♀Marie Blanchard

Marie Blanchard (born about 1656) was a woman of Port-Royal. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Marguerite Gaudet (born 1688).

She was born about 1656 at Port-Royal, Acadie, probably one of the children of Jean Blanchard (born 1611) and Radegonde Lambert (born 1621).

Lines of descent

Marie Blanchard reaches Floyd by two separate lines of descent, both on his mother’s side through Ida Serrette (1903–1990) and her mother Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906). Both lines run through her daughter Marguerite Gaudet (born 1688), who was the child of her marriage to Pierre Gaudet: Marguerite’s marriage act of 1713 names her parents as Pierre Godet and Marie Blanchard. The two lines meet again in Amelia Pennison Daigle, whose parents Melia Thibodeaux (born 1850) and Jean Baptiste Daigle (born 1847) both descend from Marie Blanchard.

Notes

Parents

Her parents are named as Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert by Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (vol. 2, p. 555), a compiled genealogy, in the same entry that gives her husband Pierre Gaudet’s birth and marriage. No parish act of her baptism is given here, so that parentage is probable rather than proven. The 1671 census of Port-Royal gives her age as fifteen, which is the record behind the birth about 1656.

Her daughter’s marriage act

The register of Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755, transcribed by the Nova Scotia Archives (An Acadian Parish Remembered, RG 1 vol. 26 p. 307), records the marriage of Bernard Pellerin and Marguerite Godet on 27 November 1713, before the priest Justinien Durand. It names the bride’s father as Pierre Godet and her mother as Marie Blanchard. The register spells the surname Godet; the family’s later spelling, Gaudet, is used in the bio.