♂Claude Thériot

Claude Thériot (about 1637 – 17 September 1725) was an Acadian farmer of Port-Royal, in the colony of Acadie. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through two of his children, Germain Thériot (born about 1662) and Anne Thériot (born about 1672).

Port-Royal

Claude was a son of Jehan Thériot and Perrine Rau. The 1671 census of Port-Royal lists him as a farmer, aged 34, with his wife Marie Gautrot, aged 24. His parents’ household, nearby, was headed that year by Jehan Thériot, 70, and Perrine Rau, 60, and still counted six of their children as married adults, among them Claude’s brothers Jehan, Bonaventure and Germain and his sisters Jeanne and Catherine, along with an unmarried younger brother, Pierre. Claude and Marie’s son Germain, through whom one of the lines to Floyd Amatus Delahorne runs, was born about 1662.

Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot most likely married about 1661. The Port-Royal register begins in 1702, so the date survives only in compiled genealogies.

Later years

Claude and Marie’s household was counted in the Port-Royal census in 1678, 1686, 1693, 1698 and 1700. The 1678 roll, known as Duchesneau’s roll, returned the household of Claude Thériot with three acres, five cattle and seven children, three boys and four girls, and a land list places the family’s holding at Gros Cap. In 1686 Claude was 49 and Marie 40. In 1693 Claude was 55 and Marie 48, with eight children, and a transcription spells her surname Goutrot. By 1698 Claude was 60 and Marie 53, with six children, and by 1700 Claude was 62 and Marie 55, with eight children.

Death

Claude died at Port-Royal on 17 September 1725, aged eighty-seven, and was buried the same day. His widow, Marie Gautrot, died at Port-Royal on 29 November 1732, at about ninety years old.

Lines of descent

Claude and Marie reach Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both ten generations above him. The first runs through their son Germain Thériot (born about 1662), and the second through their daughter Anne Thériot (born about 1672). Both lines come to Floyd through his father’s side, by way of Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929).

The two lines meet again in Emilie Croker (born 1834), Floyd’s great-grandmother on his father’s side. Her parents, Joseph Croquer (1811–1862) and Marie Cidalise Lambremont (born 1799), both descend from Claude and Marie, so the marriage that produced Emilie is where the two lines rejoin.

Notes

Frère J.-Hervé Béliveau’s genealogical dictionary of the Belliveau families, a compiled genealogy, gives Claude’s mother’s name as Périnne Bourg; the 1671 Port-Royal census gives Perrine Rau. That conflict is unresolved.

Marriage

Two compiled genealogies put the marriage about 1661: Béliveau (page 11) and Arsenault (volume 2, page 804), each spelling the wife’s name differently from the other. The Port-Royal register begins in 1702, after the marriage, so no register entry of it survives.

Death and burial

The St-Jean-Baptiste burial register, printed as An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. John the Baptist (Nova Scotia Archives), gives his death and burial at Port-Royal on 17 September 1725, aged eighty-seven, and records that he was buried the same day by the priest René Charles de Breslay.

The censuses

The 1698 census lists 12 cattle, 20 sheep, 12 hogs, 18 arpents, 50 fruit trees and one gun for the household, and the 1700 census 10 cattle, 13 sheep, 15 arpents and one gun. The 1693 return lists 12 cattle, 15 sheep, 7 hogs, 15 arpents and one gun. The 1678 roll gives three acres and five cattle, and was probably taken early in 1679. The 1671, 1686, 1693, 1698 and 1700 returns are manuscript nominal censuses of Acadia; the 1678 roll is Duchesneau’s, in translation.