♀Anne Thériot

Anne Thériot (born about 1673) was an Acadian, the wife of René Landry, with whom she left Port-Royal for Rivière-aux-Canards^W, in the Les Mines^W district, and raised at least nine children. She was most likely the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Antoine Landry (1696–1756).

Marriage at Port-Royal

She was a daughter of Bonaventure Thériot and Jeanne Boudrot. On 15 November 1718, when her daughter Marie married Pierre LeBlanc at Grand-Pré, Bonaventure Thériot stood witness, and the register calls him the bride’s grandfather. By 1693 René Landry and Anne Thériot were married and lived at Port-Royal in the household of his widowed mother, Marie Bernard: the census of that year lists René at twenty-five, Anne at twenty and their daughter Marie, aged one, after Marie Bernard and six of her children.

Rivière-aux-Canards

Within a few years the couple had moved to Rivière-aux-Canards, a settlement of Les Mines, where, according to declarations made by members of the family in exile in 1767, their son Antoine was born in 1696 and their son René in 1703. The surviving register of the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Mines at Grand-Pré, which begins in 1707, records the baptisms of two more sons, Alexandre in 1709 and Silvain in 1712, and the marriages of six of their children between 1715 and 1740, among them Antoine’s to Marie Melançon on 13 November 1717. Bona Arsenault’s abstract of the 1714 census lists the household at Rivière-aux-Canards with René, aged forty-six, his wife and nine children, six sons and three daughters.

On 7 November 1740, when their son Charles married Cécile Leblanc at Grand-Pré, René stood witness as the groom’s father, with his son René also a witness; the register describes the family as of the parish of Saint-Joseph de la Rivière-aux-Canards. The register names Anne as the mother at each of her children’s marriages from 1715 to 1740. The date and place of her death are not known.

Lines of descent

The line from her to Floyd Amatus Delahorne runs through her son Antoine and Antoine’s daughter Judith Landry (born 1728), who is identified with the wife of Charles Leblanc by her age and the register rather than by a record naming her parents; that is why the descent is called most likely.

Notes

Her parents

The 1718 marriage entry names Bonaventure Thériot only as the bride’s grandfather; since René Landry’s father had died by 1693, the grandfather was most likely on Anne’s side. A declaration made in exile in 1767 by Marie’s daughter, Marie Magdeleine Leblanc, names Anne’s parents as Bonaventure Thériot and Marie Gautrot, of Port-Royal, and says that both died in the parish of Saint-Charles. Another declaration of the same year gives a Bonaventure Thériot who died at Les Mines a wife named Jeanne Boudrot, who died at Port-Royal. Marie Gautrot was the wife of Bonaventure’s brother Claude, and the married name of Bonaventure’s eldest daughter, so the first declaration most likely crossed the two families. The second declaration makes Jeanne Boudrot the mother of Bonaventure’s daughter Marguerite, whom a compiled genealogy places after Anne, in 1678, and the same genealogy lists Anne among Jeanne’s children; Jeanne is taken here as Anne’s mother. A second Anne Thériot of the same years, a daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, married Vincent Babin of Pisiguit, according to the same compilation.