11 The LeRoy -LeJeuen Family
The progenitor of the Acadian Roys who ended up in Louisiana was Jean Le Roy or Roy dit La Liberté, born at St.-Malo, France, in c1651, probably no kin to the other Roys and Le Roys of Acadia. Jean dit La Liberté married Marie-Christine called Christine, Aubois, also called Hautbois and Dubois, a 21-year-old mixed-blood Mi'kmaq, in c1686 likely at Cap-Sable. They had nine children, including four daughters who married into the Clémenceau, Comeau dit Grandjean, Girouard, Fontaine dit Beaulieu, and Trahan families. Their four sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own: Oldest son Jean, fils, born in c1691, married first to Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in October 1712. They had five children, including a son who married a Lejeune cousin, at Port-Orléans on Île Royale. Jean, fils remarried to Françoise, daughter of Martin Corporon and Marie-Josèphe Viger, in c1743, in his early 50s. Francoise gave him...