♂Jean Le Roux

Jean Le Roux was a Frenchman of the sixteenth century whose name stands in the parish register of Mareil-sur-Loir, in the old province of Maine^W, at the baptism of his daughter Marie in 1579. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Le Roux (born 1579).

Jean Le Roux and Guyonne Bourgault had married by 1579, when their daughter Marie was baptized at Saint-Christophe, the parish church of Mareil-sur-Loir, on 3 February. The register writes the father’s name as Jehan Le Roux. Marie is said to be the Marie Le Roux who married René Lemonnier in the same parish on 29 June 1605. Marie and René’s son Mathurin Meunier, baptized at Clermont-Créans in 1619, crossed to New France and married Françoise Fafard at Ville-Marie^W, the future Montréal, on 3 November 1647.

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Marie and her parents

The 1579 baptism names the father as Jehan Le Roux. The mother’s first name is written as Marguerite, struck through, with another name above it, most likely Guyonne; no surname is given for her. The Fichier Origine, the register of French emigrants to Québec kept by the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie, names Marie’s parents as Jean Leroux and Guyonne Bourgault in its entry for her son Mathurin, and gives her birth and baptism at Mareil-sur-Loir on 3 February 1579.

The act of Marie’s marriage to René Lemonnier at Mareil-sur-Loir on 29 June 1605 names no parents for either of them, so the act alone does not tie the bride to Jean and Guyonne; the link rests on the Fichier Origine. The surviving Mareil register has no marriages before 1591 and nothing at all before 1563, so Jean and Guyonne’s own wedding is not recorded there.