♂Nicolas Marcotte

Nicolas Marcotte was a townsman of Fécamp, on the Channel coast of Normandy in France, at the close of the 1500s, and the father of Charles Marcotte. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Charles Marcotte (1599–1678). The parish register of Saint-Léger at Fécamp records the baptisms of ten of his children between 1599 and 1614. The first is Charles’s, on 25 February 1599: “Charles fils de Nicolas Marcotte”. The register of those years names only the father at a baptism, so no act names the children’s mother, and no record of Nicolas’s own birth, marriage, trade or death has come to light. Charles grew up to be a master butcher in Fécamp, and in 1670 two of his sons, Nicolas and Jacques, crossed together to New France.

The children came close together, and the names repeat: there were two daughters named Anne and three named Catherine, so the first Anne and the first Catherine probably died young. The Catherine baptized in January 1610 died at once. A daughter Jeanne is recorded in about December 1602, but the entry is stained, so her name and the month are not certain. Members of the Le Clerc family stood godparent to several of the children, and Nicolas himself was godfather at a Le Clerc baptism on 3 December 1598. His wife is named in none of the acts.