♀Anne Boudrot

Anne Boudrot (dates unknown) was an Acadian woman of the early eighteenth century, the wife of Joseph Hébert and the mother of five children known from the register of Beaubassin^W, among them a daughter who married there in 1748. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie-Josèphe Hébert (about 1730 – before 1760). Her parents are not known, and neither her birth nor her death has been dated.

Records

A later copy of the Acadian census of 1707 lists “Joseph Hébert / Anne Boudrot” as a couple with no children, holding twelve arpents of land, eight cattle, fifteen sheep and three hogs. The copy gives no ages and no place; an online transcription places the household at Beaubassin and adds ages for the pair that are not on the copy. On 19 June 1748, when her daughter “Marie Hébert” married Paul Daigle at Beaubassin, the register named the bride as the daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne Boudrot.

Children

In the acts of her other children the register writes her name Anne Marie Boudrot (once Marie Anne). It names a son, François, born on 17 May 1719 and baptized on 2 June, who married in 1742, and three daughters, Anne, Madeleine and Marguerite, who married at Beaubassin in 1733, 1745 and 1746. With Marie-Josèphe, that makes five children.

Notes

Her name and family

A compiled genealogy of the Acadian families calls her Marie-Anne Boudrot. A family tree gives her name as Marie Anne Françoise Boudrot and dates her marriage to 1706, but the marriage record itself has not been examined. The same tree gives the couple eleven children, among them an elder daughter born about 1710 who was also named Marie-Josèphe, and the two sisters are sometimes confused. No record naming that elder daughter has been found.

Two other acts, of 1712 and 1742, name an Anne Marie Boudrot as the wife of a Jean Hébert and of a Michel Hébert, so either the clerks wrote the father’s name wrongly or there was more than one couple of that name. For that reason the larger family that some trees give her is unproven.