♂Antoine Duvivier

Antoine Duvivier (died before 13 January 1646) was a merchant saddler at Corbeny in Picardy, in northern France, known from the Paris marriage contract of his daughter Adrienne, which names him as already dead. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Adrienne Du Vivier (1626–1706).

Family

Antoine Duvivier’s wife was Catherine Journa. On 13 January 1646 their daughter Adrienne signed a marriage contract in Paris with Augustin Hébert, a tailor of that city and the son of the late Jean Hebert, a merchant of Caen. A modern published abstract of the notarial minute describes the bride as “fille de feu Antoine, marchand sellier”, the daughter of the late Antoine, a merchant saddler at Corbeny in Picardy, and of Catherine Journa. Her sister Antoinette assisted her at the signing. The abstract calls Antoine the late Antoine but uses no such word for Catherine, so she was most likely still living when it was drawn up.

The Fichier Origine, which compiles the documented French origins of Canada’s early settlers, records that Augustin had already served in Canada before the marriage: he crossed in 1637 as a soldier of the garrison at Québec, was among the recruits for Montréal in 1642, the year the settlement was founded as Fort Ville-Marie^W, and went back to France in 1645. The same compilation gives Adrienne’s birth as about 1626 at Corbeny, and records that her daughter Jeanne Hebert (1647–1687) was baptized in Paris in 1647 and that the family then sailed for Canada from La Rochelle. Adrienne was widowed in 1653, married again, and died at Montréal on 20 October 1706.

Notes

The records in hand give no date or place for Antoine Duvivier’s birth, his marriage or his death; the contract shows only that he had died before 13 January 1646. The contract gives Corbeny as his town, and the Fichier Origine and the printed abstract both take it as Adrienne’s birthplace too. Tanguay’s dictionary of early French-Canadian families, in its entry for Adrienne’s second marriage, also names her as the daughter of Antoine and Catherine.