Many Duvall researchers believe that Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was the son of Massiot Duval and Marguerite d'Orbec. I do not believe this is possible if the information in Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Vol. 5, 2nd Ed., 1772, p. 772 - 773 is accurate (http://books.google.fr/books?id=Kh8VAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA752&lpg=RA1-PA752&dq=massiot+Duval&source=bl&ots=7v-xjZCx-C&sig=Er6TzVKIMNZ3l4AGkSK_s758ycs&hl=fr&ei=HxlyS9bZLoicswO-tuCxCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=massiot%20Duval&f=false). This work is a brief genealogy of many noble French families, including the family of Massiot Duval. Unfortunately this Dictionnaire gives few dates, but based on the dates given I believe it would have been impossible for Massiot Duval and Marguerite d'Orbec to be the parents of Mareen the Emigrant. This book contains the following information (loosely translated by me from French):
Hugh Duval was married to Adeline and lived in 1275. Their son:
Robert Duval was married to Jeanne de Putot and had a son:
Jean Duval who married Marie D'Acou and lived in 1375; they had a son:
Laurent Duval who married Agnes de Marmieu; they had a son:
Guillame Duval who married Alix de Mamufin; they had a son:
Massiot Duval who married Marguerite d'Orbec; they had among other children:
Thomas Duval married Nicola Staggard; they had sons Francois and:
Jacques Duval, who had a son:
Louis Duval lived in 1568 and 1575 and had a son:
Nicholas who married Madelene de Haules and had a son:
Charles who was married in 1604.
Assuming the above dates and names are reasonably accurate it would not have been possible for Mareen Duval the Emigrant to have been the son of Massiott Duval. Some researchers believe that Massiot's son Thomas was the father of Mareen; there is no mention of Mareen the Dictionnaire, and the dates still do not work.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Nancy, Mareen Duval was 'disowned' and written off as 'gone' by his Catholic Royalist family when he became a French Huguenot...he is omitted from the Dictionnaire. He fled to England and joined 150 other dissidents who got on a boat with Colonel William Burgess, another disenchanted Puritan, who already had made it in Virginia, Maryland and ran ships between the countries. Mareen joined Burgess near his property after working off 3 years of indentured service in payment for his passage.
ReplyDeleteI was reading another "Dictionnaire" that had dates that don't line up either. Massiot and Marguerite D'Orbec lived in the 1400's according to that book (Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire ..., Volume 5). Even Thomas would have been way too old to be Mareen's father.Regardless of whether he were "written off" official records, the timeline seems off. If anyone had any ideas about this, please e-mail me at tkduvall@gmail.com. I'd really like to know Mareen's parentage for certain. -Terry DuVall
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete