♂Charles Marcotte

Charles Marcotte (baptized 25 February 1599 – 9 October 1678) was a townsman of Fécamp, on the Channel coast of Normandy in France, and the father of two sons who settled in New France. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Jacques Marcot (1644–1717).

What is known of him comes from the parish register of Saint-Léger at Fécamp, and from the Fichier Origine, the Québec federation’s register-checked file of French immigrants, which traced his son Jacques back to that parish. The parish register records his baptism on 25 February 1599 as the son of Nicolas Marcotte, and the Fichier Origine gives the same date and father. By that file, Charles was a master butcher (maître boucher).

He and his wife, Jacqueline Baucher, had five children baptized in the parish of Saint-Léger at Fécamp between 1639 and 1646, according to the Fichier Origine. The parish register records three of the sons by name: Robert, baptized 9 July 1639; François, baptized 4 November 1640; and Jacques, baptized 7 October 1644, each as the son of Charles Marcotte and Jacqueline Baucher, whom the register writes Bauchée. According to the Fichier Origine, the other two children were Nicolas, baptized 23 November 1642, and Marie, baptized 14 January 1646. Two of the sons, Nicolas and Jacques, crossed to New France together, arriving, by the same file’s reckoning, in 1670. Charles died at Fécamp at the age of seventy-nine, having received the sacraments, and was buried in the parish cemetery of Saint-Léger on 9 October 1678.