♂René Landry

René Landry (born about 1618) was an Acadian farmer at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal), recorded with his wife Perrine Bourg in the census of 1671. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by three separate lines of descent, through his children Marie, Magdelaine and Pierre Landry.

The census roll of 1671 lists him as a farmer, “René Landry Lesnes”, the elder, aged 53, which places his birth about 1618, with his wife Perrine Bourg, aged 45. The 3 is written over another figure, and a published transcription reads 52. It gives the couple seven children: four married daughters, then aged between 30 and 23, and three unmarried children still at home, Magdeleine, 15, Pierre, 13, and Claude, 8. The household kept ten head of cattle and six sheep on twelve arpents of cultivated land. Magdelaine is placed in his family by that census household; no baptism naming her parents is known. No record of René Landry’s birth or marriage is known. He had died before the census of 1693, which lists his wife as a widow.

Lines of descent

René Landry reaches Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by three separate lines of descent, all on Floyd’s mother’s side, through Ida Serrette (1903–1990). The nearest runs through his daughter Marie Landry (born about 1646), which makes him Floyd’s eighth great-grandfather. Two more run through his children Magdelaine Landry (born about 1655) and Pierre Landry (born about 1658), each making him Floyd’s ninth great-grandfather. The lines meet again in Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), whose parents Melia Thibodeaux and Jean Baptiste Daigle both descend from him, and in Ida Serrette, whose parents Amelia Pennison Daigle and Pierre Anatole Serrett (1853–1926) both descend from him.

Notes

He is a different man from the René Landry whose wife was Marie Bernard, named in a 1767 declaration as having come from France, and from the René Landry born about 1716 who lived at Lafourche in Spanish Louisiana.