♀Jeanne Caillé

Jeanne Caillé (about 1636 – 15 January 1711) was a woman of the Île d’Orléans, in New France, the wife of Jean Minaud, and was buried at St-Jean on the island in 1711. She was the ninth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Minaud.

Her daughter Marie Minaud married Jean Mourier 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 bride’s parents as the late Jean Minaud and Jeanne Caillé. Her husband was therefore dead by the date of the marriage. The dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W gives that, as the widow of Jean Minaud, she married Guillaume Dupas.

She died on 15 January 1711, “après cinq ou six jours de maladie” (after five or six days of illness), and was buried at St-Jean on the Île d’Orléans on 16 January. The index of the burial act writes her name Cailler, calls her a widow aged 75, and names Pierre Terrien, her son-in-law, as a witness; the words naming her last husband are torn. Her age at burial puts her birth about 1636; Tanguay’s dictionary gives 1631. 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.