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Francois Préjean

Francois was born about 1693 in Paradise, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Birth Notes
- 6. Francois PREJEAN was born in 1693 in Paradise, Port Royal, Acadia.
  
  General Notes: Residing in the region of L'Islet near Quebec in 1742, having departed Acadia well before the deportation in 1755.
  
  Francois married Marie Madeleine VIGNEAU, daughter of Francois VIGNEAU and Jeanne AUBERT, about 1729. Marie was born in 1674 in Quebec, Canada.
  
  Children from this marriage were:
  
     33 M    i. Gregoire PREJEAN was born on 9 Jul 1730.
  
     34 M    ii. Francois PREJEAN was born on 2 Oct 1738 in Village Of Portage, Isle St. Jean, Acadia.
  
     35 M    iii. Jean PREJEAN was born in Feb 1742 in L'islet, P.Q., Canada.
  
     36 F    iv. Marie PREJEAN .
  
  Marie married Louis Julien FORTIN on 10 Apr 1742 in L'islet, P.Q., Canada.

Francois' father was Jean Préjean (dit Le Breton) and his mother was Andrée Marguerite Savoie. His maternal grandparents were François Savoie and Catherine Le Jeune (dit Briard). He had seven brothers and four sisters, named Jean, Jean, Joseph, Nicolas, Charles, Pierre, Honoré, Marie, Jeanne, Madeleine and Marie. He was the fifth oldest of the twelve children.

General Notes
- Francois, born n c1695, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Francois Vrignaud, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, in c1722. ...
  
  5- Francois Prejean b: Abt. 1695 Port Royal, Acadia
  +Marie Madeleine Vrignaud m: Abt. 1722 Acadia

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Jean Préjean (dit Le Breton)
  - b.1651 in Brittany, France d.04 Jun 1733 in Port Royal, New Brunswick, Canada
  
  Francois Préjean
  - b.~  1693 in Paradise, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada
  
  Thomas François de Savoie (Prince de Carignan)
  - b.21 Dec 1596 in Torino, Torino, Italy d.<22 Jan 1656 in Turin, , , Italy
  
  François Savoie
  - b.~  1621 in Martaize, Loudun, Vienne, France d.1678
  
  Unknown
  
  Andrée Marguerite Savoie
  - b.1667 in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada d.06 Jun 1733 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Nova Scotia, Canada
  
  Pierre Le Jeune I (dit Briard)
  - b.1595 in Martaize, La Rochelle, Aunis, France d. in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada
  
  Catherine Le Jeune (dit Briard)
  - b.~  1633 in Port Royal, Acadie, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia d.<  1686
  
  Unknown Mi'kmaq Indian
  - b.~  1610 in Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Details of Francois' family with Marie Madeleine Vrignaud