♀Marie Emery dit Coderre

Marie Emery dit Coderre (born about 1672) was a daughter of a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment^W and a fille du roi^W, and on 8 January 1685 she married Nicolas Bonin at Contrecoeur when she was about thirteen and he about thirty. She was the half-seventh great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-sister of Francois Emery dit Codere (1700–1755), Nancy Jane’s seventh great-grandfather.

Early life

Marie’s parents were Antoine Emery dit Coderre (died 1715), who stayed in Canada when the regiment went home and settled at Contrecoeur, and Marie Devault (1647–1688), one of the filles du roi. She was one of the eleven children of that marriage. Tanguay’s dictionary gives her birth as 1670; the church act of her marriage calls her about thirteen, and in March 1697 her father gave her age as twenty-four, so her birth is taken as about 1672.

Marriage

Her husband was Nicolas Bonin (born about 1655). The 8 January 1685 marriage act names him as the son of Louis Bonin and Marie Josneau of the parish of Saint-Martin in the diocese of La Rochelle. The marriage contract was passed at Contrecoeur on 19 November 1684 before the notary Pierre Ménard dit Saint-Onge, and the seigneur, Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur^W, and his wife Barbe Denis were present. The couple, her parents and most of the witnesses could not write, and the contract records that Barbe Denis signed with the notary. The contract styles Antoine “maistre”.

The wedding followed a death in the house. Marie’s baby sister Anne was born on 24 December 1684, and the baptismal register names Marie as holding the child at the font on 30 December. Anne died on 3 January 1685 and was buried the next day, with Nicolas Bonin among those present. Four days later the priest at Contrecoeur married Marie and Nicolas.

Her father’s guardianship

In March 1697 Antoine petitioned the court at Montréal for a guardian for six children of his first marriage and named Marie, then married and aged twenty-four, among them. The court’s record of 23 March 1697 names four of them as minors, Louis, Madeleine, Marguerite and Francoise, and appointed Antoine himself their guardian, with his son-in-law Nicolas Bonin, the husband of his daughter Marie, as deputy guardian. Both men declared that they could not write or sign. A later recital records a receipt from Nicolas Bonin to Antoine for 150 livres, passed on 15 April 1697. On 23 January 1713 the two men sat together as arbitrators in a dispute over an estate at Contrecoeur. No children are recorded for the couple, and no death or burial is recorded for her.

Notes

Her birth year

Tanguay alone gives 1670. The marriage act’s “about thirteen” gives 1671 or 1672, and the age of twenty-four in 1697 gives 1672 or 1673. The same 1697 petition says she had been married ten or eleven years, where the church act gives twelve.