♀Jeanne Doubleau

Jeanne Doubleau (died before 10 January 1647) was the mother of an officer of the king’s household who married at La Rochelle in 1647. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Martin Lefebvre (about 1604 – 1651).

She and her husband, Jean Lefebvre, 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.

Notes

Her name and her son

Jeanne is known only through her 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. 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. Both are published genealogies; the marriage register of 1647 names no parents. Nothing is known of her own family.