My wife’s paternal grandmother was a LeFevre. Here is the LeFevre DNA Tree I have so far:
My wife’s two late Aunts Lorraine and Virginia tested at Ancestry, so it should be easy to update this chart and go back at least one generation.
Lorraine’s LeFevre ThruLines
Here are Lorraine’s ThruLines for the LeFevre Line going back one generation into the 1700’s:
Jean-Thomas LeFebvre 1770
I have that Jean-Thomas was born in Charlesbourgh. This is an historic part of Quebec City:
Other records show that he died in Neuville:
Here is a marriage record from 1801:
He is listed as a forgeron or blacksmith. This is interesting as LeFebvre means blacksmith.
Checking the Reine LeFevre Line
I can start with Carter, though he seems to have too large a match for a fourth cousin once removed. Change of plans: I’ll go with the person who has the best tree.
Lorraine and Lise
Lise’s paternal side of her tree gets her to LeFebvre:
It turns out that LIse’s father had quite a long name:
Here is mother Maguerite Larue in 1901 in Quebec City:
The family must have been doing well to have three serants. This marriage record gets us back another generation to the older Simeon:
Now, hopefully, Simeon’s mother will be a LeFebvre. I am having trouble finding more information but see some information on Marie-Desanges LeFebvre:
This 1820 marriage record is important as it links Marie Desanges LeFebvre with her parents and establishes who her husband was.
For now, I will go with the Geneanet hint:
Updating the LeFebvre DNA Tree
Above, the part that was weak on records was between Desanges LeFebvre and Simeon Larue.
Lorraine and SD
SD is a shared match between Lorraine and Lise:
Here is SD’s paternal side:
I’ll start a tree for SD in hopes of connecting to LeFevre. I will take the Ancestry hints for Andre’s parents as I assume that they were well known. Here is Cecile’s family in 1901:
They are living in St-Antoine-De-Tilly:
Next, I need to follow Cecile’s mother Angelina:
This is in 1891. I knew from Cecile’s death record that her mother was a Lafleur.
Here is the marriage record of Remi and Odile:
I did not mention before that Remi had a dit name of Lafleur. This former name was Sivigny:
This connects Odile to the Marie Odile that I already have in my tree.
I could keep going on with the LeFevre DNA tree, but it could be time consuming.
Summary and Conclusions
- I met my goal of expanding my LeFevre DNA tree
- I started with one of the matches with the best tree
- I hit a snag in not finding some key original documents for Simeon Larue
- A second line of SD was a shared match with Lorraine and the first match. This line checked out better with all the original marriage documents found
- Along the way of checking thre trees, I get an idea of what some of these families were like.
- The DNA connections strengthen the genealogical connections