♀Marie-Anne Macé

Marie-Anne Macé (7 December 1684 – 23 September 1721) was a Montréal woman, the daughter of a master edge-tool maker. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Therese Mailhot (born 1708).

Early life

She was born and baptized at Montréal on 7 December 1684, the daughter of Martin Macé, a locksmith and edge-tool maker, and Jeanne Ducorps. Her godfather was a joiner, Jean Bourhis. Her parents had lived at Sorel, where an elder sister, Marie, was baptized in 1673, before settling in Montréal. Another sister, Jeanne, married there in 1696 at seventeen. A younger sister, Catherine, died in June 1699 at the age of twelve.

Marriages

On 16 January 1704, at Notre-Dame in Montréal, she married Guillaume Maillot (1680–1718), an edge-tool maker from Grondines. The register gives her age as twenty and his as twenty-three.

The couple lived in Montréal and had nine children between 1705 and 1717, according to a nineteenth-century genealogical dictionary, and five of them died in infancy: their first son, Guillaume, in 1705, then Angélique in 1713, Jacques in 1714, René in 1716, and Jeanne, who was born in 1717 and died the next year. Of the four who lived beyond infancy, Thérèse, born in 1708, married Antoine Maillet at Montréal in 1730; Marie-Anne, born in 1710, married Charles Surprenant at Longueuil in 1734; Marie-Joseph lived to fifteen and died in 1727; and a son, François, was baptized in 1706; nothing more is known of him.

Guillaume was buried in April 1718. On 26 September 1718 she married again at Montréal, to Pierre Courault, twenty-two, some twelve years younger than herself, from the parish of Saint-André in Angoulême, the son of Élie Courault Delacoste and Catherine Coulault. The register describes her as the widow of Guillaume Maillot and names her parents.

Death

She died at Montréal on 23 September 1721 and was buried the next day. The burial record gives her age as thirty-eight and names her husband as Pierre Courraux.

Notes

Her surname appears as Macé and as Massé; a nineteenth-century genealogical dictionary uses Massé and gives her mother as Jeanne DeCors. The registers read Ducorps.