Thanks a lot Cecil and Paul. It's so difficult to find something about the Jean-Baptiste Lejeune and Isabelle HUTRE [OUTRE]. Do you think they moved to Texas? Best regards, Andre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecil Van Duzee" <CVanDuzee@msn.com> To: <acadian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Lejeune at Opelousas Hello Andre I found the ancestrydotcom entry you are referring to. It contains bad information; so anything from the publisher should be viewed as dubious. (Even though there is some truth thrown in.) Here is the story entry: *** DO NOT REPUBLISH*** {Although confined to the southern part of the state, the surname of LEJEUNE presents a complex distribution characterized by several concentrations, each which was begun by immigrants of that surname who settled in Louisiana at different times during the last half of the eighteenth century. Lejeunes were among the early French settlers in Acadia, one family of that name having been recorded there in 1646. The Lejeune refugees from Acadia who came to Louisiana after the Expulsion of 1755 consisted of two groups, one arriving probably in the late 1760's or early 1770's, the other in 1785. The first group may have comprised only of three young Lejeune brothers, possibly orphans. They were Blaise, Joseph, and Jean Baptiste , sons of Jean Baptiste Lejeune . Jean Baptiste Lejeune dit Briard , son of Germain Lejeune and Anne-Marie Trahan, married around 1742 Marguerite Clemenceau dit Beaulieu. Marguerite was buried at St. Jean at the age of 25 on November 24, 1756. Jean Baptiste was buried at St. Charles at the age of 40 on February 11, 1758. All three Lejeune brothers settled in St. Landry Parish and were the progenitors of the largest branch of Lejeunes in Louisiana. Blaise, who married in 1773 to Marie-Josephe Breaux, obtained land on both the upper Bayou Plaquemine Brulee (southwest of Opelousas Post) and in the Faquetaique Prairie (near Eunice), both areas becoming centers of the largest line of Lejeune descendants, which was further propagated by Blaise's five sons.} ------------------------------------------------------------------ We know the Lejeune brothers did not arrive at New Orleans. Their ship caught unfavorable winds and was blown past the Mississippi to a landing on the Texas coast near Corpus Christie. They were brought to San Antonio and later to the Natchitoches Post for release by the Spanish authorities. The info about Blaise is truthful. C ----- Original Message ----- From: André-Carl Vachon<mailto:acvachon@videotron.ca> To: acadian@rootsweb.com<mailto:acadian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:21 PM Subject: [ACADIAN] Lejeune at Opelousas Hello everyone, I find something on Ancestry.com about a Jean-Baptiste Lejeune who's death is in 1796. Did someone have the completed info? Wife, exact date? Best regards, Andre ------------------------------- To check our Archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/> ------------------------------- To subscribe to the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To check our Archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ ------------------------------- To subscribe to the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message