Looking for birth date of Carmelite LeBoeuf
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Looking for birth date of Carmelite LeBoeuf
I am trying to find a good birth date for Carmelite LeBoeuf, daughter of Francois LeBoeuf and Genevieve Dubier, and wife of Juan Placencia (or Plaisance). She was quoted in the 1880 census as being 98 years old, giving a birth year of 1782. This cannot be correct because she would be too old to be still having children in 1838, the year her last child was born. The census-taker may have meant 78, which would give a birth year of 1802. The 1900 census shows Carmelite living as a boarder in St. James parish. The age given here is 87 with a date of birth of Oct 1812. This date is too late, since she was married in 1817 and her first child was born in 1819. Does anyone have a good source for a more reasonable birth year?