Marie Josephe Granger veuve Trahan is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 8-Left Le Beaumont. Listed with her are four of their children: Jean Baptiste, Paul Raymond, Marie Renee and Marie Margueritte. [1]
Marie Josèphe Granger was born on September 08, 1738 in Rivière aux Canards, Acadie according to the declaration of her husband at Belle-Isle-en-Mer. Her parents were Francois Marie Granger and Anne Landry. [2]
On 27 October 1755, Marie-Josèphe, her parents and nine siblings were deported to Virginia aboard one of the 14 ships that departed on that day. In May 1756, on the Fanny Bovey, they were deported again, from Virginia to England. [3] The ship transporting 204 Acadians arrived in Falmouth, England on 18 June 1756. [4] From there they were taken to Penryn, England. [3]
Pierre Simon Trahan, born March 25, 1735 - Pigiguit
His wife, Marie Josèphe Granger, born September 8, 1738 - Rivière-aux-Canards
Their children:
Jean-Baptiste (1760)
Joseph-Simon (1761)
Pierre-Simon (1763),
Pierre Raymond (1765)
Arriving from Falmouth and Morlaix, settled at Kerguénolé (Bangor). [8]
1767: À Kerguinolay, France
On February 26, 1767, appeared Joseph and Simon Pierre Trahant, brothers, living at the village of Kerguinolay, parish of Bangor
The said Simon Pierre Trahant, also a declarant and brother germain of the said Joseph Trahant said that:
he was married at Falmouth November 18, 1758 to Marie Josephe Granger born at the Riviere aux Canards, parish of Saint Jospeh, September 8, 1738 of Francois Granger born in the said parish of Saint Joseph and died at Falmouth November 1, 1756 and of Anne Landry deceased at Falmouth July 15th of the said year.
Of this marriage were born the following:
Jean Baptiste Trahant at Falmouth March 4, 1760.
Joseph Simon Jude Trahant born at the said place September 6, 1761.
Simon Pierre Trahant born June 11, 1763 on the barge La Fauvette and baptized in the parish of Ploudalmezeau.
Paul Raymond Trahant born at Morlaix, parish of Saint Mathieu, Diocese of Treguier, August 4, 1765. [2]
11 juin 1785: Départ de Paimboeuf, France, à destination de la Louisiane
Marie Josèphe GRANGER, veuve de Pierre Simon TRAHAN - 46
Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, son fils, charpentier - 25 h
The final, and largest, contingent of Acadian Grangers arrived nearly 20 years later aboard at least five of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in 1785. Most of them chose to settle on the river:
Anne Granger of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 49, widow of Joseph Trahan, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August. With her were four children, ages 21 to 12. They went to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, and settled near old Fort Bute. Anne did not remarry and died at Baton Rouge in January 1806; she was 70 years old.
Marie-Josèphe Granger, age 46, widow of Pierre-Simon Trahan, also crossed on Le Beaumont with four children, ages 25 to 13. They, too, went to Manchac. [10]
↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 32
↑ 2.02.12.2 Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Acadian-Home.org Simon Pierre Trahant Declaration, February 26, 1767. Brother Jerôme Lepré, S.C., accessed October 2021
↑ 3.03.1 Paul Delaney, La liste de Winslow expliquée, (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 - Kindle Edition), location #1914-1915
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