♀Isabeau Troussart

Isabeau Troussart was the wife of Jean Hebert, a merchant of the city of Caen in Normandy, and is known only from the Paris marriage contract of their son Augustin in 1646. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Augustin Hébert (1620–1653).

Family

On 13 January 1646 their son Augustin Hébert, then a tailor living at the marché neuf in the Paris parish of Saint-Germain-le-Vieil, signed a marriage contract with Adrienne Du Vivier, whose late father had been a saddler at Corbeny in Picardy. A modern published abstract of the notarial minute names the groom as “fils de feu Jean, marchand de la ville Caen”, the son of the late Jean, a merchant of the city of Caen, and of Isabeau Troussart, his wife. The contract calls her husband the late Jean but uses no such word for her, so she was most likely still living when it was drawn up.

The Fichier Origine, which compiles the documented French origins of Canada’s early settlers, gives Augustin’s birth as about 1620 at Caen and records that he had already served in Canada before the marriage: he crossed in 1637 as a soldier of the garrison at Québec, was among the recruits for Montréal in 1642, the year the settlement was founded as Fort Ville-Marie^W, and went back to France in 1645. The same compilation records that Augustin and Adrienne’s daughter, Jeanne Hebert (1647–1687), was baptized in Paris in 1647, and that the family then sailed for Canada from La Rochelle.

Notes

The records in hand give no date or place for Isabeau Troussart’s birth, her marriage or her death. The printed abstract’s heading for Augustin spells her surname Groussart; the text of the contract it abstracts reads Troussart. The contract gives Caen as her husband’s town, and the Fichier Origine and the printed abstract both take it as Augustin’s birthplace too. Tanguay’s dictionary of early French-Canadian families lists Augustin and his wife but does not name his parents.