♀Marie Lejeune

Marie Lejeune was a woman of Orléans, in France, known from the marriage of her daughter Marie Grandin at Québec, in New France, in 1670. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Grandin (1651–1715).

Marie Lejeune and her husband, Michel Grandin, were the parents of Marie Grandin, born about 1651. Michel died before September 1670, and by then their daughter, about nineteen, had crossed the Atlantic to New France, where she is counted among the King’s Daughters^W, the young women whose passage the French crown paid so that they would marry the colony’s settlers. On 23 September 1670 she married Jean Baudet at Québec. The priest entered her as the daughter of the late Michel Grandin and of Marie Lejeune, of the parish of Saint-Euverte in the city and diocese of Orléans.

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Sources

The 1670 marriage entry is the only record known to name Marie Lejeune. It writes the parish St-Eubert. Yves Landry’s study of the King’s Daughters, Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle (1992), lists Marie Grandin among them, arriving in 1670, and names her parents as the late Michel Grandin and Marie Lejeune, of the parish of Saint-Euverte in Orléans. Cyprien Tanguay’s^W genealogical dictionary names the same parents but writes the parish St-Aubert and dates the marriage 28 September 1670; the parish register gives 23 September.

After 1670

The 1670 entry marks Michel Grandin as dead but not Marie Lejeune, so she may still have been living then. When and where she died is not known.