Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NamePierre / Daniel DeVeaux
Birth1608, La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieur, Royaume de France
Death1679
FatherClaude DeVeaux (1574-~1637)
MotherMarie Clement
Notes for Pierre / Daniel DeVeaux
13.
2 Children
Nicholas
Abraham
4 DE VEAUX GENEALOGY.
of France), and the ancient possessions of the Princes oi Baux^
in that country are still called " Les Terres Baussengues,""
comprising Aix, Marseilles, etc.
In the year 1140 the Vauxes disputed the sovereignty of
Provence with the house of Barcelona, and in 1173 they
acquired the principality of Orange by marriage with Ti-
burge, heiress of Orange.
" "" Bertram de Vaux was Count of Montescaziosi, and
married Beatrix, daughter of """'Charles II., King of Naples
and Sicily.
EARLY INTRODUCTION OF THE NAME. 5
•de Vaux ; attended a tournament in the year 929, and was a
favorite of '"''Robert I., Duke of Normandy, grandfather of
William tJie Conqueror. The names of the descendants of
this Bertrand are traced through the Rolles Normand, writ-
ten Bajix, Vaux, Vaulx, &c."
In the next earliest French records we find ^^^^jfeaude
Veau, gallant , who assisted, with seve-
ral other noblemen, in 1302 at the assizes of the Seneschal of
Beauraime." Then appears:
^^Rahnond de Veau, gallant son of 'Teu Pierre Garin de
Vaux ; and
^^Pierre Rigaud de Vaux who pledged fidelity and duty
to the ""Countess Elinore de Cominges in 1343."
The DeVoor/ DeVeaux family of d' Artois, France
Probably born in Picardy on Walloon soil. Also De Vaux, Devoe, Devoir spellings. Daniel is recorded as Daniel Vooren in the Tappan, Rockland CO. NY records. Daniel & brothers Frederick, Nicholas and Jacob, with their parents--Daniel DeVoor/DeVeaux was a son of Nicholas DeVeaux and Susanne Francois--left Annis , France, to escape persecution as Huguenots. Went to Mannheim, Germany, with king's murderous troopers at their heels. Almost captured. When Mannheim was invaded by Louis XIV, Daniel & Nicholas escaped to England. They came to NY with Sir Edmund Andros, when he became 2nd Governor of NY. Parents stayed in Germany and were killed. Jacob & Frederick came to New Harlem in 1675.
Excerpted from "Devore Family 1500-1992, Betty Mann," <http://www.longislandsurnames.com/>; 14 December 2014.
This Nicholas is listed as the father of the DeVeaux families who fled Europe due to continuous warfare, desolation, and religious persecution, immigrating to America from France, the Spanish Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, the Palatinate of the Rhine, and England during the period of 1653 to 1674.
Our timeframe, 1556 to 1656, was one of continual religious wars between the predominant Catholic states and the newly Reformed and Lutheran states of Europe and continual state wars within the ranks of Catholic Europe. As a French Huguenot, life was perilous. [French Huguenots in the Spanish Netherlands]
The breaking out of war between France and Spain in 1635 caused a considerable influx of Protestant refugees into England, from Picardy, Artois, Hainault and Flanders. Involving these provinces in all the perils and disasters of a pitiless border warfare, and lasting nearly the fourth of a century, it resulted in the conquest of Artois, and parts of Flanders and Hainault, and their annexation to France. . .
While many left Picardy, the French advance and successes in Hainault and Artois were causing a larger migration of the Protestant Walloons; and among these also a number whose destiny led them to Harlem. We can make but brief allusion to such events, military or otherwise, in their respective localities, as seemingly influenced their removal. . .
From Mons, the rich capital of [Hainault], seated to the north of Avesnes, and within the coal region called the Borinage, came David du Four, of the same name, and not improbably the same blood, as the martyr of Le Cateau, but whose posterity, which became numerous in his country, changed the form of their name to Devoor and Devoe.
Riker, James, "Revised History of Harlem, 1904," p. 63-65.
So by 1656, Spain had renewed the Eighty-Years War with the Dutch Republic; Manheim and the Lower Palatinate had been sacked; the French Army invaded the Spanish Netherlands, doing to County Artois what the Spanish Army did to the Palatinate of the Rhine; and our brother Huguenots in France were being slaughtered. If watching your friends and neighbors fight a religious war while worrying for your family's safety wasn't enough to run you off, invasion and desolation by the French Army was. This is the point where our ethnic French Huguenot families began their flight to freedom.
In fear for their lives, the purported children of Nicholas fled to Sedan, France, and the towns of the Palatinate of the Rhine, and the Dutch Republic, and even England, eventually finding refuge in America. Those were the children. Nothing more is know about this Nicholas DeVeaux.
Research Note: In order to be successful during their flight to safety, eventually settling in America, these family members would have had to be able to read, write, and speak French then German then Dutch and then English.
Born c. 1595 d' Artois, France
Married c. 1615 to an unknown spouse
c. 1655 Possibly fled to Manheim, Palatinate of the Rhine
Date and place of death unknown
Children
Research Note: The following is a list of DeVeaux immigrants to New Amsterdam/ New York but not necessarily a list of Nicholas' children.
1. Nicholas DeVaux b. c. 1620 County of Artois, Spanish Netherlands
2. Matheus DeVos
Born c. 1625 in Spanish Netherlands
Married c. 1750 in France to Anna Peters b. c. 1730
Fled c. 1653 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated by 1653 to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Married 11/5/1656 in New Amsterdam, Dutch America to Maria Pollet b. c. 1625
Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, Dutch America:
1656 05 Nov; Mattheus de Vos, wid Anna Peters;
Maria Pollet, wid Philip Gerar.
Worked as a lawyer for litigant parties
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
No further information
3. Henry DeVos
Born c. 1627 in Spanish Netherlands
Fled c. 1655 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1658 w/ sister Anne to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Married c. 1658 in New Amsterdam, Dutch America to Geertje Seltens b. c. 1638
Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan, New Amsterdam; 9/24/1659
Parents Child Sponsors
Hans de Vos
Geertje Seltens Mary
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
No further information
4. David DuFour
Born c. 1630 Mons, County Hainault, Spanish Netherlands
Married c. 1652 in France to Maria Boulyn b. c. 1635 in France
Fled c. 1655 to Sedan, France
Married 7/10/1657 in Sedan, France to Jeanne Frances b. 1625 Quievrain, County Hainault, Spanish Netherlands
1657 Fled to Amsterdam, the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1657 to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan, New Amsterdam; 7/7/1658
Parents Child Sponsors
David de Four Jannetje Frans Joris Joris
Hester Vincent
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
1674 Settled in Harlem, New York
1677 Obtained 60 acre grant at Turtle Bay, Manhattan NY
Died 1698 Turtle Bay, Manhattan NY
1699 Manhattan NY Probate
NEW YORK CALENDAR OF WILLS, p. 97:
Septbr. 14, 1671. David Du Four, from Bergen [now Mons, Belgium], and his wife Jannetje Frans from Guevrerin near Valeneyn [Belgium], living at Deudelbay [Turtle Bay, Manhattan] N.Y.
The survivor [surviving spouse], the sons David, Peter, and Claudeans; a son Jan by the first wife Maria Boulyn. Real and personal property. The survivor [surviving spouse] to be executor.
Endorsed by Johannes Kipp, one of the witnesses, in May 1699.
5. Anna DeVos
Born c. 1635 in Spanish Netherlands
Fled c. 1655 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1658 w/ brother Henry to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
Married 4/11/1665 in Manhattan, New York to Christiaen Luyerszen b. c. 1635 Bremen, Duchy of Holstein
Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, Dutch America::
1665 11 Apr; Christiaen Luyerszen, jm van Ley, in't Stift van Bremin;
Anna de Vos, jd van Amsterdam.
2 Children
Nicholas
Abraham
4 DE VEAUX GENEALOGY.
of France), and the ancient possessions of the Princes oi Baux^
in that country are still called " Les Terres Baussengues,""
comprising Aix, Marseilles, etc.
In the year 1140 the Vauxes disputed the sovereignty of
Provence with the house of Barcelona, and in 1173 they
acquired the principality of Orange by marriage with Ti-
burge, heiress of Orange.
" "" Bertram de Vaux was Count of Montescaziosi, and
married Beatrix, daughter of """'Charles II., King of Naples
and Sicily.
EARLY INTRODUCTION OF THE NAME. 5
•de Vaux ; attended a tournament in the year 929, and was a
favorite of '"''Robert I., Duke of Normandy, grandfather of
William tJie Conqueror. The names of the descendants of
this Bertrand are traced through the Rolles Normand, writ-
ten Bajix, Vaux, Vaulx, &c."
In the next earliest French records we find ^^^^jfeaude
Veau, gallant , who assisted, with seve-
ral other noblemen, in 1302 at the assizes of the Seneschal of
Beauraime." Then appears:
^^Rahnond de Veau, gallant son of 'Teu Pierre Garin de
Vaux ; and
^^Pierre Rigaud de Vaux who pledged fidelity and duty
to the ""Countess Elinore de Cominges in 1343."
The DeVoor/ DeVeaux family of d' Artois, France
Probably born in Picardy on Walloon soil. Also De Vaux, Devoe, Devoir spellings. Daniel is recorded as Daniel Vooren in the Tappan, Rockland CO. NY records. Daniel & brothers Frederick, Nicholas and Jacob, with their parents--Daniel DeVoor/DeVeaux was a son of Nicholas DeVeaux and Susanne Francois--left Annis , France, to escape persecution as Huguenots. Went to Mannheim, Germany, with king's murderous troopers at their heels. Almost captured. When Mannheim was invaded by Louis XIV, Daniel & Nicholas escaped to England. They came to NY with Sir Edmund Andros, when he became 2nd Governor of NY. Parents stayed in Germany and were killed. Jacob & Frederick came to New Harlem in 1675.
Excerpted from "Devore Family 1500-1992, Betty Mann," <http://www.longislandsurnames.com/>; 14 December 2014.
This Nicholas is listed as the father of the DeVeaux families who fled Europe due to continuous warfare, desolation, and religious persecution, immigrating to America from France, the Spanish Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, the Palatinate of the Rhine, and England during the period of 1653 to 1674.
Our timeframe, 1556 to 1656, was one of continual religious wars between the predominant Catholic states and the newly Reformed and Lutheran states of Europe and continual state wars within the ranks of Catholic Europe. As a French Huguenot, life was perilous. [French Huguenots in the Spanish Netherlands]
The breaking out of war between France and Spain in 1635 caused a considerable influx of Protestant refugees into England, from Picardy, Artois, Hainault and Flanders. Involving these provinces in all the perils and disasters of a pitiless border warfare, and lasting nearly the fourth of a century, it resulted in the conquest of Artois, and parts of Flanders and Hainault, and their annexation to France. . .
While many left Picardy, the French advance and successes in Hainault and Artois were causing a larger migration of the Protestant Walloons; and among these also a number whose destiny led them to Harlem. We can make but brief allusion to such events, military or otherwise, in their respective localities, as seemingly influenced their removal. . .
From Mons, the rich capital of [Hainault], seated to the north of Avesnes, and within the coal region called the Borinage, came David du Four, of the same name, and not improbably the same blood, as the martyr of Le Cateau, but whose posterity, which became numerous in his country, changed the form of their name to Devoor and Devoe.
Riker, James, "Revised History of Harlem, 1904," p. 63-65.
So by 1656, Spain had renewed the Eighty-Years War with the Dutch Republic; Manheim and the Lower Palatinate had been sacked; the French Army invaded the Spanish Netherlands, doing to County Artois what the Spanish Army did to the Palatinate of the Rhine; and our brother Huguenots in France were being slaughtered. If watching your friends and neighbors fight a religious war while worrying for your family's safety wasn't enough to run you off, invasion and desolation by the French Army was. This is the point where our ethnic French Huguenot families began their flight to freedom.
In fear for their lives, the purported children of Nicholas fled to Sedan, France, and the towns of the Palatinate of the Rhine, and the Dutch Republic, and even England, eventually finding refuge in America. Those were the children. Nothing more is know about this Nicholas DeVeaux.
Research Note: In order to be successful during their flight to safety, eventually settling in America, these family members would have had to be able to read, write, and speak French then German then Dutch and then English.
Born c. 1595 d' Artois, France
Married c. 1615 to an unknown spouse
c. 1655 Possibly fled to Manheim, Palatinate of the Rhine
Date and place of death unknown
Children
Research Note: The following is a list of DeVeaux immigrants to New Amsterdam/ New York but not necessarily a list of Nicholas' children.
1. Nicholas DeVaux b. c. 1620 County of Artois, Spanish Netherlands
2. Matheus DeVos
Born c. 1625 in Spanish Netherlands
Married c. 1750 in France to Anna Peters b. c. 1730
Fled c. 1653 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated by 1653 to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Married 11/5/1656 in New Amsterdam, Dutch America to Maria Pollet b. c. 1625
Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, Dutch America:
1656 05 Nov; Mattheus de Vos, wid Anna Peters;
Maria Pollet, wid Philip Gerar.
Worked as a lawyer for litigant parties
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
No further information
3. Henry DeVos
Born c. 1627 in Spanish Netherlands
Fled c. 1655 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1658 w/ sister Anne to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Married c. 1658 in New Amsterdam, Dutch America to Geertje Seltens b. c. 1638
Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan, New Amsterdam; 9/24/1659
Parents Child Sponsors
Hans de Vos
Geertje Seltens Mary
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
No further information
4. David DuFour
Born c. 1630 Mons, County Hainault, Spanish Netherlands
Married c. 1652 in France to Maria Boulyn b. c. 1635 in France
Fled c. 1655 to Sedan, France
Married 7/10/1657 in Sedan, France to Jeanne Frances b. 1625 Quievrain, County Hainault, Spanish Netherlands
1657 Fled to Amsterdam, the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1657 to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan, New Amsterdam; 7/7/1658
Parents Child Sponsors
David de Four Jannetje Frans Joris Joris
Hester Vincent
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
1674 Settled in Harlem, New York
1677 Obtained 60 acre grant at Turtle Bay, Manhattan NY
Died 1698 Turtle Bay, Manhattan NY
1699 Manhattan NY Probate
NEW YORK CALENDAR OF WILLS, p. 97:
Septbr. 14, 1671. David Du Four, from Bergen [now Mons, Belgium], and his wife Jannetje Frans from Guevrerin near Valeneyn [Belgium], living at Deudelbay [Turtle Bay, Manhattan] N.Y.
The survivor [surviving spouse], the sons David, Peter, and Claudeans; a son Jan by the first wife Maria Boulyn. Real and personal property. The survivor [surviving spouse] to be executor.
Endorsed by Johannes Kipp, one of the witnesses, in May 1699.
5. Anna DeVos
Born c. 1635 in Spanish Netherlands
Fled c. 1655 to the Dutch Republic
Immigrated 1658 w/ brother Henry to New Amsterdam, Dutch America
1664 New Amsterdam captured by the British; renamed New York
Married 4/11/1665 in Manhattan, New York to Christiaen Luyerszen b. c. 1635 Bremen, Duchy of Holstein
Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, Dutch America::
1665 11 Apr; Christiaen Luyerszen, jm van Ley, in't Stift van Bremin;
Anna de Vos, jd van Amsterdam.