♀Madeleine LeNoir

Madeleine LeNoir (about 1565 – buried 6 May 1633) was a native of Leuze, in the Aisne in northern France, who was buried at La Pissotte, at Vincennes east of Paris, having outlived her husband by three years and her son Quentin by eight. She was probably the eleventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Quentin Hordouille (died 1625).

From Leuze to Vincennes

Madeleine was the daughter of Jean LeNoir and Marguerite Thiébault, and is said to have been born about 1565. She married André Hordouille, who signed his name “Andrien Hordolle”, and in 1597 the family moved away from the Aisne. By 1615 her son Quentin was settled at Montreuil, beside Vincennes. André died or was buried on 8 March 1630, and Madeleine was buried at La Pissotte on 6 May 1633.

The family

André Hordouille and Madeleine LeNoir’s son Quentin Hordouille became a master carpenter at Montreuil and married Marie Souhaitté there on 15 November 1615. The couple had four children between 1617 and 1625. Quentin died or was buried on 4 September 1625, seven weeks after the birth of his youngest son, Eustache, in a year when plague is said to have struck Montreuil. His daughter Marie, then about three, grew up to cross with her own family to New France.

Notes

Sources for her life

Her parents, her birth at Leuze (“nee a Leuze”), her burial at La Pissotte, Vincennes on 6 May 1633 (“s. 06-05-1633”), her husband’s signature and his death or burial on 8 March 1630, the family’s departure from the Aisne in 1597, and her son Quentin’s trade, marriage, children and death or burial on 4 September 1625 come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in the entry for her granddaughter Marie Hordouille. The year of her birth, about 1565, and the plague of 1625 at Montreuil rest on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from her son Quentin runs through Quentin’s daughter Marie, her daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard, Françoise-Madeleine’s daughter Andrée Angélique Jeanne and Jean-Baptiste Godin, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (p. 747) places among the children of Andrée and Gabriel Godin. Bona Arsenault’s list of their children does not name him, so the line is probable rather than proved.