♂Jacques Marcotte

Jacques Marcotte (28 January 1673 – 20 March 1737) was a man of New France who, with his wife Louise Baudet, is named in the record of their son’s marriage at Cap-Santé, on the St. Lawrence above Québec, in 1725. He was the fifth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Jean Baptiste Marcotte.

Early life

The register of the Immaculée-Conception church at Trois-Rivières, in New France, records the baptism of a boy named Jacques on 28 January 1673, the son of Jacques Marcot and Elisabeth Salée. His godparents were Jacques Renouer and Marie Aier. Cyprien Tanguay’s^W genealogical dictionary of French-Canadian families gives the same date, place and parents.

His parentage is therefore an inference, not a record that names him. It rests on three things: his age, the family’s place, and his being the only child of that couple named Jacques. His burial at Cap-Santé on 21 March 1737 gives his age as 64 and his death as 20 March, which points to a birth about 1673. A census of about 1681 at Neuville lists a Jacques Marcot aged nine in the household of Jacques Marcot and Elisabeth Salée, and the family was settled there by then. Their children married at Cap-Santé from 1698. A brother, Henri Marcot, married at Cap-Santé on 24 January 1724, and his marriage entry names the same parents. No act names the grown Jacques as their son, since his own marriage, which would name his parents, has not come to light, so the link is probable rather than proved.

Family

On 8 November 1725 their son Jean Baptiste Marcotte married Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon in the parish of Sainte-Famille at Cap-Santé. The priest entered the groom as the son of Jacques Marcot and Louise Beaudet, as he wrote their names, and gave bride and groom as both of that parish. It is the only record read so far that names the couple.

Tanguay credits him and Louise Baudet with eleven children, the eldest born in 1692, several of them baptized at Cap-Santé. One of the sons, Jean Baptiste, married into the Hardy family. Tanguay records Jacques’s burial at Cap-Santé on 21 March 1737.

Notes

The 1725 marriage entry spells the names Marcot and Beaudet; an earlier index of the register had read her surname as Beaudel. Tanguay’s volumes disagree about the marriage: the first gives his wife as Louise Baudet and the year as 1698, while the fifth calls her Marie Baudet, puts the marriage in 1692 and lists a son born that year. The 1725 entry names her Louise. A family history written by a descendant also gives Jacques Marcotte and Louise Baudet as the parents of Jean Baptiste. The family tree identifies their son with the father of the Jean Baptiste Marcotte who settled in Louisiana; that identification rests on compiled genealogies, as the son’s biography explains.

Tanguay’s list of children also puts Henri Marcot among the sons of Jacques and Louise Baudet. His marriage at Cap-Santé names Jacques Marcot and Elisabeth Salée, both then dead, as his parents, which makes him Jacques’s brother rather than his son. The tree spells the mother Elisabeth Salée; Tanguay gives Salé, and her burial at Cap-Santé on 31 December 1722 gives her first name as Isabelle.