The LeRoux Family
of
L'Ardoise, Cape Breton
 by:  Mary (Sampson) LeBlanc
 

Many thanks to Stephen White and Madeline LeRue contributed greatly to the material.

Jean Philippe LeRoux was the first of the LeRoux line to settle in L'Ardoise, N.S. A militia roll of 1813 lists him as being born in France, and of being a mariner. On the roll he states that he owns four acres of land and has a wife, two boys and two girls. 
  

In the 1811 census, Jean Philippe and his father-in-law, Bruneau Samson, lived in the same house. In the household were the following people: one m/f over 60, one m under 14, two f under 14, one f 14-60 and two m 14-60. They had 3 cattle, 4 sheep and no vessels. 

In 1824 there was a transfer of land in L'Ardoise by deed from Jean Philippe LeRoux to Anthony and Philip Mombourquette. In 1825 were was a transfer of land in L'Ardoise by deed from Jean Philippe LeRoux to François Bouton. 

In the 1838 census, Jean Philippe was listed as a rigger and there were 6 people in his household: one family head, two males over 14, three females over 14. In 1838 there was a transfer of land in L'Ardoise by deed from Jean Philippe to Anthony Brymer.
  

Descendants of Jean Phillipe LeRoux