MARIE ANCELIN
MARIE ANCELIN
Marie Ancelin, the bride-to-be, had
been baptized on May 7, 1651 in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes at
La Rochelle. Her godfather was
Guillaume Lacroye and her godmother
Marie-Charlotte Tessier. After the death of her mother, Claire
Rousselot, occurred on August 19, 1661, Marie will cross the Atlantic
with her father and second wife of this last.
His father, René Ancelin, was born
towards 1614 and he came from Hermenault, small village located 7 kilometers
away from Fontenay-le-Comte in the north-west direction. On November
13, 1647, he married Claire Rousselot in the church Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes
at La Rochelle where their child Marie will be baptized 4 years later.
He bacame a widower at the death of his wife Claire Rousselot in 1661.
René married a second time on January 19, 1665, in the church of
Sainte-Marguerite de La Rochelle,
Marie Juin (daughter of François
Juin and Mathurine Thessareyne). René Ancelin leaves
the port of La Rochelle in spring of 1665 with his second wife pregnant
and his daughter Marie, then 14 years old.
At first, the Ancelin lived at the Ange Gardien where,
in 1667, they owned 2 head of cattle and six arpents of cultivated land.
At the time of its marriage, on October 2, 1667, Marie is accompanied by
her father, René "living and remaining in known as the coste
and seigniory, parish of L'Ange-Gardien", by her mother "in
law" Marie Juin, by Abraham Fiset and his wife Denise
Savard, and neighbours. René Ancelin died at the age of
81 probably in one of his children home at Kamouraska; he will
be buried on November 21, 1695 at Rivière-Ouelle.
As for Marie, she died in 1729 at the age of 78.
She was buried on April 18 the same year in the cemetary of Berceau de
Kamouraska in the presence of the seigneur De La Durantaye and
Gabriel
Paradis, coast captain. The Association of the Ancelin (Asselin)
Families affixed a commemorative tablet on the interior wall of the church
Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes, first Parish of La Rochelle, in remembering of René
Ancelin, her father, who has a large lineage in Quebec.
