Person:Cecile Prejean (1)
Cecile Prejean
b.20 Feb 1730 Port Royal, , , Acadia
d.6 Jan 1808 , St. Martin, LA
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  1. Cecile Prejean1730 - 1808
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Name Cecile Prejean
Alt Name Cecilia, Cecille, PREJEANT, GRISJAN Cécile
Gender Female
Birth[1] 20 Feb 1730 Port Royal, , , Acadia
Christening? 10 Apr 1730 Port Royal, , , Acadia
Marriage 10 Jan 1752 Port Royal, , , Acadiato Gregoire Pellerin
Census[3] 1761 Nipisiguit, , , Acadia
Census[4][5] 1771 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA
Other[6] 28 Jul 1806 Attakapas, St. Martin, LALand
Death[2] 6 Jan 1808 , St. Martin, LA
Burial? 7 Jan 1808 St. Martinville, St. Martin, LA

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING: P. Gaudet, GENEALOGIES ACADIENS; vol. 9; p. 3651. "Cecile ne 20 Feb 1730, b. 10 April suiv."

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 736 (Port Royal); own copy. Ce'cile, born 1730, daughter of Charles & Catherine BROSSARD, married Gre'goire PELLERIN, son of Bernard & Marguerite GAUDET.

!CENSUS: Winston De Ville, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FAMILIES IN 1777; 1777; Ville Platte, LA, author, 1987; p. 15; Salt Lake Family History Library, US/CAN 976.35 X2d 1777; Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts. Secile PREJEAN, widow PELERIN, age 45, living with four children ages 9 to 5. They own 100 cattle, 15 horses, 20 hogs, and 25 sheep. There are 3 slaves, [plus] one to be born. [Next door is the household of Charle DUON & Marie Josephe [PREJEAN], her half-sister, age 40.]

References
  1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
    p. 490.

    Born 20 Feb 1730; baptized 10 Apr 1730. Sponsors: Honoré PRÉJEAN, son of Jean, & Marie LANDRY, wife of Charles LANOUE (Register Port Royal).

  2. ↑ Donald J. Hébert. Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk number 101. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001).

    PREJEAN, Cecile wid. of dec. Gregoire PELLERIN d. 6 Jan. 1808 at the home of Joseph SOREL, buried 7 Jan. 1808 at age 80 yrs. Signs: A. FRERE, Frederic PELLERIN, Nicholas LOISEL, OGER. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #494)

  3. ↑ Paul Delaney. "Reconstitution d'un rôle des passagers du Pembroke, La". (in LES CAHIERS, La Société Historique Acadienne)
    p. 59.
  4. ↑ Winston De Ville. Attakapas Post: The Census of 1771. (Author: 1986)
    p. 13.

    Gregoire PELERIN, age 45, with his wife [Cecile PREJEAN], age 44 [sic, does it say 41?], and a boy, age 4 months. There are also two girls, ages 4 and 3 years. They have 25 cattle, 4 horses and 10 sheep, on 12 arpents of land, without title.

  5. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
    p. 490.

    Age 44 years (sic).

  6. ↑ Glenn R. Conrad. Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. II, part 1: Conveyance Records. (Lafayette, LA: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, 1992)
    p. 46.

    23:129--Petition of Cécile PRÉJEAN, Widow of Gregoire PELLERIN, being of advanced age [76] and the last of her children now married, determined to partition her lands among her four children: Frédéric; Émilie; Marie Josephe, and Eugène [sic]. The lands measured 45 arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, bounded above by J. SORREL and below by her son Frédéric.
    1) Marie Josephe, with consent of husband Alexandre FRERE, accepted 7 arpents;
    2) Eugène[ie] PELLERIN accepted 14 arpents wide, bounded below by (1);
    3) SORREL accepted for the minor [sic] Emilie, wife of Pierre SIGUR, 14 arpents, bounded below by (2):
    4) Frédéric PELLERIN accepted 10 arpents, on both banks of the Teche, above (3).

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