Hi Rita..this is from Stephen White and you were certainly on the right track - good for you! <<The Semer-Trahan query seems only to ask for information about Marie Trahan, so I shall confine myself to that. At the outset I must point out that there appears to be a typo in your letter; Germain Semer and Marie Trahan were both fifty-one years of age in the 1772 (and not 1762) census. This is important because fifty-one was indeed Marie Trahan's age at that time. She had been born Aug. 17, 1721, at Rivière-aux-Canards, and was baptized Oct. 12, 1721, at Grand-Pré. Her parents were René Trahan and Isabelle ( or Élisabeth) Darois. Sometime in the early 1730's the family moved from Rivière-aux-Canards to the Petitcodiac River. It is believed that they settled near where the Champlain Mall is in Dieppe today. In fact, I think there is a plaque that mentions them somewhere at the edge of the Canadian Tire store across the street from the mall. In any event, it appears that René Trahan died around the same time, probably shortly after the move because it seems unlikely that his widow would have undertaken to go to a new area with her large number of small children without a husband. In 1734 Isabelle remarried. Her second husband was Sylvain Breau. It is under the name of this second husband that the family is listed at Petitcoudiac in the 1752 census. Immediately following Sylvain in the census are Germain "Boye" (Semer dit Boye), Paul Trahan, Jean Trahan, René Trahan, and Joseph Broussard. The three Trahans were all sons of René Trahan and Isabelle Darois, and Joseph Broussard was the husband of Ursule Trahan, the younger of René and Isabelle's two known daughters. Germain Semer was of course the husband of the elder daughter, Marie, whom he appears to have married about 1744. The listing of these families all together makes it clear that this was the case, that Germain had married the same Marie Trahan whose date of birth in 1721 corresponds to the age of fifty-one years given for his wife in 1772. Marie Trahan, wife of Germain Semer, died at the Hospice du Sanitat in Nantes on Oct. 25, 1776, aged fifty-six. She was buried there the next day, according to the hospice's register. It is this record of her death and burial that says that Marie was originally from (that is, was born at) Rivière-aux-Canards.>> Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org Am-Can Gen Soc www.acgs.org CMA 2004 - www.cma2004.com Grand-Pré - http://www.grand-pre.com/ www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html -----Original Message----- From: Rita [mailto:grannyharg@bellsouth.net] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:38 AM To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Marie Trahan, spouse of Germain Lemer/Semer Looking for possible confirmation on the parents of Marie Trahan...[Germain Semer & Marie Trahan are my 6th great grandparents, thru their daughter, Marie Francoise and her 1st husband Joseph Boudrot].