Jeanne (LeFebre) de St. Julien (1645 - 1705)

Born 1645 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France

Wife of Pierre (St Julian) de St Julien — married 7 Mar 1667 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France

Died 1705 at about age 60 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Jeanne (LeFebre) de St. Julien was a Huguenot.

Biography

Jeanne Lefebvre was born in 1645 in France. Her parents were:^[1]

Father: Daniel LEFEBVRE b: 1619 in Vitré, Bretagne, France

Mother: Marie BERNAULT b: in Vitré, Bretagne, France

Marriage

On March 7, 1667, Jeanne Lefebvre married Count Pierre-René de St. Julien (aka St. Julian), in Vitré, Ile-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. At the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ca. 1685, this French Protestant Huguenot aristocratic family fled France due to religious persecution. They landed in England and from there emigrated to Ireland, then under English (Protestant) rule.

Jeanne's husband and son, Pierre-René, fought with at the Battle of the Boyne, where the English-led Protestant forces defeated the Irish Roman Catholics, thereby ensuring that the northern province of Ulster (or most of it) would remain Protestant.

Children

Jeanne and her husband are said to have had 9 children. Only 8 were in his Will, however. One daughter, Aimée, is likely to have died and perhaps one son (not named). Their 7 known children were:

1. Jeanne,
2. Renate,
3. Emilie,
4. Marguerite,
5. Judith,
6. Louis,
7. Paul
8. Pierre-René.

Death

Both Jeanne and Pierre de St. Julien died in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, in 1705 and are likely buried there. Several of their children emigrated to British North America in the early 18th Century, notably to South Carolina and to Maryland.

Sources

1. ↑ The Family on RootsWeb - Jeanne Lefebvre

• The Family on RootsWeb - Jeanne Lefebvre

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Sonia Parsons for creating WikiTree profile LeFebre-22 through the import of DNA Skeleton Tree.ged on Sep 8, 2013.
• Chet Snow added this person to the Huguenot Migration Project on WikiTree and wrote a brief biography, with a Source, on December 9, 2016.