Unkown Landry

GEDCOM Note

This profile exists as a placeholder to link Perrine Landry, Antoinette Landry, and Ren%C3%A9 Landry l'Aîné, who are known to be siblings, but whose parents are unknown.
A common myth is that their parents were Jean Claude Landry and Marie Salle. In reality, his name was just Jean Claude, not Jean Claude Landry, and this relationship is a myth. Googling "jean claude landry" will lead you to Stephen White's explanation of this myth, which has beenduplicated on several sites.

Landry Family Pages, "Electronic."
R .L. Crochet, "Crochet Family Tree."http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/o/r/Patricia-H-Forsander/WEBSITE-000...

Regarding the Landry ancestral controversy....
H. George Friedman, Jr. wrote: "Five separate and, as far as is known,unrelated Landry families migrated to North America. (Two) migrated from France and settled in Acadia in the middle 1600s, and curiously, both were headed by men named René; they are therefore distinguished from each other as René Landry l'Aîné (the older) and René Landry le Jeune (the younger)."≤ref>H. George Friedman Jr, "Landry Genealogy" accessed at http://friedman.cs.illinois.edu/genealogy/Landry.htm≤/ref>

A noted genealogist, Stephen A. White wrote: "Regarding the origin andparents of René Landry, le Jeune there is probably no other Acadian family about whose background there has been so much speculation and wishful thinking. The result is that what we actually know about the Landry families who immigrated from France to Acadia, has come to be regrettably enshrouded in a dense fog of error and confusion."
And Stephen A. White wrote: "Jean-Claude Landry is effectively fictitious. There is no record showing that such a person ever existed. The husband of Marie Salé is simply called 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 called the mother of René Landry, necessarily we have to give her husband a name of Jean Claude LANDRY. But, I repeat, the name Jean Claude Landry is not to be found anywherein the history of Acadia at the time; plus that the husband of Marie Salé was Jean Claude, PERIOD. He was a Micmac Indian. The Indians with the name Claude used to be quite numerous in Nova Scotia, The name became Glaude; in my young days I knew a number of them, who would write their name Glode. (In French, "au" is pronounced "o".) His name occurs twice in the Port Royal Church Registers, ALWAYS as Jehan Claude, NEVER given as family name "Landry". As a matter of fact, if Claude hadnot been his family name, it would mean that the register gives him his first and SECOND name. Moreover, the registers of Port Royal ALWAYSgive the WHOLE name of persons; but the fact is that Jehan Clause hashis name given thus, NEVER with another name added to those two. If the family name had been omitted in the registers, it would be the onlytime that such a thing occured in any register. Thus CLAUDE was the family name."

Regarding the "twin" theory...
Stephen A. White wrote: "No one really knows how the Landrys came to Acadia, how many of them came together, if indeed they did come in a group, or if and how they were related, beyond the simple fact that Ren Landry l'aine and Antoinette Landry were brother and sister. We certainly have no documentation to show that René and Antoinette were twins! Even though René and Antoinette are said to have both been fifty-three years old in the 1671 census, no experienced genealogist would read that as meaning that they necessarily born at the same time, because such records are rarely strictly accurate. After all, fifteen yearslater, in 1686, Antoinette is said to have been eighty! And by 1693 she had regressed to seventy-six. Such records are merely guides; they do not admit strict interpretation. To go further, without additional proof, is to indulge in the creation of romantic fiction."

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