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About Pierre Billiou
Not the son of Thomas Billiou & Aime ‘Ann’ Bailliou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Billiou
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Billiou-1
Disputed Origins
The earliest reference for "Aime" as the mother of Abigail (Balliou) Dunham seems to have been in the 1962 "Workman Family History" which is also when the Huguenot and Walloon claim seems to originate. It asserts without argument that Abigail Balliou and Pierre Billiou were siblings. The author also asserts that Abigail's mother was named Aime and that her father Thomas Balliou was "of LaBassee, or Wicres, in 'French Flanders'". [10]
The author presumably conflated them as siblings because of their similar surname, that they were both in Leiden, and that both went to North America (though Pierre went to New Netherland in 1661).
Two of her daughter's marriages were civil ceremonies. Abigail's known family does not appear in the Walloon church records.
Pierre Billiou or Balliou was a French Huguenot. He was married at the Walloon church in Leiden, and at that time his birth location was given as Rijsel (now Lille, France). His marriage record clearly states his father's name as Jeacq, who was a witness to the marriage. [11] Wicres is about 15km southwest of Lille, and La Bassée 5km southwest of Wicres. Wicres is the alleged birth place of Pierre's father-in-law Chrétien du Bois. It's possible that this information was somehow distorted and applied to Thomas Balliou as well.
There is currently no information to support the idea that Abigail and Pierre were related. There were in fact other families with names similiar to "Baillou" (and its many variations) in Leiden during this time. An Erfgoed Leiden search for "ba*l*u" as a surname comes up with 232 hits between 1590 and 1690. And other variants exist, ending with "w" or "e", or starting instead with "Bi" for instance.
May 9, 1661, Pierre Bilyeu left Amsterdam, Holland for New York on a Dutch Ship called the St. Jan Baptiste. He arrived August 6, 1661. He laid out the first Staten Island town (New Amsterdam). It was there that Pierre built a house (on Staten Island) in 1662, that still stands today. The house is part of the Staton Island Historical Society. One of Pierre's children worked as an overseer for Peter Styvasant's estate. There is a house in NY named "Stillwell-Perrine House" for Pierre's daughter Martha who married Captain Thomas Stillwell. The tree out the back door was planted by the Bilyeu's in 1650. Pierre was a New York land owner and magistrate there. In January 17, 1695/96, Pierre signed a pre-nuptial agreement with Gerritje (wife #2) in New York.
Pierre is listed in the Tx Society of Colonial Dames Registry. Members are:
- 21111 Janet Marie Kimball Kelly
- 10472 Susan Smith Kimball
- 22696 Carole Anne Kimball
Pierre is listed in the National Huguenot Society.
Father was Thomas Bilyeu (Billiou).
On Aug. 22, 1661 Pierre, with eighteen associates, petitioned the Governor of the Province to grant them land upon which to settle on Staten Island. A majority of the petitioners later dropped out, but Billiou persevered and eventually settled there. It was he who succeeded in pacifying the Indians where others had failed and it was he who, with the assistance of the Government's surveyor, laid out the first Staten Island town. He was later appointed judicial officer of the first court, established 28 Jan. 1664; was a delegate to the General Assembly in Manhattan 10 April 1664; was appointed a Lieutenant of Militia, 14 May 1669; and was, on Aug. 25, 1673, elected Schout and Schepen (sheriff and magistrate) during the Dutch reoccupation.
He died on 6 Jan 1708 in Staten Island, Richmond, NY. Pierre Billiou's will, dated 11 Sept. 1699, was proved in Staten Island in 1702.
Pierre Billeu emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1661. He lived on
Staten Island and was prominent in the early settlement.
baptized about 1625 at La Bassee, or Wicres, in "French Flanders" (actually Belgian territory which was then in the possession of the King of Spain but which afterwards became a part of Artois, France.)
As a result of the persecution of the Walloons (French Huguenots of the early 17th century) Pierre eventually went to Leyden, Holland, where he was married 20 April 1649 in the Walloon church to FRANCOISE DU BOIS23B (dau of Christian Du Bois Pierre registering as being of Lille, France, and she from Reims (Rheims) France.
At least four of the five children that were born to this couple in Holland were baptized in the Walloon church in Leyden before the family embarked at Amsterdam in the ship St. Jan Baptist, 9 May 1661. They arrived in New York (then known as New Amsterdam) 6 Aug. 1661. On Aug. 22 that year Pierre, with eighteen associates, petitioned the Governor of the Province to grant them land upon which to settle on Staten Island. A majority of the petitioners later dropped out, but Billiou persevered and eventually settled there. It was he who succeeded in pacifying the Indians where others had failed and it was he who, with the assistance of the Government's surveyor, laid out the first Staten Island town. He was later appointed judicial officer of the first court, established 28 Jan. 1664; was a delegate to the General Assembly in Manhattan 10 April 1664; was appointed a Lieutenant of Militia, 14 May 1669; and was, on Aug. 25, 1673, elected Schout and Schepen (sheriff and, magistrate) during the Dutch reoccupation.
Pierre Billiou married a second time to MRS. GERRITJE LAMBERTS SPIEGELAER (widow of Jan Spiegelaer.) They entered in an antenuptial agreement 17 Jan. 1695/6. In later years Pierre owned property in New Jersey as well as on Staten Island and, as seen above, his children began moving to Somerset County, around Raritan, the stronghold of the Workmans.
http://www.workmanfamily.org/histories/AndersonBook/TheBilyeus.html
http://www.toll-booth.net/bilyeu.html
PIERRE (PETER) BILLIOU, son of Thomas Bilyeu 1B , was baptized about 1625 at La Bassee, or Wicres, in "French Flanders" (actually Belgian territory which was then in the possession of the King of Spain but which afterwards became a part of Artois, France.) As a result of the persecution of the Walloons (French Huguenots of the early 17th century) Pierre eventually went to Leyden, Holland, where he was married 20 April 1649 in the Walloon church to FRANCOISE DU BOIS23B (dau of Christian Du Bois22B Pierre registering as being of Lille, France, and she from Reims (Rheims) France.
At least four of the five children that were born to this couple in Holland were baptized in the Walloon church in Leyden before the family embarked at Amsterdam in the ship St. Jan Baptist, 9 May 1661. They arrived in New York (then known as New Amsterdam) 6 Aug. 1661. On Aug. 22 that year Pierre, with eighteen associates, petitioned the Governor of the Province to grant them land upon which to settle on Staten Island. A majority of the petitioners later dropped out, but Billiou persevered and eventually settled there. It was he who succeeded in pacifying the Indians where others had failed and it was he who, with the assistance of the Government's surveyor, laid out the first Staten Island town. He was later appointed judicial officer of the first court, established 28 Jan. 1664; was a delegate to the General Assembly in Manhattan 10 April 1664; was appointed a Lieutenant of Militia, 14 May 1669; and was, on Aug. 25, 1673, elected Schout and Schepen (sheriff and, magistrate) during the Dutch reoccupation.
http://www.sheltons.net/genes/22.html
Homepage for Billiou Descendants of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Billiou/Ballou/Bailou/Balliou/Barlow built the oldest house remaing on Staten Island
https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/perinehouse
GEDCOM Note
Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I4076:d Line 176415: 2 RIN MH:SC17753
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Pierre Billiou's Timeline
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June 17, 1625
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La Bassee, Wicres, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France
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June 17, 1625
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La Bassee, Flanders, France
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1625
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La Bassee, France
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March 3, 1650
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Leyden, South Holland, The Netherlands
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February 8, 1651
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Leiden
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February 8, 1652
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Leiden, Rhynland, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
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August 23, 1654
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Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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1654
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Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
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October 1658
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Reusel (Present Reusel-De Mierden), Kempenlant, S'Hertogenbosch, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (present The Netherlands)
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