♀Jeanne Ducorps

Jeanne Ducorps (fl. 1673–1687) was the wife of Martin Macé, a locksmith and edge-tool maker in New France, at Sorel and then at Montréal. She was the ninth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Marie-Anne Macé (1684–).

No record of her parents has been found, and her place of origin is not known. Her marriage to Martin Macé has not been found in the indexed Québec parish registers; it took place before March 1673, when their daughter Marie was baptised at Sorel on 19 March. The family was settled at Montréal by 1684: their daughter Marie-Anne was baptised there on 7 December 1684. Four daughters of the couple are known. The youngest known, Catherine, was baptised at Montréal on 16 December 1687 and was buried on 12 June 1699, aged twelve. Their daughter Jeanne married Michel Campot at Montréal on 7 January 1696, aged seventeen. A Marie, daughter of the couple, married Jean Pothier there on 24 September 1696; she is probably the Marie baptised at Sorel, although the register’s age of twenty is three years short of that baptism. Marie-Anne married Guillaume Maillot at Montréal on 16 January 1704, and married again in 1718; both registers name Jeanne Ducorps as her mother. When and where she died is not known. The registers write her surname Ducorps, except Catherine’s baptism, which gives it as Lecorps.