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Ursule Lejeune (abt. 1720 - 1807)

Ursule Lejeune aka Doiron
Born about in Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotiamap
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Wife of — married 1741 in Acadiemap
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Died at about age 87 in Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Maurice, Canada Eastmap
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Biography

She was the daughter of Germain Lejeune and Marie Anne Trahan.[1]

Probably born in Acadia with other siblings.

She married Philippe Doiron about 1741 in Acadie.[2]

They were listed in the 1752 La Roque census with their 5 children at Anse-au-Matelot on Isle Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island).[3]

Ursule Lejeune died 1 Mar 1807 at Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Maurice, Canada East. [4]

Sources

  1. Karen Theriot Reader Ursule citing Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiqueses historiques - Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed. - Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes, 2005 - p. 227 - Daughter of Germain (6) LEJEUNE.
  2. Karen Theriot Reader Philippe Doiron citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 1377-1378 (Pisiguit); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN.
    Born 1722, married about 1741 to Marie-Ursule LEJEUNE (no parents listed). He was at Ile Saint Jean in 1752, and at Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse in 1758, and at Bécancour Québec in 1763.
  3. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 109/Image 248. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” Images 407-408
    Phillipe Douaron, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 32 years, he has been in the country two years. Married to Ursulle Le Jeune, native of l'Acadie, aged 33 years. They have one son and four daughters:
    Firmain Joseph, aged 6 years.
    Marie Joseph, aged 10 years.
    Gertrude, aged 8 years.
    Magdelaine, aged 4 years.
    Margueritte, aged 15 months.
    In stock two cows, three pigs, and one horse. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases,it was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing of one arpent in extent.
  4. "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99Q-CYN1?cc=1321742&wc=9RLV-ZNL%3A17467001%2C17467002%2C20123301 : 16 July 2014), Pointe-du-Lac > La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac > Index, baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1749-1825 Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1744-1840 > image 400 of 731; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.

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The sentence about her being the daughter of Philippe and Ursule would be for one of her children, not for her. I added the source that says she is the daughter of Germain and should have deleted that first sentence. Pierre and Jeanne Benoit did not have a daughter Ursule according to Stephen White. Given no source has surfaced for the parents currently on here and there IS a source for Germain and Marie Anne, I suggested they should be removed and replaced with Germain and Marie Anne Trahan.
posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Jackie, what do you think should be done, if anything, about her parents?
posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
I've re-searched the parish records on Family Tree for her birth record and marriage records without success. In short, I have not been able to find evidence of her parents. Germain and Marie Anne are most likely her parents, but this is based on the the fact there were very few Lejuene's at the time, and Stephen White has excluded Pierre and Jeanne Benoit as her parents. This leaves Germain as the perhaps remaining candidate father. As it sometimes is with Acadian records, it seems more a process of elimination than solid evidence.
posted by Peter Geary
I found one additional source that says Germain Lejeune was her father. We have credible genealogist researchers (Reader and Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc at Univ of Moncton) saying Germain (and thus Marie Anne Trahan) are her parents. S suggest that we change them. Any objections? https://gw.geneanet.org/katheriot?lang=en&pz=frederick+joseph&nz=theriot&ocz=1&p=ursule&n=lejeune

Cindy

posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
I agree. Based on the work of Reader and Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, Ursule parents should be changed to Germain Lejeune Marie Anne Trahan.
posted by Peter Geary
Thank you, Peter for your input. Parents corrected.
posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper

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