The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Blanchard · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Madeleine Blanchard

Born about 1643, Port-Royal, Acadie. Died between 1679 and 1686, Port-Royal, Acadie.

Madeleine Blanchard (born about 1643) was an Acadian settler of Port-Royal, the wife of the farmer Michel Richard and the mother of twin daughters, Anne and Madeleine, who were five weeks old when the census of 1671 was taken. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by five separate lines of descent, through five of her children, the nearest through her daughter Madeleine Richard (born about 1671).

Early life

Madeleine was born about 1643 at Port-Royal, Acadie, a daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert, among the earliest French families of the colony. The Port-Royal census of 1671 counts her among her parents’ three married children, with her brother Martin and her sister Anne, and gives her age as 28.

Marriage and family

Madeleine married Michel Richard, a farmer about thirteen years her senior; Belliveau’s published history of the Acadian families places the marriage about 1656, and names her as his first wife. In the 1671 census the couple, he 41 and she 28, farmed fourteen arpentsW at Port-Royal with fifteen cattle and fourteen sheep, and had seven children, the eldest a son of fourteen and the youngest the newborn twins. Both twins were still living in 1678, when a further census listed the couple with nine children, the youngest born about 1677.

Lines of descent

The five lines of descent to Floyd Amatus Delahorne run through five of her children, Madeleine, Anne, Pierre, Alexandre and Catherine Richard. Three descend on Floyd’s mother’s side, through Ida Serrette, and two on his father’s side, through Jeffrey Delahorne; the nearest is nine generations up, through her daughter Madeleine Richard. The lines meet again in Emilie Croker (born 1834) and Madeleine Ordalie Cormier (born 1827), and finally in Floyd himself, both of whose parents, Jeffrey Delahorne and Ida Serrette, descended from her. The line through Alexandre rests on the census household, since no record names his parents.

Death

Madeleine last appears with her husband in the census of 1678. By the census of 1686 Michel Richard, then 56, had remarried to Jeanne Babin, aged 18, so Madeleine had died before then; Belliveau dates the second marriage about 1683. The roll lists a two-year-old Michel in the household without saying whose son he was, but by Jeanne’s age only he can have been hers. She died at Port-Royal between about 1679 and 1686; no record of her death or burial is known, since the Port-Royal registers of those years do not survive.

Notes

The census ages are approximate. Her age of 28 in 1671, set beside a son of fourteen in the same household and a marriage about 1656, would make her very young at her marriage; the records give no other date for her birth.

Family time line

◉ Madeleine Blanchard abt 1643–1679/1686
◉ Michel Richard abt 1630–
No marriage recorded
○ René Richard abt 1657–
◉ Pierre Richard abt 1661–
◉ Catherine Richard abt 1663–
○ Martin Richard abt 1665–
◉ Alexandre Richard abt 1668–1709
◉ Anne Richard 1671–1745
◉ Madeleine Richard abt 1671–
○ Marie Richard abt 1674–
○ Cécile Richard abt 1676–
○ Marguerite Richard abt 1679–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth abt 1643 Port-Royal, Acadie on record
Living at
aged 28, wife of Michel Richard
 1671 Port-Royal, Acadie on record
Death
alive at the birth of her daughter Marguerite about 1679 (aged 7 in 1686); by the 1686 roll her husband Michel Richard has a new wife, Jeanne Babin, 18
 bet 1679 and 1686 Port-Royal, Acadie on record
16431679 165016601670

Sources

  • Census of Acadia, Port-Royal, 1671, 1686 and 1693 (manuscript nominal censuses of Acadia) — Birth, Living at, Death, about this person, family with Michel Richard
  • BELIVEAU, Frere J.-Herve, Dictionnaire genealogique des familles Belliveau-Beliveau d'Amerique — about this person

Borders as they stood about 1650 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Jean Blanchard abt 1611–
  2. Radegonde Lambert abt 1621–

Descendants

  1. René Richard abt 1657–
  2. Pierre Richard abt 1661–
    1. René Richard 1689–
      1. Pierre Richard 1712–
      2. Marie-Josèphe Richard abt 1713–bef 1777
        1. Marguerite Landry abt 1735–
        2. Osite Landry abt 1738–
        3. Madeleine Landry abt 1740–
        4. Augustin Landry abt 1743–
        5. Geneviève Landry abt 1745–
        6. Cécile Landry abt 1747–
        7. Alexandre Landry abt 1750–
        8. Pierre Landry abt 1752–
        9. Anne-Madeleine Landry abt 1754–
      3. Claude Richard 1716–1747
      4. Joseph Richard 1718–1802
      5. Jean-Baptiste Richard 1721–
      6. Armand Richard 1724–
    2. Marguerite Richard 1690–1746
      1. Charles Dugas 1711–
      2. Joseph Dugas 1713–
      3. Marguerite Dugas 1717–
      4. Angélique Dugas 1725–
      5. Abraham Dugas 1726–
      6. Étienne Dugas 1729–
      7. Jeanne Dugas 1731–
      8. Marie-Madeleine Dugas 1732–
      9. Anne Dugas 1733–
    3. Jean Richard 1691–bef 1718
      1. Jean Richard
    4. Angélique Richard 1694–
      1. Pierre Daigle 1715–
      2. Joseph Daigle 1717–
      3. Marie-Josèphe Daigle 1719–
      4. Madeleine Daigle 1721–
      5. Cécile Daigle 1723–
      6. Charles Daigle 1726–
      7. Eustache Daigle 1728–
      8. Jean-Baptiste Daigle 1733–
      9. Angélique Daigle 1737–
    5. Anne Richard 1699–
      1. Paul Granger 1721–
      2. Anne Granger 1724–
      3. Pierre Granger 1726–
      4. Françoise Granger abt 1728–
      5. Marie-Madeleine Granger 1731–
      6. Anne Granger 1731–
      7. Elizabeth Granger 1734–
      8. Joseph Granger 1736–
      9. Marguerite Granger 1740–
      10. Jean-Baptiste Granger 1742–1742 ✧
    6. Pierre Richard 1705–
      1. Marie Richard 1727–
      2. Anne Richard 1729–
      3. Jean Richard 1731–
      4. Marguerite Richard 1733–
      5. Pierre Richard 1736–
      6. Marguerite-Josèphe Richard 1739–
      7. Cécile Richard 1742–
      8. Geneviève-Marguerite Richard 1747–1747 ✧
    7. Jacques Richard 1707– ⚭
      1. Joseph Richard 1731–
      2. Charles-Ignace Richard 1733–
      3. Marie-Anne Richard 1735–
      4. Marguerite-Josèphe Richard 1737–
      5. Madeleine-Josèphe Richard 1739–
      6. Elizabeth Richard 1742–
      7. Anne Richard 1744–
      8. Jean-Baptiste Richard 1747–
    8. Charles Richard 1710–
      1. Paul Richard 1736–
      2. Marguerite-Josèphe Richard 1738–
      3. Joseph Richard 1740–
      4. Elizabeth Richard 1743–
      5. Geneviève Richard 1746–
    9. Joseph Richard 1712–
      1. Marguerite Richard 1735–
      2. Antoine-Étienne Richard 1738–
      3. Simon Richard 1740–
      4. Françoise Richard 1743–
      5. Marie-Blanche Richard 1746–
      6. Joseph Richard 1749–
      7. Jean-Charles Richard 1750–
    10. Paul Richard 1714–
      1. Mathurin Richard 1741–
      2. Amand Richard 1744–
      3. Marie-Madeleine Richard 1746–
      4. Pierre Richard abt 1748–
      5. Jacques Richard abt 1750–
  3. Catherine Richard abt 1663–
    1. Marie Broussard 1682–
      1. Anne Doucet 1713–1791
        1. Francois Garceau 1752–1823
    2. Madeleine Broussard 1683–
    3. Pierre Broussard 1684–
    4. Catherine Broussard 1686–
    5. François Broussard 1692–
    6. Elizabeth Broussard 1693–
    7. Claude Broussard 1697–
    8. Joseph Broussard 1702–
    9. Jean-Baptiste Broussard 1705–
    10. Alexandre Broussard –1765
      1. Joseph Grégoire Broussard 1725–
      2. Marguerite Broussard 1726–bef 1763
        1. Madeleine Trahan abt 1750–1803
        2. Germain Trahan abt 1752–1784
        3. Marguerite Trahan abt 1755–1832
        4. Anne Trahan –abt 1774
      3. Jean Baptiste Broussard 1727–1825
        1. Jean Broussard 1762–
      4. Madeleine Broussard –1765
        1. Théodore Thibodeau
      5. Sylvain Broussard
  4. Martin Richard abt 1665–
    1. Martin Richard 1692–1748
      1. Jean Baptiste Richard 1728–1775
        1. Marie Rosalie Richard 1752–1851
      2. Marie-Françoise Richard
        1. Rosalie Bernard 1764–
        2. Pierre-Firmin Bernard 1766–
        3. Marie-Marguerite Bernard 1768–
  5. Alexandre Richard abt 1668–1709
    1. Marie Josèphe Richard abt 1691–
    2. Marie Richard abt 1692–
    3. Marguerite Richard abt 1693–
      1. Elisabeth Dupuis 1719–1784
        1. Simon Pierre Hébert 1742–1807
        2. Élisabeth Marthe Hébert 1744–1805
    4. Jeanne Richard abt 1694–bef 1760
      1. Anne Dupuis 1721–1736 ✧
      2. Michel Dupuis 1723–
        1. Joseph Dupuis 1751–
        2. Marie Dupuis 1752–
        3. Monique Dupuis 1755–
      3. Justinien Dupuis 1725–
        1. Joseph Dupuis 1752–1803
      4. Elizabeth Dupuis 1727–
      5. Pierre Dupuis 1728–
      6. Theotiste Dupuis 1730–
        1. Pierre Giroir 1752–
        2. Joseph Giroir 1754–
        3. Jean-Baptiste Giroir 1760–
        4. Marie-Anne-Modeste Giroir 1767–
        5. Joseph Giroir 1769–
        6. Elizabeth Giroir 1771–
        7. Marie-Josèphe Giroir 1774–
      7. Cyprien Dupuis 1733–
        1. Marie-Appoline Dupuis 1761–
        2. Anne-Marguerite Dupuis 1762–
        3. Joseph-Frédéric Dupuis 1764–
        4. Pierre Dupuis 1766–
      8. Marie Joseph Dupuis 1734–
      9. Jean Baptiste Dupuis 1737–
      10. Anne Modeste Dupuis 1740–
    5. Pierre Richard abt 1697–1778 ⚭
      1. Marie-Josèphe Richard 1723–
        1. Louise Cyr 1754–
      2. Anne Richard 1725–
      3. Pierre Richard 1727–
      4. Joseph Richard 1732–
      5. Paul Richard 1735–
      6. Honoré Richard 1742–
      7. Germain Richard 1744–
      8. Thomas Richard 1746–
      9. Pepin Richard 1747–
    6. Angélique Richard abt 1698–
      1. Marguerite Bastarache 1722–
        1. Jean-Baptiste-Marin Godet 1747–
        2. Marie-Osite Godet 1748–
        3. Joseph Godet 1750–
        4. Jean-Baptiste Godet 1752–
      2. Anne Bastarache 1726–
        1. Jean Mouton 1755–1834
      3. Anselme Bastarache 1729–
      4. Marie-Modeste Bastarache 1733–
      5. Isabelle Bastarache 1735–
      6. Madeleine Bastarache 1737–
      7. Marie-Josèphe Bastarache 1739–
      8. Joseph-Aimable Bastarache 1742–
    7. Jean Baptiste Richard abt 1699–
      1. Elizabeth Richard 1732–
      2. Félicité Richard 1733–
      3. Victor Richard 1736–
      4. Frederic Richard 1738–
      5. Marguerite Richard 1740–
      6. Louise Richard 1742–
      7. Jean-Baptiste Richard 1744–
      8. Monique Richard 1747–
      9. Ovide-Mathieu Richard 1751–
    8. Germain Richard abt 1703–
    9. Michel Richard 1706–
    10. Anne Marie Richard 1709–
  6. Anne Richard 1671–1745
    1. Claude Thériot abt 1686–
      1. Marguerite Theriot 1711–1758
        1. Anne Surette 1734–1797
      2. Paul Thériault 1716–1792
        1. Jean Theriault 1744–1821
        2. Marie Josephe Thériot 1746–1811
        3. Marie Anne Thériault 1748–
    2. Jean Thériot abt 1690–
      1. Marie Theriot 1719–
      2. Marie Joseph Theriot 1721–
      3. Elisabeth Theriot 1724–
    3. Jacques Thériot abt 1693– ⚭
      1. Marie Thériot 1718–
        1. Anne Landry abt 1740–1814
        2. Marguerite Landry abt 1742–
        3. Marin Landry abt 1748–
        4. Félicité Landry abt 1750–
        5. Olivier Landry abt 1753–
        6. Joseph Landry abt 1757–
        7. Firmin Landry abt 1760–
      2. Jean Baptiste Theriot 1723–
      3. Étienne Theriot 1725–
      4. Marguerite Theriot 1727–
      5. Jean Jacques Theriot 1728–
    4. Anne Thériot abt 1705–
      1. Étienne LeBlanc 1722–
        1. Anne Leblanc 1746–1836
      2. Françoise LeBlanc 1723–
      3. Claire LeBlanc 1724–
      4. Anne LeBlanc 1728–
      5. Anastasie LeBlanc 1730–
      6. Elizabeth LeBlanc 1732–
      7. Rose LeBlanc 1734–
      8. Simon-Joseph LeBlanc 1737–
      9. Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc 1739–
      10. Pierre-Victor LeBlanc 1742–
      11. Joseph LeBlanc 1743–
      12. Sylvain LeBlanc 1745–
      13. Madeleine LeBlanc 1747–
      14. René LeBlanc 1750–
    5. Madeleine Thériot abt 1706–
      1. Paul-Honoré LeBlanc 1729–
      2. Joseph LeBlanc 1731–
      3. Marie LeBlanc 1732–
      4. Désiré LeBlanc 1734–
      5. François LeBlanc 1736–
      6. Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc 1740–
      7. Augustin-Marie LeBlanc 1742–
      8. Marie-Blanche LeBlanc 1744–
    6. Marguerite Thériot 1709–
      1. Joseph Blanchard 1730–
        1. Firmin Blanchard 1760–
        2. Marguerite Blanchard 1762–
        3. Anne-Marthe Blanchard 1770–
        4. Pierre-Isidore Blanchard 1772–
        5. Victor Blanchard 1774–
      2. Anne Blanchard 1732–
        1. Gaetan Leblanc 1768–1850
      3. Amant Blanchard 1734–
      4. Désiré Blanchard 1736–
      5. Marguerite Blanchard 1738–
      6. Anselme Blanchard 1741–1799 ⚔⛓
        1. Ozite Barbe Blanchard abt 1763–1799 ✲
        2. Jerome Blanchard abt 1766–bef 1803 ✲
        3. Louis Blanchard abt 1778–1779 ✧
        4. Antoine Blanchard
      7. Marie Joseph Blanchard 1743–
      8. Mathurin Blanchard 1745–
      9. Françoise Blanchard 1746–
      10. Madeleine Blanchard 1750–
      11. Olivier Blanchard
    7. Germain Thériot abt 1713–
      1. Étienne Theriot 1737–
    8. Marie Thériot
      1. Anne Melancon 1717–
      2. Benoni Melancon 1720–
      3. Marie Magdeleine Melancon 1722–
      4. Paul Honoré Melancon 1724–
      5. Simon Joseph Melancon 1728–
      6. Marie Rose Melancon 1731–
      7. Jean-Antoine Melancon 1733–
        1. Jean-Baptiste Melancon abt 1762–
        2. Marguerite Melancon 1767–
        3. Pierre Melancon abt 1769–
        4. Marie-Josèphe Melancon 1770–
        5. Antoine Melancon 1773–
        6. Benjamin Melancon 1774–
      8. Anastasie Melancon 1739–
  7. Madeleine Richard abt 1671–
    1. Anne Babin 1688–
      1. Alexis Benoit
        1. Mathurin Benoit abt 1750–
        2. Marie Benoit abt 1751–
        3. Marguerite Benoit abt 1753–
        4. Anne Benoit abt 1755–
        5. Elizabeth Benois abt 1757–1816 ✲
    2. Marguerite Babin 1690–
    3. René Babin 1692–
      1. Marie-Josèphe Babin 1717–
      2. Jean-Baptiste Babin 1719–
      3. Joseph Babin 1720–
      4. Geneviève Babin 1724–
        1. René Hébert 1744–
        2. Anne-Geneviève Hébert 1747–
        3. Joseph Hébert 1748–
        4. Charles Hébert abt 1750–
        5. Marguerite Hébert 1752–
      5. Eustache Babin 1727–
      6. Elizabeth Babin 1730–
      7. Félix Babin 1732–
      8. Pierre Babin 1735–
        1. Rosalie Babin 1767–1827
    4. Pierre Babin 1694–
      1. Jean-Baptiste Babin 1719–1762
        1. Marie Magdeleine Babin 1746–1833
      2. Ambroise Babin 1731–1797
        1. Marie Lutine Babin 1760–1822
        2. Thomas Babin 1763–1810
    5. Claude Babin 1698–
      1. Claude Babin 1720–
        1. Joseph Babin 1765–1837
      2. Jacques Babin 1721–
      3. Marguerite Babin 1722–
      4. Pierre Babin 1724–
      5. Amand Babin 1726–
      6. Allain Babin 1728–
      7. Basile Babin 1730–
        1. Marie-Josèphe Babin abt 1762–
        2. Marie Babin abt 1764–
      8. Marie-Josèphe Babin 1732–
      9. Joseph Babin 1734–
      10. Anne-Marie Babin 1736–
      11. Laurent Babin 1739–
      12. Jean-Charles Babin 1742–
    6. Jean Babin 1700–
    7. Joseph Babin 1702–
      1. Joseph Babin 1747–
        1. Elizabeth Isabelle Babin 1771–1842
    8. Charles Babin 1708–
    9. Marie Babin 1708–
      1. Jean-Baptiste Landry 1744–1806
        1. Rosalie Landry 1770–1836
        2. Marguerite Landry 1778–1871
        3. Joseph Landry 1779–1828
    10. Madeleine Babin 1710–
    11. Isabelle Babin 1711–
  8. Marie Richard abt 1674–
    1. Marie Vincent abt 1690–abt 1758
      1. Jean Gautrot 1710–1767
        1. Marie Anne Gautrot 1739–1793
      2. Marie Josephte Gautrot 1712–1764
        1. Charles Cyr
      3. Charles Gautrot 1729–1787
        1. Marie Celeste Gaudreau 1774–1848
  9. Cécile Richard abt 1676–
  10. Marguerite Richard abt 1679–
    1. Marguerite LeBlanc 1699–
      1. Joseph Melançon 1721–
      2. Marguerite Melançon 1722–
      3. Ursule Melançon 1724–
      4. Marie-Josèphe Melançon 1726–
      5. Amand Melançon 1728–
      6. Jean Melançon 1730–
    2. Pierre LeBlanc 1700–
    3. Anne LeBlanc 1703–
    4. François LeBlanc 1705–
    5. Jean LeBlanc 1706–
    6. Marie LeBlanc 1707–
    7. Jacques LeBlanc 1709–
      1. Marguerite-Blanche LeBlanc 1732–
      2. Joseph LeBlanc 1734–
    8. Paul LeBlanc 1711–
    9. Joseph LeBlanc 1718–
    10. Michel LeBlanc 1720–
    11. Charles LeBlanc 1722–