♀Marie Souhaitté

Marie Souhaitté (about 1597 – 1625) was the wife of Quentin Hordouille, a master carpenter at Montreuil, east of Paris, and the mother of four children, the youngest born seven weeks before his father’s death in September 1625. She was probably the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Hordouille (about 1621–1703).

Marie is said to have been the daughter of Pierre Souhaitté and Denise Pépin, and to have been born about 1597. On 15 November 1615 she married Quentin Hordouille at Montreuil. The couple had four children between 1617 and 1625: three sons, Pierre, Denis and Eustache, and a daughter, Marie. Eustache, the youngest, was born in July 1625, only seven weeks before his father’s death or burial on 4 September. Quentin is said to have died of the plague that struck Montreuil that year, and Marie Souhaitté died the same year. Their daughter Marie grew up to marry the wheelwright Simon Savard at Montreuil in 1644 and later crossed with her family to New France.

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Sources for her life

Her marriage on 15 November 1615, her husband’s trade of master carpenter (maître charpentier) and his death or burial on 4 September 1625, and the baptisms of the children (Pierre 15 March 1617, Denis 10 December 1619, Marie late 1621, Eustache 17 July 1625) come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in the entry for her daughter Marie, which writes her name Souhaitte. Her parents, her birth about 1597, her death in 1625 and the plague as its cause rest on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from her daughter Marie 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.