Catherine Lejeune

The family of François SAVOIE and Catherine LEJEUNE

[85608] SAVOIE, François (..), ploughman (laboureur), born about 1621 (rec. 1671), died between census 1671 and census 1678 Port-Royal (Acadie)

Him : Origin : would be from Martaizé (860149) (nom existe), but records are missing and there is no trace of that person

(Origine : serait de Martaizé (860149) (nom existe), mais registres lacunaires et aucune trace de lui)

• married about 1651, from .. (Acadie)

LEJEUNE, Catherine (.. & .. [119264]), born about 1633 (rec. 1671)

• 1) Andrée, married about 1683 Jean PRÉGENT dit LEBRETON
• 2) Catherine, married about 1676 François LEVRON
• 3) Françoise, born about 1653 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) or 1652 (rec. 1693) Port-Royal (Acadie), died 1711-12-27, buried Port-Royal (Acadie), married about 1670 Jean CORPORON
• 4) Germain, married about 1678 Marie BRAULT dit VINCELOTTE
• 5) Jeanne, born about 1658 (1671), 1657 (rec. 1686), 1658 (rec. 1693), 1665 (rec. 1698), 1657 (rec. 1699) or 1656 (rec. 1701) Port-Royal (Acadie), died 1735-11-03, buried 1735-11-04 Port-Royal (Acadie), married about 1675 Étienne PELLERIN
• 6) Marie1, born about 1656 (rec. 1699), married about 1675 Jacques TRIEL dit LAPERRIÈRE
• 7) Marie2, married about 1688 Gabriel ou Pierre CHIASSON

http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/085/085608.php

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b: 7 APR 1621 in Martaize,Loudun,Vienne,France

Married: 1651 in Port Royal,Acadia,Nova Scotia,Canada

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Soeur d'Edmée Lejeune... épouse d'un autre pionnier acadien François Gautreau.

Nickname: dit Briard

Birth location seen as Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, but first records are at, Cap-de-Sable, Nova Scotia, Canada

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lejeune-11

Family of Origin

It is often written that Pierre Lejeune was Catherine and Edmée's father, and that they had a sibling with that same name, but this is not proven.[1] There is too much controversy with this family to state anything as a fact that cannot be proven by a reliable source.

The assumption that Edmée, Catherine, and Pierre II were siblings probably comes from their same last name, closeness of birth dates, and that they all were at Port Royal together. There are no church records sourced that show they were siblings. The maternal DNA tests show that Edmée and Catherine were probably sisters. The unique mtdna signature of Edmée and Catherine does not confirm this absolutely, since they could have a common grandmother. We don't know their mother's name but we know they had one.

Location of Birth : Theories and Conjecture Regarding the Lejeune siblings' specific location of birth, there are no birth records. Massignon [2] has demonstrated that a number of familial alliances existed among the first settlers of Acadia PRIOR to their arrival in Acadia, which points to a common French origin. She believes they lived in the Acadian Governor d'Aulnay's seigneury in France near Loudun (comprising of the villages of Angliers, Aulnay, Martaizé and La Chausée). Regarding the Lejeune sisters, Massignon claims that they were allied with the Savoie through Catherine's marriage and the Gauterot through Edmée's marriage. It is not clear that the sisters married prior to their arrival in Acadia. Edmee's marriage around 1644 to Gauterot may have taken place in Acadia as he was among the first settlers. [3] and was definitely in Acadia prior to 1650[4] (some claim 1636.[citation needed]) D'Entremont in his "Histoire du Cap-Sable, 1763", states the first Lejeune and his French wife arrived in Acadia before or during the time of Isaac de Razilly. Isaac de Razilly was appointed Governor of Acadia in 1632 and died three years later in 1635. d'Entremont implies that the Lejeunes arrived in Acadia sometime prior to 1636. D'Entremont also notes the first Lejeune couple had three children at the time of their arrival in Acadia: Aimée Lejeune, born between 1622 & 1625, Pierre Lejeune, born after Aimée and before Catherine Lejeune, who was born about 1633. D'Entremont further states that Pierre Lejeune II married an Amérindienne [5]

Author states "the Lejeune family is one of the oldest in Acadia" He also states the Lejeune family arrived in Acadia about 1636, which reaffirms d'Entremont, and that the family included Pierre Lejeune from the region of Poitou, France, his unnamed wife, and three children: Edmée, born in Poitou in 1622, Pierre II and "le bebe Catherine" Lejeune.[6]

Further, Father A. Godbout suggested that Pierre Lejeune dit Briard was Edmée & Catherine Lejeune's brother. [7]

Refutation S. A. White points out that the absence of a dispensation for kindred in the marriage of a granddaughter of Pierre & a grandson of Catherine Lejeune (St-Servan Register 8 Jan 1760) leads to the conclusion that neither Catherine nor Edmée was Pierre's sister."[8][9] Family Adopted by Indian Mother Conjecture It was possible that a Pierre Lejeune married an Amerindienne after arriving from France and this wife could have adopted the two daughters. We do not know the first or last name of Catherine and Edmée's mother. The mother was not Amerindienne. We do not know the first name of their father, only the last name of Lejeune. Many researchers have assumed his first name was Pierre (b. 1595), because a possible sibling has been given the first name of Pierre II (b.1628). (This sibling has been disproven through DNA - see Refutation by SAW). This possible sibling's first name is also not known, but he had a child named Pierre III (b. 1656). Many assumptions to this theory as Pierre was a common French name.. Catherine's Life Catherine Lejeune is the Ancestral Matriarch of the Acadian Savoie family. Catherine was born around 1633.[4] Stephen White's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes does not give a location for her birth.[4] She was the sister of Edmée Lejeune.[4]

François Savoie and Catherine Lejeune were married approximately in 1651 in Acadia but the exact place is not known.[3][10] Between 1652 and 1670, they had 9 children: Françoise, Germain, Marie, Jeanne, Catherine, François, Barnabé, Andrée and Marie France.[4][11]

In the Port-Royal census of 1671, François, 50 years of age, was listed as a plowman and Catherine was 38. There were 9 children between the ages of 2 and 18 in the household. The family homestead had 6 arpents under cultivation and they had 4 cattle. [12] It is not clear where the farm was located. By 1707, their son Germain had a farm up river at the Belisle Marshes, east of the fort on the north bank of the Dauphin (Annapolis River).

The date and location of Catherine's death is not known.

DNA Research and Ethnic Origins Some have speculated that Edmée had an Amerindian mother citing various information such as the U haplogroup came over the Siberian peninsula 45,000 years ago, or that Native American genes were found in France 5,000 years ago. The Mothers of Acadia maternal DNA project posts its ongoing Maternal DNA results here. To date, the haplogroup of both sisters is consistently reported as U6a7a, indicating European origins. Another group known as Ancestry Out of Acadia DNA PROJECT, posts its results here. They too report that Catherine and Edmée have European haplogroups, in particular, basic testing has revealed U6a and more complete testing U6a7a. Thus, there is a growing body of consistent and concordant results indicating European origins and nothing to the contrary.

A 2014 study by the National Institutes of Health provides the even more definitive location of France for this U6a71a subgroup, saying that, whether or not the Lejuenes are included in the analysis, the cluster is rooted in France around 3,000 years ago in the late European Bronze Age.[13]

The page of the Michael Marcotte website's link entitled (Now outdated) Lejeune reasoning provides a detailed inter-linked discussion about the Lejeune family that ends with a note signed 'MM' that reads: [14]

Now having U6a haplotype results for Catherine Lejeune, I have removed my Amerindian tag for Catherine Lejeune. Timeline

• Sources:
  • 1671 Acadie Census - shown to be 38 years old which estimates birth c.1633.
  • - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lejeune-11 - Daughter of [father unknown] and Unknown Unknown, Sister of Edmée Lejeune, Wife of François Savoie.
• <ACADIAN MYTHS> MYTH # 9:Catherine LeJeune and Edmée LeJeune were NOT Mik'mac Indians.