♂Sébastien Martin

Sébastien Martin is known only as the father named in his daughter’s marriage at New Orleans in 1730. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Françoise Martine.

His wife was a woman surnamed Demeron, whose given name is not recorded. The family was probably from Languedoc, in the south of France, where their daughter was born. Their daughter Marie Françoise Martine crossed to French Louisiana and married there twice. On 6 July 1730 she married Étienne Matée at the St. Louis church in New Orleans, and the register named her as a native of Languedoc, the daughter of Sébastien Martin and Demeron, and the widow of Pierre Lambremont, killed at Natchez the year before. She is the couple’s only known child. The records do not say whether Sébastien and his wife ever left France, or when they died.

Notes

The one record

The couple are named once, in the printed abstract of the New Orleans sacramental registers (Woods and Nolan, vol. 1, p. 181): “Marie (Sebastien and [given name left blank] DEMERON), native of Languedoc, widow of Pierre LAMBREMON, dec. at Natchez, m. Etienne [@Estienne] MATEE, July 6, 1730”. The abstract leaves the mother’s given name blank. The words “native of Languedoc” describe the bride; Steven A. Cormier’s history of the Acadians of Louisiana gives the same entry as “Marie, daughter of Sébastien Martin and ____ Demeron of Languedoc, France”, which places the parents there too. That is the ground for “probably” above.