♂Jacques Leblanc

Jacques Leblanc (born about 1679) was an Acadian of Grand-Pré, in the district of Les Mines^W, two of whose daughters were married there on the same day, 8 October 1725. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Josèphe LeBlanc.

In the census of 1686 Jacques is a boy of six in the household of his parents, Rene LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois, at Port-Royal. In 1693, aged fifteen, he is in their household at Les Mines. He married Catherine Landry at Pigiguit^W before the baptism of their son Jacques on 21 September 1708; the place comes from his son Honoré’s 1767 declaration.

Marriages of the daughters

Jacques Leblanc and Catherine Landry are known from the Grand-Pré parish register, as printed in the published abstracts of the Diocese of Baton Rouge church registers. On 8 October 1725 their daughter Marie, called Marie Joseph in later entries, married Charles Gautrot, the son of Claude Gautrot and Marie Terriot, and on the same day their daughter Marguerite married Joseph Grange, the son of René Grange and Marie Terriot. Six years earlier, on 16 January 1719, their daughter Anne had married Jean Gautreau, whose parents are written Claude Gautreau and Marie Teriot, so two of the sisters most likely married two brothers.

The children

The register records the baptisms of nine of their children between 1708 and 1726 and names the couple as parents at the marriages of others; in all it names thirteen children, Jacques, Honoré, Magdelaine, Anne, Marie, Marguerite, Charles, Joseph, Judith, Simon, Catherine, Françoise and Elisabeth. A fourteenth, Jean, is known only from a declaration of 1767 made by a brother. Jacques signed the entry for the baptism of his daughter Judith in January 1722. The last entry to name the couple is the marriage of their daughter Elisabeth on 16 July 1748. The register gives no ages, parents or places of origin for Jacques and Catherine themselves.

Another couple with the same names, Jacques Leblanc, son of François Leblanc and Jeanne Hubert, and Catherine Landry, daughter of Pierre Landry and Magdeleine Broussard, married at Grand-Pré on 18 September 1727; they were a younger household. Every entry used here for the older couple’s children either predates that marriage or carries an age that places the birth before it.

Death

Honoré LeBlanc’s declaration of 1767 gives his father’s death as having taken place at Pigiguit in October 1755, and says that his mother, Catherine Landry, died at the same place at Easter 1754. The declaration is a son’s statement, not a burial record.