Jean Claude LANDRY

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Jean yves Collin d'après "Mélançon l'ascendence acadienne"
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NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150  USA
Stephen A. White writes:  (Stephen A. White, historian and genealogistwith the Centre d'etudes Acadiennes at the University of Moncton in Moncton, NewBrunswick.) The marriage of Martin Aucoin and Marie Salle took place on 20 Jan. 1632at St.Barthelemy de La Rochelle in France.  One child was born to thiscouple, one Jean, baptised at the same place 15 Nov. 1632, and lists MartinAucoin as probaby the son of this couple, based on the notes of PereGallant(from and article on the Aucoin family in the Cahiers de la Societe Historique Acadienne, vol IV, 1972.)  Michelle Aucoin and Jeanne Aucoin, married to Michel Boudrot and Francois Giruard respectively, can be shown to besisters, from dispensations, but they cannot be shown to be related to MartinAucoin. "Regarding the origin and parents of René Landry, le Jeunne there isprobably no other Acadian family about whose background there has been so much speculation and wishful thinking. The result is that what we actuallyknow about the Landry families who immigrated from France to Acadia, has cometo be regrettably enshrouded in a dense fog of error and confusion." This error and confusion was caused by the early censuses of Acadia,which enumerated Marie Salé as the "widow of Jean Claude" in the cenuses of1671 and 1678, and then in the 1686 census, no mention was made of herdeceased husband Jehan Claude. Marie Salé was enumerated as 86 years old and living between René Landry,le Jeunne and René Landry's oldest son Antoine Landry. This caused noted genealogist, Archange Godbout, to leap to theconclusion, that since Marie Salé was living in close proximity to René Landry, leJeune, then she was the mother of René Landry, le Jeune. And still a greaterleap was made to conclude that if Marie Salé was the widow of Jean Claude,then Jean Claude was the father of René Landry, le jeune and Jean Claude, infact was actually Jean-Claude Landry, father of René Landry, le jeunne. Stephen A. White, historian and genealogist with the  Centre d'etudes Acadiennes at the University of Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, andhis fellow historian, genealogist and author, Father Clarence d'Entremontfrom Middle West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia have steadfastedly heldthat the theory that René Landry's parents were Jean-Claude Landry and MarieSalé, was false. As Father Clarence d'Entremont states in a letter of November 23rd: "NOWHERE in any census or other documents is to be found an Acadianby the name of Jean-Claude Landry. So, who was the father and mother of René Landry? I do not know, nor does anybody know.... Thus the descendants ofRené Landry, in my humble opinion, cannot go further up in their Landrygenealogy, as we do not know who the parents of René Landry le Jeunne were, norwhere in France he was born". "Jean-Claude Landry is effectively fictitious. There is no record showing that such a person ever existed. The husband of Marle Sallé is simplycalled Jean (or Jehan) Claude in the censuses of 1671 and 1678. According to archives, Marie Salé was married to Jean Claude; if she is to be calledthe mother of René Landry, necessarily we have to give her husband a name ofJean Claude LANDRY. But, I repeat, the name Jean Claude Landry is not to befound anywhere in the history of Acadia at the time; plus that the husband ofMarie Salé was Jean Claude, PERIOD.
Source: Generations.. Past to Present, Phoebe Chauvin Morrison
"Genevieve Massignon says that Marie Sale might be, through a first marriage, the mother of Martin Aucoin, the first of that name in Acadia. At La Rochelle, she found recorded, January 20, 1632, the marriage of `Martin Aucoin, joiner, with Marie Salle, daughter of Jean Denys Salle and of Francois Arnaud, of the parish of Cougnes'. There could be some truth in that,by the fact that Marie Sale, according to the census of 1671 and that of 1678 was surely living with Francois Bourg, whose wife Marguerite Boudrot could have been her neice by marriage, because the mother of Marguerite Boudrot was Michelle Aucoin, born around 1618. (see Massignon, op cit, Vol I, p.58)"