Jean Nicholas Daree

Nicholas was a farmer from Montbeliard, France. He arrived in Nova Scotia in 1752 on the ship "Betty."

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added by /bjs: Nova Scotia's Montbéliard Names by Terrence M. Punch (Reprinted from the Nova Scotia Genealogist by by permission of the author) Each of us who practices genealogy takes some interest in the origin and provenance of the names of the families upon which our researchers focus our attention. In the case of the great majority of people of British Isles origins it is simply a matter of going to the library and looking up the surname. The surnames of people from Montbeliard are generally not among those to be found in the standard references consulted by anglophones. This article offers an English language presentation of information on the subject of the French Protestant family names which reached Nova Scotia from Montbéliard in the middle years of the eighteenth century. Between 1954 and 1960, a Lutheran pastor in Montbéliard , named Charles Mathiot, published a treatise noting 463 surnames which were found in the former Principality of Montbéliard. It appeared in the French Lutheran monthly, L'Ami Chrétien, as a serial item. With the permission of Professor J.M.Debard, president of the Société d’Emulation de Montbéliard, I have translated that work. By this agency, I am able to offer the Mathiot articles on about thirty surnames which continued (sometimes in garbled form) to be used in Nova Scotia beyond the first few years of arrival in this province. To assist those readers who are unclear as to the location of Montbéliard, it lies north of Switzerland, west of the Rhine and of Alsace. DAREY, Daurey, Dorrey: The first known mention of this name is found at Nommay in 1494. Then Vautherin, son of Estevenin Dorrey, appears at Coisevaux in 1499; and in 1509 we find Petrement Daurey at Coisevaux. The family remained there under the form Daurey (Darey in dialect) and spread to Luze and then to Chagey. These Dareys were makers of wooden tools, and were well-esteemed for their billhooks and axes which they sold at fairs and markets. A branch of Dareys was found at Bart between 1562 and 1619. In 1531, Hugues, a weaver and son of the late Mathis Darey, carter at Bart, was admitted as a citizen of Montbéliard; and in 1635, Michael, son of Nicolas Darey of Coisevaux, labourer, was likewise made a citizen.

Burial info:

1767, March 14, Nicolas Darée, [signed by Peter De la Roche]. [Records of St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, N.S., Book 1, Burials 1767.]That description could be anywhere in the township (what is now Lunenburg County)"

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Immigrated from France in 1752 on the Betty to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

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Nicholas Dare was a 42 year-old farmer from the Principality of Montbeliard, Lutheran in Religion. Montbeliard at that time was independent, not part of France until 1793, long after Nicholas had left there. He was baptized at Tremoins, Montbelliard, 2 June 1709. Although of the Protestant faith, he was not a Hugenot.