♀Anne Emery dit Coderre

Anne Emery dit Coderre (24 December 1684 – 3 January 1685) was an infant of Contrecoeur, in the Montréal district of New France, who lived ten days. Anne was a daughter of Antoine Emery dit Coderre and Marie Devault. She was the half-seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-sister of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Her father had come to Canada as a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W and stayed to farm at Contrecoeur; her mother had crossed as one of the filles du roi^W. Anne was born there on 24 December 1684 and baptized on 30 December. At the font her sister Marie stood in for the godmother and held the child.

She died on 3 January 1685 and was buried at Contrecoeur the next day, 4 January. The burial act gives her age as about twelve days and names Nicolas Bonin, among those present, whom the register writes Bonnain.

Notes

Her age and birth date

The baptism act says Anne was born on 24 December, which makes her ten days old at death; the burial act’s “about twelve days” is a round figure. Tanguay’s dictionary lists her as born 30 December 1684, the day of her baptism, and buried 4 January 1685. The tree keeps 24 December from the baptism act.

Her mother’s name

The burial act gives her parents as Antoine Hemery and “Marie”, without the mother’s surname. The baptism act and the act of Marie’s marriage, four days later, give it as Deveau.