Anne Granger (1743 - abt. 1811)

Born Jan 1743 in Rivière-aux-Canards, Grand-Pré, Acadie, Nova Scotia Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Chrysostome Trahan — married 10 Jan 1763 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died about 28 Jul 1811 at about age 68 in Assumption, Louisiana, Orleans Territory, United States

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Biography

CHRISOSTOME TRAHAN is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 10 Right, L'Amitie arrive le 7 novembre 1785. Listed with him is his wife, Anne Granger, and seven of their children: Jean Chrisostome, Joseph, Renne, Anne Julie, Marie Magdeleine, Marthe and Margueritte.^[1]

Anne Granger, daughter of Jean Baptiste Granger and Madeleine Landry, was born in Riviere Aux Canards, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia Colony in 1743. ^[2]

On 5 September 1755, her father Jean-Baptiste was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand Pré. On a list of prisoners, he was said to live in the village des Granger with 3 sons and 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 10 young cattle, 49 sheep, 23 hogs, and 2 horses. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days.^[3][4]

On 27 October 1755, Anne, her parents and her six siblings, Simon-Joseph, Pierre-Simon, Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Marguerite, and two unnamed girls were deported from Grand-Pré to Virginia aboard one of the 14 ships that departed on that day. The Acadians were held over winter in Virginia. In May 1756, on the Fanny Bovey, they were deported again to England. ^[4] The ship transporting 204 Acadians arrived in Falmouth, England on 18 June 1756.^[5] Her parents died (Belle-Ile Decl.) at Falmouth, England in 1756.^[2]

In 1763 she married Jean Chrysostome Trahan in Falmouth, England.^[4][2]

Their known children were:

1. Julie Anne Trahan (1765–1808)
2. Maria Magdalena Trahan (1768–1832)
3. Marie Marthe Trahan (1770–1832)
4. Jean Baptiste Chrysostome Trahan (1774–about 1847)
5. Joseph Rose Trahan (1777–1815)
6. Marguerite Trahan (before 1780–1808)
7. Reine Sophie Trahan (about 1783–1856)

The war ended in 1763 and the Acadian prisoners in England were released to France. They were residing in Belle-Isle-en-Mer in 1765. ^[4] Twenty-two years later they were given the opportunity to immigrate to Spanish-ruled Louisiana. On 8 November 1785, they arrived in New Orleans aboard the ship L'Amitié. ^[6]

She died in Assumption, Louisiana in July 1811. Her burial took place on 28 July 1811 in Plattenville, Louisiana.^[7]

Research Notes

Source needed for name Françoise.

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 41.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Acadian-Home.org Declarations of February 1767. Brother Jerôme Lepré, S.C., accessed 28 Dec 2023;

   Chrysostome Trahant, brother germain of Joseph and Pierre Simon Trahant and of the same ancestor and born in the parish of l'Assomption in 1740, married at Falmouth January 10, 1763 to Anne Granger, born at the Riviere aux Canards, parish of Saint Joseph, in 1744 of Jean Baptiste Granger and Magdeleine Landry, both died at Falmouth in 1756.

3. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand Pre - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884, Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand Pre, September the 15th 1755," line # 29;

   Jean Granger, Village des Granger, 3 sons, 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 10 young cattle, 49 sheep, 23 hogs, 2 horses.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Paul Delaney, La liste de Winslow expliquée, (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 ), p. 222;

   Anne Granger, born in Rivière-aux-Canards 1744, married Jean Chrysostôme Trahan in Falmouth in 1763. She was recorded in Belle-Isle-en-Mer in 1765. Immigrated to Louisiana in 1785.

5. ↑ Paul Delaney, "Chronologie des déportations et migrations des Acadiens (1755-1816)," Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 36, nos 2-3, septembre 2005, pp. 52-86. https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3602_total.pdf
   Translation at Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home Translation: "The Chronology of Deportations and Migrations of the Acadians 1755-1816."
6. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 78-79;

   Chrisostome TRAHAN, a plowman age 43, listed with his wife Anne GRANGER, age 41, and seven children as the 60th family (of 9 persons) aboard "L'Amitié."

7. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1982) p. 374;

   Ana GRANGER, age 68 years of Acadia, married to Chrisistomo TRAHAN, was buried on 28 Jul 1811 at Assumption Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-3, 70).

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