♀Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon

Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon (baptized 19 June 1701 – buried 27 April 1754) was a woman of New France, baptized at Pointe-aux-Trembles in the Portneuf district, who married Jean Baptiste Marcotte at Cap-Santé in 1725 and was buried there in 1754. She was probably the fourth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jean Baptiste Marcotte (died by 1808).

Origins

She was baptized on 19 June 1701 at Pointe-aux-Trembles, the parish in the Portneuf district later renamed Neuville, not the Pointe-aux-Trembles on the island of Montréal. Her family name was Hardy; Chatillon was a dit name, a second surname carried by the family alongside its own, and Tanguay’s dictionary enters her as a Hardy with Chatillon noted as the family’s by-name. The tree names her parents as Pierre Hardy and Charlotte Lefebvre. Her marriage entry of 1725 calls her Marie Hardi, daughter of Pierre Hardi and Charlotte Lefebvre, though the mother’s surname is faint on the page. Cyprien Tanguay’s^W dictionary of French-Canadian families, a compiled genealogy, gives them as Pierre Hardy dit Chatillon and Marie-Charlotte Lefebvre. The parish register records her baptism on 19 June 1701 under the name Marie Marguerite.

Marriage and family

She married Jean Baptiste Marcotte at Cap-Santé on 8 November 1725, the date Tanguay’s dictionary gives. The same dictionary lists nine children of the couple, the first baptized in 1726 and the last in 1740. One of them, a son Jean Baptiste, was baptized at Cap-Santé on 24 July 1738, born that same day; the register calls his mother Marie Marguerite Hardy, her husband’s “légitime épouse”, his lawful wife. She was buried at Cap-Santé on 27 April 1754. The son is probably the Jean Baptiste Marcotte who settled in Louisiana and died there by 1808.

Notes

An index of the Cap-Santé registers shows the marriage on 6 November, but the register entry itself is dated 8 November 1725; an index of notarial records gives 5 November 1725, probably the date of a marriage contract drawn up before the church wedding.

Her son in Louisiana

She was probably the mother of the Jean Baptiste Marcotte who settled in Spanish Louisiana and died there by 1808. In 1802 the baptismal register of St. Paul the Apostle at Mansura, in Avoyelles, named that man’s parents as Juan Bautista Marcotte and María Chatillon, “naturales del Canadá”, natives of Canada. The name matches her dit name rather than Hardy. No record so far connects the Louisiana man with the child baptized at Cap-Santé in 1738, however: several Marcotte households in that parish named a son Jean Baptiste, and the identification rests on genealogical compilations. Of the nine children of the couple baptized at Cap-Santé between 1726 and 1740, only one was named Jean Baptiste.