♀Anne Gautrot

Anne Gautrot (about 1689 – 19 December 1734) was an Acadian woman from Les Mines^W who married into the Brun family of Port-Royal and bore eight children there between 1710 and 1730. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Josèphe Brun (born 1710).

Life at Port-Royal

Anne was a daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Terriot. On 2 October 1708, at Port-Royal, she married Jean Brun, the son of Bastien Brun and the late Huguette Bourg. Their first child, Marie Josèphe, was born on 9 March 1710. That autumn a British and New England force captured Port-Royal^W, and the town became Annapolis Royal. The family stayed under British rule. The census of 1714 lists Jean Brun and his wife with a boy and a girl, presumably Marie Josèphe and Jean Baptiste, baptized in 1712, the first of seven more children baptized in the same parish between 1712 and 1730; the youngest, Amand Grégoire, was born in August 1730.

On 17 November 1727 their daughter Marie Josèphe, aged seventeen, married Paul Bourgeois, a young man living at Beaubassin. A month later, on 20 December 1727, Anne gave birth to a son, Pierre Paul, and the new son-in-law, Paul Bourgeois, was his godfather.

Anne died on 19 December 1734, about forty-five years old, and was buried at Annapolis Royal the next day. Jean outlived her by sixteen years and was still described as her widower when he died in 1751.

Notes

The burial age puts Anne’s birth about 1689. A compiled genealogy of the Acadians (Arsenault) gives the same year, the same parents and the same eight children, and makes her a native of Grand-Pré; her marriage act calls her “of the parish of Mines”. The register spells her surname Gautrot, Gautro, Gotrot and Goterot. The census of 1714 names only “Jean Brun et sa femme”, without the wife’s name.