Husband: Athanase Jean TRAHAN
Birthdate: 1745
Birthplace: in Grand Pre, Acadia (43.)
Death date: 1836
Place of death: in Lafayette, Louisiana. Succession #318 dated 1836 Lafayette Parish Courthouse.
Father: Michel TRAHAN
Mother: Euphrosine Anne VINCENT

Marriage date: 1776
Marriage place: in St Martin of Tours Catholic Church, St Martinville, Louisiana (43.) (58.)

Wife: Madeleine THIBODEAUX
Birthdate: 1750
Birthplace:
Death date: after 21 May 1817
Place of death: Louisiana (St. Martin Conveyance #3201)
Father: Charles THIBODEAUX
Mother: Ann MELANSON (Brigette BREAUX) While Brigette Breaux was the widow of Charles Thibodeaux who migrated to Louisiana she may not have been the mother of his older children.

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Marie Madeleine TRAHAN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 June 1778,
Birthplace: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (St. Martinville Church V1, p64)1
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: on 3 June 1806,
Marriage place: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (St Martinville Church V5 #60)1
Spouse's name: Charles MANCHAUX

Child No. 2: Jean Baptiste TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1780 (43.)
Birthplace:
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: on 27 July 1802,
Marriage place: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (58.)
Spouse's name: Marie Martine ENTREMONT M2. Marie Josephine Aucoin, in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (58.)

Child No. 3: Joseph TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 5 February 1782,
Birthplace: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (58.)
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: on 15 June 1813,
Marriage place: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (58.)
Spouse's name: Euphrosine GRANGER

Child No. 4: Pierre TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 July 1783
Birthplace: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1. St. Martinville Church, Volume 2, #128)1 (58.)
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: on 1 May 1809,
Marriage place: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1. St. Martinville Church Volume 5, #145)1 (58.)
Spouse's name: Suzette BOULEY

Child No. 5: Michel TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 March 1785
Birthplace: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1.St. Martinville Church, Volume 3, #64)1 (43.)
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: on 16 May 1809
Marriage place: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1. St. Martinville Church, Volume 5, #146)1 (58.)
Spouse's name: Suzette GUIDRY

Child No. 6: Athanase TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 23 January 1787
Birthplace: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1.St. Martinville Church, Volume.4, #356)1 (43.) (58.)
Death date: 6 November 1810,
Place of death: St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, at 23 years old. (1. St. Martinville Church, Volume 4, #667)1
Marriage date: on 2 January 1810,
Marriage place: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1. St. Martinvile Church V.5, #166)1 (58.)
Spouse's name: Marie Clotilde Landry

Child No. 7: Julien TRAHAN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 May 1789,
Birthplace: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1.St. Martinville Church Volume.4, #356)1 (43.) (58.)
Death date: 15 August 1822,
Place of death: in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. (1. Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Courthouse Records #384)2
Marriage date: on 30 October 1815,
Marriage place: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1. St. Martinville Church V.5, #383)2 (58.)
Spouse's name: Marie Emerite LANDRY

Child No. 8: Anne (Petite Anne) TRAHAN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1789
Birthplace: in St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USA
Death date: 14 May 1828
Place of death: in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 9: Victorie Marie TRAHAN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 December 1794,
Birthplace: in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. (1.St. Martinville Church, Volume 4, #596)1 (58.) (43.)
Death date: 1847,
Place of death: Louisiana
Marriage date: on 5 January 1813,
Marriage place: aj
Spouse's name: Delphy DUHON
 

Documentation:
1. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDS by Father Hebert.
43. GENEAOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ACADIENS by Arsenault.
58. SELECTED ACADIAN AND LOUISIANA RECORDS by Bodin.
* LAND RECORDS OF ATTAKAPAS DISTRICT by Glen Conrad Vol. 2. part 1 Conveyance, Vol. 2 part 2 Wills and Successions
http://www.acadiansingray.com/.

Comments:
* served in the American revolution 1774-1777; also appeared in the militia census of 1798.
* brother of Francoise, Marie-Francoise, & Paul;
* arrived Louisiana Feb 1765, age 11, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil;
* in Atakapas census, 1766, Bayou Queue[sic] de Tortue, unnamed, probably one of 2 teenage boys in household of Miguel [T]RAHAN;
* in Atakapas census, 1771, called Jean, age 16, with parents & siblings;
* in Atakapas census, 1774, unnamed, with parents & sister;
* in Atakapas census, 1777, called Tanasse, age 24, with parents & sister Marie;
* in Atakapas census, 1781, called Athanas, with 4 individuals, 36 animals, & 6 arpents;
* in Atakapas census, 1785, called Ats., with 6 free individuals, 0 slaves;
* on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Atanasion
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* Lived: Grand Pre, Acadia, Attakapas Post. St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.

Madeleine Thibodeaux
* arrived Louisiana Feb 1765, age 15, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil;
* in Atakapas census, 1766, District of the Pointe, with 1 woman in her household;
* in Atakapas census, 1771, age 21, with family of Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, whose mother was a THIBODEAUX;
* in Atakapas census, 1774, called Madeleine TIBODAU, with no husband, 3 children, 0 slaves, 40 cattle, 12 horses & mules, 30 pigs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1777, an orphan, age 25[sic], with Mathurin BROUSSARD et al.;
* married Jean-Athanase TRAHAN, son of Michel TRAHAN & Anne-Euphrosine VINCENT,probably late 1770s;
* in Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with husband & 2 others;
* in Atakapas census, 1785, unnamed, with husband & 4 others
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