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Guillaume Trahan migrated from France to Acadia.
Guillaume Trahan is the Ancestral Patriarch of the Acadian Trahan Family.
Guillaume Trahan was born in France about 1601 to parents Nicolas Trahan and Marie Renée Desloges. His precise place of birth is not noted in the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (DGFA)[1]. Guillaume's later record as a passenger aboard the Saint-Jehan, on which he travelled from France to Acadie in 1636, lists him among laborers coming from Bourgueil (in Anjou currently Indre-et-Loire), along with his wife and two children[2] - but sources indicate that he and his parents were from Montreuil-Bellay (which was also in Anjou but currently Maine-et-Loire), around 20km southwest of Bourgueil. [3][4][5]
When Guillaume was 26, he married Françoise Corbineau on 13 July 1627 at the church of Saint-Étiennne in Chinon, Touraine (today Indre-et-Loire) France. [6] They had two children, Jeanne and a child whose name is not identified.[1]
The family was on the ship's roster of the ship Saint-Jehan bound for Acadia on 1 April 1636: "Guillaume Trahan, an edge-tool maker, with his wife and two children, and a valet, also from Bourgeuil".[2][7]
Guillaume eventually owned a lot adjoining the side of the old Fort at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia). It is not clear how long the family lived there. It was expropriated in 1705 to extend the Fort in Port-Royal).[7][8]
In 1654, Guillaume was a syndic during the capture of Port-Royal by the British. In August of that year it was captured by Robert Sedgwick, who led 300 British soldiers and volunteers:
The soldiers at Port-Royal, who numbered about 130 ... put up a brief defence against Sedgwick. Setting up an ambush between the landing site of the English troops and the fort, the Frenchmen fired on the attackers but proved no match for the experienced Roundheads. The French soon "took their heels to ye Fort." On August 16 the fort surrendered. The articles of capitulation were signed abord Sedgwick's ship Auguste, anchored opposite the fort. Sedgwick granted honourable terms , allowing the defenders to march out of the fort with flags flying, drums beating, and muskets at the ready. ... The capture of Port-Royal obviously had an impact on the French settlement that had grown up around the fort. During the attack Sedgwicks men had slaughtered the settlers' livestock. By the terms of the capitulation, which Guillaume Trahan signed on their behalf, the settlers were offered a ship to return to France. Those who chose to remain were permitted to retain their land and belongings and were guaranteed religious freedom"[8]
Guillaume and his family remained in Port-Royal, as did most Acadians.[8]
The 1671 census of Port-Royal shows that Guillaume, age 60 (sic) and Madeleine, 25 have 3 sons living at home, age 1 to 4. They own 8 heads of cattle, 10 sheep and 5 "arpents" of land.[9]
Seven years later the Trahan household in Port-Royal has 3 boys and 3 girls.[10]
Guillaume died in Port-Royal before the end of 1684.[1]
His widow remarried and is found with Guillaume's children in Rport Royal with Pierre Joan. [11]
↑ 1.01.11.21.3 White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999, Print. p. 1535-1537
↑ Genevieve Massignon, "Les Trahan d'Acadie," in CAHIER DE LA SOCIETY HISTORIQUE ACADIENNE; no. 4 (1964);
Guillaume TRAHAN, born around 1611, probably at Montreuil-Bellay (at present in Maine-et-Loire), France. He married 1st around 1630 to Francoise CHARBONNEAU, daughter Jeanne born around 1631. He embarked for Acadia on the "Saint-Jehan" in 1636. Married 2nd to Madeleine Brun around 1666; six children
↑ Massignon, Genevieve. (translated by Pearl Mary Segura). The Trahans of Acadia. Attakapas Gazette, Vol 23, Fall 1988. p 116. Available online at archive.org: The Trahans of Acadia
↑ Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens: 1625-1810. Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols. p. 816 (Port-Royal) cited by Karen Theriot Reader Guillaume TRAHAN
↑1627 Marriage Record Collection communale. Baptêmes, sépultures, 1622-1632 - Célébration du mariage de Guillaume Trahan et Françoise Corbineau le 13 juillet 1627 qui ont émigré en Acadie.6NUM7/072/018, Archives d'Indre-et-Loire (Image 180/230)
↑ 7.07.1 White, Stephen A. English Supplement to the Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, New Brunswick. Centre d'Études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 2000, p 4
↑ 8.08.18.2 Dunn, Brenda. A History of Port Royal / Annapolis Royal 1605-1800. Nimbus Publishing, p 21-25(Death of D'Aulnay; 1654 Capture of Port-Royal) p 53-56(Delebat Fort and Local Landowners)
↑ Tim Hebert; 1678 Port Royal Acadian Census noting that the correlations for this census were done by Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.1678 Census:
at Port Royal: Pierre JOAN (Pierre(dit Joan dit Larivière) Bézier) 60, Magdelaine BRIN [Brun] his wife 47; children by her first marriage (to Guillaume Trahan): Guillaume 19, Jean 17, Jean-Charles 15, Jeanne 12, Magdelaine 9, Marie 14; (children with Pierre) Susanne Joan 2 months; 2 guns, 8 arpents, 10 cattle, 10 sheep.
DNA Connections
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Trahant-27 and Trahan-104 appear to represent the same person because: Same parents, also duplicates. Same spouses, named in the biography of Trahant-27. Thanks for accepting the merge!
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I have just found out that I am related to Guillaume via both of his marriages: Francoise Corbineau and their daughter Jeanne (married Jacques Bourgeois), and Madeleine Brun and her daughter Marie Trahan (married Jean Doiron).
Trahan-1187 and Trahan-104 appear to represent the same person because: Same name. Same parents. Birth and death eras close and places similar. No sources or other information on Trahan-1187 that would conflict with Trahan-104.
Trahan-416 and Trahan-104 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, birthdate approx. Same birth place. Death dates in sync. No other informationon Trahan-416.
Bourgeois-1120 and Trahan-104 appear to represent the same person because: I wish to merge Bourgeois-1120 away as I think it was inspired from Trahan - The profile for Bourgeois-1120 initially had Nicolas "Bourgois" and Renée Desloges as parents, and these profiles were merged into the profiles for the parents of Trahan-104.
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The wife is also the same as that of Trahan-104