♂Jean Melancon

Jean Melancon (born about 1681) was a man of Les Mines, Acadie. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through his daughter Marie-Josèphe Melanson (born 1713) and, most likely, his son Alexandre Melancon (born about 1717).

He was the son of Pierre Melancon (born about 1632) and Marie Marguerite Mius d’Entremont (born about 1650), and a brother of Philippe Melancon (about 1666–1744). He was 5 in 1686 and 12 in 1693. His birth year of about 1681 is an estimate from those ages. He married Marguerite Dugas, a daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, and the wedding is said to have taken place at Saint-Charles-des-Mines on 11 January 1701.

Lines of descent

The first line runs through the couple’s daughter Marie-Josèphe Melanson (born 1713), seven generations above Floyd. Her son François Hebert, most likely, is the next link: his son Charles Hebert, Charles’s daughter Henriette Hebert and Henriette’s daughter Euphemie Dupuis lead to Pierre Anatole Serrett, whose daughter Ida Serrette (1903–1990) was Floyd’s mother.

The second line runs through Alexandre Melancon (born about 1717), most likely also a son of the couple and likewise seven generations above Floyd. The two lines meet again in Floyd’s mother, Ida Serrette, whose parents Pierre Anatole Serrett (1853–1926) and Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906) both descend from Jean Melancon and Marguerite Dugas.

Notes

His marriage

Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (vol. 3, p. 1263) gives the marriage of Jean Melanson, son of Pierre Melanson and Marie-Marguerite Mius d’Entremont, to Marguerite Dugas, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, on 11 January 1701 at Saint-Charles-des-Mines. No act of the marriage is known; the surviving register of Saint-Charles begins in 1707.

The first line

The Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 1A, gives the baptism of Marie-Josèphe Melanson on 8 January 1713 at Grand-Pré, with Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas as her parents, and her marriage on 17 November 1732 to François Hébert, son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, in the same volume. The baptism of her son François on 10 June 1738 is described on Marie-Josèphe’s own page.

The second line

Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (vol. 3, p. 1266) gives “ALEXANDRE MELANSON, 1716, fils de Jean et de Marguerite Dugas”. A Cormier compilation of Acadian families gives “born c1717, Minas; son of Jean MELANÇON & Marguerite DUGAS”. Both are compiled genealogies rather than parish registers. They date his birth 1716 and about 1717, and the date used here is about 1717.