Chrétien DuBois
Chrétien du Bois (1597-1655) was a French official in the Comté (Count) of Coupigny.
He was the father of three Protestant French-speaking immigrants to colonial New York.[1] One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s.[2]
Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.[3]
Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille. Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier & receveur of the Comté of Coupigny. He died sometime after 1641.
Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him. Further DNA testing of several descendants including Sarah Du Bois Van Meter have tested positive in the nobility lineage. [1]
Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld,[4] actor Marlon Brando, Jr., [wood family settled in Carolina and finally Tennessee agricultural and industrial monopoly][5] painter Mary Cassatt,[6] journalist Maria Shriver (wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III[7] and film director George Lucas. W. E. B. Du Bois is also said to be a descendant.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Henry B. Hoff, F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S., Some Observations on the Du Bois Family, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July 1995, pp. 175-177
- ^ Richard Baldwin Cook - All of the Above II 2007 - Page 260 "Louis was the son of Chrétien DuBois (1597- 1655), who was a true native of French Flanders (and so, most likely, was his son) and who died prior to the marriage of his son Louis to Catherine Blanchan."
- ^ Horton, Monte. "The Memory of the Just is Blessed" (PDF). Dubois Family News. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ William Ogden Wheeler, Ogden Family in America (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907) pp. 249-250 (No. 885), p. 369 (No. 2068) (Dubois, Floyd)
- ^ Gary Boyd Roberts, "Royal Descents, Notable Kin and Printed Sources #78: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)," www.newenglandancestors.org (visited 2 Sep 2005)
- ^ Dubois Family Association Newsletter, June 1994, n.p. (This indicates her grandfather was Denis Cassatt, her great-grandfather Daniel Cassatt, and does not give the name of Margaretta (Van Este) Cassatt's husband, shown as the great-great-grandfather.); National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol XXXIII (New York: James T. White & Co., 1947), pp. 128-129 (This states from the immigrant, Jacques Cossairt and wife Lydia Willems "the descent was through David and Styntje Joris (Van Hoorne) Cossairt; Francis, who served in the convention which framed the first constitution of Pennsylvania and Mary (Van Nest) Cassat, and Daniel and Lydia (Simpson) Cassat, the artist's grandparents."); Anne Cassat Nash, David Williams Cassat and Lilliam May Berryhill: Their Descendants and Ancestors (n.p.: by author, 1986), pp. 95-98, 150-54 (Cassatt, Van Nest)(This does not list Daniel Cassatt among the children of Francis and Margaretta (Van Nest) Cassatt).
- ^ Gary Boyd Roberts, "Notable Kin: American Ancestors and Kinsmen Via Robert Porteus, Jr., of H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and H.M. the Queen", NEHGS NEXUS IV (Feb.-March 1987), p.27; Mowbray sec. 2, vol. 9, pp. 1184, 1754, 1756.
- ^ DAB, Supp. VII (1961-1965) (1981), pp. 200-05; David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1993), pp. 20-21; Dubois Family Association Newsletter, June 1994, n.p.