Pierre Trahan (1737 - 1803)

Born 1737 in Riviere-aux-Canards, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Duon — married 9 May 1758 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1803 at about age 66 in St. Martin, Louisiana, Orleans Territory, USA

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Biography

PIERRE TRAHAN is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 9 Left, Le Saint Remie arrive le 9 Septembre 1785. Listed with him is his wife, Marguerite Duhon, and their six children: Joseph, Genevieve, Paulinne, Marguerite, Anne and Marie Francoise.^[1]

Pierre Trahan, son of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre, was born in March 1737 Riviere-aux-Canards, Acadie.^[2]

Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duon, daughter of Acadians Jean Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent, were married 9 May 1758 in Liverpool, England while they were being detained there by the British until the end of the war. ^[3]All of their children were born in either England or France, and six of them would later immigrate to Louisiana with their parents in 1785, a seventh with her husband.^[4]

Children

1. Marie Elisabeth Trahan (1759)
2. Genevieve Trahan (1762)
3. Jean Baptiste TRAHAN (1764 - c.1784)
4. Elisabeth Apolline Trahan (1767)
5. Marie Marguerite Catherine Trahan (1768)
6. Marie Jeanne TRAHAN (1770 - c.1784)
7. Marie Anne Trahan (1772)
8. Marie Francoise Trahan (1774)
9. Marie Madeleine TRAHAN (1775 - c.1784)
10. Joseph Marie Trahan (1777)

At the end of the Seven Years War in late spring of 1763, they were on the rough list taken by English agent George Langton at Liverpool on 7 June 1763, with forty numbered family groups, who were delivered to the Sieur De La Rochette, for embarkation aboard Le Sturgeon, commanded by Captain Belon, bound for France.^[5] After they were released to Sieur De La Rochette, they were counted again before they "embarked on board the sailing barge L'Esturgeon commanded by Sieur Louis BELON on 7 June 1763."^[6]

In France they at first lived in Morlaix, and later accepted a homestead grant in Belle-Isle-en-Mer.^[7] After years of struggling on the rocky Belle-Isle-en-Mer, they joined the Acadians "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His Catholic Majesty," dated September 1784 in Nantes, France. They were listed as having two sons and six daughters.^[8] Evidently, Jean Baptiste, Marie Jeanne, and Marie Madeleine died between September 1784 and 27 June 1785. Marie Elisabeth married and sailed with her husband on the next ship.

They arrived with six children at the port of New Orleans on 10 September 1785.^[4]

By 1803 they were living in Vermilion, St. Martin, Louisiana.^{[citation needed]}

He died on 7 or 8 September 1803 in St. Martin, Louisiana, a few months after the Louisiana Purchase and a few years before Louisiana statehood. Pierre was buried 8 September 1803 at the St. Martin du Tours Catholic church cemetery in St. Martinville, Louisiana.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee, Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, (Opeloisas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 35.
2. ↑ Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, vol. II: Belle Isle en Mer Register & La Rochette Papers, (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1972) pp. 68-69.
3. ↑ Marriage (Left page, 1st entry) "England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-996L-RXF8?cc=3656808 : 14 March 2022), > image 1 of 1; citing multiple custodians, England.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Donald J. Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1980; Reprinted 2010, Claitor’s Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, LA. USA) p. 710;
   • Pierre TRAHAN married Marguerite DUON on 9 May 1758 at St. Mary Church, Wooton, Liverpool, England. (One of only two marriages listed.)
   • Pierre TRAHAN, plowman, age 48, traveling with his wife Marguerite DUHON, 44, and six children as the 35th family (of 8 persons) aboard "Le Saint Rémi." [His oldest daughter traveled on "L'Amitié" with her new husband and his brother's family.]
5. ↑ Reider & Rieder, Acadians in France, vol. II, p. 115;

   On the list taken by agent George Langton at Liverpool on 7 Jun 1763, with 40 numbered family groups, who were delivered to the Sieur De La Rochette, and embarked on board "Le Sturgeon," commanded by Captain Belon, and bound for France,

   37. Ramond TREHAN, 28;

   Pierre TREHAN, 26;

   Isabel TREHAN, 22;

   Fras. TREHAN, 19;

   Jean TREHAN, 13;

   Marie TREHAN, 4;

   Raphael TREHAN, 1;

   Jeunevie [sic, for Genevieve] TREHAN, 1.

6. ↑ Reider & Rieder, Acadians in France, vol. II, p. 116;

   On the English Roll of the Acadian families detained at Liverpool and embarked on board the sailing barge "L'Esturgeon" commanded by Sieur Louis BELON on 7 Jun 1763:

   10. Pierre TRAHAN;

   Marguerite [DUON] TRAHAN;

   Marie TRAHAN;

   Genevieve TRAHAN;

   Jean TRAHAN.

7. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud, Acadiens en France: Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785, (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999) p. 255;

   Deported to England, lived in Morlaix, then Belle-Isle-en-Mer (no. 46).

8. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 499;

   On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575):

   Pierre TRAHAN, with wife Marguerite DUHON, 2 sons, 6 daughters, for a total of 10 in family.

9. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications);

   TRAHAN, Pierre - of Acadia (Pierre & Jeanne DAIGLE) m. to Marguerite DUON bur. 8 Sept. 1803 at age 67 yrs. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v.4, #308)