Cécile Préjean
Cécile was born on February 20th, 1730 in
Paradise, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 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
She died at the age of 77 on January 7th, 1808 in
St Martinville, St Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA.
Charles Préjean & Catherine Josèphe Broussard 
Charles Préjean