♀Magdeleine Faure

Magdeleine Faure (living 1675–1703) was a townswoman of Tallard, a market town on the Durance in Dauphiné^W, the wife of Gaspard Roche and the mother of eight children named in the parish registers there between 1675 and 1703. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Claude Roche (1694–1755).

Early life

No record of her parents is known. The parish registers of Saint-Grégoire of Tallard survive only from 1674, and her marriage to Gaspard Roche falls before that year: the index of Tallard marriages made by the genealogical society of the Hautes-Alpes has no marriage of the couple. Her family can still be traced a little way. At the marriage of her daughter Marguerite to Joseph Borel on 18 February 1692, the witnesses included the bride’s uncles André Faure, a procureur^W (a court attorney), and Estienne Faure, a surgeon, so these two men were Magdeleine’s brothers.

Marriage and family

The earliest act to name her is the baptism of her son Dominique on 19 August 1675. The same registers show her as the mother of Marie Anne, baptized on 9 January 1678, Madeleine, baptized on 13 June 1685, Jeanne on 29 January 1688, Catherine on 26 September 1690 and Claude on 23 April 1694, her youngest known child, and of the elder children Estienne and Marguerite, whose baptisms are not known and probably fall before the surviving registers begin. Several of the acts give her the courtesy word “honneste”, used in the registers for a respectable townswoman. Her daughter Madeleine was buried in September 1696, aged about twelve. Her husband was buried at Tallard on 8 June 1708, aged sixty-five. Her son Claude settled in the duchy of Lorraine, and his marriage at Lay-Saint-Christophe on 21 November 1719 names her and Gaspard as his parents, of the parish of Saint-Grégoire at Tallard; it does not say whether she was still living.

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Death

No record of her death has been found. At her son Estienne’s marriage on 15 January 1703 she is named as “honneste Madeleine Faure” without the word “late”, while the bride’s father in the same act is “the late Gaspard”, which suggests she was still living then. The Tallard burial index holds no burial that fits her: the women of her name buried there before 1766, in 1693, 1695 and 1698, were a woman of about eighty and two infant daughters of Pierre Faure, and a Magdelaine Roche buried in 1719 was aged about eighty, too old to be the mother of a child born in 1694.