♀Marguerite Breaux

Marguerite Breaux (about 1747 – 1815) was the fifth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Scholastique Breaux. She was the wife of Pierre Firmin Breaux, an Acadian settler on Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District^W of Spanish Louisiana.

The census of 1769 taken at St. James on 14 September lists her, aged twenty-two, as the wife of Firmin Breaux. A history of Breaux Bridge published in the Attakapas Gazette in 1984 says that Firmin Breaux was in the Cabahanoce District, the present St. James Parish, in 1769, and was then married to Marguerite Braud. A Thibodeaux genealogy published in the Attakapas Gazette in 1985, citing the St. Martin church registers, names Pierre Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux as the parents of Scholastique Breaux, who married Cyrille Thibodeaux at St. Martin on 10 November 1799. Probably not long before his death, according to the 1984 history, Firmin Breaux gave his land to his six sons and six daughters: Baptiste, Agricole, Joseph, Donat, Pierre and Francois, and Marie, the wife of Jean B. Guidry, Modeste, the wife of Benjamin Bonin, Adelaide, later the wife of Sylvestre Broussard, Scholastique, the wife of Cyrille Thibodeaux, Felicite, the wife of Athanase Hebert, and Isabel, the wife of Louis Bonin. These published accounts give no dates of her own birth or death and do not name her parents.

She died at Breaux Bridge on 1 September 1815, aged 68, at the house of her son-in-law Cyrille Thibodeaux. The St. Martin church register, in Hebert’s abstract, calls her a native of Acadie and the widow of Firmin Braud, and places the house “at la grand pointe”. She was buried the next day, 2 September 1815, in the parish cemetery at St. Martinville. The entry is signed by her son-in-law, written Cyrille Thibodeau there, and by the priest Gabriel Isabey.