It is now established that Pierre Lemieux, father of the Quebec ancester also named Pierre, was buried in Rouen on July 31, l629 and that he was the son of Gilles Lemieux, a resident of Rouen in 1588 and husband of Ysabeau Ango who died a victim of the bubonic plague in 1629. This family then moved to Canteloup, a village in the Contentin, a strip of land in Normandy that extends in the English Channel, crowned by Cherbourg in the North. In a deed drawn in 1404 describing the farms of this hamlet, we find the name of Thomas Lemieux, who was about twenty years old. Putting together all the information gathered through the years, the ascendance of a person named Lemieux can amount to 22 generations. This information is now under revision and stands correction since contradictory documents have been found lately.
Members can read the new findings in the Members' Section.