♀Élisabeth Canappa

Élisabeth Canappa was a woman of the first half of the seventeenth century, the daughter of the master glazier Jean Canaple and the wife of the master needle-maker Cosme Loupiat. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Françoise Loupiat.

Family

Jean Canaple lived and worked in the faubourg Saint-Marcel, the suburb outside the southern walls of Paris, and died on 1 March 1625. Her mother was probably Françoise Potardeau, the daughter of the Paris innkeeper Thomas Potardeau, whom Jean had married by a marriage contract of 1601. An inventory of his goods, drawn up for his widow on 18 April 1625, names Élisabeth as the dead man’s daughter and heir and shows Cosme Loupiat attending on her behalf, so the couple were already married by then.

Her daughter’s marriage

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. 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 Élisabeth’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 Élisabeth and her husband among Elisabeth Salée’s grandparents, spelling her surname Canape.

Her parents and the 1625 inventory

Jean Canaple’s death and the inventory are known from the Archives nationales’ summaries of acts in the Minutier central, the Paris notaries’ archive. The inventory, dated 18 April 1625, was drawn up in the study of the notary Jean Charles, and its summary gives the day of his death. The summary names Élisabeth as the dead man’s daughter and heir, and records Cosme acting in right of his wife.

The inventory does not name Élisabeth’s mother. Françoise Potardeau, Jean’s widow, is probably her mother: Élisabeth was already married by April 1625, which fits a daughter born in the first years after the 1601 marriage, but a first wife of Jean’s cannot be ruled out. The link is therefore probable, not certain. The copy of the 1601 marriage contract that the inventory lists names Françoise’s father as Thomas Potardeau, marchand hôtelier.