Madeleine Blanchard (abt. 1643 - bef. 1683)

Born about 1643 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

Daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert

Wife of Michel (Richard) Richard dit Sansoucy — married about 1656 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died before 1683 before about age 40 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

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Madeleine Blanchard is an ancestral matriarch of the Acadian Richard family.^[1] She was born about 1643, based on her age in the 1671 census, a daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert.^[1][2] Madeleine's birth location is uncertain. Her parents were possibly married in France^[3] about a year before Madeleine's birth.^[1] Their exact date of arrival in Acadia is unknown, although her father was among the first five settlers to receive land grants at Port Royal.^[1]

Madeleine married Michel Richard about 1656 in Port-Royal, based on the birth of their oldest child, René. They had 10 children: René, Pierre, Catherine, Martin, Alexandre, twins Anne and Madeleine, Marie Josephe, Cecile, and Marguerite.^[4]

Madeleine died in Port-Royal between 1678 and 1683. Michel remarried around 1683, so Madeleine must have died by then, and she was still alive as of the 1678 census.^[5]

Timeline

c1643 Birth

c1656 Marriage to Michel Richard in Port-Royal

c1657 Birth of son René Richard

c1662 Birth of son Pierre Richard

c1663 Birth of daughter Catherine Richard

c1665 Birth of son Martin Richard

c1668 Birth of son Alexandre Richard

1671 Residence, Port Royal

1671 Birth of daughter Anne Richard (twin)

1671 Birth of daughter Madeleine Richard (twin)

c1674 Birth of daughter Marie Josephe Richard

c1675 Birth of daughter Cecile Richard

c1677 Birth of daughter Marguerite Richard

1678 Residence, Port Royal

b1683 Death, in Port-Royal, Acadia

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes ("DGFA"), (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999) p. 43.
2. ↑ Tim Hebert, Transcription of the 1671 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie, 1671 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 3-14;

   Jean BLANCHARD, 60, wife, Radegonde LAMBERT 42; Children (married): Martin 24, Magdeline 28, Anne 26; (unmarried): Guillaume 21, Bernard 18, Marie 15; cattle 12, sheep 9.

3. ↑ Stephen A. White, Origins of the Pioneers of Acadia According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle- Ile-en-Mer in 1767. Two of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert's descendants stated that they were married in France. “The depositions also often speak of a first ancestor as having come from France “with his wife” but as Father Archange Godbout pointed out in his article (...) one should not necessarily interpret this as meaning that the two came together, and at the same time. Rather, the expression may be taken to mean simply that both the husband and the wife had come from France.”
4. ↑ White, Gallant, and Hébert, DGFA, pp.1373-1374;

   (Richard Family); 1283 (early recipient of land grant at Port Royal.

5. ↑ Tim Hebert, 1678 Port Royal Acadian Census, noting that the correlations for this census were done by Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.1678 Census

   Michel Richard & Madeleine Blanchard

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 07 April 2020), memorial page for Madeleine Blanchard (1643–1680), Find A Grave: Memorial #141481297, citing Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada ; Maintained by AW (contributor 47829810) Find A Grave: Memorial #141481297.

DNA Confirmation:

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Linda (Webster) Wisking, FTDNA kit # 417897, and her matrilineal cousin, Muriel (Parke) Sorensen, FTDNA kit # 988907, have a Full Sequence mtDNA match with a Genetic Distance = 0, matching exactly at HVR1, HVR2, and the Coding Region, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Radegonde Lambert, the 9x great grandmother of Linda (Webster) Wisking and 8x great grandmother of Muriel (Parke) Sorensen.
  • The subject of this profile is Madeleine Blanchard, the 8x great grandmother of tester Linda (Webster) Wisking and the daughter of the MRCA Radegonde Lambert.