♂Guillaume Molaire

Guillaume Molaire was a man of Gascony, in southwestern France, known from the marriage of his son in Canada. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Francois Mollere (died before 1800).

Family in Barran

The Barran registers that survive begin only in 1738, so the baptisms of the four eldest children, born between 1727 and 1732, and of Francois are not among them. On 5 February 1740 their son Vital Mollère was born and baptized at Barran. The register calls him the legitimate son of Guilhaume Mollère and Jeane Lavenère, a married couple, and names his godparents as Vital Debort and Marie Mendousse.

On 6 August 1742 their daughter Barthélemie Mollère was born, and she was baptized at Barran the next day. The register names her parents as Guilhaume Mollère and “Jeanne Demoiselle de Labenère”, the title demoiselle marking a family of some standing, and names her godparents as Monsieur Bazile Despax and Catherine Mollère. His wife Jeanne died at Barran on 24 November 1748, and he was still living then; his own death is not known.

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Marriage in Canada

Guillaume Molaire and Jeanne Labenère are named as the parents of the groom when their son Francois Mollere married Marguerite Perrodeaux at Les Cèdres (St-Joseph-de-Soulanges), in Canada, on 9 February 1756. The register calls the groom “françois molere dit la sonde, fils de guillaume molaire et de jeanne labenere, de la paroisse de ?avant, diocèse d’auche”. The first letter of the parish’s name is unclear in the register, and an index of the act reads it as Lavant. Tanguay’s dictionary of Canadian families gives the family as “de Baraut, diocèse d’Auch, Gascogne”, and Fichier Origine, the Quebec genealogical societies’ register-checked database of immigrants to New France, identifies the parish as Barran, in Gers, and writes the mother’s name as Jeanne Lavenère. The same database states that four brothers and sisters of Francois were baptized at Barran between 1727 and 1732, and that his own baptism has not been found because of gaps in the Barran registers. It also gives Guillaume a baptism at Barran on 29 October 1711, but a family chart filed with the same record places him a generation higher, as a brother rather than a son of the Clément Molère the database names as his father, and the two accounts cannot both be right. Francois came to Canada, married and had children there, and later lived in Spanish Louisiana, where he died before 1800.