♀Catherine Garboise

Catherine Garboise was the mother of Marguerite Belanger, a woman from Sèvres, near Paris, who settled in colonial Louisiana in its early years. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marguerite Belanger.

Catherine and her husband, Jacques Belanger, appear in the records only as the parents named at their daughter’s first marriage, to Joseph Ducro, at Old Biloxi^W on 6 May 1721. The entry gives nothing more about them, neither a trade nor a home, and does not say whether they were still living. Twelve years later, when Marguerite married again at New Orleans, she was called a native of Sèvres, in the archdiocese of Paris. The family is also said to have come from Sceaux, another town near Paris.

Notes

The marriage entry

The 1721 marriage is abstracted from the register of the St. Louis Cathedral at New Orleans in Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan’s Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, volume 1, page 16. The abstract spells the names “Margueritte”, “Jaques” and “Catherine GARBOISE”, and gives the groom’s surname as “DUTRO”. The same page abstracts her 1733 marriage, which calls her “native of Sevres, Archdiocese of Paris” and does not name her parents.

Sèvres or Sceaux

A descendant’s family history calls Marguerite “the daughter of Jacques Bellanger and Catherine Garboise, of Sceaux, a suburb of Paris”. The only place on record for the family is Sèvres, given for Marguerite herself in 1733, and it is preferred here.

Not the Jacques Belanger of Canada

Some online family trees give Marguerite a father from Canada, a Jacques Belanger whose wife was a Thibault. That man lived in Canada, and the 1721 entry names Marguerite’s mother as Catherine Garboise, so he is not her father.