♀Bonne Duchesne

Bonne Duchesne (died before November 1683) was a woman of Rouen, in Normandy, whose son Robert crossed to New France as a sailor and settled at Québec. She was probably the ninth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Robert Jeanne (1639–1721).

Bonne is said to have married Yves Jeanne at the church of Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église in Rouen on 6 July 1638. Their son Robert was baptized at Saint-Sever, across the Seine in Rouen, on 6 January 1639, six months after the wedding. Robert went to sea, and by January 1665 he was at Québec, where he married Françoise-Madeleine Savard. A second son, Simon, married Anne Hardy on 27 November 1683; by then both Yves and Bonne were dead.

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Sources

The marriage at Rouen (Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église) on 6 July 1638, Robert’s baptism at Rouen (Saint-Sever) on 6 January 1639 and Simon’s marriage to Anne Hardy on 27 November 1683 come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in its entry for Robert. At Simon’s marriage the parents are named as “f. Yves et f. Bonne Duchesne”, the “f.” standing for feu and feue, the late. Robert’s marriage at Québec on 26 January 1665 also appears in Normand Robert’s Nos origines en France (vol. 7, p. 153), which names his parents Yves and Marie Duchesne.

Her name and dates

At her son Robert’s marriage at Québec in 1665 she was named Marie Duchesne; the Fichier Origine, from her own marriage at Rouen, gives Bonne. Her death has been given as after 1683, but her son Simon’s marriage of 27 November 1683 already calls her the late Bonne Duchesne. Other family trees give her birth as about 1613; no record of it is known.