Louise Jane Bennett (1875 - 1961)

Born 9 Feb 1875 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Samuel Benoit and Geneviève Vitaline (Frontain) Bennett

Descendants

Died 24 Oct 1961 at age 86 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

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Louise Bennett is a descendant of an Acadian

Biography

Louise Jane Bennett (1875-1961) was born in 1875 in Wakefield, Massachusetts to Geneviève Vitaline (Frontain) Bennett (abt.1851-1921) and Samuel Benoit (1849-1927). ^[1]

She married Rémi LeBlanc (à François). They moved to Belleville, Nova Scotia about 1895.

They raised ten children. Louise died in 1961 according to her gravestone and is buried in Sainte Anne du Ruisseau, in the older part of the parish cemetery. The report on her home in the Argyle Heritage Inventory states she died in 1953. ^[2] Her registration of death states that she died on October 24, 1961 in the Yarmouth Hospital.

Louise was mentioned on a memorial in Sainte-Anne Parish Cemetery, Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada with a death date of 24 October 1961.^[3]

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Lawrence Muise, FTDNA kit # 172529, and his maternal line cousin UNK (a direct matrilineal descendant of Monique LeFevre), FTDNA kit N143206, have an Genetic Distance = 1 in HVR2 at A214R, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Catherine Lejeune, the 7x great grandmother of Lawrence Muise and 9th great grandmother of UNK. See this diagram from the Mothers of Acadia DNA Project for more information.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match based on this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Lawrence Arthur Muise (1926-2011) and for his two maternal cousins: this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Gordon Johnson Jr and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Pauline Eunice Rita (Eisner) Bouvier (1924-2017).

Sources

1. ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 542; Page: 409A; Enumeration District: 415. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
2. ↑ Heritage Inventory, Argyle Township Court House & Archives
3. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #162048247 (accessed 17 April 2024)
   Memorial page for Louise Jane Bennett LeBlanc (9 Feb 1875-24 Oct 1961), citing Sainte-Anne Parish Cemetery, Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada; Maintained by R M (contributor 48789648).

• https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1961-5995&Event=death&ID=433977