♀Marie Mourier

Marie Mourier (baptised 31 August 1688) was baptised at St-Jean on the Île d’Orléans, in New France, married Pierre Galien there in 1704, and raised a family at Québec and later at Lachine. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Angélique Gallien (born 1713).

Early life

She was baptised at St-Jean on the Île d’Orléans on 31 August 1688 as Jeanne Meurier, daughter of Jean Mourier and Marie Minaud, written Meurier and Minaude in the register; the dictionary of Cyprien Tanguay^W calls her Marie-Jeanne. Her parents had married at Ste-Famille on the Île d’Orléans on 29 October 1678, both of them of the island; the act names her father’s parents as Jean Mourier and Anne Caron, and her mother’s as the late Jean Minaud and Jeanne Caillé. Tanguay’s dictionary names her father Jean Mourier dit Verron, gives his year of birth as 1630, and gives his burial at St-Jean on 18 August 1705.

Marriage and family

Pierre Galien married Marie Mourier at St-Jean on the Île d’Orléans on 25 June 1704. The index of the act names the groom’s parents as Galien and Anne Macon and the bride’s as Mourier and Marie Minau, and records that the act itself is torn. The groom was the son of Robert Gallien and Anne Masson, born at Beauport in 1683. Acts of the couple are indexed at St-Jean in 1705 and 1707; their son Pierre Noël was baptised at Québec in 1710 and their daughter Marie Angélique there on 2 August 1713, and Marie Louise, Marie Josèphe and Jean Baptiste were baptised at Lachine in 1717, 1719 and 1721. Their daughter Angélique married Jean Perodeau at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on 22 January 1731, and the act names her parents as Pierre Galien and Marie Mourier. The records read so far do not show when or where she died.

Notes

She is not the older sister Marie, baptised at St-Jean on 10 July 1685 to the same parents, who according to Tanguay’s dictionary married Marc Semeur on 28 July 1700. Tanguay’s dictionary gives the wedding as 20 June 1704; the index of the parish acts gives 25 June 1704, the date followed here. The acts of the family are known from Tanguay’s dictionary and the index of the Québec parish registers; the register pages themselves have not been read.