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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]
In 1639, his daughter Jeanne Trahan was godmother to Charles de Menou d'Aulnay's first child Marie. [8]
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] [9]
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:
Guillaume and his family remained in Port-Royal, as did most Acadians.[9]
Around 1666, when Guillaume was 65 years old, he married a second time. His bride was 21 year old Madeleine Brun, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau. Between about 1667 and 1678, the couple had seven children: Guillaume, Jean-Charles, Alexandre, Marie, daughter unknown, Jeanne, and Madeleine.[1]
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.[10]
Seven years later the Trahan household in Port-Royal has 3 boys and 3 girls.[11]
Guillaume died in Port-Royal before the end of 1684.[1]
His widow remarried and is found with Guillaume's children in Rort-Royal with Pierre Joan. [12]
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 childrenKaren Theriot Reader Guillaume TRAHAN
Transcript of baptism record: contenant que Marie fille du sieur Charles de Menouescuier s.donay lieutenant general pour le Roy en Coste dacadie païs de la Nouvelle france fut baptisée sur les 4 heures du soir ledit jour qu'elle estoit née par la une heure après midy mercredy 21 septembre et que fut consacrée a la Ste Vierge par Claude Petitpas et M. Boudrot premiers sindics du port Royal, ont esté son parrain Pierre fils de Pierre Cachet, sa marraine Jeanne Traihan fille de Guillaume Traihan mareschal et de Françoise Charbonneau
Guillaume TRAHAN, 60 [sic], his wife Madelaine BRUN 25; Children: Guillaume 4, Jehan-Charles 3, Alexandre 1; cattle 8, sheep 10, 5 arpents of land.
Guillaume Trahan, Madelenne Brun, 4 acres, 6 cattle, 3 boys 10-1668, 8-1670, 7-1670; 3 girls 6-1672, 5-1673, 4-1674.
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.
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The wife is also the same as that of Trahan-104