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View Tree for Jeanne LelievreJeanne Lelievre (b. 1640, d. 09 Jan 1728)

Jeanne Lelievre (daughter of Guillaume Lelievre and Marie Millet) was born 1640 in St Remy, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France, and died 09 Jan 1728 in St-Vallier, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada. She married Nicolas LeRoy on Feb 1658 in Dieppe, Rouen, Normandy, France, son of Louis LeRoy and Jeanne LeMaitre.

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Extracted from a Roy website: http://users.adelphia.net/~robroy8/Roy_Family_Tree.html

Jeanne Lelievre Le Roy, who lived from 1638 to1728, an adventuresome 89 years. She was the brave woman who emigrated in 1661 from Franceto the New World with her husband Nicholas LeRoy and three little children. They had sailed from the port of Dieppe on the coast of Normandy, aboard a ship of one Captain Laurent Poullet. After an awful two months at sea they found an initial landing at Terre Nueve, now Newfoundland, where they remained for two. years in bitter circumstances. Only in September of 1663 did they finally arrive at Quebec, according to the family historian Edmond J.Roy. (1) He states that this joyous landing was aboard either of two ships, the Golden Eagle, L 'Aigle d'Or, or the Garden of Holland, Jardin de Hollande. In that prosperous colony they were reunited with Jeanne's father, Guilleaume Lelievre, who had emigrated around 1657. On the 8th of June, 1664, Nicholas officially acquired a land-grant of two arpents in width (about three American acres) by one mile deep at Boischatel, just east of the Falls of Montmorency. There they were neighbors to Charles Garnier, an ancestor of our Gagne cousins of today, in the Seigneurie de Beaupre. Their eighth and ninth born children, Elisabeth and Jean, were both baptised at nearby L 'Ange Gardien, on the Beaupre coast. However, their tenth and last child, Jean- Baptiste, destined as our next of the Roy line ancestor, was baptised miles away across the wide St.Lawrence River, in the Seigneurie de la Durantaye. He was christened on 20- October-1678, fifteen years after his parents had initially been granted land on the Cote de Beaupre.Why had Nicholas and Jeanne LeRoy decided to leave an apparently successful farm,and a good beginning in this area so blessed of scenery? The answer lies in that a crime was committed against them, one that evokes outrage to this day. While several accounts can be found, that of Eugena Poulin, PhD., in her 1998 article" Crime and Seventeenth Century Women in New France" is the most succinct. She wrote:

Society considered some crimes so heinous that the death penalty appeared insufficient. In 1669, the court found Jacques Nourry guilty of raping four and a half year old Marie LeRoy. The latter was the daughter of Nicholas and of Jeanne Lievre. Nourry was hanged, his body mutilated, decapitated and his head displayed on a post. The fine added to his punishment amounted to three hundred /ivres to be awarded to the victim." Although Ms. Poulin does not recount it, Nourry was a single man of age 29, who farmed land next to the LeRoys. Later documents record that his land was confiscated by the High Court of Beaupre, and on September 7, 1669 this farm of Noury was awarded to the above mentioned Charles Garnier.The family once again prospered at La Durantaye, far from the scene of the crime and it's grisly punishment. Having sold his farm at Beaupre in 1679 for five hundred/ivres, Nicholas acquired twenty arpents of land at Durantaye. His eldest sons, Louis and Nicholas, would also own land adjoining his acreage. A third son, Noel, would buy land in 1688 in the adjoining Seigneurie de Berthier from Jean Daniau dit la Prise, of La Durantaye. This man is an ancestor of Gerard Daigneault, brother -in-law of this writer.As for little Marie, she grew up normally due to the love of her parents. On 31-July-1679 she wed Jean Gaudreau, by whom she had three children. Following the loss of her first husband, Marie then rewed to Jean Fournier, bearing him ten more children. (3)Nicholas Leroy's passing sometime before October of 1691 was not nearly as well documented as that of his wife, whose 1728 burial record has been termed "bizarre".Here is a translation of that account by the priest at the village of Saint Vallier:"The year one thousand seven hundred twenty:-eight, the 11th of January, has been buried in the cemetery of this parish, by myself, the undersigned priest, missionary of Saint Michael, the body of the late widow Roy, deceased at the age of 88 or 9 years without any illness; she had received a precaution eight days before from the Saint Viatique. All the parish assisted at her internment."Leclair, Priest What are we to think of this woman who had visions of a Saint, who told her that her time was near? In our age of unbelief we might regard her as senile. Quite obviously her neighbors of that day admired her Faith and loved her. For myself the real point of interest here is that she had enjoyed good health right up to her last day: "... .decedee a 1 'age de 88 ou 9 ans sans aucune maladie" --- when it was her time to die.

More About Jeanne Lelievre and Nicolas LeRoy:
Marriage: Feb 1658, Dieppe, Rouen, Normandy, France.

Children of Jeanne Lelievre and Nicolas LeRoy are:
  1. +Guillaume Roy, b. 1667, Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada, d. 04 Apr 1743, Quebec, PQ.
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