The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

de Belleau · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Hélène de Belleau

Died 1646, Davenescourt, Somme, Picardie, France.

Hélène de Belleau (died 12 September 1646) was a gentlewoman of Picardy, in northern France, the wife of Pierre Charles de Poitiers, sieur du Buisson, with whom she lived at Davenescourt in the 1640s. Her orphaned daughter, Marie Charlotte, was married at Québec in New France in October 1660, and the act of her marriage remembers her as the late damoiselle Hélène de Belleau, of the diocese of Amiens. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Charlotte de Poitiers (born about 1641).

Life at Davenescourt

Hélène de Belleau married Pierre Charles de Poitiers, and their daughter Marie Charlotte was born about 1641. By the mid-1640s the family was living at Davenescourt, a village in the Somme. On 8 July 1646 their son Jehan Baptiste was baptized at Davenescourt, with Jehan de Mailly and damoiselle Jehanne de Monchy as his godparents; the register names his mother as damoiselle Helaine Belleau, damoiselle being the style of a gentlewoman. Two months later, at noon on 12 September 1646, she died there, leaving Marie Charlotte a child of about five.

Her daughter in New France

On 12 October 1660, at Québec, Marie Charlotte married Joseph Hébert. The act names her as the daughter of “feu Mre Pierre Charles de Poitiers Sr du Buisson et défunte damlle Hélène de Belleau de l’évêché d’Amiens”, so that both of her parents were dead and the family belonged to the diocese of Amiens. The records do not say when or how she came to Canada.

Notes

Her death

The Davenescourt register of deaths records that “le 12e septembre a l’heure de midy est decedée damoiselle Helaine de Belleau” in 1646. The Québec marriage act of 1660 calls her the late (“défunte”) Hélène de Belleau. The dictionary of Cyprien TanguayW, in its entry for Joseph Hébert, gives her as of Amiens, in Picardy.

Their son Jehan Baptiste

Fichier Origine, a compiled file of French emigrants to Québec, identifies the Jehan Baptiste baptized at Davenescourt in 1646 with the Jean-Baptiste de Poitiers du Buisson who married Élisabeth Jossard in 1670. If that is right, a brother as well as Marie Charlotte crossed to Canada.

Family time line

◉ Hélène de Belleau –1646
◉ Pierre Charles de Poitiers –bef 1660
No marriage recorded
◉ Marie Charlotte de Poitiers abt 1641– ⚭
○ Jean Baptiste Poitiers 1646–1727

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Living at
mother ('damoiselle Helaine Belleau') of Jean-Baptiste, baptised at Davenescourt 8 Jul 1646
 8 Jul 1646 Davenescourt, Somme, Picardie, France on record
Death
'decedée damoiselle Helaine de Belleau' at noon, Davenescourt death register 1646; called 'défunte damlle Hélène de Belleau', of the diocese of Amiens, at her daughter's marriage (Québec, 12 Oct 1660)
 12 Sep 1646 Davenescourt, Somme, Picardie, France on record

Sources

  • Davenescourt (Saint-Martin), baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1643-1691 — Living at, Death, about this person
  • Canada, Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 — Death, about this person, family with Pierre Charles de Poitiers
  • Beauregard, Denis, Généalogie des Français d'Amérique du Nord (GFAN), francogene.com, no. 125769 - BELLEAU (de), Antoine, citing the Rapport de l'Archiviste de la Province de Québec — about this person

Borders as they stood about 1600 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Antoine de Belleau –1641
  2. Catherine de Valpergue

Descendants

  1. Marie Charlotte de Poitiers abt 1641– ⚭
    1. Louis Lefebvre abt 1667–
      1. Louise Catherine Lefebvre-Angers
        1. Marie Françoise Gariépy 1727–1806
    2. Marie Françoise Lefebvre abt 1669–
      1. Marie Françoise Constantineau 1701–1778
        1. Etienne Jacob 1736–1801
    3. Jean Baptiste Lefebvre 1672–
      1. Marie Geneviève Lefebvre 1713–1787
        1. Geneviève Blondeau 1742–1818
        2. Angélique Blondeau 1755–1837
    4. François Lefebvre abt 1674–
      1. François Desales Lefebvre 1709–
        1. François Desales Angers 1741–1820
    5. Marie Madeleine Lefebvre abt 1676–
      1. Marie-Charlotte Gingras 1708–1772
        1. Étienne Doré 1739–1819
        2. Marie Angélique Doré 1749–1793
      2. Joseph Gingras 1714–1764
        1. Marie Josephe Gingras 1760–1817
      3. Pierre Charles Gingras
        1. Elisabeth Gingras
    6. Charlotte Lefebvre 1679–1755
      1. Jean Francois Hardy 1699–
        1. François Hardy 1726–1726 ✧
        2. Marie-Geneviève Hardy 1729–
        3. Marie-Angélique Hardy 1730–1738 ✧
        4. Marie-Thérèse Hardy 1732–1732 ✧
        5. François-Amable Hardy 1733–1799
        6. Marie-Françoise Hardy 1735–
        7. Philippe Hardy 1736–1759
        8. Marie-Jeanne Hardy 1739–
        9. Marie-Thérèse Hardy 1740–
      2. Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon 1701–1754
        1. Marie Marcotte 1726–1727 ✧
        2. Joseph Marcotte 1728–
        3. Marie Marguerite Marcotte 1729–
        4. Monique Marcotte 1732–
        5. Marie Madeleine Marcotte 1733–1810
        6. Suzanne Amable Marcotte 1735–1801
        7. François Amable Marcotte 1736–
        8. Jean Baptiste Marcotte 1738–bef 1808
        9. Philippe Marcotte 1740–
      3. Marie Charlotte Hardy 1703–
      4. Marie Angelique Hardy 1705–
      5. Joseph Hardy 1707–1707 ✧
      6. Philippe Hardy 1708–
        1. Philippe Hardy 1742–
        2. Marie-Madeleine Hardy 1744–
        3. Marie-Thérèse Hardy 1746–
        4. François Hardy 1748–1748 ✧
        5. Marie-Joseph Hardy 1750–1750 ✧
        6. Marie-Angélique Hardy 1752–
        7. Marie-Ursule Hardy 1754–1754 ✧
      7. Joseph Marie Hardy 1710– ⚭
        1. Infant Hardy 1741–1741 ✧
        2. Joseph Hardy 1747–1748 ✧
        3. Joachim Hardy 1748–
        4. Marie-Angélique Hardy 1750–
        5. Joseph-Marie Hardy 1750–
        6. Marie-Joseph Hardy 1752–1752 ✧
        7. Basile Hardy 1753–
      8. Marie Josephe Hardy 1711–
      9. Jean Baptiste Louis Hardy 1713–
        1. Marie-Madeleine Hardy 1737–1738 ✧
        2. Marie-Joseph Hardy 1739–
        3. Jean-Baptiste Hardy 1741–1741 ✧
        4. Marie-Thérèse Hardy 1742–
        5. Marie-Madeleine Hardy 1744–
        6. Jean-Baptiste Hardy 1747–
        7. Marie-Angélique Hardy 1749–1749 ✧
        8. Joseph Hardy 1751–
      10. Marie Anne Hardy 1715–
        1. Augustin Petit 1742–
        2. Marie-Anne Petit 1744–1747 ✧
        3. Nicolas Petit 1746–
        4. Joseph Petit 1748–1748 ✧
        5. François Petit 1750–1750 ✧
        6. Marie-Joseph Petit 1752–
      11. Marie Therese Hardy 1718–
        1. Marie-Josèphe Briere 1753–
        2. Jean-Baptiste Briere 1756–
      12. Francois de Sales Hardy 1721–
        1. Jean-François Hardy 1749–
        2. Nicolas Hardy 1750–
        3. Pierre Hardy 1752–1752 ✧
        4. Jean-Baptiste Hardy 1753–
      13. Pierre Hardy 1721–1721 ✧
    7. Antoine Lefebvre 1681–
    8. Simon Lefebvre 1685–
  2. Jean Baptiste Poitiers 1646–1727
    1. Marie Marguerite Poithier 1673–1734
      1. Marie Catherine Frete 1699–
        1. Marie Catherine Groton 1733–1821
      2. Marie Marguerite Frette 1706–1753
        1. Marguerite Geneviève Tartre 1729–1771
      3. François Sylvestre Frete 1709–1766
        1. Anne Catherine Frete 1737–1804