♂Germain Landry

Germain Landry (dates unknown) was an Acadian farmer of Grand-Pré who married Anne LeBlanc there in 1729. His wife’s parents, Francois LeBlanc and Jeanne Hebert, are seventh great-grandparents of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through their daughter Marguerite LeBlanc, Anne’s sister.

Early life and marriage

Germain Landry married Anne LeBlanc at Grand-Pré, Acadia, on 4 July 1729. The parish register names his parents as Germain Landry and Marie Melanson, “of the parish of la Ste Famille” (Pisiquid), and hers as François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, “of Mines”. Neither he nor his bride could write; both signed the marriage record with a mark.

Family

Germain and Anne LeBlanc were recorded at Grand-Pré in March 1732, at the baptism of their second child. Five daughters were baptized there between 1730 and 1744: Marie Josephe, Marguerite, Anne, Francoise and Magdeleine. No son is recorded, and no birth or death date for Germain himself has been found.

Notes

A second Germain Landry was raising children in the same parish in these same years, by a different wife, Cecile Forest; that family too included a daughter named Marie Josephe, born in 1737. The two men are distinguished only by the mother named in each baptism, and the two families’ children have been confused with one another. The couple’s eldest daughter, Marie Josephe, baptized in 1730, was once taken for the wife of Joseph Braux, and so for a link in the line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne. The wife of Joseph Braux was buried at Saint Gabriel, Louisiana, in 1807 as a widow aged 70, which gives a birth about 1737, not 1730, so the baptism of 1730 is another girl’s. This couple’s daughters are therefore not carried as his ancestors, and Germain and Anne LeBlanc are not on the line.