[Jeanne]? Unknown indigenous female

Birthdate of about 1610 is estimated from the births of her daughter Jeanne Doucet and probable son Germain Doucet II 's birthdates.

Before 1654, Germain Doucet married for a second time, a woman whose name is unknown. She was of Mi'kmaq or Abenaki heritage (DNA analysis). To honor that heritage, and to avoid using the ignominious name unknown, she will have the last name Kjipuktuk. This will also give her an identity that is more respectful than being called unknown. Kjipuktuk is the Mi'kmaq name of the area around La Hève. Marie Jeanne was Germain's second spouse and should not be confused with his first French spouse (mother of Pierre and Marguerite), who was also unknown.

She bore a daughter named Jeanne (born about 1635), who's name was also unknown and who had her own daughter named Jeanne. Hence, Marie Jeanne's name comes partly from her granddaughter. There was a male child from a Mi'kmaq or Abenaki father who Germain Doucet adopted. He gave him his own name, Germain Doucet II (b.1641). Germain Doucet II could also have been Marie Jeanne's son.

In 1640, Germain was in the farthest southern part of Acadia (New France), as d'Aulnay's right hand man. He was Master at Arms at Pentagöuet (Castine, Maine). (There were Amerindians living around the fort, they were probably Mi'kmaq brought from the Port Royal area. The Amerindians around Penobscot Bay were the Penobscots, enemies of the Mi'kmaq, but related to them as well.) ( White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, 526-528. See corrections page 76/197: Famille de Germain Doucet (1) Au lieu de «Couperans en Brie (ou Conflans en Brye)» lire «Couperoue en Brye (Coupru en Brie)». ) (John Riley, interviews with Elder "Fire Keeper" of the Penobscot nation).

The first unknown spouse of Germain probably died sometime before 1635. She bore him two children, Pierre Doucet and Maguerite Doucet.

Discussion

DNA. According to Stephen White of the Acadian Studies Centre out of Moncton, New Brunswick, his research, based on a dispensation given for the marriage of Claude Trahan to Anne LeBlanc, leads him to believe that the wife of Pierre Lejeune II was a daughter of Germain Doucet, whose name is unknown. Then we also have to conclude that Germain Doucet had at least two wives and not one, since some of the descendants of his daughter, Marguerite, have tested for the non-Native American Haplogroup T2, yet Jeanne Lejeune dit Briart, who would also be his grand-daughter based on the dispensation, had the Native American Haplogroup A, indicating that her mother and Marguerite Doucet were half-sisters with different mothers. Therefore, Pierre Lejeune II's Doucet wife was at least maternally Amerindienne (Metis), or completely Amerindienne and adopted, as was her brother Germain II. (Source for part of this DNA discussion was the Bra d'Or First Nation study.)

The Mothers of Acadia Maternal DNA project is conducting ongoing research to verify their origins. In 2010, Stephen White reported that descendants of Germain Doucet's and unknown first spouse's daughter, Marguerite Doucet, had a Haplogroup T2b. I don't know the details re how many of her descendants were tested to support this report. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino presents one family tree here. Ongoing test results are also reported here. As of May 2014, 7 descendants have consistently reported a T2 haplogroup, indicating European origins.

Sources

• http://www.brasdorfirstnation.com/Study/Lejeune_Study.php Bra d'Or First Nation study.
• https://www.acadian.org/lejeune.html Lejeune Family Information;
• "A Closer Look at the Some of the Records" Acadian-home
• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/1671_Acadian_Census
• http://www.acadian.org/census1686.html
• https://www.acadian.org/census1693.html

Pierre Lejeune White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, 526-528. See corrections page 76/197: Famille de Germain Doucet (1) Au lieu de «Couperans en Brie (ou Conflans en Brye)» lire «Couperoue en Brye (Coupru en Brie)».