Nicolas de Veau

(say 1620 - )
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=25 Mar 2011
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Ancestors of Frank Kenneth DeVoe (1908 - 1998) (#1)
Ancestors of Frank Kenneth DeVoe (1908 - 1998) (#2)
Nicolas de Veau was born say 1620 in Festubert, Province of Artois, France.1,2 Festurbert is several miles east of Bethune, in what was then the province of Artois and is now the département of Pas-de-Calais.

Nicolas de Veau married Susanne François. Nicolas and his family escaped from Festubert in Artois probably around 1658, arriving in Mannheim, Germany by 1667.3,4 The name of Nicolas de Veau appears in the "Registry of the Fathers of the Families composing the French Church of Mannheim, after . . . the Plague . . . which was halted in 1667." The family does not appear in the earlier Registry for 1666.5

Nicolas de Veau married second Susanne Planq on 25 April 1677 at the French Church, Mannheim, Germany; the church record reads, in translation, Nicholas de Vaux, widower of Susanne Francois, and Susanne Planq, widow of Jeremie Dubois have received the nuptial benediction in our Church the Tuesday, 25 day of April, 1677.1

Children of Nicolas de Veau and Susanne François

Citations

  1. [S348] Cort R. DeVoe, "Origins of the DeVoe Family", 50.
  2. [S347] Glenna See Hill, "See and De Vaux Families", 101.
  3. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 50.
  4. [S348] Cort R. DeVoe, "Origins of the DeVoe Family", 53.
  5. [S348] Cort R. DeVoe, "Origins of the DeVoe Family", 49-50.

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