Germain Lejeune (abt. 1741)

Born about 1741 in Acadie

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Biography

Germain was born in 1741. He is the son of Germain Lejeune and Marie Guédry. ^[1]

He was listed at age 11 in the 1752 census at Baye des Espagnols, Isle Royale (present-day Cape Breton). ^[2]

He married Marie-Anne Marres, widow of Honoré Boucher, around 1766. She was about 38 years of age and Germain was 25. The marriage was revalidated on 26 August 1771 at Passage de la Petite-Brador. ^{[1] [3]} His brother Chrysostome's (Christophe) marriage was revalidated the same day.

Known children: ^[4]

1. Félicité Lejeune dit Briard b. 18 July 1767, Cape Breton (Passage de la Petite-Brador)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 1121

   Marie-Anne (dit La Sonde) baptized as Marie (no date of baptism mentioned). Born around 1728 in Port-Toulouse. Married (1) around 1743 in Port-Toulouse Honoré Boucher dit Villedieu (Pierre & Anne Hébert). On the 1752 La Roque census age 24. Married (2) around 1766 (rehabilitated Rg Bailly [Caraquet] at Passage de la Petite-Brador on 26 August 1771] Germain Lejeune dit Briard (Germain & Marie Guédry).

2. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 46, image 122.

   Germain LE JEUNE, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 50 [sic] years. Married to Marie GUÉDRY, native of la Cadie, aged 40 years. They have been in the county for 18 months, and have been given rations.

   They have four sons and one daughter:

   Joseph, aged 22 years;

   Chrisostome, aged 12 years;

   Germain, aged 11 years;

   Paul, aged 5 years;

   Margueritte, aged 16 years.

   One cow and one pig. The dwelling which they have improved, was given them only verbally by Messieurs DESHERBIERS and PREVOST. They have made a clearing where half a barrel of wheat could be sown; they have sown cabbage, turnips, beans and pumpkins, all of which came up in great abundance. In addition, they have made a large piece of uncultivated land of about 6 or 7 arpents in extent.

3. ↑ Registre de l'abbé Charles-François Bailly, 1768 à 1773 (Caraquet), transcrit sous la direction de Stephen A. White, Moncton, s.n., 1978, 221 pages, p.65-66, Marriage Germain Lejeune dit Briard & Marie Anne La Sonde Revalidation 26 August 1771, accessed July 2022
4. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry, Page for Germain Lejeune dit Briard, Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed July 2022 (login required)

See also:

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Marie-Anne Marres citing Email from Stacey Mauger (maugerstacey at gmail.com) in Mar 2019, relaying information from Stephen White.

  Germain Lejeune had first been married to Marie-Anne Marres dit LaSonde. This Marie-Anne had first been married to Honoré Boucher dit Villedieu and was Bénoni Boucher's mother. It might appear to be somewhat implausible that Bénoni had married his stepfather's widow, until one considers that his mother Marie-Anne had been about thirteen years older than his stepfather Germain, who was thus only about three years older than his stepson Bénoni. Germain meanwhile would have been about twelve years older than Marguerite Boudrot. Additionally, Germain and Marie-Anne's only known child, Félicité Lejeune, also settled, at least for a time, on the south side of Arichat Harbour, on the point that is still known by her husband's name, Kavanagh Point. That is the only other Lejeune connection to this part of Isle Madame, so it seems quite probable that Félicité and Scholastique would have had the same father.

• Butt, Kirk.R., Early Settlers of Bay St. George, Volume 1, Revised Fifth Edition (Oshawa, On; Boonen Books, 2013) p 255

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guedrylabinefamily/genealogy/survivalofafamilyguedrydazy.html