♂Jean Lefebvre

Jean Lefebvre (died before 10 January 1647) was the father of an officer of the king’s household who married at La Rochelle in 1647. He was the tenth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Martin Lefebvre (about 1604 – 1651).

He and his wife, Jeanne Doubleau, are said to have had their son Martin about 1604 in the parish of Saint-Symphorien at Reims, in Champagne, where Jean worked as a master goldsmith. Martin rose into the service of the royal household^W, as a secretary of the Chambre aux deniers, the office that paid for the king’s table. Jean and Jeanne were both dead by the time he married Barbe Bajolet at La Rochelle on 10 January 1647. The records do not say when or where either of them died.

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His trade and his son

Jean is known only through his son’s marriage. Léopold Lanctôt’s Familles acadiennes (tome II, 1994) names Martin’s parents as Jean Lefebvre, “maître orfebvre à Reims”, and Jeanne Doubleau, from the marriage contract signed at La Rochelle on 16 December 1646, and has Martin born about 1600 in the parish of Saint-Symphorien. Denis Beauregard’s online entries on Acadian ancestors also call Jean a master goldsmith at Reims, dead before 1647. Bernadette and Philippe Rossignol’s 2017 article in Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe names Martin “fils de + Jean et + Jeanne DOUBLEAU”, the crosses marking both as dead, and gives Martin’s birth as about 1604 at Saint-Symphorien. All three are published genealogies; the marriage register of 1647 names no parents.

Other pedigrees

Online family trees carry Jean’s own parents and further generations back, with dates that do not hold together (a mother aged about 13 at his birth, and both parents dying in the year he was born). No record supports them, and they are left out here.