♀Marguerite Emery dit Coderre

Marguerite Emery dit Coderre (born about 1679, by Tanguay’s dictionary) was a daughter of a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W and a fille du roi^W. Tanguay’s dictionary gives her marriage to Nicolas Jouane in 1708, and the Montréal judgment of 1715 names a husband in the division of her father’s estate. She was the half-seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-sister of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Early life

Marguerite’s parents were Antoine Emery dit Coderre (died 1715), who stayed in Canada when the regiment went home and settled at Contrecoeur, and Marie Devault (1647–1688), one of the filles du roi. She was one of the eleven children of that marriage. Tanguay’s dictionary gives only the year of her birth, 1679. Her mother died before June 1688, and Tanguay gives the burial as 6 December 1687 at Repentigny. Antoine was a widower by 5 June 1688, when he contracted to marry Marie Anne Favreau dit Deslauriers.

In March 1697 Antoine petitioned the court at Montréal for a guardian for six children of his first marriage; the petition gave Marguerite’s age as fourteen, “or thereabouts”. The court’s record of 23 March 1697 names four of them as minors, Louis, Madeleine, Marguerite and Francoise, and appointed Antoine himself their guardian, with his son-in-law Nicolas Bonin, the husband of his daughter Marie, as deputy guardian. Both men declared that they could not write or sign.

Marriage and the estate

Tanguay’s dictionary gives her marriage to Nicolas Jouane, printed Joanne in a later volume, on 24 September 1708 at Contrecoeur, and lists three daughters born in 1710, 1712 and 1714, the first at Repentigny. The Montréal court’s judgment of 27 September 1715, which divided Antoine’s estate between the children of his two marriages, names a husband, Nicolas Jouay (the surname is uncertain in the record), acting “in the name and as husband of Marguerite Aymerie”, daughter of the dead man and of the late Marie Devault, against the widow Marie Anne Favreau. The judgment recites a receipt in which Nicolas and Marguerite acknowledged 211 livres as her share of her mother’s estate. It ordered the land Antoine had received from Lacroix dit Langoumois split into two lots, one for the children of the first marriage and one for those of the second.

Notes

Her year of birth

Only Tanguay gives 1679. The 1697 petition’s fourteen would put her birth about 1683, but its ages for the younger children run three or four years under Tanguay’s and are given “or thereabouts”.