♀Anne Landry

Anne Landry was an Acadian of Port-Royal, Nova Scotia, and the wife of Rene Blanchard of Les Mines. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through her daughter Marie Blanchard (born 1709) and her son René Blanchard (born 1701).

Port-Royal and Grand-Pré

Anne and her husband were living at Grand-Pré by August 1709, when their daughter Marie was baptized there, with Germain Terriot and Catherine Landry standing as godparents. Les Mines census rolls of 1701, 1703, 1707 and 1714 list Rene Blanchard with his wife, but none of them names her. A sworn declaration made in France by one of their grandchildren in 1767 names Anne as “of Port-Royal” and gives her own parents as Rene Landry, who had come from France, and his wife Marie Bernard, both of whom settled and died at Port-Royal. Bona Arsenault^W’s compiled genealogy of the Acadians likewise makes her the daughter of René Landry and Marie Bernard.

Children and the deportation

The couple had at least three children who can be traced. Their son Rene, born about 1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Theriot and Anne Richard, at Grand-Pré on 9 July 1726, and was deported to the British colony of Maryland in the expulsion of 1755; he reached Louisiana with the Acadian settlers of St. Gabriel in 1767 and died at Ascension in September 1788. Their daughter Marie married Joseph Trahant in the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Mines, at Grand-Pré, on 5 November 1731; Joseph and Marie were themselves deported and both died at Falmouth, England, in 1756, and their own children’s family was later declared at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France. Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana, citing Stephen A. White’s online corrections to the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, gives a further daughter, Marie-Anne, who married Alexis Thibodeau about 1747, place unrecorded.

Lines of descent

One line runs through their daughter Marie Blanchard (born 1709) and reaches Floyd Amatus Delahorne’s mother, Ida Serrette, in eight generations; the other runs through their son René Blanchard (born 1701) and his son Anselme Blanchard (1741–1799) and reaches his father, Jeffrey Delahorne, in nine. The lines meet only in Floyd Amatus Delahorne, one through his father and one through his mother.

Notes

No record of Anne Landry’s own birth or death is known; Arsenault’s compilation gives her birth as 1684. The Grand-Pré register gives her daughter Marie’s marriage as 1731, while the 1767 Belle-Île declaration gives 1732; the register, being closer to the event, is followed here.