Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s
[luh-JHERN, luh-JHAN, luh-JHOON]
ACADIA
Lejeune is a common name in France, so it is no surprise that a number of individuals with that name who were not kin to one another lived in the Acadia:
Edmée or Aimée Lejeune, born in France in c1624, married François Gautrot, widower of Marie _____, in c1644. Catherine Lejeune, also born in France, in c1633, married François Savoie in c1651 and also lived in Acadia. After analyzing a number of dispensations for kinship, Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White says that Edmée and Catherine were sisters, but he concludes that they were not sisters of the other Lejeunes in Acadia.
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Jean Lejeune died at Port-Royal by c1686. Stephen A. White writes of him: "It has not been possible to determine who ... Jean Lejeune was. Nevertheless, it seems evident that he figured among the early colonists of Acadia, because all the other grantees at Bélisle [on present-day Annapolis River] were of that group. Given that Barnabé Martin and François Savoie were among these grantees, one may deduce that the grants took place before their deaths, which both occurred some time before the 1686 census. It must be presumed that the allotment to Jean Lejeune's heirs likewise would have taken place some time before this census. Note that no relationship, either by blood or by marriage, is known to have existed between the brothers-in-law Alexandre Hébert and Michel Richard who occupied the grant in 1734 and the Lejeune family."
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Pierre Lejeune dit Briard of the Brie region of France married a daughter of Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, at Port-Royal in c1650; her given name has been lost to history; interestingly, the bride's father also was from the Brie area of France. Pierre dit Briard does not appear in the first Acadian census of 1671. Given the family's tendency to move around, he may have temporarily left the colony with his family. Pierre dit Briard and his wife had two sons, both born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own:
Older son Pierre, fils, also called dit Briard, born in c1656, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1678. In 1686, Pierre, fils and Marie were counted at La Hève, on the Atlantic coast. On 7 November 1689, Acadian Governor Meneval wrote a letter to the Minister of Marine back in France and had this to say about Pierre dit Briard, fils: "The Srs de Soulègre and Desgouttins, both being eager for pelts, sent a man name Briard, a sort of Indian and Sr Desgouttins's brother-in-law [colonial official Mathieu de Goutin had married Jeanne, another daughter of Pierre Thibodeau, earlier that year], to trade in the woods towards Cape Sable, contrary the prohibition I had imposed against going there without my permission, and they have gave him among other things brandy to trade to the Indians, contrary to the special prohibition I had imposed against that.... Besides that, I knew that Briard had repeated a hundred insults to the Indians, in contempt of the governor's authority, in order to increase that of his brother-in-law, Sr Desgouttins; among other things, that the governor did not have the authority to ban brandy, and that he would not let it be brought in, etc., etc., just as two French inhabitants settled in those districts have testified...." Meneval goes on to detail other alleged offenses of Pierre, fils, insisting that they were encouraged by Pierre's influential brother-in-law, de Goutin. In October 1690, de Goutin testified that Meneval had done his best to capture Pierre "in order to put him in prison, and that Pierre "was obliged to escape in order to avoid such treatment." In 1693, three years after Meneval had been captured by New Englanders during King William's War, Pierre and Marie were back in Port-Royal, but in 1708 they were counted again at La Hève. They had nine children, including four sons who married into the Benoit, Trahan, Guédry, and Pitre families. Four of their daughters married into the Boutin, Roy, Trahan, Gautrot, Labauve, and Duplessis families.
Younger son Martin dit Briard (Labrière), born in c1661, married a Mi'kmaq, Jeanne, or Marie, Kagigconiac, probably at Port-Royal in c1684. They, too, were counted at La Hève in 1686. They had four children, including three sons, one of whom married into the Gaudet family. One of their daughters married into the Labauve family. In c1699, Martin dit Briard remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Gaudet, fils and Jeanne Henry. They were counted again at La Hève in 1708, but they moved on to Pigiguit in the Minas Basin. Martin dit Briard's second wife gave him six more children, including five more sons, three of whom married into the Landry, Benoit, and Barrieau families. One of their daughters married into the Viger family. In October 1729, at Grand-Pré, Martin dit Briard married a third time, to Marie Arnault (Renaud) dit Grislard, widow of Jacques Carne; she gave him no more children.
[For more of this family in pre- and post-dispersal Acadia and Canada, see Book Three]
In 1755, descendants of Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, père and _____ Doucet could be found in small numbers in the Minas Basin at Pigiguit and Cobeguit, but most of them had moved on from Pigiguit, where they had congregated over the decades, to the French-controlled Maritime islands. They were especially numerous at Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale, where they had gone in 1749 and 1750, but they also could be found at Grande-Ascension and Bédec on Île St.-Jean and on Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale. Some of the Baie-des-Espagnol families had returned to peninsula Acadia, where they secured permission to live not at their old homes at Pigiguit but at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax.
LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
[For the family's travails during the Great Upheaval, see Book Six]
LOUISIANA: WESTERN SETTLEMENTS
Lejeunes settled early in Acadia, but they came later to Louisiana than many other Acadian families. The first of them to reach the colony came aboard the ill-fated English vessel Britannia out of Port Tobacco, Maryland, in 1769. After their harrowing adventures on the Texas coast and the long overland trek from Texas, five Lejeune siblings arrived at Natchitoches in October:
Jean-Baptiste Lejeune, fils, age 20, came with younger siblings Blaise, age 19; Marguerite, age 17; and Joseph and Nanette, age 13. Nanette, despite her age, remained in Texas at a place called "the Coquiats." Blaise married at Ascension on the river in November 1773 and took his bride to the Opelousas District, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where they settled far out on the Opelousas prairie in present-day Acadia Parish. Jean-Baptiste, fils also married at Opelousas and lived for a time at Avoyelles, north of Opelousas. Joseph went to the Attakapas District, south of Opelousas, but married and settled along Bayou des Cannes, not far from his older brothers. Marguerite married into the Croque or Crook family at either Natchitoches or Opelousas and also settled on the Opelousas prairies.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE, fils (c1749-?; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard Labrière, Paul dit Briard)
Jean-Baptiste, fils, perhaps also called Jean-Vincent, eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune and Marguerite Trahan, born probably at Pigiguit in c1749, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, by 1752, to Lunenburg/Mirliguèche, Nova Scotia, in October 1754, to George's Island, Halifax, in September 1755, and into exile first to North Carolina in December 1755 and then to Maryland in c1760. In January 1769, he and four of his younger siblings followed their maternal uncle Honoré Trahan and his family to Louisiana aboard the English vessel Britannia. After they finally reached Natchitoches, Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste, fils and his relatives moved on to Acadian settlements. Jean-Baptiste, fils married French Creole Isabelle Outré probably at Opelousas in c1779 and settled at Avoyelles, north of Opelousas, or, as a family historian suggests, he and brother Blaise may have lived at Avoyelles before moving to the Opelousas District to be near younger brother Joseph. Did Jean-Baptiste, fils's family line survive?
Jean-Baptiste III, born probably at Avoyelles but baptized by an Opelousas priest, age 3 weeks, in September 1781, may have died young.
Descendants of Blaise LEJEUNE (c1750-?; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard Labrière, Paul dit Briard)
Blaise, second son of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune and Marguerite Trahan of Pigiguit, born probably on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in c1750, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, by 1752; to Lunenburg/Mirliguèche, Nova Scotia, in October 1754; to George's Island, Halifax, in September 1755; and into exile first to North Carolina in December 1755, and then to Maryland, where he was counted at Port Tobacco, an orphan in the household of Honoré Breau, in July 1763. In January 1769, he and four of his siblings followed uncle Honoré Trahan to Louisiana aboard the English vessel Britannia. After they finally reached Louisiana, Blaise lived at Ascension on the river, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breaux and Marguerite Gautrot of St.-Gabriel, in November 1773. They moved to the Opelousas District soon after their marriage and settled far out on the western prairies. The bayou on which they settled, a tributary of Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in present-day Acadia Parish, is still called Bayou Blaise Lejeune and on some maps Blaise Lejeune Gully Their daughters married into the Doucet and Trahan families. Four of their five sons married and created large families of their own. Unlike younger brother Joseph and his descendants, who as early as the 1820s anglicized their surname to Young, Blaise and his descendants continued to call themselves Lejeune. Like many Acadians who settled in St. Landry Parish, Blaise's descendants married relatively few fellow Acadians.
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Oldest son Blaise, fils, born either at Ascension or Opelousas in c1775, married Anne-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Spanish Creole Manuel Quintero and his Acadian wife Marie Granger of Pointe Coupée, at Opelousas in May 1792. They settled on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé. Their son Joseph le jeune was born at Opelousas in September 1793, Jean was baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in July 1795, Michel at age 2 in November 1804, Ursin at age 8 months in April 1806, Étienne was born in February 1813 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1816, and a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in March 1811. Their daughters married into the Berwick, Godin (Foreign French or French Creole, not Acadian), Lebleu, and West families. Blaise, fils may have remarried to Violle Vigé. Blaise, fils died in St. Landry Parish in August 1848, age 73.
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Jean married Marie Louise, called Louise, "natural" daughter of Étienne Lacase and his Acadian "wife" Cécile Hébert of Bayou au Boeuf, Rapides Parish, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1813. Their son Blaise le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1818, Zéphirin in July 1829, and Ursin le jeune in February 1832. Their daughters married into the Buck, Caney or Kenny, Doucet, Emay, LeBoeuf, Maillard or Mayer, and Trahan families.
Blaise le jeune married Marie Caroline, called Caroline, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Éloi Doucet and his Creole wife Modeste Carriere, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1839. Their son Ursin le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1844, and Blaise, fils in April 1847. They also had an older son named Émile.
Émile married Élisabeth, daughter of George Tromp and his Acadian wife Zélima Leger, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1865. Their son Jean le jeune was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in April 1866, and François near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, in December 1869.
Zéphirin married Célesie Odile, called Odile, daughter of Pierre Bertrand and Félicité Selesie Vigé, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1851, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1852. Their son Napoléon Zéphirin was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1855, and Onésime Paulastron perhaps posthumously near Grand Coteau in August 1858. Zéphirin's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in June 1858. He would have been age 29 that year.
Ursin le jeune may have married Carmelisse Maillard. Their son Ursin Oneville was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1863.
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Joseph le jeune married Émilie, daughter of Charles Bourassa and his Acadian wife Madeleine Lalande, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1816. They settled on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near present-day Church Point. Their son Louis was born in c1818, Joseph, fils in December 1820, Symphorien in October 1829, Pierre in December 1835, and Charles Dupré, called Dupré, in March 1840. Their daughters married into the Dies, Leger, and Matte families. Joseph le jeune died probably on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in July 1842, age 48.
Joseph, fils married Philonia, Phelonie, or Phelonise Hall in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1839. Their son Paulin was born near Grand Coteau in August 1847. Their son Hypolide was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in December 1855, Eustache Dupré in March 1858, and Albert near Grand Coteau in April 1861. Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Daigle (German Canadian, not Acadian), Diaz or Diez, Doucet, and Lejeune families. Joseph, fils's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1865; he would have been age 45 that year.
Louis married Eméranthe, called Méranthe, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Matte and Marie Janise, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1839. Their son Louis Damon was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1840, and Joseph le jeune in November 1843. They were living near Church Point by the early 1850s. Their daughter married into the Araby family. A succession for Louis Lejeune was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in July 1854; this Louis would have been in his mid-30s that year.
Joseph married Azilda, called Zilda, daughter of Louis Bellard and Célise Carriere, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church the following November. Their son Louis le jeune was born near Church Point in July 1870.
Louis Damon married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Doucet and his Creole wife Joséphine Fontenot, at the Church Point church in May 1870. Their son Ernest was born near Church Point in December 1870.
Symphorien married Azélie, Azélima, Sélima, or Zélima, also called Lélimon, Araby in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1851. They settled near Church Point. Their son Augustin was born in November 1854, Michel le jeune in March 1858, Joseph in January 1867, and Paul in June 1870.
Pierre married Ophelia, daughter of François Ledoux and Orphie Matte, at the Church Point church in July 1857.
Dupré married Élodie, daughter of Célestin Matte and Joséphine Bellard, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1867. They settled near Church Point. Their son Joseph was born in December 1868, and Albert in December 1870.
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Michel married fellow Acadian Éloise Doucet in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1823, and remarried to Marie Josèphe or Josette, daughter of Antoine Bellard, fils and his Acadian wife Marie Aucoin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1824. Their son Michel, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1831, Onille in December 1834, Edmond Yves in April 1837, François Alcide in June 1839, and Simon in August 1842. They also had a son named Émile. Their daughters married into the Andrepont, Doucet, Frugé, Reed, Stroud, and Vigé families, and perhaps into the Chiastor family as well.
Michel, fils, by his father's second wife, married Aglaé, daughter of Augustin Fontenot and his Acadian wife Céleste Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1851. Their son François Homer was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1855, Edmond le jeune near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in December 1856, Sosthène near Grand Coteau in February 1862, and Michel III in October 1868.
Émile, by his father's second wife, married Célanie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Charles Pitre and his Creole wife Félonie Joubert, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1855. They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish. Their son William was born in February 1861, Émile, fils in December 1862, and Théodore in November 1867.
Onille, by his father's second wife, married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Richard and his Creole wife Louise Joubert, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1855.
François Alcide, by his father's second wife, married French Creole Joacine or Joachine Frugé in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, the following July. They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish. Their son François Alcide, fils was born in February 1859, and Louis de Gonzague in September 1867.
Edmond Yves, by his father's second wife, married cousin Marie Euphrosine, daughter of French Creole Dorville Bergeron and his Acadian wife Joséphine Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1859.
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Ursin died in St. Landry Parish in January 1831, age 26. He did not marry.
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Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Opelousas in December 1777, married Émilie, daughter of George Bock and Marie Anne Schexnayder, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1809. They settled on Bayou des Cannes. Their son Pierre Lessin, called Lessin, Lessaint, and Toussaint, was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1810, Onésime in August 1815 but died at age 15 in December 1830, Jean Baptiste, fils was born in September 1818, Leufroi or Dufroi in July 1823, Rosémond in November 1827, and Blaise le jeune in May 1834. Their daughters married into the Dugas and Hébert (French Creole, not Acadian) families.
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Lessin married Phelonise, daughter of Antoine Pierre Frugé and his Acadian wife Euphrosine Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1829, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1840. Their son Valerian was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1831, and Zéphirin le jeune in February 1836.
Zéphirin le jeune, called Zéphirin Blaise by the recording clerk, may have married French Creole Julie Legros in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1854.
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Jean Baptiste, fils married Adeline or Adèle, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Hébert and Anne Trahan, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1839. Their son André was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1840, Jean Baptiste, fils in January 1843, and Ursin Jean Baptiste in November 1848. They were living near Grand Coteau by 1850. Their daughters married into the Leger and Villejoin families.
André may have married Marguerite Maillard in the late 1850s. Their son Rodolphe was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1860.
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Leufroi married French Creole Aureline or Azéline Frugé in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1841. Their son Dufroi Théodule was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1842, and Leufroi, fils in August 1847.
Leufroi, fils married Virginie or Virginia Diaville in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, the following September.
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Blaise le jeune may have married Marie Arsène, also called Joséphine, Martin, widow of Henry Lepage, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1854. Their son Jean Baptiste was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in June 1861, and Blaise, fils in March 1864.
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Rosémond married Joséphine, daughter of François Marcantel and Joséphine Frugé and widow of Joseph Diaville, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1851, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, the following October. Their son Jean Baptiste le jeune was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in August 1852, and François near Grand Coteau in March 1861. Rosémond, at age 39, may have remarried to Élodie Roy in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1867. They settled near Eunice. Their son Louis was born in April 1868, and Rosémond Joseph in May 1870.
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Joseph le jeune, baptized at Opelousas, age 5 months, in July 1780, married Geneviève, daughter of Hubert Janise and his Acadian wife Marie Brasseaux, at Opelousas in November 1796. Their son, name unrecorded, died at Opelousas, age 2, in October 1802, Hubert was born in July 1803, Hilaire le jeune was baptized at age 5 in November 1805, Joseph Olivier, also called Treville, at age 3 months in April 1806, Baptiste at age 1 in March 1809, Joachim at age 16 months in October 1812, and Joseph François was born in April 1819. Their daughters married into the Berwick and Patin families, and perhaps into the Daigle (French Canadian, not Acadian) family as well.
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Hilaire le jeune may have married German Creole Rosalie Schexnayder in St. Landry Parish in the early 1820s. Their son Hilaire, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1826, and Joseph le jeune in January 1829.
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Joseph Olivier married cousin Marie Aurore, daughter of Mamert Janise and Françoise Langlois, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1826. Their son Joseph Treville was born in St. Landry Parish in June 1827, and Mamert Harvil in January 1829.
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Hilaire, baptized at Opelousas, age 3 months, in July 1782, died at age 4 in May 1786.
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Youngest son Joseph Ozier married Euphrosine, called Frosine, daughter of Michel Carrière and Julienne Marcantel, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1805. Their son Julien was baptized at the Opelousas church, age 1 month, in August 1806, Louis was born in February 1808, Onésime in September 1809, Étienne in September 1811, Charles in September 1820, and Alexandre in March 1823. Their daughter married into the Bergeron (French Creole, not Acadian) family.
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Julien married cousin Élise, Éliza, Éloise, Lisa, or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Young, originally Lejeune, and his Creole wife Marie Louise Bihm, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1827. Their son Éloyse, perhaps Éloi, was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1828, John Jefferson in November 1830, François Stivins in April 1838, Pierre Lavigne in May 1840, Houston in June 1844, Oscar in February 1848, Julien, fils in February 1850, and Edjus in August 1852.
Pierre Lavigne may have married cousin Marie Laure Lejeune. She died in St. Landry Parish, age 19, in February 1859; the Opelousas priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names.
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Louis married cousin Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Young, originally Lejeune, and his Creole wife Marie Louise Fontenot, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1829. Their son Louis, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1830. A succession record for Louis Lejeune was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1854; this Louis, père would have been age 46 that year.
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Étienne married cousin Josephine or Joasine, daughter of Michel Carrière and Céleste Stouts, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1832. Their son Dasencourt was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1833, Ozene in May 1837, Charles Dupré, perhaps called Dupré, in September 1840 or 1841, Étienne, fils in March 1846, and Aurelien in December 1847 but may have died at age 13 in September 1861. Their daughter married into the Johnson family. Étienne remarried to Marie Gaume, Grown, Gand, Gomm, Elgone, or Agamasse, probably in St. Landry Parish in the early 1850s. Their son Solus was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1852, Louis le jeune in October 1854, Angelas in December 1859, Cleopha in November 1862, and Onésime in August 1867. They were living at Bois Mallet by 1860. Their daughter married into the Godeaux family.
Dupré, by his father's first wife, may have married French Canadian Hermoza or Hermosa, perhaps also called Céleste, Matte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in October 1866. Their son François was born near Church Point in April 1864.
Étienne, fils, by his father's first wife, likely married Florentine Darbonne or Derbonne at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1866.
Descendants of Joseph LEJEUNE/YOUNG (c1756-1847; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard Labrière, Paul dit Briard)
Joseph, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune and Marguerite Trahan, born probably in North Carolina in c1756, followed relatives to Maryland, where he was counted at Port Tobacco as an orphan in the household of maternal uncle Honoré Trahan, in July 1763. In January 1769, he and four of his siblings followed his uncle to Louisiana aboard the English vessel Britannia. After they finally reached Louisiana, Joseph lived in the Attakapas District for a while and then moved north to the Opelousas prairies and settled on Prairie Faquetaique along upper Bayou des Cannes near his older brother Blaise. Joseph married Perrine dite Patsy, daughter of Anglo Creole Gilbert Hayes of Mobile, probably at Opelousas in c1782. In 1785, they owned three slaves. Their daughters married into the Barton, Bechum, Bihm, Lacombe, Ortega or Ortego, Prudhomme, and Reed families. A succession, which called him Joseph dit Briard, was filed at what would become the Opelousas courthouse in December 1787, years before his death. A separation-of-community-property record, calling him Joseph Young, Sr., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1821. He remarried to Marie, or Mary, daughter of German Creole Michel Ritter and widow of Jean Teller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1822; he was 66 years old at the time of the wedding; they sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1843; the priest who recorded the ceremony said that Joseph was 106 years old at the time of the sanctification, but he was "only" 87. Influenced perhaps by his first wife and her Anglo-American relatives, Joseph had anglicized his surname to Young by the 1820s; he was called Joseph Young, Sr. in the civil record of his second marriage. Joseph, called Joseph Briard Young, died "sur Plaquemen," that is, on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, in October 1847; the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age 110 years"; he was 90; his succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse two days after his death. Most of his descendants called themselves Young also. One wonders if they spoke English as well as French at home, and if they became Anglophones before the early twentieth century, when Cajuns began speaking American English along with their native French. Like many Acadians who settled in St. Landry Parish, Joseph's descendants married relatively few fellow Acadians.
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Oldest son Joseph, fils, by his father's first wife, born at Opelousas in August 1784, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Michel Ritter and Barbe Cor, at Opelousas in September 1805. Their son Hippolyte, called Polite, was baptized at Opelousas, age 2 months, in October 1807, Lasty or Solasti at age 13 days in October 1810, Guillaume or William was born in September 1814, Jacques, called James and Jim, in May 1816, and Henri, also called Emery, in January 1818. They also had sons named Barton and Joseph Levi, called Levi, Olivier, and Olivil. Their daughters married into the Carrière, McGee, and Smith families, and perhaps into the Daigle (French Canadian, not Acadian) family as well.
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Hippolyte, calling himself Young, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Savoie and Adélaïde Babin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1828. Their son Louis was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1828, Paul, perhaps called Paulite, in October 1830, Onésime in October 1835, Michel in March 1841, and Jesse in January 1847. They may also have had a son name Hippolyte, fils. Hippolyte, again calling himself Young, remarried to Amelie or Émelie, called Mélie, daughter of Anglo American Joseph Langley, sometimes misspelled Langlais, Langlay, Langlois, and Lingle, and Melitte Casenwell or Cosenwell, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in April 1864. Their son Louis Barn was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1858, and Ernest was baptized at the Opelousas church at age 10 in August 1873.
Onésime, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, may have married cousin Louisa Young in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1857.
Paul, by his father's first wife, called Paulite by the recording priest, and calling himself Young, may have married fellow Acadian Adélaïde Savoie, at the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in March 1866; Paul would have been age 36 at the time of the wedding, so one wonders if this was his first marriage.
Jesse, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, may have married Marie Reed in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1866. They settled near Eunice. Their son Arthelus was born in February 1870.
Hippolyte, fils, perhaps by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Jean Baptiste, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1866; the recording clerk said nothing about the bride's ethnicity.
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Lasty, calling himself Young, married Sally, 16-year-old daughter of William Link and Marie Bihm, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1833. Did the family line survive?
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Henri/Emery, calling himself Young, married Celimone, Elimone, Alimon, Clémence, Simone, or Simonese, daughter of Louis Simon Fontenot and Célestine LaFleur, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1835. Their son Henry, Jr. was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1838, William in January 1840, Joseph in April 1852, and Pierre near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in September 1854. They also had a son named Louis. Their daughters married into the Fontenot, Manuel, and McGee families. Henri/Emery, père, still calling himself a Young, remarried to Iréné Smith, widow of Joshua Huk, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1860.
Henry, Jr., by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married Virginie, daughter of John H. McGee and his Acadian wife Anastasie Savoie, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1855; Henry, Jr.'s sister Eliza married Virginie's brother Pierre. Henry, Jr. and Virginie's son Lucius was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1857.
William, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married Marie Doluce, called Doluce, daughter of Jean Pierre LaFleur and Delphine Rozat, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1857. Their son Théophile was born near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in September 1848, Théodore in May 1862, William, Jr. in August 1863, and Artellus "at Faqua Taique" in February 1868.
Louis, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married cousin Sydonia, daughter of Joseph Levi Young, formerly Lejeune, and Amelia Lagrange, his uncle and aunt, at the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in January 1867. They settled between Ville Platte and Eunice.
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James, calling himself Young, married cousin Iréné, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Doucet and Angèle Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1837. Their son Joseph le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1845, Pierre near Grand Coteau in September 1848, and Louis in July 1856.
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Barton, calling himself Young, married Anglo American Lucinda or Lucenne, also called Lucindy and Melis, Lee in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1839. Their son Alfred Barton was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1841. They also had a son named Lorenzo Barton, called Lorenzy. Barton remarried to Melissa N., daughter of George Lee and Rachel Clark, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1845.
Alfred, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married Cephaline or Zéphaline, daughter of Pierre Manuel and Joséphine Ratel, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1858, and sanctified at the Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1870; the ecclesiastical record recognized the legitimacy of their three sons. They settled between Ville Platte and Eunice. Their son John Uranza or Laurenze, called Laurenze, was born in October 1860, Jean Baptiste in c1863, and Joseph, also called Gilbert, in April 1867.
Lorenzo Barton, by his father's first wife, calling himself Young, married Arthémise Isaure, daughter of probably fellow Acadian Pierre Valcourt Savoie and his Creole wife Eugènie Ritter, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, the following December. Their son Lorenzo Barton, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1860.
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Joseph Levi, calling himself Young, married Amelia, Amelie, Émeline, or Émelia, daughter of Lasty Lagrange and Caroline Taylor, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1844. Their son Lasty was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1845, Don or Jean Louis in July 1846, and Louis in April 1848. Their daughter married a Young (formerly Lejeune) cousin.
Lasty married Fanny H., daughter of John H. McGee and his Acadian wife Anastasie Savoie, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1865; Fanny's mother was a Savoie. They settled near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish.
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William, calling himself Young, married Bekhen, perhaps Becky, Lee. Their son Gilbert was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1847. William's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in May 1850; he would have been age 36 that year.
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Jean-Baptiste, by his father's first wife, born at Opelousas in March 1786, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Jacob Bihm and Marie Ritter, at Opelousas in December 1807. They settled on Prairie Faquetaique. Their son David was born in September 1808, Jean Baptiste, fils, called John B., in September 1810, Étienne, called Stephen or Steven, in August 1817, Joseph le jeune in August 1821, and Fagny, a twin, in July 1823. Their daughters married into the Amy, Chachere, and Prudhomme families. Jean Baptiste, père died in St. Landry Parish in June 1843; the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste dit Joung, as he called him, died "at age 53 yrs."; he was 57.
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David, calling himself Young, married Azélie, daughter of Louis Fontenot dit Belaire and Marie Louise Joubert, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1827. Their son Onésime had been born in St. Landry Parish in May 1826, a son, name and unrecorded, died in St. Landry Parish in August 1828, Alfred was born in February 1834, Jerry in March 1836 but died at age 6 1/2 in September 1842, and Louis was born in February 1840. They also had a son named Jesse, perhaps also called J. T. Their daughters married into the Hébert (French Creole, not Acadian) and Manuel families. David's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in March 1854; he would have been age 46 that year.
Jesse, calling himself Young, married Émelie, daughter of Thomas Buller and Emilite Brignac, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry parish, in February 1854. They settled near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish. Their son Thomas was born in March 1855, Jesse, fils in September 1860, and Adam was baptized at the Ville Platte church, age 2 months, in December 1869.
Alfred, calling himself Young, may have married Domelise, daughter of Jules Jacques Fontenot, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1857. Their son Christoval was born near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in November 1860, and Alfred, fils in May 1862.
Onésime, calling himself Young, may have married cousin Louisa Young, originally Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1857. Their son Pierre was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1861, and Onésime, fils in May 1863. Onésime's succession record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1864; he would have been 38 years old that year. Louisa remarried to Adolphe Manuel in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1864.
Louis, calling himself Young, married Lise, daughter of Arsène Saucier and Lise Fontenot, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1861. They settled between Ville Platte and Eunice. Their son Jean Baptiste was born in October 1861 but died at age 11 months in September 1862, Alfred was born in December 1866, and Eugène in August 1870.
2b
Jean Baptiste, fils, calling himself John B. Young, married double cousin Evelina or Evelyn, daughter of Michel Bihm and his Acadian wife Eugènie Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1829. Their son John, Jr. was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1832, and François in February 1849. John B.'s succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1854; he would have been age 44 that year.
John, Jr., called Jonathan Young, may have married Celina Ellender. Their son St. Germain was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1855.
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Stephen or Steven, calling himself Young, married Marianne Hortence, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Victor Richard and his Creole wife Marie Anne Vasseur, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1839. Their son Houston was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1846, Taylor in March 1849, and Pierre Jeff Davis in August 1861. Their daughters married into the Guidry and Prudhomme families.
During the War of 1861-65, Houston served in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana and Arkansas. Houston married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Don Hopkins and Zélienne Lyons, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1868.
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Joseph le jeune, calling himself Young, may have married Tabitha Lyons in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1845. Their son James Mendoza was born near Grand Coteau in March 1848, John Wesley, perhaps called J. W., in October 1849, Josephus Richemond in February 1851, Jonathan Lyon in October 1852, and Jefferson Ahart in February 1854.
John Wesley, called J. W. by the recording clerk, and calling himself Young, may have married Elizabeth J. Steen in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1868.
James Mendoza called James M. by the recording clerk, and calling himself Young, likely married Isidore[sic] M. Steen in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1869.
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Pierre dit Pitre, by his father's first wife, born at Opelousas in January 1791, married Marie Louise, called Louise and Lise, daughter of Louis Fontenot dit Belaire and Marie Joubert, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1810. Their son Pierre, fils, called Peter, was baptized at the Opelousas church, age 6 weeks, in September 1811, and Louis was born in June 1817. Pierre, called Peter Young "of l'anse aux Pailles," died in St. Landry Parish in June 1847, age 56.
Pierre, fils married Céleste, 16-year-old daughter of Michel Carrière and Céleste Stout, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1836. Their son Onésime was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1837. Pierre, fils, called both Pierre Lejeune and Peter Young in the marriage records, remarried to first cousin Mélanie, daughter of James Young, originally Lejeune, and his Creole wife Irène Prudhomme, his uncle and aunt, at the Opelousas church in January 1839. Peter's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1856; he would have been age 45 that year.
Onésime may have married Clementine Aguillard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1869.
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Hubert dit Briard, also called Gilbert, from his father's first wife, born at Opelousas in March 1793, married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of Jacques dit Jacob Fontenot and his Acadian wife Rosalie Jeansonne, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1814; Célestine's mother was a Jeansonne. Their son Hubert, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1815, and Olivier dit Briard in September 1819. Hubert dit Briard died by September 1821, when he was listed as deceased in his father's succession.
Olivier dit Briard, called Olivier Lejeune in the marriage record, may have married Alexandrine Daigle, probably German Canadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1841. Their son Joseph Olivier was born near Grand Coteau in October 1845, Gilles in August 1848, and Alexandre in February 1854. They were living near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, by the mid-1850s. A succession for Olivier Young was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1856; he would have been age 37 that year.
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Jacques or James, by his father's first wife, baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in June 1796, married Irène, daughter of Michel Prudhomme, fils and Sidonie Darbonne, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1815. Their son André was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1827. Their daughters married into the Demarest, Hay, Lejeune, Rider, and Vallet families. Jacques was calling himself James Young by the late 1820s. His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1828; he would have been in his early 30s that year.
André may have married cousin Lovigna Young, originally Lejeune. Their son Joseph was born near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, in February 1862, Oska, probably Oscar, in November 1866.
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Youngest son Zenon, by his first wife, baptized at Opelousas, age 5 months, in July 1801, probably died young.
Other LEJEUNEs/YOUNGSs on the Western Prairies
Area church and civil records make it difficult to link many Lejeune/Youngs in the western parishes with known Acadian lines of the family there. The Grand Coteau priests were especially remiss in their record keeping:
Adeline, daughter of Joseph Lejeune, married Louis, son of German Canadian Alexandre Daigle, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1831, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1843. The parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the bride's mother's name.
Louis, or Don Louis, Lejeune married Louise, or Lise, Lejeune, perhaps also called Louisiana Smith, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1837. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son Alexandre was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1837.
Eline Young married A. J. Black in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1839. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. One wonders if Eline was an Acadian Lejeune.
Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Lejeune and Geneviève St. Amy, married Joseph, fils, son of French Creole Joseph Patin and Acadian Julienne Robichaux and widower of Joséphine Lambre, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1841. Was Joseph Lejeune an Acadian?
Célestine Lejeune married Thomas J. Watkins in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1842; the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Célestine remarried to German Creole Christophe Gatte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1856; again, the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Suzan Young, probably an Acadian Lejeune, married James H. Stahes in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1843. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
André Young, perhaps an Acadian Lejeune, married French Creole Edmonia or Eléonore Fontenot, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the early 1840s. Their daughter married a Fontenot cousin.
Odilia Young, probably an Acadian Lejeune, married Anglo Creole Jesse Andrus in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1845. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Odilia, called Adile by the recording clerk, remarried to Anglo American John B. McCoy, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1867. Again, the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Pierre Briard Lejeune died in St. Landry Parish in March 1845, age 17. The Opelousas priest who recorded his burial did not give Pierre Briard's parents' names.
Louise P. Young, probably an Acadian Lejeune, married French Creole Evariste B. Fontenot at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1846. The parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. The marriage "legitimated" the couple's son, Voorhies Fontenot, born in St. Landry Parish the previous April.
Hermogène Lejeune married Armine Duhon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1848. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Laurent, also called Laurence, Lawrence, and Laurony, Young married Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Joseph Carrière, also called Gallien, place and date unrecorded. Their son Benjamin Aloysus was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1850, daughter Émelia in December 1853, Euphrosine in February 1858, and Rosa Rela near Grand Coteau in October 1860. Lawrence died "at Petit Bois," St. Landry Parish, in August 1863, age 39. Was Lawrence an Acadian Young? Was his death war-related? Son Benjamin Aloysius died "at Petit Teche, at grandfather's house, Mr. Joe Carrière," St. Landry Parish, in December 1866; the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that Benjamin died "at age 17 yrs."; he was 16 1/2. Was his death war-related?
Olympas, Olympius, Olympus, or Olymphe, son of Hubruham, probably Abraham, Mathis Young and Elizabeth McKay of Cumberland County, Kentucky, married Apolline dite Pauline Adèle of Seine-et-Marne, France, daughter of Simien or Siméon Patout and Apolline Fournier, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1850. Daughter Mary Elizabeth was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1852, and Elisa in December 1853. Olympus obviously was not an Acadian Young.
Gradney Joseph, son of Nicolas Young and Martha Young Porter, was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1851. One suspects that Nicolas Young was not an Acadian.
Marie, daughter of Brian Young and Brigitte Yung, probably Young, married David "of Ireland," son of Daniel Numan and Honorine McCaum, at the Clarenton church, St. Mary Parish, in November 1851.
Evelina Lejeune, widow of Alexandre H. Barras, appeared in his succession, filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1852, and married Verneuil Villeneuve in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish that same month. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Fanny Young married Joseph Harmon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1852. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Fanny an Acadian Young?
Félix "of Vermilion," son of Notley Young and Euphrasie C. Devillier, married cousin Céleste Coulon Devilliers in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in November. Son Félix Notley was born in St. Landry Parish in July 1853. One suspects that Félix was not an Acadian Young.
Émelia Lejeune married German Creole Olin Matte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1854. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Émelia's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in June 1870.
Jean, fils, son of Jean Lejeune, married Félicité Clématille or Clémentine, called Clématille, Lepage or Lepaye, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in June 1856. The parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriages did not give the bride's parents' names nor the groom's mother's name. Daughter Marie Lauryna was born in June 1856 but, called Marie Laurenza, died in July, son Edmond Silves was born in June 1857, and Hildevert in August 1860. Were the Jean Lejeunes Acadian?
Jean Baptiste Lejeune married French Creole Froisine Begnaud in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1856. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Onésime Young married Marianne Constance Mudd, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the late 1850s. Was Onésime a descendant of Joseph Lejeune/Young?
Mélasie Young married Jules Broussard, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, by the late 1850s. Was Mélasie an Acadian Young?
Adélaïde Lejeune married French Creole Cyprie, probably Cyprien, Lacombe in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1857. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Louisa Young married cousin Onésime Young in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1857. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Célestine Young married Lucien McGee in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1857. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Amelia Lejeune married Valérien Diaville in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1858. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
André Young married Anglo American Uranie Smith, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the early 1860s.
Paulin Lejeune died near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in March 1861, age 13 or 14. The priest who recorded his burial did not give Paulin's parents' names.
Louis Lejeune married Amelia or Émelia Trahan in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish May 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June. Neither the parish clerk nor the priest who recorded the marriage gave the couple's parents' names. Daughter Alexia was born near Grand Coteau in April 1862.
Jean Baptiste Sébastien Young married Céleste Fontenot, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph was born in St. Landry Parish in July 1862.
Ambroise Lejeune married "Mrs. Félonise McGee," widow of Louis Miller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1863. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Élodie Young married François Cyprien Fontenot in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1863. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Don Louis Young married Marie McGee at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1864. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son Lasty Eugène was born near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in September 1864.
Aureline Lejeune died at age 23 near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1864. The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a husband.
Ambroise Lejeune married Élodie Roy, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Marie Aurore was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1865.
Clément Young, perhaps an Acadian Lejeune, married Clara Gall in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in November 1865. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Louisa Lejeune married Louis Bellard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1866. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Amelie Manuel, daughter of Manuel Young and Caroline Frugé, married Valmont, son of Valcourt Gath, probably Gatt, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1866. Strangely, Manuel, also called Emmanuel, son of Denis Young and Meline Dixon, married Caroline, daughter of French Creole Lasty Frugé, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in November. Judging by the marriage of their daughter in June 1866, Manuel and Caroline had been "married" for decades. Was Manuel an Acadian Young?
Caroline Lejeune married Thomas A. Baley, perhaps Bailey, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1866. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Johana Young married Jules Aguillard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1866. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Johana an Acadian Young?
A succession for Joseph Young was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1867. Was Joseph an Acadian Young? If so, which one?
Susan Lejeune married Lewis Evariste in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1867. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Fannie Young married John P. Gurnett in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1867. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Fannie an Acadian Young?
Annette Young married William Smith in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1868. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Annette an Acadian Young?
Blaize, probably Blaise, Lejeune married Marie Mélanie Matte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1868. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Joseph Young married Elizabeth Rougeau or Rougeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1868. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son Osmen was born near Eunice in January 1870. Was Joseph an Acadian Young?
Mary Young married Victor Esidoie in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Mary an Acadian Young?
Marie M. Young married Jarvais Doucet in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Marie an Acadian Young?
Eliza Lejeune married Jean Matte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Amos Lejeune married Ophililia Chatman, place and date unrecorded. Their son Lucien was born near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, in September 1869.
Alexandre, son of Louis Lejeune and Henriette Cunningham, married Louisiana, daughter of John Smith, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1869, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December. Were Louis and Alexandre Acadian Lejeunes?
Asida or Elizida Odilia Lejeune married Joseph Diaville in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1870. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Edmond Young married Madeleine Smith in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1870. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Edmond an Acadian Young?
Irma Lejeune married Jean Baptiste Martin in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1870. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Don Louis Young married Marie McGee, place and date unrecorded. Their son John was born near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, in September 1870. Was Don Louis an Acadian Young?
Alfred Lejeune married Marcile, Marcila, or Marcella Blum at the Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1870. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Amelie Lejeune married Narcisse Cormier in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1870. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
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A Lejeune whose antecedents are difficult to determine produced a vigorous family line in St. Landry Parish:
Descendants of Jean LEJEUNE (?-; Pierre dit Briard?)
Jean, also called Blaise, Lejeune married Emena, Emma, Armina, or Aimée, also called Divine and Anne, Roy, probably French Canadian, not Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1833, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1843; both the parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their daughters married into the Aguillard family, and perhaps into the Chiastor family as well. Jean, père's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in March 1853.
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Oldest son Jean, fils, born in St. Landry Parish in August 1835, married Félicité Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of French Creoles Léon Lepage and Eulalie Vigé, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1856. Their son Edmond Silves was born in St. Landry Parish in June 1857, and Hildevert in August 1860. Jean, fils remarried to Irma, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Pitre and his Creole wife Catherine Vigé and widow of Antoine Ledoux and Elisha McDaniel, at the Opelousas church in December 1866. Their son Christoval Pulcherie was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1867.
2
Ambroise, born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in October 1843, may have married Felonise McGee, widow of Louis Miller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1863, or he may have married Élodie Roy during the early 1860s. Ambroise may have remarried to Anglo American Ophilia Chapman in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1866.
3
Edmond was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in March 1845.
4
Youngest son Philemon, born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in March 1848, married Susanne or Susanna, daughter of French Canadian Julien Royer or Maillard and his Acadian wife Susanne Trahan, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1866 (in which the clerk called the bride a Maillard), and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1867 (in which the priest called the bride a Royer).
LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS
Most of the Acadian Lejeunes who came to Louisiana arrived 16 years after the siblings from Maryland reached the colony. Five families, one led by a widow, and a Lejeune wife--17 members of the family in all--came to Louisiana from France on four of the Seven Ships of 1785. Some of them chose to settle on the river, creating another center of family settlement:
Eustache Lejeune, age 53, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from Paimboeuf, France, in July. With him were second wife Jeanne-Pérrine Gicquel, a Frenchwoman, age 42, three children--Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine, age 23; Servan-Mathurin, age 15; and François-Marie, age 13--and Pélagie-Marie Gautrot, his 15-year-old niece, daughter of his sister Anne. They followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge. Eustache and Jeanne had no more children in Louisiana. Their daughter married into the Babin family and died at Baton Rouge in the late 1780s, in her late 20s. Son Servan-Mathurin moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche during the late 1790s. Niece Pélagie-Marie moved to the western prairies, where she married a Trahan who had emigrated to the colony from Maryland.
Eustache's oldest son Jean-Baptiste, age 25, crossed on Le Bon Papa, with wife Marie-Geneviève Doiron, age 19. They followed his family to Manchac, where their children were born.
Grégoire Lejeune, age 48, Eustache's brother, crossed on Le Bon Papa with second wife Hélène Dumont, age 38, three children--Marie-Josèphe, age 14; Grégoire-Alexis, age 4; and Julien, age 2--and niece Marie-Geneviève Gautrot, age 19, Pélagie-Marie's sister. They also went to Manchac. They had another daughter but no more sons in Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Longuépée and Trahan families. Daughter Marie-Josèphe died near Baton Rouge in January 1824, age 53. Niece Marie-Geneviève remained on the river. Grégoire died near Baton Rouge in July 1826; the priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire was age 91 when he died, but he was probably closer to 89.
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Eustache and Grégoire's sister Félicité, age 45, crossed with husband Ambroise Hébert, age 54; a 16-year-old daughter; and niece Anne-Angelique Gautrot, age 20, Pélagie-Marie and Marie-Geneviève's sister, on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December. They chose to go to Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, an Isleño community on the river below the city, with another Acadian family from their ship. Félicité remarried to French Creole Jean-Baptiste Salier at either San Bernardo or New Orleans and died in the city in September 1792, in her mid-50s.
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Most of the Lejeunes who went to the Manchac/Baton Rouge area settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish:
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE (1760-1854; Pierre dit Briard, Pierre dit Briard, fils, Jean)
Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, eldest son of Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, born at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, in April 1760, followed his parents to the Poitou region in the early 1770s and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in November 1775. Baptiste married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Séverin Doiron and Geneviève LeBlanc, in France in the early 1780s. Still childless, they sailed with his family to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to the Baton Rouge area, where their children were born. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their daughters married into the Aillet, Babin, and Templet families. Baptiste died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1854, age 94, probably a widower. Four of his five sons created families of their own and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.
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Oldest son Mathurin, born probably near Baton Rouge in December 1792 and baptized at St.-Gabriel the following August, married cousin Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Lejeune, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1811. Their son Célestin Valentin was born near Baton Rouge in December 1813, and Eugène in March 1816. Their daughters married into the Doiron and Thibodeaux families. Mathurin died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1855, age 63.
Célestin died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1847, age 33. He may not have married.
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Zénon, born near Baton Rouge in June 1794, married Élisabeth, called Lise, Elise, and Elida, daughter of Isleño André Martin and his Acadian wife Marie Landry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1824. Their son Alfred was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1828, Charles in January 1833, Ursin Privat or Privat Ursin in August 1835, Théodore in January 1838, and Joseph Théogène in August 1842. Their daughter married into the Foret family. Zénon died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1847; the priest who recorded the burial said that Zénon died at "age 47 years"; he was 53.
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Alfred married cousin Élisabeth, called Élise and Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Foret and Arthémise Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1852; Élise's brother Adonis married Alfred's sister Alida. Alfred and Élise's son Jean Anatole was born near Brusly in July 1855, and Charles le jeune in June 1861.
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Privat Ursin married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy and Eugènie Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1856. Their son Joseph Numa was born near Brusly in January 1857.
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Charles died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1856, age 23. He did not marry.
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Jean-Baptiste, fils, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 1, in May 1800, married, in his late 30s, Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadians Landry Allain and Rosalie Templet, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1838. Their son Jean Célestin was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1841. Their daughter married into the Bourg and Hébert families.
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Eusèbe, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 10 months, in December 1801, may have died young.
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Youngest son Séverin, also called Zéphirin, born near Baton Rouge in July 1808, married Séraphine, daughter of Thomas Aillet and Julienne Marrionneaux of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1830. Their son Donatien was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in July 1832, Théodule near Brusly in March 1841, Joseph Théophile in September 1842, Achille Théodore in May 1848, Séverin Forestal in May 1850 but died at age 3 in August 1853, and Thomas Isidore was born in May 1854. Their daughters married into the Alexandrie, Labauve, and Leray families.
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Donatien married Mirza, daughter of fellow Acadians Landry Landry and Iréné Trahan, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1853. Their son Joseph Arthur was born in Brusly in February 1855, Donatien Otard in January 1857, and François Alphonse in December 1858.
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Théodule married Théodorice, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul LeBlanc and his second wife Letitia Dodd, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1865.
Descendants of François-Marie LEJEUNE (1771-?; Pierre dit Briard, Pierre dit Briard, fils, Jean)
François-Marie, third and youngest son of Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in May 1771, followed his parents to the Poitou region in the early 1770s and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in November 1775. He sailed with his father, stepmother, and siblings to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Marguerite-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lebert and Marguerite Boudreaux, in January 1798. Marguerite-Marie also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their daughters married into the Doiron, Henry, Longuépée, and Richard families.
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Older son Jean-Marie, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 5 months, in June 1800, married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Alexis Lejeune and his Creole wife Marie Tardit, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of relationship in order to marry. Their son Jean Alphonse was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1833, Marcel Ursin in December 1837, and François Théodore in September 1845. Their daughter married into the Sarradet family. Jean Marie died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1846, age 46.
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Jean Adolphe, called Adolphe, may have married fellow Acadian Élodie LeBlanc. Their son Jean was born in Ascension Parish in February 1858.
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Marcel Ursin may have married Françoise Dubroca. Their son Aristide Marcel was born near Baton Rouge in September 1869.
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Younger son Élie-Hyacinthe, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 3 months, in November 1801, married cousin Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore and sometimes Hélène, daughter of Louis Julien Aillet and his Acadian wife Marie Lejeune of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1832; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degree of relationship in order to marry. Their son Joachim Élie was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in April 1833, and Louis in March 1837. Their daughters married into the Babin and Hébert families.
Louis died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1857, age 20. He probably did not marry.
Descendants of Grégoire-Alexis LEJEUNE (1781-?; Pierre dit Briard, Pierre dit Briard, fils, Jean)
Grégoire-Alexis, called Alexis, elder son of Grégoire Lejeune and his second wife Hélène Dumont, born at Chantenay near Nantes, France, in February 1781, sailed to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Marie, also called Marguerite, daughter of Charles Tardit and his Acadian wife Gertrude Anne Hébert, in May 1806. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their daughters married into the Doiron, Henry, Lejeune, and Thibodeaux families. One wonders if either of his sons created a family of his own.
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Older son Marcellin Alexis, born near Baton Rouge in February 1807, may have died young.
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Younger Jean Fergus, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1817, also may have died young.
Descendants of Julien LEJEUNE (1783-; Pierre dit Briard, Pierre dit Briard, fils, Jean)
Julien, younger son of Grégoire Lejeune and his second wife Hélène Dumont, born at Chantenay near Nantes, France, in February 1783, sailed to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Élizabeth, daughter of William Gibson and Marie Smith of Kentucky, in c1808. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their daughter married into the Doiron family.
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Oldest son Alexis died near Baton Rouge 5 days after his birth in April 1809.
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Zénon, born near Baton Rouge in January 1813, married Delphine, also called Elvina, Delvina, and Telvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigre and Marie Landry of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1834. Their son Théodule Zénon was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in December 1835, Valière Euchadis in October 1842 but died at age 11 in October 1853, Forestin or Forestal, called Forestal, was born in January 1845, and Edgard near Brusly in February 1847.
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Forestal married cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Delvina Landry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1868.
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Edgard married cousin Alphonsine, daughter of Louis Lavigne and his Acadian wife Adeline Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1869.
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Paul Léon, called Léon and also Élie, baptized at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, age 13 months, in May 1820, married Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Leger Daigre and Modeste Trahan of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1843. Their son Jean Baptiste Abraham was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1849, Joseph Oscar in August 1851, Numa Alcide in May 1854, and Jean Baptiste in March 1858. Their daughter married into the Serrett family.
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Ursin Amand, also called Victorin and Zénon, born near Baton Rouge in December 1824, married fellow Acadian Rosalie Trahan probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in the early 1840s. Their son Alphonse was born probably near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1845, Michel Arthur in April 1851, Julien Albert in July 1858, and Lucien in November 1860. Their daughter married into the Lemoine family.
Alphonse married first cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élien Doiron and Hélène Lejeune, his uncle and aunt, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1867.
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Youngest son Eugène, born near Baton Rouge in August 1827, married Joséphine, daughter of Augustin Seguin and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Longuépée, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1858. Their son Joseph Anatole was born near Brusly in December 1860.
Other LEJEUNEs on the River
Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Lejeunes on the river with known Acadian lines of the family there:
Thosin Lejeune married Florestine Templet, place and date unrecorded. Their son Derosin was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, age unrecorded, in March 1840.
Charles Lejeune married Marie Espinard, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Solange Williamine was born near Baton Rouge in January 1845.
Victorin, also called Zénon, Lejeune married Rosalie Trahan, place and date unrecorded. Son Alphonse was born in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1845, daughter Marie Rose near Brusly in March 1849, son Michel Arthur in April 1851, daughter Émelie Arthémise in July 1853, and Célestin, probably Célestine, Louisa in January 1856.
Léon Lejeune married Louise Trahan, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Baton Rouge by the late 1840s.
Élie Lejeune died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1851, age 41. The priest who recorded the burial did not give Élie's parents' names or mention a wife.
Pauline Lejeune died near Brusly in January 1866. The priest who recorded the burial, true to form, did not give the girl's parents' names or her age at the time of her passing.
Omère Lejeune died near Brusly in February 1866, age 3. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give any parents' names.
Nilda Lejeune died near Brusly in July 1866, age 6. The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names.
Marcel Lejeune married Françoise Duroca, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Marie was born near Baton Rouge in December 1867, and son Aristide Marcel in September 1869.
LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS
Some of the Lejeunes who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche:
Jean Lejeune, age 29, crossed aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785. With him was wife Félicité Boudrot, age 31. They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.
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Anastasie Levron, age 49, widow of Amand Lejeune and Jean's mother, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785. With her were six more of her children--Joseph, age 22; Marie-Rose, age 18; Marie-Marguerite, age 16; Alexis-Simon, age 12; Anne-Adélaïde, age 6; and Rosalie, age 2. Her daughters married into the Chiasson, Menou or Menous, and Trahan families. Daughter Marie Rose, a widow, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1851; the Thibodaux priest who recorded her burial said that Marie Rose died "at age 85 yrs."; she was 83; a "petition for inventory" in her name was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following November.
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Two of the Lejeunes from France created a third center of family settlement on Bayou Lafourche:
Jean LEJEUNE (c1756-1824; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard dit Labrière?, Paul dit Briard?)
Jean, eldest son of Amand Lejeune and Anastasie Levron, born at Liverpool, England, in c1756, followed his family to France in 1763. Still a child, he participated with his parents in a settlement scheme in the Poitou region in the early 1770s and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in March 1776. He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Félix Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, in November 1782. They sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1824, in his late 60s.
Descendants of Joseph LEJEUNE (c1763-1825; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard dit Labrière?, Paul dit Briard?)
Joseph, second son of Amand Lejeune and Anastasie Levron, born at Liverpool, England, in c1763, followed his parents to France later that year. He followed his family to the Poitou region during the early 1770s and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in March 1776. Still a bachelor, he followed his parents and siblings to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and married fellow passenger Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Landry and Cécile Chênet dit La Garenne, at New Orleans in November 1785 soon after they reached the colony. They followed his widowed mother and siblings to upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Daigle and Levron families. Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Lebert and Madeleine Lapierre and widow of Pierre-Janvier Guidry, at Assumption on September 1798. Marie-Josèphe had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships. A succession had been filed in Joseph's name at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in August 1798. He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1825, in his early 60s.
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Oldest son Jean-Joseph, by his father's first wife, baptized at Lafourche, age unrecorded, in February 1788, may have died young.
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Alexis-Joseph, also called Alexis-Simon, from his father's first wife, born at Lafourche in April 1791, married Marie Rosalie or Marie Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Pierre dit Alequin Thibodeaux and Marie Rose Damour dit Louvière, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1816. Their son Célestin Alexis was born in Assumption Parish in March 1818, Auguste or Augustin, called Gustin, in February or June 1823, Joseph Wilfride in August 1827, and Jean Louis in August 1832. Their daughters married into the Bergeron and Schulanberg or Schmlenbury families. Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1833; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Alexis was age 46 when he died, but he was 42; his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following August, and a petition for family meeting was filed there in April 1848.
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Augustin married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of Manuel Garci, Garcie, Garcy, or Garcia and his Acadian wife Raine Bourque, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1844. Their son Jean Taylor Adam was baptized at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, age 10 days, in May 1849 but died at age 3 in May 1852, and Joseph Alexis was born in January 1854.
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Célestin, at age 37, while a resident of Thibodaux, married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Blanchard and Anaïs Bernard of St. James Parish and widow of Pierre Michel, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1855.
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Youngest son Ambroise-André, by his father's first wife, married Justine Annette, also called Augustine, daughter of Antoine Ledet and Marguerite Vilique, at the Plattenville church in August 1818. Their son Joseph Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste, was born in Assumption Parish in February 1819 but died at age 11 1/2 in August 1830, and Eugène was born in January 1822. Their daughter married into the Roustan family. Ambroise died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1822. Did his line, except for its blood, survive?
Descendants of Alexis-Simon LEJEUNE (1773-1835; Pierre dit Briard, Martin dit Briard dit Labrière?, Paul dit Briard?)
Alexis-Simon, third and youngest son of Amand Lejeune and Anastasie Levron, born at St.-Martin des Champs, Morlaix, France, in March 1773, was taken to Poitou soon after his birth and retreated with his family to the port city of Nantes in March 1776. He crossed with them to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Françoise-Barbe, called Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Trahan and his first wife Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc and sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Assumption in January 1794. Barbe, also a native or Morlaix, had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships. They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish. Their daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, Molaison, Pontiff, and Thibodeaux families. Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1835, age 62; his successions were filed at the Thibodauxville and Houma courthouses in December 1835 and September 1836, so he may have owned property in Terrebonne as well as Lafourche Interior Parish.
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Oldest son Pierre-Amand, -Laman, or -Lamant, born at Assumption in January 1797, married Marie Clémence or Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Martin LeBlanc and Marie Céleste Pitre, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1826. Their son Charles Alexis, called Alexis, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1833, Joseph Cyprien in October 1840, Joachim Elmond in November 1842, and Bierrek in September 1853. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Estivenne or Estivens, Lamoureux (Foreign French, not Acadian), Lapeyrouse, and Pitre families. An interdiction for insanity, filed against Pierre Amand in Terrebonne Parish in August 1837, was "cancelled & declared void" in October 1838.
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Alexis married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Bourgeois and Mélasie Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1861. Their son Pierre Lovinci was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1865.
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Joseph Cyprien may have married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Crejustin Martin and his Creole wife Modeste Lecomte, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1863 (the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's parents' names). Their son Joseph Amédée was born near Raceland in February 1864 but died the following January, Paul Alcide was born in March 1868, and Michel Adélard in May 1870.
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Antoine-Marcellus, called Marcellus, born at Ascension in March 1799, married Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bernard and Justine Arceneaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1835. Their son Pierre or Joseph Jackson, called Jackson, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1835. Marcellus remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Aucoin and Victoire Arcement, at the Thibodaux church in May 1842. They settled on the bayou near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Aurestile Louis Evariste or Louis Evariste Aurestile was born in October 1843 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1845, and Alexis Emelius, called Emelius, was born in July 1845, 5 days before the death of his older brother Louis. One of his sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.
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Jackson, by his father's first wife, married Aurelie, daughter of German Creole Onésime Bernard and his Acadian wife Rosalie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in November 1856. Their son Norbert Avil was born near Lydia, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in February 1870.
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Emelius, by his father's second wife, married Ophelia Marie, daughter of Lucien Cointment and his Acadian wife Azéline Bernard, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1869. Their son Edgard Antoine was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1869.
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Alexis-Jean-Baptiste, called Jean-Baptiste, born at Assumption in May 1801, married Marie Rose, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian François Doucet and his Creole wife Marie Adélaïde Engilbert, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1823. Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1824 but died 16 days after his birth, Jean Baptiste Sylvain was born in March 1826, and François Alexis posthumously in February 1828. Jean Baptiste, called Maximilien Jean Baptiste by the recording priest, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1827; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded Jean Baptiste's burial said that he was age 30 when he died; he was 26.
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Joseph-Marin, born at Assumption in October 1802, may have died young.
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Joseph Benjamin, born probably in Assumption Parish in c1814, married Marie Louise, called Élise, 18-year-old daughter of Louis Baudoin and Marie Geneviève Himel, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1833. Their son Joseph Alex or Raphaël was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1834 but died at 1 in October 1835. Their daughter married into the Lagarde family. Joseph Benjamin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1838; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 20 when he died, but he probably was closer to 24; his succession was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following month. His line of the family died with him.
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Youngest son Antoine Marcel, born in Assumption Parish in July 1815, may have died young.
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A Lejeune from France who had followed his family to a river settlement joined his cousins on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late 1790s:
Descendants of Servan-Mathurin LEJEUNE (1769-?; Pierre dit Briard, Pierre dit Briard, fils, Jean)
Servan-Mathurin, second son of Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, born at St.-Servan-dur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in July 1769, followed his parents to the Poitou region in the early 1770s and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in November 1775. He sailed with his father, stepmother, and siblings to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Geneviève-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon dit Pierre Pitre and Geneviève Richard, in November 1792. Marguerite had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships. They moved from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1790s. Their daughter married into the Guillot family.
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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born near Baton Rouge in October 1794, married Modeste Théotiste, called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Dugas and Marie Clément, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1821. Their son Jean Cyprien Treville was born in Assumption Parish in September 1825, Jean Baptiste Oville or Clovis, called Clovis, in April 1828, and Jean Baptiste Octave Ernest, called Ernest, in August 1840. They also had a son named Taylor, unless he was Jean Cyprien Treville. Their daughters married into the Burton, LeBlanc, Tabor, and Thibodeaux families.
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Clovis married Eulalie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Bourgeois and Théotiste Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1854. They settled on the bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes. Their son Michel Désiré Ambroise was born in December 1855, Aristide Anatole in May 1857, Camille Arthur Théodore in January 1860, Joseph Robert Augustin in October 1862 but died at age 2 in October 1864, and Cordelius Joseph Arthur was born in July 1868.
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Ernest died in Lafourche Parish in August 1859, age 19. He did not marry.
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Taylor married Charlotte Elvire, called Elvire, daughter of Joseph Walker and Georgina Brou, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869. Their son Henri Ernest was born in Lafourche Parish in July 1870.
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Élie, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 9 months, in May 1797, may have died young.
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Youngest son Michel-Mathurin, also called Joseph-Mathurin, born near Baton Rouge in October 1798 and baptized at Assumption 11 months later, married Rosalie Clémence, also called Marie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Mathurin Hébert and Isabelle Madeleine Guillot and widow of Auguste Pichot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1832. Their son Michel Fulgence was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1832 but died at age 9 months in August 1833, Joseph Marcellin was born in January 1835, Zenon in January 1836 but died at age 9 months the following October, Jean Baptiste Adélard Paulin, called Adélard, was born in June 1838, Ovile Forestile Evariste in November 1839, Eutope Amédée, called Amadéo, in May 1842, and Henry died at birth in July 1844. Their daughter married into the Granger family at Baton Rouge.
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Adélard died in Lafourche Parish in October 1859, age 21. He did not marry.
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Amadéo married Eveleda or Evellida, daughter of Charles Lepine and Anastasie Nicolas, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1862. Their son Valère was born near Raceland in August 1869.
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Other LEJEUNEs in the Lafourche Valley
Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Lejeunes in the Bayou Lafourche valley with known Acadian lines of the family there:
Levran Lejeune's succession inventory was filed at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in February 1806.
A "petition for inventory" was filed for Joseph A. Lejeune at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in March 1856. Who was he?
Anastasie Lejeune died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, age 10 months, in June 1870. The priest who recorded the burial did not give the girl's parents' names.
NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA
Lejeune is a common surname in France, so it is no surprise that many Lejeunes of South Louisiana are not Acadians. Members of the family came to the colony as early as the 1720s. Most remained at New Orleans, but some settled on the river above the city at San Gabriel, Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupée, and at Opelousas on the western prairies. The most famous Lejeune born in Louisiana, in fact--Marine General John Archer Lejeune of Pointe Coupee Parish--was descended from a French Canadian born in Brittany (though the general, or adept at war than at genealogoy, claimed to have Acadian roots):
Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Claude Lejeune and Marieanne LeSeur, married Charles, son of François Vincent, at Old Biloxi, present-day Mississippi but then a part of Louisiana colony, in August 1721.
Marguerite, daughter of Claude Lejeune, "cavalryman of the Parish of Castelheim," and Christine Colson, married Antoine-Joseph, son of Pierre DeLatte, at New Orleans in November 1728.
Jean-Jacques Lejeune, native of Hofnich, Diocese of Basel, Switzerland, a sergeant, died at New Orleans in July 1732.
Augustin Lejeune married Louise Piliot, place and date unrecorded. Their son Jean-Baptiste was born at New Orleans in November 1751.
Jean-Baptiste Lejeune of Brittany, France, according to family tradition, came to Pointe Coupée via Canada and Kaskaskia, Illinois, in the late colonial period. One of his descendants was Major General John Archer Lejeune of Pointe Coupee Parish, hero of World War One and thirteenth commandant of the United States Marine Corps, for whom Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is named. In his memoirs, however, published after his retirement, the general hints that his paternal ancestor was an Acadian from Brittany who came to Louisiana via Canada, the Great Lakes, and Illinois after the French and Indian War. This researcher, however, has not been able to establish Jean Baptiste's connection with any of the Acadian Lejeunes who ended up in Brittany and returned to North America.
Michel Lejeune died a widower at Pointe Coupée in March 1788, age 60. One wonders if he was a kinsman of the other Michel Lejeune at Pointe Coupée.
Henri Lejeune died near St.-Gabriel in February 1795. The priest who recorded the burial did not list Henri's parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death.
Antoine Lejeune married Marguerite Dulat, place and date unrecorded. Their daughter Marie married Anglo Creole Creid, son of Nathaniel West of North Carolina, at Baton Rouge in April 1800.
David Lejeune lived at Bayou Sara, where his wife, Anne Lejeune, died in April 1803, age 50. Were they Pointe Coupee Lejeunes?
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One of the most prolific Lejeune families in South Louisiana was founded during the middle colonial period by a former resident of Illinois who settled at Pointe Coupée. Typical of the settlers there, few, if any, of his descendants married Acadians. They were especially fond of members of the Sicard family:
Descendants of Michel LEJEUNE (?-?)
Michel Lejeune married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Enet or Hennette perhaps at Ste.-Anne, Illinois, and settled at False River, Pointe Coupée. Their daughters married into the Bélanger, Chutz, Gueho dit La Jennese, Janis, and Picard families. Michel died probably at his home at False River in March 1766; the priest who recorded the burial did not give Michel's age at the time of his death. Most, if not all, of his descendants are from his oldest son, Michel, fils. During the early antebellum period, some of them moved down to the Baton Rouge area and out into the St. Landry prairies, but most of them remained in Pointe Coupée.
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Michel, fils, born in either Illinois or Pointe Coupée in c1740, married Catherine, daughter of French Creole Jean-Baptiste Barras, at Pointe-Coupée in July 1770. Their son Michel III was born at Pointe Coupée in April 1771, Joseph in October 1772, Hubert was baptized at Pointe Coupée, age 2 months, in March 1783, Antoine was born in October 1789, Jean in May 1795, and Vital in c1817. Their daughters married into the Gremillion, Langlois, Methode, and Sicard families. Michel, fils died in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1826, age 86.
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Michel III married Émelie, daughter of Joseph Labrie, at Pointe Coupée in August 1793, the same day his younger brother Joseph married. Michel III and Émelie's infant son, name unrecorded, died at Pointe Coupée in October 1796, Levere was baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in April 1797, Octave was born in January 1801, a son, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1801, a son, name unrecorded, died the day of his birth in July 1803, and Bruno, a twin, was baptized at age 11 months in May 1805. Michel III remarried to Barbe, daughter of French Creole Guillaume Guérin, at Baton Rouge in March 1806. Their son Paulin or Napoléon, also called Léon, was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in June 1813. They also had a son named Desolive. Their daughter married into the Porche family. Michel III died in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1826, age 55.
Bruno, by his father's first wife, perhaps also called Séverin, may have married French Creole Odile Picard in a civil ceremony in Pointe Coupee Parish in the early 1820s. The Philorin Lejeune who died in Pointe Coupee Parish, age 3, in October 1824, may have been their son. Their daughters married into the Henderson and Labauve families, and perhaps into the Lejeune (French Creole, not Acadian) family as well. Bruno died in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1859, age 55.
Octave, by his father's first wife, married cousin Augustine, daughter of French Creole Denys Lemoine and widow of Joseph Lejeune, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1824; they had to secure a dispensation for the second degree of ____ in order to marry. Octave died in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1826, age 25. His family line probably died with him.
Napoléon, by his father's second wife, married cousin Marie Aonide, called Aonide, Arnide, Oneide, Onilde, and Oneil, daughter of Jean Baptiste Sicard and Eulalie Lejeune, at the Pointe Coupee church in October 1835. Their son Jean Paul was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1840, François Émile, called Émile, in March 1842 but died at age 5 in June 1847, François Joseph was born in October 1843, François Alfred in February 1845, Éloi Uranus in December 1847, and Michel Thomas in December 1849. Napoléon died "at the 'Island,'" Pointe Coupee Parish, in February 1852, age 39 (the recording priest said 40).
François Joseph may have married French Creole Clara Olinde and settled near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, by the early 1860s.
Jean Paul, called John, married cousin Mélanie, daughter of French Creole Georgette Sicard, also Chutz, and widow of ____, at the Lakeland church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. John remarried to Lidia or Lydia, daughter of Rosémond Sicard, at the Lakeland church in February 1867.
Desolive, by his father's second wife, married cousin Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Sicard, at the bride's home in Pointe Coupee Parish in July 1839. Their son François had been born in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1838, Jean Baptiste was born in early 1841 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1842, Léon was born in March 1843, Michel Paul, called Paul, in December 1846 but died at age 7 months in July 1847, Joseph A. Emmanuel was born in October 1853, and Étienne Olivier in December 1857.
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Joseph married Louise, daughter of French Creole Antoine Gosserand, at Pointe Coupée in August 1793, the same day his older brother Michel III married. Joseph and Louise's son Joseph, fils was born at Pointe Coupée in February 1795, and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in August 1802. Their daughters married into the Major and Pain families. Joseph, père remarried to Marie, daughter of French Creole François Legros, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in March 1810. Their son Adolph was baptized at the Pointe Coupee church, age 1 1/2, in March 1810, and Saintville Joseph at age 3 months the same day as brother Adolph. Joseph, père died in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1821; the priest who recorded Joseph's burial said that he was age 55. He was 48.
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Hubert married Clarisse, also called Annette, daughter of French Creole J. B. Saison, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1804. Their son Hubert, fils was baptized at Pointe Coupee, age 2 months, in May 1805, and Octave in c1817. They also had sons named Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, and Dorsineau. Their daughter married a Lejeune cousin. Hubert, père died in Pointe Coupee Parish in May 1822, age 38.
Hubert, fils married cousin Marie Augustine, called Augustine, daughter of French Creole Hubert Perault, at Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in February 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Joseph Anatif was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in September 1838. Their daughter married into the Gauthier family. Hubert, fils died in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1846, age 41.
Octave married Marie Adveline, Eveline, or Edveline, daughter of French Creole Baptiste Neurat, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1832. They settled at Grand Coteau, near some of his Acadian namesakes. Their daughter married into the Chutz family in Pointe Coupee. Octave died near Grand Coteau in February 1848, age 31. Except for its blood, his family line may have died with him.
Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Phelonise Perrine, called Perrine, daughter of French Creole Louis Chenevert, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in November 1833. Their son, name unrecorded, died in Pointe Coupee Parish a day after his birth in September 1837, Louis was born in June 1839, Hubert le jeune in March 1847, Célestin in October 1849, François in June 1856, and Alfred Sydney in August 1861. Their daughters married into the Lacour and Patin families. Baptiste likely remarried to fellow French Creole Marie Félicie, called Félicie, daughter of Ovide Lacour and Azéma LeBlanc, at the Pointe Coupee church in February 1862. Their son Jean Baptiste Marius was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in June 1863, Joseph in April 1865, and Ovide in January 1870.
Hubert le jeune, by his father's first wife, died in Pointe Coupee Parish in August 1868, age 21, and probably did not marry.
Célestin, by his father's first wife, married Marie Laura, daughter of Charles F. Mix, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in February 1870.
Dorsineau married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Louis Viales, Vialese, or Vialez, at the Pointe Coupee church in February 1836. Their son, name unrecorded, died in Pointe Coupee Parish 20 days after his birth in March 1838, Simon Donatien, called Donat, was born in May 1839 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1841, Arthur born in June 1844, Jacques in September 1847, Dorsin died at age 6 months in August 1849, and Villeore born in December 1852 but, called Vileor, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1855.
Arthur married Alosia Neff at the Lakeland church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in June 1867. Their son Prosper Evariste died near Lakeland, age 17 months, in September 1868, François Evariste was born in April 1868, and Jean Maurille in September 1870.
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Antoine married Françoise, daughter of French Creole Louis Sicard, at the Pointe Coupee church in January 1809. Their son Antoine, fils was born near Baton Rouge in November 1816. They also had a son named Ovide. Their daughter married into the Barras family. Antoine, père died in Pointe Coupee Parish in August 1820; the priest who recorded the burial said that Antoine was age 20 when he died; he was 30.
Antoine, fils married cousin Marie Émilie, called Émilie, Amelie, Ofilia, and Olivia, daughter of Séverin Lejeune and widow of Bruno Lejeune, at the Pointe Coupee church in June 1836. Their son Jean Alexandre, called Alexandre, was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in December 1838, Ambroise in April 1842 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1843, and Théoville was baptized at the Pointe Coupee church, age 6 months, in June 1854. Their daughter married into the Philippe family.
Alexandre married Estelle, daughter of Guillaume Prieur, at the Pointe Coupee church in May 1859. Their son Denis died near Lakeland, age 1 1/2, in July 1862, François Alexandre was born in May 1863, and Antoine Sébastien in December 1868.
Ovide married double cousin Marie Euphrosine or Euphrasie, called Franie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Sicard and Eulalie Lejeune, at the bride's home in Pointe Coupee Parish in June 1839. They settled at False River. Their son Joseph was born in October 1844, Jean Numa was baptized at the Pointe Coupee church, age 1 month, in July 1848 but, called Numa, died at age 2 1/2 in March 1851, and François Ovide, called Ovide, fils, was born in June 1856 but died at age 2 in June 1858. Was Ovide, père the father of U.S. Marine Corps Commandant John Archer Lejeune, who was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1867?
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Vital married Marcelline, also called Françoise, another daughter of Louis Sicard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1817. Their son Marcel was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in c1820, and a child, name unrecorded, died in Pointe Coupee Parish at age 2 months in November 1821. They also had a son named Théodule. Their daughter married into the Neff family. Vital, "res. of L'isle," died in Pointe Coupee Parish in November 1849, age 32.
Marcel "of False River" married cousin Oliva or Olivia, 27-year-old daughter of Hubert Lejeune, père, at the Pointe Coupee church in March 1847. Olivia died near Lakeland in March 1868, age 47. Marcel likely remarried to Cécilia Bello in a civil ceremony probably in Pointe Coupee Parish in 1868 or 1869. Their son Fermin Levegne was born near Lakeland in September 1869.
Théodule married Jeanne, daughter of Siméon Major, at the Pointe Coupee church in September 1850. They settled near Lakeland. Their son Jean Macloux was born in November 1851, and Charles Émile in October 1861.
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Charles, born probably at Pointe-Coupée in c1753, married, at age 45, Félicité, 30-year-old daughter of French Creole Louis Langlois and widow of Pierre-Augustin Porché, at Pointe Coupée in November 1798. Their son Charles, fils was born at Pointe Coupée in September 1801. Their daughters married into the Patin and Porche families. Charles died in Pointe Coupee Parish in March 1825, age 72. His only son died young, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.
Charles, fils died in Pointe Coupee Parish in April 1820, age 18. He did not marry.
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Area church records make it difficult to link some of the Lejeunes at Pointe Coupée with Michel and his wife Madeleine Hennette, but they probably were descendants of the couple:
Pélagie, daughter of Geneviève Lejeune, was born at Pointe Coupée in August 1784. The priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's name.
Nicolas Lejeune married Marguerite Lejeune probably at Pointe Coupée, date unrecorded. Their son Hubert was born at Pointe Coupée in March 1785.
Marie, daughter of Marie-Françoise Lejeune, was born at Pointe Coupée in April 1786. The priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's name.
Marie-Françoise Lejeune, widow of ____ Pourciau, died at Pointe Coupee in January 1806, age 70. Was she an older daughter of the original Michel Lejeune?
Séverin Lejeune died in Pointe Coupee Parish in November 1823, age 24. The priest who recorded the burial did not give Séverin's parents' names or mention a wife.
Pierre Lejeune died in Pointe Coupee Parish in April 1843, age 3 months. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.
Octave Lejeune revalidated his marriage to Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, daughter of Béloni Major, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in September 1845; the priest who recorded the revalidation did not give Octave's parents' names. Their son Alexandre married first cousin Virginie, daughter of Veronic Major, at the Pointe Coupee church in January 1866. Alexandre and Virginie's son Georges Alexandre, fils was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1867 but died the following October. Alexandre, père remarried to Evelina, daughter of Jules Fabre, at the Pointe Coupee church in November 1868. Son Antoine Sébastien was born near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in December 1868, a month after his parents' marriage.
Desolive Lejeune married Constance Pourciau, place and date unrecorded. Their son Victorin was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in March 1847. Daughter Rosela dite Rosa married into the Guérin (French Creole, not Acadian) family. Son Victorin married Marie Alexandrine, daughter of Auguste Saizan, at the Lakeland church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in December 1869.
Power Lejeune married Séverine Leduf, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph Théophile was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1849.
Desolive Lejeune married Thérèse Chenevert, place and date unrecorded. Their son Jean Baptiste died in Pointe Coupee Parish, age 2, in February 1852, and Joseph was born in September 1852. Their daughter married into the Bouanchaud family.
Eulalie Lejeune married Eustache Bueche at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in August 1857. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Antoine Lejeune married Marie Louise, called Louise, Prieur, place and date unrecorded. Their son François Antoine was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1859.
Charles Lejeune married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, Swindler, place and date unrecorded. He died near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in June 1862, age 30. Was his death war-related?
Hippolyte Lejeune died near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in October 1865, age 75. The priest who recorded the burial did not give Hippolyte's parents' names or mention a wife.
Octavie Lejeune married Charles Joffrion at the Lakeland church in November 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Paul Lejeune married Palmyre ____, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Marie Alisia was born near Lakeland in July 1870.
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During the antebellum period, a few more non-Acadian Lejeunes settled in Pointe Coupee, in other river communities, or on the western prairies:
David, son of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune and Marian David of Becardia, France, married Constance, daughter of French Creole Charles Beauvais, at Pointe Coupee in May 1804.
Catherine, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and widow of Maurice Olivier, married Benjamin, son of Jacob Kidder of London, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1810.
Michel Lejeune, a "Middle-age Canadian," age unrecorded, died at Baton Rouge in January 1845. One wonders how long he had been living there and if his Canadian roots also were Acadian.
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Some Lejeunes of the antebellum period were products of the South's peculiar institution, in which Acadian Lejeunes participated:
Hélène, "slave of Lejune," gave birth to daughter Sidalise near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in November 1851.
CONCLUSION
Lejeunes settled early in Acadia, but they were relative late-comers to Louisiana. The first to arrive were five siblings following their maternal uncle from Maryland aboard the British vessel Britannia in 1769--the last group of Acadian exiles to go to Louisiana from that British colony. Two of the siblings, brothers Blaise and Joseph, lived at Ascension on the river for a while, where Blaise married. During the 1770s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where they settled along upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in present-day Acadia Parish. Both brothers raised large families. Typical of Acadians in the Opelousas area, many of their descendants married non-Acadians, especially German Creoles and Anglo Americans. Meanwhile, 17 of their Lejeune cousins came to Louisiana from France in 1785. None of these late comers crossed the Atchafalaya Basin. They settled, instead, in what became West Baton Rouge Parish or on upper Bayou Lafourche. During the antebellum period, Acadian Lejeunes could be found in three distinct centers of family settlement--the earliest and largest one on the western prairies, especially around Opelousas, Church Point, and Ville Platte in present-day St. Landry, Acadia, and Evangeline parishes; another in West Baton Rouge Parish; and a third along the upper and middle stretches of Bayou Lafourche. At least one Bayou Lafourche Lejeune moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.
Non-Acadian Lejeunes came to the colony decades before their Acadian namesakes arrived. Most remained at New Orleans, but one family from the Illinois country settled at Pointe Coupée by the 1750s. Michel Lejeune and his descendants, typical of non-Acadians at Pointe Coupée, tended to marry their own kind. A few of Michel's grandsons moved downriver to the Baton Rouge area, and one settled in St. Landry Parish near his Acadian namesakes, but most of his many descendants remained in Pointe Coupee Parish. Descendant of another Lejeune from Illinois who settled in Pointe Coupee was Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, hero of World War I and commandant of the United States Marine Corps, for whom Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is named.
During the early antebellum period, Acadian Joseph Lejeune of St. Landry Parish, who married a Hayes from the Carolinas, anglicized his surname to Young, adding yet another complexity to the family's genealogy. These Acadian Youngs should not be confused with their Anglo-American namesakes who settled in South Louisiana during the antebellum period. ...
The family's name also is spelled Lejeunne, Lejuine, Lejune. The Creole and French-Canadian Lejeunes, and perhaps the Acadian members of the family who settled on the river and along the Lafourche, tend to pronounce their surname luh-JHOON. The Acadian Lejeunes on the prairies, however, prefer to be called luh-JHERN or luh-JHAN. [For the Acadian family's Louisiana "begats," see Book Ten]
Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 662-64, 1415-19, 1504-05, 2245, 2547-50; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 104; Brasseaux, "'Grand Texas,'" 274; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Bunnell, French & Native North American Marriages, 70-71; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:27, 46, 48, 50-51, 112, 117-18, 160-61; Guidry, "Guédrys Exiled to North Carolina"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 297-98; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152-53, 279, 296; Kinnaird, "The Revolutionary Period, 1765-81," 140-42.; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 4, 5; Lejeune, Reminiscenses of a Marine, 15-17; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 13, 14, 15, 22; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 72, 103, 106, 135, 136, 139, 159; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 70-71; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 40, 124-28; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 582-90; Simon, John Archer Lejeune, 11; White, DGFA-1, 1048-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 223-28; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 98-99, 186.
Settlement Abbreviations
(present-day civil parishes that existed in 1861 are in parentheses; hyperlinks on the
abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):
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Ascension |
Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne) |
Pointe Coupée |
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Assumption |
Natchitoches (Natchitoches) |
SB | San Bernardo (St. Bernard) | ||
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Attakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion) |
San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia) |
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville) |
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Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana) |
New Orleans (Orleans) |
St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James) |
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Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge) |
Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu) |
For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.
The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community.
| Name | Arrived | Settled | Profile |
| Alexis-Simon LEJEUNE 01 | Nov 1785 | Asp, Lf | born 25 Mar 1773, baptized next day, St.-Martin des Champs, Morlaix, France; son of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; brother of Anne-Adélaïde, Jean, Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Rose, & Rosalie; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 13[sic], traveled with widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1788, right bank, age 12[sic], with widowed mother & sisters; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, age 18, with widowed mother & sisters; married, age 20, Françoise-Barbe, called Barbe, of Morlaix, daughter of Marin TRAHAN & his first wife Marie-Madeleine LEBLANC, & sister of sister Anne-Adélaïde's husband Jean-Marie, 8 Jan 1794, Assumption, now Plattenville; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Alexos, age 25[sic], with wife Barbara age 20, & daughter [Adélaïde-]Constancia age 1, next to brother-in-law Juan Bautista TRAHAN; in Valenzuela census, 1797, age 26[sic], with wife Barbe age 21, & daughter Constance age 2, next to brother-in-law Jean-Baptiste TRAHAM; in Valenzuela census, 1798, age 27[sic], with wife Élisabet[sic] age 28, son Hemon age 3, 4/50 arpents, 0 slaves, next to brother Joseph; died Lafourche Interior Parish 29 or 30 Nov 1835, age 62; petition for succession inventory dated 3 Dec 1835, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse; succession release dated 16 Sep 1836, Terrebonne Parish courthouse |
| Anne-Adélaïde LEJEUNE 02 | Nov 1785 | Asp, Lf | baptized 6 Oct 1779, St.-Martin de Chantenay, Nantes, France; called Adélaïde; daughter of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; sister of Alexis-Simon, Jean, Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Rose, & Rosalie; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 6, traveled with widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1788, right bank, called Adélaïde, age 6[sic], with widowed mother & siblings; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, called Adélaïde, age 10[sic], with widowed mother & siblings; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Adélaïdes, age 16, with widowed mother, [nephew?] Pedro HÉBERT, & sister Margarita; in Valenzuela census, 1797, called Adélaïde, "her granddaughter," age 17, with widowed mother, & [nephew?] Pedro "her son" no surname given; married, age 20, Jean-Joseph-Marie, son of Marin TRAHAN & his first wife Marie-Madeleine LEBLANC, & the brother of brother Alexis's wife Françoise-Marie-Barbe, 28 Jan 1799, Assumption, now Plattenville; died Lafourche Interior Parish c1827, age 48; succession inventory dated 5 Apr 1827, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse |
| Blaise LEJEUNE 03 | Oct 1769 | Natc, StG, Asc, Op | born c1750, probably Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale; son of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN; brother of Jean-Baptiste, fils, Joseph, Marguerite, & Nanette, nephew of Honoré TRAHAN; at Baie-des-Espagnols Apr 1752, age 2; moved to Lunenburg/Mirliguèche, NS, Oct 1754; imprisoned on Georges Island, Halifax, Sep 1755, exiled to Edenton, NC, Dec 1755, aboard sloop Providence, age 5; moved to MD, c1760; in report on Acadians at Port Tobacco, MD, Jul 1763, orphan with family of Honoré BRAUX; departed Port Tobacco, MD, 5 Jan 1769, aboard English schooner Britannia; lost in the Gulf of Mexico & held by Spanish at La Bahía, TX; arrived Natchitoches Post, LA, 24 Oct 1769, overland from TX, age 19; settled below Bayou Plaquemine, St.-Gabriel District, with other Acadian exiles from the Britannia, Apr 1770; married, age 23, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre BREAUX & Marguerite GAUTREAUX of St.-Gabriel, 3 Nov 1773, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; moved to Opelousas District, settled along bayous Blaise LeJeune & des Cannes, now Acadia & Evangeline parishes; in Opelousas census, 1774, with 1 unnamed child, 0 slaves, 0 cattle, 0 horses & mules, 0 swine; in Opelousas census, 1777, age 27, head of family number 130, with wife Marie-Josèph[e] BRAUX age 30, sons Blaise age 4, Joseph age 1, 0 slaves, 8 cattle, 3 horses, 4 hogs, 0 sheep; in Opelousas census, 1785, called Bse, with 8 unnamed free individuals, 0 slaves; in Opelousas census, 1788, Bellevue, with 3 unnamed males, no woman, 0 slaves, 24 cattle, 7 horses, 8 arpents; on Opelousas militia list, Jul 1789, fusilier; in Opelousas census, 1796, Faquetaic District, with 4 unnamed white males, 3 unnamed white females, & 0 slaves, next to son Blaise, fils; one of the author's maternal ancestors~~ |
| Eustache LEJEUNE 04 | Jul 1785 | BR | born 23 Dec 1732, baptized 27 Sep 1734, Grand-Pré; son of Jean LEJEUNE & Françoise GUIDRY; brother of Félicité & Grégoire; carpenter; at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, Apr 1752, age 20; married, age 23, (1)Marie, daughter of Ignace CARRET & Cécile HENRY, 7 May 1753, Louisbourg; deported from Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, age 26; at St.-Suliac, France, 1759-64; at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, 1764-72; married, age 41, (2)Jeanne-Perrine, daughter of Jean GICQUEL & Perrine LE COUET of Plouër-sur-Rance, France, 22 Jun 1773, St.-Servan; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife Anne GIQUET, 3 sons, & 2 daughters; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 52, head of family; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, called Eustaquio LEJENE, with unnamed wife [Jeanne], 2 unnamed children [probably sons Servant-Mathurin & François-Marie], 6 units corn, 0 units rice; on list of inhabitants of Baton Rouge, Nov 1792, called Eustache LEJEUNE |
| Félicité LEJEUNE 05 | Dec 1785 | SB, NO | born c1739, Grand-Pré; daughter of Jean LEJEUNE & Françoise GUIDRY; sister of Eustache & Grégoire; at Baie-des-Espagnois, Île Royale, Apr 1752, age 13; married, age 16, (1)Ambroise, son of Charles HÉBERT & Marguerite DUGAS, probably Île Royale, c1755; deported from Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, age 20; at Ploubalay, France, 1759-60; at Pleslin, France, 1760-72; in Poitou, France, 1774-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with husband, 3 unnamed sons, & 1 unnamed daughter; sailed to LA on La Caroline, age 45; married (2)Jean-Baptiste SALIER, late 1780s or early 1790s, probably New Orleans; died New Orleans 22 Sep 1792, age 55[sic], buried next day |
| François-Marie LEJEUNE 06 | Jul 1785 | BR | born & baptized 20 May 1771, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France; son of Eustache LEJEUNE & his first wife Marie CARRET; brother of Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine, & Servan-Mathurin; at St.-Servan 1771-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 13; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & sibling; married, age 26, Marguerite-Marie, daughter of Pierre LEBERT & Marguerite BOUDREAUX of St.-Malo, France, 16 Jan 1798, Baton Rouge |
| Grégoire LEJEUNE 07 | Jul 1785 | BR | born c1737, Grand-Pré; son of Jean LEJEUNE & Françoise GUIDRY; brother of Eustache & Félicité; at Baie-des-Espagnois, Île Royale, Apr 1752, age 15; deported from Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, 25 Nov 1758 aboard Supply, arrived St.-Malo 9 Mar 1759, age 22; settled near his brother at Châteanneuf, France, where he worked as a sailor; embarked on corsair L'Hercules from St.-Malo 20 Apr 1760, captured by the Royal Navy & held as a prisoner of war in England until early 1763; returned to St.-Malo; married, age 27, (1)Charlotte, daughter of Pierre DES CROUTES & Élisabeth GALISSON, 21 Feb 1764, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France; married, age 30, (2)Hélène, daughter of Joseph DUBOIS dit DUMONT & Marie-Madeleine VECO of Île St.-Jean, 30 Jun 1767, St.-Servan; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife, 2 unnamed sons, 1 unnamed daughter, & 2 unnamed orphans; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 45[sic], head of family; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, called Gregorio LEJOUNE, with unnamed wife [Hélène], 3 unnamed children [sons Grégoire-Alexis & Julien, & daughter Marie-Josèphe], 7 1/2 units corn, 0 units rice; died [buried] Baton Rouge 1 Jul 1826, age 91[sic] |
| Grégoire-Alexis LEJEUNE 08 | Jul 1785 | BR |
baptized 13 Feb 1781, St.-Martin de Chantenay, Nantes, France; called Alexis; son of Grégoire LEJEUNE & his second wife Hélène DUMONT; brother of Julien & Marie-Josèphe; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 4; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & siblings; on list of inhabitants of Baton Rouge, Nov 1792; married, age 25, Marie or Marguerite, daughter of Charles TARDIT & Gertrude-Anne HÉBERT, 15 May 1806, Baton Rouge |
| Jean LEJEUNE 09 | Sep 1785 | Asp, Lf | born c1756, Liverpool, England; son of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; brother of Alexis-Simon, Anne-Adélaïde, Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Rose, & Rosalie; repatriated to France 1763, age 7; at Morlaix, France, 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; sailor; at Chantenay, Nantes, France, 1782; married, age 27, Félicité, daughter of Félix BOUDREAUX & his first wife Marie-Josèphe LEBLANC, 5 Nov 1782, St.-Nicolas, Nantes; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife & no children; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 29, head of family; in Valenzuela census, 1788, right bank, age 32, with wife Félicité age 33, no children, 6 arpents, 18 qts. corn, 5 swine; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, age 32[sic], with wife Félicité age 35, no children, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 8 horned cattle, 2 horses, 3 swine; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Juan, age 40, with wife Félicitas age 43, no children, & [sister-in-law?] Maria BOUDRAUX age 13; in Valenzuela census, 1797, age 41, with wife Félicité age 44, no children, 0 slaves; in Valenzuela census, 1798, age 42, with wife Félicité age 44, no children, his nephew Jean [LEJEUNE?] age 1, & his niece Constance [LEJEUNE?] age 4, 6/50 arpents, 0 slaves; died Lafourche Interior Parish 17 May 1825, age 72[sic] |
| Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE, fils 11 | Oct 1769 | Natc, StG, Op | born c1749, Pigiguit or Île Royale; called Jean; son of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN of Pigiguit; brother of Blaise, Marguerite, Joseph, & Nanette, nephew of Honoré TRAHAN; at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, Apr 1752, called Jean, age 3; moved to Lunenburg/Mirliguèche, NS, Oct 1754; imprisoned on Georges Island, Halifax, Sep 1755; exiled to Edenton, NC, Dec 1755, aboard sloop Providence, age 6; moved to MD, c1760; departed Port Tobacco, MD, 5 Jan 1769, aboard English schooner Britannia; lost in the Gulf of Mexico & held by Spanish at La Bahía, TX; arrived Natchitoches Post, LA, 24 Oct 1769, overland from TX, called Jean Bicente, age 20; settled below Bayou Plaquemine, St.-Gabriel District, with other Acadian exiles from the Britannia, Apr 1770; moved to Avoyelles & then to the Opelousas District; married, age 30, Isabelle OUTRÉ, c1779, Opelousas |
| Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE 10 | Jul 1785 | BR | born & baptized 11 Apr 1760, St.-Suliac, France; son of Eustache LEJEUNE & his first wife Marie CARRET; brother of François-Marie, Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine, & Servan-Mathurin; sailor; at St.-Suliac 1760-64; at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, 1764-72; married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of Séverin DOIRON & Geneviève LEBLANC, early 1780s, France; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 25, head of family; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, called Juan Bta. LEJENE, with unnamed wife [Geneviève], 2 unnamed children, 4 1/2 units corn, 1/4 rice; on list of inhabitants of Baton Rouge, Nov 1792; died West Baton Rouge Parish 10 Apr 1854, age 94 # |
| Joseph LEJEUNE/YOUNG 12 | Oct 1769 | Natc, StG, Atk, Op | born c1756, probably Edenton, NC; son of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN of Pigiguit; brother of Blaise, Jean-Baptiste, fils, Marguerite, & Nanette, nephew of Honoré TRAHAN; moved to MD, c1760; in report of Acadians at Port Tobacco, MD, Jul 1763, called Joseph LE JEUNNE, orphan, with family of his uncle Honoré TRAHAN & his brother orphan Antoine LE JEUNE; departed Port Tobacco, MD, 5 Jan 1769, aboard English schooner Britannia with family of Honoré TRAHAN; lost in the Gulf of Mexico & held by Spanish at La Bahía, TX; arrived Natchitoches Post, LA, 24 Oct 1769, overland from TX, age 13; settled below Bayou Plaquemine, St.-Gabriel District, with other Acadian exiles from the Britannia, Apr 1770; moved to Attakapas District; in Attakapas census, 1777, age 14[sic, probably closer to 21], bachelor, head of "family" number 102, with 0 slaves, 2 cattle, 0 horses, 0 hogs, 0 sheep; moved to Opelousas District, settled on Bayou des Cannes, present-day western Acadia Parish; married, (1)age 26, Perrine dite Patsy, daughter of Gilbert HAYES & Jeanne JACKSON of Carolina, c1782, Opelousas; in Opelousas census, 1785, called LE JEUNE, with 3 unnamed free individuals, & 3 male slaves; on Opelousas militia list, Jul 1789, fusilier; in Opelousas census, 1796, Faquetaic District, with unnamed wife [Patsy], 6 unnamed white males, 3 unnamed white females, 1 male slave, & 1 female slave; anglicized his surname to YOUNG in the early 1800s; separation of community property petition dated 20 Sep 1821, St. Landry Parish courthouse; married, age 66, (2)Marie or Mary, daughter of Michel RITTER & Marie Louise STELLY, & widow of Jean TELLER, 21 May 1822, St. Landry Parish, marriage sanctified 11 Oct 1843, Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish; died "sur Plaquemen," St. Landry Parish, 14 Oct 1847, age 110[sic]; succession dated 16 Oct 1847, St. Landry Parish courthouse |
| Joseph LEJEUNE 13 | Nov 1785 | Asp, Lf | born c1763, Liverpool, England; son of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; brother of Alexis-Simon, Anne-Adélaïde, Jean, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Rose, & Rosalie; repatriated to France 1763, an infant; at Morlaix, France, 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; sailor; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 22, traveled with widowed mother; married, age 22, (1)Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of Germain LANDRY & Cécile CHÊNET dit LA GARENNE, 24 Nov 1785, New Orleans, soon after they reached LA on the same ship; in Valenzuela census, 1788, right bank, age 24, with wife Marie age 19, son Jean-Joseph age 1, 4 arpents next to wife's grandfather François LANDRY, 50 qts. corn, 10 swine; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, age 28, with wife Bonna-Adélaïde age 24, daughter Rosalie age 1, 0 slaves, 3 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 1 horse, 10 swine; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Josef, age 33, with wife Bona age 24, sons Alexos age 6, Andrés age 4, daughters Rosalia age 7, & Maria age 1, next to brother-in-law Pedro MENOU; in Valenzuela census, 1797, age 34, with no wife so probably a widower, sons Alexis age 7, André age 5, daughters Rosalie age 8, & Marie age 2, 0 slaves; in Valenzuela census, 1798, age 36, with no wife, son Ambroise age 5, daughters Rose age 8, Élise age 6, & Marie age 3, 7/50 arpents, 0 slaves, between his brother-in-law Pierre MINOUE & brother Alexis; succession, not post-mortem, dated 14 Aug 1798; married, age 35, (2)Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul LEBERT & Madeleine LAPIERRE, & widow of Pierre-Janvier GUIDRY, 5 Sep 1798, Assumption, now Plattenville; succession record dated 14 Aug 1798; died Lafourche Interior Parish 6 Dec 1825, age 60[sic] |
| Julien LEJEUNE 14 | Jul 1785 | BR | baptized 7 Feb 1783, St.-Martin de Chantenay, Nantes, France; son of Grégoire LEJEUNE & his second wife Hélène DUMONT; brother of Grégoire-Alexis & Marie-Josèphe; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 2; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & siblings; married, age 25, Elizabeth, daughter of William GIBSON & Marie MCKENNA of KY, c1808, probably Baton Rouge; settled West Baton Rouge Parish |
| Marguerite LEJEUNE 15 | Oct 1769 | Natc, StG, Op | born Feb 1752, Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale; daughter of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN; sister of Blaise, Jean-Baptiste, fils, Joseph, & Nanette, niece of Honoré TRAHAN; at Baie-des-Espangnols Apr 1752, age 2 months; moved to Lunenburg/Mirliguèche, NS, Oct 1754; imprisoned on Georges Island, Halifax, Sep 1755; exiled to Edenton, NC, Dec 1755, aboard sloop Providence, age 3; moved to MD, c1760; departed Port Tobacco, MD, 5 Jan 1769 aboard English schooner Britannia; lost in the Gulf of Mexico & held by Spanish at La Bahía, TX; arrived Natchitoches Post, LA, 24 Oct 1769, overland from TX, age 17; married (1)Jacques CROUQUE or CROOK/CROOKS, 1769 or 1770, probably Natchitoches; settled below Bayou Plaquemine, St.-Gabriel District, with other Acadian exiles from the Britannia, Apr 1770; moved to Opelousas District; in Opelousas census, 1777, age 24, with husband Jacques CROUQUE (CROOK, CROOKS?)[sic] age 30, who was head of family number 125, son Jean-Baptiste [CROUQUE] age 1, daughters Marie [CROUQUE] age 7, Théotiste [CROUQUE] age 3, 0 slaves, 6 cattle, 2 horses, 14 hogs, 0 sheep |
| Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine LEJEUNE 17 | Jul 1785 | BR | born & baptized 28 Jan 1762, St.-Suliac, France; called Marie; daughter of Eustache LEJEUNE & his first wife Marie CARRET; sister of François-Marie, Jean-Baptiste, & Servan-Mathurin; at St.-Suliac 1762-64; at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, 1764-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 23; married, age 25, Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire, son of Simon BABIN & his first wife Anastasie THÉRIOT, 9 Jun 1787, probably Baton Rouge; died before Jul 1788, when her husband was listed in the Baton Rouge census without a wife |
| Marie-Josèphe LEJEUNE 16 | Jul 1785 | BR | born & baptized 14 May 1770, Pleurtuit, France; daughter of Grégoire LEJEUNE & his second wife Hélène DUMONT; sister of Grégoire-Alexis & Julien; at Pleurtuit 1770-72; at St.-Énogat, France, 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 14; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & siblings; married, age 17, Jean-Paul, son of Jean TRAHAN & Marguerite CLÉMENT of St.-Malo, France, 31 Mar 1788, probably Baton Rouge; died [buried] Baton Rouge 10 Jan 1824, age 53 |
| Marie-Marguerite LEJEUNE 18 | Nov 1785 | Asp | born & baptized 14 Aug 1769, St.-Martin des Champs, Morlaix, France; called Marguerite; daughter of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; sister of Alexis-Simon, Anne-Adélaïde, Jean, Joseph, Marie-Rose, & Rosalie; at Morlaix 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 16, traveled with widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1788, called Margueritte, right bank, age 16[sic], with widowed mother & siblings; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, called Margrithe, age 20[sic], with widowed mother & siblings; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Margarita, age 25, with widowed mother, ["natural" son] Pedro[-Félix-Ambroise by Ambroise] HÉBERT age 2, & sister Adélaïdes; married, age 28, Joseph-François, son of Jean-Baptiste CHIASSON & his second wife Marguerite-Josèphe DUGAS of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, & widower of Marie SIMONEAUX, 7 Jan 1797, Assumption, now Plattenville; in Valenzuela census, 1797, called Margueritte, no surname given, age 26[sic], with husband, 1 HÉBERT son, & 1 CHIASSON stepson; in Valenzuela census, 1798, called Margueritte, no surname given, age 32[sic], with husband, 1 HÉBERT son, 1 CHIASSON stepson, & brother-in-law Pierre [CHIASSON] |
| Marie-Rose LEJEUNE 20 | Nov 1785 | Asp, Lf | born & baptized 10 Sep 1767, St.-Martin des Champs, Morlaix, France; daughter of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; sister of Alexis-Simon, Anne-Adélaïde, Jean, Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, & Rosalie; at Morlaix 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 18, traveled with widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1788, right bank, age 18[sic], with widowed mother & siblings; in Valenzuela census, 1791, right bank, age 22, with widowed mother & siblings; married, age 24, Pierre of St.-Servan, France, son of Alain MENOU/MENOUS & Marie GIROIR, 7 Feb 1791, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Valenzuela census, 1795, called Maria Rosa, age 30[sic], with husband Pedro MENOU age 23, son Januario [MENOU] age 4, & daughter Modesta [MENOU] age 2, next to her widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1797, age 31, with husband Pierre MINOUE age 26, son Pierre [MINOUE] age 5, & daughter Modeste [MINOUE] age 3, 0 slaves, next to her widowed mother; in Valenzuela census, 1798, called Marie, no surname given, age 30, with husband Pierre MINOUE age 34, son Janvier [MINOUE] age 6, daughters Modeste [MINOUE] age 4, & Eutisse [MINOUE] age 2, 4/50 arpents, 0 slaves, next to her brother Joseph & near her brother Alexis; died Lafourche Interior Parish 27 Feb 1851, age 85[sic], a widow; succession inventory dated 13 Nov 1851, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse # |
| *Nanette LEJEUNE 21 | Oct 1769 | Natc? | born c1756, probably Edenton NC; daughter of Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN; sister of Blaise, Jean-Baptiste, fils, Joseph, & Marguerite, niece of Honoré TRAHAN; moved to MD, c1760; departed Port Tobacco, MD, 5 Jan 1769, aboard English schooner Britannia; lost in the Gulf of Mexico & held by Spanish at La Bahía, TX, age 13; "she remained at the Coquiats"--actually the settlement of El Orcoquisac near present-day Liberty, TX, summer 1769 |
| Rosalie LEJEUNE 22 | Nov 1785 | Asp? | baptized 4 Aug 1783, St.-Martin de Chantenay, Nantes, France; daughter of Amand LEJEUNE & Anastasie LEVRON; sister of Alexis-Simon, Anne-Adélaïde, Jean, Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, & Marie-Rose; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 2, traveled with widowed mother; not in the Valenzuela censuses of 1788 & 1791 with the rest of her family, so she probably died young |
| Servan-Mathurin LEJEUNE 23 | Jul 1785 | BR | born & baptized 1 Jul 1769, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France; son of Eustache LEJEUNE & his first wife Marie CARRET; brother of François-Marie, Jean-Baptiste, & Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine; at St.-Servan 1769-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 15; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & 1 other; married, age 23, Geneviève-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of Simon dit Pierre PITRE & Geneviève RICHARD, 11 Jan 1792, probably Baton Rouge; on list of inhabitants of Baton Rouge, Nov 1792 |
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