♂Jean Mourier

Jean Mourier was a resident of the Île d’Orléans, in New France, who married Marie Minaud at Ste-Famille in 1678 and had children baptised at St-Jean on the island. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Mourier (born 1688).

Jean Mourier married Marie Minaud at Ste-Famille on the Île d’Orléans on 29 October 1678. The index of the act writes the groom’s name Morier, describes both as single and of the island, and names the groom’s parents as Jean Morier and Anne Caron and the bride’s as the late Jean Minaud and Jeanne Caillé.

Their daughter Marie was baptised at St-Jean on 10 July 1685, and their daughter Marie Mourier, written Jeanne Meurier in the index, on 31 August 1688; she married Pierre Galien at St-Jean in 1704. The dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W lists ten children of the couple, with dates from 1678 to 1696, and notes that two young daughters, Marie and Marie-Madeleine, were burned on 27 December 1682 and were buried on 3 January 1683.

Tanguay’s dictionary names him Jean Mourier dit Verron, a dit name^W, gives his year of birth as 1630, and gives his burial at St-Jean on 18 August 1705. It adds that Marie Minaud married Jean Rabouin at St-Jean on 6 July 1706. The acts of the family are known from Tanguay’s dictionary and the index of the Québec parish registers; the register pages themselves have not been read.