Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Guillaume Trahan

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Name Guillaume Trahan Birth Between 1601 and 1611 Saint-Pierre, Montreuil-Bellay, Maine-et-Loire, France [1]
Gender Male Death Abt 1685 Port-Royal, Acadia [2, 3]
Burial Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia [4]
Person ID I5798 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 3 Apr 2021
Father Nicolas Trahan, b. of Saint-Pierre de Montreuil-Bellay, Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France d. France
Mother Renée Desloges, b. France d. Bef 11 Apr 1632, France
Marriage Abt 1600 Saint-Pierre, Montreuil-Bellay, Maine-et-Loire, France [1]
Family ID F3628 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Françoise Corbineau, b. Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France d. Bef 1666, Port-Royal, Acadia
Marriage 13 Jul 1627 Saint-Etienne, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France [1, 5]
Children + 1. Jeanne Trahan, b. Between 1626 and 1631, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France d. Aft 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia
(Age ~ 72 years)
Family ID F3623 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Dec 2019
Family 2 Madeleine Brun, b. Bef 25 Jan 1645 d. Port-Royal, Acadia Marriage Abt 1666 Port-Royal, Acadia [1]
Children + 1. Jean Charles Trahan, b. Between 1668 and 1671, Port-Royal, Acadia d. Port-Royal, Acadia
+ 2. Jeanne Trahan, b. 1674, Port-Royal, Acadia Family ID F18801 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Mar 2021
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Notes - Embarked at La Rochelle on 1636-04-01 with his wife and his two children, arrived in Port-Royal 1636-05. He was a blacksmith and an edge-tool maker (maréchal de tranchant).
From "A Point in History": "Guillaume Trahan was a blacksmith and a toolsmith from Bourgueil, Anjou, France. He departed Anjou, 4-1-1636 on the ship St. Jehan, with his wife, Françoise Charboneau, and 7-year old daughter, Jeanne Trahan. At the 1671 Acadian census, Guillaume Trahan was about 60 years old and a marshall (maréschal) living with his second wife and three young children. He had 8 head of cattle, 10 sheep and 5 acres under cultivation."
Through Guillaume Trahan and his second wife Madeleine Brun, TNH is a ninth cousin to Beyoncé Knowles:
Guillaume Trahan (1601-1685) = Madeleine Brun (b. 1643)
Jean Charles Trahan (b. ~1688) = Marie Boudreau (b. ~1675)
Pierre Trahan = Jeanne Daigle
Pierre Trahan (b. ~1737) = Marguerite Duhon (b. 1741)
Marie Françoise Trahan = Joseph Broussard
Rosemond Broussard (~1800-~1864) = Joséphine-Adelania Broussard (~1801-~1847)
Eloy-René Broussard (b. ~1824-1866) = Celestine *
Odelia Broussard (~1864-1929) = Eugène-Gustave DeRouen (~1860-1937)
Agnèz DeRouen (1909-1980) = Lumis Albert Buyincé (1910-1982)
Célestine Anne Beyincé (1954- ) = Mathew Knowles (1952- )
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (1981- )
* Eloy-René Broussard's "domestic servant", which may or may not have meant slave. It is unclear whether they ever married, but she bore him 13 children, among them Odelia Broussard. Eloy-René was definitely married to Josephine Lesser (b. ~1840), but she wasn't Odelia's mother.
- Embarked at La Rochelle on 1636-04-01 with his wife and his two children, arrived in Port-Royal 1636-05. He was a blacksmith and an edge-tool maker (maréchal de tranchant).
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021., place only.
- [S176] Ancestors of Hazel Ethel Coston, record held in the family of TNH.
- [S5190] Find a Grave page for Guillaume Trahan.
- [S5194] Find a Grave page for Françoise Charbonneau.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.