Eliza/Elizabeth LEMAISTRE 1783-1862

[Eyesee]

Eliza or Elizabeth LEMAISTRE was born at St Helier on Jersey according to 1851 and just Jersey in the 1861 census. She was a daughter of Francis LEMAISTRE and Margaret STUART and married Henry Mordaunt Gage VIGOUREUX in Quebec City, Quebec in 1804, where her father was Lieutenant Governor of the Gaspe in Quebec. HMG VIGOUREUX died in Newfoundland, Canada in 1830.

In 1851 she was on Jersey with her married daughter Louisa BALLEINE aged 65. In 1861 she is again with Louisa and her husband John aged 77, but this time in Hampshire in England. She died there in 1862. Not on the GRO index to get an age, and no age given on FreeBMD.

She was Eliza LeMaistre when she married Henry in Quebec, and Eliza on the baptisms of most of the children, but later becomes Elizabeth. Henry VIGOUREUX was born in Yorkshire and was an officer in the Royal Engineers, stationed in Canada and Ireland.

Have seen the name spelt as LE MAISTRE as well.

Can anyone find a birth/baptism for this lady on Jersey, and perhaps a marriage for her parents, although they could have been married anywhere.

Thanks
Ian C

[Neale1961]

Birth 17 Dec 1784
Baptism 28 Dec 1784
St Helier
Elizabeth Le Maistre
Daughter of Francois and Marguerite
Godparents - Jacques Amice Lempriere and Jeanne Le Maistre (uncle and aunt)

[Neale1961]

Margaret STUART doesn't seem like a French / Jersey name, does it?.
How do you know her maiden name?

Since Francois Le Maistre was in the military, the marriage could have taken place anywhere - Ireland? Scotland? ...?

They seem to have been in Quebec in the 1780s, soon after the birth of Elizabeth.

[Eyesee]

Thanks Neale1961.

That baptism does not appear to be in the Jersey PRs on Ancestry. May I ask the source please.

There are a number of references online to Francis Le Maistre's wife being Margaret Stuart.

One from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
When Le Maistre died he was given a lavish military funeral attended by companies from the British garrison and militia and a "numerous assemblage of the most respectable citizens, and gentlemen of the Legislature." Within months of this impressive burial, his widow, Margaret Stuart Le Maistre, was inundated by the demands of more than 60 creditors for payment of 2,250 pounds in debts. After selling Le Maistre's landed property in 1806, Margaret Le Maistre was left destitute.

Elizabeth's older sister Margaret was baptised at St Anne Soho in London in April 1782, parents Francis and Margaret, obviously in English this time. The two sisters were married the same day in Quebec City in 1804.

Born about 1743 on Jersey, s/o Francois-Guillaume Le Maistre and Elizabeth Theodore, he was in Canada from about 1775-1776 before returning to London and then back to Quebec by 1777. Returned to England again by 1783 and then back to Quebec in 1786. Came from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

So you are right, he could have been married anywhere, but most likely Quebec somewhere. Lots of Scots went there in the army.

Ian C

[Neale1961]

Marriage at St Helier
3 Feb 1738
Francois Guilleaume Le Maistre
Elizabeth Theodore

Their Children baptised at St Helier
Elizabeth 1737
Marie 1738
Jeanne 1741
Francois 2 Dec 1743
Charles 1744
Melisse 1749

Possible burial
St Helier
6 Sept 1757
Francois Guille LE MAISTRE


See here for above records, including birth of Elizabeth LeMaistre in 1784
https://jerripedia.org/wiki/Jerripedia