♂Antoine Landry

Antoine Landry (born about 1660 – died before 16 February 1711) was an Acadian settler of the Minas settlements and, with his wife Marie Thibodeau, the head of a large family whose exiled grandchildren named him in their declarations of 1767. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by three separate lines of descent, through two of his children: his daughter Marguerite Landry and his son Jean Landry.

Life

He was a son of René Landry and Marie Bernard: two of the 1767 declarations trace their line through Antoine Landry, son of the René Landry who had come from France with his wife Marie Bernard and settled at Port-Royal. His parents are ancestors of Floyd Amatus Delahorne by other lines as well, through Antoine’s sister Marie and his brother Abraham. A compiled Landry genealogy gives his birth at Port-Royal in 1660.

The same compiled genealogy gives the marriage of Antoine and Marie as about 1681. The census of 1686 counted Antoine Landry, 26, and his wife Marie Thibodeau, 25, with three children: Marie, 4, Antoine, 2, and Isabelle, 1. By 1693 the family had moved to Les Mines^W, where the census counted Antoine, 33, Marie, 32, and seven children, on twelve arpents with fifteen cattle. Both had died by 16 February 1711, when the Grand-Pré register called them deceased at the marriage of their daughter Françoise to Pierre Leblanc. In 1767, when Acadian exiles on Belle-Île-en-Mer declared their descent, the declarations named seven of the couple’s children: Jean, Pierre, François, Antoine, Anne, Françoise and Angélique. The declarations write her surname Thibodault. Three of them say that Antoine and Marie died in the parish of Saint-Charles at Les Mines; a fourth, less clearly worded, may say that both died at Boston, in the English colony, about 1710.

Their daughter Marguerite Landry married Jacques Hébert, and their children were baptized at Grand-Pré from 1707; among them was Charles Hébert, born on 3 November 1708. No surviving record names Marguerite’s parents. The compiled Landry genealogy lists her among the children of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, and the Grand-Pré register most likely bears it out: Charles’s godmother was a Françoise Landry, and the godfather of his brother François, born in 1710, was a François Landry, two of the names the declarations give to Antoine and Marie’s children.

Lines of descent

All three lines run nine generations down to Floyd Amatus Delahorne, and all three pass through Floyd’s mother, Ida Serrette (1903–1990). Two of the lines descend through Antoine’s daughter Marguerite Landry (born about 1689, died before 6 March 1764), and the third through his son Jean Landry.

The lines meet again twice. First in Pierre Anatole Serrett (1853–1926), whose parents, Firmin Serrette (born 1818) and Euphemie Dupuis (born 1817), both descend from Antoine Landry. Then in Pierre Anatole’s daughter Ida Serrette, whose parents, Pierre Anatole Serrett and Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), both descend from him.

Notes

Bona Arsenault’s abstract of the 1686 census makes Antoine a son of the older René Landry of Port-Royal and his wife Perrine Bourg; the declarations name René Landry and Marie Bernard. Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana gives a Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, as the wife of Jean Hébert of Cobeguit rather than of Jacques Hébert; the compilations do not agree on which Hébert she married.