♀Marguerite Bolduc

Marguerite Bolduc (buried 23 October 1680) was the wife of Nicolas Housseau, a vinegar merchant of Troyes, in Champagne, and the mother of Marguerite Housseau, who crossed the Atlantic and married Jean Meunier at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, in New France, on 5 October 1670. She was the ninth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marguerite Housseau, baptized at Troyes in 1641.

Her daughter Marguerite was baptized in the parish of Saint-Jean at Troyes on 28 April 1641; the register gives the parents the titles of maître and dame, and the godfather was maître Marc Housseau. Her surname is only partly legible in that register and is missing from the 1670 marriage act, which calls her simply Marguerite de Troye: Marguerite of Troyes. Her husband died before the wedding; the act calls him “deffunct”. Marguerite is counted among the King’s Daughters^W, the young women sent to New France under royal sponsorship to marry its settlers. Marguerite Bolduc was buried at Troyes on 23 October 1680, ten years after her daughter’s wedding.

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Her surname

The 1641 baptism names the mother “dame Marguerite” with a surname only partly legible, its letters B-ld-c. The Fichier Origine researchers of the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie read it Bolduc, and Yves Landry’s study of the King’s Daughters gives the bride’s mother as “Marguerite BOLDUC”, of the parish of Saint-Jean at Troyes. The 1670 marriage act at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, and Tanguay’s dictionary after it, call her “Marguerite de Troye”, which names her town rather than her family. Her burial date comes from the Fichier Origine entry for her daughter. Her parents are not known.