♀Anne Tesmier

Anne Tesmier is named in the Fichier Origine, a published file of the origins of Québec’s settlers, as the mother of Esther Coindriau, a widow of Ars on the Île de Ré, off the coast of France, who crossed to Québec with her children in 1665. She was the eleventh great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Esther Coindriau (born about 1620).

The same file names her husband as Nicolas Coindriau. It gives Esther’s birth at Ars-en-Ré about 1620 but no dates or places for Nicolas Coindriau and Anne Tesmier themselves; the act behind the statement of her parentage has not been seen here, and nothing more is known of their lives. Esther’s surname is written Coindriau, Coindriaud and Coindreau in the records and histories that name her.