Person:Jeanne Lejeune (1)

!BIRTH-CENSUS-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 876 & 1050; own copy. Jeanne LEJEUNE dit BRIARD, born around 1651, married 1st around 1673 Francois Joseph [Amerindian]; six children born about 1674-1685. She married 2nd around 1694 to Jean GAUDET (widower of Francoise COMEAU & Jeanne HENRY). She died after the 1708 census.

    A note attributed to P. GALLANT says that mixed-blood children, when their father was Indian, sometimes adopted the family name of their French mother, as did some of her children who were known under the name LEJEUNE.

!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 34 years (sic).

!CENSUS: 1698, age 47 years.

!CENSUS: 1708, La Heve, Acadia, age 62 years (sic).

!PARENTS: Jeanne was "'d'un nation sauvage'" on marriage entry of her daughter Catherine JOSEPH, married in 1720. Arsenault, H&G, p. 485 (Port Royal). [Perhaps mixed-blood?]

!MARRIAGE: Arsenault, H&G, p. 610 (Port Royal).