♂Philippe Deliercourt

Philippe Deliercourt was a Frenchman of the parish of Sainte-Marguerite in Beauvais, north of Paris, whose name crossed the Atlantic with his daughter. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Anne Deliercourt.

Philippe Deliercourt and his wife Jeanne Patin are named in the marriage contract of their daughter Anne, written “Anne Thoinette” in the act, drawn up at Trois-Rivières in New France on 2 February 1651. The contract gives the couple as “de la paroisse Ste Marguerite de Beauvais en Beauvoisin”, the Beauvaisis being the district round Beauvais, and does not call either of them deceased. Their daughter’s husband was Blaise Juillet, a man from the parish of Saint-Agricole in the diocese of Avignon, far to the south. The couple settled at Montréal, and it is through Anne that Philippe Deliercourt and Jeanne Patin stand at the head of this line.

Notes

The marriage contract

The contract writes the family name “de Liercour”. The inventory of the notarial records published by Pierre-Georges Roy lists the same contract among the acts of the notary Séverin Ameau, dated 2 February 1651, with the parents as “Philippe de Liercourt et de Jeanne Patin, de Ste Marguerite de Beauvais en Beauvoisin”. Cyprien Tanguay’s dictionary also names the parents as Philippe and Jeanne Patin, “de Ste. Marguerite de Beauvais”, but dates the contract 10 February 1651. No date of birth, marriage or death is known for either parent.