♀Jeanne (surname unknown)

Jeanne lived at Piney, in what is now the Aube department of France, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, with her husband Antoine Bajolet. She was the mother of Barbe Bajolet, who crossed to Acadia and was counted as a widow at Port-Royal in the census of 1671. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through her daughter Barbe Bajolet (born about 1608).

On Sunday 22 June 1608 their daughter Barbe was baptized at Piney; the register calls her “fille de Anthoine Baiolet & de Jeanne sa femme”, and her godfather was Anthoine Contant. That entry, which names her only as “Jeanne sa femme” (Jeanne his wife), is the only record known to mention her, and it gives no surname. Her husband is said to have been the first muleteer of Queen Marie de’ Medici^W.

Lines of descent

Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) reaches the couple by two separate lines of descent, both running down through their daughter Barbe Bajolet (born about 1608). Each line runs twelve generations from Floyd up to them. Both lines reach Floyd through his mother’s side, through Ida Serrette (1903–1990).

The two lines meet again in Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), whose parents, Jean Baptiste Daigle (born about 1847) and Melia Thibodeaux (born about 1850), both descend from the couple, Antoine Bajolet and Jeanne.

Notes

Her surname

Léopold Lanctôt’s compiled Familles acadiennes (volume 2, pages 150 and 197) calls her Jeanne Baudinet, and online family trees give the same name, citing Stephen A. White’s dictionary of Acadian families. The baptism of 1608 gives her no surname, and none is given for her here.

Her husband’s post

The title of muleteer to the queen comes from Bona Arsenault’s compiled Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (volume 2, page 718) and Léopold Lanctôt’s Familles acadiennes (volume 2, pages 150 and 197); no record of the post is known. The transcription of the Piney entry given here is provisional.