♀Marie Garault

Marie Garault (born about 1677) was an Acadian of Port-Royal who married Jérôme Darois, a settler from Paris, and who outlived him to be carried into exile in Virginia, where she died. She was the half-sister of Emmanuel Hebert (1656–1744), the seventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life

She was nine years old in 1686, when the census of Port-Royal listed her in the household of Dominique Garault, 60, and Marie Gaudet (written Godet), 60, after “the children of Marie Godet”, Michel, twenty, and Antoine, sixteen, the sons of Marie Gaudet’s first marriage to Étienne Hébert. The household had three arpents^W of land, four cattle and three pigs. The census names her simply “Marie Garault” and does not say who her mother was; she was probably Marie Gaudet’s daughter, which would make the Hébert sons her half-brothers.

Marriage and family

At Port-Royal, probably about 1695, she married Jérôme Darois, who had come from Paris. The couple settled at Saint-Charles-des-Mines, on the Rivière des Habitants, and are said to have had ten children, five sons and five daughters.

In 1706, during Queen Anne’s War^W, Jérôme is said to have been captured by the British at Minas and held with his family as prisoners of war in Boston. After the war the family came home to the Rivière des Habitants, and later moved on to Petitcoudiac, near Beaubassin^W, where Jérôme died about 1750, at about eighty.

Exile

Marie outlived him, and in the deportation of the Acadians she was carried to Virginia, where she died. In 1767, when the Acadian exiles on Belle-Île-en-Mer, off Brittany, declared their ancestry at Sauzon, her son-in-law Claude Pitre named his wife’s father as “Jerome Darois from Paris, who had married at Port Royal Marie Gareau”, and said that he “died at the Riviere Petitcodiac in Beaubassin” and that she “died in Virginia”.

Notes

Sources

Her age comes from the census of Port-Royal of 1686, which lists her as “Marie Garault 9”. Her marriage about 1695, her parents Dominique Garault and Marie Gaudet, the ten children, the home at Saint-Charles-des-Mines and her death in Virginia come from Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, which writes her name Garault in one volume and Garant, with a birth in 1676, in another. The capture in 1706, the captivity in Boston, the return home and the move to Petitcoudiac come from Steven A. Cormier’s history of the Acadians of Louisiana, which places the ten children between 1698 and 1719. An index of the register of Saint-Charles-des-Mines names Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau as the parents of Elisabet Darois at her marriage to René Trahan on 8 November 1717.

Her mother

The 1686 census heads Michel and Antoine “the children of Marie Godet” and adds “and Marie Garault” without saying whose daughter she was. Arsenault makes her the daughter of Dominique Garault and Marie Gaudet, whom he has marrying about 1675. The 1767 declarations of Claude Pitre and of Sylvestre Trahan, who had married Ursule Darois in 1747, call her the daughter of Dominique Gareau “who had come from France” and of Anne Gaudet.