Guillaume Trahan

1611 - Abt 1685  (~ 84 years)

• Name	Guillaume Trahan
  Birth	Between 1601 and 1611	Saint-Pierre, Montreuil-Bellay, Maine-et-Loire, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1611
  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	19 Jan 2024

  
  

  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, 6]
  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	19 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He embarked at La Rochelle on 1636-04-01 on the Saint-Jehan with his wife and his two children, and arrived in Port-Royal in May. 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024., 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. [S7284] Betty Pourciaux, "The Trahan Family." Attakapas Gazette 24:43, Spring 1989., says "1665".