Marie Marguerite  LEJEUNE

Joseph, also called Jean, son of perhaps Jean Boutin and Susanne Rocheteau of Québec, born in c1676 perhaps at Québec, was a 25-year-old fisherman at Port-Royal in 1701. He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, at Port-Royal in c1708. They moved to La Hève on the Atlantic side of the peninsula and then to the Minas Basin, where they settled at Pigiguit, but they did not remain there either. Joseph was 76 years old when he was counted at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, with his youngest son Paul in April 1752. Île Royale was part of greater Acadia and was controlled by the French at the time, so Joseph evidently had taken his family there in c1749 probably to escape turmoil in British Nova Scotia. The census taker at Baie-des-Espagnols said that Joseph lived 'Alone in a small house his children built for him,' and that 'He makes hand barrows and other small things for his own amusement.' Jean-Joseph died at Baie-des-Espagnols