Antoine LeBeouf or Ducêdre

Question

So in researching the biological father of Glenn Frey of the band the Eagles, I came across a gap that I'd like to clear up. There's this guy:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duc%C3%AAdre-7

William Ducêdre aka Ducedre aka Cedar

And then his grandfather is supposed to be this guy:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leboeuf-245

Charles Isidore Leboeuf or LeBoeuf

The father of William (or son of Charles) is supposed to be Antoine LeBoeuf dit Ducedre, which is interesting as the Ducedre seems to come up out of nowhere. There appears to be some evidence of a son Antoine, but this site (for example) shows him to have never married:

https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/Genealogie_Canada_Children.aspx?genealogie=Antoine&pid=1105051

As best I can tell, the LeBoeuf dit Ducedre last name appears to have emerged from Ancestry, but I have no specific source documentation for that. I do have a Christening source as LeBoeuf:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L993-4W62?cc=1321742&wc=9RL8-PTP%3A13629501%2C13629502%2C13629503
And a marriage document as father of the bride with a last name of Ducedre:

"Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMNJ-996 : 11 March 2018), Antoine Ducedre in entry for Norbert Rebardie and Monique Ducedre, 12 Feb 1877; citing registration , Stoney Point, Essex, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,863,648.

So I'm not sure how to prove that LeBoeuf is Ducedre or if there's an actual last name of LeBoeuf dit Ducedre.Any suggestions?

Answer 1

accepted as good by the University of Windsor

 Jeanette Lauzon-4 (Susanne Reaume-3, Bonaventure Reaume-2, Pierre Reaume-1). She was born on 28 Jan 1819[1]. She died Sep 1856 in Kent, Ontario, Canada[1].

• • Charles Ducedre.

• • Charles Ducedre and Jeanette Lauzon. They were married on 11 Feb 1834 in Tilbury East, Kent, ON, CA[1]. They had 8 children.

• • 188. i. Charles Ducedre. He was born 1838[1]. He married Anna Emery. They were married on 01 Oct 1856 in Paincourt, Kent, ON[1]. He died on 28 Jan 1920 in ON, CA[1].

• • 189. ii. Henriette Ducedre. She was born on 29 May 1839 in Kent, Ontario, Canada[1]. She married Charles Emery. They were married on 24 Sep 1861 in Paincourt, Kent, ON[1]. She died on 25 Oct 1902 in Grande Pointe, Kent, Ontario, Canada[1].

• • 190. iii. Alexander Ducedre. He was born on 19 Jun 1841[1]. He married Agnes Emery. They were married on 14 Jan 1861 in Paincourt, Kent, ON[1]. He died on 02 Dec 1925 in ON, CA[1].

• • 191. iv. Jean Baptiste Ducedre. He was born 1844[1]. He married Agnes Lauzon. They were married on 04 Aug 1864 in Paincourt, Kent, ON[1]. He died on 04 Feb 1873 in Kent, Ontario, Canada[1].

• • v. William Ducedre. He was born 1846[1]. He married Helene Boucher. They were married on 13 Oct 1868 in Paincourt, Kent, ON, CA[1].

• • vi. Cephore Ducedre. He was born 1849 in ON, CA.

• • vii. Julien Ducedre. He was born 1855.

• • viii. Isadore Duceder. He was born on 10 Jun 1846 in Paincourt, Kent, ON, CA[1]. He married Elisabeth Lauzon. They were married on 03 May 1867 in Paincourt, Kent, ON[1].
    http://web4.uwindsor.ca/users/u/urquhar/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/35D817B7782DCF0E8525729E005A76DF

Comments

I guess I'll have to accept that he changed his last name at some point, and the reason will be a mystery. Seems there's enough evidence to prove that LeBoeuf and Ducedre are the same person. There's an interesting story there somewhere.

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Charles is the father of William

There are no records in Ancestry to support the name La Beouf associated with this family.

There are records for an Antoine LaBeouf born in Detroit, moving to Ontario but this Antoine LaBeouf in the 1861 census for Ontario existed at the same time as Antoine Ducedre/Cedar

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Antoine Laboeuf

 in the 1861 Census of Canada

Name:	Antoine Laboeuf [Antoine Leboeuf]
Gender:	Male
Age:	56
Birth Year:	1805
Birthplace:	Lower Canada
Marital status:	Married
Home in 1861:	Champlain, Canada East
Religion:	Church of Rome
Film Number:	C-1273
Page Number:	300
Household Members:	Name Age Antoine Laboeuf 56

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Antoine Cedar

 in the 1861 Census of Canada

Name:	Antoine Cedar
Gender:	Male
Age:	58
Birth Year:	1803
Birthplace:	Upper Canada
Marital status:	Widowed
Home in 1861:	Chatham, Kent, Canada West
Religion:	Roman Catholic
Film Number:	C-1038-1039
Page Number:	72
Household Members:	Name Age Antoine Cedar 58

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THIS IS ANTOINE LEBOEUF , NOT, DEFINITELY NOT Antoine Cedar

Antoine Lebeuf

 in the U.S., French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954

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Name:	Antoine Lebeuf
Event:	Naissance (Birth)
Baptism Year:	1801-1810
Baptism Place:	Détroit, Ste-Anne; Autres Registres, Michigan, USA
Religion:	Catholique
Church Name:	Détroit, Ste-Anne; Autres Registres

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954

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It seems that several online trees have conflated the two Antoines

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I was just coming to the same conclusion... vewwy intewesting...

Thanks!

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now I have to go make another tuna sammich 

all this research ! brain needs fooooood 

Answer 2

Have also been researching the Ducedre family... and lo and behold..  I was researching Antoine Ducedre b. 21 Jul 1826, d. 17 Jun 1897. Buried in the parish cemetery in Pain Court, Kent, Ontario.  I was looking up his baptism record and couldn't find it.. but then.. boom.. he was baptized under the name LEBOEUF. Antoine Leboeuf.. son of Antoine Leboeuf and Marie Lauzon.

In the parish burial registry he was listed as Ducedre, as was his father. However on the 1861 census.. he's listed as Antoine Leboeuf, and it is the same person, as his wife and known children are also listed.

So safe to say .. Leboeuf dit Ducedre was a thing. I would put it as an AKA however.  Though he may have been baptized as Leboeuf, he went by the name Ducedre, and even Ceder or Cedar on the 1881 census (though that may be blamed on the English enumerator). Buried in Pain Court under the name Ducedre.