♀Anne Daudelin

Anne Daudelin (born 28 April 1667) was the daughter of Nicolas Daudelin and Anne Girard, born and baptized at Château-Richer in New France, who married René Prévost at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade at the age of sixteen. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Anne Prévost.

Early life

Her twin brother René Daudelin was born the same day, and the two were baptized together at Château-Richer on 28 April 1667. In the 1667 census the family on the Côte-de-Beaupré had ten head of cattle and forty arpents under cultivation, and the twins were three months old. The baptismal register writes the family name Dodelain. The Fichier Origine records her mother as one of the filles du roi^W, the young women sent to the colony under royal sponsorship to marry settlers, who arrived in 1665 and married Nicolas Daudelin at Château-Richer that October. In the 1681 census, when the twins were fourteen, the family was in the Seigneurie de Beaupré, with nineteen horned cattle and 37 arpents under cultivation.

Marriages

In 1682, when she was about fifteen, Anne was contracted in marriage to Thomas Lesieur, a man in his late thirties; the marriage is said to have been annulled on 11 October 1682. She married René Prévost at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on 9 January 1684; the register gives René’s age as 32 and Anne’s as 16. Tanguay’s dictionary^W lists ten children of the couple, baptized between 1687 and 1706, the eldest at Batiscan; by its account three died in childhood.

Later life

By 1705 the family was at Varennes, where their daughter Anne, written Marie Anne Prevost in the register and called of that parish, married Jean Baptiste Renaud dit Deslauriers on 26 November 1705, with René Prévost among the witnesses. The PRDH index of Québec parish registers lists the burial at Varennes in 1733 of a Marie Anne Daudelin, aged 64, with René Prévost named as her husband; the act itself is known only from the index.

Notes

First marriage

The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) records a marriage contract between Anne Daudelin and Thomas Lesieur in 1682. It gives no place, and the notary and the day are not known. Thomas Lesieur’s census ages are 25 in 1666, at Sainte-Famille on Île d’Orléans, and 38 in 1681, at the Hôtel-Dieu of Québec. The 1666 figure would make him about forty-one in 1682; the description “a man in his late thirties” follows the 1681 figure. The annulment on 11 October 1682 comes from a single online family profile, which cites no act, and no record of the annulment is known.

Census figures

The 1667 and 1681 figures are those printed by Benjamin Sulte in his Histoire des Canadiens-français, 1608–1880 (1882). The 1667 census writes the family name as Dodelin. The 1681 census names a daughter Marie, aged twelve; the tree holds two daughters born in 1669, Marie and Madeleine, and the census names no Madeleine. The parents’ ages in the two censuses are given on their own pages.