Marie Jeanne Perrine Madeleine Lejeune (1762 - bef. 1789)

Born 28 Jan 1762 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Ancestors

Wife of Magloire Simon Babin — married 9 Jun 1787 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana

Died before 31 Dec 1789 before age 27 in Louisiana

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Biography

Eustache Lejeune is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 6 Right, Le Bon Papa. Listed with him is his wife Jeanne Chiqued [perhaps Gicquel]; four children: Servant, Francois, Marie Magdelaine and Mari Rose; and Pelagie Gautreau, niece. ^[1]

Marie Jeanne Perrine Madeleine Lejeune was born on January 28, 1762 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France. Her parents were Eustache Lejeune and Marie Thérèse Carret. ^[2][3]

September 1784 : Census - Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Bretagne, France.^[4]

29 July 1785 : Immigration - New Orleans, Orleans, LA^[5]

She died before December 31, 1789 in Louisiana.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 27
2. ↑ Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785 - Gérard-Marc Braud - Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999 - A genealogical approach. - p. 192 - Born and baptized 28 Jan 1762.
3. ↑ Acadians in France, The, vol. III - Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder - Metairie, LA: Authors, 1973 - Archives of the Port of Saint Servan. - Family History Library - EUROPE 944 W2r v.3 - p. 86 - I declare that I baptised last January 28th the named Marie Jeanne Perrine Madeleine LE JEUNE, daughter of Eustache LE JEUNE & Marie CASET his wife, originally of Acadia, at Saint Suliac February 15, 1762. G. SANDAL, priest.
4. ↑ Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Jacqueline K. Voorhies - Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973; p. 505

   On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES:

   Eustache LE JEUNE, with wife Anne GIQUET, 3 sons, 2 daughters, for a total of 8 in family.

5. ↑ "Acadian Families in Exile", 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index; Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert; Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995; pp. 6-7

   Eustache LEJEUNE, a carpenter age 52, traveling with his wife Jeanne GICQUEL and four children, plus his niece Pélagie GAUTROT, age 15, as the 18th family (of 7 persons) aboard "Le Bon Papa" which embarked in France on 10 May 1785 and debarked at Louisiana on 20 Jul 1785.

6. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, geneanet.org, no source given.

• Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2.

1. Marie, of St. Malo (Eustache & Marie Therese Carretts) m. 9 Jun 1787 Simon BABIN, of Angleterre (Simon & Anastasie Terriot) wit. Jean Baptiste Lejeune & Francois Babin (PCP-19, 10)