Person:Guillaume Trahan (1)

Guillaume Trahan
m. Abt 1666
  1. Guillaume TrahanAbt 1667 - 1755
  2. Jean Charles TrahanAbt 1668 - Bef 1729
  3. Joseph Alexandre TrahanAbt 1670 - 1751
  4. Marie TrahanAbt 1672 - Aft 1752
  5. _____ TrahanAbt 1673 - Aft 1677
  6. Jeanne TrahanAbt 1674 -
  7. Madeleine TrahanAbt 1678 - 1742
m. Abt 1691
  1. Charles TrahanAbt 1704 - 1761
  2. Marie Josephe Trahan1711 - 1763
Facts and Events
Name Guillaume Trahan
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1667 Port Royal, , , Acadia
Marriage Abt 1691 Port Royal, , , Acadiato Jacqueline (Jacquette) Benoit
Death? Sep 1755 Pisiguit, Acadie, Canada
Burial? l'Assomption, Pisiguit, , , Acadia

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1540; own copy. #3:

!CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, age 4 years.

!CENSUS: 1678, Port Royal, Acadia, age 10 years.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia,p. 16: age 19 years. Also spelled TRAHANE, age now 20 years [was it 3 months later, step-father has died?]

!CENSUS: 1693, Les Mines, Acadia. Age 26 years, living with wife and 2 daughters.

!CENSUS: 1700, Riviere Sainte Croix (district of Les Mines), with 2 sons and a daughter.

!CENSUS: 1703, Les Mines, with son and daughter.

!CENSUS: 1707, Les Mines, with four sons under age 14, one daughter under 12.

!CENSUS: 1714, Pisiguit River, six sons, one daughter.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, H&G, p. 817 (Port Royal), says settled at Pisiguit. Own entry p. 1441 (Pisiguit), lived in Assumption Parish [Pisiguit]. Wife's entry on p. 1330 (Pisiguit) says he was from Port Royal.

!PARENTS-NAME-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Acadians of Belle-Isle-en-Mer," in NEW ORLEANS GENESIS; 1630-1767; vol. xxxii, no. 128 (Oct 1993); p. 401; Santa Cruz Genealogical Society, Public Library; submitted by Jerome Lepre. Statement of Pierre TRAHANT, his son, on 11 Feb 1767. Guillaume TRAHANT, born at Port Royal, son of Guillaume & Magdeleine LEBRUN, married there to Jacqueline BENOIST, daughter of Martin & Marie CHAUSSEGROS from France, who died at Port Royal.

    Also vol. XXXV, no. 140 (Oct 1996); p. 426: Guillaume TRAHANT, son of another Guillaume who came from France, married at Port Royal to Magdeleine BRUN and both died there. Guillaume [II] died at Pigiguitk in Sep 1755.
References
  1. Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 1536.