♀Marie Jeanne Delleblet

Marie Jeanne Delleblet was the mother of a New Orleans-born daughter whose marriage on the German Coast^W above New Orleans in 1752 is the only record known to name her. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Claude Louis.

On 14 November 1752 their daughter Marie Claude Louis, written Claudine in the register, married Francois Bizette at the church of St. Charles Borromeo^W on the German Coast. The entry calls her a native of New Orleans and names her parents as Estien Louis and Marie Jeanne Delleblet, but it gives neither their ages nor where they came from, and nothing more is known of the couple. Their daughter, often called by the name Champagne in later registers, went on to raise a large family at Pointe Coupée.

Notes

The 1752 marriage

The marriage is known from the printed abstracts of the sacramental records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans (volume 2, 1751–1771), which enter it under both Biset and Louis. The same volume ties the bride to the name Champagne: Marie Louise, a daughter of Francois Bizette and Claudine Champagne, was baptized at New Orleans on 2 January 1754.

Other forms of the names

A compiled family website calls her Marie Jeanne Pelletier (Delleblet) and her husband Étienne (Charles) Champagne dit Louis, and gives no record for either form. It also lists as their son an Étienne Louis who married Anne Foucheur, a widow, at New Orleans on 9 April 1731. The printed abstract of that marriage names the groom’s parents as Charle Louis and Jeanne Delette and calls him a native of Orleans; how he is connected to this family is not settled.