♂Yves Jeanne

Yves Jeanne (died before November 1683) was a man of Rouen, in Normandy, whose son Robert crossed to New France as a sailor and settled at Québec. He was probably the ninth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Robert Jeanne (1639–1721).

Yves is said to have married Bonne Duchesne at the church of Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église in Rouen on 6 July 1638. Their son Robert was baptized at Saint-Sever, across the Seine in Rouen, on 6 January 1639, six months after the wedding. Robert went to sea, and by January 1665 he was at Québec, where he married Françoise-Madeleine Savard. A second son, Simon, married Anne Hardy on 27 November 1683; by then both Yves and Bonne were dead.

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Sources

The marriage at Rouen (Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église) on 6 July 1638, Robert’s baptism at Rouen (Saint-Sever) on 6 January 1639 and Simon’s marriage to Anne Hardy on 27 November 1683 come from the Fichier Origine, the register of the French origins of the settlers of New France, in its entry for Robert. At Simon’s marriage the parents are named as “f. Yves et f. Bonne Duchesne”, the “f.” standing for feu and feue, the late. Robert’s marriage at Québec on 26 January 1665 also appears in Normand Robert’s Nos origines en France (vol. 7, p. 153), which names his parents Yves and Marie Duchesne.

His name and dates

The Fichier Origine gives the family name as Ridout, and the 1638 marriage writes him Yves Ricout; in Québec his son’s name was written Jeanne or Jeannes. Other family trees give his birth as about 1609 and his death as 1679; no record of either is known.