♀Marie Baudonier

Marie Baudonier was a Frenchwoman of the seventeenth century whose son Jean left the parish of Blanzais (now Blanzay), in Poitou^W, for New France. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jean Baudet (about 1650–1714).

She and her husband Sébastien Baudet are known from a single record. On 23 September 1670 their son Jean married Marie Grandin in the parish of Notre-Dame at Québec. The entry names the groom’s parents as Sébastien Baudet and Marie Baudonier, and describes Jean as single, living at Champigny, and a native of the parish of Blanzais in the diocese of Poitiers. The couple probably lived at Blanzay before 1650, the parish their son’s 1670 marriage entry gives as his own.

Notes

The 1670 marriage entry

The entry is taken from an index of the Québec register, which spells the parents’ names Sebastien Baudet and Marie Baudonier. Cyprien Tanguay’s^W dictionary of French-Canadian families gives Jean as the son of Sébastien and of Marie Baudonnier, “de Blanzais, évêché de Poitiers”. Tanguay dates the marriage 28 September 1670; the indexed entry gives 23 September.

Where the parents lived

The place is an inference from the son. The 1670 entry gives Jean as a native of the parish of Blanzais, diocese of Poitiers, and Tanguay’s dictionary gives him as “de Blanzais, évêché de Poitiers”, but no record of the parents themselves is known to name a place.

What is not known

No record gives the date or place of her birth, her marriage or her death. The index marks the bride’s father as dead in 1670 but says nothing of the kind about the groom’s parents, so whether Sébastien and Marie were still living when their son married is not known. The Blanzay parish registers available through the departmental archives of the Vienne begin in 1688, decades after Jean’s birth.