♀Jacqueline Baucher

Jacqueline Baucher was the wife of Charles Marcotte of Fécamp, on the Channel coast of Normandy in France, and the mother of two sons who settled in New France. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jacques Marcot (1644–1717).

The parish register of Saint-Léger at Fécamp names her as the mother in three of her sons’ baptisms, and the Fichier Origine, the Québec federation’s register-checked file of French immigrants, names her as the mother of Jacques Marcot in its entry for him. By that file, her husband was a master butcher (maître boucher).

The couple had five children baptized in the parish of Saint-Léger at Fécamp between 1639 and 1646, according to the Fichier Origine. The parish register records three of the sons by name: Robert, baptized 9 July 1639; François, baptized 4 November 1640; and Jacques, baptized 7 October 1644, each as the son of Charles Marcotte and Jacqueline Baucher, whom the register writes Bauchée. According to the Fichier Origine, the other two children were Nicolas, baptized 23 November 1642, and Marie, baptized 14 January 1646. Two of the sons, Nicolas and Jacques, crossed to New France together, arriving, by the same file’s reckoning, in 1670. Her own baptism, marriage and death are not known, and neither are her parents.