♀Marguerite Foltz

Marguerite Foltz (dates unknown) was a colonist of the German Coast^W, the settlements on the Mississippi above New Orleans in colonial Louisiana, and the wife of Simon Tregle. She was the fourth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marguerite Tregle (baptized 13 June 1754).

Marriage and children

She married Simon Tregle at St. Charles Borromeo on 19 May 1750. The church register spells her surname Foltz, as it does in the baptism of her second daughter, Marguerite, on 13 June 1754. Her first daughter, Marie Julianne, was baptized on 19 January 1753 and buried on 30 March. Her godparents, Jean Baptiste Foltz and Marie Julianne Dreger, married each other on 1 May 1753. Marie Julianne was Simon’s sister, and Jean Baptiste shared his wife’s surname, so the Dreger and Foltz families were joined a second time; the records do not say whether he was Marguerite’s brother. The register of St. Paul the Apostle at Mansura, Avoyelles, names her in the entry of 20 April 1802 for her grandson Augustin Marcotte, where the child’s maternal grandparents are given as Simon Tregle and Margarita Folkes, “naturales de la Costa de Alemanes”, natives of the German Coast. A certificate of the same entry made in 1980 reads the surname “Falkes”. Folkes and Falkes are taken as forms of Foltz, a surname that on the German Coast later became Folse.

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Origins and death

Her parents are not known. Deiler’s 1909 history of the German Coast lists a Johann Jacob Foltz of Ramstein, in the Palatinate, a shoemaker of twenty-six in the census of 1724, with a wife and a child of one year; she may have been one of his children, but no record says so. No record of her death has been found. Simon later had a second wife, Catherine Michel, so Marguerite was presumably dead by then, but the date is not known.