Person:Madeleine Brun (1)

!CHRISTENING-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 140 & 289 & 1536; own copy. She died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal before the census of 1700.

!CHRISTENING-CENSUS-MARRIAGES: E-mail posting at <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> #151 on 23 Sep 1998 by Kenneth BREAU (breauk@umoncton.ca). Madeleine BRUN, baptized in the parish register of LaChaussée (Poitou), France, on 25 Jan 1645, mother was Vincende BREAU [sic, godfather?]. Sponsors: Vincent BREAU & Madeleine AMAUGER. On the 1671 census of Port Royal she was 25 years old; in 1686 census she is 45 years [sic] or 47 [sic]; in 1693 census, age 48; on 1698 age 56 [sic]. She married 1st at Port Royal around 1666 to Guillaume TRAHAN, son of Nicolas & Renée DESLOGES, widower of Francoise CORBINEAU. She married 2nd around 1684 to Pierre BÉZIER dit JOAN dit LARIVIERE. She died at Port Royal before the census of 1700. (Reference: Declarations at Belle-Ile-en-mer.)

!MARRIAGES: Mary Brown LaRocca, "The Robichaux Family of Acadia, Massachusetts, and Maine: A French Connection," ion THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER; vol. CXLII, no. 569 (Jan 1989); p. 4. Madeleine BRUN, daughter of Vincent & Marie (BRAULT) BRUN [English style], married at Port Royal around 1660 to Charles ROBICHAUX, born in France, son of Louis ROBICHAUX (who was born in France about 1609 and died 3 Jan 1649, age 40 years, while on a trip to Québec, where he is buried). Source cited: (Bergeron, 7: 197). They had only daughters.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES: Arsenault, H&G, p. 474 (Port Royal).

!NAME: BRODE, BROT? On grandson Pierre's deposition, spelled Magdeleine LEBRUN. (See Acads. of B-I-en-M, in NOG.)

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 232; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On Folio 19: Madelenne [sic] BRUN, living with Guilleaume TRAHAN and three boys and three girls.

!CENSUS-NAME: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, appeared twice, age 47 [really 40?] years, with husband, 6 children from first marriage, and baby Susanne JOAN, 2 months. Name spelled Magdelaine BRIN on one entry.

   !CENSUS: 1686, again in Port Royal (on p. 16), without any husband, age 45 [!] years. Living with sons age 16 to 20, and 3 daughters., not specified. "Et de La Riviere son second mary elle a eu Susanne Riviere ..0.5 mois." Property has decreased. Now only have 1 gun, 2 arpens worked land, 7 cattle, 3 sheep and 4 pigs.

!CENSUS: 1693, Les Mines, age 48 years, with all 6 children (minus Suzanne) now married. [Since Suzanne later married Pierre COMEAU, where was she on this census?]

!CENSUS: 1698, age 56 years (sic).

1. ↑ White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
   p. 1536.

   Baptized (La Chaussée Register) on 25 Jan 1645.

2. ↑ White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
   p. 1536.

   Madeleine died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal before the 1700 census.

3.   D./P.O.B.: "Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, Premiere Partie 1636 a 1714", 2 vols., (Centre d'etudes a (4)
   140.
4.   P.O.D.: See message file. (2).
5.   D.O.B.: 7 Sep 1994 CompuServe message from Judy Dressler, (ref.: 1671 Port (3).
6. ↑ D./P.O.D.: "Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, Premiere Partie 1636 a 1714", 2 vols., (Centre d'etudes a
   140.

   Steven White indicates that Madeleine died after the Port Royal census of 1700.

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 6.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Mareschal - GUILLEAUME TRAHAN aagé de soixante ans ou environ, sa femme Magdeleine Brun aagée de 25 ans. Leurs enfans trois, Guilleaume Trahan aagé de quatre ans, Jehan Charles aagé de trois ans, Alexandre aagé d'un an, Leurs bestiaux a cornes huict et dix brebis. Leurs terre en labour cinq arpans."

8. ↑ 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, age 25, name spelled Magdeleine. Listed as married in parents' entry as married, then in own entry again with husband and 3 children 4, 3, and 2 years.