♀Marie Therese Compagnotte

Marie Therese Compagnotte (born 19 June 1756) was a native of Mobile, on the Gulf coast. A Geneanet community tree makes her the wife of François Godere (1740 – after 1780), the sixth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Marguerite Godere.

Early life

She was born on 19 June 1756 at Mobile, then a town of French Louisiane in New France. When she married, the act at Vincennes called her a native of Mobile and named her parents as François Compagnot and Marie Anne Romagne. Neither parent is in the family tree.

Marriage and family

A Geneanet community tree gives the marriage as 18 January 1773 at St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes, Province of Quebec, British Colonial America, to François Godere, a settler born at the post of Ouiatenon higher up the river. She was sixteen.

The tree gives the couple four children, born between 1774 and 1780: François, André, Thérèse and Victoire.

François Godere died some time after October 1780. A Geneanet community tree gives her own death in 1786 at Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, which would leave her a widow for at most about five years.

Notes

Her death

The tree holds two death dates for her: 1786, from the Geneanet community tree, and 1806, which carries no source. Neither is confirmed by a record.

The marriage date

Earlier copies of the tree gave the marriage as 8 February 1773. The act itself, and an Indiana marriage index that cites the register volume, give 18 January 1773.