♂François Savoie

François Savoie (born about 1621) was a farmer of Port-Royal in Acadia, recorded in the first nominal census of the colony in 1671 with his wife Catherine LeJeune and nine children. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by four separate lines of descent, through three of his children.

François Savoie and Catherine LeJeune married at Port-Royal about 1651; a 1912 genealogy of the Savoie family gives the marriage as between 1651 and 1653. The 1671 roll, where the clerk wrote the name Scavois, gives him as fifty and his wife as thirty-eight, with a married daughter, Françoise, eighteen, and eight children at home: Germain, Marie, Jeanne, Catherine, François, Barnabé, Andrée and a second Marie, a year and a half old. They had four head of cattle and six arpents of plowed land. Françoise’s own household, with her husband Jehan Corporon and a daughter six weeks old and not yet named, follows on the same page. Nothing is known of François’s origins or death.

Lines of descent

Four lines of descent run from François Savoie to Floyd Amatus Delahorne through three of his children: Andrée, Jeanne and Catherine Savoie, with two of the lines through Jeanne. All four pass through Ida Serrette (1903–1990), Floyd’s mother, so all fall on his mother’s side. The line through Andrée is ten generations up, the nearest; the lines through Jeanne and Catherine are eleven. The lines meet again in three places: Anne Doralie Thibodeau (1799–1855), whose parents Nicolas Thibodeaux and Éléonore Prejean both descend from him; Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), whose parents Melia Thibodeaux and Jean Baptiste Daigle both descend from him; and Leonard Thibodeau (1823–1857), whose parents Mathilde Valentine Landry and Placide Cyrille Thibodeaux both descend from him.