♀Charlotte Longuemare

Charlotte Longuemare was the wife of Robert Gallien and the mother of the Robert Gallien who married Anne Masson at Québec on 8 September 1670. She was the ninth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Robert Gallien (born 1636).

The register of Notre-Dame-de-Bliquetuit, in Normandy, records the marriage of Robert Gallien and Charlotte Longuemare on 21 July 1624; the entry names no parents. The Fichier Origine, the Québec federation’s register-checked file of immigrants, and the copy of the baptism act it carries give the baptism of their son Robert at Bliquetuit on 13 September 1637, naming his parents as Robert Gallien and Charlotte Longuemare, with the godmother read as Françoise Longuemare (an uncertain reading). The Fichier Origine also lists three brothers baptized there: Étienne on 4 May 1625, a child not named on 27 December 1628 and André on 4 June 1632. The baptism date conflicts with the birth year of 1636 that Tanguay’s dictionary gives for the son, and the tree keeps 1636.

The son’s marriage act at Québec in 1670 names the groom’s parents as Robert Gallien, already dead by then, and Charlotte Nommaire, the other form of her name. The index of the act gives the groom as a native of Valleville, in the diocese of Lisieux^W, and as living at Beauport. The dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W names the same parents. The Fichier Origine notes that in 1670 he came from Valleville, now Brionne, and that his mother was then named as Charlotte Nommaire. The records do not explain the difference between Valleville and Bliquetuit, and the Bliquetuit baptism is tied to the Québec groom by the Fichier Origine’s identification. The records do not show whether Charlotte Longuemare ever left France, and they give no date or place for her birth or death.