♀Marie Thibodeau

Marie Thibodeau (born about 1661 – died before February 1711) was an Acadian settler of the Minas settlements and the wife of Antoine Landry, with whom she raised a large family whose exiled grandchildren named her in their declarations of 1767. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by three separate lines of descent, through her daughter Marguerite Landry and her son Jean Landry.

Life

Her parents are not established. A compiled Landry genealogy makes her a daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot of Port-Royal, born in 1661, and Bona Arsenault’s abstract of the 1686 census calls her a daughter of Pierre Thibodeau; no record seen names her parents. If that is right, she was a sister of Jean Thibodeau, who is also an ancestor of Floyd Amatus Delahorne.

The same compiled genealogy gives the marriage of Antoine and Marie as about 1681. The census of 1686 counted Antoine Landry, 26, and his wife Marie Thibodeau, 25, with three children: Marie, 4, Antoine, 2, and Isabelle, 1. By 1693 the family had moved to Les Mines, where the census counted Antoine, 33, Marie, 32, and seven children, on twelve arpents with fifteen cattle. Both had died by 16 February 1711, when the Grand-Pré register called them deceased at the marriage of their daughter Françoise to Pierre Leblanc. In 1767, when Acadian exiles on Belle-Île-en-Mer declared their descent, the declarations named seven of the couple’s children: Jean, Pierre, François, Antoine, Anne, Françoise and Angélique. The declarations write her surname Thibodault. Three of them say that Antoine and Marie died in the parish of Saint-Charles at Les Mines^W; a fourth can be read to say that both died at Boston, in the English colony, about 1710.

Their daughter Marguerite Landry married Jacques Hébert, and their children were baptized at Grand-Pré from 1707; among them was Charles Hébert, born on 3 November 1708. No surviving record names Marguerite’s parents. The compiled Landry genealogy lists her among the children of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, and the Grand-Pré register most likely bears it out: Charles’s godmother was a Françoise Landry, and the godfather of his brother François, born in 1710, was a François Landry, two of the names the declarations give to Antoine and Marie’s children.

Lines of descent

Marie reaches Floyd Amatus Delahorne by three lines, each nine generations up. Two run through her daughter Marguerite Landry, and one through her son Jean Landry. The lines meet again in Ida Serrette (1903–1990), Floyd’s mother, whose parents Pierre Anatole Serrett (1853–1926) and Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906) both descend from Marie; and again in Pierre Anatole Serrett, whose parents Firmin Serrette and Euphemie Dupuis both descend from her.

Notes

Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana gives a Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, as the wife of Jean Hébert of Cobeguit rather than of Jacques Hébert; the compilations do not agree on which Hébert she married.