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Jeanne-Marie Kagigoniac

French: Jeanne Marie Kagijonais Mic Mac
Also Known As: "Marie Radegonde", "Marguerite Amerindienne Mi'Kmaq ( Micmac Indian) Membertou", "Marie Anne Membertou", "Micmac "Marie-Anne" Membertou", "Marie Radegonde Kagijonais", "Radegonde Jeanne Kagijonais Membertou"
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Birthplace: MicMac Nation, NS, Canada
Death: 1658 (54-63)
Port Royal, Annapolis County, NS, Canada
Place of Burial: Annapolis County, NS, Canada
Immediate Family:

Daughter of MicMac Woman
Wife of Jean Lambert
Mother of Huguette Lambelot or Lambert and Jean Lambert

Ancestry: MicMac Nation Nova Scotia
Managed by: Private User
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About Jeanne-Marie Kagigoniac

Not a known mother of Radégonde Lambert

see discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/112424?msg=813498


The first settlers of Acadia arrived in 1604, led by the Sieur du Monts; they established a permanent settlement at Port-Royal in 1605. Over the next ten years or so settlers came and went, all of them male; there were some liaisons with native Micmac or Abenaki women. Our ancestor Jehan or Jean Lambert was born about 1591 - place and parents unknown; but some sources claim he was from Dieppe - and he was in Acadia probably by 1610 (there is a Jehan Lambert on the ship Jonas that year) and certainly by 1612, when his name appears as a witness to an affidavit. There is no record of his marriage, but he had a daughter called Radegonde or Jeanne-Radegonde, born either in 1621 or 1629 (based on her age given in two censuses; 1621 is regarded as the more likely date). She was probably born at Fort Lomeron on the Chebogue River (above), where Jean lived in the 1620s. Jean was dead by 1671; probably well before that.

Circumstantial evidence points to a Mi'kmaq woman as Radegonde's mother. No French women were in Acadia in 1621, and very few in 1629. Most if not all of the women who arrived in the 1620s were already married. We do know for certain that Radegonde married the immigrant Jean Blanchard at Port-Royal in 1642, and that she was still alive in 1700.

Also note that there are Lamberts among the Micmac Indians today (some of whom still live on reservations in Nova Scotia). This suggests that Radegonde may have had brothers.



There is some evidence that this person was a Mi'Kmaq native, bunch DNA testing suggests otherwise, the strain that shows up in later generation is X2b, which is considered European (as opposed to X2a.

Added by Roland Belanger BA BEd Sept 1, 2012 (full article http://newfrancemetis.blogspot.ca/ )

Haplogroup X is relatively sparce across Europe but has some concentrated areas in the middle east today. The origin of mutation hg X would have been somewhere in the middle, south Eurasian continent and moved all the way up to the Scandinavian countries in the north. Tests on 1000 year old skeletons of early Vikings indicated a high concentration of hg X. Present day populations have a higher concentration of hg I than hg X. The introduction of hg X as well as hg I into England and France very likely came from Viking raiders. Archeological evidence, such as the Viking settlement in Newfoundland 800 to 1000 years ago would explain the possible introduction of mtDNA hg X2b into a local Newfoundland indigenous population. It is also very likely that the ancient Viking wanderers introduced haplogroup X more recently than 15,000 years ago in North Eastern Canada. More extensive DNA testing of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia native and Metis residents may verify this postulation. Another possible source of hg X is from the European fishing villages set up during or before 1500 along the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.

Radegonde Lambert from this perspective would have received her mtDNA haplogroup X or X2b from a European mother who lived 600 - 1000 years ago. She would have had many generations of ancestors among the Mi’kmaq indigenous people!



Member of the Mi'kmaq Indian Tribe.


http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/membertou_1E.html#:~:text=Membertou%....

". Membertou became Henri. His wife and daughter, whose usual names are unknown, were given the first names Marie and Marguerite. His sons Membertoucoïchis, Actodin, and Actaudinech’ took the names Louis, Philippe, and Paul respectively. "

Karrie Welborn August, 2023


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FamilySearch: Family Tree
Marie Radegonde Membertou
Birth  1595 • Fort Lomeron, Cap De Sable, Acadie, Nouvelle - Écosse, Canada
Death  1679 • Lauzon, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents  Chief Henri Sachem Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk of Mi'kmaq Membertou • Henri Louis Membertou • Henri Micmac Abnaki Membertou • Marie Ameckmite Mitcsamegke • Sigogne Membertou
Spouse  Jean-Antoine Lambert
Children  Huguette Lambelot or Lambert • Radegonde Lambert

Lead confidence: 3
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GSCQ-SYG

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Reportedly a Micmac Indian.

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S. White p.526

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From: Michele Doucette (michele.doucette@nf.sympatico.ca) To: With regards to my DOUCET research, I have recently discovered thatGermain Doucet (Sieur de LaVerdure) had 4 children: 1. Pierre, born about 1621 and married to Henriette Pelletret (d/o SimonPelletret and Perrine Bourg) about 1660. He died on June 1, 1713 and wasburied on June 2, 1713 (according to the Port Royal church registerinformation). 2. Marguerite (whom many of us refer to as Marguerite-Louise) born about1625 and married to Abraham Dugas about 1647. She died on December 19,1707 and was buried on December 20, 1707 (according to the Port Royalchurch register information). 3. another unnamed daughter (according to Stephen White, Genealogist atUniversité de Moncton) who married a Pierre LeJeune dit Briard about1650. 4. Germain, born about 1641 and married about 1664 to Marie Landry (whommany o us refer to as Marie Marguerite Landry), d/o René Landry andPerrine Bourg. During my visit with Stephen this summer, I asked him if there was asibling connection between this Pierre LeJeune dit Briard and Catherineand Edmée LeJeune. His response was in the negative. Hope that this has helped to clarify a few things for us genealogists. Cuzin Michele Acadian GenWeb Coordinator (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/2162/)

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About Micmac Indians: Largest of the Indian tribes of Canada's E Maritime Provinces. Early chronicles describe them as fierce and warlike, but they were among the first Indians to accept Jesuit teachings and intermarry with the settlers of New France. The Micmac formed a confederacy of several clans. In winter they hunted caribou, moose, and small game; in summer they fished, gathered shellfish, and hunted seals. They were expert canoeists. In the 17th-18th cent. they were allies of the French against the English. Today their descendants, mixed with whites, number about 15,000.

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FAMILIES ACADIENNE
Let it be known that the record of Pierre Lejeune has been found in Leopold Lanctot's tome 2 of tome 1 & 2 which is volume I & 2, published in 1994 in French and in English. Lanctot's record of this was found in the Oblats Marie Immaculee, which is an order of Catholic Priest's. That which states that, the Lejeune's noted are Metis Indian's. Edmee, Pierre and Catherine Lejeune were born in the Capde Sable, Arcadia area. Thus all descendants are of Metis Indian descent.

Sources
[S00032] FAMILIES ACADIENNE TOME I & II, LEOPOLD LANCTOT, (Name: PUBLISHED IN 1911 IN FRENCH;).
Date of Import: 26 Aug 2000

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I'm proud of my Mi'kmaq heritage NOT MERTIS OR WHATEVER its called
I have ancestors who were Mi'kmaq Indians and some died in war . Im posting a pic of him in his uniform, a Mi'kmaq Indian, and a Benoit. So WHO ever wrote the post about we are not Mi'kmaq heritage, think AGAIN, because dna proves your wrong. If you research the Mi'kmaq Indian tribe etc its obvious. Thx


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FamilySearch: Family Tree
Marie Radegonde Membertou
Birth  1595 • Fort Lomeron, Cap De Sable, Acadie, Nouvelle - Écosse, Canada
Death  1679 • Lauzon, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents  Chief Henri Sachem Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk of Mi'kmaq Membertou • Henri Louis Membertou • Henri Micmac Abnaki Membertou • Marie Ameckmite Mitcsamegke • Sigogne Membertou
Spouse  Jean-Antoine Lambert
Children  Huguette Lambelot or Lambert • Radegonde Lambert

Lead confidence: 5
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GSCQ-SYG

GEDCOM Note

FamilySearch: Family Tree
Marie Membertou
Birth  about 1602 • Nova Scotia, Canada
Death  1671 • Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents  Chief Henri Sachem Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk of Mi'kmaq Membertou • Mikmaw Marie Micmac Membertou
Children  Chief Of Micmac Abenaki Sachem Membertou

Lead confidence: 3
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/L1VR-45M

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Jeanne-Marie Kagigoniac's Timeline

1599
June 10, 1599
MicMac Nation, NS, Canada
1617
1617
Acadia, New France
1620
1620
Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
1658
1658
Age 58
Port Royal, Annapolis County, NS, Canada
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Annapolis County, NS, Canada