♀Anne Baudry

Anne Baudry (christened 24 June 1680) was the youngest of the eleven children of the Trois-Rivières taillandier Urbain Baudry dit Lamarche. She was the eighth great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Jeanne Baudry, Nancy Jane’s eighth great-grandmother.

Early life

Anne was christened at Trois-Rivières in New France on 24 June 1680, the daughter of Urbain Baudry and Madeleine Boucher. Her father, a maker of axes and other edge tools from Luché, had settled in the town in 1645 (a compilation of French immigrant origins gives that date); by the same compilation, her mother was a sister of Pierre Boucher^W, the governor of Trois-Rivières, which made Anne his niece. Anne was the last child of a marriage that had begun with a contract in 1647, thirty-three years before.

She was about two when her father died. He was buried at Trois-Rivières on 23 August 1682, and the register calls him a “bourgeois”. Her mother lived another nine years, dying on 13 September 1691 and being buried the next day, when Anne was about eleven; the burial entry names Guillaume dit Des Buttes as the eldest son of the dead woman. No marriage, children, death or burial is recorded for Anne.

Notes

A possible marriage

A database of Quebec parish registers gives a Marie Anne Baudry as marrying Jean Bougret at Boucherville on 25 July 1704; she may be this Anne, but that is only probable.