Cécile Prejean

• Sources:
  • Drouin Institute (Archived marriage record - see attached in Media tab)
  • "The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Attakapas District, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • Exiled to Province of North Carolina 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
    • On report of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1766, La Manque District, unnamed
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1771, unnamed, age 41 or 44
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1777, Sécile Prejean, Widow Pelerin, age 45
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1785, listed as Widow Pellerin

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1765, age 33

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GEDCOM Note

Category: Louisiana First Families
Category: St. Martinville, Louisiana

Biography

Cécile Prejean was born in 1730. Cécile's father was Charles Prejean and her mother was Catherine Broussard.

She married Gregoire Pellerin in 1752.
:Children:

1. Eugenie Pellerin
2. Emelie Pellerin (1766)
3. Frederic Pellerin (1770)
4. Marie Josephe Pellerin (1771)

Excerpt from "The Sorrel/Pellerin Burial Ground" by Jarvis M Freymann:
≤blockquote>Jacques Joseph Sorrel became closely associated with Gregoire Pellerin, another rancher and farmer who had come to Louisiana from Acadia (Canada). Gregoire's plantation adjoined Sorrel's, and when Gregoire died in 1776, Jacques Joseph - a bachelor - became a trusted counselor to his former partner's widow, Cecile Prejean Pellerin, and a surrogate father and mentor to her four young children, Eugenia, Emelie, Frederick, and Marie Josephe. ≤ref>Freymann, Jarvis M., "The Sorrel/Pellerin Burial Ground" full citation needed ≤/ref>
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From Land Records of the Attakapas District:
≤blockquote>Petition of Cécile Prejean, Wid/o Gregoire Pellerin, being of advanced age (76) & the last of her children now married, determined to partition her lands among her 4 children: Frédéric; Émilie; Marie Josephe & Eugène (sic). The lands measured 45 arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, bounded above by J. Sorrel & below by her son Frédéric.
:# Marie Josephe, with consent of husband Alexandre Frere, accepted 7 arpents;

1. Eugène(ie) Pellerin accepted 14 arpents wide, bounded below by (1);# Sorrel accepted for the minor (sic) Emilie, wife of Pierre Sigur, 14arpents, bounded below by (2):# Frédéric Pellerin accepted 10 arpents, on both banks of the Teche,above (3).≤ref>Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. 2 "Conveyance Records," by Glenn R. Conrad, p. 46: 23:129 ≤/ref>

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Cécile Prejean died in 1808. ≤ref>Source: #DJH CD:PREJEAN, Cecile wid. of dec. Gregoire PELLERIN d. 6 Jan. 1808 at the home of Joseph SOREL, buried 7 Jan. 1808 at age 80 yrs. Signs: A. FRERE, Frederic PELLERIN, Nicholas LOISEL, OGER. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #494)≤/ref>

DNA

• AncestryDNA confirms a DNA match between Denyse Bahamand M Sigur. See attached image: "DNA Match - Denyse Baham and Sigur" 5.2 centimorgans shared across 1 DNA segment
• AncestryDNA confirms a DNA match between Brenda Bahamand M Sigur. See attached image: "DNA Match - Brenda Baham and Sigur" 6.1 centimorgans shared across 1 DNA segment

This confirms their common ancestor, Gregoire Pellerin and Cecile Prejean Pellerin.

Sources ==* Source: ≤span id='DJH CD'>DJH CD≤/span>Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101(Rayne, LA: HébertPublications, 2001).

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Family Data Collection - Individual Records full citation needed
Detail: Birth year: 1730; Birth city: Port Royal; Birth state: NS

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