Unknown Doucet

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________________________________________________________________________________ Birthdate of about 1610 is estimated from the births of Kjipuktuk's 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 [sic.] 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)».

GEDCOM Source

@R300473034@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=40323802&pid...

Fiche Personne principale ID No: 87034 Prénom: Inconnue Nom: Doucet Sexe: F Occupation: Naissance: 1632 estimé Paroisse/ville: Pays: Canada Décès: Paroisse/ville: Pays: Canada Information, autres enfants, notes, etc.

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Enfants mariés de Doucet Inconnue et/ou Lejeune Pierre

Nom	Naissance	Décès	Père	Mère	Époux(se)

Pierre Lejeune	1656		Pierre Lejeune	Inconnue Doucet	Thibodeau Marie

Martin Lejeune	1661		Pierre Lejeune	Inconnue Doucet	Arnaud Marie Gaudet Marie Kagigconiac Jeanne-Marie

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https://genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=31841

Doucet ID : I31841 Female

Parents 1. Doucet, Germain dit Laventure (1595 - 1670) I31847 Male

Bourgeois, Marie (1597 - ?) I31848 Female Type : Mariés Date : vers 1620 Lieu : St-Germaine, France

Mariages 1. Lejeune, Pierre dit Briard (Labrière) I31840 Male ID : F4960 Type : Mariés Enfants : 2 Marriage Source vers 1650 Port-Royal, N.-É.

Enfants LeJeune, Pierre dit Briard I8674 Male vers 1656 - ? Lejeune, Martin dit Briard (Labrière) I12371 Male vers 1661 - ?

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GEDCOM Source

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);

GEDCOM Source

accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Marie Doucet, person ID 9D4X-DKX. 3

GEDCOM Source

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

GEDCOM Source

accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Marie Doucet, person ID 9D4X-DKX. 3

GEDCOM Source

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

GEDCOM Source

accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Françoise Babin, person ID L8PY-S8R.

GEDCOM Source

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

GEDCOM Source

accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Marie Doucet, person ID 9D4X-DKX. 3

geni.com
Marie-Jeanne Doucet
French: ... dite Jeanne NN (Kagijonais nation Mi'qmak), nation Mi'qmak
Birthdate: before circa 1640
Birthplace: Amerindian nation
Death: after circa 1704
Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France
Immediate Family:
Biological daughter of Unknown indigenous male and [Jeanne]? Unknown indigenous female
Adopted daughter of Germain Doucet
Wife of Jean-Pierre Lejeune
Mother of
Pierre Lejuene dit Briard, fils;

Jeanne Lejeune dite Briard and 

Martin Lejeune dit Briard

Sister of Germain Doucet, fils

Half sister of Pierre Doucet and Marguerite Doucet

wikitree
Marie Jeanne Doucet (abt. 1635 - abt. 1704)
Marie Jeanne [uncertain] Doucet
Born about 1635 in Abenaki Nationmap [uncertain]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Germain Doucet and Unknown Abenaki
Sister of Pierre Doucet [half], Marguerite Doucet [half] and Germain Doucet
Wife of Jean Pierre Lejeune — married about 1650 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-Francemap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Pierre Lejeune, Jeanne (Lejeune) Lejeune dit Briard and Martin Lejeune
Died about 1704 at about age 69 [location unknown]

Biography

Marie Jeanne was Abenaki.
The third child of Germain Doucet, and his Abenaki second spouse. See DNA section below. Marie Doucet could be a biological daughter of Germain Doucet, or most likely an adopted child, but probably of the Abenaki Nation in Maine (adoptive father Germaine Doucet's historical record and her descendant's DNA analysis). All female natives marrying into a French family were called Marie, so too with adoptions (common practice).

Relative to the birth order of her siblings, she was born after 1625 and before 1641.[1]

Around 1650, she married Pierre Lejeune at Port Royal . She bore three children:

Pierre born around 1656 (spouse of Marie Thibodeau),
Jeanne born around 1659 (spouse of Francois Joseph)
Martin, born around 1661 (spouse of 1. Jeanne Kagiconiac, Amerindian; 2. Marie Gaudet).[1]
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 was unknown (now it is Marie Jeanne). 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, Marie Jeanne, and Marguerite Doucet were half-sisters with different mothers. Therefore, Pierre Lejeune's wife was at least maternally Amerindienne (Metis), or completely Amerindienne. So Marie Jeanne was 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 by testing the daughters of their descendants. Marie Jeanne's Doucet's sister Marguerite, who married Abraham Dugas, had daughters. In 2010, Stephen White reported that Marie Jeanne's sister Marguerite Doucet had a Haplogroup T2b. We do not know the details of how many of Marguerite's descendants were tested to support this report. Ongoing test results are also reported here. As of May 2014, seven of Marguerite's descendants have consistently reported a T2 haplogroup, indicating European origins.

Research
1/3/2023 There are several mentions of Marie Kagijonais [[[Kagijonais-1|Marie Kagijonais (abt.1600-abt.1679)]]] who has been deemed fictional by Stephen White and other Acadian researchers. (Bourque-573 16:48, 3 January 2023 (UTC))
According to Stephen White[2]: "It is not possible that Germain Doucet's children be from a sister of Jacques Bourgeois as claimed by some, as this later's in-laws only married in 1627.
In the book written by Francois-Edme Rameau de Saint-Pere titled, "Le Canada-Francais Documents sur l'Acadie", he asserts that Pierre Lejeune II who arrived in Acadia as a child married a Mi'kmaq woman. She is believed to be a Doucet. The census of 1686 listed Pierre Lejeune III as being married to Marie Thibodeau and his brother Martin Lejeune as being married to Marie-Jeanne Kagijonias, a Mi'kmaq. After Marie-Jeanne's death, Martin married Marie Gaudet, the daughter of Jehan (Jean) Gaudet and Marie-Jeanne Henry. A 1693 census lists a sister to Pierre, Jr. and Martin named Jeanne, who was married to Francois Joseph, a Mi'kmaq.

According to Rameau de Saint Pere, a Feudal Colony in America, Acadia 1604-1881, Vol 2, p. 318-320, the LeJeune-Briard family was part Metis Native American, and part French.It was a very old family according to the author.The Eastern shores of Acadie have always been a favorite gathering place for the Metis families, where the first one assuredly goes back to the time of the companions of Biencourt, Isaac de Razilly and de LaTour, the early French explorer/settlers.Some of these families were already well into their first or second generation by the time of the 1671 census.

The LeJeune Metis family had settled at Merligouesh (Indian and Metis village located between Cap-de-Sable and La-Heve), because two men from Port Royal had married two of the LeJeune women between 1638 and 1650.In fact, in 1650, Catherine LeJeune, at 17 years of age, married Francois Savoie.Sixteen years earlier, in 1636, her oldest sister, born in 1623, had married Francois Gautherot.

Three of their sons appear to have become "coureurs de bois" with the Indians and Metis:Jean, Francois and Germain Gautherot... These marriages will later be blessed by the Recollets when they come back to Acadia.Jeane Lambert, a woman named LeJeune and perhaps a man named Guildry would have been among them.We will find many of their descendants in the Metis and indian villages.

The LeJeunes will use the surname of Briard:sometimes the surname of their true ancestor, LeJeune;at other times they will assume his surname of Briard which would seem to indicate that their ancestor came from Brie, a region east of Paris.

The consanguinity of the LeJeunes, (called) dit Briard, is sometimes difficult to establish for the reason that many of them will continue to live in Indian and Metis villages;others will settle in Piziauid, south of the Bassin des Mines.This being said, little remains of the registers from the two parishes of this settlement:Sainte-Famille and l'Assumption.The Acadian ancestor of the LeJeune-Briards had at least three children who reached adulthood: Emdee, Pierre, and Catherine.

N.B. Pierre Lejeune dit Briard married a daughter of Germain Doucet at Port Royal c.1650The older son, also named Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, married Marie, a daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux, in 1678.The Lejeunes moved several times in subsequent years, first to La Heve in 1686, back to Port Royal in 1698, Petite-Rivere, near La Heve, in 1704, then finally to Pigiguit in 1712.Pierre's younger brother, Martin dit Briard (Labriere), married an Indian woman, Marie-Jeanne Kagijonais, in 1684, then Marie, a granddaughter of Jean Gaudet, at Pigiguit in 1699, where his family settled.

N.B. " A briard is a person which is from Brie, Brie is an area at the east of Paris with the departments (Provinces) of 'Seine et Marne,' 'Val de Marne', 'Essonne', 'Aisne', 'Aube'."This area is the same for not only the Lejeunes, but for Jacob Bourgeois and perhaps Germain Doucet.Often when the name is followed with "dit Briard" or another word which is the name of a town, a region, or an area, it is because the origin of this person."Comments from Francois Roux, Sene, France.
geni.com
Jean-Pierre Lejeune French: Pierre Le Jeune, dit Briard Also Known As: "Briard", "Pierre Lejeune" Birthdate: before circa 1625 Birthplace: France Death: after circa 1661 Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France (murder) Immediate Family: Son of Unknown LeJeune dit Briard and Unknown Husband of Marie-Jeanne Doucet**************************** Father of Pierre Lejuene dit Briard, fils; Jeanne Lejeune dite Briard and Martin Lejeune dit Briard Brother of Catherine Lejeune; Edmée Lejeune; Martin Lejeune; Marie Radégonde Kagijonais and Charles Gauterot Occupation: farmer
LESS
Mary Doucet
mentioned in the record of Mary Rose Doucet
Name: Mary Doucet
Sex: Female
Daughter: Mary Rose Doucet
Other information in the record of Mary Rose Doucet
from Canada, New Brunswick County Register of Births, 1801-1920

Name: Mary Rose Doucet
Event Type: Birth
Event Place: New Brunswick, British Colonial Americ
[Canada]
Sex:
Female
Mother's Name: Mary Doucet

geni.com
Unknown LeJeune (Doucet) French: ... dite Jeanne NN (Kagijonais nation Mi'qmak), nation Mi'qmak
Birthdate: before 1635 Birthplace: près de Port Royal, Nouvelle-France (incertain), Mi'kma'qi, Turtle Island
Death: after circa 1704 rive sud de Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France Immediate Family:
Daughter of
Germain Doucet, sieur de Laverdure and
Marie Jeanne Membertou
Wife of
Pierre Lejeune dit Briard
Mother of
Pierre Lejuene dit Briard;
Jeanne Joseph;

Martin Lejeune dit Briard and 

Marie Josephe Lejeune
Half sister of
Germain Doucet;
Pierre Dit Laverdure Doucet dit La Verdure and
Marguerite Doucet