♀Marie Guilbeau

Marie Guilbeau was an Acadian woman of Pisiguit, the wife of Abraham Landry (born about 1678). She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by two separate lines of descent, through her children René Landry (born 1716) and Marie Madeleine Landry (born about 1723).

Life

The registers of Grand-Pré name her, as Guillbaud, Gulibau and Gauilibau, as the mother of Alexandre Landry, baptized at Pisiguit in 1709, and of the brothers Alexandre and Abraham Landry at their marriages in 1732. At the marriage of her son René in February 1737 she and Abraham were still of the parish of l’Assomption at Pisiguit. She was a daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot of Port-Royal: the census of 1700 lists Marie, aged seventeen, in their household, with her brother Charles and her sister Jeanne. That she is the Marie Guilbeau who married Abraham Landry rests on her name and age, as drawn together in Stephen A. White’s dictionary of Acadian families. The same dictionary names her as the mother of Marie Madeleine as well, which no surviving record states, because the registers of Pisiguit are lost. Her death is not recorded.

Lines of descent

Two lines of descent run from her to Floyd Amatus Delahorne. One, eight generations up, runs through her son René Landry (born 1716) to Floyd’s mother, Ida Serrette (1903–1990). The other, nine generations up, runs through her daughter Marie Madeleine Landry (born about 1723) to Floyd’s father, Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929); that link rests on Stephen A. White’s compiled dictionary of Acadian families, as above. The two lines meet again in Floyd, whose parents both descend from her.