♂Cosme Loupiat

Cosme Loupiat was a master needle-maker in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century, known from two Paris marriage contracts: his daughter Françoise’s in 1646 and his granddaughter Marie’s in 1682. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Françoise Loupiat.

The marriage contract of 1646

On 22 January 1646 Françoise, the daughter of Cosme Loupiat and his wife Élisabeth Canappa, had her marriage contract drawn up before the Paris notary Michel Le Cat. She was then living in the rue Saint-Honoré, in the parish of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, and she married within her father’s trade: the groom, Pierre Sallé, was a master needle-maker of the faubourg Saint-Marcel, as his father Raphaël Sallé had been. The contract set her dowry at 800 livres, 600 of them in ready money; many witnesses attended, and bride and groom both signed. Two more sons, Guillaume and Louis, both needle-makers like him, were alive in 1682, when they witnessed their niece Marie’s marriage contract in Paris. The contract does not say where the bride’s parents lived; they were probably in Paris, since both fathers belonged to the Paris guild of needle-makers. No record of Cosme’s baptism or death is known.

Notes

Where the parents lived

The contract of 22 January 1646 names the bride’s parents but does not give their residence. Macouin’s 2024 abstract describes the groom as a master needle-maker of Paris and both fathers as masters of the same trade; the Paris residence is an inference from that guild membership, not a statement in the contract.

The contract appears in print because of Françoise’s daughter Elisabeth Salée, born about 1651, who went to New France in 1670 as one of the King’s Daughters^W, the young women whose passage the French crown paid so that they would marry the colony’s settlers. Jean-Paul Macouin’s 2024 book on the Paris notarial records of the pioneer families of New France gives an abstract of it, and the Fichier Origine, the Québec genealogical federation’s file of French emigrants, names Cosme and his wife among Elisabeth’s grandparents, spelling her surname Canape.