Chrétien Maximillien du Bois

A connection to the du Bois de Fiennes family is refuted below. But an older connection to the du Bois de Fiennes family of Louis du Bois (1535-1602) cannot be excluded. In the 1550-s , commoners could not become clerks.

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Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.

Chretien du Bois was the father of three protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s.

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The DuBois family of New Paltz, NY are descendants of Chretien DuBois(b.ca1590) and his wife Francoise le Poivre. He was a prosperous middle class linen merchant and devout protestant from the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. In 1659 the area was handed over by the Catholic Spanish Netherlands to the Catholic regime of Louis XIV, who imposed high taxes on the middle classes and cruelly persecuted the Protestant (Huguenot) dissidents.

Chretien was the father of seven children: Francoise (b.1622), Anne(b.1624), Louis (b.1626-d.1696), Jacques (b.1628-d.1676), Antoine, Philippe and Toussaint

Resentful of high taxes and fearful of religious persecution, Francoise and Jacques settled in Leiden, Holland. Meanwhile, Louis along with other Huguenot refugees moved to Mannheim, Germany (near Heidelberg) on the Rhine River. This area was called die Pfalz (hence the origin later of the village name of New Paltz).

While in Germany, Louis DuBois married another French Huguenot, Catherine Blanchan in 1655. They emigrated to America in 1660 and traveled ninety miles up the Hudson River to a small community in the Kingston - Hurley area where he obtained a land grant in 1663.

Francoise, and her husband Pierre Billiou also emigrated in 1661, settling in Staten Island, NY. Fourteen years later Jacques and his wife, Pierrone Bentyn arrived in Kingston.

In the 1660's during the "Esopus Wars", there were many hostile incidents between white settlers and the Esopus Indians. During these times in 1663 a raid killed 21 people and Catherine Blanchan DuBois and her three children were carried off and held captive for three months before being rescued by a contingent of Dutch soldiers. During this expedition to rescue his wife tradition has it that Louis DuBois discovered the beautiful Walkill valley which became his new home.

Jacques children spread across the Hudson River and helped to establish Fishkill and Poughkeepsie. The children of Louis married the offspring of other patentees of New Paltz which gradually grew into a small self governing village. One daughter, Sarah, married a Van Meter and moved to New Jersey and then farther south. This branch of DuBoises helped open the way west and contributed to the settling of Kentucky and West Virginia.

The DuBoises, and other Huguenot families of New Paltz, were slave owners. Louis purchased two slaves at public auction in Kingston 1674. The 1755 census shows Solomon DuBois as owning seven slaves.

The DuBois family takes some small comfort that Catherine DuBois Cottin (Louis DuBois widow) made specific mention in her 1712 will that a manumission letter written for her slave girl Rachel in 1709 shall "remain in force and be properly observed".

Perhaps another counter balance to that history is that W.E.B. DuBois, a founding director of the NAACP and editor of The Crisis from 1910-1934, dedicates his autobiography to his great grandfather Dr. James DuBois, a physician in Poughkeepsie, who he claims is descended from Jacques in the fifth generation. DuBois in his nineties, discouraged by the inability of capitalism to bring the highest welfare to its people, believed in communism.

Other famous branches of the family tree: General George Patton, artist Mary Cassatt, actor Marlon Brando, actress Joan Crawford and Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart.

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Chretien du Bois was the father of three protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s. Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.[2] Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier & receveur of the Comté of Coupigny. He died sometime after 1641. Internet pages frequently—and incorrectly—claim that Chretien du Bois' wife was named "Cornelia." This claim was first made by researcher Matthew Hilt Murphy in a 1980 presentation later re-printed in William Heidgerd, "The American Descendants of Chretien Dubois of Wicres, France." Murphy referenced a 1646 item in the church records of Middlebourg, Zeeland referring to "Bois/Cornelia du/vefve de Jen de Chrestien, native de Tournay." Murphy, who apparently was not familiar with the French custom of referring to women in documents by their maiden names throughout their lives, misinterpreted this as a reference to a woman who had married (1) Jean du Bois and (2) Chretien DuBois. In fact, the record refers to a woman whose maiden name was "Cornelia du Bois", who was the widow of "Jean de Chrestien." There is no basis to associate her with Chretien du Bois of Wicres. Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different -- and inaccurate -- versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him.[1] Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld[3], actor Marlon Brando, Jr.,[4] painter Mary Cassatt[5], journalist Maria Owings Shriver (wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III[6] and film director George Lucas. W.E.B. Dubois is also said to be a descendant.

Chre'tien DU BOIS was born about 1590 to 1600, probably at Wicres, France.

His children, apparently all baptized at Lille, parish church of Wicres, were:

Francoise, born 17 June 1622, married Pierre Billiou; Anne, baptized 30 November 1625 at Lille, parish church of Wicres; Louis, baptized on 13 November 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Catherine Blanchan at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate on 10 October 1655; and Jacques, baptized on 27 October 1628 at Reformation Church of Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Pierrone Bentyn at the Walloon Church at Leyden on 25 April 1663, and had eight children. ch at Wicres. Both emigrated to America and settled near Esopus, now Kingston, N.Y." 1725 -------------------- "The father of Louis Du Bois, as before remarked, was Chetien Du Bois. He is designated in the record of his son's mariage, at Manheim, October 10th, 1655, as the deceased Chretien Du Bois, resident of Wicres. The records of this latter place have been examined, and I regret to say that, from age and bad ink and mutilation, the register is almost illegible. The baptismal record shows that Chretien Du Bois had three children baptized at Wicres. The dates made out are the 18th June, 1622, the 13th November, 1625, and the 21st October, 1626. The names are illegible, and seem to have been intentionally obliterated. These researches were made by archivists under the direction of the consul for the United State at Lille, Mons. C. Du Bois Gregoire. In his letter of 15th July, 1875, he writes that he had visited the canton of La Bassee several times, where there are very old records, but could make nothing out, as, where the Christian names occurred, the paper was torn or cut out. He further states that the registers in the village of Wicres were also in many places illegible from age, bad ink, and from being torn and worm-eaten. He says Wicres has a population of three hundred inhabitants, and that many farmers in the vicinity had pointed out to him the farm which the tradition of the country recognizes to have belonged to the Du Bois." 1745

"In a subsequent letter of the 2d August (this month), he writes (I translate his language): 'It is extremely vexatious that the poor old register of Wicres should be in such a sad condition, and that the paper should be torn at the spot of the Christian names of the eldest sons of Chretien.' From the names of the sponsors, he thinks that Jacques and Louis were the 'fils aines,' the two oldest sons of Chretien. He adds: 'My inmost conviction is that they are brothers, and sons of Chretien.' The copy he sends of the extract fromt he registers of the Etat Civil de Wicres is in English, as follows: - The xvii. June, was baptized (the paper he parenthesises is torn at the spot of the Christian name) Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Laurent Du Bois; Godmother, Heleine de Beaussart; (1622).

The xiii, November, was baptized (in parenthesis - the christian name is torn out) Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Jacques Du Bois, and Godmother, Rogeau (1625).

The xxi. October, was baptized To____ (the rest illegible or town out, he does not say which, but put in parenthesis [probably Toussaint] Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Franchois Du Bois (so pronounced), and Godmother, catherine de Marsy (1626). I would here remark that the To resembles Lo as much as To, and possibly many have been Louis, and the archivist thinking he made out Touis, knew of no French name like it but Toussaint. It is certain that Chretien had a son Louis, and that he was born in October, 1626. A previous record sent us by M. Du Bois Gregoire, as furnished him by the archivist, states that Crhetien Du Bois and his wife had a child, Louis Du Bois, born the 28th October, 1626. The baptism just referred to is on the 21st October, 1626, of a son of Chretient, of whose name only the first two letters are extant. The explanation of the inconsistency, as reported, of a child that was born the 28th of the month, baptized the 21st of the month, is very simple. The Roman numberals, and not the Arabic, are ussed: xxviii. represents the birth as given, and xxi. the baptism as above given; but a previous letter gave the baptism of this child (with no name and no letters, T.O. or L.O., for a part of the name) as occurring October xxvii. (27th), 1626. This date, which lacks but the Roman numberl i. added to the vii. to make it correspond with the birth, is no doubt nearer the true date, and identifies the child with Louis. It was at that time an every-day occurrence to baptize a child on the day of its birth, or the day after. And in such old records where the writing is scarcely decipherable, the exact birthday of the month, or the actual baptismal day of the month, represented by Roman numerals, may not be correctly made out in these extracts." 1745

"There are some uncertainties regarding early lineage in this family as indicated in the follow "Report of European Research of Reverend W. Twyman Williams, Minister of College Church, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, dated 13 December 1935:

"Mr. Williams pointed out errors in Mackenzie's Colonial Families of the United States of America, IV, duBois, because of lack of conciliation in generation dates, such as placing Louis DuBois, born 21 October 1626, as the son of Chretien Maxmillan des Finnes. In the Dictionarie de la Noblesse by La Chesnay, Desbois and Baider, a standard work on the French nobility, Chretien Maxmilien du Bois de Finnes was listed in Vol. VIII and recorded as 'Captain in the Regiment of his father, died 1747 ages 21 without issue'. His father was Charles Maxmilien (1701-1750); his grandfather, Maximilien Francois (1669-1714); his great-grandfather, Maximilien, who married 1662 Catherine Cecile de Guernonval; and his great-great-grandfather, Marc, who married 1624 Madeleine d-Ognies. Obviously, if Louis duBois' father, Chretien, were of this line, he could not belong to a later generation than of Marc du Bois de Fiennes, who was son of Guislain, son of Eustace, son of Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy. A record of the children of the last three named seems conclusive that Chretien du Bois was not of this line at all.

"This incorrect pedigree had been secured by Mrs. Anna Louise Thompson of Geneva, Illinois, since deceased, from a French genealogist, who perpetrated upon her an outrageous fraud, namely copying these generations from the Dictionarie and omitting all dates to conceal his ridiculous identification of Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant, with Chretien Maximilien du Bois de Fiennes (1726-1747).

"Mr. S. Gordon Smythe called attention to a statement in E. de Valcourt-Vermont's America Heraldica that Chretien du Bois of Wicres, a village near Lille, belonged to the family of DuBois who were Seigneurs of La Bourse and Beaufermez, two old family estates in the vicinity of Lille.

"Mr. Williams found an Antoine du Bois, of the DuBois de Fiennes family, but in a cadet branch founded the latter part of the fourteenth century, who was Seigneur de la Bourse, as his ancestors had been for five or six generations, and who became Seigneur de Beaufermez by his marriage to Philipotte de Landas, Dame de Beaufermez.

"Wallerand du Bois, son of Antoine and Philipotte du Bois, first of his line to be by inheritance Seigneur both of La Bourse and of Beaufermez, married 1583, Madelein de Croix. Wallerand and Madeleine du Bois thus lived at the right place and the right time to have been the parents of Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant to New York. For since the Parish Register of La Bassee (in which Wicres is situated) shows that Chretien du Bois had at least two sons older than Louis, who was born in 1626, Chretien could not have been born much later than 1600 at latest, not too late for the birth of a son to parents married in 1583.

The following was written by George Washington DuBois, D.D. (1822-1910) who was of Keeseville, Essex County, New York at the time of his death:

"Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10 October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. ... From records in the Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacque s, both Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.

Chretien du Bois was the father of three protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s. Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.[2] Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier & receveur of the Comté of Coupigny. He died sometime after 1641. Internet pages frequently—and incorrectly—claim that Chretien du Bois' wife was named "Cornelia." This claim was first made by researcher Matthew Hilt Murphy in a 1980 presentation later re-printed in William Heidgerd, "The American Descendants of Chretien Dubois of Wicres, France." Murphy referenced a 1646 item in the church records of Middlebourg, Zeeland referring to "Bois/Cornelia du/vefve de Jen de Chrestien, native de Tournay." Murphy, who apparently was not familiar with the French custom of referring to women in documents by their maiden names throughout their lives, misinterpreted this as a reference to a woman who had married (1) Jean du Bois and (2) Chretien DuBois. In fact, the record refers to a woman whose maiden name was "Cornelia du Bois", who was the widow of "Jean de Chrestien." There is no basis to associate her with Chretien du Bois of Wicres. Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different -- and inaccurate -- versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him.[1] Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld[3], actor Marlon Brando, Jr.,[4] painter Mary Cassatt[5], journalist Maria Owings Shriver (wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III[6] and film director George Lucas. W.E.B. Dubois is also said to be a descendant.

Chre'tien DU BOIS was born about 1590 to 1600, probably at Wicres, France.

His children, apparently all baptized at Lille, parish church of Wicres, were:

• Francoise, born 17 June 1622, married Pierre Billiou;
• Anne, baptized 30 November 1625 at Lille, parish church of Wicres;
• Louis, baptized on 13 November 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Catherine Blanchan at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate on 10 October 1655; and
• Jacques, baptized on 27 October 1628 at Reformation Church of Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Pierrone Bentyn at the Walloon Church at Leyden on 25 April 1663, and had eight children. ch at Wicres. Both emigrated to America and settled near Esopus, now Kingston, N.Y." 1725

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"The father of Louis Du Bois, as before remarked, was Chetien Du Bois. He is designated in the record of his son's mariage, at Manheim, October 10th, 1655, as the deceased Chretien Du Bois, resident of Wicres. The records of this latter place have been examined, and I regret to say that, from age and bad ink and mutilation, the register is almost illegible. The baptismal record shows that Chretien Du Bois had three children baptized at Wicres. The dates made out are the 18th June, 1622, the 13th November, 1625, and the 21st October, 1626. The names are illegible, and seem to have been intentionally obliterated. These researches were made by archivists under the direction of the consul for the United State at Lille, Mons. C. Du Bois Gregoire. In his letter of 15th July, 1875, he writes that he had visited the canton of La Bassee several times, where there are very old records, but could make nothing out, as, where the Christian names occurred, the paper was torn or cut out. He further states that the registers in the village of Wicres were also in many places illegible from age, bad ink, and from being torn and worm-eaten. He says Wicres has a population of three hundred inhabitants, and that many farmers in the vicinity had pointed out to him the farm which the tradition of the country recognizes to have belonged to the Du Bois." 1745

"In a subsequent letter of the 2d August (this month), he writes (I translate his language): 'It is extremely vexatious that the poor old register of Wicres should be in such a sad condition, and that the paper should be torn at the spot of the Christian names of the eldest sons of Chretien.' From the names of the sponsors, he thinks that Jacques and Louis were the 'fils aines,' the two oldest sons of Chretien. He adds: 'My inmost conviction is that they are brothers, and sons of Chretien.' The copy he sends of the extract fromt he registers of the Etat Civil de Wicres is in English, as follows: - The xvii. June, was baptized (the paper he parenthesises is torn at the spot of the Christian name) Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Laurent Du Bois; Godmother, Heleine de Beaussart; (1622).

The xiii, November, was baptized (in parenthesis - the christian name is torn out) Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Jacques Du Bois, and Godmother, Rogeau (1625).

The xxi. October, was baptized To____ (the rest illegible or town out, he does not say which, but put in parenthesis [probably Toussaint] Du Bois, son of Chretien. Godfather, Franchois Du Bois (so pronounced), and Godmother, catherine de Marsy (1626). I would here remark that the To resembles Lo as much as To, and possibly many have been Louis, and the archivist thinking he made out Touis, knew of no French name like it but Toussaint. It is certain that Chretien had a son Louis, and that he was born in October, 1626. A previous record sent us by M. Du Bois Gregoire, as furnished him by the archivist, states that Crhetien Du Bois and his wife had a child, Louis Du Bois, born the 28th October, 1626. The baptism just referred to is on the 21st October, 1626, of a son of Chretient, of whose name only the first two letters are extant. The explanation of the inconsistency, as reported, of a child that was born the 28th of the month, baptized the 21st of the month, is very simple. The Roman numberals, and not the Arabic, are ussed: xxviii. represents the birth as given, and xxi. the baptism as above given; but a previous letter gave the baptism of this child (with no name and no letters, T.O. or L.O., for a part of the name) as occurring October xxvii. (27th), 1626. This date, which lacks but the Roman numberl i. added to the vii. to make it correspond with the birth, is no doubt nearer the true date, and identifies the child with Louis. It was at that time an every-day occurrence to baptize a child on the day of its birth, or the day after. And in such old records where the writing is scarcely decipherable, the exact birthday of the month, or the actual baptismal day of the month, represented by Roman numerals, may not be correctly made out in these extracts." 1745

"There are some uncertainties regarding early lineage in this family as indicated in the follow "Report of European Research of Reverend W. Twyman Williams, Minister of College Church, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, dated 13 December 1935:

"Mr. Williams pointed out errors in Mackenzie's Colonial Families of the United States of America, IV, duBois, because of lack of conciliation in generation dates, such as placing Louis DuBois, born 21 October 1626, as the son of Chretien Maxmillan des Finnes. In the Dictionarie de la Noblesse by La Chesnay, Desbois and Baider, a standard work on the French nobility, Chretien Maxmilien du Bois de Finnes was listed in Vol. VIII and recorded as 'Captain in the Regiment of his father, died 1747 ages 21 without issue'. His father was Charles Maxmilien (1701-1750); his grandfather, Maximilien Francois (1669-1714); his great-grandfather, Maximilien, who married 1662 Catherine Cecile de Guernonval; and his great-great-grandfather, Marc, who married 1624 Madeleine d-Ognies. Obviously, if Louis duBois' father, Chretien, were of this line, he could not belong to a later generation than of Marc du Bois de Fiennes, who was son of Guislain, son of Eustace, son of Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy. A record of the children of the last three named seems conclusive that Chretien du Bois was not of this line at all.

"This incorrect pedigree had been secured by Mrs. Anna Louise Thompson of Geneva, Illinois, since deceased, from a French genealogist, who perpetrated upon her an outrageous fraud, namely copying these generations from the Dictionarie and omitting all dates to conceal his ridiculous identification of Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant, with Chretien Maximilien du Bois de Fiennes (1726-1747).

"Mr. S. Gordon Smythe called attention to a statement in E. de Valcourt-Vermont's America Heraldica that Chretien du Bois of Wicres, a village near Lille, belonged to the family of DuBois who were Seigneurs of La Bourse and Beaufermez, two old family estates in the vicinity of Lille.

"Mr. Williams found an Antoine du Bois, of the DuBois de Fiennes family, but in a cadet branch founded the latter part of the fourteenth century, who was Seigneur de la Bourse, as his ancestors had been for five or six generations, and who became Seigneur de Beaufermez by his marriage to Philipotte de Landas, Dame de Beaufermez.

"Wallerand du Bois, son of Antoine and Philipotte du Bois, first of his line to be by inheritance Seigneur both of La Bourse and of Beaufermez, married 1583, Madelein de Croix. Wallerand and Madeleine du Bois thus lived at the right place and the right time to have been the parents of Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant to New York. For since the Parish Register of La Bassee (in which Wicres is situated) shows that Chretien du Bois had at least two sons older than Louis, who was born in 1626, Chretien could not have been born much later than 1600 at latest, not too late for the birth of a son to parents married in 1583.

"A later report of the Reverend Mr. W. Twyman Williams dated 24 July 1937 states:

"A communication from Monsieur J. S. Willems-Le Clercq of Brussels, an accredited genealogist of the Institute, gives only negative values of proving that the wanted records were NOT to be found in the church registers of Leyden. The genealogist wrote that he had examined the Cambrai Historical Society's publications, in which are genealogies of families resident at or near Wicres and known to have inter-married with the du Bois of that locality, and also the state archives at Gand, where in the 17th century were kept records of the court within the jurisdiction of which Wicres then belonged.

"In the data thus far received there were several items of positive value, corroborating, so far as they go, Mr. Williams' conclusion that our ancestor, Chretien du Bois of Wicres, was a son of Wallerand du Bois who married 1583 Madeleine de Croix.

"First: the estate of Beaufermez, of which Wallerand du Bois was Seigneur, is proved to have been situated at Wicres. The value of this item is apparent in connection with the hitherto unsupported statement of America Heraldica that Beaufermez was one of the estates possessed by the ancestors of Chretien du Bois.

"Second: the family to which Madeleine de Croix belonged also had estates in the commune of Wicres.

"Third: estates at Wicres owned by several du Bois and by 'the Seigneur of Beaufermez (Bauffremez)' adjoined estates of the family Billau (Bilyou), one of whom is known to have married a daughter of Chretien du Bois. We have a record of this marriage in Leyden, and in New York a record mentioning Louis DuBois as uncle of a daughter of this marriage."

The following was written by George Washington DuBois, D.D. (1822-1910) who was of Keeseville, Essex County, New York at the time of his death:

"Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10 October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. It is believed that he belonged to one of the five quite well known families stemming from Geoffroi de Bois and his wife Sidonie Tesson of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy who were alive in the middle of the 11th century. From records in the Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacque s, both Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.

"Helps to the identification of the American Branch of the 'famille du Bois': In a book in my library entitled Souvenirs d'une ancienne famille Maison de Mailly en Artois, published at Limoges, France 1889, pp. 111-115, it is recorded that the 9th child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel and Jeanne de Beaumont, his wife, was Madeline, who about 1550 was married to Jacques du Bois, Baron de Finnes (one of the 12 Baronnes of the Conte de Guise), Artois, his oldest son was Pierre, Seigneur de Rantigny, advocate at the Council of Artois, married at Cambray, Jacqueline de Mouen. The second child was Jean. The third child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel was Charles, Seigneur du Rien. Note the perpetuation of Christian and surnames - Jacques, Pierre, Pierrone, Jacqueline, Jean, du Rien. Our ancestor Jacques was from Artois province (Lille). Marie du Rien was sponsor at baptism of Marie 1664, the first child of our Jacques as of record in Leyden. As this record contained in the book above referred to connects our branch with Jacques du Bois, Baron de Fienne (presumably), so does it also connect us in ascending line with the Baron de Fienne, the lineal descendant of Geoffroi de Bois, according to the genealogy preserved in the Bibliotheque du Rois Paris"

Heidgerd continues, "In 1675, Jacques and his family joined his elder brother, Louis, who had emigrated 15 years earlier to the Esopus. Seven of their children had been baptised in Leyden. The eighth was born while the family were en route or shortly after their arrival. Jacques died soon after the birth of his last child, Christian, certainly before the marriage of his widow in 1677 to John L. Pietersy. Quick re-marriages were almost a necessity in early colonial times.

"The above account was furnished by Koert DuBois Burnham of Keeseville, New York to the DuBois Family Association in 1967."

The reference next reports the following "from the papers of John Coert Du Bois, M.D. (1831-1913), late of the city of Hudson, Columbia County, New York:

"The following is a compilation from research of Dr. DuBois during the time he was a medical student in Paris from 1858 to 1860, and during a later visit there in 1883. His references were the d'Hozier Manuscripts, 1696-1716, the records of the Reformation Church at Lille, the records of the Reformation Church at Leyden. These were all examined by him personally.

"The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Conentin in the duchy of Normandy. The heraldic records in the Bibliotheque Nationale, rue de Richelieu, Paris, commence the genealogy with Geoffroi du Bois, 'a knight banneret' who was companion of William of Normandy, called the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. To date the line from Geoffroi has not been confirmed to Chretien du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques who emigrated to Ulster County, New York, during the seventeenth century.

"In the Maison Royale de France, the 'famille du Bois' is mentioned as 'Grand Masters of the Forests of France.'

"I have traced while living in Paris during the years 1858 through 1860, and since that time, with the following generations listed:

1. Jean, Seigneur de Fontaines, maitre d'hotel of Charles VIII, died 1507. 2. Jean, king's councillor and controller-general of finances, married 7 October 1493 to the niece of the Chancellor of France. 3. Astremoine, a Huguenot who afterwards renounced his faith, was restored to his nobility, and was declared to be descended from 'la maison du Bois en Artois.' 4. Antoine, Seigneur de Fontaines, king's councillor and ambassador to the Pays-Bas. He was married in 1571. 5. Pierre, Seigneur de Fontaines-Moran, married Francoise Olivier de Leuville. He served in the army during 1597.

Chretien, a younger son, became a Huguenot, and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. His elder brother, Louis, who remained a Catholic, was designated as Seigneur de Fontaines, lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King. Louis was in 1653 made Marquis de Giuvi."

After reading the foregoing pages, it is clearly understood that Heidgerd states "it is necessary that further European research be commissioned. It is hoped that a later installment of this DuBois Family History will provide a completely authenticated lineage for Chretien du Bois of Wicres"

Chre'tien DU BOIS was born about 1590 to 1600, probably at Wicres, France.

He became a Huguenot and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. He settled on lands at Wicres about 10 miles southwest of Lille where his farm is still pointed out. He is described as 'a gentleman of the family of du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse.' (d'Hozier MSS)

His children, apparently all baptized at Lille, parish church of Wicres, were:

• Francoise, born 17 June 1622, married Pierre Billiou;
• Anne, baptized 30 November 1625 at Lille, parish church of Wicres;
• Louis, baptized on 13 November 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Catherine Blanchan at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate on 10 October 1655; and
• Jacques, baptized on 27 October 1628 at Reformation Church of Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Pierrone Bentyn at the Walloon Church at Leyden on 25 April 1663, and had eight children.

"The Rev. W. Twyman Williams, Minister of the College Church, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, suggested as a result of his research that Chretien possibly had at least two additional sons, possibly Antoine and Isaac, who were older than the children of whom we have definite record."

Chretien had died by 10 October 1655 when his son Louis was married at Mannheim. "1722

"The DuBois family of New Paltz, NY are descendants of Chretien DuBois (b.1597) and his wife Cornelia (name uncertain). He was a prosperous middle class linen merchant and devout protestant from the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. In 1659 the area was handed over by the Catholic Spanish Netherlands to the Catholic regime of Louis XIV, who imposed high taxes on the middle classes and cruelly persecuted the Protestant (Huguenot) dissidents.

Chretien was the father of five children: Francoise (b.1622), Anne (b.1624), Louis (b.1626-d.1696), Jacques (b.1628-d.1676) and another son, name unknown."1726

"Chretien du Bois, an inhabitant of Wicres, a hamlet in the district of La Barree, near Lille, in Flanders." 1732

"As to being found in the Catholic Church registers, I quote from Gwenn Epperson's book 'New Netherland Roots', p. 95 in a chapter on European Parish Registers in France: 'Protestant records also begin in the sixteenth century, but are very rare, since the records were illigal until 1789. Therefore, many Protestants are recorded in Catholic registers, as marriage by a Catholic priest was required to inerit property . .. . Also, children were occasionally baptized in the Catholic Church to alley suspicion the parents were 'heretics.' So, if Chretien's children were baptized in the Roman Catholic church, i don't think we can say that that means that he was necessarily a Catholic at that point." 1756

"Chretien Du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques, was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of Du Bois Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wicres, in La Bassee, near Lille, in French Flandrs, now Artois. . . it was undoubtedly owing to the circumstance of Chretien's being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt was made to obliterate the public records of the family, and to destroy all evidences of his connection with the nobility of France." 1733

"Chretian Du Bois of Wicres, in the Department of Artois, in Flanders, is believed to have been the father of two sons and two daughters. The sons were (2) Jacques Du Bois, b. in 1625, and (3) Louis Du Bois, b. in 1626. There is some confusion relating to the baptisms of these children, owing to mutilation of the registers of the church at Wicres. Both emigrated to America and settled near Esopus, now Kingston, N.Y." 1725 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/PS05/PS05_354.HTM

Chrétien DuBois

Chrétien du Bois (1597-1655) was a French official in the Comté of Coupigny.

He was the father of three Protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s.[2]

Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.[3]

Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier & receveur of the Comté of Coupigny. He died sometime after 1641.

Internet pages frequently—and incorrectly—claim that Chretien du Bois' wife was named "Cornelia." This claim was first made by researcher Matthew Hilt Murphy in a 1980 presentation later re-printed in William Heidgerd, "The American Descendants of Chretien Dubois of Wicres, France." Murphy referenced a 1646 item in the church records of Middlebourg, Zeeland referring to "Bois/Cornelia du/vefve de Jen de Chrestien, native de Tournay." Murphy, who apparently was not familiar with the French custom of referring to women in documents by their maiden names throughout their lives, misinterpreted this as a reference to a woman who had married (1) Jean du Bois and (2) Chretien DuBois. In fact, the record refers to a woman whose maiden name was "Cornelia du Bois", who was the widow of "Jean de Chrestien." There is no basis to associate her with Chretien du Bois of Wicres.

Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different—and inaccurate—versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him.[1]

Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld,[4] actor Marlon Brando, Jr.,[5] painter Mary Cassatt,[6] journalist Maria Shriver (wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III[7] and film director George Lucas. W. E. B. Du Bois is also said to be a descendant.[8]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chretien_DuBois

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• Christian DuBois
• M, #69401, b. circa 1597, d. 10 October 1655
• Father Jacques Louis Wallerund, Marquis du Bois b. c 1560, d. 1620
• Mother Madaline Renee de Croix b. c 1565, d. 1625
• Christian DuBois was born circa 1597 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. He married Jeanne Masic Brunel, daughter of Jean Brunel and Jean Jariot, circa 1620 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. Christian DuBois died on 10 October 1655 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France.
• Family Jeanne Masic Brunel b. 26 Mar 1599
• Child
  • Louis DuBois+ b. 27 Oct 1627, d. 23 Jun 1696
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2309.htm#... _______________
• Chretien DuBois
• Birth: 1597 Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Death: Oct. 10, 1655 Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Chretien (Christian) Du Bois was born in 1597 in Wicres, Artois, Pas de Calais, France and died before Oct 10, 1655 there about 58 years of age.
• His first wife was Cornelia --, whom he married ca. 1621. She was born ca. 1600 in Tournay, Hainaut, Belgium. His second wife was Jeanne Masic Brunel.
• William Heidgerd, in The American Descendants of Chretien DuBois of Wicres, France (New Paltz, NY 1968) preface, wrote:
• "Following written by George Washington DuBois, D. D. (1822-1910). ‘Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France was born in 1597 and died prior to Oct 10, 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. It is believed that he belonged to one of the five quite well known families stemming from Geoffroi de Bois and his wife Sidonie Tesson of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy who were alive in the middle of the 11th century.
• ‘From records in the Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacques, both Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.'"
• John Coert DuBois, M. D. (1831-1913), of Hudson, Columbia County, New York, researched records in Europe during the time he was a medical student in Paris from 1858 to 1860, and during a later visit there in 1883. He examined and cited the d'Hozier Manuscripts, 1696-1716, the records of the Reformation Church at Lille, and the records of the Reformation Church at Leyden. The following are his findings:
• "In the Maison Royale de France, the ‘famille du Bois' is mentioned as ‘Grand Masters of the Forests of France'
• "Generations listed:
• "1. Jean, Seigneur de Fountaines, maetre d'hotel of Charles VIII, d. 1507
• "2. Jean, kings councillor and controller-general of finances, married 10-7-1493, the niece of the Chancellor of France.
• "3. Astremoine, a Huguenot who afterwards renounced his faith, was restored to his nobility, and was declared to be descended from ‘la maison du Bois en Artois.'
• "4. Antoine, Seigneur de Fountaines, king's councillor and ambassador to the Pays-Bas. He was married during 1571.
• "5. Pierre, Seigneur de Fountaines-Moran, married Francoise Olivier de Leuville. He served in the army during 1597.
• "6. Chretien, a younger son, became a Huguenot, and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. His elder brother, Louis, who remained a Catholic, is designated as Seigneur de Fountaines, lietuenant-general of the armies of the king. He was in 1653 made Marquis de Giuvi.
• "Chretien du Bois was dead on October 10, 1655, when his son Louis was married at Mannheim. Chretien also had a daughter Ann (Wicres baptismal record). Chretien settled on lands at Wicres about 10 miles southwest of Lille where his farm is still pointed out. He was probably born about 1590. He is described as ‘a gentleman of the family of du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse' in the d'Hozier manuscript."
• Chretien du Bois and Cornelia - had the following children:
  • i. Francoise, b. Jun 17, 1622, bap. Jun 18, 1622, m. Pierre Billiou on May 2, 1649, d. bef. Jan 17, 1695
  • ii. Anne, b. ca. 1625, d. 1643
  • iii. Louis, b. ca. 1626, d. 1696
  • iv. Jacques, b. ca. 1628
• Family links:
• Children:
  • Francoise DuBois Billiou (1622 - 1695)*
  • Louis DuBois (1626 - 1696)*
  • Jacques DuBois (1628 - 1677)*
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 33562657
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33562657 ______________
• A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military ... edited by Samuel Gordon Smyth
• https://books.google.com/books?id=JXdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=...
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdukes02smyt
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/23/mode/1up
• The line of descent from Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy was:
• 1st generation: Eustache, Seigneur des Querder and de Fiennes, m. 1st Gille de Renel ; m. 2d Jeanne St. Ol.
• 2d generation : Guislain des Fiennes, Count de Clarmont, who m. Jeanne de Longueville.
• 3d generation : Marc de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Madelaine d'Ognies.
• 4th generation: Maximillian de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Catharine Cecil Germand.
• 5th generation: Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Louise Charlotte d' E'tamps.
• 6th generation: Chas. Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Henrietta de Reignier de Boisleau.
• 7th generation : Chrétien Maximillian des Fiennes, m. ____ ____ (not on record, but a Huguenot, as supposed by M. Le Turcq — record erased).
• 8th generation: Louis du Bois de Fiennes, b. Oct., 1626, who evidently took refuge from religious persecution in Mannheim, Germany, where he m. Catharine Blanchan in 1655. Their two eldest children were born in Mannheim, and in 1660 the family came to America.
• The du Bois des Fiennes appear to have been a military family and to have furnished to France some able soldiers. The first Maximillian beside being a Count was "Marischall des camps et des armées du roi." His son Maximillian was lieutenant-general "du armées du roi." Chrétian Maximillian, Marquis des Fiennes, was captain of cavalry in his father's regiment.
• The erasure of the record of Chrétien's marriage and family, the Chrétien known to have been the father of Louis du Bois, makes a break in Louis' line of descent and it was done, obviously, to destroy official record of his ancestry because of his being a "heretic"; to prevent him or any of his descendants from ever afterward establishing a claim to the title and estates. But in this connection, continues Mrs. Thompson, "certainly there were not two branches after the resumption of the title of Marquis des Fiennes. It does not seem that Louis could belong to the line des Fiennes, as the writer of 'The Du Bois Family' says he does,
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/24/mode/1up
• and be other than the son of Chrétien Maximillian, Marquis de Fiennes."
• Louis du Bois emigrated from Manheim to America with his family circa 1660 and eventually settled at New Village (now Hurley], near Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., where he rapidly rose to prominence in the civil and religious affairs of the settlement. He was one of the twelve original patentees of New Paltz, a village next to Hurley ; he later became one of the magistrates of the jurisdiction comprising the villages of New Paltz and Hurley. Before this period, however, the settlement had been attacked by Indians who burned Hurley ; they killed and injured many of the inhabitants and carried into captivity all the family of Louis du Bois, the wife and three children of Jan Joosten Van Metern and others, all of whom were carried off to the fastnesses of the Catskill Mountains. This event, which occurred 7th June, 1663, was known in history as the Second Esopus War. Captain Martin Krieger, an old Dutch soldier and a familiar figure in the earlier Dutch settlements on the Delaware, organized, and, with Louis du Bois, headed an expedition to rescue the captives and chastise the Indians. After three months of ineffectual warfare they finally rounded up the savages on September 3, 1663, defeated the Indians and restored the captive women and children to their homes. In connection with these tragic experiences. Professor Obenchain, of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky., sends me the following relation : .... etc. __________
• Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, Some ... By Daniel Trabue
• https://books.google.com/books?id=a-xDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA561&lpg=PA561&d...
• Pg.557
• "Biographical History of the First Congressional District of New Jersey" Bol. 1. p. 32.
• "Louis Du Bois married, Katryn, written Catryn and Catherine Blanshan. Katryn was daughter of Matthys and Madeline Jorisen, of Artois, France. Louis and Katryn were married at Mannheim, Germany Oct. 10, 1655. They and their children came to America in 1660, in the "Gilded Otter," and settled at Esopus, Ulster Co., New York. Louis and Catherine had ten children. Louis Du Bois Died in 1696.
  • "DU BOIS," FRENCH HUGUENOTS.
• Chrétien or Christian Du Bois, of Artois, France, had
• Louis Du Bois, "The Walloon," born 28th. of October 1626. Married Sun, Oct. 10th. 1655 Catherin Blancon, daughter of Matthe Blanshan.
• Chrétien Du Bois is deceased at the time of his son Louis' marriage at Manheim. He has after his name "resident of Wicres," a place of 300 inhabitants in 1875.
• "Louis du Bois and his 2 sons Isaac and Abraham were Patentees for the town of New Paltz in New York opposite Poughkeepsie, in 1677."
• .... etc.
• Pg.559
• Louis Du Bois, or in French Louys du bois, was born October 28, 1626. Married Catherine Blancon, who was born and married at Manheim, Germany, They were married Sunday Oct. 10th, 1655. It was a Huguenot custom to be married on Sunday, after the communion service.
• Catherine Blancon lived about ten years longer than her husband Louis Du Bois.
• .... etc.
• 1st Gen. Louis Du Bois died aged about 66 yrs. and no doubt was buried in the ground of the Dutch church at Kingston, N. Y. His will was proved 23rd of June 1696.
• .... etc.
• After the fifteen years that he had spent in New Palz he returned to Kingston, N. Y. The will of Louis Du Bois was proved 23rd June 1696 and was divided into eight equal parts. It mentions son 1. Abraham Du Bois, 2. Jacob Du Bois, 3. David Du Bois, 4. Solomon Du Bois, 5. Louis Du Bois, 6. Matthew Du Bois, 7 children of Isaac, deceased, 8. children of Sarah, deceased.
• Louis Du Bois had 1. Abraham Du Bois, b. 1661. b. Artois, France, 2. Isaac Du Bois b. 1658. Died 1690. b. Manheim, Germany 3. Jacob Du Bois, b. Ulster Co. N. Y. 1661. 4 Sarah Du Bois, 5. David Du Bois, (married 1689) 6. Solomon Du Bois, b. 1669. D. 1759. 7. Rabecca Du Bois, b. 1671. 8, Rachel Du Bois, b.1675. 9. Louis Du Bois, b. 1677. 10. Matthew Du Bois, b. 1679.
• .... etc. ____________________
• American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, AD 1776, VOL. 1 by Thomas P. Hughes
• https://archive.org/details/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescent...
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.24
• DUBOIS, HIRAM and LUTHER, Albany; sons of Henry J., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Cornelia Rose) ; son of Henry P., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Rebecca Dego); son of Simon (m. Cathamitge Lefever); son of Daniel (m. Mary Lefever), his first will is written in French; son ot Isaac of New Paltz, d. 1690 (m. Mary Hasbrouck); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France), was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [199]
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.25
• DU BOIS, JAMES and JONATHAN, Albany; sons of James of Albany, b. 1810 (?), d. 1884 (m. Margaret Le Fevre); son of Jonas of New Paltz (m. Rachel Le Fevre); son of Louis (m. Catherine Broadhead); son of Jonathan (m. Elizabeth Le Fevre); son of Louis of New Paltz (m. Rachel Hasbrook); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France); was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [200]
• DU BOIS, PIERRE EUGENE, Albany; son of Egbert of Bluffton, South Carolina, b. 1825 (m. 1862 Kate Hope); son of Peter K. of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, N. Y., b. 1796, d. 1872 (m. 1817 Sarah Lattin), justice of the peace, supervisor, memb. assembly, 1842, delegate const, convention, 1846; son of Koert of Clinton, Dutchess county, b. 1763, d. 1831 (m. 1786 Elizabeth Burroughs); capt. of militia, magistrate, memb. assembly, 1810-11 ; son of Peter of Fishkill, b. 1730, d. 1769 (m. Mary Van Voorhees); son of Jonathan of Fishkill (m. Adrietta Osterhout); son of Peter of Fishkill, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1674, d. at Fishkill, 1737 (m. 1697 Jannetje Burhans), deacon and elder of the Dutch ch.; son of JACQUES DU BOIS, a French Huguenot of Artois, France, who came from Holland to America, 1675 ; his brother Louis having emigrated some fifteen years previous. He married Pieronne Beutign at Leyden, 1663 ; on arrival in America they settled at Wiltwyck (Kingston), in the State of New York. [201]
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.34
• DU BOIS, JOHN COERTLAND, M. D. of Hudson, b. 1831 (m. 1869 Eva P. Kimball); son of Stephen A. of Hudson, b. 1804, d. 1869 (m. 1830 Rachel A. Schryver), director and president of National Hudson River Bank fifteen years; son of Coert, b. 1774, d- 1854 (m. 1801 Mary Thorn, b. 1778, d. 1846), member of New York assembly, 1820-21; son of Christian, b. 1746, d. 1807 (m. 1768 Helena Van Voorhis, b. 1744. d. 1826 ); son of Christian, b. 1702, d. 1787 (m. Neeltje Van Vliet), resided in the old homestead built by his father at Swartwoutville, Fishkill, N. Y.; son of Pierre of Fishkill, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1674, d. at Fishkill, 1737 (m. 1697 Jannetje Burhans of Brabant), deacon and elder of the Dutch church; son of JACQUES DU BOIS. See 348. [346]
• DU BOIS, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS of Greenport; son of Henry A. of
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.35
• JACQUES DU BOIS (ancestor of 346, 347) (m. 1663 at Leyden, Pierronne Beutijn), a son of Chretien Du Bois, was born at Wicres, near Lille, France, 1625, and was a brother of Louis Du Bois, "the Walloon," who emigrated to America and founded New Paltz. Jacques followed his brother to America, fifteen years later, in 1675, and settled at Wiltwyck (Kingston) in the State of New York, where he died, 1676. See Bicentenary Reunion of Descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois, Philadelphia, 1876. [348] ________________
• Bi-centenary reunion of the descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois (emigrants to America, 1660 and 1675), at New Paltz, New York, 1875 .. (1876)
• http://www.archive.org/details/bicentenaryreuni00dubo
• http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/17/mode/1up
• Louis was married at Manheim, in October, 1655, and Jacques at Leyden, in April, 1663. The marriage record of Jacques, at Leyden, says that he was from the vicinity of LaBassee, which was in the province of Artois.
• Jacques, however, did not arrive at Esopus till some fifteen years after Louis was settled there. The letters of church-membership, or letters of dismissal from the church of the Walloons, at Leyden, which he took with him on leaving that city, are dated 15th April, 1675, as is evidenced by the church records still extant. He must have died at Esopus, the same or the succeeding year, as in the old records of Ulster county there is still preserved a document by which it appears that his widow, Pieronne Bentyn, was married again to a John Pietersy, who, as such husband, and for a small consideration to himself personally, in December, 1677, contracts with Matthew Blanshan (who was the father-in-law of Louis DuBois) to pledge to him the lands belonging to Jacques Du Bois, in Ryssel, Flanders, as also the rents which the said lands had earned, for the fulfilment of the conditions of a contract which said Jacques DuBois, in his life-time, had made with said Blanshan. The nature or object of the contract does not in this document appear, but as Pieronne Bentyn is described in her marriage record with Jacques DuBois, at Leyden, as of Lisle (which is the same as Ryssel in Flanders), it may be that the lands referred to were held partly or altogether in right of the wife. Else there would seem to be no good reason why Pietersy should be called upon to confirm DuBois's contract with Blanshan.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/29/mode/1up
• The father of Louis Du Bois, as before remarked, was Chretien Du Bois. He is designated in the record of his son's marriage, at Manheim, October 10th, 1655, as the deceased Chretien Du Bois, resident of Wicres.
• The records of this latter place have been examined, and I regret to say that, from age and bad ink and mutilation, the register is almost illegible.
• The baptismal record shows that Chretien Du Bois had three children baptized at Wicres. The dates made out are the 18th June, 1622, the 13th November, 1625, and the 21st October, 1626. The names are illegible, and seem to have been intentionally obliterated. These researches were made by archivists under the direction of the consul for the United States at Lille, Mons. C. DuBois Gregoire. In his letter of 15th July, 1875, he writes that he had visited the canton of La Bassee several times, where there are very old records, but could make nothing out, as, where the Christian names occurred, the paper was torn or cut out. He further states that the registers in the village of Wicres were also in many places illegible from age, bad ink, and from being torn and worm-eaten. He says Wicres has a population of three hundred inhabitants, and that many farmers in the vicinity had pointed out to him the farm which the tradition of the country recognizes to have belonged to the Du Bois. ______________
• The New York genealogical and biographical record Vol. XXVII. by Greene, Richard Henry
• https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealogi1896gree
• https://archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi1896gree#page/190/mode/1up
• The Du Bois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin, in the Duchy of Normandy. The heraldic records at Paris commence the genealogy with Geoffroi du Bois, a knight banneret and a companion of Duke William in the conquest of England in 1066.
• In "America Heraldica " the arms, etc., are given as follows, viz.: Arms — Argent, a lion, rampant, sable, armed and langued, gules. Crest — between two tree stumps vert, the lion of the shield. Motto — Tiens ta foy.
• In the "Du Bois Reunion," at page 38, is emblazoned another coat of arms, entitled "Original Du Bois Arms," and described as follows : "Arms d'or, a l'aigle eployé de sable onglé, becqué de gueles ;" but I have been able to find no authority for the use of these arms in connection with the family of Chrétien Du Bois.
• Chrétien Du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques, was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of Du Bois Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wicres, in La Bassée, near Lille, in French Flanders, now Artois.
• Louis was born October 27, 1627, and the mutilated baptismal record at Wicres shows that two other sons of Chrétien Du Bois were baptized severally on June 18, 1622, and November 13, 1625. One of these was Jacques, and probably the other was named Albert.
• The baptisms of these three sons are all of the records extant of Wicres referring to the children of Chrétien, but it is certain that he had also two daughters, Francoise and Anne, for the records of the church of the Walloons, at Leyden, Holland, show that his daughter Francoise was married on April 20, 1649, to Pierre Biljouw. By this marriage she had two daughters, Marie, baptized at Leyden March 3, 1650, and Martha, also baptized at Leyden February 8, 1652. Marie came to Kingston, where she married Arendt Jansen, with the approval of her uncle Louis, whose consent is signified in the marriage contract dated June 3, 1670.
• It was undoubtedly owing to the circumstance of Chrétien's being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt was made to obliterate the public records of the family, and to destroy all evidences of his connection with the nobility of France.
• The religious persecutions in Artois induced Louis and Jacques to abandon their country, and Louis went to Mannheim in the Palatinate, Jacques going to Leyden, where he became a manufacturer of silks and cloth.
• .... etc. __________
• The Genealogy of the Sahlers, of the United States of America: And of Their ... By Louis Hasbrouck Sahler
• https://books.google.com/books?id=aClPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Th...
• Pg.3 ____________________
• Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept By W. E. B. Du Bois
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri0flYKEegoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&d...
• Pg.105 __________________
• Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) By W. E. B. Du Bois
• https://books.google.com/books?id=4XbiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=...
• Pg.53 __________________

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According to the above site, "Chretien Maximillian DuBois Marquis De Fiennes was born in 1597 in Wicres La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. He died on 10 Oct 1655 in Wicres La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. Chretien married Jeanne Masic Brunel in 1620 in Wicres, French Flanders."

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Also see:

http://www.vnla.com/vnl/gen/mcq/DuBois.htm

According to that site: "Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10 October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved."

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Cretien gave up status of landed gentry and probably his life for the Hugenot religion, His children fled to Mannheim, then Leyden and lastly to America to escape persecution fo the Hugenots. They spoke Dutch when they arrived in southern NJ in the late 17th century.

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the following information is from http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wsenne&i...

AWSII

- date of marriage and surname of wife unknown - birth may have been ca. 1590 - date of death was

probably sometime before 10-10-1655 which was the date of son Louis' marriage in Mannheim, Germany

- Apparently of a family of nobility but after becoming a Huguenot this nobility was deprived him and

official records was systemmatically destroyed as were the records of other Huguenot families in

France at the time. - Settled on lands at Wicres, France about 10 miles southeast of Lille. - Described

as a "gentleman of the family of DuBois". - There may have been two (2) older sons, Antoine and Isaac

who were older than the children listed above

LINE OF LOUIS DU BOIS

Much has been written about Louis du Bois, and there is yet much to be revealed by investigation concerning the ancestry of this influential forbear of the American Van Metres. From various sources of authority the following lineage has been compiled.

Monsieur Le Turque, of the Genealogical Institute of Paris, has developed a line of ancestors running back to the days of the Scyrri which includes descent from Charlemagne, Emperor of the West; Alfred the Great; Hugh Capet, King of France, and Henry I., Emperor of Germany. The most important of these lines have been compared and verified; and where the line is broken the cause is attributed to the summary action of Louis XIV.'s minister, Cardinal Mazarin, and Marshall Turenne, who decreed that the names of many of the noble families of France, who espoused and held to the faith of Protestantism, should be erased from the rolls of the nobility and their property confiscated. By the Edict of Nantes, promulgated in 1598, civil and religious liberty was restored and confirmed to the Huguenots, but when Louis XIV. revoked the Edict, thousands of French families fled to England, Germany, Switzerland and Holland. It was during the latter part of this reign of terror that the father of Louis du Bois found shelter in the Palatinate of the Rhine.

According to this tracing of the family the line begins with Guelph, Prince of the Scyrri, A.D. 476. Azo, Marquis of Liguria, A.D. 1030, a descendant of the Prince in the fourteenth generation, married Marie, a descendant of the powerful house of Este, in Italy. The Estes were of the Actii of Rome who settled in Lombardy about 500 B.C. Guelph, grandson of Azo and Marie, Count of Bavaria and Saxe, A.D. 1107, married Judith, a descendant of Charlemagne. A great grandson of Guelph and Judith, Henry V., Duke of Bavaria and Saxe, A.D. 1195, married Mathilde, a descendant of William the Conqueror, through Henry I. and Henry II. of England. Henry VI., son of the Duke of Bavaria and Saxe and Mathilde, married, A.D. 1200, Agnes, Countess of Palatine, a descendant of Alfred the Great. A descendant of Henry VI. and Agnes, Madame Claude de Lannoy, married Charles du Bois, Seigneur des Querder, who was a descendant of MacQuaire du Bois, Count de Roussey, A.D. 1110.

Seperate source:

Some have said that Chretien's ancestry extends back to Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor, but the

evidence is circumstancial, based on land records, and not given a great deal of credance by the DuBois

Family Association. Suffice it to say that he was the progenator of an extensive line of people

descended from his two sons, Louis and Jacques. In those lines are such people as General George S.

Patton, Franklin Roosevelt, and W.E.B. DuBois.

DuBois Family

There are some uncertainties regarding early lineage in this family as indicated in the follow "Report of

European Research of Reverend W. Twyman Williams, Minister of College Church, Hampden-Sydney,

Virginia, dated 13 December 1935:

Mr. Williams pointed out errors in Mackenzie's Colonial Families of the United States of America, IV,

duBois, because of lack of conciliation in generation dates, such as placing Louis DuBois, born 21

October 1626, as the son of Chretien Maxmillan des Finnes. In the Dictionarie de la Noblesse by La

Chesnay, Desbois and Baider, a standard work on the French nobility, Chretien Maxmilien du Bois de

Finnes was listed in Vol. VIII and recorded as 'Captain in the Regiment of his father, died 1747 ages 21

without issue'. His father was Charles Maxmilien (1701-1750); his grandfather, Maximilien Francois

(1669-1714); his great-grandfather, Maximilien, who married 1662 Catherine Cecile de Guernonval; and

his great-great-grandfather, Marc, who married 1624 Madeleine d-Ognies. Obviously, if Louis duBois'

father, Chretien, were of this line, he could not belong to a later generation than of Marc du Bois de

Fiennes, who was son of Guislain, son of Eustace, son of Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy. A record of the children of the last three named seems conclusive that Chretien du Bois was not of this line at all.

This incorrect pedigree had been secured by Mrs. Anna Louise Thompson of Geneva, Illinois, since

deceased, from a French genealogist, who perpetrated upon her an outrageous fraud, namely copying

these generations from the Dictionarie and omitting all dates to conceal his ridiculous identification of

Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant, with Chretien Maximilien du Bois de Fiennes (1726-1747).

Mr. S. Gordon Smythe called attention to a statement in E. de Valcourt-Vermont's America Heraldica

that Chretien du Bois of Wicres, a village near Lille, belonged to the family of DuBois who were

Seigneurs of La Bourse and Beaufermez, two old family estates in the vicinity of Lille.

Mr. Williams found an Antoine du Bois, of the DuBois de Fiennes family, but in a cadet branch founded

the latter part of the fourteenth century, who was Seigneur de la Bourse, as his ancestors had been for

five or six generations, and who became Seigneur de Beaufermez by his marriage to Philipotte de Landas, Dame de Beaufermez.

Wallerand du Bois, son of Antoine and Philipotte du Bois, first of his line to be by inheritance Seigneur

both of La Bourse and of Beaufermez, married 1583, Madelein de Croix. Wallerand and Madeleine du

Bois thus lived at the right place and the right time to have been the parents of Chretien du Bois, father

of Louis, the emigrant to New York. For since the Parish Register of La Bassee (in which Wicres is

situated) shows that Chretien du Bois had at least two sons older than Louis, who was born in 1626,

Chretien could not have been born much later than 1600 at latest, not too late for the birth of a son to

parents married in 1583.

A later report of the Reverend Mr. W. Twyman Williams dated 24 July 1937 states:

"A communication from Monsieur J. S. Willems-Le Clercq of Brussels, an accredited genealogist of the

Institute, gives only negative values of proving that the wanted records were NOT to be found in the

church registers of Leyden. The genealogist wrote that he had examined the Cambrai Historical

Society's publications, in which are genealogies of families resident at or near Wicres and known to have inter-married with the du Bois of that locality, and also the state archives at Gand, where in the 17th century were kept records of the court within the jurisdiction of which Wicres then belonged.

"In the data thus far received there were several items of positive value, corroborating, so far as they

go, Mr. Williams' conclusion that our ancestor, Chretien du Bois of Wicres, was a son of Wallerand du

Bois who married 1583 Madeleine de Croix.

"First: the estate of Beaufermez, of which Wallerand du Bois was Seigneur, is proved to have been

situated at Wicres. The value of this item is apparent in connection with the hitherto unsupported

statement of America Heraldica that Beaufermez was one of the estates possessed by the ancestors of

Chretien du Bois.

"Second: the family to which Madeleine de Croix belonged also had estates in the commune of Wicres.

"Third: estates at Wicres owned by several du Bois and by 'the Seigneur of Beaufermez (Bauffremez)'

adjoined estates of the family Billau (Bilyou), one of whom is known to have married a daughter of

Chretien du Bois. We have a record of this marriage in Leyden, and in New York a record mentioning

Louis DuBois as uncle of a daughter of this marriage."

The following was written by George Washington DuBois, D.D. (1822-1910) who was of Keeseville, Essex County,, New York at the time of his death:

"Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10

October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility,

neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. It is believed that he belonged to one of the

five quite well known families stemming from Geoffroi de Bois and his wife Sidonie Tesson of the

Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy who were alive in the middle of the 11th century. From records in the

Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacque s, both

Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.

"Helps to the identification of the American Branch of the 'famille du Bois': In a book in my library

entitled Souvenirs d'une ancienne famille Maison de Mailly en Artois, published at Limoges, France

1889, pp. 111-115, it is recorded that the 9th child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel and Jeanne de

Beaumont, his wife, was Madeline, who about 1550 was married to Jacques du Bois, Baron de Finnes (one of the 12 Baronnes of the Conte de Guise), Artois, his oldest son was Pierre, Seigneur de Rantigny,

advocate at the Council of Artois, married at Cambray, Jacqueline de Mouen. The second child was Jean.

The third child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel was Charles, Seigneur du Rien. Note the perpetuation of

Christian and surnames - Jacques, Pierre, Pierrone, Jacqueline, Jean, du Rien. Our ancestor Jacques was from Artois province (Lille). Marie du Rien was sponsor at baptism of Marie 1664, the first child of our Jacques as of record in Leyden. As this record contained in the book above referred to connects our

branch with Jacques du Bois, Baron de Fienne (presumably), so does it also connect us in ascending line with the Baron de Fienne, the lineal descendant of Geoffroi de Bois, according to the genealogy

preserved in the Bibliotheque du Rois Paris"

Heidgerd continues, "In 1675, Jacques and his family joined his elder brother, Louis, who had emigrated

15 years earlier to the Esopus. Seven of their children had been baptised in Leyden. The eighth was born while the family were en route or shortly after their arrival. Jacques died soon after the birth of his

last child, Christian, certainly before the marriage of his widow in 1677 to John L. Pietersy. Quick

re-marriages were almost a necessity in early colonial times.

"The above account was furnished by Koert DuBois Burnham of Keeseville, New York to the DuBois

Family Association in 1967."

The reference next reports the following "from the papers of John Coert Du Bois, M.D. (1831-1913),

late of the city of Hudson, Columbia County,, New York:

"The following is a compilation from research of Dr. DuBois during the time he was a medical student in

Paris from 1858 to 1860, and during a later visit there in 1883. His references were the d'Hozier

Manuscripts, 1696-1716, the records of the Reformation Church at Lille, the records of the Reformation

Church at Leyden. These were all examined by him personally.

"The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Conentin in the duchy of Normandy. The

heraldic records in the Bibliotheque Nationale, rue de Richelieu, Paris, commence the genealogy with

Geoffroi du Bois, 'a knight banneret' who was companion of William of Normandy, called the Conqueror

after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. To date the line from Geoffroi has not been confirmed to Chretien

du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques who emigrated to Ulster County,, New York, during the

seventeenth century.

"In the Maison Royale de France, the 'famille du Bois' is mentioned as 'Grand Masters of the Forests of

France.'

"I have traced while living in Paris during the years 1858 through 1860, and since that time, with the

following generations listed:

1. Jean, Seigneur de Fontaines, maitre d'hotel of Charles VIII, died 1507.

2. Jean, king's councillor and controller-general of finances, married 7 October 1493 to the niece of

the Chancellor of France.

3. Astremoine, a Huguenot who afterwards renounced his faith, was restored to his nobility, and was

declared to be descended from 'la maison du Bois en Artois.'

4. Antoine, Seigneur de Fontaines, king's councillor and ambassador to the Pays-Bas. He was married

in 1571.

5. Pierre, Seigneur de Fontaines-Moran, married Francoise Olivier de Leuville. He served in the army

during 1597.

Chretien, a younger son, became a Huguenot, and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. His elder brother, Louis, who remained a Catholic, was designated as Seigneur de Fontaines, lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King. Louis was in 1653 made Marquis de Giuvi."

After reading the foregoing pages, it is clearly understood that Heidgerd states "it is necessary that

further European research be commissioned. It is hoped that a later installment of this DuBois Family

History will provide a completely authenticated lineage for Chretien du Bois of Wicres"

Chre'tien DU BOIS was born about 1590 to 1600, probably at Wicres, France.

He became a Huguenot and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. He settled on lands at Wicres

about 10 miles southwest of Lille where his farm is still pointed out. He is described as 'a gentleman of

the family of du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse.' (d'Hozier MSS)

His children, apparently all baptized at Lille, parish church of Wicres, were:

Francoise, born 17 June 1622, married Pierre Billiou;

Anne, baptized 30 November 1625 at Lille, parish church of Wicres;

Louis, baptized on 13 November 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Catherine

Blanchan at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate on 10 October 1655; and

Jacques, baptized on 27 October 1628 at Reformation Church of Lille, parish church of Wicres,

married Pierrone Bentyn at the Walloon Church at Leyden on 25 April 1663, and had eight

children.

"The Rev. W. Twyman Williams, Minister of the College Church, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, suggested as a result of his research that Chretien possibly had at least two additional sons, possibly Antoine and

Isaac, who were older than the children of whom we have definite record."

Chretien had died by 10 October 1655 when his son Louis was married at Mannheim.

Louis DU BOIS was baptized on 21 October 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, France, the son of

Chretien du Bois (and possibly a Cornelia [Unknown]).

Either with his parents or on his own he went to Mannheim, Germany in the Pfalz, German Palatinate.

Abstracts of Mannheim Palatine Records translated by Louis DuBois of Yardley, Pennsylvania in 1928

state: "In the year 1606, the Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate, being an Evangelical Prince and

foreseeing a religious war, built the fortified city of Mannheim at the confluence of the Neckar and

Rhine Rivers. Soon after, in 1618, there broke out the devastating 'Thirty Years War' and then the

youthful fortress of Mannheim was taken and destroyed by the Bavarian General Tilly.

The persecuted French Protestants were brotherly received in the German Evangelical country,

particularly in the Rhineland. The Walloons were likewise welcomed in Mannheim and allowed to

establish their own French Evangelical community with their own clergymen. For a time they were united

with the German Evangelical Reformed church, which union was made with the understanding that

services and Holy Communion should be held in the French language in the Spring and Autumn.

"The civil and church records of Mannheim do not go back beyond the year 1621, the date of the city's

destruction. It is only at a later date that the records of the French Protestants are to be found

inscribed by French clergymen in the German church book of records.

"The name du Bois is found for the first time in 1653.... Louis du Bois, son of the late Chretien DuBois,

resident of Wicres in the vicinity of La Bassee, of the first part, and Catharine Blanchan, daughter of

Mathieu Blanchan, bourgeois of Mannheim, of the second part, were married at the French (Protestant)

Church of Mannheim (in the Pfalz, German Palatinate), the 10th of October 1655. (Note: A photostatic

copy of this record is included in the DuBois Family History)"

Their children were:

1. Abraham, born at Mannheim, Germany on 26 December 1657, married Margriet Deyo on 6 March

1681 at First Dutch Church, Kingston, had eight children, and died on 7 October 1731 at New Paltz;

2. Isaac, born at Mannheim in 1659, married Maria Hasbrouck on 1 June 1683 at First Dutch Church,

Kingston, had three children, and died on 28 June 1690 at New Paltz;

3. Jacob, baptized on 9 October 1661 at Kingston, married Lysbeth Varnoye on 8 March 1689 at

First Dutch Church, Kingston, had one child, married (2) Gerritje Gerritsen (nee van Nieuwkirk) in

1691/2 at First Dutch Church, had eleven children by her, and died in June 1745 at Hurley;

4. Sarah, baptized on 14 September 1664 at Kingston, married Joost Jansen Van Meteren on 12

December 1682 at Kingston, had nine children, and died in 1726 at Salem County,, New Jersey;

5. David, baptized on 13 March 1667 at Kingston, married Cornelia Varnoye on 8 March 1689 at

First Dutch Church, Kingston, and had six children;

6. Solomon, born in 1669 at Hurley, baptized at the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam on 3

February 1669, married Tryntje Foochen (nee Gerritsen) in 1692, had nine children, and died on 2

February 1759 at New Paltz;

7. Rebecca, baptized at Old Dutch Church, Kingston on 18 June 1671 and died young;

8. Rachel, baptized at Old Dutch Church, Kingston on 18 April 1675 and died young;

9. Louis, born at Hurley in 1677, married Rachel Hasbrouck at Old Dutch Church, Kingston, on 19

January 1701, had seven children, and died in 1749;

10.Mattheus, born on 3 January 1679 at Hurley, married Sara Matthysen on 17 January 1697 at Old

Dutch Church, Kingston, had twelve children, and died in 1748 in Dutchess County,, New York; and

11.Magdalena, baptized on 12 May 1680.

"It has been generally accepted that Louis, his wife and children accompanied Matthys Blanchan and

Antoine Crispell (departing 27 April 1660 in the 'Gilded Otter'), but Riker suggests that he probably

came with his brother-in-law Pierre Billiou the following year.

"Blanchan, Crispell and DuBois all received grants of land in Hurley, near Kingston, obtaining ground

briefs on 25 April 1663.

"On the 10th of June 1663, Hurley and part of Kingston was burned by the Indians, and the wife of

Louis DuBois and three children were among those who were carried away captive. Three months

afterward an expedition under Captain Krieger, sent from New York, recovered the captives by

surprising the Indians at their Fort near the Hogaberg in Shawangunk.

"From Ralph LeFebre's History of New Paltz, Fort Orange Press, Albany, New York, 1909: 'The story

(of the rescue of the Indian captives) which is dear to the Huguenot heart of New Paltz, is that when

Captain Krieger and his company, directed by an Indian, attacked the savages at their place of refuge

near the Shawangunk Kill, they were about to burn one or more captives at the stake, and the women

commenced singing the 137th Psalm, which so pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death by torture. In the meantime Captain Krieger's band, with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the captives from a horrible death. Louis DuBois is reported to have killed with his sword an Indian who was in advance of the rest, before the alarm could be raised. Captain Krieger's report says nothing of this. However, as the tradition contains nothing irreconcilable with the Captain's report which deals mainly with the fighting done by his soldiers, it is interesting to keep the tradition alive as it deals more upon the condition of the captives.'

"E. M. Ruttenber, the Orange County, historian, states his objections to the tradition as follows: 'The

story was repudiated as a statement of fact, first, on the authority of Indian customs. We do not recall

a single instance where a woman was burned at the stake by the Indians. They killed female prisoners on the march sometimes when they were too feeble to keep up but very rarely after reaching camp. Mrs.

DuBois and her companions had been prisoners from June 10th to September 5th, or nearly three months before they were rescued from captivity. During all that time they had been guarded carefully at the castle of the Indians, and held ransom or exchange, to which end negotiations had been opened. The

Indians asked especially for the return of some of their chiefs who had been sent to Curacao and sold as

slaves by Governor Stuyvesant.

"'Second: Documentary evidence concerning events of that period is entirely against tradition. The

written record is, that when the Dutch forces surprised the Indians, the latter were busy in

constructing a third angle to their fort for the purpose of strengthening it, instead of being engaged in

preparations for burning prisoners. The prisoners were found alive and well, and no complaint is

recorded of any ill treatment, not even their heads had been shaved and painted as had been customary. Every night, says the record, they were removed from the castle to the woods, lest the Dutch should recover them before negotiations for their release were consumated.'

"Among the Huguenot settlers at Kingston, at this time, was Abraham Hasbrouck. He had served with

Edmund Andros in the English army. He was a native of Calais, had emigrated to Mannheim, and in 1675

to America, settling finally in Esopus.

"The Huguenots, being desirous of forming a settlement of their own, were indebted to some extent to

the acquaintanceship of Abraham Hasbrouck with Edmund Andros who was Colonial Governor at this

time, having been appointed to that office when the colony of New York passed from the Dutch to the

English in 1665.

"These French settlers longed for a settlement of their own where they could speak their own language,

worship in their own church, and be in a community where they could govern themselves according to

their own choice. The traffic with the Indians in furs was becoming less profitable. It was becoming

more and more necessary to follow the occupation of cultivating the soil. The fertile lowlands of the

Wallkill had undoubtedly been in the mind of Louis DuBois as an ideal place to establish the French

community. The mountains and forests lining the valley most certainly must have reminded the Huguenots of their native county in French Flanders, and the Meuse Valley through which they escaped to the Pfalz.

Louis died at Kingston, reported by Heidgerd as 23 June 1693. However, Louis had three wills (all

written in Dutch) recorded in Ulster County, Surrogate's Office, the last of which was dated 22

February 1696, and his wills were proved on 26 March 1696, so his death occurred sometime during that

interval of a month's time.

An early will, or more properly defined, a joint agreement of Louis DuBois and Catherine, his wife, was

dated 13 October 1676 and written in Dutch, translated as follows: "After their deaths, the whole

estate shall go to their children, the monors first to be educated until they can earn a living. If either

should re-marry, he or she shall pay one half to the children, begotten by them, and in case of death, one fourth of the remaining half shall be divided among the children. If the survivor remains unmarried, he or she shall not be compelled to pay out anything more to the children than it may please the survivor,either as a marriage portion, or in some other way. At death of both parties, the children shall inherit the entire estate. In case of re-marriage of either party, without lawful issue, the children shall have one half of the estate."

A will dated 30 March 1686, and recorded 5 May 1686, provides that Louis' "estate, after payment of

debts to be equally divided 'amongst my children but my two eldest sons desiring to have Each of them a part of the land of New Paltz and more than the other children by Reason their names 'uppon the

Patent', but if they will be content 'to deale Equally with my other children whether in land, houses or

any other sort of goods whatever belonging to my Estate As well the land of the Paltz....' that if they

have the land at New Paltz they should pay a share of its worth to the other children as all of the estate

should be divided equally. 'My wife, their mother, shall have the ordering of the Estate as long as she

remains a widow.' 'If she marry the Estate to be divided among the children aforesaid except my two

eldest sons.'

"The second will dated 27 March 1694, proved 26 March 1696, states that if the widow should marry,

then to the eldest son Abraham, 6 Pounds, as his primogeniture right, also 1/8 of the estate; son Jacob

1/8; and 1/8 to each of the following children: David, Solomon, Louis, Matthew; and to the children of

deceased son Isaac 1/8; and to children of Sara wife of Joost Janse (Van Meter) 1/8. Wife Catherine

appointed executrix."

Louis' will dated 22 February 1695/6 and written in the Dutch language provides for the disposition of

his property as follows: "to my son Jacob half of my farm at Hurley adjoining land of Hyman and Jan

Rosa and land of Lammert Huyberse on condition that he pays 1500 shepels wheat; Jacob to use the

other half until my youngest son Matthew Du Bois becomes of age, for which he is to pay 50 shepels

wheat yearly. I have this day conveyed to my youngest son, Matthew Du Bois, house and land in Kingston, a parcel of me adow land, and one half of my land at Hurley, for which he is to pay 1500 schepels ofwheat. Payments for the land which my son David bought from Jan Wood to come out of my estate, as I had promised my son David. My sons Salomon and Louis Du Bois are to have my land in the Paltz, conveyed to me by deed from Coll. Thomas Dongan, dated 2 June 1688, for which they are to pay 800 shepels of wheat. My daughter Sara wife of Joost Janse to have a piece of land in Hurley adjoining the land of Corneles Cool, for which she is to pay 700 shepels of wheat. This includes the woodland adjoining."

The Ulster County, Genealogy Archive included a brief biography which stated: "There is a memorial to

Louis in the Dutch Reformed Churchyard, right across from the Post Office. His actual burial place is

unknown, but it is somewhere on the Churchyards grounds."

Not putting much trust in the Edict of Nantes

Our Huguenot ancestors ran out of France.

Old Chretian's offspring soon scattered afar,

All firmly convinced that that their name was du Bwa.

But some stayed in Leyden and then, oh my gosh,

Translated the name to the Dutch Van der Bosch.

And some went to Scotland, the land of their choice,

Where clansmen corrupted their label to Boice.

But Louis and Jacques came across to New York,

Where Dutch, French and English all mingled their talk.

And ever since then, in this polygot nation,

Folks ask us, "Please, what's the right pronunciation?"

'Tis no longer du Bwa as so many suppose

And it is not Du Boys, and of course not Du Boze.

Du Boy is not right, nor is Du'Bois correct,

For the accent is not where some people suspect.

Please read this out loud so the sound of you voice

By this rhythm records that our name is Du Bois'.

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Source: DuBois Family Assoc

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http://www.dbfa.org/family_history.htm

Chretien DuBois (b.1597) and his wife Cornelia. He was a prosperous middle class linen merchant and devout protestant from the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. In 1659 the area was handed over by the Catholic Spanish Netherlands to the Catholic regime of Louis XIV, who imposed high taxes on the middle classes and cruelly persecuted the Protestant (Huguenot) dissidents.

Chretien was the father of five children: Francoise (b.1622), Anne (b.1624), Louis (b.1626-d.1696), Jacques (b.1628-d.1676) and another son, name unknown.

Resentful of high taxes and fearful of religious persecution, Francoise and Jacques settled in Leyden, Holland. Meanwhile, Louis along with other Huguenot refugees moved to Mannheim, Germany (near Heidelberg) on the Rhine River. This area was called die Pfalz.
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Marquis de Fiennes

Son of Louis-Wallerund-Jacques DuBois and Madeleine-Renee de Croix Husband of Cornelia Brunel Father of Isaac Dubois, 1615 D, Albert Dubois,

Francoise Billious/Barlow

, Anne DuBois and 5 others, Francoise DuBois, Louis du Bois, l, Jacques DuBois, Antoine Dubois and Isaac Du Bois

Cretien Du Bois b. 1597, d. 10 October 1655  Marriage* circa 1621  Cornelia (?) married Cretien Du Bois, son of Marquis Jacques Du Bois and Madeline Renee De Croix, circa 1621 at Wicres, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.1,2   Children   ◦Francoise Du Bois 1 b. 17 July 1622, d. 1695 ◦ Louys Du Bois+ 1,2 b. 13 November 1626, d. between 22 February 1695/96 and 26 March 1696 ◦Jacques Du Bois 1 b. 1628, d. circa 1677

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chretien_DuBois

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"The Memory of the Just is Blessed: The Ancestry and Extended Family of Chretien du Bois" by Munte Horton, JD. Published in he DuBois Family News on June 2011.

Louis, Françoise, and Jacques were brothers and sister. (Thankfully, we now have such proof from Lille and Leiden). Their memory called us back to Wicres in the 1870s and 1880s, where we found the ancient parish register through the agency of M.M.C. Gregoire-Dubois while he was consul at Lille. There, we gazed upon records: faded, worn, worm-eaten, and deliberately mutilated, of “the births, marriages and deaths of [our] ancestors dating back 263 years.” (Heidgerd). Throughout the 20th century, we probed, proposed, published, and discussed, and in so doing, kept the hearthstones warm. A new century promises to rekindle old memories and to renew interest in our beginnings. Things we once saw “through a glass,” we now see clearly. Though the ancient Wicres register has long since perished, a vast new body of evidence has come to light, thanks to the research of descendants of Chrétien’s “other” daughter, Anne, who still live and work near Wicres. The DBFA is now in possession of a large number of manuscripts and related documents, recently retrieved from the Archives Départementales de Lille (“the Archives du Nord”), and the Archives Municipales de Lille by Monsieur eric Bourgoin and Madame elisabeth Peckeu, two excellent French généalogistes employed for that purpose. The documents represent actes passed in the presence of official witnesses and notaries, as required by the feudal system under which our ancestors lived. such actes were generated whenever a transaction touched on the individual’s feudal responsibilities. Many of these documents bear Chrétien’s own signature. other actes bear the signatures of his father Maître Antoine du Bois -- a justice official, who, at the time of his death between 1615 and 1619, was greffier et receveur of the seigneurie de Coupigny -- his mother Anne Cousin, his grandfather Louis du Bois, and three of his six siblings, namely, Jacques, Ferry, and François.

• *Memberships: Groupement Généalogique de la Région du Nord; American Mensa Ltd.; society of Mayflower Descendants; Baronial order of Magna Charta; Plantagenet society; DuBois Family Association.

sources:  Archives du nord:  sale to Anne Cousin, 2e3/7435-99 (1619); agreement of heirs, 2e3/7501-9 (1602); assignment of censes, 2e3/7430-61 (1641); contract  of marriage of François du Bois and Jenne le Blon, 2e3/7977-68 (December 5, 1634); and Attestation Documents, (2e3/7787-27 (1718),  2e3/7787-33 (1718), 2e3/7787-34 (1718),  2e3/7787-35 (1718)).  editions:  Proverbs 10:7; i Corinthians 13:12; Francis De Vos, Vers la Liberté 94, 117, 139 (2007);  William Heidgerd, The American Descendants of  Chrétien du Bois of Wicres, France vol. 9,  p. ii (1974); Bi-Centenary Reunion of the Descendants of Louis and Jacques du Bois: (emigrants  to America 1660 and 1675) pp. 29-30 (1876); 1 sir edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England § 48.a. (Legal  Classics Library 1985); M. Chassan, Essai Sur la Symbolique du Droit, p. 390 (Paris 1847); M. de Vegiano, sr de Hovel, Suite du Supplément  Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, et du Comté de Bourgogne pp. 54, 62 (Malines 1779); Bulletin de la Commission Historique du Département du Nord  vol. 20, pp. 74, 76 (Lille 1897). 

      Microfilm (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints (“FHL”)):  Fiches op de Waalse registers, 1500-1828, Card index of Huguenots in the netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere.   Known as the Leiden Collection, FHL film no. 0199813; Registers van kerkelijke huwelijksproclamatiën (der Gereformeerden), 1575-1811,  Huwelijksafkondigingen 1642-1653, FHL film no. 0119016, p. 200(b)). Französisch-Reformierte Kirche Mannheim, FHL film no. 1192139.  unpublished Manuscript: eric Bourgoin, Historical/Explanatory Report «Chrétien du Bois», February 24, 2008, p. 5.  electronic: Généalogie Doresmieulx: http://chateaudelapree.blogspot.com/2009/05/genealogie doresmieulx.html. 

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"Lineage of Charlemagne," by J. Milton Williams.

Anderson's "Royal Genealogies," edited by Dr. Jordan.

The Bible Genealogy taken from "The Davidson Genealogy," by Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh, Ironton, OH, 1948.

(Only relevant names in the above listed lineages have been included in the index.)

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ANCESTRY OF CHARLEMAGNE THROUGH THE CAESARS (and the Du Bois Family)

Aeneas, married Creusa Ascanius, the Trojan, progenitor of the Julii Juli. Julys, who being deprived of succeeding his father in the Kingdom of Latium (which Silviud, his father's half brother obtained) was made High Priest, which office continued in his family, as some think, down to JULIUS CAESAR, the Dictator, but his descendants are unknown for about 560 years, during the Latin and Roman kings, till about the reign of TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS, when we read of one,

Numerius Julius Julus, who asserted his descent from Julus the son of Ascanius, the son of Aeneas. His son Lucius Julius Julus, not famous in history, father of, Caius Julius Julus, was Consul with Pinarius, An. U. C. Varroniano 265, father of Caius Julius Julus, Consul with Q. Favius, U.C. 303, father of Caius Julius Julus, Consul with M. Geganius, U.C. 307, and again with L. Virginius, 319, and again with Ditto, U.C. 320, father of Lucius Julius Julus, a Military Tribune with consular authority, U.C. 351, father of Lucius Julius Julus, a Military Tribune with consular authority, U.C. 368, though it is not clear that he was the son of the last Lucius Lucius Julius Libo, who had no honors of state, but his son Lucius Julius Libo, was Consul with Marcus Attilius Regulus U.C. 487. His son or grandson is supposed to be Nurmerius Julius CAESAR, the first of the Caesars, the name of Julus being henceforward omitted for that of Caesar, his son Lucius Julius CAESAR, whose name is only recorded, father of Sextus Julius CAESAR, a Military Tirbune under Lucius Aemilius Paulus, Proconsul in Liguria, U.C. 573. His son Sextys Julius CAESAR, the Roman Ambassador with Sempronius Bloesus, for restoring liverty to the people of Abdera, U.C. 584, and the Consul with L. Aurelius Orestes, U.C. 597, father of Lucius Julius CAESAR, lived without state honors, father of Caius, Julius Caesar, called Strabo, a courteous and witty orator often mentioned by Cicero, and another son was Lucius Julius CAESAR, who was Consul with Rutilius Lupus, U.C. 664, during the Social War. He was the author of the Julian Law. He was a Censo with Pub. Licinius Crassus, U.C. 665, and had Julia, married Mark Anthony 2nd, son of the eloquent orator Mark anthony 1st, born B.C. 143, died B. C. 87, son of Gaius Antonius, died B.C. 68. Their son was Mark ANTHONY 3rd, born B.C. 83, died B.C. 30. Defeated at the battle of Actium he

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fled into Egypt with Cleopatra where both committed suicide. He had four wives; Antonia, Fulvia, Octavis Major and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. His daughter by his third wife, Octavia Major, was Antonia MINOR, born B.C. 38, died B.C. 9, married Caludius Drusus Nero Germanicus (son-in-law of Augustus Caesar, and the brother of the Emperor Tiberius) She was an excellent woman and was mother of CLAUDIUS, the Emperor. He was great uncle and stepfather to Nero. His daughter VENISSA m. Arviragus, eleventh son of Kimneline, King of the Britons. Succeeded his brother A.D. 44, died A.D. 74. MARIUS succeeded his father A.C. 74, is said to have erected a stone upon Stanmere in memory of a victory over the Picts. His wife, name unknown, was the daughter of Boadicea, Queen of the Icenians. He died A.D. 125. Son COLIUS I, "Old King Cole" became King of Britain A.D. 125, died A.D. 170. He was educated in Rome where he attained much knowledge and the affection of the Romans. Is said to have built Colchester (Coel-Castra) Athildis, married A.D. 129 Morcomir, King of Franconia, who died in 149 Clodomir IV, King of the Franks, died 166 after a reign of 17 years. He married Hasilda, daughter of King of Rugij. King Farabut, reigned two years, died 186. King Sunno, reigned 28 years, died 213. King Hilderic built Hildeburg Castle on an Island in the Rhine. Reigned 40 years, died 253. King Bartherus, reigned 19 years and died in 272. King Clodius III, reigned 27 years, died 298. King Walter, Reigned 8 years, died 306. King Dagobert, a kind and loving Prince, reigned 11 years, died 317. Genebald I, Duke of the East Franks, reigned 30 years, died 350. King Clodius I, reigned 10 years, died 389. King Marcomir, Duke of the East Franks, reigned 15 year, died 404. King Pharamond, Duke of the East Franks, elected 419 Duke of the West Franks, King of Westphalia, died 430, married Argotta, "the mother of all the Kings of France." She was a daughter of Genebald, the last Duke of the West Franks. King Clodio, called the "Long Haired," King of Westphalia, died 455, married Basina, daughter of Weldelphus, King of the Thuringians. Merovee (Merovaeus,) repelled Attila, King of the Huns and conquered Piccardy, Normandy and the coast

Chretien (Christian) Du Bois was born in 1597 in Wicres, Artois, Pas de Calais, France and died before Oct 10, 1655 there about 58 years of age.

His first wife was C

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Chrétien DuBois

Chrétien du Bois (1597-1655) was a French official in the Comté of Coupigny.

He was the father of three Protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s.[2]

Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.[3]

Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier & receveur of the Comté of Coupigny. He died sometime after 1641.

Internet pages frequently—and incorrectly—claim that Chretien du Bois' wife was named "Cornelia." This claim was first made by researcher Matthew Hilt Murphy in a 1980 presentation later re-printed in William Heidgerd, "The American Descendants of Chretien Dubois of Wicres, France." Murphy referenced a 1646 item in the church records of Middlebourg, Zeeland referring to "Bois/Cornelia du/vefve de Jen de Chrestien, native de Tournay." Murphy, who apparently was not familiar with the French custom of referring to women in documents by their maiden names throughout their lives, misinterpreted this as a reference to a woman who had married (1) Jean du Bois and (2) Chretien DuBois. In fact, the record refers to a woman whose maiden name was "Cornelia du Bois", who was the widow of "Jean de Chrestien." There is no basis to associate her with Chretien du Bois of Wicres.

Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different—and inaccurate—versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him.[1]

Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld,[4] actor Marlon Brando, Jr.,[5] painter Mary Cassatt,[6] journalist Maria Shriver (wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III[7] and film director George Lucas. W. E. B. Du Bois is also said to be a descendant.[8]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chretien_DuBois

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• Christian DuBois
• M, #69401, b. circa 1597, d. 10 October 1655
• Father Jacques Louis Wallerund, Marquis du Bois b. c 1560, d. 1620
• Mother Madaline Renee de Croix b. c 1565, d. 1625
• Christian DuBois was born circa 1597 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. He married Jeanne Masic Brunel, daughter of Jean Brunel and Jean Jariot, circa 1620 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. Christian DuBois died on 10 October 1655 at Wicres la Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France.
• Family Jeanne Masic Brunel b. 26 Mar 1599
• Child
  • Louis DuBois+ b. 27 Oct 1627, d. 23 Jun 1696
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2309.htm#... _______________
• Chretien DuBois
• Birth: 1597 Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Death: Oct. 10, 1655 Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Chretien (Christian) Du Bois was born in 1597 in Wicres, Artois, Pas de Calais, France and died before Oct 10, 1655 there about 58 years of age.
• His first wife was Cornelia --, whom he married ca. 1621. She was born ca. 1600 in Tournay, Hainaut, Belgium. His second wife was Jeanne Masic Brunel.
• William Heidgerd, in The American Descendants of Chretien DuBois of Wicres, France (New Paltz, NY 1968) preface, wrote:
• "Following written by George Washington DuBois, D. D. (1822-1910). ‘Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France was born in 1597 and died prior to Oct 10, 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. It is believed that he belonged to one of the five quite well known families stemming from Geoffroi de Bois and his wife Sidonie Tesson of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy who were alive in the middle of the 11th century.
• ‘From records in the Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacques, both Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.'"
• John Coert DuBois, M. D. (1831-1913), of Hudson, Columbia County, New York, researched records in Europe during the time he was a medical student in Paris from 1858 to 1860, and during a later visit there in 1883. He examined and cited the d'Hozier Manuscripts, 1696-1716, the records of the Reformation Church at Lille, and the records of the Reformation Church at Leyden. The following are his findings:
• "In the Maison Royale de France, the ‘famille du Bois' is mentioned as ‘Grand Masters of the Forests of France'
• "Generations listed:
• "1. Jean, Seigneur de Fountaines, maetre d'hotel of Charles VIII, d. 1507
• "2. Jean, kings councillor and controller-general of finances, married 10-7-1493, the niece of the Chancellor of France.
• "3. Astremoine, a Huguenot who afterwards renounced his faith, was restored to his nobility, and was declared to be descended from ‘la maison du Bois en Artois.'
• "4. Antoine, Seigneur de Fountaines, king's councillor and ambassador to the Pays-Bas. He was married during 1571.
• "5. Pierre, Seigneur de Fountaines-Moran, married Francoise Olivier de Leuville. He served in the army during 1597.
• "6. Chretien, a younger son, became a Huguenot, and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. His elder brother, Louis, who remained a Catholic, is designated as Seigneur de Fountaines, lietuenant-general of the armies of the king. He was in 1653 made Marquis de Giuvi.
• "Chretien du Bois was dead on October 10, 1655, when his son Louis was married at Mannheim. Chretien also had a daughter Ann (Wicres baptismal record). Chretien settled on lands at Wicres about 10 miles southwest of Lille where his farm is still pointed out. He was probably born about 1590. He is described as ‘a gentleman of the family of du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse' in the d'Hozier manuscript."
• Chretien du Bois and Cornelia - had the following children:
  • i. Francoise, b. Jun 17, 1622, bap. Jun 18, 1622, m. Pierre Billiou on May 2, 1649, d. bef. Jan 17, 1695
  • ii. Anne, b. ca. 1625, d. 1643
  • iii. Louis, b. ca. 1626, d. 1696
  • iv. Jacques, b. ca. 1628
• Family links:
• Children:
  • Francoise DuBois Billiou (1622 - 1695)*
  • Louis DuBois (1626 - 1696)*
  • Jacques DuBois (1628 - 1677)*
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 33562657
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33562657 ______________
• A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military ... edited by Samuel Gordon Smyth
• https://books.google.com/books?id=JXdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=...
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdukes02smyt
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/23/mode/1up
• The line of descent from Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy was:
• 1st generation: Eustache, Seigneur des Querder and de Fiennes, m. 1st Gille de Renel ; m. 2d Jeanne St. Ol.
• 2d generation : Guislain des Fiennes, Count de Clarmont, who m. Jeanne de Longueville.
• 3d generation : Marc de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Madelaine d'Ognies.
• 4th generation: Maximillian de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Catharine Cecil Germand.
• 5th generation: Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Louise Charlotte d' E'tamps.
• 6th generation: Chas. Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Henrietta de Reignier de Boisleau.
• 7th generation : Chrétien Maximillian des Fiennes, m. ____ ____ (not on record, but a Huguenot, as supposed by M. Le Turcq — record erased).
• 8th generation: Louis du Bois de Fiennes, b. Oct., 1626, who evidently took refuge from religious persecution in Mannheim, Germany, where he m. Catharine Blanchan in 1655. Their two eldest children were born in Mannheim, and in 1660 the family came to America.
• The du Bois des Fiennes appear to have been a military family and to have furnished to France some able soldiers. The first Maximillian beside being a Count was "Marischall des camps et des armées du roi." His son Maximillian was lieutenant-general "du armées du roi." Chrétian Maximillian, Marquis des Fiennes, was captain of cavalry in his father's regiment.
• The erasure of the record of Chrétien's marriage and family, the Chrétien known to have been the father of Louis du Bois, makes a break in Louis' line of descent and it was done, obviously, to destroy official record of his ancestry because of his being a "heretic"; to prevent him or any of his descendants from ever afterward establishing a claim to the title and estates. But in this connection, continues Mrs. Thompson, "certainly there were not two branches after the resumption of the title of Marquis des Fiennes. It does not seem that Louis could belong to the line des Fiennes, as the writer of 'The Du Bois Family' says he does,
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/24/mode/1up
• and be other than the son of Chrétien Maximillian, Marquis de Fiennes."
• Louis du Bois emigrated from Manheim to America with his family circa 1660 and eventually settled at New Village (now Hurley], near Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., where he rapidly rose to prominence in the civil and religious affairs of the settlement. He was one of the twelve original patentees of New Paltz, a village next to Hurley ; he later became one of the magistrates of the jurisdiction comprising the villages of New Paltz and Hurley. Before this period, however, the settlement had been attacked by Indians who burned Hurley ; they killed and injured many of the inhabitants and carried into captivity all the family of Louis du Bois, the wife and three children of Jan Joosten Van Metern and others, all of whom were carried off to the fastnesses of the Catskill Mountains. This event, which occurred 7th June, 1663, was known in history as the Second Esopus War. Captain Martin Krieger, an old Dutch soldier and a familiar figure in the earlier Dutch settlements on the Delaware, organized, and, with Louis du Bois, headed an expedition to rescue the captives and chastise the Indians. After three months of ineffectual warfare they finally rounded up the savages on September 3, 1663, defeated the Indians and restored the captive women and children to their homes. In connection with these tragic experiences. Professor Obenchain, of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky., sends me the following relation : .... etc. __________
• Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, Some ... By Daniel Trabue
• https://books.google.com/books?id=a-xDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA561&lpg=PA561&d...
• Pg.557
• "Biographical History of the First Congressional District of New Jersey" Bol. 1. p. 32.
• "Louis Du Bois married, Katryn, written Catryn and Catherine Blanshan. Katryn was daughter of Matthys and Madeline Jorisen, of Artois, France. Louis and Katryn were married at Mannheim, Germany Oct. 10, 1655. They and their children came to America in 1660, in the "Gilded Otter," and settled at Esopus, Ulster Co., New York. Louis and Catherine had ten children. Louis Du Bois Died in 1696.
  • "DU BOIS," FRENCH HUGUENOTS.
• Chrétien or Christian Du Bois, of Artois, France, had
• Louis Du Bois, "The Walloon," born 28th. of October 1626. Married Sun, Oct. 10th. 1655 Catherin Blancon, daughter of Matthe Blanshan.
• Chrétien Du Bois is deceased at the time of his son Louis' marriage at Manheim. He has after his name "resident of Wicres," a place of 300 inhabitants in 1875.
• "Louis du Bois and his 2 sons Isaac and Abraham were Patentees for the town of New Paltz in New York opposite Poughkeepsie, in 1677."
• .... etc.
• Pg.559
• Louis Du Bois, or in French Louys du bois, was born October 28, 1626. Married Catherine Blancon, who was born and married at Manheim, Germany, They were married Sunday Oct. 10th, 1655. It was a Huguenot custom to be married on Sunday, after the communion service.
• Catherine Blancon lived about ten years longer than her husband Louis Du Bois.
• .... etc.
• 1st Gen. Louis Du Bois died aged about 66 yrs. and no doubt was buried in the ground of the Dutch church at Kingston, N. Y. His will was proved 23rd of June 1696.
• .... etc.
• After the fifteen years that he had spent in New Palz he returned to Kingston, N. Y. The will of Louis Du Bois was proved 23rd June 1696 and was divided into eight equal parts. It mentions son 1. Abraham Du Bois, 2. Jacob Du Bois, 3. David Du Bois, 4. Solomon Du Bois, 5. Louis Du Bois, 6. Matthew Du Bois, 7 children of Isaac, deceased, 8. children of Sarah, deceased.
• Louis Du Bois had 1. Abraham Du Bois, b. 1661. b. Artois, France, 2. Isaac Du Bois b. 1658. Died 1690. b. Manheim, Germany 3. Jacob Du Bois, b. Ulster Co. N. Y. 1661. 4 Sarah Du Bois, 5. David Du Bois, (married 1689) 6. Solomon Du Bois, b. 1669. D. 1759. 7. Rabecca Du Bois, b. 1671. 8, Rachel Du Bois, b.1675. 9. Louis Du Bois, b. 1677. 10. Matthew Du Bois, b. 1679.
• .... etc. ____________________
• American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, AD 1776, VOL. 1 by Thomas P. Hughes
• https://archive.org/details/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescent...
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.24
• DUBOIS, HIRAM and LUTHER, Albany; sons of Henry J., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Cornelia Rose) ; son of Henry P., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Rebecca Dego); son of Simon (m. Cathamitge Lefever); son of Daniel (m. Mary Lefever), his first will is written in French; son ot Isaac of New Paltz, d. 1690 (m. Mary Hasbrouck); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France), was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [199]
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.25
• DU BOIS, JAMES and JONATHAN, Albany; sons of James of Albany, b. 1810 (?), d. 1884 (m. Margaret Le Fevre); son of Jonas of New Paltz (m. Rachel Le Fevre); son of Louis (m. Catherine Broadhead); son of Jonathan (m. Elizabeth Le Fevre); son of Louis of New Paltz (m. Rachel Hasbrook); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France); was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [200]
• DU BOIS, PIERRE EUGENE, Albany; son of Egbert of Bluffton, South Carolina, b. 1825 (m. 1862 Kate Hope); son of Peter K. of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, N. Y., b. 1796, d. 1872 (m. 1817 Sarah Lattin), justice of the peace, supervisor, memb. assembly, 1842, delegate const, convention, 1846; son of Koert of Clinton, Dutchess county, b. 1763, d. 1831 (m. 1786 Elizabeth Burroughs); capt. of militia, magistrate, memb. assembly, 1810-11 ; son of Peter of Fishkill, b. 1730, d. 1769 (m. Mary Van Voorhees); son of Jonathan of Fishkill (m. Adrietta Osterhout); son of Peter of Fishkill, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1674, d. at Fishkill, 1737 (m. 1697 Jannetje Burhans), deacon and elder of the Dutch ch.; son of JACQUES DU BOIS, a French Huguenot of Artois, France, who came from Holland to America, 1675 ; his brother Louis having emigrated some fifteen years previous. He married Pieronne Beutign at Leyden, 1663 ; on arrival in America they settled at Wiltwyck (Kingston), in the State of New York. [201]
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.34
• DU BOIS, JOHN COERTLAND, M. D. of Hudson, b. 1831 (m. 1869 Eva P. Kimball); son of Stephen A. of Hudson, b. 1804, d. 1869 (m. 1830 Rachel A. Schryver), director and president of National Hudson River Bank fifteen years; son of Coert, b. 1774, d- 1854 (m. 1801 Mary Thorn, b. 1778, d. 1846), member of New York assembly, 1820-21; son of Christian, b. 1746, d. 1807 (m. 1768 Helena Van Voorhis, b. 1744. d. 1826 ); son of Christian, b. 1702, d. 1787 (m. Neeltje Van Vliet), resided in the old homestead built by his father at Swartwoutville, Fishkill, N. Y.; son of Pierre of Fishkill, b. at Leyden, Holland, 1674, d. at Fishkill, 1737 (m. 1697 Jannetje Burhans of Brabant), deacon and elder of the Dutch church; son of JACQUES DU BOIS. See 348. [346]
• DU BOIS, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS of Greenport; son of Henry A. of
• https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentI...
• Pg.35
• JACQUES DU BOIS (ancestor of 346, 347) (m. 1663 at Leyden, Pierronne Beutijn), a son of Chretien Du Bois, was born at Wicres, near Lille, France, 1625, and was a brother of Louis Du Bois, "the Walloon," who emigrated to America and founded New Paltz. Jacques followed his brother to America, fifteen years later, in 1675, and settled at Wiltwyck (Kingston) in the State of New York, where he died, 1676. See Bicentenary Reunion of Descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois, Philadelphia, 1876. [348] ________________
• Bi-centenary reunion of the descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois (emigrants to America, 1660 and 1675), at New Paltz, New York, 1875 .. (1876)
• http://www.archive.org/details/bicentenaryreuni00dubo
• http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/17/mode/1up
• Louis was married at Manheim, in October, 1655, and Jacques at Leyden, in April, 1663. The marriage record of Jacques, at Leyden, says that he was from the vicinity of LaBassee, which was in the province of Artois.
• Jacques, however, did not arrive at Esopus till some fifteen years after Louis was settled there. The letters of church-membership, or letters of dismissal from the church of the Walloons, at Leyden, which he took with him on leaving that city, are dated 15th April, 1675, as is evidenced by the church records still extant. He must have died at Esopus, the same or the succeeding year, as in the old records of Ulster county there is still preserved a document by which it appears that his widow, Pieronne Bentyn, was married again to a John Pietersy, who, as such husband, and for a small consideration to himself personally, in December, 1677, contracts with Matthew Blanshan (who was the father-in-law of Louis DuBois) to pledge to him the lands belonging to Jacques Du Bois, in Ryssel, Flanders, as also the rents which the said lands had earned, for the fulfilment of the conditions of a contract which said Jacques DuBois, in his life-time, had made with said Blanshan. The nature or object of the contract does not in this document appear, but as Pieronne Bentyn is described in her marriage record with Jacques DuBois, at Leyden, as of Lisle (which is the same as Ryssel in Flanders), it may be that the lands referred to were held partly or altogether in right of the wife. Else there would seem to be no good reason why Pietersy should be called upon to confirm DuBois's contract with Blanshan.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/29/mode/1up
• The father of Louis Du Bois, as before remarked, was Chretien Du Bois. He is designated in the record of his son's marriage, at Manheim, October 10th, 1655, as the deceased Chretien Du Bois, resident of Wicres.
• The records of this latter place have been examined, and I regret to say that, from age and bad ink and mutilation, the register is almost illegible.
• The baptismal record shows that Chretien Du Bois had three children baptized at Wicres. The dates made out are the 18th June, 1622, the 13th November, 1625, and the 21st October, 1626. The names are illegible, and seem to have been intentionally obliterated. These researches were made by archivists under the direction of the consul for the United States at Lille, Mons. C. DuBois Gregoire. In his letter of 15th July, 1875, he writes that he had visited the canton of La Bassee several times, where there are very old records, but could make nothing out, as, where the Christian names occurred, the paper was torn or cut out. He further states that the registers in the village of Wicres were also in many places illegible from age, bad ink, and from being torn and worm-eaten. He says Wicres has a population of three hundred inhabitants, and that many farmers in the vicinity had pointed out to him the farm which the tradition of the country recognizes to have belonged to the Du Bois. ______________
• The New York genealogical and biographical record Vol. XXVII. by Greene, Richard Henry
• https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealogi1896gree
• https://archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi1896gree#page/190/mode/1up
• The Du Bois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin, in the Duchy of Normandy. The heraldic records at Paris commence the genealogy with Geoffroi du Bois, a knight banneret and a companion of Duke William in the conquest of England in 1066.
• In "America Heraldica " the arms, etc., are given as follows, viz.: Arms — Argent, a lion, rampant, sable, armed and langued, gules. Crest — between two tree stumps vert, the lion of the shield. Motto — Tiens ta foy.
• In the "Du Bois Reunion," at page 38, is emblazoned another coat of arms, entitled "Original Du Bois Arms," and described as follows : "Arms d'or, a l'aigle eployé de sable onglé, becqué de gueles ;" but I have been able to find no authority for the use of these arms in connection with the family of Chrétien Du Bois.
• Chrétien Du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques, was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of Du Bois Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wicres, in La Bassée, near Lille, in French Flanders, now Artois.
• Louis was born October 27, 1627, and the mutilated baptismal record at Wicres shows that two other sons of Chrétien Du Bois were baptized severally on June 18, 1622, and November 13, 1625. One of these was Jacques, and probably the other was named Albert.
• The baptisms of these three sons are all of the records extant of Wicres referring to the children of Chrétien, but it is certain that he had also two daughters, Francoise and Anne, for the records of the church of the Walloons, at Leyden, Holland, show that his daughter Francoise was married on April 20, 1649, to Pierre Biljouw. By this marriage she had two daughters, Marie, baptized at Leyden March 3, 1650, and Martha, also baptized at Leyden February 8, 1652. Marie came to Kingston, where she married Arendt Jansen, with the approval of her uncle Louis, whose consent is signified in the marriage contract dated June 3, 1670.
• It was undoubtedly owing to the circumstance of Chrétien's being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt was made to obliterate the public records of the family, and to destroy all evidences of his connection with the nobility of France.
• The religious persecutions in Artois induced Louis and Jacques to abandon their country, and Louis went to Mannheim in the Palatinate, Jacques going to Leyden, where he became a manufacturer of silks and cloth.
• .... etc. __________
• The Genealogy of the Sahlers, of the United States of America: And of Their ... By Louis Hasbrouck Sahler
• https://books.google.com/books?id=aClPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Th...
• Pg.3 ____________________
• Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept By W. E. B. Du Bois
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri0flYKEegoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&d...
• Pg.105 __________________
• Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) By W. E. B. Du Bois
• https://books.google.com/books?id=4XbiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=...
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~smithhouse/smithgen/smithf...

According to the above site, "Chretien Maximillian DuBois Marquis De Fiennes was born in 1597 in Wicres La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. He died on 10 Oct 1655 in Wicres La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France. Chretien married Jeanne Masic Brunel in 1620 in Wicres, French Flanders."

URL above shortened to:

http://tinyurl.com/ykvsgoa

Also see:

http://www.vnla.com/vnl/gen/mcq/DuBois.htm

According to that site: "Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10 October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility, neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved."

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Cretien gave up status of landed gentry and probably his life for the Hugenot religion, His children fled to Mannheim, then Leyden and lastly to America to escape persecution fo the Hugenots. They spoke Dutch when they arrived in southern NJ in the late 17th century.

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the following information is from http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wsenne&i...

AWSII

- date of marriage and surname of wife unknown - birth may have been ca. 1590 - date of death was

probably sometime before 10-10-1655 which was the date of son Louis' marriage in Mannheim, Germany

- Apparently of a family of nobility but after becoming a Huguenot this nobility was deprived him and

official records was systemmatically destroyed as were the records of other Huguenot families in

France at the time. - Settled on lands at Wicres, France about 10 miles southeast of Lille. - Described

as a "gentleman of the family of DuBois". - There may have been two (2) older sons, Antoine and Isaac

who were older than the children listed above

LINE OF LOUIS DU BOIS

Much has been written about Louis du Bois, and there is yet much to be revealed by investigation concerning the ancestry of this influential forbear of the American Van Metres. From various sources of authority the following lineage has been compiled.

Monsieur Le Turque, of the Genealogical Institute of Paris, has developed a line of ancestors running back to the days of the Scyrri which includes descent from Charlemagne, Emperor of the West; Alfred the Great; Hugh Capet, King of France, and Henry I., Emperor of Germany. The most important of these lines have been compared and verified; and where the line is broken the cause is attributed to the summary action of Louis XIV.'s minister, Cardinal Mazarin, and Marshall Turenne, who decreed that the names of many of the noble families of France, who espoused and held to the faith of Protestantism, should be erased from the rolls of the nobility and their property confiscated. By the Edict of Nantes, promulgated in 1598, civil and religious liberty was restored and confirmed to the Huguenots, but when Louis XIV. revoked the Edict, thousands of French families fled to England, Germany, Switzerland and Holland. It was during the latter part of this reign of terror that the father of Louis du Bois found shelter in the Palatinate of the Rhine.

According to this tracing of the family the line begins with Guelph, Prince of the Scyrri, A.D. 476. Azo, Marquis of Liguria, A.D. 1030, a descendant of the Prince in the fourteenth generation, married Marie, a descendant of the powerful house of Este, in Italy. The Estes were of the Actii of Rome who settled in Lombardy about 500 B.C. Guelph, grandson of Azo and Marie, Count of Bavaria and Saxe, A.D. 1107, married Judith, a descendant of Charlemagne. A great grandson of Guelph and Judith, Henry V., Duke of Bavaria and Saxe, A.D. 1195, married Mathilde, a descendant of William the Conqueror, through Henry I. and Henry II. of England. Henry VI., son of the Duke of Bavaria and Saxe and Mathilde, married, A.D. 1200, Agnes, Countess of Palatine, a descendant of Alfred the Great. A descendant of Henry VI. and Agnes, Madame Claude de Lannoy, married Charles du Bois, Seigneur des Querder, who was a descendant of MacQuaire du Bois, Count de Roussey, A.D. 1110.

Seperate source:

Some have said that Chretien's ancestry extends back to Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor, but the

evidence is circumstancial, based on land records, and not given a great deal of credance by the DuBois

Family Association. Suffice it to say that he was the progenator of an extensive line of people

descended from his two sons, Louis and Jacques. In those lines are such people as General George S.

Patton, Franklin Roosevelt, and W.E.B. DuBois.

DuBois Family

There are some uncertainties regarding early lineage in this family as indicated in the follow "Report of

European Research of Reverend W. Twyman Williams, Minister of College Church, Hampden-Sydney,

Virginia, dated 13 December 1935:

Mr. Williams pointed out errors in Mackenzie's Colonial Families of the United States of America, IV,

duBois, because of lack of conciliation in generation dates, such as placing Louis DuBois, born 21

October 1626, as the son of Chretien Maxmillan des Finnes. In the Dictionarie de la Noblesse by La

Chesnay, Desbois and Baider, a standard work on the French nobility, Chretien Maxmilien du Bois de

Finnes was listed in Vol. VIII and recorded as 'Captain in the Regiment of his father, died 1747 ages 21

without issue'. His father was Charles Maxmilien (1701-1750); his grandfather, Maximilien Francois

(1669-1714); his great-grandfather, Maximilien, who married 1662 Catherine Cecile de Guernonval; and

his great-great-grandfather, Marc, who married 1624 Madeleine d-Ognies. Obviously, if Louis duBois'

father, Chretien, were of this line, he could not belong to a later generation than of Marc du Bois de

Fiennes, who was son of Guislain, son of Eustace, son of Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy. A record of the children of the last three named seems conclusive that Chretien du Bois was not of this line at all.

This incorrect pedigree had been secured by Mrs. Anna Louise Thompson of Geneva, Illinois, since

deceased, from a French genealogist, who perpetrated upon her an outrageous fraud, namely copying

these generations from the Dictionarie and omitting all dates to conceal his ridiculous identification of

Chretien du Bois, father of Louis, the emigrant, with Chretien Maximilien du Bois de Fiennes (1726-1747).

Mr. S. Gordon Smythe called attention to a statement in E. de Valcourt-Vermont's America Heraldica

that Chretien du Bois of Wicres, a village near Lille, belonged to the family of DuBois who were

Seigneurs of La Bourse and Beaufermez, two old family estates in the vicinity of Lille.

Mr. Williams found an Antoine du Bois, of the DuBois de Fiennes family, but in a cadet branch founded

the latter part of the fourteenth century, who was Seigneur de la Bourse, as his ancestors had been for

five or six generations, and who became Seigneur de Beaufermez by his marriage to Philipotte de Landas, Dame de Beaufermez.

Wallerand du Bois, son of Antoine and Philipotte du Bois, first of his line to be by inheritance Seigneur

both of La Bourse and of Beaufermez, married 1583, Madelein de Croix. Wallerand and Madeleine du

Bois thus lived at the right place and the right time to have been the parents of Chretien du Bois, father

of Louis, the emigrant to New York. For since the Parish Register of La Bassee (in which Wicres is

situated) shows that Chretien du Bois had at least two sons older than Louis, who was born in 1626,

Chretien could not have been born much later than 1600 at latest, not too late for the birth of a son to

parents married in 1583.

A later report of the Reverend Mr. W. Twyman Williams dated 24 July 1937 states:

"A communication from Monsieur J. S. Willems-Le Clercq of Brussels, an accredited genealogist of the

Institute, gives only negative values of proving that the wanted records were NOT to be found in the

church registers of Leyden. The genealogist wrote that he had examined the Cambrai Historical

Society's publications, in which are genealogies of families resident at or near Wicres and known to have inter-married with the du Bois of that locality, and also the state archives at Gand, where in the 17th century were kept records of the court within the jurisdiction of which Wicres then belonged.

"In the data thus far received there were several items of positive value, corroborating, so far as they

go, Mr. Williams' conclusion that our ancestor, Chretien du Bois of Wicres, was a son of Wallerand du

Bois who married 1583 Madeleine de Croix.

"First: the estate of Beaufermez, of which Wallerand du Bois was Seigneur, is proved to have been

situated at Wicres. The value of this item is apparent in connection with the hitherto unsupported

statement of America Heraldica that Beaufermez was one of the estates possessed by the ancestors of

Chretien du Bois.

"Second: the family to which Madeleine de Croix belonged also had estates in the commune of Wicres.

"Third: estates at Wicres owned by several du Bois and by 'the Seigneur of Beaufermez (Bauffremez)'

adjoined estates of the family Billau (Bilyou), one of whom is known to have married a daughter of

Chretien du Bois. We have a record of this marriage in Leyden, and in New York a record mentioning

Louis DuBois as uncle of a daughter of this marriage."

The following was written by George Washington DuBois, D.D. (1822-1910) who was of Keeseville, Essex County,, New York at the time of his death:

"Chretien du Bois of Wicres in Artois, Pas de Calais, France, was born in 1597 and died prior to 10

October 1655. Owing to the systematic mutilation of the records of Huguenot families of the nobility,

neither his parentage nor issue can be definitely proved. It is believed that he belonged to one of the

five quite well known families stemming from Geoffroi de Bois and his wife Sidonie Tesson of the

Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy who were alive in the middle of the 11th century. From records in the

Netherlands, where many Huguenots gained sanctuary, it is certain that Louis and Jacque s, both

Walloons, were sons of Chretien du Bois.

"Helps to the identification of the American Branch of the 'famille du Bois': In a book in my library

entitled Souvenirs d'une ancienne famille Maison de Mailly en Artois, published at Limoges, France

1889, pp. 111-115, it is recorded that the 9th child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel and Jeanne de

Beaumont, his wife, was Madeline, who about 1550 was married to Jacques du Bois, Baron de Finnes (one of the 12 Baronnes of the Conte de Guise), Artois, his oldest son was Pierre, Seigneur de Rantigny,

advocate at the Council of Artois, married at Cambray, Jacqueline de Mouen. The second child was Jean.

The third child of Robert de Mailly-Couronel was Charles, Seigneur du Rien. Note the perpetuation of

Christian and surnames - Jacques, Pierre, Pierrone, Jacqueline, Jean, du Rien. Our ancestor Jacques was from Artois province (Lille). Marie du Rien was sponsor at baptism of Marie 1664, the first child of our Jacques as of record in Leyden. As this record contained in the book above referred to connects our

branch with Jacques du Bois, Baron de Fienne (presumably), so does it also connect us in ascending line with the Baron de Fienne, the lineal descendant of Geoffroi de Bois, according to the genealogy

preserved in the Bibliotheque du Rois Paris"

Heidgerd continues, "In 1675, Jacques and his family joined his elder brother, Louis, who had emigrated

15 years earlier to the Esopus. Seven of their children had been baptised in Leyden. The eighth was born while the family were en route or shortly after their arrival. Jacques died soon after the birth of his

last child, Christian, certainly before the marriage of his widow in 1677 to John L. Pietersy. Quick

re-marriages were almost a necessity in early colonial times.

"The above account was furnished by Koert DuBois Burnham of Keeseville, New York to the DuBois

Family Association in 1967."

The reference next reports the following "from the papers of John Coert Du Bois, M.D. (1831-1913),

late of the city of Hudson, Columbia County,, New York:

"The following is a compilation from research of Dr. DuBois during the time he was a medical student in

Paris from 1858 to 1860, and during a later visit there in 1883. His references were the d'Hozier

Manuscripts, 1696-1716, the records of the Reformation Church at Lille, the records of the Reformation

Church at Leyden. These were all examined by him personally.

"The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Conentin in the duchy of Normandy. The

heraldic records in the Bibliotheque Nationale, rue de Richelieu, Paris, commence the genealogy with

Geoffroi du Bois, 'a knight banneret' who was companion of William of Normandy, called the Conqueror

after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. To date the line from Geoffroi has not been confirmed to Chretien

du Bois, the father of Louis and Jacques who emigrated to Ulster County,, New York, during the

seventeenth century.

"In the Maison Royale de France, the 'famille du Bois' is mentioned as 'Grand Masters of the Forests of

France.'

"I have traced while living in Paris during the years 1858 through 1860, and since that time, with the

following generations listed:

1. Jean, Seigneur de Fontaines, maitre d'hotel of Charles VIII, died 1507.

2. Jean, king's councillor and controller-general of finances, married 7 October 1493 to the niece of

the Chancellor of France.

3. Astremoine, a Huguenot who afterwards renounced his faith, was restored to his nobility, and was

declared to be descended from 'la maison du Bois en Artois.'

4. Antoine, Seigneur de Fontaines, king's councillor and ambassador to the Pays-Bas. He was married

in 1571.

5. Pierre, Seigneur de Fontaines-Moran, married Francoise Olivier de Leuville. He served in the army

during 1597.

Chretien, a younger son, became a Huguenot, and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. His elder brother, Louis, who remained a Catholic, was designated as Seigneur de Fontaines, lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King. Louis was in 1653 made Marquis de Giuvi."

After reading the foregoing pages, it is clearly understood that Heidgerd states "it is necessary that

further European research be commissioned. It is hoped that a later installment of this DuBois Family

History will provide a completely authenticated lineage for Chretien du Bois of Wicres"

Chre'tien DU BOIS was born about 1590 to 1600, probably at Wicres, France.

He became a Huguenot and was deprived of his nobility in consequence. He settled on lands at Wicres

about 10 miles southwest of Lille where his farm is still pointed out. He is described as 'a gentleman of

the family of du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez and de Bourse.' (d'Hozier MSS)

His children, apparently all baptized at Lille, parish church of Wicres, were:

Francoise, born 17 June 1622, married Pierre Billiou;

Anne, baptized 30 November 1625 at Lille, parish church of Wicres;

Louis, baptized on 13 November 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, married Catherine

Blanchan at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate on 10 October 1655; and

Jacques, baptized on 27 October 1628 at Reformation Church of Lille, parish church of Wicres,

married Pierrone Bentyn at the Walloon Church at Leyden on 25 April 1663, and had eight

children.

"The Rev. W. Twyman Williams, Minister of the College Church, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, suggested as a result of his research that Chretien possibly had at least two additional sons, possibly Antoine and

Isaac, who were older than the children of whom we have definite record."

Chretien had died by 10 October 1655 when his son Louis was married at Mannheim.

Louis DU BOIS was baptized on 21 October 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, France, the son of

Chretien du Bois (and possibly a Cornelia [Unknown]).

Either with his parents or on his own he went to Mannheim, Germany in the Pfalz, German Palatinate.

Abstracts of Mannheim Palatine Records translated by Louis DuBois of Yardley, Pennsylvania in 1928

state: "In the year 1606, the Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate, being an Evangelical Prince and

foreseeing a religious war, built the fortified city of Mannheim at the confluence of the Neckar and

Rhine Rivers. Soon after, in 1618, there broke out the devastating 'Thirty Years War' and then the

youthful fortress of Mannheim was taken and destroyed by the Bavarian General Tilly.

The persecuted French Protestants were brotherly received in the German Evangelical country,

particularly in the Rhineland. The Walloons were likewise welcomed in Mannheim and allowed to

establish their own French Evangelical community with their own clergymen. For a time they were united

with the German Evangelical Reformed church, which union was made with the understanding that

services and Holy Communion should be held in the French language in the Spring and Autumn.

"The civil and church records of Mannheim do not go back beyond the year 1621, the date of the city's

destruction. It is only at a later date that the records of the French Protestants are to be found

inscribed by French clergymen in the German church book of records.

"The name du Bois is found for the first time in 1653.... Louis du Bois, son of the late Chretien DuBois,

resident of Wicres in the vicinity of La Bassee, of the first part, and Catharine Blanchan, daughter of

Mathieu Blanchan, bourgeois of Mannheim, of the second part, were married at the French (Protestant)

Church of Mannheim (in the Pfalz, German Palatinate), the 10th of October 1655. (Note: A photostatic

copy of this record is included in the DuBois Family History)"

Their children were:

1. Abraham, born at Mannheim, Germany on 26 December 1657, married Margriet Deyo on 6 March

1681 at First Dutch Church, Kingston, had eight children, and died on 7 October 1731 at New Paltz;

2. Isaac, born at Mannheim in 1659, married Maria Hasbrouck on 1 June 1683 at First Dutch Church,

Kingston, had three children, and died on 28 June 1690 at New Paltz;

3. Jacob, baptized on 9 October 1661 at Kingston, married Lysbeth Varnoye on 8 March 1689 at

First Dutch Church, Kingston, had one child, married (2) Gerritje Gerritsen (nee van Nieuwkirk) in

1691/2 at First Dutch Church, had eleven children by her, and died in June 1745 at Hurley;

4. Sarah, baptized on 14 September 1664 at Kingston, married Joost Jansen Van Meteren on 12

December 1682 at Kingston, had nine children, and died in 1726 at Salem County,, New Jersey;

5. David, baptized on 13 March 1667 at Kingston, married Cornelia Varnoye on 8 March 1689 at

First Dutch Church, Kingston, and had six children;

6. Solomon, born in 1669 at Hurley, baptized at the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam on 3

February 1669, married Tryntje Foochen (nee Gerritsen) in 1692, had nine children, and died on 2

February 1759 at New Paltz;

7. Rebecca, baptized at Old Dutch Church, Kingston on 18 June 1671 and died young;

8. Rachel, baptized at Old Dutch Church, Kingston on 18 April 1675 and died young;

9. Louis, born at Hurley in 1677, married Rachel Hasbrouck at Old Dutch Church, Kingston, on 19

January 1701, had seven children, and died in 1749;

10.Mattheus, born on 3 January 1679 at Hurley, married Sara Matthysen on 17 January 1697 at Old

Dutch Church, Kingston, had twelve children, and died in 1748 in Dutchess County,, New York; and

11.Magdalena, baptized on 12 May 1680.

"It has been generally accepted that Louis, his wife and children accompanied Matthys Blanchan and

Antoine Crispell (departing 27 April 1660 in the 'Gilded Otter'), but Riker suggests that he probably

came with his brother-in-law Pierre Billiou the following year.

"Blanchan, Crispell and DuBois all received grants of land in Hurley, near Kingston, obtaining ground

briefs on 25 April 1663.

"On the 10th of June 1663, Hurley and part of Kingston was burned by the Indians, and the wife of

Louis DuBois and three children were among those who were carried away captive. Three months

afterward an expedition under Captain Krieger, sent from New York, recovered the captives by

surprising the Indians at their Fort near the Hogaberg in Shawangunk.

"From Ralph LeFebre's History of New Paltz, Fort Orange Press, Albany, New York, 1909: 'The story

(of the rescue of the Indian captives) which is dear to the Huguenot heart of New Paltz, is that when

Captain Krieger and his company, directed by an Indian, attacked the savages at their place of refuge

near the Shawangunk Kill, they were about to burn one or more captives at the stake, and the women

commenced singing the 137th Psalm, which so pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death by torture. In the meantime Captain Krieger's band, with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the captives from a horrible death. Louis DuBois is reported to have killed with his sword an Indian who was in advance of the rest, before the alarm could be raised. Captain Krieger's report says nothing of this. However, as the tradition contains nothing irreconcilable with the Captain's report which deals mainly with the fighting done by his soldiers, it is interesting to keep the tradition alive as it deals more upon the condition of the captives.'

"E. M. Ruttenber, the Orange County, historian, states his objections to the tradition as follows: 'The

story was repudiated as a statement of fact, first, on the authority of Indian customs. We do not recall

a single instance where a woman was burned at the stake by the Indians. They killed female prisoners on the march sometimes when they were too feeble to keep up but very rarely after reaching camp. Mrs.

DuBois and her companions had been prisoners from June 10th to September 5th, or nearly three months before they were rescued from captivity. During all that time they had been guarded carefully at the castle of the Indians, and held ransom or exchange, to which end negotiations had been opened. The

Indians asked especially for the return of some of their chiefs who had been sent to Curacao and sold as

slaves by Governor Stuyvesant.

"'Second: Documentary evidence concerning events of that period is entirely against tradition. The

written record is, that when the Dutch forces surprised the Indians, the latter were busy in

constructing a third angle to their fort for the purpose of strengthening it, instead of being engaged in

preparations for burning prisoners. The prisoners were found alive and well, and no complaint is

recorded of any ill treatment, not even their heads had been shaved and painted as had been customary. Every night, says the record, they were removed from the castle to the woods, lest the Dutch should recover them before negotiations for their release were consumated.'

"Among the Huguenot settlers at Kingston, at this time, was Abraham Hasbrouck. He had served with

Edmund Andros in the English army. He was a native of Calais, had emigrated to Mannheim, and in 1675

to America, settling finally in Esopus.

"The Huguenots, being desirous of forming a settlement of their own, were indebted to some extent to

the acquaintanceship of Abraham Hasbrouck with Edmund Andros who was Colonial Governor at this

time, having been appointed to that office when the colony of New York passed from the Dutch to the

English in 1665.

"These French settlers longed for a settlement of their own where they could speak their own language,

worship in their own church, and be in a community where they could govern themselves according to

their own choice. The traffic with the Indians in furs was becoming less profitable. It was becoming

more and more necessary to follow the occupation of cultivating the soil. The fertile lowlands of the

Wallkill had undoubtedly been in the mind of Louis DuBois as an ideal place to establish the French

community. The mountains and forests lining the valley most certainly must have reminded the Huguenots of their native county in French Flanders, and the Meuse Valley through which they escaped to the Pfalz.

Louis died at Kingston, reported by Heidgerd as 23 June 1693. However, Louis had three wills (all

written in Dutch) recorded in Ulster County, Surrogate's Office, the last of which was dated 22

February 1696, and his wills were proved on 26 March 1696, so his death occurred sometime during that

interval of a month's time.

An early will, or more properly defined, a joint agreement of Louis DuBois and Catherine, his wife, was

dated 13 October 1676 and written in Dutch, translated as follows: "After their deaths, the whole

estate shall go to their children, the monors first to be educated until they can earn a living. If either

should re-marry, he or she shall pay one half to the children, begotten by them, and in case of death, one fourth of the remaining half shall be divided among the children. If the survivor remains unmarried, he or she shall not be compelled to pay out anything more to the children than it may please the survivor,either as a marriage portion, or in some other way. At death of both parties, the children shall inherit the entire estate. In case of re-marriage of either party, without lawful issue, the children shall have one half of the estate."

A will dated 30 March 1686, and recorded 5 May 1686, provides that Louis' "estate, after payment of

debts to be equally divided 'amongst my children but my two eldest sons desiring to have Each of them a part of the land of New Paltz and more than the other children by Reason their names 'uppon the

Patent', but if they will be content 'to deale Equally with my other children whether in land, houses or

any other sort of goods whatever belonging to my Estate As well the land of the Paltz....' that if they

have the land at New Paltz they should pay a share of its worth to the other children as all of the estate

should be divided equally. 'My wife, their mother, shall have the ordering of the Estate as long as she

remains a widow.' 'If she marry the Estate to be divided among the children aforesaid except my two

eldest sons.'

"The second will dated 27 March 1694, proved 26 March 1696, states that if the widow should marry,

then to the eldest son Abraham, 6 Pounds, as his primogeniture right, also 1/8 of the estate; son Jacob

1/8; and 1/8 to each of the following children: David, Solomon, Louis, Matthew; and to the children of

deceased son Isaac 1/8; and to children of Sara wife of Joost Janse (Van Meter) 1/8. Wife Catherine

appointed executrix."

Louis' will dated 22 February 1695/6 and written in the Dutch language provides for the disposition of

his property as follows: "to my son Jacob half of my farm at Hurley adjoining land of Hyman and Jan

Rosa and land of Lammert Huyberse on condition that he pays 1500 shepels wheat; Jacob to use the

other half until my youngest son Matthew Du Bois becomes of age, for which he is to pay 50 shepels

wheat yearly. I have this day conveyed to my youngest son, Matthew Du Bois, house and land in Kingston, a parcel of me adow land, and one half of my land at Hurley, for which he is to pay 1500 schepels ofwheat. Payments for the land which my son David bought from Jan Wood to come out of my estate, as I had promised my son David. My sons Salomon and Louis Du Bois are to have my land in the Paltz, conveyed to me by deed from Coll. Thomas Dongan, dated 2 June 1688, for which they are to pay 800 shepels of wheat. My daughter Sara wife of Joost Janse to have a piece of land in Hurley adjoining the land of Corneles Cool, for which she is to pay 700 shepels of wheat. This includes the woodland adjoining."

The Ulster County, Genealogy Archive included a brief biography which stated: "There is a memorial to

Louis in the Dutch Reformed Churchyard, right across from the Post Office. His actual burial place is

unknown, but it is somewhere on the Churchyards grounds."

Not putting much trust in the Edict of Nantes

Our Huguenot ancestors ran out of France.

Old Chretian's offspring soon scattered afar,

All firmly convinced that that their name was du Bwa.

But some stayed in Leyden and then, oh my gosh,

Translated the name to the Dutch Van der Bosch.

And some went to Scotland, the land of their choice,

Where clansmen corrupted their label to Boice.

But Louis and Jacques came across to New York,

Where Dutch, French and English all mingled their talk.

And ever since then, in this polygot nation,

Folks ask us, "Please, what's the right pronunciation?"

'Tis no longer du Bwa as so many suppose

And it is not Du Boys, and of course not Du Boze.

Du Boy is not right, nor is Du'Bois correct,

For the accent is not where some people suspect.

Please read this out loud so the sound of you voice

By this rhythm records that our name is Du Bois'.

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Source: DuBois Family Assoc

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http://www.dbfa.org/family_history.htm

Chretien DuBois (b.1597) and his wife Cornelia. He was a prosperous middle class linen merchant and devout protestant from the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. In 1659 the area was handed over by the Catholic Spanish Netherlands to the Catholic regime of Louis XIV, who imposed high taxes on the middle classes and cruelly persecuted the Protestant (Huguenot) dissidents.

Chretien was the father of five children: Francoise (b.1622), Anne (b.1624), Louis (b.1626-d.1696), Jacques (b.1628-d.1676) and another son, name unknown.

Resentful of high taxes and fearful of religious persecution, Francoise and Jacques settled in Leyden, Holland. Meanwhile, Louis along with other Huguenot refugees moved to Mannheim, Germany (near Heidelberg) on the Rhine River. This area was called die Pfalz.
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Marquis de Fiennes

Son of Louis-Wallerund-Jacques DuBois and Madeleine-Renee de Croix Husband of Cornelia Brunel Father of Isaac Dubois, 1615 D, Albert Dubois,

Francoise Billious/Barlow

, Anne DuBois and 5 others, Francoise DuBois, Louis du Bois, l, Jacques DuBois, Antoine Dubois and Isaac Du Bois

Cretien Du Bois b. 1597, d. 10 October 1655  Marriage* circa 1621  Cornelia (?) married Cretien Du Bois, son of Marquis Jacques Du Bois and Madeline Renee De Croix, circa 1621 at Wicres, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.1,2   Children   ◦Francoise Du Bois 1 b. 17 July 1622, d. 1695 ◦ Louys Du Bois+ 1,2 b. 13 November 1626, d. between 22 February 1695/96 and 26 March 1696 ◦Jacques Du Bois 1 b. 1628, d. circa 1677

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chretien_DuBois

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"The Memory of the Just is Blessed: The Ancestry and Extended Family of Chretien du Bois" by Munte Horton, JD. Published in he DuBois Family News on June 2011.

Louis, Françoise, and Jacques were brothers and sister. (Thankfully, we now have such proof from Lille and Leiden). Their memory called us back to Wicres in the 1870s and 1880s, where we found the ancient parish register through the agency of M.M.C. Gregoire-Dubois while he was consul at Lille. There, we gazed upon records: faded, worn, worm-eaten, and deliberately mutilated, of “the births, marriages and deaths of [our] ancestors dating back 263 years.” (Heidgerd). Throughout the 20th century, we probed, proposed, published, and discussed, and in so doing, kept the hearthstones warm. A new century promises to rekindle old memories and to renew interest in our beginnings. Things we once saw “through a glass,” we now see clearly. Though the ancient Wicres register has long since perished, a vast new body of evidence has come to light, thanks to the research of descendants of Chrétien’s “other” daughter, Anne, who still live and work near Wicres. The DBFA is now in possession of a large number of manuscripts and related documents, recently retrieved from the Archives Départementales de Lille (“the Archives du Nord”), and the Archives Municipales de Lille by Monsieur eric Bourgoin and Madame elisabeth Peckeu, two excellent French généalogistes employed for that purpose. The documents represent actes passed in the presence of official witnesses and notaries, as required by the feudal system under which our ancestors lived. such actes were generated whenever a transaction touched on the individual’s feudal responsibilities. Many of these documents bear Chrétien’s own signature. other actes bear the signatures of his father Maître Antoine du Bois -- a justice official, who, at the time of his death between 1615 and 1619, was greffier et receveur of the seigneurie de Coupigny -- his mother Anne Cousin, his grandfather Louis du Bois, and three of his six siblings, namely, Jacques, Ferry, and François.

• *Memberships: Groupement Généalogique de la Région du Nord; American Mensa Ltd.; society of Mayflower Descendants; Baronial order of Magna Charta; Plantagenet society; DuBois Family Association.

sources:  Archives du nord:  sale to Anne Cousin, 2e3/7435-99 (1619); agreement of heirs, 2e3/7501-9 (1602); assignment of censes, 2e3/7430-61 (1641); contract  of marriage of François du Bois and Jenne le Blon, 2e3/7977-68 (December 5, 1634); and Attestation Documents, (2e3/7787-27 (1718),  2e3/7787-33 (1718), 2e3/7787-34 (1718),  2e3/7787-35 (1718)).  editions:  Proverbs 10:7; i Corinthians 13:12; Francis De Vos, Vers la Liberté 94, 117, 139 (2007);  William Heidgerd, The American Descendants of  Chrétien du Bois of Wicres, France vol. 9,  p. ii (1974); Bi-Centenary Reunion of the Descendants of Louis and Jacques du Bois: (emigrants  to America 1660 and 1675) pp. 29-30 (1876); 1 sir edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England § 48.a. (Legal  Classics Library 1985); M. Chassan, Essai Sur la Symbolique du Droit, p. 390 (Paris 1847); M. de Vegiano, sr de Hovel, Suite du Supplément  Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, et du Comté de Bourgogne pp. 54, 62 (Malines 1779); Bulletin de la Commission Historique du Département du Nord  vol. 20, pp. 74, 76 (Lille 1897). 

      Microfilm (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints (“FHL”)):  Fiches op de Waalse registers, 1500-1828, Card index of Huguenots in the netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere.   Known as the Leiden Collection, FHL film no. 0199813; Registers van kerkelijke huwelijksproclamatiën (der Gereformeerden), 1575-1811,  Huwelijksafkondigingen 1642-1653, FHL film no. 0119016, p. 200(b)). Französisch-Reformierte Kirche Mannheim, FHL film no. 1192139.  unpublished Manuscript: eric Bourgoin, Historical/Explanatory Report «Chrétien du Bois», February 24, 2008, p. 5.  electronic: Généalogie Doresmieulx: http://chateaudelapree.blogspot.com/2009/05/genealogie doresmieulx.html. 

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