♀Charlotte Lefebvre

Charlotte Lefebvre (1679–1755) was a woman of New France, named with her husband Pierre Hardy as the parents of the bride when their daughter married Jean Baptiste Marcotte at Cap-Santé in 1725. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon (1701–1754).

Origins

The dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W gives her baptism at Québec on 9 February 1679; the act, entered in the Québec register, places it in the chapel of Dombourg, where her parents then lived. The dictionary makes her a daughter of Simon Lefebvre, from Tracy-le-Bas in Picardy, and Marie-Charlotte de Poitiers, who had married at Québec in 1667. In her husband’s family entry the dictionary writes her surname Lefebvre-Angers. About 1681, when she was two, she was living with her parents at Neuville, the parish of Pointe-aux-Trembles.

Marriage and family

Pierre Hardy and Charlotte Lefebvre married at Pointe-aux-Trembles, the parish west of Québec now called Neuville, on 26 January 1699; the register gives his age as 27 and hers as 21. An inventory of the colony’s marriage contracts, compiled by the archivist Pierre-Georges Roy^W, lists their contract, drawn up before the notary Charles Rageot on 9 January 1699. The couple had thirteen children, baptized between November 1699 and January 1721, among them Marie Marguerite, baptized at Pointe-aux-Trembles on 19 June 1701, and a son Philippe, baptized in 1708 at Cap-Santé, the next parish up the river. Pierre Hardy, captain of the militia, was buried at Cap-Santé on 20 November 1728.

Marie Marguerite married Jean Baptiste Marcotte at Cap-Santé on 8 November 1725. The register writes her as Marie Hardi, calls her, like the groom, of that parish, and names her as the daughter of Pierre Hardi and Charlotte Lefebvre, her lawful father and mother.

Notes

In the 1725 marriage entry the surname of the bride’s mother is faint; the index of the act gives Lefebvre, which agrees with the inventory of the 1699 marriage contract and with Tanguay’s dictionary, both of which call her Marie-Charlotte. She died at Cap-Santé on 19 November 1755 and was buried there the next day, 20 November; the burial entry gives her age as seventy-seven, though her baptism in 1679 makes her seventy-six, and calls her a widow.