Jeanne Lejeune dite Briard

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NS Indian

GEDCOM Note

Category:Mi'kmaq
Category: Métis Maritime Provinces
 

Biography

nation=Metis:Jeanne Lejeune was born about 1659 in Port Royal Area, Acadia. ≤ref>1693 Port Royal Census≤/ref>Her parents are thought to be Pierre Lejeune and Unknown Doucet, but no definitive proof has been discovered. Jeanne's birth date of about 1659 in Port-Royal according to census information, places her between the birth dates of her putative brothers Pierre and Martin. Jeanne's surname was Lejeune, which likely means that her father's name was Lejeune. Jeanne, her husband, and their children lived in communities with Pierre Lejeune II's two sons, Pierre III and Martin, which indicates possible close ties within that family group. Her parents are marked "uncertain" because, while there is reason to think that she is the daughter of the parents she is currently linked to, we have no proof as yet.
:She married (1) Fran%C3%A7ois Joseph about 1673. Together they had 6 children:≤ref name="DGFA"/>

1. Edmee Joseph dit Lejeune
2. Jean Joseph
3. Cecile Joseph
4. Fran%C3%A7ois Joseph
5. Anne Joseph
6. Catherine Joseph

:The family was living in Port Royal in 1693, so Joseph must have diedsoon after that and the youngest, Catherine who would have been about7 was not listed (but not dead).≤ref>1693 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie: ≤blockquote>Francois JOSEPH 35, Jeanne LEJEUNE 34, Jean 18, Cecille 13, Francois 11,Anne 9; 4 cattle, 6 sheep, 10 pigs, 1 gun≤/blockquote>Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 62-≤/ref>
:She married (2) Jehan Gaudet in 1694 ≤ref name="DGFA"/> All the children must have fledged over the next few years as none were included in the household in 1698.≤ref>1698 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal: ≤blockquote>JeanGODET 42; Jeanne LEJEUNE (wife) 47; 3 cows, 4 sheep, 3 hogs, 1 1/2 arpents, 1 gun.≤/blockquote>Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 107-109≤/ref>
:In 1708 the couple resided in De La Heve, listed as the 4th family inthat village (in the French section of the Census). Her youngest daughter, Catherine, age 23 was with them.≤ref> Original census at the Newberry Library in Chicago. "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home";Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1708 Census cites "Archives Publiques du Canada. Extrait G.1, 466-1. Copy of part of a manuscript in the possession of Mr. Edward E. Ayerof Chicago, received by Placide Gaudet on May 13, 1927.acknowledges Stephen A. White and CEA.≤/ref>

DNA

Stephen White Research:According to Stephen White, his investigation of a dispensation givenfor the marriage of Claude Trahan to Anne LeBlanc, leads him to believe that the wife of Pierre Lejeune II was a daughter of Germain Doucet, whose name is unknown. ≤ref name="DGFA">"Dictionnaire Généalogiquedes Familles Acadiennes"; Stephen A. White; 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999; pp. 876 & 1048-1049:"JEANNE LEJEUNE dit BRIARN n v 1651 (Rc Pr 1693 34a [sic], 1698 47a, Rc La Hève 1708 62a [sic]); m 1 v 1673 François JOSEPH (Amérindien); m 2 v 1694 Jean GAUDET (Jean & Nicole Colleson) vf Françoise Comeau& Jeanne Henry.":JOSEPH #1a; Note: No parents or place of birth given; Jeanne LEJEUNE dit BRIARD born around 1651.:p. 876 JOSEPH #1a; "She died after the 1708 census". A note attributed to P. GALLANT says that mixed-blood children, when their father was Indian, sometimes adopted the family name of their French mother, as did some of her children who were known under the name LEJEUNE.
: Francois JOSEPH [Amerindian]; six children born about 1674-1685.
:p. 876 JOSEPH #1a;"Jeanne LEJEUNE dit BRIARD married 1st around 1673":p. 876 JOSEPH #1a :She married 2nd around 1694 to Jean GAUDET (widower of Francoise COMEAU & Jeanne HENRY)."≤/ref>"However, mtDNA tests have revealed that Jeanne LEJEUNE had an Amerindian mother, and so was atleast a métisse. - The explanatory note for François (1) JOSEPH & Jeanne LEJEUNE dit BRIARD, attributed to P. GALLANT, states: "When their father was an Indian, Métis children sometimes adopted as their family name that of their French mother. That is why the children of thisfamily were known by the name LEJEUNE."≤ref>English Supplement to theDictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennesilles acadiennes -Stephen A. White - Moncton: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 2000 - Published as [vol. 3] of the Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. - p. 186 ≤/ref>
:Then we also have to conclude that Germain Doucet had at least two wives and not one, since some of the descendants of his daughter, Marguerite, have tested for the non-Native American Haplogroup T2, yet Jeanne Lejeune dit Briart, who would also be his grand-daughter based onthe dispensation, had the Native American Haplogroup A, indicatingthat her mother and Marguerite Doucet were half-sisters with different mothers. Therefore, Pierre Lejeune II's Doucet wife was at least maternally Amerindienne (Metis), or completely Amerindienne and adopted, as was her brother Germain II. ≤ref name="DGFA"/>, (Source for part of this DNA discussion was the Bra d'Or First Nation study.)

Bra d'Or First Nation study
:mtDNA Results: Haplogroup A
:According to Rameau de Saint Pere, a Feudal Colony in America, Acadia1604-1881, Vol 2, p. 318-320, the LeJeune-Briard family was part Metis Native American, and part French.It was a very old family according to the author.The Eastern shores of Acadie have always been a favoritegathering place for the Metis families, where the first one assuredlygoes back to the time of the companions of Biencourt, Isaac de Razilly and de LaTour, the early French explorer / settlers. Some of these families were already well into their first or second generation by thetime of the 1671 census.
:The LeJeune Metis family had settled at Merligouesh (Indian and Metisvillage located between Cap-de-Sable and La-Heve), because two men from Port Royal had married two of the LeJeune women between 1638 and 1650.In fact, in 1650, Catherine LeJeune, at 17 years of age, married Francois Savoie. Sixteen years earlier, in 1636, her oldest sister, bornin 1623, had married Francois Gautherot.
:Three of their sons appear to have become "coureurs de bois" with theIndians and Metis: Jean, Francois and Germain Gautherot ... These marriages will later be blessed by the Recollets when they come back to Acadia. Jeane Lambert, a woman named LeJeune and perhaps a man named Guildry would have been among them. We will find many of their descendants in the Metis and indian villages.
:The LeJeunes will use the surname of Briard: sometimes the surname oftheir true ancestor, LeJeune; at other times they will assume his surname of Briard which would seem to indicate that their ancestor came from Brie, a region east of Paris.
:The consanguinity of the LeJeunes, (called) dit Briard, is sometimes difficult to establish for the reason that many of them will continue to live in Indian and Metis villages; others will settle in Piziauid, south of the Bassin des Mines. This being said, little remains of the registers from the two parishes of this settlement: Sainte-Famille andl'Assumption. The Acadian ancestor of the LeJeune-Briards had at least three children who reached adulthood: Emdee, Pierre, and Catherine.
:NB Pierre Lejeune dit Briard married a daughter of Germain Doucet at Port Royal c.1650. The older son, also named Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, married Marie, a daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux, in 1678. The Lejeunes moved several times in subsequent years, first to La Heve in 1686,back to Port Royal in 1698, Petite-Rivere, near La Heve, in 1704, then finally to Pigiguit in 1712. Pierre's younger brother, Martin dit Briard (Labriere), married an Indian woman, Marie-Jeanne Kagijonais, in 1684, then Marie, a granddaughter of Jean Gaudet, at Pigiguit in 1699,where his family settled.
:NB "A briard is a person which is from Brie, Brie is an area at the east of Paris with the departments (Provinces) of 'Seine et Marne,' 'Val de Marne', 'Essonne', 'Aisne', 'Aube '. "This area is the same for not only the Lejeunes, but for Jacob Bourgeois and perhaps Germain Doucet. Often when the name is followed with" dit Briard "or another wordwhich is the name of a town, a region, or an area, it is because the origin of this person. "Comments from Francois Roux, Sene, France.
:Jeanne was "'d'un nation sauvagé" on marriage entry of her daughter Catherine JOSEPH, married in 1720. ≤ref>Arsenault, H&G, p. 485 (Port Royal).≤/ref>
:Stephen White, in his Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes published in 1999 by the C'entre d'Études Acadiennes Universitéde Moncton, clearly states that she [who is she?] was the daughter of Madeleine Mius dit D'Azy whose mother Marie was a documented Mi'kmaq woman. He confirms the Lejeune ancestry as well. (could not validate this statement in the DGFA. Needs a page number please and define who "she" is.)
:http://www.brasdorfirstnation.com/Study/Lejeune_Study.php Bra d'Or First Nation study. (site is defunct (Bourque-573 16:09,17 February 2020 (UTC)))
:http://brasdorindianvillagebandassociation.yolasite.com/mikmaq-fami... (site can't be found (Bourque-573 16:09, 17 February 2020 (UTC)))
:Lejeune Family Information same as "A Closer Look at the Some ofthe Records" Acadian-home
:John Austin Young; The Lejeunes of Acadia and the Youngs of SouthwestLouisiana; John Austin Young, Grand Pere Farm.

:Mi'kmaq Families Of Newfoundland, Lejeune/Young
:Rameau de Saint-Pere, Francois-Edme. Le Canada-Francais Documents sur l'Acadie, where he confirms that ≤blockquote>Pierre "dit" Briard Lejeune, Sr. who arrived in Acadia as a child married a Micmac woman. Sheis believed to be a Doucet≤/blockquote> (page number needed, book notfound for full citation).
:Our [who is "our" ?]documentation tells us that Pierre "dit" Briard Lejeune, Jr. 's son Germain "dit" Briard Lejeune is the forefather to most of the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq Youngs. His wife Marie Guedry was alsoof Mi'kmaq ancestry.

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