♀Marguerite Thiébault

Marguerite Thiébault (died before 1607) lived with her husband Jean LeNoir at Leuze, a small village in the Thiérache district of the Aisne, in northern France. She was probably the twelfth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Madeleine LeNoir (born about 1565).

Jean and Marguerite are said to be known from a single document, a consent drawn up before the notary Hiérosme Mallot at Montreuil, east of Paris, in May 1607, when both had already died. In it their daughter Madeleine, the wife of André Hordouille, gave up her share of their inheritance to her sister Claudine. The act names Leuze as the couple’s home. Madeleine had been born there and had left the Aisne with her husband in 1597.

Notes

Sources for her life

Her and her husband’s names as the parents of Madeleine LeNoir, and Madeleine’s birth at Leuze, come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in the entry for Madeleine’s granddaughter Marie Hordouille; the same entry gives the family’s departure from the Aisne in 1597. The 1607 consent, the sister Claudine and the couple’s home at “Leuze en Thiérache” rest on Denis J. Savard’s genealogy of the Savard family (savart.info), which dates the act 6 May 1607 in one place and 8 May 1607 in another. That the couple had died by then follows from the act’s wording as that genealogy gives it.

Names

Savard writes the couple as Jehan LeNoyre and Marguerite Thiébaux, and notes that the notary wrote her surname Thibault. The Fichier Origine has Jean LeNoir and Marguerite Thiébault.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from her daughter Madeleine runs through her son Quentin Hordouille, Quentin’s daughter Marie, her daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard, Françoise-Madeleine’s daughter Andrée Angélique Jeanne and Jean-Baptiste Godin, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (p. 747) places among the children of Andrée and Gabriel Godin. Bona Arsenault’s list of their children does not name him, so the line is probable rather than proved.