♀Marguerite Picot

Marguerite Picot lived at Tourlaville, a parish just east of Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy, in the later 1600s, married to Bernardin Le Gentilhomme, a laboureur. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jean Le Gentilhomme (born 1671).

In the France of the time a laboureur was a farmer who worked the land with his own plow and team, as distinct from a day laborer. Marguerite and her husband appear in the Tourlaville register as the parents of a son, where her name is written “Marguerite picot”. Their son Jean Le Gentilhomme was born at Tourlaville on 2 March 1671 and baptized the next day. Jean married Anne Le Rivager at Tourlaville on 7 July 1695, after the publication of the banns without opposition or impediment. The records do not give Marguerite’s birth, her death or her parents.

Notes

At her son’s wedding

The marriage act of 1695 does not name the groom’s mother. Among the marks on the act is one of a “…piquet”; the act does not say whose it is.

The year of her son’s marriage

The last digit of the year in Jean’s marriage act could be a 5 or an 8. A table of the register’s folios by year places the page in 1695, and the facing page agrees. A WikiTree profile for Jean and Anne gives 7 July 1698.