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LOUISE (ARSENAULT) BOUDROT (May 2012 - True Identity Discovered!)
Three
years ago (in 2009), I posted a correction at the Arsenault Genforum on
the subject of Louise Arsenault, wife of Joseph Boudrot, ancestors of
one (in fact, my own) branch of the Boudreau family at the Magdalen
Islands, saying we (Stephen White, Paul Delaney and I) had concluded
that she was the daughter of Claude Arsenault and his wife, Marguerite
Richard.
Very recently (in fact, with results received just a few
days ago), an mtDNA analysis was done on one of her female descendants,
and as you and your readers may know, mitochondrial DNA never changes
(except for a few mutations) from one generation to another in females
for many hundreds of years.
In the study, we had isolated six
possible Arsenault couples as her possible parents, along with their
mtDNA haplotypes as follows:
1) François Arsenault and Marguerite Bernard (maternal line back to Perrine Bourg) > (H)
2) Jacques Arsenault and Marie Poirier (maternal line back to Marguerite Doucet) > (T)
3) Charles Arsenault and Cécile Breau (maternal line back to Françoise Gaudet) > (J)
4) Pierre Arsenault and Marguerite Cormier (maternal line back to Geneviève Lefranc) > (W)
5) Abraham Arsenault and Marie-Josèphe Savoie (maternal line back to Catherine Bugaret) > (H)
6) Claude Arsenault and Marguerite Richard (maternal line back to Michelle Aucoin) > (H)
Well,
the descendant who was tested revealed a resulting haplotype W, so
since DNA never lies, Louise was actually and without a doubt the
daughter of the above Pierre Arsenault and Marguerite Cormier, whose
maternal great-grandmother was Geneviève Lefranc, the wife of Étienne
Hébert, and who passed along the same mtDNA haplotype W to her female
descendants. We can now say with absolute certainty that these were
indeed her parents, and we can prove it by documented records from this
point down.
Unlike many enumerated in the 1752 census of LaRoque,
Louise was one of many children unfortunately omitted from this census
record. Stephen White has identified that there were several omissions
of people in this census, including a great number of children which
LaRoque had missed entirely. Louise falls into this category.
Another
factor adds to this, in that her brother Claude was at the Magdalens in
1765, with his brother-in-law Charles Arsenault, both of whom signed
Richard Gridley's oath of allegiance, but soon afterwards, left there
and migrated to mainland Quebec, ending up in the Sorel region. What was
proven earlier by marriage dispensations remains intact, except to add
that that some consanguine relationships were omitted from a couple of
records, for no apparent reason except the pastor's discretion or lack
of knowledge concerning them.
I think it is now very safe to say
this ancestry will not change, as we have this new found, irrefutable
evidence of Louise's maternal DNA sequence. You may add her to her
proper family. Unfortunately, I have no birth record nor death record
available for her specifically, except to say that she died at
Havre-Aubert, QC, between 1806 (when she was the witness at the marriage
of her granddaughter, Marguerite Cormier) and 1808 (her husband's death
record in which he is identified as the "widower" of Louise). A death
record does not exist as the pastor was absent from the Islands in this
time period.
I am posting this so that previous conclusions can
be expunged, and newer conclusions can be updated to replace them, as we
all know how often some things on the Internet just "hang around"
forever and cause confusion to researchers.
Dennis Boudreau
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