APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

TRAHAN

[TRAH-honh in South Louisiana, TRAY-han in East Texas]

ACADIA

Guillaume, son of Nicolas Trahan and Renée Desloges of St.-Pierre, Montreuil-Bellay, Anjou, France, born in c1601, was an edge-tool maker living in nearby Bourgueil when he came to Acadia aboard the St.-Jehan in 1636 with his wife Francoise Corbineau, two young daughters, and a valet--among the first French families to settle in Acadia.  Guillaume and Francoise had been married at St.-Étienne, Chinon, Touraine, France, in July 1627.  Their daughters were Jeanne, born in c1629 probably at Chinon, and a girl whose name has been lost to history, born perhaps at Bourgueil; Jeanne married Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois at Port-Royal in c1643, and the younger daughter married widower Germain Doucet dit La Verdure at Port-Royal in c1654, both important early settlers.  The edge-tool maker himself became a shaker and a mover in the Port-Royal community.  In July 1640, Guillaume testified in an inquiry against former governor Charles de La Tour with future son-in-law Germain Doucet dit La Verdure.  When the British seized Port-Royal in 1654, Guillaume was syndic of the settlement and, as head of the Port-Royal council, signed the capitulation document.  Meanwhile, Francoise died at Port-Royal in c1664, and in c1666, when he was 65 years old, Guillaume remarried to Madeleine, 21-year-old daughter of Vincent Brun.  Madeleine gave the old fellow seven more children, including three sons, all born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own.  Three of their daughters married into the Doiron, Vincent, and Léger dit LaRosette families.  Guillaume died at Port-Royal in c1684; he was 83 years old. 

Oldest son Guillaume, fils, born in c1667, married Jacqueline, or Jacquette, daughter of Martin Benoit and widow of Michel Forest, at Port-Royal in c1691.  They moved to Pigiguit in the Minas Basin and had eight children, including five sons who married into the Comeau, Blanchard, Melanson, Hébert, and Thériot families.  Their two daughters married into the LePrince and LeBlanc families.  Guillaume, fils died at Pigiguit in September 1755, in his late 80s.  

Jean-Charles, born in c1668, married Marie, daughter of Charles Boudrot, at Port-Royal in c1693.  They also moved to the Minas Basin, settling at Rivière-aux-Canards.  They had a dozen children, including six sons who married into the Darois, Hébert, Thériot, Daigre, Aucoin, and Levron families.  Five of their daughters married into the Saulnier, Aucoin, Dupuis, and Thibodeau families.  Jean-Charles died at Rivière-aux-Canards in October1729, in his early 60s.

Youngest son Alexandre, born in c1670, married Marie, daughter of Francois Pellerin, at Port-Royal in c1689.  They, too, settled in the Minas Basin, where they had 14 children, including eight sons who married into the Girouard, Roy, Lejeune, Tillard, Melanson, Boudrot, and Thériot families.  Their five daughters married into the Lejeune, Hébert, Massier, Breau, and Benoit families.  Alexandre and some of his children moved from Minas to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, by the early 1750s.  Alexandre died at Port-Lajoie on Île St.-Jean in May 1751, in his early 80s.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Trahans were among the first families of Acadia and some the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them, three closely-related families and two wives--13 Trahans in all--reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  After a brief respite in the city, where some of them exchanged their Canadian card money for Louisiana funds, they followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:

Jean Trahan of Grand-Pré, age 47, widower of Marguerite Broussard, came with three children--Madeleine, age 15, Germain, age 13, and Marguerite, age 10.  Jean did not remarry.  His daughters married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families.  Jean died at Atakapas in April 1799; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean was 95 years old when he died, but he was "only" 80.  Daughter Madeleine, wife of Joseph-Pepin Hébert, died at Atakapas in January 1803; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was 60 years old when she died, but she was closer to 53.  Daughter Marguerite, widow of René LeBlanc, died in St. Martin Parish in July 1832; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was 80 years old when she died, but she was closer to 77.  Jean's son Germain married but produced no sons, which contributed to the demise of his line in Louisiana. 

René Trahan, age 36, perhaps Jean's older son, came with wife Isabelle Broussard of Petitcoudiac, age 32, daughter of Joseph dit Beausoleil, and 10-year-old son Olivier.  René and Isabelle had more children in Louisiana, including a son, but their line did not survive. 

Michel Trahan of Grand-Pré, age 39, Jean's brother, came with wife Anne-Euphrosine Vincent of Port-Royal, age 34, and four children--Paul, age 13, Francoise, age 12, Jean-Athanase, called Athanase and Thanase, age 11, and Marie-Francoise, age 2.  They settled on the lower Vermilion River.  Their daughters married into the Daigle, Fostin, and Trahan families.  Michel died "at Vermilion" in January 1784, in his late 50s.  Daughter Francoise, widow of Jacques Fostin, fils and Simon-Pierre Daigle, fils, died in Lafayette Parish in December 1826, in her early 70s.  Daughter Marie Francoise, wife of Jean-Baptiste Trahan, died in Lafayette Parish in June 1832, in her late 60s; her succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that month.  Michel's sons Paul and Athanase settled on Bayou Vermilion in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes; they and their many sons produced vigorous family lines. 

Ursule Trahan, age unrecorded, widow of Joseph-Grégoire Broussard of Pigiguit and Jean and Michel's sister, came with two children, ages 12 and 11.  She remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Jacques Girouard of Port-Royal, at New Orleans in April 1765, soon after they reached the colony; theirs was one of the earliest Acadian marriages recorded in Louisiana.  Ursule died in October 1765, probably a victim of the mysterious epidemic that struck the Bayou Teche valley that summer and fall.  Her new husband died 12 days after she did. 

Anne Trahan, age 26, came with husband Charles Guilbeau of Port-Royal, age 29.  Anne died by November 1775, when her husband remarried at Atakapas. 

Descendants of René TRAHAN (c1729-c1790?)

René, perhaps elder son of Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard, born in Acadia in c1729, married Isabelle, daughter of probably Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, either before or during Le Grand Dérangement.  They escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto area in 1755 and followed her family into exile in present-day eastern New Brunswick.  With her family, they ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  British officials counted them at Halifax in August 1763.  As part of the expedition led by her father, they went to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1764-65 and followed her family to the Atakapas District.  They settled on Bayou Tortue, a tributary of the Vermilion River, and had more children, including sons.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  René's succession will was dated 1790; he would have been in his early 60s that year.  One of his two sons married but had no children of his own, so this line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State. 

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Older son Olivier, born in Acadia in c1755, probably died young. 

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Younger son Louis-Joseph, born at Atakapas in August 1772 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest the following August, married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Thibodeaux, at Atakapas in November 1792.  Louis's succession record, in which "He obliges himself to the heirs of the wid. Théodore Broussard [his sister Henriette, who had died in March 1805]" was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1808.  Louis died "at his home" on the Vermilion in October 1811, a widower; he was only 39 years old.  His will was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse a few days before he died, and his succession record was filed there in May 1812.  He and his wife evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

Descendants of Germain TRAHAN (c1752-1784)

Germain, younger son of Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard, born in Acadia in c1752, escaped the British roundup of 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  British officials counted him with his widowed father and siblings at Halifax in August 1763.  They came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party in early 1765 and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, where Germain married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Joseph Castille, in February 1781.  Marie-Marthe's father was from the island of Menorca, near Spain, and her mother was Acadian; they had come to Louisiana from exile in Maryland in 1767.  Germain died St.-Gabriel on the river in September 1784, in his early 30s.  He and wife seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

Descendants of Paul TRAHAN (c1752-1799)

Paul, elder son of Michel Trahan and Anne-Euphrosine Vincent, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1752, escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and was taken to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  His family ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party in early 1765, and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, where Paul married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hugon, in July 1772; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry.  Marie and her family, from Chignecto, were exiled to South Carolina in 1755 but went from there to St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, in the early 1760s, where her father died.  She, her widowed mother, who was a Broussard, and a paternal uncle, hooked up with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party as it came through Cap-Français, Haiti, in late 1764 and followed them to Louisiana, so Paul and Marie must have known one another since their early teens.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Bertrand (French Creole, not Acadian), Broussard, Campbell, Hébert, Pavie, Racca, Regassoni, and Trahan families.  Daughter Christine's "natural son" Treville, born in c1822, was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 16, in February 1838.  Christine had other "natural" children.  Paul died probably on the Vermilion in December 1799; the priest who recorded his burial said that Paul was 45 years old when he died. 

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Oldest son Paul dit Hippolyte à Petit, baptized at Atakapas, age unrecorded, in May 1776, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Frenchman Guillaume Monte or Montet, at Atakapas in November 1796; Marguerite's mother, also, was a Vincent.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in November 1797, Jean-Baptiste was born in January 1799, Joseph le jeune in January 1806, Francois in August 1808, and Onésime in June 1811.  Their daughters married into the Hargrave, Hébert, and Vincent families.  Paul, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1830; he was 53 years old; his succession records were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in July 1823 and June 1830. 

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Jean Baptiste married Claire or Clarisse, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Dubois, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1819.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Marsilien was born in July 1823, Bélisaire in March 1830, Ozenne in April 1833, and a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died 5 days after its birth in January 1840.  Their daughter married into the Sellers family.  ...

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Joseph le jeune married Marcellite, daughter of French Creole Auguste Royer, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1825 and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1826; the wedding was performed at the groom's home; Marcellite's mother was a Cormier.  Their son Pierre Onésime was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1829, Alexis in c1833, Joseph, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in February 1837, Lasty at age 6 months in September 1838, and Valentin was born in January 1840.  ...

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Pierre, born in January 1786, married Francoise, daughter of Benjamin Hargroder of Vermilion, at Atakapas in December 1805.  They may have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children. 

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Joseph, born in February 1790, married cousin Marie Josephine, called Josephine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Duhon of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church St. Martin Parish, in January 1818; Josephine's mother was a Trahan.  They settled in what became Lafayette Parish.  Their son Joseph, fils was born in February 1821, Treville in March 1824, Émile was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 1, in September 1826, Hilaire died at age 3 1/2 in September 1830, Théodule was born in June 1830, and Aladin in November 1831.  Their daughter married into the Richard family.  ...

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Olivier, born probably in the 1790s, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Vincent of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1811.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Olivier, fils was born in October 1817, Joseph Valsin in January 1821, Jean Treville in October 1822, Jean Baptiste le jeune died at age 7 days in October 1824, Valentin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 4 1/2 months, in August 1826, Armand was born in February 1828, and Léo in January 1830.  Their daughters married into the Bertrand (French Creole, not Acadian) and Trahan families.  ...

Olivier, fils married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of French Creole Charles Manceaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish,  in March 1836; Adélaïde's mother was a Trahan.  Their son Olivier III was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in April 1837, and Charles at age 3 months in October 1839.  ...

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Youngest son Timothée, born in December 1796, may have died young. 

Descendants of Jean-Athanase TRAHAN (c1754-c1836)

Jean-Athanase, called Athanase or Thanase, younger son of Michel Trahan and Anne-Euphrosine Vincent, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1752, escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and was taken to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  His family ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  They came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party in early 1765 and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, where Athanase married fellow Acadian Madeleine Thibodeaux in the 1770s.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Duhon and Manceaux families.  Athanase's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in 1836; he would have been in his early 80s that year. 

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in the late 1770s or early 1780s, married Marie-Martine, called Martine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Mius d'Entremont IV of Pobomcoup and Ascension, at Atakapas in July 1802.  Martine had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785 and was born aboard the vessel.  They settled at La Grosse Île on the Vermilion.  Their son Eusèbe was born in August 1806.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie Josèphe, Josephine, or Josette, daughter of fellow Acadian Mathurin Casimir Aucoin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1815.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their son Francois Xavier was born in January 1819, Joseph Treville in April 1821, and Sylvère in July 1829.  Their daughter married into the Granger family.  ...

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Eusèbe, by his first wife, married cousin Marie Émilite, called Melite, daughter of Olivier Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1829.  Their son Onésime was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1829, and Sarasin in October 1831.  Eusèbe died in Lafayette Parish in September 1839; the priest who recorded his burial said that Eusèbe was 35 years old when he died, but he was only 33. 

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Francois Xavier, by his second wife, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1838. ...

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Joseph, born in February 1782, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Granger of Opelousas and Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Joseph, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 4 1/2 months in June 1830 but died in July.  Their daughter married into the Langlinois family.  ...

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Pierre dit Jani or Tani, born in July 1783, married Susanne, called Suzette and Ursule, daughter of French Creole Louis Boulet of Lafourche, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1809.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Athanase le jeune was born in July 1813, Pierre, fils in January 1815, and Louis in February 1823.  Their daughters married into the Fontenot and Roy families.  Pierre may have remarried to fellow Acadian Adélaïde Hébert, widow of Jean Boulle, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1834.  Pierre's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1837; he would have been 54 years old that year. 

Pierre, fils married Célestine, 21-year-old daughter of Italian Creole Antoine Marcantel, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1837. ...

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Michel le jeune, born in March 1785, married Susanne, called Suzette, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guidry dit Canada of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1809.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Michel, fils was born in February 1810 but died at age 15 in March 1825, Jean Baptiste le jeune was born in May 1812, Onésime in November 1819, Maxille in August 1821, Treville in January 1823, twins Émile and Stainville were baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in October 1826, Edmond was born in November 1832, and Valsin was baptized at age 8 months in December 1836.  Their daughter married into the Leger family.  ...

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Jean Baptiste le jeune married first cousin Marguerite Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of French Creole Charles Manceaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1832; Marguerite's mother was Jean's aunt Madeleine Trahan.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1834, Eugène in December 1836, and Clémile was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in April 1839.  ...

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Onésime married cousin Carmelite, daughter of Pierre Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1837. ...

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Athanase, fils, born in January 1787, married Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Marie Landry of Iberville Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1810.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Athanase III, also called Ferdinant Athanase, was born posthumously in December 1810.  Athanase, fils died "at this parents" on the Vermilion in November 1810; he was only 23 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1818. 

Athanase III married Marie Amelina or Emilina, daughter of French Creole Pierre Ducharme, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1833; Marie's mother was a Rivet.  Their son Richard Alcide was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1840.  ...

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Youngest son Julien, born in May 1789, married Marie Emerite, called Merite, another daughter of Joseph Marie Landry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1815.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Julien, fils was born in April 1820.  Their daughters married into the Duhon and Lepine families.  Julien, père's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August 1822; he would have been only 33 years old that year. 

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More Trahans came to the western prairies in the late 1760s.  Their journey to Louisiana was unrivaled in hard luck and suffering:

A Trahan family and two Trahan wives--four more members of the family--left Port Tobacco, Maryland, in early 1769 aboard the ill-fated British schooner Britannia.  With them were other Acadian families and eight German Catholic families who also chose to settle in Spanish Louisiana.  The English ship captain somehow missed the mouth of the Mississippi River, and the Britannia ran aground on the Texas coast near Espiritu Santo Bay.  Spanish officials, who feared that these ragged refugees were smugglers or spies, held them at La Bahía for six long months, until word reached the presidio commander that the crew and passengers of this vessel were harmless.  After a harrowing overland trek from La Bahía to Natchitoches, which they reached in October, the Trahans chose to settle in the Opelousas District, north of Atakapas: 

Honoré Trahan of Pigiguit, age 43, came with wife Marie Corporon, age 50, their 18-year-old son Pierre, and a 13-year-old Lejeune nephew.  Honoré and Marie had no more children in Louisiana.  Honoré died at Atakapas in July 1791; he was 65 years old. 

Marie Trahan, age 22, Honoré's daughter, came with husband Antoine Bellard of Picardy, France, age 30, and a 2-year-old son.

Anne Trahan, age 38, Honoré's sister and widow of Jean-Baptiste Benoit, came with second husband Louis Latier, age 39, three Benoit children, ages 22, 15, and 9, and three Latier children, ages 9, 6, and 4.  Anne remarried to Francois Campo at Ascension in September 1772 and remained on the river; brother Honoré was a witness at her wedding. 

Descendants of Pierre TRAHAN (c1750-)

Pierre, son of Honoré Trahan and Marie Corporon, born at Louisbourg, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, in c1750, was exiled to Maryland in 1755, so his family probably at returned to Pigiguit by 1755.  British officials counted him with his family at Port Tobacco, Maryland, on the lower Potomac, in July 1763.  They came to Louisiana in 1769 aboard the ill-fated British schooner Britannia.  After their harrowing ordeal in Texas and their long trek overland to Natchitoches in Louisiana, they settled on the western prairies, where Pierre married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseux of Grand-Pré, in the 1770s.  Their daughter married into the Duplechin and Simar families.  Pierre remarried to Pélagie-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Gautreaux, at Opelousas in May 1789.  Pélagie, a native of St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships.  She gave Pierre more children, including a son.  Their daughter married into the Garcia family.  Most of his six sons created families of their own.  Two of the older ones from his first wife settled in St. Landry Parish, but one of them moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre's youngest son by his second wife settled in St. Martin Parish. 

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Oldest son Alexandre-Romain, by his first wife, born probably at Opelousas in c1776, died in October 1788.  He was only 12 years old. 

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Charles, by his first wife, born at Opelousas in October 1777, married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Blaise Lejeune, at Opelousas in July 1800.  Their son Solange or Soulange was baptized at Opelousas, age 20 months, in December 1803, Charles, fils was born in December 1806, and Jean in January 1814.  Their daughters married into the Hébert and Quebedeaux families.  Charles, père remarried to French Creole Marianne Duplechin of Opelousas in the late 1810s.  ...

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Soulange, by his first wife, married Marguerite, daughter of French Creole Simon Fontenot, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1824. ...

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Charles, fils, by his first wife, married Marie Eurasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Sonnier, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1831.  Their son Charles III was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in December 1838.  ...

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Jean, by his first wife, married Céleste or Célise, daughter of French Creole Jean Pierre Baptiste Fontenot, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1836.  Their son Jean, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1838.  ...

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Étienne-Simon, by his first wife, born at Opelousas in January 1782, married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Daigle of Assumption, at Ascension on the river in June 1806; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Anne's maternal grandmother was a Corporon.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

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Pierre, fils, by his first wife, born probably at Opelousas in the 1780s, married Hélène, daughter of French Creole Jean-Baptiste Duplechin of Avoyelles, at Opelousas in January 1806.  Their son Onésime was baptized at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, age 13 months, in July 1810, and Honoré was born in January 1821.  Their daughters married into the Arnaud, Beard, Bertrand (French Creole, not Acadian), Daum, Hollier, and Quebedeaux families.  ...

Onésime married Émilite, daughter of Joseph Primeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1828.  Their son Onésime, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1830, Joseph in November 1831, Pierre Ozémé in February 1836, and Don Louis in April 1839.  ...

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A son, by his first wife, name and age unrecorded, died at Opelousas in January 1786. 

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Youngest son Alexandre, by his second wife, born at Atakapas in July 1795, married Céleste, daughter of Joseph Primeaux of the lower Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1814.  Their son Alexandre, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1823.  A daughter married into the Clement (French Creole, not Acadian) family.  ...

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A Trahan perhaps from Maryland came to Louisiana probably in the late 1760s and settled on the river before moving to the prairies:

Descendants of Joseph TRAHAN, fils (c1762-1793)

Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Aucoin, born probably in Maryland in c1762, first appears in South Louisiana church records in June 1783, when he married Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Modeste Pitre, at Atakapas.  Joseph, fils probably had come to the colony as a young orphan in the late 1760s and lived on the river before crossing the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District.  He and Francoise settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughter married into the Landry family.  Joseph died probably on the Vermilion in February 1793, in his early 30s. 

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Oldest son Joseph III, born "between Jan.-June 1784 and baptized at Atakapas in June 1784, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry of the Vermilion, at Atakapas in January 1806.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Magloire was born in September 1806, a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 days in November 1808,  Joseph IV was born in February 1810, Leufroi in August 1812, Similien or Syphorien in October 1813, and Charles le jeune in April 1816.  They also had a son named Maximilien.  ...

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Magloire married cousin Marie Arsènne, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1825; Marie's mother, also, was a Landry. ...

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Joseph IV married Marie, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Dubois, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1833.  Their son Léo was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1836.  ...

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Syphorien married Olive, another daughter of Pierre Dubois, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1833.  Their son Syphorien, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in August 1839.  ...

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Maximilien married Marie Olive, called Olive, daughter of fellow Acadian Maximilien Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1835.  Their son Émile was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, 20 days, in March 1839, and Clairville was born in March 1840.  ...

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Charles, born probably at Atakapas in the late 1780s, married Marie Louise or Eloise, daughter of fellow Acadian René LeBlanc of Vermilion, at Atakapas in January 1807.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Éloi was born in June 1812, Onésime in May 1814, Chevalier in July 1816 but died at age 11 in October 1827, and Evariste was born in March 1821.  Their daughter married a LeBlanc cousin.  ...

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Éloi married Eveline, daughter of Pierre Marthe Ley, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1834.  Their son Joseph le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in March 1840.  ...

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Onésime married Marie Eliza, called Eliza, daughter of French Creole Mathias Luguet or Luquet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1835; Marie's mother was a Mouton.  Their son Charles Achille was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1839.  ...

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Youngest son Jean dit Petit Jean, born probably at Atakapas in c1789, married Césaire, daughter of French Creole Pierre Baudoin of St. Charles Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1810.  The settled at Grosse Île on the Vermilion.  Their son Evariste was born in February 1815.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Duhon, and Hébert families.  Petit Jean died at Grosse Île in October 1822; he was only 33 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in June 1823. 

Evariste married Louise Zoe, daughter of French Creole Francois Marchand or Marceaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1834.  Their son Oscar was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 1/2 months, in June 1838.  ...

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A young Trahan seems to have come to Louisiana from France before the first of the Seven Ships arrived in July 1785.  If so, one wonders how he got to New Orleans, and when.  He settled in the Atakapas District:

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils (c1761-1840)

Jean-Baptiste, fils, eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Madeleine-Modeste Hébert of Minas, born at Liverpool, England, in c1761, would have been repatriated to France with his family in the spring of 1763.  He came to Louisiana by January 1785, when he married cousin Marie-Francoise, daughter of Michel Trahan, at Atakapas.  Marie-Francoise was a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had come to Louisiana with her family in 1765.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Duhon and Simon families.  Marie's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in June 1832; she would have been in her late 60s that year.  Jean-Baptiste, fils remarried to Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Modeste Pitre and widow of Joseph Trahan, fils, Jean-Joachim Desormeaux, and Pierre Labombarde, fils, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1832; he was 71 years old and she was 68!  Needless to say, she gave him no more children.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died in Lafayette Parish in June 1840; he was 80 years old.  His was the only line of his father's family to survive in the Bayou State; his younger brothers, who also married and settled in the Atakapas District, produced no sons who had sons of their own.  Though Jean Baptiste had at least five sons, only two of them seem to have created families of their own, so the survival of his line was a fairly close thing. 

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by his first wife, born in June 1785, probably died young. 

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Michel, by his first wife, born in December 1786, also may have died young. 

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Pierre-Baptiste, by his first wife, born in September 1789, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of Anglo-American Matthew Sellers of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1811; Marcellite's mother was an Aucoin.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Pierre, fils was born in August 1813, Louis Arvillien in March 1815, Jean in April 1817, Jean Charles in February 1821, and Henry was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 5 months and 20 days, in May 1827.  They also had sons named Ferdinand and Maximilien. Their daughters married into the Landry, Simon, and Trahan families.  Pierre died in Lafayette Parish in September 1833; he was only 44 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1834. 

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Louis Arvillien married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1832.  Their child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 1/2 months in October 1833, and Raymond was born in August 1838.  ...

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Maximilien married Marie Zéolide or Zéonide, daughter of fellow Acadian Maximilien Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish, in September 1837. ...

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Pierre, fils married Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Claude Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1837.  Their son Émile was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 50 days, in June 1839.  ...

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Ferdinand married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1839. ...

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Louis, by his first wife, baptized at Atakapas, age 14 months, in April 1795, may have died young. 

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Youngest son Firmin, a twin, by his first wife, born in October 1805, married fellow Acadian Marie Carmelite Duhon in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1824.  Their son Alexandre was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 18 days, in January 1826.  ...

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Three of the Trahan families who emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, one led by a widow, and a Trahan wife and her family--13 more members of the family--chose to settle not on the Mississippi River or on upper Bayou Lafourche but near their cousins on the prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin:  

Marie-Sophie Prince, age 43, widow of Joseph Trahan, her 19-year-old son Antoine-Joseph, and a 26-year-old Prince half-sister, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August.  Antoine-Joseph settled on upper Bayou Vermilion. 

Jean-Baptiste Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 50, crossed with wife Madeleine-Modeste Hébert of Pigiguit, age 44, and four children--Jean-Michel, called Michel, age 21, Pierre, age 18, Marie-Louise, age 16, and Jeanne-Félicité, age 14--aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September.  Their daughters married into the Bourg family at Atakapas.  Their oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils seems to have come to the colony from France on his own before 1785.  Jean Baptiste, père died "suddenly at the residence of Charles Bourg, his son-in-law of Vermilion," in November 1808; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean-Baptiste was 77 years old when he died, but he was 73; his succession record had been filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the previous September.  Only the line of his oldest son survived in the Bayou State. 

Pierre Trahan of Pigiguit, age 48, wife Marguerite Duhon, age 44, and six children--Geneviève, age 23, Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Apolline, age 18, Catherine-Marguerite, called Marguerite, age 16, Anne, age 12, Marie-Francoise, called Francoise, age 10, and Joseph-Marie, age 8--also crossed on Le St.-Rémi.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Broussard, Hébert, Morin, and Thibodeaux families.  Pierre died at Atakapas in September 1803, in his late 60s.  Daughter Geneviève, wife of Jean-Baptiste Morin, died at Atakapas in October 1787; she was only 25 years old.  Daughter Marguerite, wife of Joseph Hébert, died at Atakapas in August 1804, in her late 30s.  Daughter Élisabeth Apolline, wife of Joseph Boudreaux, died in Lafayette Parish in June 1835; she was 68 years old; her succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July. 

Marie-Isabelle Trahan, age 25, Pierre's oldest daughter, crossed with husband Lucien Bourg, age 21, aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  They settled on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Marie died in Lafayette Parish in April 1835; the priest who recorded her burial said that Marie was 66 years old when she died, but she was 76; her succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May. 

Few of the Trahans from France who settled on the western prairies produced lines that survived: 

Descendants of Jean-Michel TRAHAN (1764-)

Jean-Michel, called Michel, second son of Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Madeleine-Modeste Hébert of Minas, born at Morlaix, France, in August 1764, crossed with his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to the Atakapas District, where he settled on the lower Vermilion River.  He married cousin Marguerite, daughter of French Creole Jacques Fostin, at Atakapas in January 1791; her mother was a Trahan.  Their daughter married into the Benoit and Ellender families.  Jean-Michel remarried to another cousin, Marie-Renée, daughter of Paul Trahan, at Atakapas in November 1796.  She does not seem to have given him any more children, at least no more sons.  His only son by his first wife died an infant, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not survive. 

A son, name unrecorded, by his first wife, died at age 14 days in November 1793. 

Pierre TRAHAN (c1767-c1808)

Pierre, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Madeleine-Modeste Hébert of Minas, born probably at Morlaix, France, in c1767, crossed with his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to the Atakapas District, where he married Anne-Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Aucoin, in January 1795.  He and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Pierre's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1808; his wife was called a widow; he would have been only in his early 40s that year. 

Descendants of Antoine-Joseph TRAHAN (c1766-1834)

Antoine-Joseph, called Joseph, son of Joseph Trahan and Marie-Sophie Prince, born on Île d'Aix, La Rochelle, France, in c1766, came to Louisiana with his widowed mother and a widowed aunt aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to the Atakapas District, where he married Marie-Francoise-Élisabeth or -Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Mire of St.-Jacques and Côte Gelée, in September 1798.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family.  Antoine Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in February 1834; he was 68 years old. 

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Older son Joseph-Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, born in July 1799, married cousin Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Basile Landry of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1820; Geneviève's mother, also, was a Mire.  Zéphirin remarried to Marie Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Claude Broussard, probably in St. Martin Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Joseph Laissin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in October 1835.  ...

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Younger son Antoine-Denis, born in March 1803, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1829.  Their son Jean was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in October 1830 but died a few days later, Joseph was baptized at age 2 months in August 1832, Pierre at age 1 1/2 months in November 1837, and Onésime at age 3 months in May 1840.  ...

Joseph-Marie TRAHAN (1777-)

Joseph-Marie, son of Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon, born at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in April 1777, sailed to Louisiana with his family aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Atakapas.  One wonders if he married and created a family of his own. 

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During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, Trahans left the river and joined their cousins on the western prairies.  Most of them produced successful lines that remained on the prairies:  

Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan, widower of Marguerite Landry and Marie-Madeleine Duhon, came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, with two sons and four daughters.  He took them to Ascension, where he seems to have died a year or two after he reached the colony.  His two sons and a daughter settled in the Atakapas District by the late 1780s.  His daughter married into the Broussard dit Beausoleil and Meaux families.

Francoise Trahan, widow of Pascal or Pierre Hébert and wife of Charles Dugas, died at Atakapas in November 1799.  She was 52 years old. 

Marie-Jeanne Trahan, widow of Joseph Boutin and wife of Balthazar Marks, died at Opelousas in January 1803, in her early 30s; her succession record was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse in December 1804. 

Marie-Madeleine Trahan, wife of Firmin Duhon, died at Atakapas in December 1803.  She was only 35 years old. 

Marie-Marguerite Trahan, widow of Pierre Donnet and wife of Étienne Ardoin, fils, moved from Baton Rouge to St. Martin Parish by the 1820s.  She died "at her home at la fausse pointe," St. Martin Parish, in April 1829, in her early 50s; her succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following June. 

Descendants of Charles dit Charlitte TRAHAN (c1766-1838)

Charles, fils, also called Charles dit Charlitte, younger son of Charles Trahan and his second wife Marguerite Thibodeau, born in Maryland in c1766, came to Louisiana with his family in February 1768 with the Breau party from Port Tobacco and followed them to the distant settlement of Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far above Baton Rouge.  When the Acadians were allowed to abandon Fort San Luìs, Charles dit Charlitte's family moved probably to the Acadian Coast, south of Baton Rouge; his father may have died by then.  In the 1780s, Charles dit Charlitte crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, where Spanish officials counted him with the militia there in August 1789.  He married Marie, daughter of Francois, sometimes called Pierre, Andro, Landrau, Landraud, Landrot, or Landroz of Bordeaux, France, at Atakapas in August 1789; Marie's mother was an Hébert.  They settled on the lower Vermilion River and on Bayou Teche at Grand Bois sur la Pointe Claire, L'île des Cypres, or Cypress Island, now Lake Martin, L'île Labbé, L'Anse à Michaud, and Lîle des Cignes.  Their daughters married into the Allemand, Cluseau, Landry, Laviolette, Martin (Scots, not Acadian), and Theriot families.  Charles dit Charlitte died in St. Martin Parish in February 1838; the priest who recorded his burial said that Charles was 84 years old when he died, but he was "only" in his early 70s. 

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Oldest son Édouard, born in c1793, died on the lower Vermilion at age 20 months in July 1795. 

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Nicolas-Denis, called Colas and Denis, born in August 1796, died in St. Martin Parish in September 1834.  He was 40 years old and probably did not marry. 

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Hilaire, born at L'île Labbé in July 1804, married Célestine, daughter of French Creole Éloi Picard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1833.  Their son Charles le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1835, Hilaire Ovile in May 1836, and Paulin in June 1840.  ...

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Youngest son Guillaume or William, born at La Pointe in July 1812, married Céleste or Célestine Caroline or Coralie, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Boullion or Bouillion of Iberville Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1834.  Their son Louis Sylvain, called Sylvain, was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1835 but died at age 1 in October 1836, and Julien was born in May 1840.  ...

Descendants of Augustin TRAHAN (c1767-1800)

Augustin, elder son of Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Duhon, born at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in c1767, sailed to Louisiana with his family aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension on the river.  Spanish officials counted him there on the right, or west, bank of the river with his family in 1788.  He moved to the Atakapas District probably in the late 1780s and married cousin Marie-Angèle, called Angèle, daughter of French Creole Jacques Fostin, at Atakapas in July 1793; Angèle's mother was a Trahan.  Augustin died at Atakapas in December 1800, only in his early 30s. 

Joseph-Leufroi or Leufroi-Auguste, also called Jacques, born at Atakapas in March 1797, married Julie, daughter of French Creole Étienne Ardoin of Pointe Coupee and Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1817.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Robillard and Ternant families of Pointe Coupee.  Joseph Leufroi's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1823, with the sad notation:  "... he is 26 yrs. old and insane for 5 years; he has 2 children [daughters]; he dangerously wounded his wife who was caring for him, who immediately abandoned him; his mother [who had remarried to Francois Labauve in June 1802] now cares for him and often has to chain him."  Leufroi died in Lafayette Parish in November 1840; the priest who recorded his burial said that Leufroi was 40 years old when he died, but he was 43.  He and his wife had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Descendants of Jean-Marie TRAHAN (c1775-1804)

Jean-Marie, younger son of Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Duhon, born probably at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in c1775, sailed to Louisiana with his family aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension on the river.  Spanish officials counted him there on the right, or west, bank of the river with his family in 1788.  He moved to the Atakapas District probably in the late 1780s and married cousin Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Duhon, at Atakapas in August 1796; Isabelle's mother was a Trahan; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Isabelle was a native of Louisiana whose family had come to the colony in 1765.  Jean-Marie died at Atakapas in February 1804, only in his late 20s. 

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Oldest son Joseph-Euphroie, born at Atakapas in November 1796, died at age 13 months in December 1797. 

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Jean-Onésime, called Onésime, born at Atakapas in November 1800, married French Creole Angèle Terzille, called Terzille, Blanchet probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Claireville was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1824, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in July 1829, another child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in July 1830, Julien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in June 1834 but died in August, and Onésime, fils was baptized at age 10 months in July 1836.  ...

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Youngest son Pierre, born at Atakapas in October 1802, ...

Simon-Augustin TRAHAN (1772-1806)

Simon-Augustin, second son of Pierre-Isidore Trahan and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in June 1772, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785 with his widowed mother and siblings.  He followed them to Manchac, where Spanish officials counted them near old Fort Bute in 1788.  He and his mother moved to the Atakapas District in the late colonial period.  Simon probably never married.  He died "at Carencros at the home of Louis Renotte" in January 1806; he was only 33 years old. 

Descendants of Francois-Antoine TRAHAN (1785-)

Francois-Antoine, younger son of Joseph Trahan and Marguerite Lavergne, born at Manchac or Baton Rouge in December 1785, came to Louisiana with his family aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785; as his birth demonstrates, he came to the colony in utero.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Theriot, probably at Baton Rouge in April 1808, and remarried to Anne-Renée or Renée Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Labauve, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1811.  They moved to St. Martin Parish later in the decade and settled at Grand Bois on Bayou Teche.  According to a church record, Francois worked as a "bookkeeper at the farm of the widow Gabriel Fuselier" in St. Martin Parish; this may have been the widow of the man who, during Spanish rule of Louisiana, had served as commandant of both the Atakapas and Opelousas districts; Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire, in fact, was the first commandant of the Atakapas District.  ...

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Oldest son Angèl, by his second wife, died near Baton Rouge at age 9 months in April 1815.

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Romuald Philogène, called Philasie or Philosie, from his second wife, born at Grand Bois in November 1818, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Josaphat Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1840.  ...

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A son, name unrecorded, by his second wife, died at the home of Widow Gabriel Fuselier, St. Martin Parish, age 7 months, in September 1821. 

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Youngest son Francois Eugène, by his second wife, born in St. Martin Parish in November 1822, ...

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Other TRAHANs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Trahans in the western parishes with known lines of the family there:

The succession record of Marie Trahan, "an interdicted person, also a widow," was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in 1847.  The record states that her "interdiction" was dated 21 April 1804, whatever that means. 

Rosalie Trahan had a daughter named Euranie, who gave birth to "natural son" Onésime in St. Martin Parish in January 1812.  The boy died the following April, age 3 months. 

Marguerite Trahan gave birth to "natural son" Jean in c1817.  The boy was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 12, in September 1829.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name or record the mother's parents. 

Pierre dit Pinot Trahan's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1821.  The parish clerk who recorded the succession did not mention a wife, so one wonders which Pierre Trahan this might have been. 

Francois dit Cadet Trahan married ____ Mallet probably in St. Martin Parish by the early 1830s. 

Marguerite Trahan married Firmin Onésime, called Onésime, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Firmin Duhon, fils, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1835.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

Pierre Trahan married fellow Acadian Urasie or Urasine Prejean.  Their son Onésime was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, at age 3 months in October 1837, and Demosthène at age 3 months in August 1839. 

Philomène Trahan married fellow Acadian Marge Carmelite Duhon probably in Lafayette Parish by 1840. 

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

None of the Trahan who came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 settled on the river.  Only after the Acadian exiles from Maryland reached the colony in the late 1760s did Trahans appear on what was being called the Acadian Coast:

In July 1767, a Trahan widow came to Louisiana from exile in Maryland:

Marie-Josèphe Trahan, age 45, widow of Michel LeBlanc, came with an 18-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son.  She settled with her children at the new Acadian community of St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, below Baton Rouge, on what became known as the Acadian Coast:

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In February 1768, a Trahan family, two Trahan wives, and a Trahan widow--seven more members of the family--reached Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, with the large extended family led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.  Spanish Governor Ulloa, caring nothing of Acadian sensibilities, ordered the Breaus and their allied families to the new Acadian settlement of San Luìs de Natchez, far upriver and across from British-controlled territory.  The Breaus protested the location, which was so distant from their fellow Acadians, but the governor was adamant that they go there and threatened to deport them and their families if they did not comply with his order.  In 1769, after a Creole-led revolt toppled Ulloa, Spanish General Alejandro O'Reilly, Ulloa's successor, allowed the Acadians at San Luìs de Natchez to abandon the settlement.  None of them remained there:

Claire Trahan, age 61, widow of Charles Breau, came with four children.  Claire died at San Luis de Natchez in June 1768, soon after she got there. 

Madeleine Trahan, age 45, came with husband Alexis Breau of Pigiguit, age  44, a leader of the expedition, and six children, ages 21 to 3.  Madeleine and her family went to St.-Jacques on the Acadian Coast after the Spanish allowed them to leave Natchez. 

Charles Trahan, age 37, came with second wife Marguerite Thibodeau, age 26, and three children--Brigitte, age 11, Firmin, age 4, and Charles dit Charlitte, age 2.  Marguerite was pregnant when they reached the colony; their daughter Marie-Madeleine was born in early June 1768 and baptized at New Orleans a week later.  Charles, père may have died at either San Luìs de Natchez or on the Acadian Coast by September 1769, when Spanish officials counted his daughter Brigitte with another family at St.-Jacques and called her an orphan.  Brigitte married into the Landry, Boudier, and Gousman families at Ascension and San Bernardo and remained on the river.  Charles's son Firmin was counted in a census at Ascension on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1777 with sister Brigitte and her first husband, so he, too, remained on the river, but he may not have married.  Charles's younger son Charles dit Charlitte moved to the Atakapas District, where he married in the late 1780s.  Marie-Madeleine probably died young. 

Anne-Madeleine Trahan, age 36, came with husband Honoré Breau of Pigiguit, age 37, the other leader of the expedition, and three children, ages 14, 3, and 1.  Anne-Madeleine and her family also went to St.-Jacques. 

Firmin TRAHAN (c1764-?)

Firmin, elder son of Charles Trahan and and his second wife Marguerite Thibodeau, born probably in Maryland in c1764, came to Louisiana with his family in February 1768 and followed them to the distant settlement of San Luis de Natchez, far above Baton Rouge.  When the Acadians were allowed to abandon the settlement, some of his family moved to the Acadian Coast, where Spanish officials counted him with his elder sister Brigitte and her husband Étienne Landry on the left, or east, bank at Ascension in 1777.  One wonders if he married and created a family of his own. 

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The arrival date of one Trahan who settled on the river is difficult to determine: 

Madeleine Trahan, born in c1733, does not appear in Louisiana records until January 1771, when she married Francois, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert and a widower, at St.-Jacques.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at St.-Jacques in 1777.  Madeleine did have several siblings in the colony, but they did not arrive until 1785.  Her husband had come to Louisiana in 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue. 

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Not until the great influx of Acadians from France in the 1780s did large numbers of Trahans appear on the river.  After enduring a quarter century of poverty and neglect in the mother country, at least 98 members of the family sailed to Louisiana on six of the Seven Ships in the summer and fall of 1785.  Only the Héberts outnumbered the Trahans on the 1785 expedition. 

Most of the new arrivals--11 families, one led by a widow, and various wives and individuals, from four ships, 52 Trahans in all--went to Ascension on the Acadian Coast between St.-Jacques and St.-Gabriel.  Trahans who went to Ascension were especially plentiful on the fourth ship, Le St.-Rémi.  Most of the Ascension-bound Trahans settled on upper Bayou Lafourche: 

Jean Trahan, age 25, crossed alone on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  Most of the passengers from his ship went to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, but he chose to go to Ascension. 

Joseph Trahan, age 59, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, with wife Marie Boudrot, age 57, and three children--Anselme-Marie, age 19, Marie-Madeleine, age 17, and Marguerite-Aimée, age 11.  They reached New Orleans in mid-August.  Their older daughter moved to the Atakapas District and married into the Duhon family, and their younger daughter married into the Blanchard family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their son remained at Ascension. 

Mathurin Trahan, age 24, Joseph's oldest son, crossed on La Bergère with French wife Pérrine-Marguerite Orry, age 19.  Mathurin remarried to a fellow Acadian at Ascension in July 1786 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where his children were born. 

Marie Trahan, age 54, crossed on La Bergère with husband Gabriel Moreau, age 61, a Frenchman, and two children, ages 24 and 18. 

Marguerite Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 38, crossed on La Bergère with husband Simon Mazerolle of Grand-Pré, age 42, and four children, ages 18 to 8.  Marguerite died at Ascension in November 1786, only 39 years old. 

Olivier Trahan, age 54, a widower, crossed on La Bergère with two children--Anne-Marie, age 22, and Grégoire-Olivier, age 18.  Olivier remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Brasseur, at Ascension in January 1788 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche; she gave him no more children.  Daughter Anne-Marie remained on the river and married into the Desormeaux family.  Son Grégoire-Olivier may have settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Pierre Trahan of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 62, crossed with fourth wife Marie Clémenceau of Grand-Pré, age 32, and their year-old daughter Louise-Renée aboard Le St.-Rémi, which reached New Orleans in September.  Pierre and Marie had another daughter, who married into the Pichoff family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but they had no sons.  Daughter Louise-Renée probably died young. 

Augustin Trahan, age 50, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with wife Bibienne LeBlanc, age 40, and their 12-year-old daughter Marie-Modeste.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Augustin became a widower in the early 1790s. 

Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan of Pigiguit, age 50, a widower, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with six children--Anne-Isabelle, age 21, Augustin, age 18, Marie-Félicité, age 14, Catherine, age 12, Jean-Marie, age 10, and Marie-Vincente, age 1.  Joachim-Hyacinthe did not remarry.  His two sons and one of his daughters, who married a Broussard, moved to the western prairies.  Two of his other daughters married into the Boudreaux and Breaux families and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Youngest daughter Marie-Vicente probably died young. 

Marguerite Trahan, age 50, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Michel Levron, age 55, and two children, ages 22 and 17. 

Another Marguerite Trahan, age 49, widow of Joseph Trahan, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with her 12-year-old daughter Augustine-Pélagie.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Francoise Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 47, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Pierre LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 51, and four children, ages 22 to infant.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Madeleine Trahan, age 45, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Étienne Darois, age 47, and four daughters, ages 24 to 8.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Paul Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 42, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with wife Marie-Josèphe Trahan of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 44, and two sons--Paul-Alexis, age 16, and Pierre-Francois, age 5. 

Eustache Trahan of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 40, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with wife Marie LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 58. 

Marin Trahan, age 40, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with second wife Marguerite Juon, age 20, a Frenchwoman, and six children from his first wife--Madeleine, age 23, Jean-Baptiste, age 21, Marie-Marguerite, age 16, Francoise-Barbe, age 11, Jean-Joseph-Marie, age 8, and Francois-Marie, age 7. Marin's second wife gave him no more children, at least none who survived infancy.   His daughters by his first wife married into the Durocher and Lejeune families and, with their brothers, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Rosalie Trahan, age 40, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Charles LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 52, and six children, ages 21 to infant.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Pélagie Trahan, age 39, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Charles Gautrot, age 44, and six children, ages 19 to infant.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Pierre Trahan, age 28, crossed alone on Le St.-Rémi. 

Anne Trahan, age 24, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Alexis Levron, age 24.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Marie Trahan, age 20, crossed alone on Le St.-Rémi. 

Marie-Josèphe Trahan, age 19, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Charles Richard, age 31.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Chrysostôme Trahan, age 44, crossed with wife Anne-Francoise Granger, age 41, and seven children--Anne-Julie, called Julie, age 20, Marie-Madeleine, age 18, Marie-Marthe, age 11, Jean-Chrysostôme, age 10, Joseph, age 7, Marguerite, age 5, and infant Renée-Sophie--aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where three of their daughters married into the Boudeloche, Daigle, and Maitrejean families.  Daughter Anne-Julie, however, remained on the river, married into the LeBlanc family, and died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1808, in her early 30s.

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Four families, most led by widows, several Trahan wives, and a coupe of orphans, from three ships--24 more Trahans--went to the Baton Rouge/Manchac area, on the river above St.-Gabriel and Ascension: 

Marie Trahan, age 51, crossed on Le Bon Papa with her second husband Simon LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 62, and three children, ages 20, 15, and 13.  She died a widow near St.-Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1815, age 80. 

Marie-Modeste Trahan, age 36, crossed on Le Bon Papa with husband Jean-Baptiste Boudrot, age 32, and three children, ages 8, 6, and 2.  Marie-Modeste survived the crossing to Louisiana but died soon after reaching the colony, as evidence by her husband's remarried at Manchac in February 1786. 

Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, age 54, widow of Isidore Trahan, crossed with five children--Paul-Isidore, age 21, Marie-Jeanne, age 16, Simon-Augustin, age 13, Alexis- Romain, age 11, and Rosalie, age 9--aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  Daughter Marie-Jeanne moved to the Opelousas District in c1789 and married into the Boutin and Marks families.  Son Simon moved to the Atakapas District.  Marie-Madeleine went there, too. 

Marguerite Trahan, age 54, crossed on Le Beaumont with husband Pierre Henry, age 61, and an 18-year-old son. 

Anne Granger, age 49, widow of Joseph Trahan, crossed on Le Beaumont with four children--Joseph, fils, age 21, Marie-Anne, age 16, Marie-Julie, called Julie, age 14, and Francois-Marie, age 12.  They settled near old Fort Bute at Manchac, between Baton Rouge and St.-Gabriel.  Anne did not remarry.  Her daughters married into the Costa, Daigle, and Prevost families and settled at Manchac.  Anne's sons also remained at Manchac. 

Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Trahan, age 24, Anne Granger's oldest daughter, crossed on Le Beaumont with new husband Joseph Acosta, age unrecorded, whom she married aboard ship.  Marguerite died at Baton Rouge in November 1814; she was 54 years old. 

Marie-Josèphe Granger, age 46, widow of Pierre-Simon Trahan, crossed on Le Beaumont with four children--Jean-Baptiste, age 25, Paul-Raymond, called Raymond, age 19, Marie-Renée, age 13, and Marie-Marguerite, age 8.  Her daughters married into the Ardoin, Comeaux, Donnet, and Lelong families and, with their brothers, remained in the Baton Rouge area. 

Joseph Trahan of Pigiguit, age 35, crossed with wife Marguerite Lavergne of Chignecto, age 32, and two children--Joseph-Rémi, age 4, and Antoinette, age 2--aboard Le Beaumont.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage over and gave birth to son Francois-Antoine in early December, probably at Baton Rouge or Manchac.  They may have moved to the Atakapas District later in the decade. 

Rose Trahan, age 23, crossed on on Le Beaumont with the family of her uncle Paul LeBlanc. 

Marie-Blanche Trahan, age 19, crossed on Le Beaumont with husband Joseph Breau, age 23.  They settled at Baton Rouge, where Marie-Blanche died in September 1826, age 60. 

Jean-Paul Trahan, age 16, crossed alone.  He settled at Baton Rouge. 

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A Trahan wife crossed on L'Amitié and went to San Bernardo, an Isleño community south of New Orleans: 

Anne-Geneviève Trahan of Pigiguit, age 44, crossed with husband Honoré Duhon of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 47, and three sons, ages 20, 17, and 13. 

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A Trahan family led by a widow, a Trahan wife, and perhaps her sister--four more members of the family--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December.  They went to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge:

Madeleine Aucoin, age 69, widow of Charles Trahan, crossed with two unmarried daughters--Marie, age 47, and Marguerite, age 40.  They may have moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.

Madeleine Trahan, age 48, crossed with husband Charles Aucoin, age 50, a 28-year-old son, a 24-year-old kinswoman, and Francoise Trahan, age 38, widow of Pascal or Pierre Hébert, perhaps Madeleine's sister.  Francoise moved to the western prairies and remarried to a Dugas there. 

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Jean-Marie Trahan, who would have been 20 years old in 1785, came to Louisiana probably aboard one of the Seven Ships but appears on none of their passenger lists.  He married in the Baton Rouge area in February 1790. 

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Many of the Trahans who came from France in 1785 remained on the river, especially in the Baton Rouge area, but not all of their lines survived:

Descendants of Joseph TRAHAN (c1750-)

Joseph, son of Claude Trahan and Anne LeBlanc, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1750, ended up in France, where he worked as a carpenter and a domestic servant.  He participated in the failed Acadian settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s and, after retreating with his fellow Acadians to the Nantes, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lavergne, at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, in October 1778.  They sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed her family and the majority of the passengers from their ship to the Baton Rouge/Manchac area.  Neither of his sons seems to have survived childhood, so this line of the family may not have survived. 

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Older son Joseph-Rémi, born at Nantes, France, in November 1780, may have died young. 

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Younger son Francois-Antoine, born probably at Baton Rouge in December 1785, also may have died young. 

Jean TRAHAN (c1750-)

Jean Trahan, born in Acadia in c1750, ended up in France, where he became a sailor.  He sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and went to Ascension.  He may have married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Richard, at Ascension in May 1788.  Élisabeth had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  Jean died at Ascension by January 1791, when his wife remarried there.  He and Élisabeth may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Pierre TRAHAN (c1757-1786)

Pierre Trahan, born in Acadia or England in c1757, ended up in France, where he became a carpenter.  Spanish and French officials counted him at Morlaix in September 1784; he was still single.  He sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and went to Ascension.  He died there, still a bachelor, in May 1786; he was only 29 years old. 

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN (c1760-1824?)

Jean-Baptiste, elder son of Pierre-Simon Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Granger, born probably at Falmouth, England, in March 1760, sailed to Louisiana with his widowed mother and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Baton Rouge, where he married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon-Pierre Daigle, in May 1786.  Anne also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont.  They settled in the Baton Rouge area.  Their daughters married into the Bourg, Breaux, Ferbos, and Theriot families.  Jean-Baptiste, père may have died at Baton Rouge in August 1824; if so, he would have been 64 years old that year.  Neither of his sons seems to have survived childhood, so this line of the family may not have survived. 

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Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in June 1789, may have died young. 

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Younger son Joseph, born in July 1792, also may have died young. 

Descendants of Paul-Raymond TRAHAN (c1766-)

Paul-Raymond, called Raymond, younger son of Pierre-Simon Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Granger, born at Morlaix, France, in August 1765, sailed to Louisiana with his widowed mother and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Baton Rouge, where he married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon-Pierre Daigle, in November 1789.  Isabelle was the younger sister of Paul's older brother Jean-Baptiste's wife Geneviève.  Their daughters married into the Betancourt, Freoux, and Tullier families.  Their younger son lived for a time on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

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Older son Francois, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 1, in September 1800, ...

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Younger son Joseph Firmin or Raymond, born near Baton Rouge in August 1806, married Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of German Creole Pierre Hoffenagel, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche, in May 1830.  Their son Déosilin was born near Baton Rouge in January 1832, and Pierre Prudent in Assumption Parish in April 1839.  ...

Descendants of Joseph TRAHAN, fils (c1764-)

Joseph, fils, elder son of Joseph Trahan and Anne Granger, born in France in c1764, sailed to Louisiana with his widowed mother and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled near old Fort Bute, Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Joseph, fils married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Doiron and widow of Victor Daigle, at Manchac in January 1800, in his late 30s.  Marguerite also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont.  Their daughter married into the Daigle family.  ...

Jean-Valéry, called Valéry, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 10 months, in April 1802, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1822.  Their son Duvalcourt Edmond was born near Baton Rouge in March 1824, Furcy in January 1826, and Valéry Babolia posthumously in June 1830.  Valéry, père died near Baton Rouge in February 1830; he was only 28 years old. 

Descendants of Francois-Marie TRAHAN (1773-1823?)

Francois-Marie, younger son of Joseph Trahan and Anne Granger, born at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in August 1773, sailed to Louisiana with his widowed mother and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled near old Fort Bute, Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Francois married Marie-Madeleine, called Manon, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, in March 1804.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.   Their daughters married into the Landry and Templet families.  Francois may have died in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1823; if so, he would have been 50 years old that year. 

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Oldest son Surville Béloni, born in January 1805, married Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, daughter of Frenchman Jean Charles Tullier of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1830; Marie's mother was a Daigle.  Their son Joseph Philogène was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1831.  ...

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Francois Élie, born in June 1810, ...

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Ursin Joseph, born in April 1813, ...

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Norbert married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Louis Landry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1833.  Their son Joachim Théodore was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1837.  ...

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Youngest son Firmin, born in March 1819, ...

Paul-Isidore TRAHAN (1764-)

Paul-Isidore, eldest son of Pierre-Isidore Trahan and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Morlaix, France, in March 1764, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled near old Fort Bute, Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  ...

Alexis-Romain TRAHAN (1774)

Alexis-Romain, third and youngest son of Pierre-Isidore Trahan and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Châtellerault, France, in March 1774, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled near old Fort Bute, Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  ...

Descendants of Jean-Marie TRAHAN (1765-1803)

Jean-Marie, son of Louis Trahan and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Morlaix, France, in June 1765, came to Louisiana probably aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  He went to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Adélaïde, daughter of René LeTullier of Roville, Normandy, France, in February 1790; Adélaïde's mother was an Acadian Renaud.  Adélaïde, a native of Cherbourg, France, had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, with her widowed mother in 1785.  Their daughter married a LeBlanc cousin.  Jean-Marie died at Baton Rouge in November 1803; he was only 38 years old. 

Jean-Joseph, called Joseph, born at Baton Rouge in June 1793, married Adéle, daughter of French Creole Pierre David Renaud, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1818.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Guidry, and Tullier families.  ...

Anselme-Marie TRAHAN (c1766-)

Anselme-Marie, son of Joseph Trahan and Marie Boudrot, born at Mordreaux, France, near St.-Malo, in January 1766, came to Louisiana with his family aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1788.  Anselme was living only with a younger sister then.  ...

Paul-Alexis TRAHAN (1768-)

Paul-Alexis, elder son of Paul Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Trahan, born at St.-Martin-des-Champs, Morlaix, France, in November 1768, followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They went to Ascension.  ...

Pierre-Francois TRAHAN (1779-)

Pierre-Francois, younger son Paul Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Trahan, born at St.-Martin-des-Champs, Morlaix, France, in November 1779, followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They went to Ascension.  ...

Descendants of Jean-Paul TRAHAN (c1769-)

Jean-Paul, called Paul, son of Jean Trahan and Marguerite Clément, born in France in c1769, came to Louisiana alone aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He may have gone to San Bernardo, south of New Orleans, before moving to the Baton Rouge area, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Lejeune, in March 1788.  They had many children, creating the largest family of Trahans on the river.  Their daughters married into the Barnett, Daigle, Lejeune, and Thibodeaux families.  ...

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Oldest son Paul-Isidore, born at Baton Rouge in October 1790, ...

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Joseph-Constant, baptized at Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in April 1794, ...

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Julien-Valentin, called Valentin, born near Baton Rouge in December 1795, married Émilie, called Melie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1816.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Valentin, fils was born in October 1819, and Lewis in February 1824.  ...

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Philippe, born at Baton Rouge in March 1801, ...

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Jean, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 4 months, in April 1802, ...

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In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, a Trahan from upper Bayou Lafourche moved to St. James Parish in the 1830s:

Descendants of Auguste Drosin TRAHAN (1811-)

Auguste Drosin, third son of Joseph Trahan and Marie Henriette, called Henriette LeBlanc, born in Assumption Parish in July 1811, married Marie Stephanie, daughter of French Creole Hugue Serre, at the bride's widowed mother's home in St. James Parish in November 1835; the marriage was recorded at the St. James church; Marie's mother was a Bergeron.  They remained in St. James Parish. ...

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Older son Rémy or Henry Camille, born in St. James Parish in October 1836, ...

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Severin, born near Convent, St. James Parish, in February 1839, ...

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Other TRAHANs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Trahans on the river with known lines of the family there:

Ines, probably Agnès, Trahan, "widow of Josef LeBlanc of St. Charles Parish in Acadia," died at Manchac in July 1786.  The priest who recorded her burial did not give her age at the time of her death.  One wonders if she had come to Louisiana the year before on one of the Seven Ships from France. 

Marie Trahan died at Manchac in February 1794.  The St.-Gabriel priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names, mention a husband, or even give her age at the time of her death. 

Faustine Trahan of West Baton Rouge Parish married fellow Acadian Henry V. Babin of West Baton Rouge Parish at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1838.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the couples' parents' names. 

Marie Trahan died in West Baton Rouge Parish in November 1839.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names, mention a husband, or even give her age at the time of her death.  One wonders if she was among the near 2,900 Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana. 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Spanish officials were counting Trahans from France on upper Bayou Lafourche: 

Chrysostôme Trahan died in Assumption Parish in November 1815.  He was 75 years old. 

Marguerite Trahan died in Assumption Parish in November 1815.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 74 years old when she died.  She probably never married. 

Olivier Trahan died in Assumption Parish in June 1819.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Olivier was 96 years old when he died, but he was probably closer to 90. 

Anne Trahan, perhaps widow of Jean-Baptiste Benoit and Louis Latier and wife or widow of Francois Campo, fils, may have died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821.  Her burial record indicates that she may have been age 94 at the time of her death.  If this was the Anne Trahan married to Jean-Baptiste Benoit et al., she would have been closer to 90. 

Madeleine Trahan, wife of Étienne Darois, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1830.  She was 90 years old. 

Marie-Madeleine Trahan, wife of Francois Boudeloche, fils, died in Terrebonne Parish in April 1832, in her mid-60s.  Her succession record was filed at the Houma courthouse in July 1833. 

Marie Marthe Trahan, wife of Joseph Daigle, died in Assumption Parish in November 1832.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 60 years old when she died, but she was 62. 

Barbe Trahan, wife, of Alexis Lejeune, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1833.  She was 59 years old.  Her succession inventory record was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in August. 

Descendants of Mathurin TRAHAN (1760-1793)

Mathurin, eldest son of Joseph Trahan and Marie Boudrot, born at Bristol, England, in October 1760, was repatriated to France in 1763.  He became a calico printer in the mother country and married Pérrine-Marguerite, daughter of Frenchman Charles Orry, at Nantes in November 1784.  They sailed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and went to Ascension, where Mathurin remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Blanchard, in July 1786.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where their children were born.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Landry, and Pelicon families.  Mathurin died at Assumption in November 1793; he was only 31 years old. 

Firmin-Mathurin, born at Assumption in October 1793, died at Assumption in April 1807.  He was only 13 1/2 years old. 

Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN (c1764-1835)

Jean-Baptiste, eldest son of Marin Trahan and his first wife Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born probably at Morlaix, France, in c1764, followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Remi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and on to Ascension, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Pinet dit Pinel, in January 1789.  Madeleine, a native of Cherbourg, France, also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships in 1785.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche and were that rare Acadian couple who had no children of their own, or at least none who survived childhood.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1835; he was 70 years old; his succession inventory record was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in October. 

Descendants of Jean-Joseph-Marie TRAHAN (1766-1833)

Jean-Joseph-Marie, called Jean-Marie, second son of Marin Trahan and his first wife Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Morlaix, France, in October 1766, followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Remi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and on to Ascension.  Jean-Marie married Anne-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Lejeune, at Assumption in January 1799.  Adélaïde, a native of Chantenay, France, also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships in 1785.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Thibodeaux, and Trahan families.  Jean-Marie remarried to Marianne, daughter of French Creole Francois LeBoeuf and widow of Narcisse Marcel, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1832; Jean-Marie was 56 years old.  She gave him another daughter but no more sons.  Jean Marie died probably in Terrebonne Parish in June 1833; he was 56 years old; his succession inventory record was filed at the Houma courthouse in July. 

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar, by his first wife, born at Assumption in June 1802, ...

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Francois Hubert or Hubert Francois, from his first wife, born at Assumption in April 1805, married Azélie, 16-year-old daughter of French Creole Joseph Morvant, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1828; Azélie's mother was a Bernard.  Their son Joseph Napoléon was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1829.  Hubert died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1830; he was only 25 years old. 

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Zéphirin, by his first wife, born in Assumption Parish in August 1813, ...

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A child, by his first wife, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafourche Interior Parish days after its birth in March 1823. 

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Youngest son Michel Surville, by his first wife, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1824, ...

Descendants of Francois-Marie TRAHAN (1779-)

Francois-Marie, third and youngest son of Marin Trahan and his first wife Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Morlaix, France, in May 1779, followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Remi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and on to Ascension.  Francois married Josèphe or Rose Aimée or Amada, called Josephine and Josette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Joseph Nicolas Thibodeaux, at Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in June 1815.  Their daughters married into the Doiron and Use families.  ...

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born in Assumption Parish in May 1817, ...

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Louis, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1823, died at age 2 1/2 in December 1825. 

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Augustin, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1829, ...

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Sylvestre, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1831, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1833. 

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Francois Aurelien, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1834, ...

Grégoire-Olivier TRAHAN (1766-)

Grégoire-Olivier, son of Olivier Trahan and his first wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Lejeune, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in March 1766, became a shoemaker in France.  He sailed to Louisiana with his widowed father and an older, unmarried sister aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted him with his father, stepmother, and his stepmother's sister on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1788.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. ...

Descendants of Jean-Chrysostôme TRAHAN (1774-)

Jean-Chrysostôme, elder son of Chrysostôme Trahan and Anne-Francoise Granger, born at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in August 1774, sailed to Louisiana with his family aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1788 and 1791.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jean married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Guidry, at Assumption in October 1802.  Madeleine was a native of Louisiana.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their daughters married into the Daigle, Gross, and Maîtrejean families.  ...

1

Oldest son Lacroix Narcisse, called Narcisse, born at Assumption in May 1804, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Daigle, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1823.  Their son Joseph Nichefor was born in Assumption Parish in February 1828, Joseph Victorin in September 1833, Joseph Ceolfride in March 1836, and Jules Joseph Lacroix was baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in May 1837.  ...

2

Valéry Trasimond, called Trasimond, born at Ascension in December 1805, married Geneviève Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of French Creole Hippolyte Carmouche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1826; Virginie's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Valéry Frumence was born in Assumption Parish in October 1826 but died at age 6 1/2 in September 1833, and Alexandre Ulgère was born in June 1829.  ...

3

Simon Anaclet, called Simonette, born in Assumption Parish in January 1808, married cousin Émilie, called Melite, daughter of Jean Marie Trahan, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in March 1835.  Their son Jean Noveret was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1836, Simon Martial in February 1839, and Ozémé Neutropes in April 1840.  ...

4

Lucien Auguste, born in Assumption Parish in January 1818, ...

5

Francois Siliaque, born in Ascension Parish in March 1820, ...

6

Hippolyte, born in Assumption Parish in January 1822, ...

Descendants of Joseph TRAHAN (c1778-1815)

Joseph, younger son of Chrysostôme Trahan and Anne-Francoise Granger, born probably at Nantes, France, in c1778, sailed to Louisiana with his family aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1788 and 1791.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain LeBlanc, at Ascension in June 1804.  Henriette was a native of Louisiana.  Their daughter married into the Étienne family.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in July 1815; he was only 36 years old.  One of this sons moved to St. James Parish on the river. ...

1

Oldest son Joseph Narcisse or Narcisse Joseph, born in Assumption Parish in September 1808, married Eléonore, daughter fellow Acadian Alexandre Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1829.   ...

2

Auguste Drosin, born in Assumption Parish in July 1811, married Marie Stephanie, daughter of French Creole Hugue Serre, at the bride's widowed mother's home in St. James Parish in November 1835; the marriage was recorded at the St. James church; Marie's mother was a Bergeron.  They remained in St. James Parish.

3

Trasimond, born in Assumption Parish in February 1812, married Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Savoy, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1839.  ...

4

Youngest son Antoine Adolphe, born in Assumption Parish in December 1813, ...

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A Trahan from the western prairies moved to the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley during the early antebellum period:

Descendants of Étienne-Simon TRAHAN (1782-)

Étienne-Simon, third son of Pierre Trahan and his first wife Anne Brasseaux, born at Opelousas in January 1782, married cousin Anne-Marguerite, called Manette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Daigle of Assumption, at Ascension on the river in June 1806; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Anne's maternal grandmother was a Corporon.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving to Terrebonne Parish.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard and Gerbeau families.  ...

1

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, also called Justin, born probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1800s or early 1810s, married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadian Isaac Doiron, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1832.  Their son Auguste Victorin was born in Assumption Parish in July 1835, and Pierre Valsin in April 1839.  ...

2

Charles Dufrosai, born in Assumption Parish in September 1817, while residing in Terrebonne Parish married Théotiste Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Jean Baptiste Hébert, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1839.  ...

3

A son, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish a day after his birth in June 1823. 

4

Jean Pierre Valéry, born in Assumption Parish in November 1824, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1826. 

5

A son, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish at age 8 days in April 1829. 

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Other TRAHANs in the Lafourche Valley

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Trahans in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley with known lines of the family there: 

Marie Modeste Trahan married Pierre Maurice, Morice, or Morris in a civil ceremony recorded in both Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes in July 1815.  The parish clerks who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

Eugène Trahan married German Creole Émilite Exnicios and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish by the early 1820s. 

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

At least one Trahan family in South Louisiana may not have been Acadian:

Simon Trahan married Catherine Michel, who also may not have been Acadian.  Their son Simon, fils married Marie-Eve, called Eve, daughter of Nicolas Ory of Germany.  The Orys had come to Louisiana from Maryland aboard the ill-fated English ship Britannia with seven other German Catholic families and seven Acadian families, including Trahans, in 1769.  Eve was only 4 years old when her family reached the colony.  Simon, fils and Eve's son Emericus Adams was born near Baton Rouge in January 1801.  ...

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During the late antebellum period, a Foreign-Frenchman with a similar-sounding name emigrated to Louisiana:

M. Trahon, A 24-year-old native of France, occupation unrecorded, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Medemseh out of Bordeaux, France, in December 1851.

CONCLUSION

Trahans were among the earliest settlers in Acadia, and they came early to Louisiana.  The first of them, three closely-related families led by two brothers and a son, reached the colony in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  They followed their Broussard kin to the Bayou Teche valley, but only one of the lines, that of Michel Trahan, survived the test of time; most of Michel's descendants settled along the Vermilion.  More Trahans came from Maryland in the late 1760s and settled at St.-Gabriel and San Luis de Natchez on the river.  After the Spanish allowed the Acadians to abandon the faraway settlement at Natchez, the Trahans there moved to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, but none of them created lines there.  Meanwhile, in 1769, a Trahan family from Maryland reached the colony aboard the ill-fated British vessel Britannia.  After their harrowing adventures in Texas and a long overland trek to Natchitoches on the Red River, Honoré Trahan, his wife, and teenaged son Pierre settled on the Opelousas prairies.  Pierre married twice to fellow Acadians and created another vigorous line on the western prairies.  In the 1770s and 1780s, Trahans from the river crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in Atakapas. 

Even if the Spanish government had not offered the Acadian exiles in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, the Trahans would have been a fairly large family in Louisiana.  The arrival of over 1,500 Acadians from France in 1785, however, dramatically increased the size of the family in the colony.  Only the Héberts outnumbered the Trahans on the Seven Ships expeditions.  At least 98 Trahans--nearly 20 more families--sailed to Louisiana aboard six of the Seven Ships.  Most of them went to Ascension on the Acadian Coast and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  A large number of them, especially from Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, went to the Baton Rouge area, creating a center of family settlement in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, the Trahans on the Lafourche moved down bayou as far as the Terrebonne country.  Meanwhile, three families from La Bergère and Le St.-Rémi, the second and fourth ships, chose to join their cousins on the western prairies. 

By the late antebellum period, Trahans could be found in three distinct centers of family settlement--the largest one west of the Atchafalaya Basin from the Opelousas prairies down to the lower Vermilion valley, and smaller ones along bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne all the way down into the coastal marshes, and on the river in West Baton Rouge and St. James parishes.  Few, if any, non-Acadian Trahans settled in South Louisiana.  ...

The family's name also is spelled Drahan, Rahan, Strahan, Traham, Trahans, Trahant, Trajan, Traughan, Trean, Trohan, Truan, Truhan.

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 816-17, 1308-13, 1441-54, 1581, 2389-95, 2602-11; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 3:290; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.); Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 420-28, 575-79; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 35; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 13; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, "Family" No. 12; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 19, 129; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 96-98; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 161-70; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 760-70;  West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 140-42, 192-93; White, DGFA-1, 1535-48; White, DGFA-1 English, 323-27.

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Alexis-Roman [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 96, Family No. 187, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Alexis-Romain TRAHAN, godson of Alexis GAUTROT & Hélène DUMONT, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162-63, Family No. 293, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Alexo, su [Magdalena LEBLANC, viuda TRAHAM's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Alexis TRAHAN, her [Magdelaine LEBLANC, widow TRAHAN's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 48th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his mother & 4 siblings, &, calling him Alexis-Romain TRAHAN, says he was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace.

Why are he & his family not on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont?  Were all of them stowaways?  Unlikely.  

02.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Anne TRAHAN.  

03.  Wall of Names, 21, calls her Anne TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2415, gives her parents' names; BRDR, 2:171, 703 (ASC-1, 119), the record of her third marriage, calls her Anna TRAHAN, calls her husband Francois CAMPO, gives her & his parents' names, calls her parents Stephen TRAHAN & Francoise RHEN, "Acadians," says his parents were "of St.-Gabriel," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Honoré TRAHAN [her brother], Petrum [Pierre] PREMOT, & Joannus CROC; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:519 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, p. 2), perhaps her burial record, calls her Anne TRAHAN, says she died at either "age 24 or 94 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names or mention a husband.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; <thecajuns.com/britania.htm>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania."  

Her first husband's name comes from Arsenault, pp. 2415, 2456, which calls her Marie-Anne TRAHAN.  Consider the source.  All other sources call her simply Anne.  

The names of her parents in the record of her third marriage, though poorly spelled, makes it conclusive that she was the one who had come to LA aboard Britannia in 1769 with Louis LATIER.   Who knows why the Ascension priest did not mention her previous husbands.  Note that 2 of the witnesses to her marriage, one of them her older brother, were fellow passengers of the Britannia who settled on the western prairies.  Did she & her third husband remain at Ascension?

Was her third husband's mother--Catherine VIGÉ--an Acadian?  The VIGÉ family lived at Cap-Sable & on the Maritime islands before Le Grand Dérangement, but none of them appear on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names. 

04.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed father & brother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Anne, sa [Olivier TRAHAN's] fille, age 22, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne TRAHAN, his [Olivier TRAHAN's] daughter, age 22, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 54th [50th] Family aboard La Bergère with her widowed father & brother; BRDR, 2:238, 703 (ASC-1, 162), her marriage record, calls her Ana TREAN (TRAHAN), calls her husband Luis SORMON (DESORMAUX), "of St. James," gives her parents' names, calls her mother Ysabel LESSIN, gives only his father's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Ignace HAMON & Jean METIO.

05.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Anne TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & no children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 305, 420, her marriage record, calls her Anne TRAHAN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, but lists no witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls her Anne TRAHAN, sa [Alexis LEVRON's] femme, age 24, on the embarkation list, & Anne TRAHAN, his [Alexis LEVRON's] wife, age 24, on the complete listing, says she was in the 15th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her husband & no children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & says they were married 7 Feb 1785 but gives no place of marriage.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 31, 54, 82, 117, 163.

Why does the marriage record of her daughter Delphine LEVRON, dated 21 Oct 1816, in BRDR, 3:562 (ASM-2, 269), call her Ana RICHARD & not TRAHAN?  Was Anne TRAHAN a half-sister of the RICHARD sisters Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marguerite, & Marie?  Note that her mother & the RICHARD sisters' mother bore the same name--Francoise THÉRIOT.  The RICHARD sisters were the family just above hers on the embarkation list of Le St.-Rémi, widow Élisabeth RICHARD was living with Anne & her husband at Ascension in 1791, & in 1795 they were next door neighbors.  

06.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 420, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne TRAHAN, & gives her parents' names but not her godparents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, calls her Anne [TRAHAN], gives her parents' names, & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Anne, sa [Joachim TRAHAN's] fille, age 21, on the embarkation list, & Anne TRAHAN, his [Joachim TRAHAN's] daughter, age 21, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:112, 703 (ASC-1, 167 & 168), probably her marriage record, calls her Ana TRAHAN, "an Acadian,", calls her husband Josef BUDREAU, "an Acadian," but does not give any parents' names or witnesses to her marriage.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 66, 104.  

Why is such a well-documented Acadian immigrant not on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville?  See Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), for the rest of her family.  

Was she the Anne TRAHAN who married Joseph BOUDREAUX at Ascension in Feb 1786 & was counted with him & a hand full of children in the Lafourche valley censuses of 1795 & 1797?  She was called Isabelle in the 2 censuses, so her name may have been Anne-Isabelle.  And the ages sort of fit.

07.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Anne [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Marie-Anne [TRAHAN], & says she was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 306, calls her Anne [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Anne, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 12, & Anne TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 12, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:749, 762 (SM Ch.: v.4, #75), her marriage record, calls her Anna TRAHAN, calls her husband Jean-Anselm THIBAUDAU, "widr. of Marguerite MELANÇON," gives her but not his parents' names, says her parents were "de Bretagne in France," & that the witnesses to her marriage were August TRAHAN, Charles DUON, & Jean BRUSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:745, 762 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vo. 14, #11), another of her marriage records, calls her Anne TRAHAN, "from Belle-isle-en-mer, France," calls her husband Anselme THIBODEAU, "from Piecoudechac, Acadie," gives her & his parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Olivier LANDRY, Pierre DUGAS, Louis DAUTILLY Batin, Philippe WISSE, & Francisco CASO Y LUENGO; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:911 (Laf. Ch.: v.1, p.19), her death/burial record, calls her Anne TRAHAN, "married to Enselme (Anselme) THIBODEAU," says "she died of a long illness," that she was buried "at age 48 yrs. in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:911 (Laf. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#42), her succession record, calls her Anne TRAHAN, "wid. of Anselm THIBODEAUX," says she had "seven legitimate children," & gives their spouses & ages. 

The succession record of her husband Anselme Thibodeaux, dated 13 Mar 1822 in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:917 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#287), calls her Marie Anne, which is probably where Arsenault got the name.  All other sources call her Anne.  Anselme was from Petiticoudiac, the name of which was butchered by the St. Martin Parish clerk in one of their marriage records, cited above. 

08.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Anne TRAHAN.  See also Hebert, D., Acadians in Exile, 560.

09.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Anne-Julie TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 420, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne-Julie TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, calls them Acadiens, & says her godparents were Julien GUEGUAN & Anne TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 575; BRDR, 2:469, 705 (ASC-2, 10), her marriage record, calls her Julie TRAHANT, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Chrisostôme TRAHANT [her father or brother] & Jan Battis LEBLANC [her husband's brother].  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 154.  

Where was her husband in Jan 1791?  Notice that she was not listed with her family in the Ascension census of Jan 1788, a few months after her marriage, which makes sense.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 66.  But there she is with her parents & siblings again 3 years later with no mention of a husband.  He was still very much alive then.  Was he visiting somewhere?  One of their daughters was baptized at New Orleans in Nov 1790, so they may have lived in the city for a time.  Perhaps she was the one who was not with her spouse & children in Jan 1791 but was on a visit to her parents at Ascension when the census there was taken.  

A strangely worded burial record, dated 6 Jan 1808, in BRDR, 3:540 (SGA-8, 43), describes the deceased as "Joseph [LEBLANC] Madame, age 34, called Agnos."  Her husband's dit was Agros.  Was this her?  Is so, whoever gave the recording priest her age missed it by a mile. 

10.  Wall of Names, 13, calls her Anne-Madeleine TRAHAN.  

11.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Ancelme [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & 2 sisters; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Ancelme, son [Joseph TRAHAN's] fils, journalier, age 19, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Anselme TRAHAN, his [Joseph TRAHAN's] son, day laborer, age 19, on the complete listing, says he was in the 52nd Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 2 sisters, & that he was born in 1766 but gives no birthplace.

12.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7L), calls him Antoine-Joseph [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & an aunt; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 767, Family No. 902, calls him Antoine-Joseph TRAHAN, says he was born in c1766 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, & says "Marie LEPRINCE, widow of Joseph TRAHAN, and Antoine-Joseph TRAHAN, her son, arrived at St.-Malo from Rochefort with a passport dated September 17, 1772"; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls him Antoine-Joseph, son [Marie LEPRINCE, veuve TRAHAN's] fils, journallier[sic], age 19, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Antoine-Joseph TRAHAN, son [of Marie LEPRINCE, widow TRAHAN], day laborer, age 19, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 29th Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed mother & an aunt; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:577, 762 (SM Ch.: v.4, #159), his marriage record, calls him Antoine-Joseph TRAHAN, "of St.-Martin parish 'de l'isla' (from the Island of) De, diocese of La Rochelle, France," says his wife was "of St. James at Cabonoces on the Mississippi," gives his & her parents' names, says both of his parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francois BROUSSARD, Basile LANDRY, Pierre MIRE, & Jacques FOSTIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:635 (Laf. Ch.: v.3, p.50), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph TRAHAN "m. Marie Francoise Isabelle MIRRE," but does not include his parents' names. 

His widowed mother stood as godmother to a TRAHAN cousin at St.-Jacques, Châtellerault, Poitou, France, in Aug 1775.  He was only 9 years old at the time, so he must have been living with her there.  See Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 98, Family No. 191.

13.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Antoinette [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & a brother; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 167, Family No. 300, her birth/ baptismal record, calls her Antoinette TRAHAN, but does not list her godparents; Hébert, D., Acadians Families in Exile 1785, 34-35, calls her Antoinette, sa [Joseph TRAHAN's] fille, age 2, on the embarkation list, Antonia, su [Josef TRAHAM's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Antoinette TRAHAN, his [Joseph TRAHAN's] daughter, age 2, on the complete listing, says she was in the 18th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her parents & a brother, & that she was baptized in 1782 but gives no place of baptism.

What happened to her in LA?

14.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Augustin TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & a daughter; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 161, Family No. 290, calls him Augustin TRAHAN, says he was born c1733 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he married his wife c1770 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Félix, baptized 18 Mar 1766, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, daughter Rosalie-Bibianne, baptized 3 Mar 1778, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died 9 Jul 1778, probably St.-Martin, Chantenay, son Jacques-Augustin, baptized 15 May 1779, St.-Martin, Chantenay, died 1 Sep 1779, probably St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & son Pierre, died age 8 & buried 20 Feb 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 282, 420, his marriage record, calls him Augustin TRAHAN, 28 yrs. old, calls his wife Bibienne LEBLANC, 20 yrs. old, gives his & her parents' names, says her father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & does not list the witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Augustin TRAHAN, charpentier age 50, on the embarkation list, & Augustin TRAHAN, carpenter, age 50, on the complete listing, says he was in the 20th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with is wife & a daughter, & details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, but does not give the place of marriage.  

Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT, who lived with him & his daughter at Assumption in 1795 was son of Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT, père, a Frenchman from Île d'Oléron, & Marie-Marthe BENOIT, an Acadian.  They had come to LA from France in 1785 aboard the last of the Seven Ships, La Caroline, & settled at the established Acadian community of St.-Jacques, on the river above New Orleans, just downriver from Ascension.  Nicolas-Gabriel, fils, born at Châteauneuf in Poitou, was 12 when he came to LA.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 108-09.  In Nov 1800, at age 26, Nicolas, fils married Madeleine, daughter of Jean BOURG, also a refugee from France, at Assumption on Bayou Lafourche, & began a new line of the ALBERT family in the Bayou State.  

15.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Augustin [TRAHAN], & lists him with his father & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, calls him Augustin [TRAHAN], & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Augustin TRAHAN, son [Joachim TRAHAN's] fils, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Augustin TRAHAN, his [Joachim TRAHAN's] son, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:326, 762-63 (SM Ch.: v.4, #84), his marriage record, calls him Augustin TRAHAN, does not give his or his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Paul TRAHAN, Jacques FOSTIN, & Jean TRAHAN [probably his brother]; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:762 (SM Ch.: v.4, #225), his death/burial record, calls him Auguste TRAHAN, "of Belle isle en Mer, in France," gives his parents' names, says he was buried "at age 35 yrs.," but mentions no wife.  

His wife's parents' names can be found in son Jacques's baptismal record, dated 6 Aug 1797, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767 (SM Ch.: v.4, #914).  How was Augustin kin to his mother-in-law? 

16.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Augustine-Pélagie TRAHAN, & lists her with her widowed mother & no siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 420, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Augustine-Pélagie TRAHAN, & gives her parents' but not her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile, 58-59, calls her Augustine-Pélagie, sa [Marguerite TRAHAN, veuve's] fille, age 12, on the embarkation list, & Augustine-Pélagie TRAHAN, her [Marguerite TRAHAN, widow's] dgtr., age 12, on the complete listing, says she was in the 13th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her widowed mother & no siblings, & that she was born 28 Aug 1772 at Morlaix.

What happened to her in LA?

17.  Wall of Names, 25, calls her Brigitte TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:423, 703 (ASC-1, 133), the record of her first marriage, calls her Brigita TRAHAN, calls her husband Étiene LANDRY, gives her & his parents' names, calls her mother Brigita LANDRY, says his parents were "Acadians," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Vincent LANDRY & Pierre LEBLANC; BRDR, 2:139, 703 (ASC-2, 8), the record of her second marriage, calls her Brigitte TRAHANT, "widow of Estevan LANDRI," calls her husband Philippe BOURIER (BOUDIER) of Paris," does not give any parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Grégoire LEBLANC & Pierre LANDRY.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 151a; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 437; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 4, 17.

Her estimated birth year is from the Cabanocé & Ascension censuses, not the Spanish report of Feb 1768.  

Note that the Ascension priest who recorded her first marriage calls her mother Brigita LANDRY, not Marguerite THIBODEAUX.  Evidently Brigitte LANDRY was her father's first wife.   Note also that in 1769 & 1770, Brigitte, still a girl and now an orphan, was living with the family of Vincent LANDRY, probably her maternal uncle.  Vincent's parents were probably Pierre LANDRY & Anne-Marie DOUCET of Pigiguit, so Brigitte's mother likely was from Pigiguit.  Her father may have been from that settlement, too. 

Marsha Schneider Ladner, descendant of Jean GOUSMAN, Brigitte's third husband, has found no marriage record for the couple.  But they did have a son named Jean, born at San Bernardo in c1793, who lived to create a family of his own.  Mrs. Ladner has found a civil record in St. Bernard Parish that refers to "'Widow Gusman, Brigitte TraPan, of St. Bernard, in the City (New Orleans) for this day,' when she gran[ted] her power of Atty to Renato LEROUX (her son in law) in July 1801."

18.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Catherine [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 420, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Catherine TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Charles DROUAL & Catherine QUEREL; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, calls her Catherine [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Catherine, sa [Joachim TRAHAN's] fille, age 12, on the embarkation list, & Catherine TRAHAN, his [Joachim TRAHAN's] daughter, age 12, on the complete listing, says she was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father & 5 siblings, & says she was born 24 Apr 1773 but gives no birthplace; Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:125, 763 (SM Ch.: v.4, #79), the record of her first marriage, calls her Catherine TRAHAN, "de la Cadie," gives her & her husband's parents' names, calls her father Hiacinthe [TRAHAN] & her mother Marie___, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Louis DESHORMAUX, Pierre HÉBERT, & ___ LABOVE; Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 3:633 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Mar. #83), the record of her second marriage, calls her Catherine TRAHAN, "wid. of Grand BROUSSARD," calls her husband Francois MEAUX, but does not give any parents' names or witnesses to her marriage.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 28.

Why is she not in the Ascension census of 1788 with her other unmarried siblings?  She would have been only 15 years old then.  

19.  Wall of Names, 25, calls him Charles TRAHAN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 151a; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 437.

His first wife's name can be found in the record of daughter Brigitte's first marriage, dated 2 May 1776, in BRDR, 2:703 (ASC-1, 133), which calls the bride's parents Charles [TRAHAN] & Brigita LANDRY.  In 1769 & 1770, Brigitte was a young orphan living with the family of Vincent LANDRY, who was from Pigiguit.  If Vincent was Brigitte's maternal uncle, it is likely that Brigitte's parents also were from Pigiguit. 

His wife Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage from Port-Tobacco, MD, to New Orleans & gave birth to daughter Marie-Madeleine on 4 Jun 1768 at either New Orleans or Fort San Luis de Natchez, which the BREAU party had reached in Mar.  The baby was baptized at New Orleans a week after her birth, so Charles & his family may have remained at New Orleans.  After Spanish General Alejandro O'REILLY released the Acadians from Natchez in early 1769, we find daughter Brigitte as a 12-year-old orphan in the household of Vincent LANDRY at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in Sep; her mother was a LANDRY, so Vincent probably was her uncle.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176.  Does that mean that Charles & Marguerite were dead by then?  

The Carlos TRUHAN on the Atakapas militia list is probably Charles dit Charlitte, his son, not Charles père, because Charles père, if he were still living, would have been 58 year old that year, too old for the militia.  And what evidence is there that Charles, père even went to Atakapas?

20.  Wall of Names, 25, calls him Charles TRAHAN; Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:470, 763 (SM Ch.: v.4, #34), his marriage record, calls him Charles TRAHAN, "of Maryland in New England," calls his wife Marie LANDRAU, gives his & her parents' names, calls her father Francois [LANDRAUD], & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph MODENA, Baptiste LABAUVE, & Iside (perhaps Isidore) BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:633 (SM Ch.: v.5, p.79, #5), his death/burial record, calls him Charles TRAHAN "of Marilland m. Marie LANDROZ," but does not give his parents' names.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 418, 437. 

His dit can be found in daughter Marie Anastasie's marriage record, dated 6 Feb 1826, in Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:755 (SM Ch.: v.7, #18). 

Where was he between 1768 & 1789?  His family came to LA with the BREAU party from Port Tobacco, MD, in Feb 1768.  Spanish Gov. ULLOA forced them to go to the distant settlement of Fort San Luis de Natchez, which the BREAU party reached in Mar; Charles appears on the list of Acadians at San Luis de Natchez, dated Feb 1768.  However, Charles dit Charlitte's mother was pregnant on the voyage from MD to LA & gave birth to sister Marie-Madeleine in Jun.  The baby was baptized at New Orleans a week or so after her birth, so Charles dit Charlitte & his family may have remained in the city.  ULLOA's successor, General Alejandro O'REILLY, released the Acadians from Natchez in early 1769.  Older sister Brigitte was counted as a 12-year-old orphan in the household of Vincent LANDRY at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in Sep 1769.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176.  Where was Charles dit Charlitte, who would have been only 3 years old then?  Brigitte married Étienne, son of Abraham LANDRY, at Ascension, upriver from St.-Jacques, in 1776.  A year later, in 1777, she was counted with her husband at Ascension, and with her was brother Firmin, age 12.  But where was Charles, who would have been only 11 year old that year?  He does not reappear in LA records until Aug 1789, on a militia record at Atakapas & in his marriage record at Atakapas.  When did he move from the river to Atakapas, & why?  He turned 21 in c1787, so he probably didn't go there until the 1780s. 

Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A & subsequent vols., prefers the spelling LANDRAUD for his wife Marie's family.  Her mother, Geneviève HÉBERT, came to LA from MD in 1767 & married her father probably at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where he was called Francois ANDRO in the 1769 census.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178.  He was not Acadian.  The baptismal record of son Nicolas-Denis, dated 1 Nov 1796, in Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:764 (SM Ch.: v.4, #813), calls the boy's maternal grandfather Francois LANDRAUD.  (Nicolas-Denis's baptismal record also says that his father was "of Maryland.")  However, the baptismal records of Charles's daughters Dénise & Claire, dated 25 Dec 1798 & 5 Apr 1801, in Hébert., D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:764 (SM Ch.: v.5, #110; SM Ch.: v.5, #356), call the girls' maternal grandfather Joseph DEROUAN & DEROUEN "of Canada."  So what was Charles's wife's father's name, Francois ANDRÉ/ANDRO/LANDRAUD or Joseph DEROUEN?  Very confusing. 

21.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Chrisostôme TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 575; BRDR, 3:832 (ASM-3, 108), his death/burial record, calls him Chrisostomo TRAHAN, "age 75 yrs. of Acadia, widower of Ane GRANGE," but does not give his parents names.

22.  Wall of Names, 13, calls her Claire TRAHAN veuve Charles BREAU.  See also White, DGFA-1, 1539; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 436.

23.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Eustache TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & no children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 287, 421 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), his marriage record, calls him Eustache TRAHAN de l'Assomption en Acadie, which was Pigiguit, gives his but not his wife's parents' names, says she was from St.-Charles en Acadie, which was Grand-Pré, & gives her first husband's name; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-57, calls him Eustache TRAHAN, charpentier, age 40, on the embarkation list, & Eustache TRAHAN, carpenter, age 40, on the complete listing, says he was in the 2nd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his wife & no children, & details his marriage, including his but not his wife's parents' names, & says he & his wife were married in 1766 but gives no place of marriage.  

What happened to him & his wife in LA?  Did they even survive the crossing from France to LA?  The debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi has not survived, unfortunately.  Did they die soon after reaching the colony? 

24.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Félicité [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 164, Family No. 295, calls her Félcité [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls her Félicité, sa [Jean TRAHAN's] fille, age 14, on the embarkation list, & Félicité TRAHAN, his [Jean TRAHAN's] daughter, age 14, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 42nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:97-98 764-65 (SM Ch.: v.4, #164), her marriage record, calls her Félicité TRAHAN, "of Belle-Isle-en-Mer, France," calls her husband Joseph-Laurent BOURG, "of Chantenay, of Diocese of Nantes, France," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean TRAHAN, "bride's father," Lucien BOURQUE, "hermano major ([his] oldest brother)," Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, & William HARGRAVE.

Her full name is also from daughter Marguerite BOURG's marriage record, dated 26 Apr 1814, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:122-23 (SM Ch.: v.5, #331).

25.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Félicité [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 424, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Félicité TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marie-Josèphe DUON, & says her godparents were Pierre LE GAULT & Marie-Blanche TRAHAN (her older half-sister); Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, calls her Félicité [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Félicité, sa [Joachim TRAHAN's] fille, age 14, on the embarkation list, & Félicité TRAHAN, his [Joachim TRAHAN's] daughter, age 14, on the complete listing, says she was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father & 5 siblings, &, calling her Marie-Félicité, says she was born 16 Jan 1770 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:146, 704 (SJA-2, 6), her marriage record, calls her Felicitas TRAHAN, calls her husband Horé & Honoré BRO, gives her & his parents' names, calls her parents Guese [TRAHAN] & Marie DUON "of Belle Isle," says his parents were "of Maryland," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Horé BRO & Maria BRO.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 28, 55, 84, 118, 162.

Notice that she did not move to the Atakapas District with her brothers Augustin & Jean-Marie & sister Catherine.  Her sister Anne also remained on the Lafourche.  

Her father-in-law was one of the leaders of the BREAU party that came to LA from MD in 1768 & ran afoul of Spanish Gov. ULLOA.  How closely kin was she to her husband, whose mother was a TRAHAN? 

26.  Wall of Names, 25, calls him Firmin TRAHAN.  

27.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Francois-Marie [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 421, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Francois-Marie TRAHAN, gives his parents' names but not give godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Francois-Marie, son [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fils, journallier, age 12, on the embarkation list, Franco, hijo de Anan GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Francois-Marie TRAHAN, son [of Anne GRANGER, widow TRAHAN's], day laborer, age 12, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 7th Family aboard Le Beaumont with is mother & 4 siblings; BRDR, 3:550, 833 (SGA-14, 50), his marriage record, calls him Francisco TRAHAN, calls his wife Maria and Marie Magdeline LEBLANC, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean Baptista TRAHAN, Jean Baptiste DAIGLE, & Francois DILHAC; BRDR, 4:532 (SJO-11, 5), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him Francois TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death.   

28.  Wall of Names, 26, calls her Francoise TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:297, 704 (PCP-2, part 2, 140), the record of her first marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, calls her husband Jacques FORTIN "of Illinois," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Augustin GERVENBERG & Gérald de VERBOIS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:326, 765 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.27), a record of her first marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, calls her husband Jacques FOSTIN, "of Illinois," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were ____ BORDA, ____ de VERBOIS, _____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, Francois GREVEMBER, ____ DURIEN, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:326-27, 766 (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.20), yet another record of her first marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "of Attkapas," calls her husband Jacques FOSTIN, "of Illinois and now of Attakapas," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were ____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, Francois GREVEMBER, ____ DURIEU, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:214, 766 (SM Ch.: v.4, #149), the record of her second marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "of Acadie, wid. of Jacques FOSTIN," calls her husband Simon-Pierre DAIGLE, "of Belle Isle en Mer," gives her & his parents' names, calls her mother Euphrosine FOSTIN, says all parents were "of Acadia/Acadie," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Michel TRAHAN, Basile LANDRY, & Louis CHEMIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:752 (Laf. Ch.: v.2, p.36, #107), her death/burial record, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "spouse in a second marriage to Simon DEGLE (DAIGLE)," says she died "at 7:30 at age 81 years," that she was buried "in the church cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:752 (Laf. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#125), her succession record, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "m.1st to dec. Jacques FOSTIN, Sr.  m.2nd to dec. Simon DAIGLE."   See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1785, 6. 

De Ville, cited above, speculates that "Jh" in the Atakapas census of 1785 meant Joseph, but her husband's name was Jacques.

29.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 10L), calls him Francoise TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 4 children, with the notation:  suplement a la liste des Acadiens embarques dans le navire Le St. Remy pour la Nouvelle Orleans [additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le St.-Rémi bound for New Orleans]; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 120, Family No. 220, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, says she was born in 1737 at Rivière-aux-Canards, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says her husband was born 3 Aug 1734 at St.-Charles-aux-Mines, gives his parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Anne LEBLANC, died at age 4 years & buried 4 Aug 1777, St.-Jacques, Nantes, daughter Francoise LEBLANC, baptized 13 Jul 1778, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, daughter Anne-Marie LEBLANC, baptized 22 Jun 1780, St.-Sébastien, Nantes, daughter Mathurine-Francoise LEBLANC, baptized 8 Nov 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & son Yves LEBLANC, died age 13 & buried 20 Dec 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 60-61, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, sa [Pierre LEBLANC's] femme, age 47, on the embarkation list, & Francoise TRAHAN, his [Pierre LEBLANC's] wife, age 47, on the complete listing, says she was in the 3rd Family on Supplément à la liste des Acadiens embarqués dans le navire Le Saint-Rémi pour la nouvelle-orleans [Additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le Saint-Rémi bound for New Orleans] with her husband & 4 children, & details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, says they married in c1758 but gives no place of marriage.

30.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Francoise TRAHAN veuve Pasqual HÉBERT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:271, 765 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio D, #16), a record of her second marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "of this parish, of Acadia, widow of Pierre TRAHAN (record says Pierre HÉBERT in another place)," says it is "'Informacion de Solteria Producdia' (Marriage Investigation regarding the freedom to marry)," dated 25 Jun 1797, calls her husband Charles DUGA, "in this parish, of Acadia, widower of Marguerite GRANGER, gives her & his parents' names, says all parents were "of Acadia," that the "Assistant Wits" to the marriage investigation were Jean BERARD & Louis CHEMIN, "sacristan," & that the witnesses were Jean BABIN & Joseph GRANGER; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:271, 766 (SM Ch.: v.4, #145), the record of her second marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "wid. of Pierre HÉBERT, of Acadie," calls her husband Charles DUGA, "veuf of Marguerite GRANGER," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Louis CHEMIN, "sacristan," Pierre RICHARD, & Pierre TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:270, 765 (NI Ch.: OA-#4), another record of her second marriage, calls her Francoise TRAHANT, "born in Acadie, widow of Pierre TRAHAN, calls her husband Charles DUGAS, "born in Acadie, widower of Marguerite GRANGER, gives her & his parents' names, says all parents were "of Acadie," but does not give any witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:765-66 (SM Ch.: v.4, #190), her death/burial record, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, "of Acadie, ... m.(2) Charles TRAHAN[sic]," & gives her parents' names.

Why do 2 of the records of her second marriage calls her first husband Pierre & not Pasqual HÉBERT?

31.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Barbe [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 421, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Francoise-Barbe TRAHAN, & gives her parents' but not her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls her Barbe, sa [Marin TRAHAN's] fille, age 11, on the embarkation list, & Barbe TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] daughter, age 11, on the complete listing, & says s he was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:493, 704 (ASM-2, 5), her marriage record, calls her Francisca Maria Barbara TRAHAN, calls her husband Alexo LEJEUNE, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Morlaix in Britany, France" & his were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Juan LEJEUNE [his brother] & Juan Bautista TRAHAN [her brother]; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:519 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1835), her succession inventory record, calls her Barbe TRAHAN m. Alexis LEJEUNE, gives her death date, lists her children & their spouses, & gives her husband's death date.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 84, 117.  

Note the remarkable contrast in her name, her ages, & the gender of her child in the Lafourche valley censuses of 1797 & 1798.  It is as though there were 2 different women here, but there is no evidence that Alexis LEJEUNE remarried.  See BRDR, 2:493-94 (ASM-1, 208), for the baptismal record of son Alexis-Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE, born to this couple at Assumption in Jun 1801.  Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in Nov 1835, 2 1/2 years after Barbe died.  See Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:519 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1835), his succession record, which calls her Barbe TRAHAN, gives her death date as well as his, & lists their children. 

32.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Geneviève [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Geneviève [TRAHAN], & says she was born in 1762 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Geneviève, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 23, on the embarkation list, & Geneviève TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 23, on the complete listing, & was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:584, 766 (SM Ch.: v.3, #152), her marriage record, calls her Geneviève TRAHAN, "of Neder Prelle(?), 'la vieille Angleterre' (old England)," calls her a minor daughter, calls her husband Jean-Baptiste MORIN, "du Canada, Paroisse St.-Pierre," gives her & his parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, that she was a minor daughter, that her husband was a minor son, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Francois BOUDRO, Paul TRAHAN, Joseph HÉBERT, & Joseph DUHON; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:766 (SM Ch.: v.4, #13), her death/burial record, calls her Geneviève TRAHAN, "of France m. Jean-Baptiste MORIN," does not give her parents' names, & says she died "at age 25 yrs."  

Her family was at Liverpool, England, in 1762, so that is her likely birthplace.  According to Arsenault, p. 2604, she was her parents' second child.  

Considering her age at the time of her death & the fact that she died not quite 11 months after her wedding date, she probably succumbed to complications of childbirth.  Her husband remarried in Sep 1788, less than a year after her death.  His second wife, Marie-Marguerite MARKS, a German Creole, gave him many children.  

33.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Germain TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2602, 2605, says he was born in 1758; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:172, 766 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.2, #218), his marriage record, calls him Germain TRAHAN, "resident of this Post," calls his wife Marie-Marthe CASTILLE, "native of Maryland in English America," gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "native of the Province of Acadie," calls him a major son, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Silvain BROUSSARD, Charles GUILBEAU, Mr. DUCRET, "major of this Post," & Jean-Baptsite LEBLANC;  BRDR, 2:704 (SGA-5, 55), his death/burial record, calls him Germain TRAHAN, "age about 30 years, husband of Marthe CASTILLE," but does not give his parents' names.  See also De Ville, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 15; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 10.

Had he moved to St.-Gabriel after his marriage?  If not, what was he doing there?  His wife remarried to Laurent DUCREST in Apr 1787.  One wonders if this was the Major DUCREST who witnessed his marriage. 

34.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Grégoire [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed father & sister; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Grégoire, son [Olivier TRAHAN's] fils, cordonnier, age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Grégoire TRAHAN, his [Olivier TRAHAN's] son, shoemaker, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 54th [50th] Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed father & sister.

What happened to him in LA?

35.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Honoré TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1449, 2603, calls him Honoré TRAHAN, says he was born in 1726, son of Jean [TRAHAN] & Marie GIROUARD of Pigiguit, says he married Marie CORPORON, daughter of Martin [CORPORON] & Marie JOSEPH in c1746 but gives no place of marriage, that he was deported to MD, was counted there in 1763 with his wife, their children, & young orphan Antoine LEJEUNE, that he died at Attakapas in 1791, & lists his children as Marie, born in 1747, Pierre in 1750, Marguerite in 1752, Jean in c1753, & Joseph in c1754, but gives no birthplaces; <thecajuns.com/britania.htm>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania," says Honoré's parents were Étienne TRAHAN & Francoise ROY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.14), his death/burial record, calls him Honoré TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Melange, 1:40; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 25.

White, DGFA-1, 415, profile of his wife, says that Marie, daughter of Martin CORPORON & his second wife Marie-Josèphe VIGER, married Honoré TRAHAN, son of Étienne TRAHAN & Francoise ROY, in c1746 but gives no place of marriage, so Honoré's parents were not Jean TRAHAN & Marie GIROUARD, as Arsenault claims.  Actually, Jean was Étienne's twin brother.  Arsenault simply mixed up the families.  The same holds true for Honoré's sister Marguerite, mother of the LEJEUNE orphans.  See Arsenault, pp. 1443-44; White, p. 1538. 

When did Honoré & Marie leave the Minas Basin & go to Île Royale?  Soon after their marriage?  Son Pierre was born at Louisbourg in c1750.  The Acadians on Île Royale were deported to France in late 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg that Jul, so Honoré must have taken his family back to Pigiguit before 1755.  How else would they have ended up in MD?

He served as witnesses to the third marriage of sister Anne at Ascension in Sep 1772.  Was he already living on the prairies & crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to attend the wedding, or was he living near her at Ascension & did not move to the prairies until later?  Note that he does not appear in an Opelousas District census until Oct 1774. 

The Oct 1774 census at Opelousas did not list wives, only children, slaves, cattle, horses & mules, & swine. 

36.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Jean TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2602, says he died 10 Aug 1799; BRDR, 1a(rev.):194 (SGA-2, 12), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean TRAHAN, calls his parents René TRAHAN & Élisabeth DAROIS, & says his godparents were Jacques LEBLANC & Marie BOUDROT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767, his death/burial record, calls his mother Isabelle JÉRÔME.  See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1785, 7.  

Jérôme was his mother's father's given name & the dit for that branch of the DAROIS family.  

Why does his death/burial record exaggerate his age by 15 years?  Was this the fault of family members who did not know the true age of their patriarch?  How common was this ignorance?  

37.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean TRAHAN, & lists him singly; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Jean TRAHAN, marin, age 35, on the embarkation list, Juan TRAHAM, on the debarkation list, & Jean TRAHAN, sailor, age 35, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 25th "Family" aboard Le Bon Papa with no one else; BRDR, 2:622, 705 (ASC-2, 14), perhaps his marriage record, calls him Juan Bautista TRAHANT, calls his wife Isabelle RICHARD, does not give his or her parents' names but says all parents "were Acadians," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Charle RICHARD [her brother] & Alexis LE BRON.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 31.  

Sad to say, the priest at Ascension in the late 1780s generally did not bother to give parents' names in the marriages he recorded, so Jean TRAHAN's marriage to Élisabeth/Isabelle RICHARD is only an educated guess.  His age is right for the union, & all other Jean/Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN's are accounted for.  

If he was the Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN who married Élisabeth RICHARD at Ascension in May 1788, he would have been the father of her sons Pierre TRAHAN, born in c1788, Jean TRAHAN, in c1794, & Anne TRAHAN, in c1792, based on ages found in the 1795 Lafourche valley census, though his wife's being called a widow in the 1791 Ascension census makes no sense in light of the ages given for Jean & Anne 4 years later.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 54, 163.

38.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Jean-Athanase TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:632 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #318), his succession record, calls him Athanase TRAHAN m. Magdeleine THIBODEAUX.   

Where is his marriage record?  Who were his wife's parents?

39.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Jean-Baptiste [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 3 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, calls him Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, says he was born in 1760 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, says his mother was Josephine GRANGER & that his parents were from Belle-Île-en-Mer, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, but lists no children for them; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 577-78; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 30-31, calls him Jean-Baptiste, son [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fils, charpentier, age 25, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista TRAHAM, hijo de Maria Josefa GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, son [of Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, widow TRAHAN], carpenter, age 25, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his mother & 3 siblings, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, but does not give the place of marriage; BRDR, 2:212, 705 (SGA-14, 3, #7), his marriage record, calls him Juan Baptiste TRAHANT, calls his wife Ana Genovefa DAIGLE, gives his & her parents' names, says both sets of parents were from or of England, but gives no witnesses to his marriage; BRDR, 4:532 (SJO-11, 12), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him J. Bapt. TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death.  See also Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 307; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 524.  

He & his wife were living on the southern edge of Baton Rouge district at the time of their marriage in May 1786.  Their marriage was recorded at St.-Gabriel because there was no church at Baton Rouge until 1793, so couples in the Baton Rouge area were married by priests either from Pointe-Coupée, upriver, or St.-Gabriel, downriver.  

40.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Jean TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & 4 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 163-64, Family No. 295, calls him Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, details his birth, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says she was born in 1741 at Pigiguit, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Charles-Marie, died age 13 mos. & buried 1 Mar 1778, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & daughter Marguerite-Jeanne, baptized 29 Aug 1779, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died 23 Sep 1780, place not given but probably St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls him Jean TRAHAN, laboureur, age 43[sic], on the embarkation list, & Jean TRAHAN, plowman, age 49, on the complete listing, says he was in the 42nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his wife & 4 children, says son Jean-Michel was born 21 Aug 1764 but gives no birthplace, & daughter Marie-Louise was born 27 Aug 1768 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:711 (SM Ch.: v.4, #542), his death/burial record, calls him Jean TRAHAN, "of Acadia," says he died "suddenly at the residence of Charles BOURG, his son-in-law of Vermillion ... at age 77 yrs.," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:711 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ. #29), his succession record, calls him Jean Baptiste TRAHAN. 

Son Jean-Michel was born at Morlaix in Aug 1764.  Two of his daughters, Marie-Louise & Félicité, were born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1769 & c1771.  The family probably was still on the island in the early 1770s when other Acadians in France participated in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou.  

41.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, & lists him singly, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls him Jean-Bte TRAHAN, charpentier age 34, on the embarkation list, & Pierre[sic]-Baptiste TRAHAN, carpenter, age 34, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 10th "Family" of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with no one else; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767, 771 (SM Ch.: v.3, #36),  the record of his first marriage, dated 3 Jan 1785, calls him Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, "of la veille Angleterre (old England - Britain)," calls his wife Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, "d'Acadie," gives his & her parents' names, says he was a minor son of Jean TRAHAN & Magdelaine HÉBERT, says his wife was a minor daughter, that her father was deceased at the time of the wedding, but lists no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:519, 635 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Mar. #81), the record of his second marriage, calls him Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, "widr. of Marie TRAHAN," calls his wife Francoise PITRE, "wid. of Joseph TRAHAN," but does not give any parents' names or list any witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:635 (Laf.Ch.: v.3, p.145), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, says he died "at age 80 yrs.," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 417.  

But there are some serious conflicts in the sources cited above that must be sorted out.  The marriage date--3 Jan 1785--for Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils & Marie-Francoise TRAHAN of Atakapas, cited above, & the baptismal record of son Jean-Baptiste III, dated 25 Dec 1785, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767 (SM Ch.: v.3, #89), which says the boy was born on 2 Jun 1785, pose a problem with Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils's arrival date.  If he married at Atakapas in Jan 1785 & his son was born there the following Jun, then he could not have come to LA in Sep 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  If he had married a girl who had come to the colony from France, one could conclude that they were "married" in France before they left the mother country & that their son was born just before they left St.-Malo & was not baptized until after they reached LA.  But that was not the case.  Marie-Francoise TRAHAN was a native of LA whose family had come to the colony in 1765. 

There are other nagging conflicts in the evidence cited above:  Why does Father Hébert in his "complete listing" of Acadian Families in Exile 1785, p. 58, change the first name of Jean Bte TRAHAN to Pierre-Baptiste but gives no reason for the change in his "other references" section on p. 59?  If the single-listed Jean-Bte/Pierre-Baptiste TRAHAN who came to LA on Le St.-Rémi was, as the embarkation list says, age 34 in 1785, that would give him an estimated birth year of c1751, which means that, if he were Acadian, he would have been born somewhere in Acadia.  But Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Marie-Modeste HÉBERT were married in Jan 1757 at Liverpool, England.  Is the age given on the embarkation list, cited above, a notation or transcription error?  Was Jean-Bte/Pierre-Baptiste TRAHAN of Le St.-Rémi actually 24 in 1785, not 34, & was born in c1761, not c1751?  What happened to Pierre-Baptiste TRAHAN?  No such name appears on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names. 

So the question must be asked:  Were the Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN of Atakapas, son of Jean TRAHAN & Magdelaine HÉBERT & husband of Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, & the Jean-Bte/Pierre-Baptiste TRAHAN who came to LA in Sep 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi the same fellow, or were they different people?  As the embarkation list for Le St.-Rémi shows, Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils, son of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Madeleine-Modeste HÉBERT, was not listed with the family--No. 42--that included his parents & siblings.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53.  If the Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN who married at Atakapas in Jan 1785 & the Jean-Baptiste/Pierre-Baptiste TRAHAN on Le St.-Rémi were not the same person, when did Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils, husband of Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, come to LA?  Was he a sailor in France who came to the colony on his own in the early 1780s?  If so, he would have been a rare Acadian indeed. 

No matter, there is plenty of evidence to conclude that Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, fils, son of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Marie-Modeste HÉBERT, did come to LA; when he got there is the mystery.  And the evidence is clear that he was the one who married Marie-Francoise TRAHAN.  Baptismal records of Jean-Baptiste, fils & Marie-Francoise's daughters Marie-Isabelle, Marguerite, Rosalie, & Pélagie, dated 27 May 1798, 7 May 1800, & 11 May 1801, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:771-72, 1-B:715-16 (SM Ch.: v.5, #53, #258, #259, & #375), say that the girls' father was from Liverpool, England, & that their paternal grandparents were Jean TRAHAN & Magdeleine HÉBERT of Acadia.  Liverpool, remember, was where Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Madeleine-Modeste HÉBERT were married in Jan 1757.  The godparents of Jean-Baptiste, fils's daughter Marguerite were Pierre TRAHAN & Augustine AUCOIN.  Guess who were the parents of Pierre TRAHAN, husband of Anne-Augustine AUCOIN?  That's right--Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Marie-Modeste HÉBERT.  Note also that in the marriage records of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, père & Marie-Modeste HÉBERT's other children--Jeanne-Félicité, Jean-Michel, Marie-Louise, & Pierre, all found in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A--their parents are almost invariably called ... Jean TRAHAN & Magdeleine HÉBERT. 

The Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN in the Aug 1789 Atakapas militia list was most likely fils & not père because père would have been 54 in 1789, too old for the militia.  Jean-Baptiste, fils would have been 29 that year. 

42.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Jean-Baptiste [TRAHAN], & lists him with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls him Jean-Bte, son [Marin TRAHAN's] fils, charpentier, age 21, on the embarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] son, carpenter, age 21, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:591, 705 (ASC-2, 15), his marriage record, calls him Juan Bautista TRAHAN, calls his wife Marie Magdelena PINETTE, gives hers but not his parents' names, says his parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Eustache TRAHAN & Jean-Baptiste DAIGLE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:520 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #709), his death/burial record, dated 30 Sep 1835, calls him Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, says he died "at age 70 yrs.," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:520 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1835), his succession inventory record, calls him Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, says he died on 29 Sep 1835, does not give his wife's name, says "Many heirs are listed, none are his own children," & lists them as [Marie] Marguerite TRAHAN [his younger sister] m. d.André DUROCHER, Marianne DUROCHER [his niece] m. Florentin BOUDRAUX, d.Barbe TRAHAN [his younger sister] m. Alexis LEJEUNE, Constance LEJEUNE [his niece] m. Joseph MOLAISON, Rosalie LEJEUNE [his niece] m. Joseph August HÉBERT, Marie LEJEUNE [his niece] m. Joseph LEBLANC, Madeleine LEJEUNE [his niece] m. Nicolas THIBODAUX, Melanie TRAHAN [his niece] m. Marcellin THIBODAUX, Constance TRAHAN [his niece] m. Uberville ARCENAUX, & Carmelite TRAHAN [his niece] m. Simonet TRAHAN.

Note that he was a year older than his stepmother.  He & his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children of their own, at least none who survived childhood. 

43.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Jean-Chrisostôme TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 422, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Chrisosthôme TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, calls his father Jean-Chrisosthôme, but does not gives his godparents' names; BRDR, 2:340-41, 705 (ASM-2, 71), his marriage record, calls him Juan Bautista or Bautiste TRAHAN, "of Nantes, France," calls his wife Magdalena GUÉDRY "of St. James Parish," gives his & her parents' names, calls her mother Ysabel BRAUX, says her father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Thomas de VILLANEUVA & Simon SIMONEAUX.

His wife's mother was Élisabeth COMEAUX, not BREAUX.  

44.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Francois [TRAHAN], & lists him with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 421 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Francois-Marie TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, but does not gives his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls him Francois, son [Marin TRAHAN's] fils, age 7, on the embarkation list, & Francois TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] son, age 7, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings; BRDR, 3:820, 833 (ASM-2, 235), his marriage record, calls him Francisco TRAHAN, "of St.-Martin Parish, Morlaix, France," calls his wife Joseph[sic] Amada THIBODAUX, gives his & her parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Juan Maria TRAHAN [his brother], Joseph DUROGER (DUROCHE) [perhaps his brother-in-law], & Francois TUREYRA.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 30.

45.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Jean-Marie [TRAHAN], & lists him with his father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Jean-Marie, son [Joachim TRAHAN's] fils, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Jean-Marie TRAHAN, his [Joachim TRAHAN's] son, age 10, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:281, 768 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio D, #3; SM Ch.: v.4, #131), his marriage investigation record, dated 1 Jun 1796, calls him Jean-Marie TRAHAN, "of Belle-isle-en-Mer in France, in this parish many years, a Catholic, 20 yrs. old," calls his prospective wife Isabelle DUON, "of Lafourche," give his but not her parents' names, says his parents were "of Acadia," that he & his prospective wife received dispensation from third degree of consanguinity, that "three banns [were] published or proclaimed at Attakapas on 10 Jul 1796," & that the witnesses to his marriage investigation were Louis CHEMIN, "bedo (sacristan)," Joseph BABIN, Olidon BROUSSARD, & Jean-Baptiste BRUSARD, "of this parish"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:282, 768 (SM Ch.: v.4, #131), his marriage record, calls him Jean-Marie TRAHAN, calls his wife Izabelle DUON, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "de Belisle en mer, Europe in France," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Auguste TRAHAN, "hermonos del desposado (brother of the groom), Joseph BOUDREAUD, Jacques FOSTIN, & Paul TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:711 (SM Ch.: v.4, #341), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Marie TRAHAN of this parish, & gives his parents' names but not his wife's name.  

His birthplace is based on the whereabouts of his family in France in the late 1760s, 1770s, & early 1780s.  

Where was he in 1788 if he was not with his older siblings at Ascension?

46.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Jean-Marie [TRAHAN], & lists him with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 422, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Joseph-Marie TRAHAN, & gives his parents' but not his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls him Jean-Marie, son [Marin TRAHAN's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, & Jean-Marie TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his father, stepmother, & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:493, 705 (ASM-2, 38), the record of his first marriage, calls him Juan Maria TRAHAN, calls his wife Adélaïde LEJEUNE, gives his & her parents' names, calls his father Juan Maria, says both sets of parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Juan LEJEUNE [her brother] & Francois HÉBERT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:353, 520 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, #395), the record of his second marriage, calls him Jean Marie TRAHAN, "native of Morlais, parish of St. Martin in France, widr. Adélaïde LEJEUNE," calls his wife Marie Anne LEBEUF, "native of St. James on the River, wid. of Narcice MARCEL, gives his & her parents' names, but gives no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:520 (Houma Ct.Hse.: Succ. #39), his succession inventory record, calls him Jean Marie TRAHAN m. (1)d.Anne Adélaïde LEJEUNE, m.(2) Marianne LEBOEUF," & gives his death date.

47.  Wall of Names, 42, calls him Jean-Paul TRAHAN, & lists him singly; BRDR, 2:496, 704 (SGA-14, 10), his marriage record, calls him Jean TRAHAN, calls his wife Maria Josefa LEJEUNE, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of St.-Malo, France," says her were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Servand LEJEUNE & Charles BRAUX.  

Baton Rouge did not have a church of its own until 1793.  Before then, priests from Pointe Coupée, upriver, & St.-Gabriel, downriver, administered the sacraments to the settlers around Baton Rouge. 

48.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Joachin TRAHAN, & lists him with 5 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, calls him Joachim TRAHAN, gives his birth date & place & his parents' names, calls him a ploughman, details his marriages, including his wives' parents' names, says his first wife died at Liverpool in 1757 but does not give her age at the time of her death, that his second wife, born in c1737, died at age 48 & was buried 5 Apr 1785 at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, only 2 1/2 months before he & his children set sail for LA, provides the birth/baptism & marriage record of daughter Marie-Blanche by his first wife, born 29 Sep 1755, L'Assomption Pigiguit, married Germain CAILLO, 16 Nov 1785, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Joachim TRAHAN, laboureur, age 50, on the embarkation list, & Joachim TRAHAN, plowman, age 50, on the complete listing, says he was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with no wife & 6 children, calls his wife Marie-Magdalen DUHON, says daughter Marie-Victoire was born 9 Jul 1781 & died 25 Feb 1782 but gives no birth or death place, daughter Catherine was born 24 Apr 1773 but gives no birthplace, daughter Marie-Félicité was born 16 Jan 1770 but gives no birthplace, & daughter Marie-Vincente was born 28 Apr 1784 but gives no birthplace.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 28.  

His older daughter Marie-Blanche & her husband seem to have stayed in France in 1785.  

The brochure that accompanies the Robert Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville, insists that his middle name was Hyacinthe.  See daughter Catherine's marriage record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:763 (SM Ch.: v.4, #79), which calls him Hiacinthe [TRAHAN], the only primary source where I have found this name.  

49.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Joseph TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & 3 children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, journalier, age 59, on the embarkation list, Joseph TRAHAN, on the debarkation list, & Joseph TRAHAN, day laborer, age 59, on the complete listing, says he was in the 52nd Family aboard La Bergère with his wife & 3 children, details his marriage but does not give his or his wife's parents' names nor the place of marriage, says son Anselme was born in 1766 but gives no birthplace, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA.  

50.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & 2 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162, Family No. 291, profile of his parents' family, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, says he was born c1750 "in the Parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, that he was a domestic & resident of "the Parish of Saint-Nicolas below La Fosse," which was in the city of Nantes; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 166-67, Family No. 300, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, says he was born c1750 at L'Assomption, Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, says he was a carpenter & "resident since several years in the Parish of Saint-Nicolas of Nantes," details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says his wife was also "resident since several years in the Parish of Saint-Nicolas below La Fosse," includes the birth/baptismal records of son Joseph-René, baptized 11 Nov 1780, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & daughter Antoinette, baptized 17 Nov 1782, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 34-35, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, age 44, on the embarkation list, Josef TRAHAM, on the debarkation list, & Joseph TRAHAN, no occupation liste, age 44, on the complete listing, says he was in the 18th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his wife & 2 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, & says daughter Antoinette was baptized in 1782 but gives no place of baptism.

He was probably a domestic when he was young, & a carpenter when he was grown.

The passenger list of Le Beaumont does not have a special note that Joseph & his family went to the Atakapas District, as it does for several other families from that ship, because he & Marguerite went to Baton Rouge/Manchac first, with the majority of the passengers from their ship (including Marguerite's family) before moving to Atakapas.  See the baptismal record of son Francois-Antoine, dated 29 Dec 1785, in BRDR, 2:704 (SGA-11, 4, #9), which says the boy was born on 2 Dec 1785, probably at Manchac.  This means that Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage over.

51.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Joseph, son [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fils, journallier, age 21, on the embarkation list, Josef TRAHAM, hijo de Anan GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Joseph TRAHAN, her [Anne GRANGER, widow TRAHAN's] son, day laborer, age 21, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 7th Family aboard Le Beaumont with is mother & 4 siblings; BRDR, 2:704-05 (SGA-14, 27, #102), his marriage record, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, called his wife Margarita DOVERON, "widow of Victor DEGLE," gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of Morles in France" & hers "of St.-Malo, France," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jose LEGON & Miguel GAREY. 

His first wife was a DOIRON. 

52.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Joseph [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & 5 sisters; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, his father's profile in the LA section, calls him Joseph-Marie [TRAHAN], & says he was born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 423, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Marie TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, calls his father a laboureur, but does not give his godparents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 306, calls him Joseph [TRAHAN], & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Joseph, son [Pierre TRAHAN's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, & Joseph TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & 5 sisters.  

What happened to him?  Did he survive the voyage to LA?  There is no debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi unfortunately, so he may not have survived the crossing.  If I find evidence that he did not make it to LA, I will remove him from this list.  

53.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Joseph TRAHAN; BRDR, 3:537, 834 (ASC-2, 113), his marriage record, calls him Joseph TRAHANT, calls his wife Henriette LEBLANC, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Simon LEBLANC, Paulin MELANÇON, & Narcisse LANDRY; BRDR, 3:833 (ASM-3, 100), his death/burial record, calls him Josef TRAHAN, "age 36 yrs., married to Enrrieta LEBLANC," & gives his parents' names.    

54.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph-Rémi [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & a sister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 167, Family No. 300, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-René TRAHAN, but does not list his godparents; Hébert, D., Acadians Families in Exile 1785, 34-35, calls him Joseph-Rémi, son [Joseph TRAHAN's] fils, age 4, on the embarkation list, Josef Remigio, su [Josef TRAHAM's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Joseph-Rémi TRAHAN, his [Joseph TRAHAN's] son, age 4, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 18th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & a sister.

What happened to him in LA?

55.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Julie [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Julie, sa [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fille, age 14, on the embarkation list, Julia, hijo de Anan GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Julie TRAHAN, her [Anne GRANGER, widow TRAHAN's] daughter, age 14, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 7th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 4 siblings; BRDR, 2:5a, 15a, 3:236, 835 (SJO-3, 2), her corrected marriage record, calls her Marie Julia TRAHAN, calls her husband Juan Bautista DEGRE, gives her & his parents' names, says his parents were "of Acadia," that the witnesses to her marriage were Félipe ANGELHEART, Simon Pedro DEGRE, Francisco GUIDRY, & Maria Julia TRAHAN [sic], & says "On this record, incorrect bride was published in Vol. 2 [of BRDR]."

See BRDR, 2:216, for the erroneous entry. 

56.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Louise-Rennée [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & no siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 169, Family No. 305, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Louise-Renée TRAHAN, gives her parents' names not her godparents' names, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls her Louise-Rennée, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 2, on the embarkation list, & Louise-Renée TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 2, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 48th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & no siblings.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 499; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46.  

If she was baptized in Jan 1784, why did she not appear in the Sep 1784 Spanish census of the Acadians at Nantes with her parents?  Nor does she appear with them at Ascension in 1788, when she would have been 4 years old.  Did she even survive the crossing from France to LA or die in the colony soon after her family arrived?  

57.  Wall of Names, 26, calls her Madeleine TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:363, 706 (PCP-2, part 2, 110; PCP-4, 71), her marriage record, calls her Magdelene TRAHAN, calls her husband Joseph HÉBERT, gives her & his parents' names, says all parents were "of Acadia,"" & that the witnesses to her marriage were ____ MERCIER & Jean BERARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:410, 770 (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.10), also her marriage record, calls her Magdelene TRAHAN, "native of Acadia, resides in Attakapas," calls her husband Joseph HÉBERT, "of Acadia, living at Attakapas," gives her & his parents' names, says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean BERARD, ____ GREVEMBER, ____ GAIGNARD, & ____ MERCIER, & that the priest who recorded the marriage was "of Pointe Coupée"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:713 (SM Ch.: v.4, #292), her death/burial record, calls her Magdeliene TRAHAN "of Acadia" ... m. to Joseph HÉBERT, gives her parents' names, & says she died "at age 60 yrs."

Her marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because the Atakapas parish, though it dated from 1765, did not have its own priest in the late 1760s & early 1770s, so Pointe Coupée priests served as missionaries to the prairie district. 

58.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Madeleine TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2438-39, 2440, calls her Marie-Marguerite.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 174; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 447.

59.  Wall of Names, 26, calls her Madeleine TRAHAN, & lists her singly; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2508; BRDR, 2:360, 706 (SJA-1, 13), her marriage record, calls her Magdelaine TRAHAN, calls her husband Francois HEBERE, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were André LEBLANC & Josephe DUPUIS.  See also De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 19. 

When did she reach LA?  Judging by her age (38) & his (36) at the time of their marriage, plus the age of his children in the St.-Jacques census of 1777, Francois must have been married before.  Madeleine may have been a widow as well at the time of her marriage to Francois. 

60.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Magdeleine TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 4 daughters; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 30, Family No. 61, calls her Madeleine TRAHAN, says she was born in c1741 but gives no birthplace, does not give her parents' names, details her marriage, says they were married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Rose DARROIS, baptized 1 Aug 1775, Pouthume, Châtellerault, goddaughter of Pierre TÉRIOT & Élisabeth DARROIS, her sister, died age 5 weeks & buried 5 Sep 1775, Pouthume, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 50, Family No. 97, calls her Madeleine TRAHAN, says she was born in c1741 but gives no birthplace, does not give her parents' names, details her marriage, says they were married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, does not include her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Élizabeth DARROIS, baptized 17 Sep 1776, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, son Joseph-Étienne DARROIS, baptized 20 Sep 1780, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died age 1 & buried 10 Sep 1781, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & son Jacques-Étienne DARROIS, baptized 29 Mar 1783, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died age 11 months & buried 13 Feb 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls her Magdeleine TRAHAN, sa [Étiene DAROIS's] feme, age 45, on the embarkation list, & Magdalaine TRAHAN, his [Étienne DARROIS's] wife, age 45, on the complete listing, says she was in the 40th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 4 daughters, details her marriage but does not include her or her husband's parents' names, says they were married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, & says daughter Marie-Élizabeth [DAROIS] was baptized in 1776 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:520 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, p.59), her death/burial record, calls her Madelaine TRAHAN m. Éthienne DAROIS, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 503; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 31, 66, 104, 120, 163.

So who were her parents?  The baptismal records of 5 of her children place her in St.-Martin Parish, Morlaix, France, in 1766-73.  See Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 99. 

61.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Magdeleine [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls her Madeleine, sa [Marin TRAHAN's] fille, age 23, on the embarkation list, & Madelaine TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] daughter, age 23, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings. 

What happened to her in LA?  She does not appear in the Ascension census of 1788 with the rest of her siblings.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 30.  Did she even survive the crossing from France to LA?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi did not survive.  

62.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Magdelaine TRAHAN.  

Francoise TRAHAN, widow of Pascal HÉBERT, crossed to LA with her & her husband.  Francoise's parents were Pierre TRAHAN & Jeanne DAIGLE.  If Madeleine & Francoise were siblings, voila. 

63.  Wall of Names, 26, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:636 (SM Ch.: v.5, p.17, #29), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, "m. d.René LEBLANC," says she died "at age 80 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names.    

64.  Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls her Margueritte TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 4 children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 762, Family No. 893; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 612, Family No. 706; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls her Margueritte TRAHAN, sa [Simon MIEROLLE's] femme, age 38, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Simon MAZEROLLE's] wife, age 38, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband & 4 children, details her marriage, including the names of her & her husband's parents, & says daughter Élizabeth-Marie was born in 1769; BRDR, 2:706 (ASC-1, 200e), probably her death/burial record, calls her Margarita TRAHAN, an Acadian, but does not give her age or her parents' or husband's names.

Her husband remarried in Jan 1788, so the death/burial record cited above is probably hers.  The only other possibility would be Marguerite TRAHAN, wife of Michel LEVRON; all other Marguerite TRAHAN's at Ascension--& there were 4 more of them--appear in church or census records after 1786.  

65.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Margueritte [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 2 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Margueritte, sa [Joseph TRAHAN's] fille, age 11, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Joseph TRAHAN's] daughter, age 11, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 52nd Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 2 siblings; BRDR, 2:92, 706 (ASM-2, 32), her marriage record, calls her Margarita TRAHAN, "of St.-Malo," calls her husband Belonio BLANCHARD "of St.-Malo," gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Luis VERRET & Ambrosio HÉBERT. 

66.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Margueritte TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & a son; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 129, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, her 2 young sons died, detailed in the footnote for her husband's profile; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 504-05, Family No. 562, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, says she was born in c1729 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, says he was born in c1734 but gives no birthplace, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Francois-Guillaume HENRY, born & baptized 10 Feb 1759, St.-Servan, godson of Francois HUET & Guillemette-Pélagie SEMIDON, died age 3 days 10[sic] Feb 1759, buried next day, St.-Servan, son Pierre-Marin HENRY, born & baptized 23 Feb 1760, St.-Servan, godson of Pierre CIARDIN & Marie ROULIN, son Jean-Félix HENRY, born 17 May 1761, baptized next day, St.-Servan, godson of Michel CAISSY & Anne KIMINE, son Joseph-Philippe HENRY, born 18 Jul 1762, baptized next day, St.-Servan, godson of Philippe VIBERT & Rosalie TRAHAN, son Amant HENRY, born & baptized 15 Jul 1764, St.-Servan, godson of Amant HENRY & Marie CONVENANCE, daughter Marguerite-Sophie HENRY, born & baptized 6 Oct 1765, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Félix BRAUD & Marguerite HENRY, son Cyrille-Francois HENRY, born 19 Aug 1767, baptized next day, St.-Servan, godson of Cyrille TÉRRIOT & Francoise CROIZOL, son Francois-Michel HENRY, born & baptized 24 Feb 1769, St.-Servan, godson of Augustin BENOIST & Rosalie BEAUMONT, & daughter Adélaïde-Marie HENRY, born & baptized 31 Mar 1770, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Michel BEAUMONT & Francoise TÉRRIOT, says she & her husband"disembarked at St. Malo on January 23, 1759 from one of the 'Five ships'," & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 97-98, Family No. 180, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, says she was born in c1729 but gives no birthplace, details her marriage but does not give her or her husband's parents' names, says she & her husband were married in c1758 but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Sophie HENRY, died age 13 & buried 17 Jan 1778, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & son Joseph-Philippe HENRY, born c1762, St.-Servan, seaman, "resident of the Parish of Saint-Martin of Chantenay since many years," & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, calls her Margueritte TRAHAN, sa [Pierre HENRY] femme, age 54, on the embarkation list, Margarita TRAHAM, su [Pedro HENRIQUE's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Pierre HENRY's] wife, age 54, on the complete listing, says she was in the 45th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her husband & a son, details her marriage but gives no parents' names, says she & her husband were married in c1758 but gives no place of marriage, & says son Cyrille-Francois [HENRY] was born in 1767 but gives no birthplace.  

Son Cyrille-Francois HENRY accompanied her & her husband to LA.  Son Joseph-Philippe HENRY went to LA with his wife & 2 stepsons on a different ship.  But what of her other children born in France--Pierre-Marin, Jean-Félix, Amant, Francois-Michel, & Adélaïde-Marie HENRY, who would have been 25, 24, 21, 16, & 15, respectively in 1785?  Did the older ones marry & remain in the mother country?  What happened to the younger ones?  

67.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 2 children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-57, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, sa [Michel LEVRON's] feme, age 50, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Michel LEVRON's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says she was in the 1st Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 2 children, & says daughter Marie-Josèphe-Francoise [TRAHAN] was born 22 Oct 1762 but gives no birthplace.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 513.

68.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Marguerite TRAHAN veuve, & lists her with a daughter, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, veuve, age 49, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite TRAHAN, widow, age 49, on the complete listing, says she was in the 13th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with a daughter, says she married Joseph TRAHAN but does not give the date or place or her & her husband's parents' names, says daughter Augustine-Pélagie [TRAHAN] was born 28 Aug 1772 at Morlaix, son Pierre-Grégoire [TRAHAN] was born 23 Nov 1769 but gives no birthplace, daughter Marie-Josèphe [TRAHAN] was born 3 Mar 1766 at Morlaix, & son Paul-Joseph [TRAHAN] was born 30 Jul 1768 at Morlaix.

Her daughter Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN's family is several families above hers on the embarkation list of Le St.-Rémi.  Daughter Augustine-Pélagie TRAHAN crossed to LA with her.  None of her other children made it to LA.  

69.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marguerite [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Marie-Marguerite [TRAHAN], & says she was born in 1768 but gives no birthplace; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 306, calls her Marguerite [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marguerite, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:410, 763 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio C, #2), her marriage investigation record, calls her Catherine-Marguerite TRAHAN, "22 yrs. old of Belle Isle en Mer in Bretagne, France, bt. at St. Peter Church, Bengor," calls her future husband Joseph HÉBERT, says he was "over 18 yrs. old, of Attakapas, bt. this parish," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage investigation were Jean HÉBERT, "38 years old," & Charles DUGAT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:410, 771 (SM Ch.: v.4, #44), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, "of Belle-ise-en-Mer in Bretagne," gives her & her husband's parents' names, says his father was "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph DUHON, Michel TRAHAN, Augustin TRAHAN, Joseph BOUDREAU, & A. DE COIRIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:714 (SM Ch.: v.4, #363), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, "of Belle Isle-en-Mer, France, ... m. to Joseph HÉBERT," gives her parents' names, says they were "of Acadia in this parish," & that she was buried "at age 37 yrs."  

Note that her husband's mother also was named Marguerite TRAHAN, so she & her husband were distant cousins, but how distant?  

70.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Marguerite [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 425, probably her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Marguerite TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, says they were demeurant rue Longue Bourret, & that she was goddaughter of Marguerite TÉRIO but does not give her godfather's name; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-56, calls her Marguerite, sa [Marin TRAHAN's] fille, age 15, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Marin TRAHAN's] daughter, age 15, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 5 siblings; NOAR, 6:266 (SLC, F4, 37), perhaps her death/burial record, calls her Margarita TRAHAN, "native of Acadian Coast (in Louisiana), 26 yr., sp. Andrés DUROCHER," & calls her parents Marin TRAHAN & Magdalena GAUTIER.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 76.

I have not found her marriage record, but she is the only Marguerite TRAHAN whose estimated birth year fits the ages of André DUROCHER's wife in the Lafourche valley censuses of 1795 & 1797.  DUROCHER is not an Acadian name, so I will assume that he was French Creole, unless his name was DESROCHES/DEROCHE, which was Acadian, but there is no evidence that an André DESROCHES/DEROCHE came to LA.  

How could she have been counted in the Lafourche valley census of Apr 1797 if she was buried in New Orleans in Oct 1796?  Why did the New Orleans priest who recorded her burial call her mother Magdalena, or Madeleine, GAUTIER when she was a LEBLANC?  

I need a TRAHAN family historian to help me here.  

71.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Margueritte TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:512, 706 (ASM-2, 68), her marriage record, calls her Margarita TRAHAN, "of Nantes, France," calls her husband Joseph MAITREJEAN, "res. New Orleans, native of Belleisle in Mer," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Juan TRAHAN & Ambroise HÉBERT. 

Her husband's mother was an Acadian DUHON who married his father at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in Jun 1777.  Antoine MAITREJEAN's parents--Joseph's paternal grandparents--were Jacques MAITREJEAN & Christine LA ROCHE of Dijon, so Antoine was probably from Dijon.  Antoine was an employe au ferme du Roy, whatever that was.  See Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 314.  Marie DUHON's parents--Joseph's maternal grandparents--Honoré DUHON & Anne-Geneviève TRAHAN (so Marguerite & Joseph were distant cousins)--came to LA aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 & went to San Bernardo, below New Orleans.  When did Joseph come to LA?  Did he come with his parents?  His mother is not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names, & he appears on no passenger lists of the Seven Ships expedition, so he may have come to LA alone & after 1785.     

72.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN; BRDR, 3:834 (ASM-3, 108), her death/burial record, calls her Margarita TRAHAN, "age 74 yrs. of Acadia," gives her parents' names but mentions no husband. 

Did she ever marry?  If not, why not?  Her old sister Marie also seems to have remained unmarried. 

73.  Wall of Names, 11, calls her Marie TRAHAN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152.

74.  Wall of  Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 3 children; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 570; Hébert. D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Marie TRAHAN, sa [Simon LEBLANC's] femme, age 51, on the embarkation list, Maria TRAHAN, su [Simon LEBLANC's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie TRAHAN, his [Simon LEBLANC's] wife, age 51, on the complete listing, says she was in the 7th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her husband & 3 children, & details her second marriage, including the names of hers & his parents; BRDR, 3:547 (SGA-8, 75), her death/burial record, places her in the LEBLANC family section, calls her Marie, "age 80 yrs., wid. Simon LEBLANC," but does not give her parents' names. 

I have no doubt that this is her burial record.  The ages, & her second husband's name, tell it all. 

75.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7L), calls her Marie TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 2 children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 16-17, calls her Marie TRAHAN, sa [Gabriel MOREAU's] femme, age 54, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie TRAHAN, his [Gabriel MOREAU's] wife, age 54, on the complete listing, says she was in the 27th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband, called Gabriel MOREAU, journalier, age 61, on the embarkation list, Gabriel MOREAU, on the debarkation list, & Gabriel MOREAU, day laborer, age 61, on the complete listing, & 2 children, son Maximin MOREAU, a printer, age 24, & daughter [Marie-]Anne[-Barbe] MOREAU, age 18, says that son Francois-Marie [MOREAU] was born 31 Jul 1796 but gives no birth place, that son Germain-Marie [MOREAU] was born in 1767 but also gives no birth place, that daughter Marie-Anne [MOREAU] was born in 1765 but gives no birth place, that son Pierre-Vincent [MOREAU] was born in 1764 but gives no birthplace, & says that upon arrival in LA the Spanish gave the family 1 each of shovel & meat cleaver, & 2 each of axe, hatchet, & hoe.

I have not found her husband in either Arsenault, Généalogie, or White, DGFA-1, so I am assuming that she married him in France & that he was not Acadian.  See Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 331-32, for the birth records of four of their children, all born at Morlaix:  Pierre-Vincent, born  in 1764, Marie-Anne-Barbe, born  in 1765, Germain-Marie, born in 1767, & Francois-Marie, born in 1769.  Of these children, only Marie-Anne-Barbe, called Anne, accompanied her parents to LA.  Even son Maximin, whose age on the passenger list of La Bergère gives a birth year of c1761, would have been born in France if his mother had arrived there in early 1759, though most of the TRAHANS who ended up in France came from England in 1763.  

In LA, the MOREAU family would be classified as French Creoles since it was not Acadian, not French Canadian, & it came to LA before 1803.

76.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Marie [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 2 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Marie, sa [Joseph TRAHAN's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie TRAHAN, his [Joseph TRAHAN's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 52nd Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 2 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:282, 772-73 (SM Ch.: v.4, #18), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Magdeleine TRAHAN, "of St.-Malo," calls her husband Joseph DUHON, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph MODENA, Francois ____, & Joseph BOUDREAUX; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:715 (SM Ch.: v.4, #331), her death/burial record, calls her Marie-Magdeleine TRAHAN, "m. to Firmin DUON," but does not give her parents' names or her age at the time of her death. 

The Ascension census of 1788 was conducted in Jan, & she married at Atakapas in Jul, so that pinpoints her move to the prairies.  One can see in the 1788 census that she & older brother Anselme were probably orphans by then.  Joseph-Firmin, called Firmin, DUHON was a native of LA, his family having come to LA from Halifax in 1765 & moved to the Atakapas District from St.-Jacques in the 1770s, a decade before Marie-Madeleine came to LA.  Why did she leave Ascension for the prairies?  How did she meet Firmin?  This is just one of those little mysteries we may never solve.  She gave him many sons & daughters.  Notice how young she died; her son Jean-Baptiste DUHON was born 8 days before she died, so his birth probably killed her.  Jean-Baptiste survived.  Firmin remarried in Feb 1805, but most of his children came from Marie-Madeleine. 

77.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & no children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 36, Family No. 68, calls her Marie-Blanche TRAHAN, says she was born c1766 "in the Parish of Sauzon on Belle-Isle-en-Mer," details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & details their voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 167, Family No. 301, calls her Marie-Blanche TRAHAN, says she was born c1766 at Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer, says her father was born Feb 1734 "in Pisiguit, Parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," that he was son of Francois TRAHAN & Angélique MELANSON, that her mother was born in 1738 but gives no birthplace & was daughter of Joseph LEBLANC & Madeleine LALANDE, that her parents married 17 Dec 1756, in Liverpool, England, that her mother remarried 26 Nov 1782 "in the Church of Saint-Martin of Chantenay" to Jean SCOTT, & details her marriage to Joseph BRAUD; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls her Marie TRAHAN, sa [Joseph BROD's] femme, age 19, on the embarkation list, Maria TRAHAM, su [Josef BREAUD's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie TRAHAN, his [Joseph BRAUD's] wife, age 19, on the complete listing, says she was in the 29th Family on the embarkation list & the 30th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her husband & no children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 4:533 (SJO-11, 18), her death/burial record, calls her Marie Blanche TRAHAN, "age ca. 60 yrs., wid. BRAU," but does not give her parents' names.    

78.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 96, Family No. 187, details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162-63, Family No. 293, details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include her on the embarkation list, calls her Maria, su [Magdalena LEBLANC, viuda TRAHAM's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie TRAHAN, her [Magdelaine LEBLANC, widow TRAHAN's] daughter, no age given, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 48th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:103-04, 772 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.30), the record of her first marriage, calls her Marie-Jeane/Jeanne TRAHAN, calls her husband Joseph BOUTIN, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were ____ DEBORDE, Jean TRAHAN, J. GUIDRY, & Rensuval MIRS(?); Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:542, 772 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.79), the record of her second marriage, calls her Marie-Jeane TRAHAN, "of St.-Servan, France, widow of Joseph BROUTIN (probably BOUTIN), calls her husband Balthazar MARKS, "of St. John Baptiste parish on the Mississippi," gives her & his parents' names, says his parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Francois STELLY & Baptiste STELLY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:715 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.60), her death/burial record, calls her Marie-Jeanne TRAHAN, "spouse of Baltazar MAX (MARKS)," does not give her parents' names, & says she was buried "at age about 32 yrs."; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:715 (LSAR: Opel.: 1804), her succession record, calls her Marie Jeanne TRAHAN, "wid. of Balthazar MARC." 

Why are she & her family not on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont?  Were they all stowaways?  Unlikely.  The census at Fort Bute & her first marriage record reveal that she moved to Opelousas in c1789. 

Her second husband's first wife's name can be found in the baptismal records of his children by his first wife in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:541-42.  According to the priest at Opelousas at that time, Fr. Michel BARRIERE (formerly of Atakapas), Balthazar & André MARKS' surname was also spelled AMAT, MARQUES, MAX, & MAZSC.  The brothers evidently were German Creoles from the Upper German Coast. 

79.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Marie TRAHAN, & lists her singly; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls her Marie TRAHAN, fille, age 20, on the embarkation list, & Marie TRAHAN, young girl, age 20, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 52nd "Family" aboard Le St.-Rémi with no one else.

Who was she?  What happened to her in LA? 

80.  Wall of Names, calls her Marie TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 577, a list of the Acadian families at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, calls her Marie-Élisabeth TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, her father's birthplace, her birth date but not birthplace, & says "The family was held at Liverpool, England; entered France at Morlaix; seven other children were born at Belle-Île. ..."; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:637 (Laf. Ch.: v.3, p. 72), her death/burial record, calls her Marie TRAHAN m. Louis BOURG, says she died "at age 66 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:637 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#298), her succession record, calls her Marie TRAHAN m. Lucien BOURQUE. 

So it can be safely deduced that she was born at Liverpool.  So says the birth/baptismal record of son Placide BOURG, dated 7 May 1797, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:100-01 (SM Ch.: v.4, #858).

Her burial record misses her actual age by exactly a decade.  One wonders if it is a misprint. 

81.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Marie TRAHAN.  

82.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Marie-Anne [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Marie-Anne, sa [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, Mariana, hijo de Anan GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Anne TRAHAN, her [Anne GRANGER, widow TRAHAN's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 7th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 4 siblings; BRDR, 3:715, 834 (SJO-3, 42), her marriage record, calls her Maria Anna DRAHAN, calls her husband Juan PREVOT, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Baton Rouge," calls his mother Francisca GOUTIER, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jose DRAHAN [TRAHAN, probably her brother] & Jose SHARP.

Why did she wait so long to marry?  Was her mother-in-law a GAUTIER/GAUTHIER?

83.  Wall of Names, 25, calls her Marie-Francoise TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:767, 771 (SM Ch.: v.3, #36), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, "d'Acadie," calls her husband Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, "of "'la vieille Angleterre' (old England, Britain), gives her & his parents' names, says her father was deceased at the time of the wedding, that she & her husband were minor children, but does not list witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:637 (Laf. Ch.: v.3, p.15), her death/burial record, calls her Marie TRAHAN, "m. Jean Baptiste TRAHAM," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:633, 637 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #227), her succession record, calls her Marie TRAHAN m. Baptiste TRAHAN.   

She came to LA in 1765, so a marriage date of Jan 1785 is no problem for her; however, her husband reached LA from France probably aboard Le St.-Rémi in Sep 1785, so they could not have been married in Jan of that year.  They were married probably in Jan 1786, a few months after his family left New Orleans & settled in the Atakapas District.  He outlived her & remarried to fellow Acadian Francoise PITRE, 3 times a widow, the following Nov., when he was 72 years old. 

84.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie-Francoise [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Marie-Francoise [TRAHAN], & says she was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 424, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, gives her parents' names but not her godparents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 306, calls her Marie-Francoise [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marie-Francoise, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:134, 765 (SM Ch.: v.4, #87), her marriage record, calls her Francoise TRAHAN, calls her husband Joseph BROUSSARD, does not give her or his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph TRAHAN, Louis DELAHOUSSAYE, & Aman BROUSSARD.

Her husband was a grandson of Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, the famous Acadian resistance fighter. 

85.  Wall of Names, 21, calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN veuve Michel LE BLANC.  The Spanish report of Jul 1767 & the St.-Gabriel census of 1777 differ dramatically in her age & therefore her birth year.  The earlier record is followed here.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 429, 432; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 2.

86.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 2 sons, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 425, 426, (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN de l'Assomption, which was Pigiguit, says her husband was from St.-Joseph, which was Rivière-aux-Canards, gives her & his parents' names, calling her mother Marguerite MANSON, but does not give the witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, sa [Paul TRAHAN's] feme, age 44, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, his [Paul TRAHAN's] wife, age 44, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 2 sons, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, says she & her husband were married in 1767 but gives no place of marriage, that son Paul [TRAHAN] was born in 1768, son Pierre [TRAHAN] in 1779, but gives no birthplace.  

How closely kin was she to her husband?     

What happened to her in LA?  Did she & her family even survive the crossing from France to LA?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi has not survived?  

87.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & no children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 425, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, & gives her parents' names but not her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 380, 424, her marriage record, calls her Marie-Jeanne[sic] TRAHAN, says her husband was d'Acadie, gives her & his parents' names, calls her father Honoré-Joseph, says his father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & gives no witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls her Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, sa [Charles RICHARD's] feme, age 39[sic], on the embarkation list, & Marie-Josèphe TRAHAN, his [Charles RICHARD's] wife, age 19, on the complete listing, says she was in the 8th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her husband & no children, details his marriage, calling her Marie-Jeanne TRAHAN, but does not give her or her husband's parents' names nor a place of marriage, says daughter Anastasie-Marguerite [TRAHAN] was born on 15 Mar 1801 & daughter Marie-Félicité [TRAHAN] on 26 Nov 1789 but gives no birthplaces.  

Her mother's family--mother & sister Augustine-Pélagie--were several families down from hers on the embarkation list of Le St.-Rémi.  

88.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Marie-Louise [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 425, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Louise TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Joseph GUICHARD & Naster MARRES; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 164, Family No. 295, calls her Marie-Louise [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls her Marie-Louise, sa [Jean TRAHAN's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Louise TRAHAN, his [Jean TRAHAN's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, says she was in the 42nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 3 siblings, & that she was born 17 Aug 1768 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:97, 772 (SM Ch.: v.4, #163), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Louise TRAHAN, "of Belle-Isle-en-Mer, France," calls her husband Charles BOURQUE, "of Diocese of St.-Malo, France," gives her & his parents' names, says all parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean TRAHAN, "bride's father," Lucien BOURCK, "hermano major (older brother) [of the groom]," Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, & William HARGRAVE.  

89.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Marie-Magdeleine TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:102, 706 (ASC-2, 14), her marriage record, calls her Maria Magdalina TRAHAN, calls her husband Francois BODOCHE, does not give any parents' names but says on p. 706 that his parents "were Acadians," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Ignace HAMON & Crisostomes TRAHANT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:521 (Houma Ct.Hse.: Succ.: #63 1/2), her succession record, calls her Marie M. TRAHAN m. Francois BOUDELOCHE, & gives her death date.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 154, 164.

Church records in BRDR, 2:108, say that Francois's parents were from Acadia & that he was from Nantes.  I have not found the name BOUDELOCHE in either Arsenault, Généalogie; or White, DGFA-1.  Why is Marie-Madeleine listed twice in the Ascension census of 1791, first with her parents & then with her husband? 

90.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Margueritte [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 576, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, "his [Joseph's] daughter," gives her birth date but not her birthplace, says the family was held at Falmouth, England, entered France at Morlaix [in 1763] before going to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where 5 of their children were born, & that "members of this family left for Louisiana in 1785 on the Beaumont; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Margueritte, sa [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fille, age 24, on the embarkation list, does not list her with her mother's family on the debarkation list, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, her [Anne GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] daughter, age 24, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 7th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her widowed mother & 4 siblings when she boarded the vessel; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not list her husband on the embarkation list, so he may have been a stowaway or a member of the crew, calls him Josef COSTA, on the debarkation list, calls her Margarita TRAHAM, su [Josef COSTA's] muger, on the debarkation list, calls him Joseph COSTA, no age given, on the complete listing, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN, his [Joseph COSTA's] wife, no age given, on the complete listing, & says they were the 49th Family aboard Le Beaumont, so they evidently married aboard ship; NOAR, 4:161, 299 (SLC, M5, 40), her marriage record, calls her Maria Margarita TRAHANT, calls her husband Joseph HENON, "native of St.-Tropez in France," gives her & his parents' names, calls his parents Juan [HENON] & Maria LONGUE, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Josef MARTINEZ & Vicente LLORCA; BRDR, 3:834 (SJO-4, 80), probably her death/burial record, calls her Maria TRAHAN, "age 54 yrs., wife of Josef LELONG," but does not give her parents' names. 

Le Beaumont reached New Orleans on 19 Aug, & their marriage at New Orleans was recorded on 4 Sep, so, like a good Roman Catholic couple, they did not wait long to sanctify their shipboard union.  The story may be that they fell in love in France, & he stowed away on the ship that her family took to LA to be with his beloved Acadienne, or he may have been a member of the ship's crew & they fell in love aboard ship.  Why is he called HENON & not ACOSTA or COSTA in their marriage record?  Is he called Josef LELONG in Marie-Marguerite's burial record because his mother's maiden name was LONGUE?  Was his father an Italian or a Spaniard?  Joseph's hometown, St.-Tropez, now a famous resort on the French Riviera, is close to both Italy & Spain.  ACOSTA was a large Isleños family that settled in what became Ascension and Assumption parishes, but the Joseph ACOSTA/COSTA who married Marie-Marguerite TRAHAN was not part of that family. 

There is the possibility that Marie-Marguerite remarried to the Joseph, son of Honoré LELONG & Madeleine ASCON of France, who remarried to Marie Renée TRAHAN in Nov 1815, a year after Marie-Marguerite's death.  See BRDR, 3:836 (SJO-3, 163), which described Joseph's first wife as only "Ferjus."  Most confusing.  I need a TRAHAN family historian to help me here. 

91.  Wall of Names, 33 (8L), calls her Marie-Margueritte [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 307, her baptismal record, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 30-31, calls her Marie-Margueritte, sa [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fille, age 8, on the embarkation list, Maria Margarita, hijo de Maria Josefa GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Marguerite TRAHAN, her [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's[ daughter, age 8, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 3 siblings, & that she was baptized in 1777 but gives no place of baptism; BRDR, 3:275, 835 (SJO-3, 48), the record of her first marriage, calls her Maria Margarita TRAHAN, calls her husband Pedro DONNET, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Herold CONRAD & J. B. TRAHAN [probably her older brother Jean-Baptiste]; BRDR, 4:18, 533 (SJO-3, 194), the record of her second marriage, calls her Maria Margarita TRAHAN, "wid. Pedro DONNET," calls her husband Estevan ARDOEN "of Detroit, widower of Mariana DECURON," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Francisco Hiveau LEJENDRE & Frederico ARBOUR; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:754 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#563), her will, calls her Marguerite TRAHAN m. Étienne ARDOIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:755 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1966), her death/burial record, calls her Marie TRAHAN, "native of Baton Rouge, spouse of Étienne ARDOUEN," says she died "at age about 50 years at her home at la fausse pointe," that she was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names or her first husband's name; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:756 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#620), her succession record, calls her Marie Marguerite TRAHAN m. Étienne ARDOIN.     

The succession record of her second husband Étienne ARDOIN, dated 13 Nov 1826, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:755 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#562), calls her first husband Pierre DE LAUNEY. 

When did she move to the western prairies?

92.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Marthe TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 426, perhaps her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Marthe TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Éstienne LE GRAND & Marie-Marguerite GRANGER; BRDR, 2:214, 706 (ASM-2, 57), her marriage record, calls her Maria TRAHAN, "of Belle Isle in Mer, France," calls her husband Josef DAIGRE "of St.-Malo," gives her & his parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Juan TRAHAN [perhaps her brother] & Ambroise HÉBERT [who witnessed many marriages at Assumption, so he may have been a church officer]; BRDR, 5(rev.):572 (ASM-3, 228), her death/burial record, calls her Marie Marthe TRAHAN, "age 60 yrs., wife of Joseph DAIGLE," but does not give her parents' names.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 22, 154.  

Why did the Lafourche valley census takers keep underestimating her age, as did the official who kept the passenger list for L'Amitié & the priest who buried her?  There is the possibility that Chrysostôme & Anne-Francoise lost their first Marie-Marthe, born in Oct 1770, & had another daughter in 1772 or 1773 whom they also named Marie-Marthe and whose baptismal record has escaped us.  Or were the list keepers, census takers, & the priest just consistently negligent in recording her age?  Wouldn't her parents, her husband, or her children have provided her correct age to these officials?  Very strange. 

Her husband "also" was 30 years old when they married. 

93.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie-Modeste TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 3 children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls her Marie-Modest TRAHAN, sa [Jean Bte BOUDREAU's] femme, age 36, on the embarkation list, Maria Modesta TRAHAM, su [Juan Bautista BAUDREAU's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Modeste TRAHAN, his [Jean-Baptiste BOUDROT's] wife, age 36, on the complete listing, says she was in the 22nd Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her husband & 3 children, & details her marriage, including the names of hers & her husband's parents.  

She is on the debarkation list for Le Bon Papa, so she survived the crossing from France.  But if her husband remarried in Feb 1786, she must have died soon after they reached the colony. 

94.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie-Modeste [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & no siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 161, Family No. 290, calls her Marie-Modeste [TRAHAN], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls her Marie-Modeste, sa [Augustin TRAHAN's] fille, age 12, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Modeste TRAHAN, his [Augustin TRAHAN's] daughter, age 12, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 20th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & no siblings.

What happened to her in LA?

95.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Marie-Renée [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 307; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 30-31, calls her Marie-Renée, sa [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fille, age 13, on the embarkation list, Maria Reyna, hijo de Maria Josefa GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Renée TRAHAN, her [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's[ daughter, age 13, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:197, 706 (SJO-3, 8 & 9), the record of her first marriage, calls her Maria Reiné TRAHAN, calls her husband Éli COMO, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Belle-Isle-en-Mer" & his were "of St.-Malo," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Josef LE LONG & Mariane TRAHAN; BRDR, 3:574, 836 (SJO-3, 163), the record of her second marriage, calls her Reyna TRAHAN, "wid.," calls her husband Joseph LELONG, "widower of Fejus/Frejus, nat. of France," gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Belle-Isle en Mer, France," does not name her first husband, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Miguel BULLION & Pedro OCOEN [AUCOIN?]. 

Who was her second husband's first wife, ____ FEJUS/FREJUS?  The burial record of a Maria TRAHAN, "age 54 yrs., wife of Joseph LELONG," dated 27 Nov 1814, in BRDR, 3:834 (SJO-4, 80), seems to be that of Marie-Marguerite TRAHAN, who married Joseph COSTA of St.-Tropez, France, whose mother was Marie LONGUE.  Marie-Marguerite's marriage record, dated 4 Sep 1785, in NOAR, 4:161, 299 (SLC, M5, 40), calls her husband Joseph HENON, but the passenger list for Le Beaumont, on which they came to LA, calls him Joseph ACOSTA/COSTA.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 30-31.  Was Marie-Marguerite's husband actually the Joseph LELONG who remarried to Marie Renée TRAHAN?  Most confusing. 

96.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie-Vincent [TRAHAN], & lists her with her father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 426, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Vincente TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marie-Magdalen DUON, & says her godparents were Vincent LOREC & Marie-Anne TRAHANT; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marie-Vincent, age 1, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Vincent TRAHAN, age 1, on the complete listing, says she was in the 34th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father & 5 siblings, &, calling her Marie-Vincente, a child of Joachim TRAHAN & Marie-Magdalen DUHON, says she was born 28 Apr 1784 but gives no birthplace.    

Why is she not listed in Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 165, Family No. 297, with the rest of her family?  

Le St.-Rémi had no debarkation list, so she may not have survived the crossing from France, if she even made the crossing.  If I find evidence that she did not make the crossing, or she made it & did not survive it, I will remove her from this list.  

In Apr 1788, when the census at Ascension was taken, if she were still living she would have been 4 years old.  If she was not with her older siblings, then where was she?  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 28.  

97.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Marin TRAHAN, & lists him with his second wife, Marguerite INO, & 6 children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 260, 426 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), third publication of his marriage banns, calls him Marin TRAHAN veuf Magdalen LEBLANC, does not give his parents' names but gives his second wife's parents' names, says the third publication of the banns for marriage to Marguerite JUON was on 23 Jan 1785 but gives no marriage record, & says her father was deceased at the time of the third publication; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-57, calls him Marin TRAHAN, charpentier, age 40, on the embarkation list, & Marin TRAHAN, carpenter, age 40, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 3rd Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his second wife, Marguerite INO, age 20, & 6 children.  

His first wife's name is also in 2 of his children's marriage records in BRDR, 2:704-05.

I have found neither INO nor JUON in Arsenault or White, so they are not Acadian names, but LE BORGNE is Acadian.  Was Marguerite INO/JUON's father a Frenchman from Morlaix who married an Acadian exile there, or was Marguerite's mother also French?  In LA, I will consider Marguerite to be a French Creole.  Note that she was a year younger than her stepson, Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN.

The family on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi just above Marin's was that of Eustache, son of René TRAHAN & Marguerite MELANÇON.  Eustache was a witness at Marin's son Jean-Baptiste's wedding at Ascension in Jan 1789.  See BRDR, 2:705 (ASC-2, 15).  Were Marin & Eustache brothers?  Cousins?  Notice that they lived in the same city in France--Morlaix.  They also have the same estimated birth year.  

Why are Marin and Marguerite not in the Ascension census of Jan 1788 with his children by his first wife?  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 30.  Did he & Marguerite even survive the crossing from France to LA?  If they survived the crossing, did they die in the colony soon after they arrived?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi did not survive.  

98.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Mathurin TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife Margueritte ORY; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 166, Family No. 299, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Mathurin TRAHAN; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 167-68, Family No. 302, calls him Mathurin TRAHAN, gives his birth & baptismal dates & place as well as his parents' names, says he was a printer & resident of the Parish of St.-Jacques, Nantes, details his marriage, calls his wife Pérrine-Marguerite ORRY, gives her parents' names, & details his & his wife's voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138-39, Family No. 253, his wife's birth/baptismal record, calls her Pérrine-Marguerite ORRY, says she was born c1766 in the parish of St.-Jacques, Nantes, the daughter of Charles ORRY & Pérrine HERVE, was baptized under the name Pérrine-Marguerite, & details her marriage; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 240, his marriage record, calls him Mathurin TRAHANT, a calico printer, minor, & legitimate son of Joseph TRAHANT & Marie BOUDROT, resident of St.-Jacques, Nantes, born in Bristol, England, 30 Oct 1760, calls his wife Pérrine-Marguerite ORRY, says her father was a baker, that her mother was deceased at the time of the marriage, that his wife was a native of St.-Jacques, Nantes, says that she signs her name Marguerite-Pérrine, not Pérrine-Marguerite, despite her baptismal record, & that the witnesses to their marriage were Joseph TRAHANT (father of the groom), Marie TRAHANT (sister of the groom), Charles ORRY (father of the bride), Jean HERI (godfather of the bride & first-cousin of the bride's father), Mathurin DAIGLE (also resident of St.-Jacques, Nantes), Jean PIFTEAU (ditto), Jean ALLAIRE (ditto), & notes that the bride could sign her name but the groom could not sign his; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Mathurin TRAHAN, imprimeur, age 24, on the embarkation list, Maturin TRAHAN, on the debarkation list, Mathurin TRAHAN, printer, age 24, on the complete listing, says he was in the 53rd Family aboard La Bergère with his wife, called Margueritte ORY, sa femme, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite ORY, his wife, age 19, on the complete listing, & no children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his wife after they reached LA; BRDR, 2:98, 706 (ASC-2, 4), the record of his second marriage, calls him Maturin TRAHANT, "an Acadian," calls his wife Marie BLANCHARD, "an Acadian," does not give any parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ambroise GARIDEL & Olivier TERRIO; BRDR, 2:706 (ASM-3, 4), his death/burial record, calls him Maturino TRAHAN, "age 31 years, husband of Maria BLANCHARD," but does not give his parents' names.   

He & his first wife were in the family listed just below his parents' family on the passenger list of La Bergère, so they essentially crossed together.  Judging from the date of his second marriage, Mathurin's first wife, if she survived the crossing, may have died in childbirth soon after they reached LA.  The debarkation list for La Bergère includes only the heads of family, so we do not know from that record if she made it to LA.  Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, still the best study on the Seven Ships expedition, says on p. 135 that the La Bergère reached New Orleans "fortunately without any mishap" but that there were "six deaths of elderly people" during the voyage.  Pérrine-Marguerite was far from elderly, so we will assume that she survived the crossing.  Her people, the ORRYs, were a distinguished family in France.  Jean ORRY of Paris (1652-1719) was a notable French economist of the early 18th century.  His son, Philibert ORRY, count of Vignory and lord of La Chapelle-Godfoy (1689-1747), served as comptroller-general of France from 1730-45, "the longest continuously-serving holder of the office in the eighteenth-century."  See <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert_Orry>.  However, Pérrine-Marguerite's family should not be confused with the ORYs of South LA, who were German, not French, and came to LA in late 1769 from MD.  See ORY family history.  

What killed him at such a young age?

99.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Michel TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2602, says he died 12 Dec 1799; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:773 (SM Ch.: v.2, #138), his death/burial record, calls him Michel TRAHAN, "of Acadie, living at Vermillon," but does not gives his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death.

100.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Michel [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 422, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Michel TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, says they were "Acadiens," but does not give his godparents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 164, Family No. 295, calls him Michel [TRAHAN], & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls him Michel, son [Jean TRAHAN's] fils, marin, age 21, on the embarkation list, & Michel TRAHAN, his [Jean TRAHAN's] son, sailor, age 21, on the complete listing, says he was in the 42nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & 3 siblings, &, calling him Jean-Michel, says he was born 21 Aug 1764 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:327, 774 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio C, #7), the marriage investigation for his first marriage, dated 18 Jan 1791, calls him Michel TRAHAN, "26 yrs. old, of Morlais in Bretagne, France, bt. in the parish of St.-Mathe," calls his wife Marguerite FOSTIN, "of Attakapas, bt. in the parish of Attakapas, 17 yrs. old," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage investigation were Félix LOPEZ, "of this parish," & Louis TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:327, 774 (SM Ch.: v.4, #50), the record of his first marriage, calls him Michel TRAHAN, "of Morlais in Bretagne," calls his wife Marguerite FOSTAIN, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Louis TRAHAN, Francois DURION, & A. DE COIRIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:773, 774 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.14, #110), a civil record of his second marriage, calls him Michel TRAHAN, "from Rivière Vermillon, first married to dec. Marguerite FAUSTIN, who died 18 Aug 1794,: does not give his or his wife's parents' names, says "he has a daughter, Marguerite TRAHAN, from his previous marriage," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Frédéric PELLERIN & Frédéric SORREL; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:773 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-14-110), another civil record of his second marriage, calls him Michel TRAHAN, calls his wife Marie-Reiné TRAHAN, & does not give his or her parents' names or any witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:773, 774 (SM Ch.: v.4, #135), the church record of his second marriage, calls him Michel TRAHAN, "of Morlai, France," calls his wife Marie Regina TRAHAN, gives his & her parents' names, calls his mother Magdeleine GREVEMBER, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Claude DUON, Baptiste TRAHAN, Paul TRAHAN, "the [bride's] father," & Louis CHEMIN.  

His first wife probably died in childbirth.  

101.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Olivier TRAHAN, & lists him with René TRAHAN & Isabelle BROUSSARD as though he were their son.  Arsenault, Genealogie, 2604, does not list Olivier as a child of René.  Olivier's birth year taken from the Atakapas census of 1771 does not fit Arsenault's marriage date for René & Isabelle, but the marriage date, c1765, is absurd, so Olivier was probably their son.  

102.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Olivier TRAHAN, & lists him with 2 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 13, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he & his wife, Élisabeth LEJEUNE, age 32, survived the crossing but lost all 3 of their children at sea--son Jérôme, no age given, & daughters Thérèse, no age given, & Cécile, no age given; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 168, Family No. 304, calls him Olivier TRAHAN, says he was born in c1731 & was a carpenter, calls his first wife Élizabeth LEJEUNE, says she was born in c1733, that they married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, that she died at age 50 & was buried 7 Sep 1783 at St.-Jacques, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Olivier TRAHAN, marin, age 54, on the embarkation list, Olivier TRAHAN, on the debarkation list, & Olivier TRAHAN, sailor, age 54, on the complete listing, says he was in the 54th [50th] Family aboard La Bergère with 2 children, details his first marriage but does not include their parents' names or place of marriage, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA; BRDR, 2:141, 707 (ASC-2, 12), the record of his second marriage, calls him Olivier TRAHAN, calls his wife Maria BRASEUX, does not give any parents' names but says all parents "were Acadians," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Louis DESHORMAUX & Joseph THERIOT; BRDR, 3:836 (ASM-3, 135), his death/burial record, calls him Olivier TRAHAN, "age 96 yrs., Acadian," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.

103.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Paul TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2602, 2606; BRDR, 2:253, 707 (PCP-2, part 2, 140), his marriage record, calls him Paul TRAHAN, calls his wife Marie DUGAN, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Augustin GREVENBERG & Gérald de VERBOIS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:279-80, 774 (BRDA: Pointe Coupée Ch.: v.2, Part 2, 140), also his marriage record, calls him Paul TRAHAN, calls his wife Marie DUGAN, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Augustin GREVENBERG & Gérald de VERBOIS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:279, 774 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.27), another marriage record, calls him Paul TRAHAN, "of Acadie," calls his wife Marie DUGON, "of Acadie," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were ____ BORDA, ____ de VERBOIS, ____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, Francois GREVEMBER, ____ DURIEN, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:775, 280 (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.20), yet another marriage record, calls him Paul TRAHAN, "of Attakapas," calls his wife Marie DUGON, "of Attakapas," gives his & her parents' names, says all parents "natives of Acadie," that "The couple is related in the 3rd degree of afinity[sic], Dispensed by virtue of the powers granted to foreign missionaries, that the witnesses to his marriage were ____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, Francois GREVEMBER, ____ DURIEU, & Joseph LANDRY, & that the recording priest was "of Pointe Coupée"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:775 (SM Ch.: v.4, #195), his death/burial record, calls him Paul TRAHAN, "of Acadia ... m. to Marie DUGON," gives his parents' names, says they were "of Acadia," & that he was buried "at age 45 yrs."  See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 14.  

His birth year is from Arsenault & is used instead of the birth year indicated in the Atakapas census of 1771 (c1747) because the census date would make him 3 years old the year his parents were married.  The Atakapas census of 1777 is closer to the mark, as is his burial record. 

Arsenault, p. 2606, says his wife was Marie DUON, but Wall of Names, 19, the Atakapas census of 1777, & other sources correctly call her HUGON.  As the marriage records cited above attest, South LA church records usually spelled the name DUGAN or DUGON & sometimes DUHON, hence Arsenault's confusion.  One of her daughter's baptismal records, in fact, calls her Marie DUGAT.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:765 (SM Ch.: v.2, #27), dated 3 Apr 1782. 

Marie & her paternal uncle Jacques, both from Chignecto, were the only Acadian HUGONs to come to LA.  She was exiled with her family to SC in 1755 & went from there to St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, in the early 1760s.  She, her widowed mother, & her widowed uncle were among the relatively few St.-Domingue Acadians who hooked up with one of the Acadian parties from Halifax who came through Cap-Français, Haiti, in late 1764 or early 1765 & went on to LA.  See appendix.  Note that Marie's mother was a BROUSSARD, so they most likely hooked up with the first party from Halifax, led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, that came thru Cap-Français in late 1764.  Her uncle died at Atakapas in Oct 1765, age 35, one of the victims, most likely, of the terrible epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer & fall.  Since they came to LA in the same party in Feb 1765, Marie & Paul probably knew one another since their early teens. 

Although Atakapas had its own church parish since1765, when the BROUSSARDs settled there, there were times in the late 1760s & early 1770s when there was no pastor at the post on Bayou Teche.  Priests from Pointe Coupee would cross the upper Atchafalaya Basin and administer the sacraments to the settlers in the Opelousas District, which did not get its own church until 1776, and in the Atakapas District when there was no priest residing there.  This is why Paul & Marie's marriage was recorded in the Pointe Coupée as well as the Atakapas marriage register.  

104.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Paul [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 96, Family No. 187, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162-63, Family No. 293, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Pablo TRAHAM, su [Magdalena LEBLANC, viuda TRAHAM's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Paul TRAHAN, her [Magdelaine LEBLANC, widow TRAHAN's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 48th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his mother & 4 siblings, &, calling him Paul-Isidore TRAHAN, says he was born 31 Mar 1764 but gives no birthplace.

Why are he & his family not on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont?  Were they all stowaways?  Unlikely.  

105.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Paul TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & 2 sons, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 425, 426 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), his marriage record, calls him Paul TRAHAN de St.-Joseph, which was Rivière-aux-Canards, says his wife was from L'Assomption, which was Pigiguit, gives his & her parents' names, but does not give the witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls him Paul TRAHAN, charpentier, age 42, on the embarkation list, & Paul TRAHAN, carpenter, age 42, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his wife & 2 sons, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, says he & his wife were married in 1767 but gives no place of marriage, that son Paul was born in 1768, son Pierre in 1779, but gives no birthplace.  

How closely kin was he to his wife?

What happened to him in LA?  Did he & his family even survive the crossing from France to LA?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi has not survived?  

106.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Paul [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & a brother, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 426 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Paul-Alexis TRAHAN, says his parents' were Acadians, & that he was godson of Alexis TRAHAN, uncle, & Marie THÉRIOT, second cousin of his mother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls him Paul, son [Paul TRAHAN's] fils, age 16, on the embarkation list, & Paul TRAHAN, his [Paul TRAHAN's] son, age 16, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his parents & a brother, & that he was born in 1768 but gives no birthplace.

What happened to him in LA?  Did he & his family even survive the crossing from France to LA?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi has not survived?  

107.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Paul-Raymond [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 427, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Paul-Raimond TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, says they were Acadiens, says he was born & baptized 2 Aug 1765, & that his godparents were Raimond LEBLANC & Élizabeth GRANGER; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 578, calls him Pierre-Raymond TRAHAN, says he was born on 4 Aug 1765 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, says "The family was held at Falmouth, England, entered France at Morlaix," that "five other children were born at Belle-Île," that "members of this family left for Louisiana in 1785 on the Beaumont," & that it was family no. 37 in Kerguenolay, Bangor; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 30-31, calls him Paul-Raymond, son [Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, veuve TRAHAN's] fils, charpentier, age 19, on the embarkation list, Pablo Raymundo [TRAHAM], hijo de Maria Josefa GRANCHER, on the debarkation list, & Paul-Raymond TRAHAN, son [of Marie-Josèphe GRANGER, widow TRAHAN], carpenter, age 19, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his mother & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:213, 707 (PCP-19, 27), his marriage record, calls him Paul-Raimond TRAHANT, "of France," calls his wife Élisabette DAIGRE "of France," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste DAIGRE & Louis DAIGRE.  See also Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 307.

Although his marriage was recorded in PointeCoupée, he was married probably at Baton Rouge because that area did not have a church of its own until 1793.  Priests from Pointe Coupée, upriver, & St.-Gabriel, downriver, would administer the sacraments at Baton Rouge until it got it owns church.

108.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Paulinne [TRAHAN], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Élizabeth-Appoline [TRAHAN], & says she was born in 1767 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 421, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Élizabeth-Apolline TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Azunte DUON, & says her godparents were Augustin LE BERNARD & Élizabeth DUON; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 170, Family No. 306, calls her Pauline [TRAHAN], & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Paulinne, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Pauline TRAHAN, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:89, 767 (SM Ch.: v.4, #62), her marriage record, calls her Isabelle TRAHANT, calls her husband Joseph BOUDRO, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Belisle en Bretagne" & his were "of Bretagne," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Francois BUDRO, Félix LOPES, Charles DUON, & Isabel APOLINES; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:634 (Laf.Ch.: v.3, p.77), her death/burial record, calls her Élizabeth Pauline TRAHAN m. Joseph BOUDREAU, Sr., but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:635 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#281), her succession record, calls her Isabelle Pauline TRAHAN m. Joseph BOUDREAU, père.      

109.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls her Pélagie TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 6 children, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 56-57, calls her Pélagie TRAHAN, sa [Charles GAUTRAU's] femme, age 39, on the embarkation list, & Pélagie TRAHAN, his [Charles GAUTROT's] wife, age 39, on the complete listing, says she was in the 4th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 6 children, says son Jean-Baptiste-Simon [GAUTROT] was born 19 Jun 1784, son Jean-Charles-Joseph [GAUTROT] 23 Jun 1765, & son Jean-Louis-Laurent [GAUTROT] 10 Aug 1771 but gives no birthplaces.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 513; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 117, 119.   

What happened to son Jean-Louis-Laurent GAUTREAUX, born in France in Aug 1771?  He would have been only 14 years old when the family sailed to LA in 1785.  Did he die in France?

Why were none of her children counted in the Sep 1784 Spanish report at Morlaix with her & her husband, who were listed as though they were childless?  Is this a misprint?  See Voorhies, J., p. 513.

What is a "minor premise"?  

Why are she & her family listed twice in the Lafourche valley census of 1798?  In the first listing, she is called Charles GAUTREAUT's daughter.  In the second listing she is properly called his wife.  See Robichaux, pp. 117, 119.

110.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him Pierre TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:347, 775 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.24), the record of his second marriage, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, "Acadian," calls his wife Pélagie GAUTREAU, "Acadian," does not give any parents' names or mention his first wife, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Blaise LEJEUNE, Philippe TRAHAN(?)[sic], & Louis SIMARD.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 359.

His birthplace, recorded by Fr. Michel-Bernard BARRIERE of the Atakapas church, comes from the baptismal record of son Alexandre, dated 4 Aug 1799, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:761 (SM Ch.: v.5, #168).  Honoré TRAHAN & his family were recorded at Baie de Espangnols, Île Royale, in 1752, when Pierre would have been an infant.  Did they remain there, or did they return to Pigiguit?  If they remained on Île Royale, one must ask if any of the Acadians from the island were exiled to MD?  Extant records show that most of them went to France in late 1758 after the fall of Louisbourg in Jul.  That Honoré & his family ended up in MD hints that the family returned to Pigiguit before 1755. 

111.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Pierre TRAHAN, & lists him with his fourth wife & a daughter; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 169, Family No. 305, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, says he was born in June 1723 in L'Assomption, Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, says he was a ploughman, details his 4 marriages, says he married his first wife in c1747 but gives no place of marriage, gives her parents' names, says she died in Aug 1756 at Liverpool, England, but gives no age at death, gives his second wife's parents' names, says she died in 1759 also at Liverpool but gives no age at death, says his third wife was born in c1724, does not give her parent' names but gives her first husband's name, says she died age 58 & was buried 5 Sep 1782 at St.-Similien, Nantes, says his fourth wife was born in c1751 "in the Parish of Saint-Charles in Acadie," which was Grand-Pré, gives her parents' names, says she was resident of St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes, for about 7 years at the time of the marriage, includes the birth/baptismal record of daughter Louise-Renée by his fourth wife, baptized 20 Jan 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 246, the record of his fourth marriage, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, major, ploughman, widower o Madelaine VINCENT, gives his parents' names, says they were deceased at the time of the marriage, that he was "native of the parish of L'Assomption," which was Pigiguit, that he was resident of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, for about 7 years at the time of the marriage, that his wife was 32 years old & a day laborer, gives her parents' names, says they both were deceased at the time of the marriage, says nothing of a previous husband, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Pierre TRAHANT, son-in-law of the groom, Joseph SEMER, his nephew, Grégoire BENOIST, cousin of the bride, & Honoré CARET, also cousin of the pride, none of whom signed, & BOURIER, COUPEAU, Pauh DESMORANDIERE, & P. JAMBU, who signed; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, journalier, age 66, on the embarkation list, & Pierre TRAHAN, day laborer, age 66, on the complete listing, says he was in the 48th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his fourth wife & a daughter, details his fourth marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, & says they were married in 1783 but gives no place of marriage.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 499; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46.

What happened to his daughter Louise-Renée, who would have been 4 years old in 1788?  Did she even survive the crossing from France to LA?

112.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Pierre TRAHAN, & lists him with his wife & 6 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2603-04, calls him Pierre TRAHAN "de Belle-Île-en-Mer," says he was born in 1737 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names & says they were from Pigiguit, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says he was deported to Liverpool, England, where he married, says he was at Morlaix in 1764, at Belle-Île-en-Mer from 1767-77, that he died at Atakapas on 8 Sep 1803, & lists his children as Marie-Élizabeth, born in 1759 but gives no birthplace, Geneviève, born in 1762 but gives no birthplace, Jean-Baptiste, born in 1764 but gives no birthplace, Élizabeth-Appoline, born in 1767 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Marguerite, born in 1768 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Jeanne, born in 1770 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Anne, born in 1772 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Francoise, born in 1774 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Madeleine, born in 1775 but gives no birthplace, & Joseph-Marie, born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 169-70, Family No. 306, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, says he was born in c1737 but gives no birthplace, says that he was a ploughman, does not give his parents' names, details his marriage, calls his wife Marguerite DUON, says she was born 15 Aug 1741 at Rivière-aux-Canards, "Parish of Saint-Joseph," does not give her parents' names, says they married in c1762 but gives no place of marriage, includes the death/burial records of daughter Marie-Madeleine, died age 4 & buried 2 May 1779, St.-Similien, Nantes, & son Jean-Baptiste, buried 22 Mar 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, laboureur, age 48, on the embarkation list, & Pierre TRAHAN, plowman, age 48, on the complete listing, says he was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his wife & 6 children, & that he was married c1762 but gives no place of marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:716 (SM Ch.: v.4, #308), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, "of Acadia ... m. to Marguerite DUON," gives his parents' names, & says he was buried "at age 67 yrs."  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 418.

113.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Pierre TRAHAN, & lists him singly, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, charpentier, age 28, on the embarkation list, & Pierre TRAHAN, carpenter, age 28, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 9th "Family" of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with no one else; BRDR, 2:707 (ASC-1, 197a), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro TRAHAN, "unmarried," but does not give his parents' names or his age at the time of his death.

Thanks to the neglect of the Ascension priest who recorded his burial, we may never know who his parents were & where he was born.  But we do have a few tenuous clues about his origins at least.  If the official who compiled the passenger list for St.-Rémi had got his age correctly, he would have been born in c1757.  Acadians at Morlaix in 1784 tended to be the ones who came to France from England in 1763 & spent some time at Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, from the mid-1760s into the early 1780s.  This could mean that Pierre was born in England a year or so after his family was sent there from VA in 1756.  The Acadians exile to VA were from the Minas Basin--Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, Pigiguit.  So his parents could have been from Minas.  Then again, he could have been an Acadian born on one of the Maritime islands in c1757 and deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to France in 1758-59.  Most of the island Acadians went to the St.-Malo area, but some of them ended up in Morlaix.  An Acadian whose family was deported from the Maritime islands in 1758 could have been a child of long-term residents there or from Cobeguit, Minas, or Chignecto. 

114.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Pierre [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 164, Family No. 295, calls him Pierre [TRAHAN], & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls him Pierre, sa [Jean TRAHAN's] fils, charpentier, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Pierre TRAHAN, his [Jean TRAHAN's] son, carpenter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 42nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:22, 775 (SM Ch.: v.4, #107), his marriage record, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, calls his wife Anne-Augustine AUCOIN, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste TISSIMON, Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, René BROUSSARD, & Charles DUON; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:716 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ. #34), his succession record, calls him Pierre TRAHAN, "wid. is Augustin[sic] HAUTCOIN (AUCOIN)," & says they "Had no children."

He & his wife must have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.    

115.  Wall of Names, 38 (pl. 9R), calls him Pierre [TRAHAN], & lists him with his parents & a brother, with the notation:  ceux de Morlais arrives a Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le meme navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 427 (Morlaix: St.-Martin-des-Champs), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre-Francois TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, but does not give his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 58-59, calls him Pierre, son [Paul TRAHAN's] fils, age 5, on the embarkation list, & Pierre TRAHAN, his [Paul TRAHAN's] son, age 5, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family of ceux de Morlais arrivés à Paimboeuf pour s'embarquer sur le même Navire [those from Morlaix arriving at Paimboeuf in order to embark on the same ship] Le St.-Rémi with his parents & a brother, & that he was born in 1779 but gives no birthplace.

What happened to him in LA?  Did he & his family even survive the crossing from France to LA?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi has not survived?  

116.  Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of her birth.  NOAR, 2:267 (SLC, B6, 25), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Magdelaine TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Louis BOISDORE & Marie BOISDORE. 

What happened to her in LA?  Marie-Madeleine's family came to LA in Feb 1768 with the party of exiles from Port Tobacco, MD, led by the BREAU brothers of Pigiguit.  Spanish Gov. ULLOA sent this party to the distant settlement of Fort San Luìs de Natchez, across from present-day Natchez, MS, a substantial distance from the other Acadian settlements in LA.  The BREAU brothers refused to go there.  Nonetheless, the BREAU party (probably without the BREAU brothers, who had gone into hiding to escape the governor's wrath) reached San Luìs de Natchez in Mar.  Marie-Madeleine does not appear in the Spanish report of Acadians who went to San Luìs de Natchez, dated Feb 1768, with the rest of her family because she had not been born yet.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 437.  Looking at the facts of her birth & baptism, her mother was very pregnant when the family reached the colony in Feb.  Did her family remain at New Orleans until after the baby's baptism & then join their fellow Acadians at Natchez as soon as the Spanish could get them there?  Or did they even go to Natchez?  ULLOA's successor, General Alejandro O'REILLY, released the Acadians from Natchez in early 1769.  The Cabanocé/St.-Jacques census of Sep 1769 shows older half-sister Brigitte as a 12-year-old orphan with the family of Vincent LANDRY.  One would suppose that Brigitte's parents were dead by then.  Had Marie-Madeleine died by then, too?  Brigitte married Étienne, son of Abraham LANDRY, at Ascension, upriver from St.-Jacques, in May 1776.  In Apr 1777, Spanish officials counted half-brother Firmin, but not little half-sister Marie-Madeleine, in Brigitte's household at Ascension.  That is a good sign that Marie-Madeleine was no more, unless she went to the Atakapas District with brother Charles dit Charlitte in the 1780s. 

117.  Wall of Names, 26, calls him René TRAHAN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2604, says he was born c1745; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:776 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-8-46), his succession will, calls him René TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; De Ville, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 12; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 280; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 13. 

The Atakapas census of 1774, in Voohies, J., cited above, lists no ages.  Why does he not appear in the Atakapas militia count/census of Apr 1766?  See Voohies, J., 124-25. 

Arsenault says René & his wife were married in c1765, but the British report of Aug 1763, in Jehn, cited above, says otherwise.

118.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Renné TRAHAN.  Her middle name is from the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 22, 154.

119.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Rosalie [TRAHAN], & lists her with her widowed mother & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162-63, Family No. 293, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, but does not give her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include her on the embarkation list, calls her Rosalia, su [Magdalena LEBLANC, viuda TRAHAM's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Rosalie TRAHAN, her [Magdelaine LEBLANC, widow TRAHAN's] daughter, no age given, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 48th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her mother & 4 siblings.

Why are she & her family not on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont?  Were they all stowaways?  Unlikely.  

120.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, & lists her with her husband & 5 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 35, which may or may not be her, show that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she was among the 3 survivors in a mixed party 7 persons, including brothers Claude & Fiarce TREHAN, who did not survive, & sister Marie TREHAN, who also perished; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 556-57, Family No. 629, calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marie TILLARD, says she was born in c1745 but gives no birthplace, details her marriage, gives her husband's parents' names & his first wife's name, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Rose TRAHAN, born & baptized 18 Nov 1763, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Augustin LEBLANC & Francoise BENOIST, son Pierre-Honoré TRAHAN, born & baptized 10 Jul 1765, St.-Servan, godson of Honoré CARET & Marie-Rose CARET, son André-Marie TRAHAN, born & baptized 21 Nov 1766, St.-Servan, godson of Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN & Geneviève LEBLANC, daughter Marie-Francoise TRAHAN, born & baptized 18 Jan 1769, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Francois HENRY & Rosalie BEAUMONT, son Grégoire-Charles TRAHAN, born 16 May 1771, baptized next day, St.-Servan, godson of Firmin-Grégoire LAVACHE & Anne BOUDROT, died age 14 mos. 24 Jul 1772, buried next day, St.-Servan, & daughter Barbe-Anne TRAHAN, born & baptized 3 Dec 1772, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Julien ABUSET & Anne TARDIVET, & says her family resided at St.-Servan from 1763-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 66-67, Family No. 134, calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, says she was born in c1745 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marie TILLARD, details her marriage, gives her husband's parents' names & his first wife's name, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial record of son Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, baptized 18 Jun 1774, St.-Jean-L'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, godson of Augustin TRAHAN & Anne TRAHAN, died age 1 mo. & buried 15 Jul 1774, St.-Jean-L'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 112-13, Family No. 207, calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, says she was born in 1745 but gives no birthplace, gives her parent's names, calls her mother Marie TILLARD, details her marriage, gives her husband's parents' names & his first wife's name, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Rosalie-Geneviève TRAHAN, baptized 21 Feb 1776, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, died age 18 mos. & buried 24 Aug 1777, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, daughter Marie-Appoline TRAHAN, baptized 18 Oct 1777, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, died 14 Dec 1777, probably Nantes, son Louis-René TRAHAN, baptized 30 Apr 1779, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, died age 29 mos. & buried 25 Sep 1781, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, daughter Rosalie TRAHAN, baptized 12 Jan 1782, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, died age 10 mos. & buried 20 Oct 1782, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, & son Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, baptized 8 Oct 1784, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls her Rosalie TRAHAN, sa [Charles LEBLANC's] femme, age 40, on the embarkation list, & Rosalie TRAHAN, his [Charles LEBLANC's] wife, age 40, on the complete listing, says she was in the 53rd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 6 children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, says she & her husband were married in 1763 but gives no place of marriage, says son Jean-Baptiste [TRAHAN] was baptized in 1784 but gives no place of baptism, son Pierre-Honoré [TRAHAN] was born in 1765 but gives no birthplace, & daughter Barbe [TRAHAN] was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 501.

According to Robichaux's studies of the Acadians in France, she & her husband had a dozen children in France, half of whom died there.  

121.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Rose TRAHAN niece [of Paul LE BLANC], & lists her with her uncle, aunt, & 2 cousins; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls her Rose TRAHAN, sa [Paul LEBLANC's] niece, age 23, on the embarkation list, Rosa TRAHAM, su [Pablo LEBLANC's] sobrina, on the debarkation list, & Rose TRAHAN, his [Paul LEBLANC's] niece, age 23, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 33rd Family on the embarkation list & the 34th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her uncle, aunt, & 2 cousins.  

122.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Simon [TRAHAN], & lists him with his widowed mother & 4 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 96, Family No. 187, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 162-63, Family No. 293, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s but does not give the names of the children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Simon, su [Magdalena LEBLANC, viuda TRAHAM's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Simon TRAHAN, her [Magdelaine LEBLANC, widow TRAHAN's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 48th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his mother & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:717 (SM Ch.: v.4, #422), his death/burial record, calls him Simon TRAHAN, "of St.-Malo, Bretagne," gives his parents' names but calls his father Jean-Michel, says he died "at Carencros at the home of Louis RENOTTE ... at age 33 yrs." & was buried the same day. 

Why are he & his family not on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont?  Were they all stowaways?  Unlikely.  When did he move to the Atakapas District?

So he never married?  Why not?  How was he kin to Louis RENOTTE, in whose home he died in 1806? 

123.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Ursule TRAHAN veuve Joseph-Grégoire BROUSSARD; NOAR, 2:136, 267 (SLC, B5, 185 & M2, 16), the record of her second marriage, calls her Ursule TRAHAN, "widow of Joseph BROSSARD," calls her husband Joseph GERONNARD (GERAUNARD)[sic], "native of Port-Royal, St. Laurent Parish, in Acadia," gives her & his parents' names, calls her mother Izabelle ROY, calls his mother Anne TOURANGEAU, says all parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were ____ DE LOVIGNIE (LOUVIGNY), "verger of the parish," & Henry ROCHE; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:776 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.14), her death/burial record, calls her Ursule TRAHAN, says her burial was on 10 Oct 1765 but recorded on 12 Oct, & does not give her parents' names or mention a husband; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:776 (SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #27), also her death/burial record, calls her Ursule TRAHAN, says her burial was on 10 Oct 1765 but recorded on 12 Oct, & does not give her parents' names or mention a husband.

Her second marriage was one of the earliest Acadian marriages in LA.  Her second husband died 10 days after she did, on 22 Oct, probably a victim, also, of the Bayou Teche epidemic.  

124.  Not in Wall of Names.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2607, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, says he was born in 1762, son of Joseph TRAHAN & Élizabeth AUCOIN, details his marriage, calls his wife's father Francois PITRE, & lists his children as Joseph, born in 1784, Jean in c1786, & Anastasie in 1788; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:626, 768 (SM Ch.: v.2, #115), his marriage record, calls him Joseph TRAHAN, gives his & his wife's parents' names, calls his wife's father Modeste, says all parents were "de la Cadie," & says the witnesses to his marriage were Claude DUHON, Paul TRAHAN, Olivier LANCON, & Francois BRUNET; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:769 (SM Ch.: v.4, #57), probably his death/burial record, calls him "Joseph Mrs." TRAHAN, "a widow of Acadia," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 417. 

His wife remarried at Atakapas in May 1793, so the "Joseph Mrs." TRAHAN, "a widow of Acadia," in the burial record, cited above, was not his wife but him.  His wife, in fact, married 3 more times, in May 1793, Sep 1816, & Nov 1832, after Joseph died.  There were no other married Joseph TRAHANs at Atakapas in Feb 1793. 

Arsenault, Généalogie, 2603, says this Joseph's father was born in c1740 & was probablement son of Jean TRAHAN & Marie GIROUARD of "Pisiguit, Acadie," that Joseph, père married Élizabeth AUCOIN in c1760 but does not give her parents' names or place of marriage, & lists only Joseph, fils, born in 1762, as their child.  If this Joseph's parents were from Pigiguit, & he was born in c1762, it stands to reason that he was born in MD & came to LA probably as a young orphan in 1766, 1767, or 1768.  However, he does not appear in the Cabanocé/St.-Jacques census of 1769, in Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 173-79, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 440-85, nor on any of the MD arrivals lists for 1767 & 1768 in Voorhies, J., pp. 428-39, which is probably why he is not in Wall of Names.  Nonetheless, his marriage record, cited above, & information from Arsenault, show that he was an Acadian immigrant & that he came to LA by 1783. 

125.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 422, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Marie TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, says they were Acadiens, & that his godparents were Honoré DUON & Marie HÉBERT, wife of Joseph LEBLANC; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 576, calls him Jean-Marie TRAHAN, gives his birth date, his parents' names, says his father was b. at Assumption parish, Pigiguit, in Feb 1734 & died at Châtellerault, France, in 1775, says his mother was born at Pigiguit in 1738, says his older brother Laurent or Simon was born on 11 Oct 1763 but gives no birthplace, that "The family was held at Liverpool, England, entered France at Morlaix," that "three other children were born at Belle-Île," that the family was at Morlaix in 1773, & was family no. 47 in Borderun, Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer; BRDR, 2:704, 709 (PCP-19, 30), calls him Jean-Marie TRAHAN, "of Baton Rouge," calls his wife Adélaïde TULLIER, "of Baton Rouge," gives his & her parents' names, calls her mother Calette RAMEAOUX, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Isidore TULLIER [her brother] & Jean-Baptiste BOUDREAU; BRDR, 2:705 (SJO-4, 30), his death/burial record, calls him Juan Maria TRAHAN, "age 38 years of Bretagna," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.   

His marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because Baton Rouge did not have a church of its own until 1793.  His wife's mother was a RENAUD & an Acadian.  Her father, who name was LE TULLIER in France but evolved into TULLIER in LA, was a native of Roville, lower Normandy, France, & had married her mother probably at Cherbourg. 

Jean-Marie is not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names probably because he does not appear on any of the passenger lists of the Seven Ships expedition.  That he came to LA in 1785 can be only a guess, but there is no doubt that he was Acadian & that he emigrated to LA.  Did any other member of his family come to the colony? 

126.  Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of his birth.  BRDR, 2:704 (SGA-11, 4, #9), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Francisco Antonio TRAHAN, gives his parents' names, & says he was born on 2 Dec 1785 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 3:815, 833 (PCP-19, 134), the record of his first marriage, calls him Francois TRAHAN, calls his wife Marguerite TERRIO, "nat. St. James, res. Baton Rouge," gives his & her parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francois REMONDET & Jacques BLANCHARD; BRDR, 3:464, 833 (SJO-3, 98), the record of his second marriage, calls him Francois TRAHAN, calls his wife Ana Reyan LABOVE, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Josef BROU & Francisco TERRIOULT. 

His family's ship, Le Beaumont, left Paimboeuf, France, on 11 Jun 1785 & reached New Orleans on 19 Aug, so he came to LA in utero, hence his placement on this list. 

Why was his first marriage recorded by a Pointe Coupee priest when Baton Rouge had had its own church for 15 years?  She died in Sep 1809 at age 20, probably from childbirth.  See BRDR, 3:815 (SJO-4, 48). 

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