♀Marguerite Vinante

Marguerite Vinante (died about 1629) was a mother of four at Montreuil, east of Paris, whose son Simon Savard followed his father, the wheelwright Simon Savard, into the trade and in 1662 crossed to New France. She was probably the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Simon Savard (1623 – before 1665).

With Simon she had four children, Jean, Simon, Guillaume and Marie, baptized between 1618 and 1627; Simon was baptized at Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Montreuil on 22 May 1623. Marguerite is said to have died in 1629, and about that year Simon married again, to Diane Certel, the widow of Godefroy Gallier.

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Sources for her life

Her marriage to Simon Savard, a wheelwright (charron), the baptisms of the four children (Jean on 19 October 1618, Simon at Montreuil, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, on 22 May 1623, Guillaume on 7 January 1626 and Marie on 13 December 1627) and Simon’s second marriage, about 1629, to Diane Certel come from the entry for her son Simon in the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France. Her death in 1629 rests on her profile on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here. Her parents are not known.

Her birth year

The same WikiTree profile gives her a birth year of 1605, which would make her thirteen at her son Jean’s baptism in 1618; it is not used here.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from her son Simon runs through Simon’s daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard, her 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.