♀Marie (surname unknown)

Marie (died before about 1644) was the first wife of Francois Gautrot, one of the early settlers of Acadia. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by four separate lines of descent, all through her daughter Marie Gautrot (born about 1637).

Life

Her surname is not known. The genealogist Stephen A. White, whose work on the Acadian founding families is the standard reference, records that Francois Gautrot, born in France about 1613, married twice: first, about 1635, a woman known only as Marie, and then, about 1644, Edmee Lejeune. Eleven children came of the two marriages together.

Her daughter Marie was born about 1637. The 1671 census of Port-Royal lists her, then married, among Francois Gautrot’s grown children, alongside the children of his second marriage; the roll does not say which wife each child was born to. Edmee Lejeune gave her age as 47 in that census, which puts her birth about 1624. She would have been about twelve when the daughter Marie was born, so that Marie must be a child of the first marriage.

Francois Gautrot’s second marriage, about 1644, means that Marie had died by then. No record of her death or burial is known.

Lines of descent

Four separate lines run through her daughter Marie Gautrot (born about 1637), and all four reach Floyd through his mother, Ida Serrette, so every line is on his mother’s side. One line is ten generations up from Floyd and three are twelve. The lines meet again in Céleste Dupuis (born 1801), whose parents, Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Theriot, married at St. James on 17 February 1800 and both descend from Marie. They meet a last time in Ida Serrette herself, whose parents, Amelia Pennison Daigle and Pierre Anatole Serrett, both descend from Marie.

Notes

Some online family trees give her the surname Perrin, with the years 1615–1644. No source for that name is known, and White gives her surname as unknown.