G2G: Radegonde Lambert Blanchard - Find A Grave Memorial - Historical Inaccuracies

Question

The Find A Grave memorial link (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66789817) listed in the sources on the profile for Radegonde Lambert seems to be a vanity memorial and not indicative of an actual burial:

1. Amherst was not settled by white people until 1764.

2. Port Royal and Amherst are around 350 km apart. Very unlikely distance to travel for a burial around 1693, and an unlikely place for a reinternment later.

I am posting this to clear up any inaccuracies from being copied in the future.

Comments

before it was Amherst it was an Acadian village - knows as Beaubassin and yes it would make sense that there would be a burial there . . .

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Radegonde Lambert was not white, this was confirmed by her DNA test.

Her X2b4 Haplogroup with the control region marker T226C confirms Native american ancestry. This is being misreported as T225C purposely and can be confirmed by checking the results at phylotree.org here: http://www.phylotree.org/tree/X.htm.

Scroll down to X2b and you will see T226C in blue. This indicates a match to the 12, 500 y/o Clovis Anzick child's remains which were no where near France! 

This is also true of Barbe Bajolet whose haplogroup X2b7 results also possess the T226C marker.

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https://dna-explained.com/2017/03/02/new-native-american-mitochondrial-dna-haplogroups/

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Yes they did a lot of work, but they forgot to mention anything about the T226C mutation. In the study previous to this, it was misreported as T225C.

They haven't found this mutation in any other ancient specimen anywhere else in the world, so one would come to the conclusion that it is unique to North America.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that since this person has that mutation, it means she was Native American.

Seeing that the Acadians were dispersed worldwide, that would not include any modern day testing, except to confirm their origin! The Acadians are the only group in which this is being overlooked.

It seems that Truth and Reconciliation means something else for the descendants of Acadians, just like the Indians or any of them clause in Royal Proclamation meant something else for their ancestors....and 400 years later, the war rages on.

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You should contact Roberta Estes with your theory. She is one of the leading genetic genealogists in the field so I doubt she made a simple mistake but anything is possible.

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It's not a theory Mark, it's a fact! Other groups have done studies too and this information wasn't hidden from them. I tried to talk to Roberta and she won't answer.

Here's something from Roberta 

X2b-T226C

• Anzick Provisional Extract, Estes, September 2014, kits F999912 and F999913
• Anzick Provisional Extract, Estes January 2015 – (1 X2b-T226T confirmed Irish, not Native)

Notice that she says X2b-T226T here and if that link works you will see that it says X2b-T225C

Here's a study done on her site by an American group. It is called  NATIVE AMERICAN HAPLOGROUP CATALOG PekowiBlueJacket Project. This is a specific native group. In it you will find 35 references to X2b-T226C

http://shawnee-bluejacket.com/uploads/3/5/4/9/3549915/pekowibluejacler_haplogroup_catalog_2.pdf

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Great. Why don't you do a rebuttal to her article and I will forward it to her! I know someone who knows her well.

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It's not her fault if you get my drift...enough said.

Answer 1

Thank you Erin for raising questions about the Find-a-Grave link. It is unfortunate that there are no sources to support its biographical information. Stephen White cites Lambert's date of death as after the 1678 Census, where she resided at Port-Royal Acadia. If she died there, as you point out, it would not make sense to bury her in Amherst.

I have one point of clarification regarding European settlement in the Amherst area. There was a nearby French settlement at  [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Beaubassin,_Acadie Beaubassin] Acadia in the early 1670s. However, I have not found any sources supporting Lambert living or dying there. Thank you again. Your points will be linked to Labert's profile and discussed.

Comments

Thanks for the information about Beaubassin!

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Thank you, thank you for this wonderful web site and the pages here on WikiTree. Many of these people listed are definitely my blood relatives, a fact I have known for some of them but not all! Also, the links at the bottom of this site are wonderful.

Sincerely,

Jeannette

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It would make sense to bury her there if she was native, also there is no evidence that she was born in France or a passenger list to support that assertion. There's a very good reason why we have no records to prove she was native but that doesn't explain the total absence of French records. Because Stephen White said so is NOT evidence!

Also it stands to reason that Jean Lambert and his native wife were her parents as there were no other males in the country at that time with that name. The nephews deposition was about Jean's parents coming from France, not Jean and Radegonde. I would like to see them connected back together unless there is REAL evidence to the contrary. It is most disrespectful to treat our ancestors this way and goes against the protected project guidelines.

Answer 2

Thank you Erin for the factual report. (Marie) Radegonde LAMBERT is in my paternal line (9th ggm). I shall continue reading other more learned writers here and elsewhere to get as accurate a fix as possible on her name and death date & place. Thanx for your insights!   -Ed Blanchard