♀Anne Arsenault

Anne Arsenault (died before June 1748) was an Acadian woman of the parish of Beaubassin^W, at the head of the Bay of Fundy, the daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Anne Boudrot and the wife of Paul Daigle. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Paul Daigle (born about 1723).

Marriage and children

Paul Daigle and Anne Arsenault were married at Beaubassin on 18 November 1720. Paul was the son of the late Olivier Daigle and Jeanne Blanchard of Port-Royal, and Anne the daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Anne Boudrot of the parish of Beaubassin; the marriage act calls her father Jean, but the censuses of Beaubassin of 1700 and 1714 name him Pierre. The census of 1714 lists her at Beaubassin in her parents’ household, with five siblings. Pierre, their first known child, was baptized at Beaubassin on 29 August 1721, the day he was born. The register gives his father’s name as Pierre Daigle and his mother’s as Anne Arseneau, with Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Bourg as godparents; he is counted as their son because the mother’s name and the date fit the marriage, and no Pierre Daigle married to an Anne Arseneau is known. Their son Paul was born about 1723.

Death

She had died by 19 June 1748, when her son Paul married Marie-Josèphe Hébert, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne Boudrot, at Beaubassin. The register names the groom as the son of Paul Daigle and the late Anne Arsenault, “ses père et mère de cette paroisse”. No record of her baptism or burial has been found. A compiled Acadian genealogy, as quoted on WikiTree, says that her husband married twice at Beaubassin.