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Re: Leger family of Acadia circa 1600-1750
Posted by: Leo-Paul Leger Date: December 15, 2001 at 23:50:05
In Reply to: Re: Leger family of Acadia circa 1600-1750 by Shelia Abshire of 802

Hi Sheila,

Sorry, did not realize this was already translated...part of a page I have on Michel Leger.
By now, did you find all you were looking for???

Leo-Paul Leger

MICHEL LEGER                                                  ANGELINE PINET

              Michel, alias "Richelieu", (Jean2, François1), son of Jean Léger and Marguerite Marchand, was born on March 29, 1729 at Port-Royal. In 1761 at Ristigouche, Gaspé, P.Q., he married Angélique (Angéline) PINET, baptized September 21, 1739 in ........, daughter of Charles Pinet and Marie Marchand, from Grand-Pré.
        He was at Miquelon, of St-Pierre and Miquelon in 1765 and 1767. He died at La Rochelle near 1770. His widow and two of her sons, Louis and Jean-Baptiste, went to Louisiana on the French ship:"Le Bon Papa", established in Louisiana in 1785. Angéline married a second time, to Michel Blanchette on the 30 April 1787.

                                          CHILDREN

1- MICHEL PROSPERE Léger, born on ........... 1762 at Louisburg, N.S., married on June 19,                      1787 at Opelousas, Louisiana, Marguerite-Louise BOUTIN, born on ........... at                      .......... , daughter of Paul Boutin and Ursule Guidry. His parents seeked refuge at                      Ile Royale (Cape Breton, N.S.), where they were made prisoners by the English.
        Children: Alexander(1792); Julien(07-09-1794); Augustin(1796); Michel(1798); `                     Célestine(1799); Henry(1801); Apollonie(1803); Placide(1805).

2- LOUIS Léger, born about 1765 in Miquelon, P.Q., married, on January 17, 1792 at                             Opelousas, Anne DOUCET, born on ............. at ...... , daughter of Joseph Doucet                      and Anne Landry.
        Children: Louis(1792); Jean-Narcisse(1794); Eloïse(1796); Michel(1798);                             Joseph(1800); Hilaire(1801); Mélanie(1803); Eloise(1807); Joséphine(1810).

3- JEANNE Léger, born about 1767 in Miquelon.


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