♀Marguerite Thériot

Marguerite Thériot (about 1678 – 1740) was an Acadian of Port-Royal who settled with her husband, René Granger, and their children in the Les Mines^W district, where two of their daughters were married on the same day in 1717. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jean Baptiste Granger (1713–1756).

Port-Royal

Marguerite Thériot was born about 1678 at Port-Royal, in Acadia, a daughter of Bonaventure Thériot and Jeanne Boudrot. The census of 1686 lists her there, aged eight, in her parents’ household with her sister Anne, twelve, and by 1693 she was the only daughter still at home, aged fourteen.

No record of the marriage of René Granger and Marguerite Thériot survives, since the registers of Port-Royal before 1702 are lost; they were married by 1698, when the census of Port-Royal lists René, aged twenty-three, and Marguerite, twenty-one, with two small daughters. By 1701 they had three daughters, Marie, Marguerite and Françoise. A declaration made by a grandson in 1767 names eight children of the marriage, all born at Port-Royal, among them their son Jean Baptiste Granger, born in 1713. Her mother died at Port-Royal in 1710.

Les Mines

Some time after 1713 the family moved to the Minas district. On 3 November 1717 two of their daughters were married on the same day in the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Mines at Grand-Pré: Marie to Germain Dupuis, and Marguerite to Charles Belliveau, of Port-Royal. Four of their sons, Joseph, René, Claude and Charles, married at Grand-Pré between 1725 and 1733, and by 1733 the register described the family as of the parish of Saint-Joseph de la Rivière-aux-Canards^W. Her father also spent his last years at Les Mines, and was buried at Grand-Pré on 4 May 1731.

René Granger died at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1740, and Marguerite Thériot died there the same year. Both deaths are known from the family histories that their grandchildren set down in exile on Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany, in 1767.

Notes

Her parents

The declaration made on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by her Daigre grandsons, the sons of her daughter Françoise, says that she was born at Port-Royal and “décédée à la rivière aux Canards en mil sept cent quarante”, and names her as the “fille de Bonaventure Thériot décédé aux Mines, paroisse Saint-Charles, et de Jeanne Boudrot morte au dit Port Royal”. The census of 1686 agrees, listing Marguerite, eight, with Bonaventure and Jeanne at Port-Royal.

Her age

Her age in the censuses runs eight in 1686, fourteen in 1693, twenty-one in 1698 and in 1700, and twenty-two in 1701, all of which point to a birth about 1678. The rolls spell her surname in several ways, among them Teriot, Terior and Thiriot.

Her name in 1725

The Grand-Pré entry for the marriage of her son Joseph to Marguerite LeBlanc on 8 October 1725 names his mother as Marie Terriot; the entries for her other children’s marriages call her Marguerite.

The children’s birth years

The declaration made by her grandson Joseph Simon Granger at Le Palais gives the children’s birth years from Marie in 1699 to Jean in 1713. The censuses make the eldest daughters older: Marie was two in 1698, four in 1700 and five in 1701, and Françoise, whom the declaration puts in 1703, was already one in 1701. The same declaration calls the son born in 1713 Jean; his daughters’ declarations call him Jean Baptiste.