Jean Lefèbvre and his wife Jeanne Doubleau lived in Manou in the Perche, the same village from which the Houde family came. The village today is near a large marsh which serves as a protected bird sanctuary (photo). We do not know Jean and Jeanne's birth and death dates, but they must have been born in the 1560s, and married in the early 1590s or before. Their daughter Anne (c1592-1620) married her neighbor Noël Houde on December 31, 1617 and have birth to their first child Louis-Noël Houde about a week later (or possibly he had already been born before the wedding; but he was not baptized until after). Anne died in 1620, and we do not know of any other children.

Louis-Noël Houde emigrated to Québec about 1647, and is the ancestor of a large percentage of French-Canadians today (see Houde).