♀Catherine Landry

Catherine Landry was an Acadian of Grand-Pré, in the district of Les Mines^W, two of whose daughters were married there on the same day, 8 October 1725. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Josèphe LeBlanc.

Marriages of the daughters

Jacques Leblanc and Catherine Landry are known from the Grand-Pré parish register, as printed in the published abstracts of the Diocese of Baton Rouge church registers. On 8 October 1725 their daughter Marie, called Marie Joseph in later entries, married Charles Gautrot, the son of Claude Gautrot and Marie Terriot, and on the same day their daughter Marguerite married Joseph Grange, the son of René Grange and Marie Terriot. Six years earlier, on 16 January 1719, their daughter Anne had married Jean Gautreau, whose parents are written Claude Gautreau and Marie Teriot, so two of the sisters most likely married two brothers.

The children

The register records the baptisms of nine of their children between 1708 and 1726 and names the couple as parents at the marriages of others; in all it names thirteen children, Jacques, Honoré, Magdelaine, Anne, Marie, Marguerite, Charles, Joseph, Judith, Simon, Catherine, Françoise and Elisabeth. A fourteenth, Jean, is known only from a declaration of 1767 made by a brother. Jacques signed the entry for the baptism of his daughter Judith in January 1722. The last entry to name the couple is the marriage of their daughter Elisabeth on 16 July 1748. The register gives no ages, parents or places of origin for Jacques and Catherine themselves.

Honoré LeBlanc’s declaration of 1767 gives his father’s death as having taken place at Pigiguit in October 1755, and says that his mother, Catherine Landry, died at the same place at Easter 1754. The declaration is a son’s statement, not a burial record.

Another couple with the same names, Jacques Leblanc, son of François Leblanc and Jeanne Hubert, and Catherine Landry, daughter of Pierre Landry and Magdeleine Broussard, married at Grand-Pré on 18 September 1727; they were a younger household. Every entry used here for the older couple’s children either predates that marriage or carries an age that places the birth before it.