Cécile Préjean

• Birth Notes
  • born c1732, probably Port-Royal; daughter of Charles PRÉJEAN & his first wife Catherine-Josèphe BROUSSARD;
    
    married, age 18, Grégoire PELLERIN, son of Bernard PELLERIN & Marie-Marguerite GAUDET of Port-Royal, c1750;
    
    exiled to NC aboard Pembroke Dec 1755, age 23, but passengers, including her husband, seized the vessel, took it to Baie St.-Marie &  then in Jan 1756 to lower Rivière St.-Jean, found refuge at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, upper Rivière St.-Jean, winter of 1756, & then went to Restigouche, summer of 1756; at Nipisiguit 1761;
    
    in report of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, with husband & 2 children; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 33, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit  Beausoleil;
    
    in Atakapas census, 1766, La Manque District, unnamed, probably the woman in the household of Jorge PELLERIN;
    
    in Atakapas census, 1771, unnamed, age 41 or 44, with husband, 1 son, & 1 daughter;
    
    in Atakapas census, 1777, called Sécile PREJEAN Widow PELERIN, age 45, head of family number 99, with son Frédérique [PELLERIN] age 6, daughters Émmelie [PELLERIN] age 9, Marie-Josephe [PELLERIN] age 7, Eugenee [PELLERIN] age 5, 3 slaves "[plus] one to be born," 100 cattle, 15 horses, 20 hogs, 25 sheep;
    
    in Atakapas census, 1785, called Widow PELLERIN, with 5 free individuals, 5 male slaves, 2 female slaves

• General Notes
  • Cécile, daughter of Charles Préjean of Port-Royal and his first wife, Catherine-Josèphe Broussard, and her husband Grégoire Pellerin, arrived at New Orleans in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by her kinsman, Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  After a short respite at New Orleans, Cécile and her husband followed the Broussards across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, where they helped created La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche. ...
    
    Cecile Prejean, b. 1730 in Port Royal, Acadia, d. 7 Jan 1808 in St Martin, Louisiana, m. Gregoire Pellerin. Their children are: Marie Josephe Pellerin, Marguerite Pellerin, Emilie Pellerin, Frederick Pellerin, Eugenie Pellerin.
    
    i. Cecile PREJEAN was born on 20 Feb 1730 in Paradise, Port Royal, Acadia and died on 7 Jan 1808 in St Martinville, Louisiana at age 77.
    
    Cecile married Gregoire PELLERIN, son of Bernard PELLERIN and Marie Marguerite GAUDET, on 10 Jan 1752. Gregoire was born in 1724.