Marguerite Trahan (1728 - bef. 1763)

Born 1728 in Pisiquit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste Lejeune — married about 1748 in Pisiquit, Acadia, Nova Scotia Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Descendant of First Nations Christine Aubois.

Marguerite Trahan was born around 1728, possibly in Pisiquit, Acadia, Canada. Her parents were Etienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy. ^[1][2]

She married Jean Baptiste Lejeune around 1748 in Acadie.

Children: ^[3]

1. Jean Baptiste Lejeune
2. Blaise Lejeune
3. Marguerite Lejeune
4. Joseph Lejeune
5. Anne (Antoinette, Nanette) Lejeune
6. Antoine Lejeune /1763-

Jean-Baptiste Lejeune, and Marguerite were at Baie des Espagnols on Ile Royale (present-day Cape Breton) in 1752 with their children Jean, Blaise and Marguerite. They had settled there two years and a half earlier.They owned livestock and land.^[4]

In 1755 they were deported to Maryland aboard the Dolphin and resided at Port Tobacco, Maryland from 1755-1763. ^[5]

She died before 7 July 1763 when their son Blaise was listed as an orphan in the household of Honoré Breau at Port Tobacco, Maryland.^[6]. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S3756715274 Page: Place: New Orleans, Louisiana; Year: 1785; Page Number: 32. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=1692208&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1731Birth place: Arrival date: 1785Arrival place: New Orleans, Louisiana
2. ↑ Source: #S3785039096 Page: Birth year: 1728; Birth city: Port Royal; Birth state: Ns. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4847103&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1728Birth place: Port Royal, Acadia, Ns
3. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Marguerite Trahan citing
4. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p.50, Image 130.

   Jean Bte. Le Jeune, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 24 years. Married to Margueritte Trahan, native of same place, aged 24 years.

   They have three children, two sons and one daughter :

   Jean, aged 3 years.

   Blaise, aged 2 years.

   Margueritte, aged "2 months.

   Two pigs are all their live stock.

   They are in the colony two years and a half, and have been granted rations for 33 months. The land they occupy has been given them by Messieurs Desherbiers and Prevost. They have made a clearing on it half an arpent square.

5. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiques, (Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes), 2005 - p. 244 (Source cited by Karen Theriot Reader at Geneanet.org) Article by Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "Pigiguit: l'impact du Grand Dérangement sur une communauté de l'ancienne Acadie." - He was on the ship "Dolphin" which carried 230 passengers from Acadia destined for Port Tobacco and Upper Marlborough, MD.
6. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) - pp. 137 & 153 Blaise was 1st cousin one time removed from Madeleine, wife of Honoré BREAU. - 442. (Source cited by Karen Theriot Reader at Geneanet.org)

   "State of the Neutral Acadians Who Are at Portabaco in Maryland"

   Honoré BRAUX, Magdelaine BRAUX his wife, Magdelaine BRAUX, Marie BRAUX, Margueritte BRAUX, Blaise LE JEUNE, orphan.

7. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Marguerite Trahan citing Acadian Genealogy Exchange - Jehn, Janet, ed. - vol. XXXIV, no. 1 (May 2005), p. 19 Article "Ancestors of Ovey William Lejeune (contd. from October issue)."

• Marcel Walter Landry Page for Marguerite Trahan at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed Aug 2021 (Login required)

See also (family trees and unreliable sources):

• Source: S3755586933 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=8553169&pid=-774575084
• Source: S3756715274 Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Gale Research Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passe Note:
• Source: S3785039096 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Note:
• Source: S3785070919 Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv Note:
• Edsel J. Broussard publications , Lake Arthur, LA, USA