♂Simon Savard

Simon Savard (born 3 February 1595) was a wheelwright of Montreuil, east of Paris, whose son of the same name followed him into the trade and in 1662 crossed to New France. He was probably the tenth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Simon Savard (1623 – before 1665).

Simon was probably born on 3 February 1595 and baptized the next day, most likely at Montreuil, and he is said to have been a son of Jean Savard and Marguerite Thubye. He worked as a wheelwright (charron), a maker of wheels and carts. With his first wife, Marguerite Vinante, he had four children, Jean, Simon, Guillaume and Marie, baptized between 1618 and 1627; Simon was baptized at Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Montreuil on 22 May 1623. Marguerite is said to have died in 1629, and about that year Simon married again, to Diane Certel, the widow of Godefroy Gallier.

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Sources for his life

His birth on 3 February 1595 and baptism on 4 February (“n. 03 b. 04-02-1595”), his trade of wheelwright (charron), his first wife Marguerite Vinante and his second marriage, about 1629, to Diane Certel come from the entry for his son Simon in the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France. The same entry gives the baptisms of the four children: Jean on 19 October 1618, Simon at Montreuil (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul) on 22 May 1623, Guillaume on 7 January 1626 and Marie on 13 December 1627. Montreuil as his birthplace, his parents Jean Savard and Marguerite Thubye, and Marguerite Vinante’s death in 1629 rest on profiles on WikiTree, a shared family tree, and not on a record cited here. The Savard genealogy in the Recueil de généalogies (vol. 10) calls his son a native of Montreuil-sous-Bois, near Paris.

His name

The Fichier Origine writes him Simon Savart.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne

The descent from his son Simon runs through Simon’s daughter Françoise-Madeleine Savard, her daughter Andrée Angélique Jeanne and Jean-Baptiste Godin, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (p. 747) places among the children of Andrée and Gabriel Godin. Bona Arsenault’s list of their children does not name him, so the line is probable rather than proved.