♀Anne Deliercourt

Anne Deliercourt (fl. 1651–1670) was a settler’s wife at Montréal in New France, whose daughter Marie had the governor, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, and Jeanne Mance as godparents in 1653. The two were the founders of Ville-Marie, the settlement that became Montréal. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Marie Juillet (born 1653).

Family at Montréal

Blaise Juillet and Anne Deliercourt had four children baptised at Montréal between 1651 and 1658. Mathurine was baptised on 31 December 1651, with Lambert Closse^W and Mathurine Godé as godparents. Marie was baptised on 25 November 1653, about a month after her birth; her godparents were Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve^W, whom the register calls “Gouverneur”, and Jeanne Mance^W, and the act also names the Jesuit Simon Le Moyne and the priest Claude Pijart. Charles was baptised on 18 May 1656, with Charles Le Moyne^W, written “interprète” in the register, as godfather. Louis was baptised on 11 October 1658, and there the father is written “Juillet Avignon, Blaise, habitant”. The mother’s forename is not consistent in the records: she appears as Anne, Antoinette, Anne Antoinette and Anne Etiennette.

Tanguay’s dictionary gives her as Marie-Antoinette Liercour, born about 1634, daughter of Philippe Liercour and Jeanne Patin, of Ste. Marguerite in Beauvais.

Widowhood and second marriage

Blaise Juillet was dead by 30 June 1660, when his widow, named Antoinette Deliercourt in the act, married Hugues Picard, a sawyer, at Montréal; Lambert Closse, sergeant-major of the garrison, was a witness. Tanguay’s dictionary lists children of the second marriage, beginning with Michelle, born in July 1661.

On 23 July 1670 Marie Juillet married Pierre Lescuyer at Montréal, and the act names her as the daughter of the late Blaise Juillet and Anne Etiennette Deliercourt; Hugues Picard was among the witnesses, with Charles Le Moyne and the merchant Jacques Le Ber.

A later volume of Tanguay’s dictionary gives her burial at Montréal on 30 September 1707.