place the family’s French origin in that parish; the same register records Andree’s own baptism on 21 August 1646.