♀Artuse Macé

Artuse Macé is known only by name, as the mother of Michelle Jourdan of Saint-Coulomb, a coastal parish of the diocese of Dol^W near Saint-Malo, in Brittany. She is an ancestor of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) twice over: her twelfth great-grandmother by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Michelle Jourdan.

Her husband was Jullien Jourdan. Their daughter Michelle is said to have been baptized at Saint-Coulomb on 14 February 1566 and to have married Olivier Maillet there on 8 January 1589. Between 1590 and 1600 the parish register records the baptisms of five of her children, the first of them Jean Maillet, baptized on 15 September 1590. Nothing else is known of Artuse Macé, not even when she was born, married or died.

Lines of descent

Jean Maillet’s youngest son, Pierre Maillet (baptized 1629), crossed to Canada and married at Montréal in 1662. Pierre’s sons Rene Malet and Pierre Maillet began two lines that met again at Vincennes in 1801, when Augustus A. Tougas dit Laviolette (1776–1849), from the first line, married Ellenore S. Renaud dit Deslauriers (1782–1822), from the second. Their son Augustin Tougas Lovellette (1809–1866) descends from Jullien Jourdan and Artuse Macé by both lines.

Notes

Parentage

The names of Michelle Jourdan’s parents come from the Fichier Origine, the Québec federation’s register-checked file of immigrants. Its entry for her grandson Pierre Maillet, baptized at Saint-Coulomb on 1 July 1629, gives his paternal grandmother as “Michelle ou Nicole Jourdan (Jullien et Artuse Mace), b. 14-02-1566, s. 03-05-1627, maries le 08-01-1589”: daughter of Jullien and Artuse Mace, baptized 14 February 1566, buried 3 May 1627, married 8 January 1589. A WikiTree profile of Michelle gives the same parents, written Julien Jourdan and Artuse Macé, and the same baptism and marriage, citing the Saint-Coulomb registers of baptisms for 1566 and of marriages for 1589 in the Archives d’Ille-et-Vilaine. Neither quotes the 1566 baptism itself, so the parents’ names rest on these two compilations. The Fichier Origine writes her surname Mace, without the accent.