Person:Jeanne Trahan (2)
Jeanne Trahan
b.Abt 1629 Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France
d.Abt 1699 , , , Acadia
Parents and Siblings
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m. 13 Jul 1627
  1. Jeanne TrahanAbt 1629 - Abt 1699
  2. _____ Trahan1631 -
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1643
  1. Jeanne BourgeoisAbt 1644 -
  2. Charles BourgeoisAbt 1646 - 1678
  3. Germain BourgeoisAbt 1650 - 1711
  4. Marie BourgeoisAbt 1652 - 1741
  5. Guillaume BourgeoisAbt 1655 - Bef 1694
  6. Marguerite BourgeoisAbt 1658 - 1732
  7. Marie Francoise BourgeoisAbt 1659 - Bef 1697
  8. Anne BourgeoisAbt 1661 - 1747
  9. Marie BourgeoisAbt 1665 - 1730
  10. Jeanne BourgeoisAbt 1667 - 1716
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Facts and Events
Name Jeanne Trahan
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1629 Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France
Alt Birth[2] Est 1629 France
Alt Birth? Abt 1631
Alt Birth? 1631 Cuoprevay, Champange, France
Immigration[4] 1636 "Saint Jehan" from La Rochelle, France to Acadia
Marriage Abt 1643 Port Royal, Acadiato Jacques Bourgeois
Census 1671 Port Royal, Acadiawith Jacques Bourgeois
Alt Death[3] Abt 1676 Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death? Abt 1699 , , , Acadia
Alt Death? Aft 1698 Beaubassin, , Acadie, Canada
Alt Death? 1702
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!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Arsenault, H&G, p. 817 (Port Royal). Born 1629, parents married around 1628. She arrived in Acadia with parents and another sibling. [When was sibling born?]

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Document from Public Archives of Canada, by Placide Gaudet, GENEALOGIES ACADIENNES PAR PLACIDE GAUDET (M>G> 30, D103, vol. 4), called "Famille Bourgeois." Copied 17 Jan 1968, in possession of Karen Reader. Jeanne was born 1631 in France, married in 1643 at Port Royal [was she really only about 12 years old?]

!BIRTH: Born in 1631? See letter from A. Henri CHAMPAGNE, 215 Bouchard Avenue, Dracut, MA 01826, in Jan 1995. Also letter from S. Trahan WOLFE in Jan 1995. Also on Pedigree Chart of Peggy Walker. [From being age 40 on 1671 census?]

!BIRTHPLACE: See article "The Bourgeois Family" by A. Robert Bourgeois, of Capitola, CA. This also says her father Guillaume was "marichal de Tranchant." Jeanne was apparently one of the 2 children who accompanied her parents to Port Royal, Acadia in 1636. This source also says that her mother was Marguerite BRUN, born in La Chaussée near Loudun.

!CHRISTENING-RESIDENCES: She acted as godmother in 1639 at a baptism in the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Port Royal, Acadia, for the eldest daughter of Charles de Menou and Jeanne MOTIN. (See article in Genealogy and Family History, vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1969).

!CHRISTENING: Letter from S. Trahan WOLFE says that Jeanne was godmother in 1638 to Governor d'Aulnay's daughter Marie. [documentation?]

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 230; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 18: Jeanne TRAHAN, living with Jaq BOURGEOIS and two girls, age 15 and 12.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 57 years. Living with husband and son Guillaume, 31.

!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 64 years, living with husband, 74, and Jeanne, age 3, "sa petite fille." [Which grandchild is she? Where are parents?]

!CENSUS: 1698, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 72 years [sic]. Living with her and her husband are Ger. BOURGEOIS, 48, and his wife Madne. DUGAS, 34. Also Guillaume, 24 and Agnes 12, plus 1 servant. [Who are they?]

DEATH: She was alive for the 1698 census, but missing on the 1700.

References
  1.   Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
    pg. 4.

    Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
    "Chirurgien - JACOB BOURGEOIS aagé de 50 ans, sa femme Jeanne Trahan aagé de 40 ans, Leurs enfans 10, deux de marié un garson et une fille, Jeanne, aagée de 27 ans, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19, Guilleaume 16, Margueritte 13, Francoise 12, Anne 10, Marie 7 ans, Jeanne 4 ans. Leurs bestiaux à cornes 33, Leurs brebis 24, Leurs terres Labourables et en valeur en deux endroits environ ving arpans plus ou moins."

    Her husband Jacob BOURGEOIS heads the first household listed. Jeanne is age 40 years [so born 1631?], living with husband and 8 of their 10 children (2 are married).

  2. ↑ D.O.B.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 85 (ref.: (14).
  3. ↑ D./P.O.B.: 1659/1676, ("Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XXIV, No. 1,.

    Ref.: A. Godbout, "Le rôle du Saint-Jehan et les origines acadiennes," SGCF, Vol. I [1944], pp. 19-30).

  4. ↑ D./P.O.Imm.: Information held at http:/www.acadian-home.org/frames.html, 'Origins of the Pioneers of Acadia According t.
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