Marguerite (Lebreton) LeBreton was born in 1726, daughter of Jean LeBreton (1689 - ) and Marie Bertrand (~1694 - 1758).
She was born after her oldest brother who was born in Port LaJoie and before her next brother born in St-Pierre-du-Nord, Isle Saint Jean.
Marguerite was listed with her parents and siblings, at 24 years of age, on the 1752 La Roque census at Saint-Pierre-du-Nord. [1]
She died with her whole family while crossing to France during deportation.[2]
Research Notes
For the original entries:
No Marguerite listed for this family by Marcel Walter Landry [3] or by PRDH [4]
No Lebreton born at all in Quebec 1770-1800.
No Robert/Lebreton died in Caraquet in 1824-1825. [5]
No LeBreton who died 1820-1830 in Quebec. Several Roberts.
No census with children names in that area.
Removed these parents [Lebreton-20|Francois Lebreton]] and Therese Boiselle and gave her real parents per Marcel Landry [6](Bourque-573 17:35, 6 August 2022 (UTC))
Sources
↑Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 135, image 300. A transcription of the original census, in French, can be found at Census Transcription of Original Record “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 505, Image 510
Jean Le Breton, fisherman and ploughman, native of Saint Malo, aged 63 years, he has been in the country 28 years. Married to Marie Bertrand, native of l'Acadie, aged 50 years.
They have six children, five sons and one daughter.
Charles, aged 25 years.
François, aged 23 years.
Jean, aged 20 years.
Joseph, aged 18 years.
Bonnaventure, aged 12 years.
Margueritte, aged 24 years.
In live stock, they have two oxen, two cows, two calves, one heifer, five ewes, three sows, three pigs, and six fowls.
The land upon which they are settled was granted to them by Messieurs de Pensens and Dubuisson, but they have lost the deed. They have made a clearing where they have sown eight bushels of wheat and two bushels of peas.
↑ Marcel W Landry “Généalogies des Landry a travers le monde” Marguerite Accessed 8/6/2022.
↑ Marcel Walter Landry François Robert dit LeBreton at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed June 2021 (Login required)
↑ PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Famille: 90612
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Paul, i could find no documentation to place her in this family. Before disconnecting her I would like to try to ID her and give her real parents. That’s hard to do on my phone while traveling. I’ll take care of it next week. Thanks for pointing it out.
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