Marcel and Annie Levesque of St-Andre, New Brunswick, Canada:Information about Radegonde Lambert
Radegonde Lambert (b. Abt. 1615, d. Aft. 1686)
Notes for Radegonde Lambert:
SOURCE:http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html
Mothers of Acadia
Radegonde LAMBERT, wife of Jean BLANCHARD, had six children in 1671. She was already a grandmother. Her oldest daughter Madeleine BLANCHARD, 28 years old, wife of Michel RICHARD, first of his name in Acadia, had seven children at this time. One of the seven, Catherine RICHARD, married François BROSSARD, ancestor of all of the Brossard or Broussard of America, and especially Louisiana.
Pioneers of Acadia
LAMBERT, Radegonde, came from France with her husband Jean Blanchard, according to Jean LeBlanc, husband of her great-granddaughter Françoise Blanchard (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 43). The deposition of Françoise’s nephews Joseph and Simon-Pierre Trahan is to the same effect (ibid., p. 123). Both depositions mistakenly give Guillaume as the ancestor’s given name. Jean LeBlanc’s makes an additional error regarding the name of Jean Blanchard’s wife, calling her Huguette Poirier. The censuses of 1671 and 1686 meanwhile clearly show that she was named Radegonde Lambert (see DGFA-1, pp. 143-144). The source of these errors is probably a simple confusion arising from the fact that Jean LeBlanc’s wife’s grandfather Martin Blanchard had a brother Guillaume who was married to a woman named Huguette, as this writer explained in an article published in 1984 (SHA, Vol. XV, pp. 116-117). This Huguette was not named Poirier, however, but Gougeon, although her mother, Jeanne Chebrat, had married a man named Jean Poirier before she wed Huguette’s father Antoine Gougeon, and all her male-line descendants in Acadia were Poiriers. Unfortunately, we do not know just what questions Jean LeBlanc asked in trying to establish the Blanchard lineage, but he might certainly have had the impression that Huguette was a Poirier from the fact that so many of her relatives were Poiriers, including her grandnephew Joseph, who was also on Belle-Île in 1767 (see Doc. inéd., Vol. III, pp. 13-15).
More About Radegonde Lambert:
Census: 1671: Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.10071
Census: 1678: Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.10072
Census: 1686: Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.10073
More About Radegonde Lambert and Jean Blanchard:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1642, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.10074, 10075, 10076, 10077
Marriage 2: 1642, Port Royal , Annapolis , Beaubassin, Nova Scotia.
Children of Radegonde Lambert and Jean Blanchard are:
- +Anne Blanchard, b. Abt. 1645, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10078, 10079, 10080, 10081, 10082, d. Aft. 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10083, 10084.
- Jean Blanchard, b. 1650, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10085.
- +Madeleine Anne Blanchard, b. 1643, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10086, 10087, d. Bef. 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10088, 10089, 10090.
- Martin Blanchard, b. Abt. 1647, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10091.
- Guillaume Blanchard, b. 1650, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10092, d. 171610093, 10094.
- Bernard Blanchard, b. 1653, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10095, d. Aft. 167110096, 10097.
- Marie Blanchard, b. 1656, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10098,d., Beaubassin, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada10099.