♀Marie Angélique Roy

Marie Angélique Roy (baptized 16 April 1694) was a Montréal woman who married twice, in 1713 and again thirty-six years later in 1749. She was the seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Marie Roy (1706–1744), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandmother.

Early life

She was baptized at Notre-Dame de Montréal on 16 April 1694, the register writing her name Marie Angelique Roi. Her parents, Jean Roy (died 1741) and Marie Anne Bouchard (1673–1746), had married in 1690, and she was the second of their nineteen children baptized at Notre-Dame between 1691 and 1717. Her sister Marie, who became Nancy Jane’s ancestor, was born twelve years after her.

Marriages

On 6 June 1713 she married Antoine Dufresne at Notre-Dame, the register writing his name Antoine Tune. He was about thirty-three, a son of Félix Dufresne and Elisabeth Lefebvre. The marriage joined two families that both stand in Nancy Jane’s ancestry, because Antoine’s sister Madeleine Dufresne (1673–1739) is also her ancestor. No children are recorded from the marriage, and no death is recorded for Antoine.

On 10 February 1749, at Montréal, she married Jean Baptiste Moison. A birth year of 1726 is given for him, which would make him more than thirty years younger than his bride, who was then about fifty-four. No children are recorded from this marriage either.

Notes

Ages at the weddings

The 1713 marriage record gives her age as 18, a year under what her baptism implies. The birth year 1726 given for Jean Baptiste Moison is itself uncertain, so the difference in age between the couple in 1749 is uncertain.