♂Jean Colin

Jean Colin was a Frenchman who is known only as the father named in his daughter’s marriage at New Orleans in 1730. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Barbe Colin.

His wife was Jeanne Vanneret. Their daughter Marie Barbe Colin crossed to French Louisiana, and on 30 October 1730 she married François Eloy, known as St. François, a native of Versailles, at the St. Louis church in New Orleans, with a corporal and three soldiers as witnesses. The register named her as the daughter of Jean Colin and Jeanne Vanneret and a native of the diocese of Cornouaille, the diocese of Quimper in the west of Brittany. She later went up the Mississippi with her husband to Fort de Chartres^W in the Illinois Country^W, where she was twice widowed and married three times in all. She is the couple’s only known child. The records do not say whether Jean and his wife ever left France, or when they died.

Notes

The one record

The couple are named once, in the printed abstract of the New Orleans sacramental registers (Woods and Nolan, vol. 1, p. 54): “Barbe (Jean and Jeanne VANNERET), native of the Diocese of Cornouaille, m. Francois Eloy PARIS, surnamed ST. FRANCOIS, Oct. 30, 1730”. The abstract files the family under COLIN, with the spelling Collin beside it, and names no parish. The words “native of the Diocese of Cornouaille” describe the bride, not her parents.

Their daughter’s later marriages

Barbe’s widowhood and her marriage contract with François Paboeuf, known as St. Laurent, both of January 1742, are entries in Lawrie Cena Dean’s digest of the Kaskaskia Manuscripts. Her third marriage, to Giovanni Battista Giacomini in 1755 after Paboeuf’s death, is described by the historian Winstanley Briggs in The Quiet Heritage (1987), page 67, who cites her contract for it.