Francois de Moucheron primary source record

You will find very few existing primary source documents which mention our ancestor Francois de Moucheron and his wife Sarah Martijns. We know that he grew up in Middleburg, Holland and at some point in the late 1580s removed to La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) France where they had at least 7 children. We find only the baptism of one child, named Sara for her mother. Below is an extract published in

Inventaire-sommaire des archives hospitalières antérieures à 1790 

Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime

 

The sketchy abstracts of St.-Martin-de-Re

This is an extracted (even the signature was "duplicated") record of the baptism of Henriette de Moucheron (daughter of Guillaume de Moucheron and Henriette Le Court) 9 Nov 1653 St.-Martin-de-Re.
Her godfather was her paternal grandfather Pierre de Moucheron. Wonder how to get my hands on an image of the original? Perhaps the godmother was the maternal grandmother... perhaps not, but still, maybe a clue!

Guillaume de Moucheron is sued in 1656

Today my cousin Michel in France sent me this document from The Charente-Maritime Archive in La Rochelle. He and his wife spent a great deal of time and effort to find it, and I can't thank them enough. Researching legal and notarial documents in France is quite difficult. We had a case number and the name of the notary, still it took him hours to find the document on Guillaume de Moucheron and his wife Henriette Le Court.

Essentially Guillaume and his wife Henriette were being sued by a wine merchant named Giraudin for the non-payment of a wine delivery, two years after the fact. The delivery was 28 Oct 1654 and this court document dates from 1656.  The cost was 273 Livres....

my cousin Michel translated part of the document : (I quote his email)

Line 1 : "Maître Georges Reveau, conseiller et avocat du Roi ...."

Line 2 : "en paiement de la somme de deux cent soixante douze livres ..." (in payment of the sum of 272 pounds)

Line 3 : "livraison du vin ..." (wine delivery)

Line 4 : " ... Guillaume de Moucheron et Henriette Lecourt sa femme ..."

Line 7 : "... marchand de vin ... "(wine merchant)

Line 8 : "vingt-huit octobre mil six cent cinquante quatre ..." (28 Oct 1654)

Line 9 : "... la somme de deux cent soixante douze livres..." (sum of 272 pounds)


Apart from this fascinating document concerning our ancestor.. we also learn that at the time of the delivery (and also at the time of the document) Guillaume and his wife Henriette resided in the village of St.-Martin-de-Re (Saint Martin isle de Re). This explains why the protestant registers of La Rochelle are silent in regards to Guillaume and his family before 1660. It also tells us that they were married previous to/or around the date of 28 October 1654. Could this have been for his wedding celebration? I believe it probably was.  Unfortunately the Protestant registers of St. Martin are far from complete and only a very sketchy transcription for this period exists. (My next post will show exactly the lack of detail these extracts contain).

First Child born to Pierre Bardet & Marie de Moucheron

This is a pretty exiting document, the baptism of Marie-Susanne Bardet, born the 12th and baptized the 14th of May 1683. Her godparents were her maternal grandfather Guillaume de Moucheron and her godmother her paternal grandmother Susanne Fleuriot. Both godparents sign the act, and this is the only time you will ever find a signature for Susanne Fleuriot, which looks to have been a struggle for her. Exiting none the less!

Pierre de Moucheron & Marie Geay dit Jay family

The maternal great-grandparents of our Anne...

What became of Anne-Helene Bardet born 1692?

For years the internet French-Canadian genealogy community has persisted in identifying our Anne-Marie Bardet, wife of Joseph Larchevesque of Canada as the child born 8 February 1692 and baptized at Saint-Barthelemy de La Rochelle daughter of Pierre Bardet and his wife Marie de Moucheron. Our ancestor was actually an older sister to this Anne-Helene. Our ancestor Anne-Marie was born 6 Jan 1688 and baptized at Saint-Barthelemy.

Tonight I have discovered the fate of the younger sister previously identified in all online sources as our Anne.

Source:

De 1686 à 1789, le couvent des Dames de la Foi, à Pons, a servi de lieu d’endoctrinement des protestantes pour les faire revenir à la religion catholique. On les appellait "les Nouvelles Catholiques". Quelques détails révèlent les méthodes employées.

Source : Recueil de la Commission des Arts et Monuments Historiques de la Charente-Inférieure - T. XI - Années 1891-92 - BNF Gallica

"Bardet, Hélène, 19 à 20 ans, de La Rochelle, fille d’un commissaire de la marine, décédée, 30 septembre 1711-15 janvier 1712."

This fits very well with the baptism in 1692 incorrectly attributed to our Anne

Our Anne married under the first name Anne 

She died 29 August 1752 aged 63 years (born about 1689) 

Guillaume de Moucheron's property confiscated

After the revocation of The Edict of Nantes (which had allowed Protestants in France to worship freely) by Louis XIV in October of 1685, our Guillaume de Moucheron was listed as a religious Fugitive and his property in La Rochelle was confiscated by the state.