Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Another Victoire

There is another possible contender for Victoire Gory. In addition to Marie Victoire Gory, Marie Victoire Pitiot, and Victoire Susanne Monteise, there was a fille naturelle baptized in 1778 whose father was possibly an unnamed Gory. This woman was the goddaughter of Victoire Susanne Monteise, which leads one to suspect that the father of the child might have been a relative of hers. We have not identified the father yet, but I suspect this Victoire's father was from the same area of Bainet and probably related to Victoire Suzanne Monteise. Perhaps a cousin or uncle of hers? We assume the mother, a Beaubrun Dupuy with a Barreau maternal background, was close to the neighboring Gory and related to several of them (including Victoire Susanne Monteise). However, it is not entirely clear who the mother was. There was a Marie Beaubrun Dupuy baptized in 1766, but that seems a little too young for her to have given birth to a child in 1778. The best candidate is Marie Francoise Beaubrun Dupuy, her older sister, who was baptized in 1761. We are not sure why the priest recorded the name as Marie Magdelaine but a similar mistake was made with Victoire Susanne Monteise's name. 


If Anne Marie Joseph Gaury's mother was a Barreau, that also explains why the sister of Jean Baptiste Marillac was her godmother, since she was the widow of Dominique Barreau. The main problem is if if the Marie Victoire who died in Grand-Goave in 1783 was actually the same person as Marie Victoire Sanite. We would need more clues, but it is noteworthy that this Marie Victoire had a mother named Marie Magdelaine. Was it the same woman as Marie Magdelaine Beaubrun dit Dupuy? All things considered, this Marie Victoire with an unknown (but possibly Gory father) should be considered as a possible candidate for Anne Marie Joseph's mother. It would also be possible that she and Joseph Guillaume Deslande, a Gory on his mother's side, were the young parents of Anne Marie Joseph Gory. After all, Anne Marie Joseph's death certificate indicates an estimated age for her parents that was only 10 years higher than that for herself. That would suggest her parents were likely teenagers when she was born, which would suggest Marie Victoire Sanite and Joseph Guillaume Deslande were the probable culprits. 

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