♂Charles Hébert

Charles Hébert (born 3 November 1708) was an Acadian of Grand-Pré, in the Minas district, who married Marguerite LeBlanc there in 1733 and signed the marriage register in his own hand. He was the son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, each a great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), and the brother of Osite Hebert (born 1730), a great-great-great-great-great-grandparent of Floyd Amatus Delahorne.

Early life

The Grand-Pré register, as abstracted in the Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, records Charles, written “Charles Hubert”, son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, as born and baptized on 3 November 1708, with Guillaume Hebert and Francoise Landry as his godparents.

Charles was one of at least eleven children of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, seven daughters and four sons, and most of his brothers and sisters also married at Grand-Pré. His brother François married Marie Joseph Melançon in 1732, six months before Charles’s own wedding, and his sister Magdeleine married Joseph Melançon in 1738 and died in 1746, aged 28. A Jacques Hébert, most likely their father, was among the witnesses at each of these marriages.

Marriage and family

Charles Hébert, aged about 24, son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, married Marguerite LeBlanc, aged about 19, daughter of Francois LeBlanc and Jeanne Hebert, at Grand-Pré on 28 May 1733. The register noted that the couple were related by blood (“consanguinity 4th degree”) without saying how. Both fathers were among the witnesses, Francois LeBlanc signing and Jacques Hébert making his mark; the groom signed “Charle Heber”, while the bride made her mark.

A daughter, written “Osithe Hubert”, was born on 2 March 1734 and baptized at Grand-Pré on 11 May 1734, with the bride’s sister Cecile LeBlanc as godmother and no godfather present. The records give nothing more about her. She is a different woman from Charles’s sister Osite Hebert, the wife of Alexandre Melancon: Stephen A. White’s dictionary of the Acadian families, as he corrected it in 2011, makes that Osite a daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry. No other child of the couple appears in the Grand-Pré register for 1707–1748.

Exile

On 25 February 1767, on Belle-Île-en-Mer in France, one of Marguerite’s brothers made a declaration of his family, which the Attakapas Gazette later printed in translation. It names Marguerite, “born at Mines, in 1716”, as the wife of Charles Hebert, son of Jacques Hebert and Marguerite Landry, and states that she “died in 1758 in the crossing from Isle St. Jean to France” and that “Charles Hebert lives with his family at St. Malo”. That would place the couple on Île Saint-Jean^W in 1758, the year the British deported the island’s Acadians to France^W after the fall of Louisbourg.

Second marriage

Charles, then 54, a widower of Marguerite LeBlanc living at Saint-Énogat, married Marie Caissy, a widow aged 49, in the cathedral of Saint-Malo on 6 March 1764. Both were described as of Acadia. The act calls Charles the son of the late Jacques Hébert and the late Marguerite Landry, so both of his parents had died by then. No child of this marriage is on record, and no record of Charles’s death has been found.

Notes

The Saint-Malo marriage

The marriage is known from a FamilySearch index of the Brittany parish and civil registers, the Saint-Malo cathedral entry of 6 March 1764. The wording here comes from the index, not from the register page. The index gives the bride’s father as the late Jean Caissy and her mother as Cécile Hébert, and says her first husband was Michel Grosset. The act does not say how Cécile Hébert was related to Charles, if at all. The age of 54 is a year under what his birth date gives, since 3 November 1708 makes him 55 in March 1764.