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  • François-Pierre Mayeux (bef.1723 - 1765)
    Sources: Census - "Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745" edited by Bill Barron (married to Nicolle Prevot - age: 22) GEDCOM Source @R-2144861598@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publicatio...
  • Marie-Anne-Françoise Cellier (bef.1707 - 1739)
    GEDCOM Source ===@R-2138540273@ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Gale Research Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Original data - Filby, P. William...
  • Melvin G. Wax (1930 - 2018)
    1940 Census in Pittsburgh, with his brother and widowed mother.
  • Nicole Prevost (bef.1729 - 1765)
    Sources: Census - "Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745" edited by Bill Barron (wife of Francois Mahyeux - age: 16) GEDCOM Source @R-2144861598@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication...
  • Pierre-François Mayeux, I (bef.1697 - 1747)
    Sources: Census - "Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745" edited by Bill Barron (married to Marie Francoise Manne - age: 48) Children Cecile MAYEUX b: BEF 1727 in Natchez Post, Miss. ...

About the Wax surname

Wax is the maiden name of Lily Markoff, mother of Pearl (Singer) and Eunice z"l. She had several sisters but one brother Harry (Zvi) who retained the family name of Wax. Harry served in the British Army in pre-State Israel under the British Mandate and after demob, returned to Israel where he lived till his death. He originally worked as Inspector in the Israeli Education Ministry and then moved to Haifa to head the English department of the Reali School and was headmaster at Beth Biram, a high school of the Reali. He had two sons, Danny and Yoav, both deceased.