Nicolas Flournoy of Flornoy

added by Marvin Loyd Welborn, 12th Great Grandson, 02 May 2018. Nicholas Flournoy was father of:

(1) Laurent Flournoy, born about 1523 in France and died 8 December 1593, aged 70 years, in Geneva, after a long illness. [Family tradition says that Laurent left his homeland and abandoned his lands in 1562, at the time of the Massacre of Vassy when the Duke of Guise’s men attacked a group of protestants who were holding a worship service in a barn near the village. The lands he abandoned were said to lie between Attancourt, Magneux, Brouzeval and Flournoy.] (2) Claude Flournoy, who had at least four children. His son Pierre was canon at Bar-le-Duc. Of Claude’s three daughters, one married Simon Tivet, inhabitant of St. Dizier in Champagne. (3) Nicolas Flournoy, father of Claude, inhabitant of Attancourt, and of Jean, Susanne, Prudence, and Anne. (4) A daughter who married ___ Gallois or Galoys, of whom she had Zacharie, Abel, and Valentine who was the wife of Didier Jaquot of Magneux pres Vassy in Champagne. On 29 November 1585, Laurent Flournoy vouched for Abel Galois of Vassy, lapidary, when the latter was received HG. Others he vouched for were Claude Pernier, mercer, of Salanche in Faucigny, 25 September 1572, and Laurens Tomas, lapidary, of Compiegne in Picardy, 21 March 1586. [In his will, made 1591, Laurent mentions his neephew Zacharie Galois, hatter, who seems to have been residing in Geneva.]

Bettye S. Rathbone, "Some Of The Ancestors Of Francis Flournoy, Sr. Of Chesterfield County, Virginia," 1985, Nortex Press, a Division of Eakin Publications, Inc.

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