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Edmée and Catherine Lejeune's parents are NOT KNOWN. If you find solid evidence of their parents, please post on this profile in the comments. It is often written that Pierre Lejeune was their father, but this is not proven.
Edmée Lejeune is one of the ancestral matriarchs of the Acadian Gautrot family. Edmée Lejeune has been called "the ancestral matriarch of the Acadian Gautrot family", as should Marie Gautrot, daughter of François and his first wife (Unknown). Looking at Acadians born roughly before 1763 (5 generations), Edmée has about 3100 people born in Acadia on Wikitree. The first wife of François, Marie Unknown (who may or may not have come to Acadie), has 649 descendants in 5 generations).
She was born in France around 1624.[1]The 1671 Port Royal Census lists Edmee's age as 47, which puts her birth date at around 1624. She was the sister of Catherine Lejeune.
Edmée and her sibling made their way to Acadia from Europe.
Edmée (19) married François Gautrot (30), widower, (born about 1613 in Martaizé, Poitou, France) in 1644 in Port-Royale, Acadie, Nouvelle-France.[1] Their known children were:
In 1654, the family would have witnessed Port-Royal's capture by Robert Sedgwick, who led 300 British soldiers and volunteers.[2] The soldiers and employees working at the fort were offered transportation back to France and given enough pelts to cover their wages."[3] Most Acadians, including the Gautrot family, remained in Acadia. They were permitted to retain their land and belongings, and they were guaranteed religious freedom.[3] Dunn describes life in Acadia during the 16 years of nominal British rule:
During the years of British rule, most of the Port-Royal population moved upriver away from the town. Using the agricultural practices initiated under D'Aulnay, the Acadians dyked and cultivated extensive salt marshes along the river and raised livestock. Through necessity, residents had reached an accommodation with New England traders who had become their sole source for the goods that they could not produce themselves.... New England traders exchanged their goods for Acadian produce and furs.... There were seventy to eighty families in the Port Royal area in 1665.[3]
In 1671, the family homestead had six arpents under cultivation, and they had 16 cattle and 6 sheep.[4] In 1678 the family was still in Port Royal, owning 6 arpents of land.[5]
Nine years later, all the children had fledged, and François and Edmée lived together in Port Royal.
In 1686, at Port Royal, Emee [sic] LEJEUNE, aged 61, was living with her husband, Francois GOTRO [sic], aged 71. They owned 3 guns and were living on 4 arpents of cultivable land with 8 cattle, 5 sheep and 8 hogs.[6]
By 1693, Edmée was a widow (the Census used her nickname, Aimée).[7]
Edmée appears to have died between the 1693 and 1698 census. She is thought to be buried in the Garrison Graveyard at Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada, though graves at that time were marked with wooden crosses which have long disintegrated.[8]
François had owned a lot adjoining the side of the old Fort (which was expropriated in 1705[1] to extend the Fort in Port-Royal). It is not clear how long the family lived there. As François Gautrot had died more than twelve years before, it must be supposed that his heirs were the owners of this land in 1705.
The Mothers of Acadia maternal DNA project posts its ongoing Maternal DNA results here. To date, the haplogroup of both sisters is consistently reported as U6a7a, indicating European origins.
Another group known as Ancestry Out of Acadia DNA PROJECT, posts its results here. They too report that Catherine and Edmée have European haplogroups, in particular, basic testing has revealed U6a and more complete testing U6a7a. Thus, there is a growing body of consistent and concordant results indicating European origins and nothing to the contrary.
A 2014 study by the National Institutes of Health provides the even more definitive location of France for this U6a7a subgroup, saying that, whether or not the Lejeunes are included in the analysis, the cluster is rooted in France around 3,000 years ago in the late European Bronze Age.[14]
Birthplace.
Port Royal: Francois GAUTEROT, 58, wife Edmee LeJEUNE 47; Children (married): Marie 35, Charles 34, Marie 24, Rene 19, Marguerite 16; (not married): Jean 23, Francois 19, Claude 12, Charles 10, Jeanne 7, Germain 3; cattle 16, sheep 6.
Francois Gautreau & Aymee LeJeune, 6 acres, 8 cattle 2 boys: age 20- born 1658 Claude, 18 1660 Charles
at Port Royal: Francois GOTRO 71, Emee LEJEUNE 61; 3 guns, 4 arpents, 8 cattle, 5 sheep, 8 hogs. In the 1686 census at Port Royal, Gautrot was listed as Gotro and Edmée Lejeune was listed as Emee La Jeune and transcribed as Emee LEJEUNE.
Aimee LEJEUNE (widow of Francois GOTROT) 71
Using 230 complete sequences we have refined the U6 phylogeny, and improved the phylogeographic information by the analysis of 761 partial sequences. This approach provideshttps://www.wikitree.com/skins/common/images/button_extlink.png chronological limits for its arrival to Africa, followed by its spreads there according to climatic fluctuations, and its secondary prehistoric and historic migrations out of Africa colonizing Europe, the Canary Islands and the American Continent.
a) The U6a7a1a Acadian cluster from Canada: Male French colonists arrived in the Canadian region of Acadia at the beginning of the 17th Century. However, the core group of maternal lineages that gave rise to the French Acadian population did not settle in the area until the middle of that century (http://www.acadian-home.org/). At least one of those maternal lineages belongs to the sub-haplogroup U6a7a1a, defined by mutations 2672 and 11929. Putative descendants of that lineage are represented by 11 complete extant French-Canadian sequences in our U6 tree (see Additional file 2). Applying the recently proposed overall mtDNA mutation rate [23], we obtain a mean phylogenetic age of 467 years for this cluster, in close agreement with its history. Another closely related sequence, which lacks the Acadian basal substitution 2672 (see Additional file 2), roots the cluster’s ancestor in France around 3,000 ya in the late European Bronze age."
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Edmée is 23 degrees from Herbert Adair, 21 degrees from Richard Adams, 21 degrees from Mel Blanc, 21 degrees from Dick Bruna, 20 degrees from Bunny DeBarge, 32 degrees from Peter Dinklage, 20 degrees from Sam Edwards, 19 degrees from Ginnifer Goodwin, 21 degrees from Marty Krofft, 18 degrees from Junius Matthews, 17 degrees from Rachel Mellon and 20 degrees from Harold Warstler on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Diane
If you check this page It will show that Edmee was born in Port Royal and in 1623 she is MicMac Metis.
Please check out my tree I have the 2 volumes of Leopold Lanctot
Cindy
https://www.ancestry.ca/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/167117485/person/152198304295/media/96226c14-cf11-4ea8-925e-129eda150b1a?_phsrc=Dbd30102&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&sort=-created
https://www.ancestry.ca/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/167117485/person/152198304295/media/bdedf27e-fbc9-484c-abe5-594657300b5d?_phsrc=Dbd30102&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=2&sort=-created
https://www.ancestry.ca/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/167117485/person/152198304295/media/bcac35ae-dfe1-48de-9c78-8f2e97376fd4?_phsrc=Dbd30102&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=3&sort=-created
https://archive.org/details/famillesacadienn01lanc/mode/2up?view=theater You have to check out this book it prove that her father was Pierre and mother was Indigenous
Edmee was Indigenous. her parent were Pierre Lejeune and
If you have proof that Pierre is her father, could you post the documents here? Family trees are not sufficient documentation per WikiTree standards for this time period, we would hope to see baptism, marriage, immigration, census or other original records that would link them. It would be a tremendous contribution if you can provide those.
Regarding the Lanctot book, can you provide the page numbers, please? I have limited viewing and would like to go right there. I'm sure you are aware of the work of Stephen A White, the noted professional Acadian genealogist. He is very familiar with Lanctot's work and could provide insight regarding any new information if we can review the exact sections you've found helpful.
Thank you, Cindy Bourque Cooper, co-leader, Acadians Project
edited by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Here are the pages she referenced:
The Ancestry image in the second comment is of pages 266 & 267 in the Lanctot book (Gautherot, Francois et Edmee Le Jeune).
Translation from DeepL for part of p. 154: "the Gautherot sons maintained frequent relations with the family of their mother Edmée-Lejeune; they were in ordinary communication with the young Métis of La Hève and with the Micmacs".
Earlier in the Documents inédits book, on p. 144 (image 10), the author suggests that Edmee and Catherine Lejeune could be the aunts of Pierre Lejeune dit Briard (born about 1657), that they could be the sisters of Pierre's father Pierre Lejeune (~1625 - ~1661) (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lejeune-360).
Pierre Lejeune is known to have married an Indigenous woman (a daughter of Germain Doucet). However, we now know that Edmee & Catherine Lejeune were actually not the sisters of Pierre Lejeune. As pointed out in Catherine's WikiTree profile: Stephen White noted that there was no dispensation for kindred in the marriage between a grandson of Catherine Lejeune (Nicolas Préjean) and a granddaughter of Pierre Lejeune (Euphrosine Labauve), which took place at St-Servan in France in 1760. This shows that neither Catherine nor Edmee was Pierre's sister. And we also have multiple mtDNA test results that show Edmee and Catherine were sisters but did not have an Indigenous mtDNA haplogroup.
edited by Valerie (Fremmerlid) Penner
Jeannette
Sincerely,
Jeannette