♀Anne LeBlanc

Anne LeBlanc (born 16 January 1708) was an Acadian woman of Grand-Pré, the daughter of Francois LeBlanc and Jeanne Hebert of Mines, who married Germain Landry there in 1729; her marriage appears to have joined the LeBlanc and Melanson families a second time: a register entry of 1709 records Rene LeBlanc, whom the family reconstruction makes her father’s brother, marrying Elisabeth Melancon, whom the same reconstruction makes her husband’s aunt. She was a sister of Marguerite LeBlanc, who married Charles Hébert, brother of Osite Hebert (born 1730), a great-great-great-great-great-grandparent of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014); Anne herself was not an ancestor of his.

Early life and marriage

Anne was born and baptized at Grand-Pré on 16 January 1708, the daughter of Francois LeBlanc and Jeanne Hebert. Her godparents were Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois; the register does not state their relationship to her, and the reconstruction of the family takes them to be her father’s brother and her grandmother. She married Germain Landry, son of Germain Landry and Marie Melanson “of the parish of la Ste Famille” (Pisiquid^W), at Grand-Pré on 4 July 1729, her parents being described as “of Mines”. Like her husband, she signed the marriage record with a mark rather than writing her name.

Family

The couple were recorded at Grand-Pré in March 1732, at the baptism of their second child. Five daughters were baptized there between 1730 and 1744: Marie Josephe, Marguerite, Anne, Francoise and Magdeleine. No death date for Anne has been found.

Notes

A second family headed by another Germain Landry, married to Cecile Forest, was also raising children in Grand-Pré in these same years, including a daughter also named Marie Josephe, born in 1737. Because the two men shared a name and a parish, the mother named in each baptism is the only thing that separates the two families’ children. The eldest daughter, Marie Josephe, baptized in 1730, was once taken for the wife of Joseph Braux, and so for a link in the line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne. The wife of Joseph Braux was buried at Saint Gabriel, Louisiana, in 1807 as a widow aged 70, which gives a birth about 1737, not 1730, so the 1730 baptism is another girl’s. Anne LeBlanc and her husband are therefore not on the line; her parents and her sister Marguerite are, through other descents.