♀Élisabeth Tibou

Élisabeth Tibou was a Norman of Argences, near Caen, whose name crossed the Atlantic in the Latin of a marriage entry written at the young settlement of Ville-Marie^W, the future Montréal, in 1647. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Françoise Fafard (1624–1702).

The family in Normandy

Jean Fafard and his wife Élisabeth Tibou lived in the village and parish of Argences, near Caen. Their son Robert is said to have been buried there in February 1616, and another son, Bertrand, was probably born there about 1620. Their daughter Françoise was born at Argences about 1624.

At least one of their children, and probably two, made a new life in New France. Bertrand is said to have married at Trois-Rivières in 1640. Françoise married Mathurin Meunier at Ville-Marie on 3 November 1647, and the priest entered her in the register as the daughter of “Joannis faffart & Elizabethae Tibou”, of the village and parish of Argences near Caen.

Notes

The family at Argences

The 1647 marriage entry at Notre-Dame de Montréal names Françoise’s parents and their parish: “filiam Joannis faffart & Elizabethae Tibou parentum eius ex pago & parrochia Argence prope Cadomum”. It gives no dates for Jean or Élisabeth themselves, and their own marriage is not known.

The two sons rest on compiled sources. The Fichier Origine entry for Françoise Fafard adds that her brother Robert was buried at Argences (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) on 27 February 1616, and that her brother Bertrand was born at Argences about 1620 and married Marie Sédilot at Trois-Rivières in 1640. Vaillancourt and Godbout’s La conquête du Canada par les Normands (p. 101) gives Bertrand born in 1620, married by contract of 21 December 1640, and calls him the brother of Françoise.

Her surname

The 1647 marriage entry spells her name “Tibou”, as does La conquête du Canada par les Normands (p. 102), which writes “Elizabeth Tibou”. The Fichier Origine spells it “Thibout”.

Françoise’s birth year

The family tree gives Françoise’s birth as about 1624 at Argences, as does La conquête du Canada par les Normands (p. 102). The Fichier Origine gives about 1622.