Pierre Ledoux (1808 - 1885)

Born 1808 in Rupert's Land

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Short) Ledoux — married 19 Jan 1834 in Northwest Territories

Descendants

Died Sep 1885 at about age 77 in St. François Xavier, Manitoba, Canada

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Biography

Pierre Ledoux was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Metis Nation.

Son of Pierre Ledoux and Madeleine la Sauteuse (Indian).

Metis Roots Scrip affidavit for Ledoux, Pierre; born: 1805; father: Pierre Ledoux (French Canadian); mother: Madeleine la Sauteuse (Indian); claim no: 1288; scrip no: 10232; date of issue: 21 August 1876; amount: $160. Note birth year of 1805 differs with Find a Grave source.^[1]

The children of Pierre Ledoux and Susanne Short^[2]:

1. Pierre Ledoux b. 15 Jan 1830, m. Marie Monet dit Belhumeur, m. Euphrosine Piche (daughter of Louis Piche and Angelique Lepine)
2. Magdelaine Ledoux b. 5 Nov 1832, m. Antoine Houle (son of Antoine Houle and Josephte Lauzon)
3. Marguerite Ledoux b. 5 Dec 1834, m. Francois Richard (son of Francois Richard and Marguerite, a Saulteaux woman)
4. Alexis Ledoux b. 16 Nov 1836, m. Madeleine Chalifoux (daughter of Michel Chalifoux and Francoise Piche (?)), m. Clemence Fleury
5. Louis Ledoux b. 10 Jan 1839, m. Adelaide Pepin (daughter of Narcisse Pepin and Marie Beaulieu)
6. Suzanne Ledoux b. 9 Nov 1841, m. Louis Larocque (son of Louis Larocque and Judith Guilbault) (brother to Flavie Larocque?)
7. Jerome Ledoux b. 28 Sep 1844, m. Angelique Morand (daughter of Jean Baptiste Morand and Marie Dubois), m. Isabelle Gladu
8. Isaac Ledoux b. 30 Dec 1846, m. Marie Lingan (daughter of Edouard Lingan and Marguerite Larocque)
9. Euphrosine Ledoux b. 5 Oct 1849, m. Antoine Friday dit Allard (son of Joseph Friday and Marguerite Hamelin)
10. Pierre Paul Ledoux b. 1850, m. Marie, a Cree woman
11. Emilie Ledoux b. 1 Oct 1851, m. Edouard Lane dit Gibault (Gibault, son of Denis Guillaume Benomi Gibeau and Margaret Sinclair)

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada; View Scrip Affidavit here.
2. ↑ Morin, Gail. Metis Families Volume 7 Landry - Marion (pp 180-185). Kindle Edition.

See also:

• Burial at St Eustache, St. François Xavier, Manitoba in 1885, Burial record here.
• Glenbow Archives, Warren Sinclair's Metis Genealogy collection, University of Calgary. - Ledoux.
• Marriage to Marie Louise Desjarlais, born abt 1822, daughter of Antoine Desjarlais (Indian) and Marie Alexis (Métis). 1870 Census with wife Marie, viewable here and here and Scrip Affidavit for Marie Louise viewable here.
• Marriage to Susanna Short: Manitoba, Canada, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1834-1959; Provincial Archives of Manitoba, viewable here.
• "Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G994-WL8Z?cc=1992433&wc=M6PR-MPD%3A325478101%2C325478102%2C325478103 : 22 May 2014), St François Xavier Municipality: St François Xavier > Catholic St François Xavier de la Prairie duCheval Blanc > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1834-1844 vol 1 > image 12 of 100; parishes, Manitoba.
• Son Isaac Ledoux Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Son Pierre Ledoux Jr Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Son Alexis' Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Daughter Emilie's Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Daughter Euphrosine's Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Daughter Marguerite's Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Daughter Madeleine's Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Daughter Suzanne's Scrip Affidavit viewable here.
• Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Branch : Métis and original White settlers affidavits : T-4687, Image 420, viewable here.
• https://www.redriverancestry.ca/LEDOUX-JEAN-BAPTISTE-1773.php

Acknowledgement

I worked to get it right the first time, but as we know... mistakes happen, times change and so does access to information. Please add to or correct this profile based on sourced fact. Thanks. Morgan Mulligan