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I am assuming that Laura made the mistake of relying on Bona Arsenault's mistake on Joseph's parents.
I initially had made that same mistake, but Father Clarence d'Entremont (now deceased), the noted Acadian Historian disproved that fact; Stephen White has also proved that listing in error.
I communicated via Lucie Leblanc Consentino to re verify my data, and note the following:
The Joseph Broussard who married Ursule Trahan was Alexandre Broussard's son. I believe he was first so identified in print by John and Vita Reaux in their article, "The Children of Jean François Broussard and Catherine Richard," in the Attakapas Gazette (Vol. VI, pp. 130-144) in 1971. There are various bits of indirect or circumstantial evidence that support this, such as the fact that most of Alexandre Broussard's descendants (the exception being his son Victor) are shown by the 1769 census to have all settled in one area in the Attakapas, while those of his brother Joseph chose another area. It must be noted that at that time all the Broussards in the Attakapas belonged to one or the other of the two families. A stronger proof is offered by a sort of process of elimination. Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil likewise had a son named Joseph. This Joseph was known as Petit Jos, which may by itself betoken that he was the son of a "Grand Jos." He married Anastasie LeBlanc and later Marguerite Savoie. His son and namesake wanted to marry Simon Broussard's daughter Julie. In 1796 he petitioned the ecclesiastical authorities for a dispensation so that he might do so. The relationship between him and his intended was in the third degree. This shows that his father, Petit Jos, was a first cousin of Julie's father, Simon. Simon was Alexandre Broussard's son, so Petit Jos must have been the son of Alexandre's brother Joseph. With this established, we are left with no other possiblity than that the Joseph Broussard who had married Ursule Trahan had to have been Alexandre's son.
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