♂Jean Guedon

Jean Guedon (born about 1645; died 1709) was a parishioner of Lay-Saint-Christophe, in the duchy of Lorraine, whose wife was Françoise Thiery. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Jeanne Guedon. He was living in 1705 and died at Lay-Saint-Christophe on 30 January 1709. When Jeanne married Claude Roche at Lay-Saint-Christophe on 21 November 1719, the register named her as the daughter of “défunt Jean Guedon” and of Françoise, his wife. The word défunt, “the late”, means that Jean had died before the wedding, and the burial register gives the date and place of his death. His parents are not known.

Children

Six children of Jean Guedon and Françoise (written Thiery, Thiry or Thyry) were baptized at Lay-Saint-Christophe between 1689 and 1705:

• Dominique, baptized 15 September 1689; his godmother was Anne Thiery, “demeurant à Boudonville proche Nancy”, probably a kinswoman of Françoise
• Humbert Nicolas, baptized 5 November 1690
• Jeanne, born 20 December and baptized 25 December 1699
• Marguerite Françoise, born 15 March and baptized 19 March 1702
• Catherine, born 6 February and baptized 8 February 1704
• Joseph Nicolas, born 23 August and baptized 27 August 1705

No baptisms from late 1690 to late 1699 are known, so there may have been other children.

A Marie Guedon of Lay married Joseph Joly there on 24 April 1705, and a “Jean Guedon” was among those who made their mark. Four months later Joseph Joly “et son Espouse” were godparents to Joseph Nicolas. She was probably an elder daughter of Jean and Françoise, but the act does not name her parents. The mark, and the baptisms of that year, are the last records of Jean as a living man.

Death

Jean Guedon died at Lay-Saint-Christophe on 30 January 1709, after confession, the viaticum and extreme unction. The burial act gives his age as “sixty-four or about”, which places his birth about 1645. He was an échevin d’église, the parish’s churchwarden, and he was buried inside the parish church, beside the preacher’s pulpit. Henry Thouvenin, the parish schoolmaster, witnessed the burial, and the curé was G. Franchot.

Notes

The couple had married before September 1689, but no record of the marriage is known: it does not appear in the registers of the two Nancy city parishes, Saint-Epvre and Notre-Dame, for 1685 to 1689. The burial act calls him “husband of the late …” and leaves the wife’s name blank; Françoise Thiery is not called dead at Jeanne’s marriage in 1719, so the phrase most likely refers to an earlier wife.