♀Anne Pellerin

Anne Pellerin (born about 1671) was an Acadian woman of Port-Royal, Beaubassin^W and Les Mines^W, who enters the records as an unnamed baby two days old in the census of 1671. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son François Thériot (about 1703 – before 3 April 1767).

Early life

Anne was born at Port-Royal about 1671, the daughter of François Pellerin, a farmer, and Andrée Martin. She was two days old when the census was taken that year, and she appears on it only as a daughter, without a name. Her father died before April 1679, and on 24 April 1679 her mother married Pierre Mercier. By 1686 the family had moved to Beaubassin, where Anne, then fourteen, was living in her stepfather’s house among ten children: six of Andrée Martin and the late François Pellerin, and four young Merciers.

Marriage and family

Anne married Germain Theriot, born at Port-Royal about 1669; the wedding was probably about 1690. By 1693 the couple had settled at Les Mines, Germain twenty-four and Anne twenty-three, with a daughter Anne aged two and a son François aged one. The couple are said to have had eight children in all, born between 1691 and 1710, and their son François, born about 1703, is the one through whom the line descends. Germain is said to have died on Île Saint-Jean^W in 1750. Where and when Anne died is not known.

Notes

The 1671 and 1686 censuses

The 1671 census of Port-Royal lists “Francois PELERIN, farmer, 35, wife Andree MARTIN 30” with, after Huguette and Marie, a “Daughter 2 days”. The 1686 roll of Beaubassin lists Pierre Mercier, 40, and Andrée Martin, 37, and then the children of Andrée Martin and the late François Pellerin: Marie 16, Anne 14, Isabelle 12, Jeanne 10, Catherine 8 and Pierre 6, followed by Joseph Mercier 5, Magdelaine 3, Alexandre 2 and Marie Joseph, six months. The 1693 roll of Les Mines gives “Anne PELERIN his wife 23”. Her three ages agree within about a year.

Her mother’s second marriage

The date of Andrée Martin’s marriage to Pierre Mercier, 24 April 1679, comes from a published collection of Nova Scotia marriage records, which names Pierre Mercier “or Candebec” and gives the bride’s parents as Pierre Martin and Catherine Vignaux.

The marriage and the children

Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens gives the marriage of Germain Terriot and Anne Pellerin, “fille de Francois et d’Andrée Martin”, as about 1690, and lists their children as Anne (1691), François (1692), Pierre (1694), Claude (1696), Charles (about 1698), François (1703), Germain (1705) and Marguerite (1710); it also gives Germain’s death on Île Saint-Jean in 1750. The 1693 census agrees on the two eldest. The parish register of Saint-Charles at Grand-Pré, at the marriage of Charles Terriot to Angélique Doiron of Pisiguit on 3 October 1718, names the groom’s parents as Germain Terriot and Anne Pellerin.

Her son François

François Thériot’s place in this family rests on the Acadian genealogies: Arsenault names him as the son of Germain and Anne Pellerin both under his own entry and under his wife Françoise Guérin’s, and Stephen A. White’s genealogical dictionary of the Acadian families does the same. No surviving register names his parents. The parish registers of Cobequid, Pisiguit and Beaubassin are lost.