♀Magdeleine Levron

Magdeleine Levron was an Acadian woman of the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Port-Royal, the wife of Clément Vincent. Two of her daughters were married in the parish church on the same day, 3 June 1726. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Magdeleine Vincent (born 1709).

Early life

She was born about 1682, a daughter of François Levron and Catherine Savoie of Port-Royal, and her life can be followed through the censuses. She is “Magdelaine”, five, in their household in 1686, and eleven in 1693. In 1698, aged sixteen, she was already married to Clément Vincent, twenty-two, and the census lists the young couple’s household directly after her parents’, with five cattle and eight sheep of their own. In 1700 she was counted again with her parents, aged eighteen; the roll of that year has no household for Clément, and does not say why. The priests of Port-Royal wrote her surname in several ways: Leuron and Leveron in the censuses, Levron at her daughters’ marriages, Learont at a baptism of 1709.

Children

The surviving register of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, which begins in 1702, records eleven children of Magdeleine and Clément baptized between 1704 and 1726, seven sons and four daughters. Three died as infants, and the register records their burials: Paul in October 1717, Marguerite in April 1719 and Claude in September 1722.

Her own family stood godparents more than once. At her daughter Marie Joseph’s baptism in January 1707 the godmother was Isabelle Levron, and at her daughter Magdelaine’s in January 1709 the godfather was Jacques Leuron. They were her sister Elisabeth and her brother Jacques, both listed in her parents’ household in the censuses. A Jeanne Levron was godmother to her son Jean in 1713 and a Pierre Levron godfather to her son Pierre in 1723; the Jeanne and Pierre of her parents’ household in 1698 were probably her youngest sister and brother, though the register does not say so.

The weddings of 1726

On 3 June 1726 her daughters Marie Joseph, aged nineteen, and Magdeleine, aged eighteen, were married one after the other by the missionary René Charles de Breslay^W, to Paul Michel and Claude Giroard, both of Pisiguit. Each act names her as the bride’s mother, and Magdeleine’s adds that the bride’s parents lived in the parish. Anne married Alexandre Doiron of Pisiguit at Grand-Pré the following year. Her youngest child in the register, François, was baptized on 28 October 1726, four months after the double wedding, with his sister Anne as godmother. His godfather, Daniel Garceau, son of the late Garceau dit Tranchemontagne, had been a witness at Marie Joseph’s marriage in June; Magdeleine’s sister Marie had married a soldier of that name in 1703, which makes him most likely her nephew.

No record of Magdeleine’s death is known.