♂René Landry

René Landry (born about 1668) was an Acadian born at Port-Royal who, with his wife Anne Thériot, left his widowed mother’s household there for Rivière-aux-Canards^W, in the Les Mines^W district, where they raised at least nine children. He was most likely the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Antoine Landry (1696–1756).

Port-Royal

He was a son of René Landry and Marie Bernard, and the census of 1686 at Port-Royal counted him, aged eighteen, among the twelve children in their household. His father died before the next census was taken. By 1693 René Landry and Anne Thériot were married and lived at Port-Royal in the household of his widowed mother, Marie Bernard: the census of that year lists René at twenty-five, Anne at twenty and their daughter Marie, aged one, after Marie Bernard and six of her children.

Rivière-aux-Canards

Within a few years the couple had moved to Rivière-aux-Canards, a settlement of Les Mines, where, according to declarations made by members of the family in exile in 1767, their son Antoine was born in 1696 and their son René in 1703. The surviving register of the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Mines at Grand-Pré, which begins in 1707, records the baptisms of two more sons, Alexandre in 1709 and Silvain in 1712, and the marriages of six of their children between 1715 and 1740, among them Antoine’s to Marie Melançon on 13 November 1717. Bona Arsenault’s abstract of the 1714 census lists the household at Rivière-aux-Canards with René, aged forty-six, his wife and nine children, six sons and three daughters.

He lived to a good age. On 7 November 1740, when their son Charles married Cécile Leblanc at Grand-Pré, René stood witness as the groom’s father, with his son René also a witness; the register describes the family as of the parish of Saint-Joseph de la Rivière-aux-Canards. He was then about seventy-two. The date and place of his death are not known.

Lines of descent

The line from him to Floyd Amatus Delahorne runs through his son Antoine and Antoine’s daughter Judith Landry (born 1728), who is identified with the wife of Charles Leblanc by her age and the register rather than by a record naming her parents; that is why the descent is called most likely. His own parents, René Landry and Marie Bernard, are ancestors of Floyd by several other lines, through his brothers Abraham and Antoine and his sisters Marie and Anne.

Notes

Parentage

The censuses place him first in the household of René Landry and Marie Bernard and then, married, in the household of the widowed Marie Bernard. Two declarations made in exile in 1767 name his parents differently. The one made by Honoré Daigre, the second husband of his granddaughter Marguerite Landry, calls him the son of another René Landry, who had come from France with his wife Marie Bernard and settled at Port-Royal. The one made by Marie-Rose Rivet, the widow of his son René, names his parents as René Landry and Michelle Gaudet. The censuses agree with the first.