♀Marie Hordouille

Marie Hordouille (late 1621 – 24 November 1703) was a carpenter’s daughter from Montreuil, east of Paris, who was left an orphan at three, crossed to New France as a mother of nine and died at Charlesbourg at about eighty-two. Widowed by January 1665, she had her own marriage contract drawn up before the notary Paul Vachon at Québec two days before her daughter Françoise-Madeleine’s. She was probably the ninth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard (1650–1704).

Montreuil

Marie was most likely born at Montreuil late in 1621, the daughter of Quentin Hordouille, a master carpenter, and Marie Souhaitté, who had married in 1615. Her father died in September 1625, and her mother died the same year; both are said to have been carried off by the plague that struck Montreuil that year. Marie was then about three; by the same account her great-uncle Jacques Pepin became her guardian.

On 15 June 1644, at twenty-two, she married Simon Savard, a master wheelwright, in the parish church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul at Montreuil. The couple had nine children, the youngest born in 1661, and at least five of them grew up to marry in Canada.

New France

In 1662 Simon sailed for New France with their daughters Denise and Françoise-Madeleine; Marie is said to have followed the next year with their four youngest children. Simon was dead by January 1665. On 12 January her marriage contract with Jean Réaume was drawn up before Paul Vachon, and on 14 January the same notary drew up the contract of Françoise-Madeleine, then fourteen, with the sailor Robert Jeanne. Mother and daughter are said to have married at Québec on the same day, 26 January 1665.

Marie outlived her first husband by nearly forty years. She died at Charlesbourg, north of Québec, on 24 November 1703, at about eighty-two, eleven months before Françoise-Madeleine.

Notes

Sources for her life

Her birth at Montreuil late in 1621 (“fin 1621”), her parents, her father’s trade of master carpenter (maître charpentier) and his death or burial on 4 September 1625, her parents’ marriage on 15 November 1615, her marriage to Simon Savard at Montreuil (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul) on 15 June 1644 and her death at Charlesbourg on 24 November 1703 come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France. The same register gives Simon’s crossing in 1662 with Denise and Françoise and his death before 12 January 1665, and the baptisms and marriages of the children: Denise (baptized 19 November 1646, married François-Abraham Fiset 1664), Françoise-Madeleine (14 September 1650, married Robert Jeanne 1665), Simon (10 March 1655, married Françoise Tellier 1681), Jean (7 October 1657, married Marguerite Tremblay 1687) and Marie (20 February 1661, married Jean Lefebvre 1675).

The contract of Jean Réaume and Marie Hurdouille (12 January 1665) and that of Robert Jeannes and Françoise Savarre (14 January 1665) are listed among Paul Vachon’s acts in the Inventaire des greffes des notaires du régime français published by the Archives de Québec (1942, p. 14), and Pierre-Georges Roy’s inventory of the marriage contracts of the French régime (vol. 3, p. 236; vol. 5, p. 207) lists the first as the contract of “Hurdouil, Marie, veuve de Simon Savard” with Jean Rhéaume. The same-day weddings rest on Tanguay’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes (vol. 1, p. 543), who gives the marriage of Marie Hurdouil to Jean Rhéaume at Québec on 26 January 1665; the Savard genealogy in the Recueil de généalogies (vol. 10) gives the same date and place for her second marriage, calls Simon a native of Montreuil-sous-Bois near Paris, and gives her death as 25 November 1703, a day later than the Fichier Origine.

The plague and her guardian

That her parents died of the plague of 1625 at Montreuil, that her great-uncle Jacques Pepin was her guardian, and that she crossed in 1663 with her four youngest children rest on her profile on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here.

Her names

She is written Hourdouil and Hordouille in the Fichier Origine, Hurdouille in the notarial inventory and Hurdouil in Tanguay. Her second husband appears as Réaume and Rhéaume.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from her daughter Françoise-Madeleine runs through her granddaughter Andrée Angélique Jeanne and Jean-Baptiste Godin, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (p. 747) places among the children of Andrée and Gabriel Godin. Bona Arsenault’s list of their children does not name him, so the line is probable rather than proved.