Signatures

Though we lack any pictorial representation of these long ago women and men, we do have for many signatures or marks traced with their own hands which characteristically appear at the bottom of official acts of the Amiens notaries from the late 1570s onward. These personal signatures or marks, of which more than 105 have been extracted and enlarged for this exhibit, can be made to interact with the facts, scarce or plentiful, that we possess about their lives to form memorable individual configurations.

Batch 1

Signature of Marie Bade

13 November 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

She was born in the parish of St. Germain in 1546 [document available], daughter of the weaver Pierre Bade and Dorothe Barre.

Her uncle Jean Badde was fined for refusing to decorate the front of his house for the passage of the Corpus Christi procession in May 1562. She married the weaver Loys Conreur and her father Pierre was godparent for their daughter “Suzanne” whom the couple baptized in the Protestant Church on the outskirts of the city, 29 July 1565. However, Loys Conreur died in 1571 (post-mortem inventory, 7 mai, A.M. FF 363/4; ) “Suzane” the daughter just referred to was not named as a minor child on the inventory and must have died before him ; a son named “Jean” was the only minor child named on the inventory. Marie then married the merchant woolcomber, Philippes Hullot. He too had been fined for failing to decorate the front of his house in 1562. He was more prosperous than Marie’s first husband. Hulot and Marie had two children “Philippe” and “Marie”.

Sometime after the death of Philippe Hullot (senior) in 1583 (post-mortem inventory, 15 May 1583, Protestant-formula will and testament, unsigned, not. Lymeu 12 May 1583), Marie married the merchant weaver Jacques Crampon, her third marriage, (see signature #2) and the family moved to London where they joined the French Refugee Church of Threadneedle Street. Jean Conreur (very likely her son from her first marriage), and Philippe and Marie Hullot all continued as Protestants either in England or, after1600, in Amiens. Marie Hullot married Michel DeBourg in London, November 23, 1602 ; Philippe Hullot married Philipperon Frere in Amiens. In 1614, however Philippe Hullot was present at the London Church witnessing for a Protestant émigré from Amiens Jean Guodebert, whom he said he saw marry and attend services in Amiens but who was “in debt.”

13 November 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Merchant weaver and tapestry weaver (hautelisseur), parish of St. Leu.

Third husband of Marie Bade, his presence is attested on the registers of the Huguenot Church of London in the early 1600s. His presence in Amiens may be signaled by the baptism of a son “David” to a father named Jacques Crampon in the parish of St. Remy, 6 February 1573 (Ficher Guerlain).

He may also be the “Jacques Crampon, husband of Marie Couchy” mentioned in the published Acts of the Consistory of the London Church, 29 April 1573, p. 115, where Marie Couchy is said to have failed in her religious duty by attending mass and “rebaptizing” a child.

Could this child have been the “David” mentioned above? The note in the ConsistoryActs appears amid comments on other religious refugees from Amiens and Rouenbut in this specific case the place of origin is not mentioned. The participation of Jacques Crampon in October, 1577 in a petition before the town council to introduce a new textile product (“hautelisse”), a petition which was signed by a number of specifically Protestant weavers who had spent time in London between 1572 and 1576, is also suggestive of Crampon’s presence in London during those years. See my article “Religious dissidence and secular activism in the Amiens textile trades in the 1570s,” (French) in Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, no. 650, 3rd trimester, 1998, pp. 78-120, esp. pp. 89-92 and 111-112.

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Mark of Jacques Crampon

Signature of Pierre du Four

13 November 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Cretu

Merchant woolcomber, parish of St. Remy; he had been an apprentice woolcomber under Philippe Hullot (See # 1) and was fined 10 sous for failure to decorate for the processions.

Parent with his wife Philipotte Dorion of a child in the Protestant Church, 21 September 1564. Godparent was Noel Maigret (See # 34). He and Philipotte Dorion were alive still in the 1590s and early 1600s, but I have found no evidence regarding their confessional affiliations during that period, though their absence from the Protestant register may bespeak a return to Catholicism.

Signature of Charles Le Bailly

19 July 1583
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau

tapestry weaver, living in the parish of St. Jacques in 1583. He was married to Pacquette de la Chapelle. Pacquette, described as the fiancée of Charles le Bailly, had petitioned the city council to be accepted as a master weaver in the 1557, after first serving as an apprentice starting in 1552. (BB30, 8 April 1557; HH272, fol, 212).

Both spouses were suspects in July 1562 in the parish of St. Sulpice, Fol. 120. Pacquette “femme de Charles de Barly” (sic) was living in the rue du Cleron, but was noted as “absent” on the transcript of the list of suspects. Charles and Pacquette baptized a son “Elie” in the Amiens Protestant Church, 1 November 1564; the godparent was Jehan Lenne (BR fol.4v) possibly the rozetier whose December 23, 1580 will was Protestant in form (Lymeu). When Pacquette de la Chappelle died –but where is her postmortem inventory? -- Charles married Jeanne le Mercher and then Marie Larunel. Various wills made out in 1582 and 1587 with Jeanne le Mercher and in 1589 and 1591 with Marie Larunel are Protestant in form (notary Lymeu), although the 2 November 1591 will with Laurenel invokes the Virgin as well as Christ but not the saints! This adjustment may have been an accommodation to the repression instituted under the Catholic League (which for le Bailly included periods of incarceration and expulsion from the city) rather than a nuance of belief.

Charles le Bailly was a witness at the Protestant prenuptial contract of Abraham de Haudricourt , son of Andrieu, and Collaie Lirot in 1595. (Lymeu 1595). He died sometime before 19 January 1600. Tutelles, FF 1251, fol. 87.

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Mark of Esther Dodo

10 October 1583
Notary Lymeu

Living in the parish of St. Leu, widow. 

Her prenuptial contract with Grégoire COURCHEL, followed the Protestant formula, i.e. the phrase stating that the marriage is to be celebrated “in the sight of Holy Church” is crossed out. She was previously married to the late Adrien DuFay, and was accompanied at the prenuptial contract by her brother-in-law Michel du Fay. Noelle and apparently Grégoire (#9) took refuge in the 1580s at the Threadneedle Street Church in London. An entry in the Consistory books of the Threadneedle Street Church dated 30 March 1587 explains that “Noelle…wife of Gregoire Gourcher (sic) has come from Amiens with testimony from Monsieur du Boÿs (one time minister of Amiens?). Since the recent troubles in France she has returned to attending Mass; nonetheless, seeing her repentance, it has been decided to admit her to the Supper with the promise by her that once the church of Amiens shall have been reestablished she will abide by the determination of that church.” (Ms 3, fol . 267) At Grégoire’s death Noelle married Bertin le Quien, son of Balthazart (#15) in London; Bertin passed away sometime before 1600, but Noelle, described as widow of Bertin le Quien, appears frequently between 1600 and 1603 on the London Church baptism records as a witness/godparent.

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Signature of Claude Harduyn

23 September 1585
Notary Quignon

tailor, Village of Mongival (Sauvillers), husband of Ester Dodo (#5).

Possible relation with Hardouyn/Ardouyn, on 17 th C. BR see Roelly (Famille Jault-Ardouin, “Pierre” Ardouin, born 17 April 1607 Amiens Prot. Church, Guignemicourt; also Hardouin-Faucon family, mid-17 th century Protestant Church). Marguerite Herduyn godparent 27 December 1609.

Signature of Raoul Forestier

28 April 1580
Notary Martin

Living in the parish of St. Leu, former city councilor (échevin), and former Mayor of the city of Amiens.

In the 1560s his Protestant-friendly views caused him to be ostracized from the City Council. He was fined 20 livres, one of the steeper fines, for failing to decorate his house for the Corpus Christi processions. A suspect with his son and daughter in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castillon, July 1562, Fol. 114v. He was godparent for Josias Prevost,Suzanne Berquier, and David de Navarre, children baptized in the Amiens Protestant church in 1565. Other former échevins (city councilors) (e.g. Pierre du Gard, Jehan de Saisseval, Robert de Collemont) were also active in the Protestant church during this time.

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Mark of Noelle Godivelle

23 September 1585
Notary Quignon

She was living in 1585 in the village of Mongival (Sauvillers) with her 2 husband, the tailor Claude Harduyn (see # 6). She was almost certainly the daughter of Anthoine DODO.

In 1560, Anthoine was gatekeeper of the Noyon Gate, one of the main entry points into the city. His associations with Protestantism caused him to be suspected by the Catholic city councilors as a security threat and his continued hold on the office was a controversial issue in the period leading up to the Wars of Religion. Ester according to the norary was 25 years old in 1585 putting her birth and likely Protestant baptism in 1560 or 1561 when formal Protestant worship in Amiens was in its infancy, Ester was part pf the succession of Marguerite Autiquet wife in a later marriage of Jacques de l’Abbeie, merchant gressier and a Protestant.

Mark of Grégoire Courchel

10 October 1583
Notary Lymeu

Fiancé of Noelle Godivelle (#8), weaver, living in the parish of St. Jacques.

Protestant formula for prenuptial contract with Noelle Godivelle. He is son of the weaver Nicolas Courchel and the late Jehenne de St-Jehan

Mark of Robert Mahieu

26 January 1582
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Ribbon maker, husband of Marguerite OBRY, living in the parish of St. Remy. His joint will with Marguerite Obry follows the Protestant formula, not mentioning the Virgin and saints. Suspect with his wife (apparently other than Marguerite Obry) in the parish of St. Germain, July 1562, Fol. 122. See #11.

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Mark of Margaret Obry

26 January 1582
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Living in parish of St. Remy, her joint will with the ribbon maker Robert MAHIEU follows the Protestant formula.

She was given a copy of the will on 19 June 1583. Formerly suspect in the parish of St. Sulpice, July 1562, where she was described as “widow of Jacques Haulue,” Fol. 121. At his prenuptial agreement, the weaver Pierre Hauleve was described as the son of Marguerite Obry (currently married to Robert Mahieu) and the late François Hauleve. (see #38)

Signature of Jehan Vasseur

25 January 1583

Weaver, living in the parish of St. Leu.

In this act he is designated as a guardian for Marie Griffouyn, child of Estienne Griffouyn and Catherine Poullet. The name crops up in the 1560s in a number of Protestant contexts : A Protestant suspect in the parish of St. Leu (and others?), the parent of a child “Marie” baptized by the Protestant minister in April 1562 but driven to “reconcile” this child to Catholicism amid popular anti-Protestant violence in June of that year ; parent in 1564 with wife Colechon FRÈRE of a Protestant child and godparent at the baptisms of no less than four other Protestant couples.

Though the name Jean Vasseur is exceedingly common (an equivalent in that place of “Jones” or “Smith”), strong circumstantial evidence connects the “Jean Vasseur” of the 1583 signature with those prior evidences of Protestant connection. For instance, Estienne Griffouyn for whose daughter he is designated in 1583 as guardian, was godparent for the son of “Jehan Vasseur” at the child’s Protestant baptism December 24, 1564. The child was named “Estienne” after the godparent. This Estienne Vasseur grew up to marry Francoise de Mons daughter of Jehan de Mons and Barbe de Montormel. (see # 40 ).

Jehan Vasseur also seems to have had an interesting connection with another weaver living in Amiens named “Baptiste” who got into a dispute with a Catholic villager over the religious efficacy of the worship of the saints and the nature of the sacrament of bread. A rural spinner woman from Taigny testified that Baptiste was suspected of causing an arson in the rural Catholic church in Taigny in November 1564. (Arch nationales de France, G8* 122, Fol. 111K), 3 (or 13?) November 1564.]. Evidence points to this person being one Baptiste OTIGER. For more information on this incident and on the identification of Baptiste and his relation to Jehan Vasseur, see translations on the website.

[There was a weaver named Baptiste Frere, who shared a surname with Jean Vasseur’s wife on the BR (Colechon FRERE), but I think the identification with Baptiste Otiger has stronger arguments]

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Mark of Rasset de Mons

25 May 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Merchant woolcomber living in the parish of St. Germain.

Apprenticed as a woolcomber 26 November 1544. Became a master woolcomber by royal privilege 16 June 1551. He and his wife were on the List of Suspects in St. Germain parish in July 1562. He was fined 60 sous for failing to decorate for the Processions in May 1562, then another 60 sous for returning to the city in 1563 contrary to the commands of the Catholic-dominated city council.

He was a godparent listed on the Protestant Register of Baptisms 22 April 1564. His wife Colaye Manee died in 1570, leaving behind five children, Nicolas, Philippe, Pierre, Jean and Marye. The family were then living at the corner of the rue des Tanneurs (Tanners’ Street) and the rue de Vindacq (?).

He was elected esgard houppier in 1587. He was pursued during the Ligue period, including being required to lend 20 écus to the ultra- Catholic municipal government (BB50, fol. 38) and imprisoned 11 October 1590 (BB 51 fol. 135). His mark is characteristic of many wool combers seeming to show the implement used in their trade.

Signature of Pierre Geet

20 March 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Cretu

Wool and thread merchant (marchand fillatier), living in the parish of St. Remy in 1585.

With wife Michelle DU PONT, baptized “Isaie” in the Protestant Church of Amiens, 31 December 1564. Aside from this there is a scarcity of references to Pierre Geet or Michelle Du Pont in the 1560s. He starts to be very visible however in the records of the notaries in the late 1570s and early 1580s. He and his wife show up on a list of exiles from Amiens following the Edict of Nemours in 1585, and appears in various documents among the refugees in Canterbury, England.

For example the couple are present as witnesses for the baptism of Noe son of Noe Geet in Canterbury, 16 November 1595. For comparison his signature with its characteristic bobbin like symbol has been taken from documents in the Canterbury Archives (see # 62) as well as those of the Amiens notaries. A relative, Noe Geet, also has a variation of the bobbin-like symbol (see #70). Noe Geet (the father) was deceased before 19 May 1598, when is wife Marguerite de Montormel was described as his widow and signed an inventory of some his belongings in Amiens, including “a pitcher (becq) in the English style.”

Mark of Balthazart le Quien

5 November 1580
Notaries Quignon/Cretu

Weaver (sayeteur), living in the parish of St. Remy in 1580.

Married to Thoinette DE MONS. Parent of “Philippe”, a child on the BR. Claude le Mort was the godparent. (Both lived in the rue de Beauvais ?). His brother Adrien Le Quien/Quyen was also a Protestant as of the 1560s. Balthazar became a master weaver in 1941-42.

Francois (below #16) was his son as was Bertin (or Bartin) Lequien. Bertin Lequien, like his brother, was received as a master weaver son of a master, 8 April 1580 (HH 275, vol 46 v) Bertin showed up as an exile in London at the Threadneedle Stree Church in the 1590s or late 1580s. He is noted in London in 1592 at which time he wrote a letter at the request of a fellow Amienois Nicolas Bride to the Consistory of Canterbury, London Church records, MS 4 30 March 13592, Fol.127.Once she was back in Amiens Bertin’s daughter Marie Lequien reconverted to Catholicism.

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Mark of Francois le Quien

5 November 1580
Notaries Quignon/Cretu

Weaver, living in the parish of St. Remy in 1580.

Son of Balthazart (see #15). His mark is a variation on this father’s. His brother Bertin was a Protestant exile in England. See above. However there is no direct evidence regarding Francois’ religious leanings. Francois was received as master weaver at the end of 1578, HH 275 fol. 12 verso.

Mark of Perringne le Viel

21 September 1585
Notaries Quignon/Lymeu

Widow of Noel MAIGRET, living in the parish of St. Remy.

An active businesswoman though her mark is a simple cross. She was one of the Amiens refugees exiled after the 1585 Edict of Nemours and she is indicated as being “outside France in [the independent territory of] Sedan” (ref: She died in exile in Sedan sometime between August 8 and 3 October 1586 Quignon not. E26016/2 3 October “Quictance pour Noel Corbellet (little red book).

Her will was executed 5 before Jehan Stalynyn, royal notary in Sedan on 8 August 1586. Her inheritance went to several rural relatives. The inheritance was handled through Noel Corbellet (see # 41) living in Sedan and from him through Philipp Quignon in Amiens. Noel Corbellet had been apprenticed as a weaver to Noel Maigret, HH 273, Fol. 160, 26 November 1563.

Mark of Enguerand Fournier

24 November 1580
Notary Quignon

Woolcomber living in the parish of St. Souplis in 1580.

He was apprenticed as a woolcomber under Jean Dignouart in 1579, 9 November 1579, HH 275, fol. 37. His Protestant affiliation first appears via his membership in the Huguenot and Walloon refugee church of Norwich, England, one of the many refugee churches at the end of the 16 th century.

Married at some point to Marye DORE(E) (q.v.), they baptize a son “Martin” in the Norwich Church in June 1598. The couple is next found in Amiens where they baptize a son “ Jehan” 19 December 1604 at Guignemicourt. They go next to Leiden in South Holland to another Huguenot and Walloon Refugee Church where they are received as members 1 October 1606, i.e. admitted to the Supper. There follow at least two baptisms in Leiden : “Susanne” 27 July 1608 (I have the image in google drive) and “Germain.” 8 december 1613 (Roelly has Amiens for Germain), Received Master weaver in Amiens 18 June 1611 (Ficher Guerlin via Roelly).

Marriage of Henrik (i.e. Enguerrand) Fournier to Agathe Odeline in Leiden, 29 February 1619; he is the widower of Marie Dure, she the widow of Nicolas Carne/Carue. Also in 1619 It looks like the four children of Enguerand Fournier received “accoutrements and linge” from the Walloon church of Leiden. The consistory of the Leiden Church noted on 30 September 1629 (p. 186) that Agathe was living separately from her husband

Signature of Francois du Four

26 January 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau

Merchant living in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castillon.

Du Four was part of a delegation of Protestants to the city council in 1576 requesting the re-establishment of Protestant services. Part of a Protestant delegation called before the Catholic dominated town council in 1581 and ordered not to hold planned services outside Amiens in Allonville. Identified as a woolcomber. His signature resembles the merchant woolcomber Pierre du Four’s (see #3), presumably a relative.

Mark of Adam Tellier

14 February 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Weaver, living in the parish of St. Jacques, married to Claire LOUCHART (#21). Suspect in the parish of St. Jacques, July 1562, Fol. 106v. Child “Marie” baptized in the Protestant church, 11 January 1565 (BR 6v). He was the son of a master weaver and received as a master in his own right, 15 December 1564 (ref: HH 273, fol. 184). A son, Pierre Tellier, was also received as a master weaver, 8 November 1585, HH275, fol. 171v. There were a number of Protestant Telliers from Amiens in both Leiden (Marie Tellier, wife of Pierre Rogeau) and Amsterdam (Jean and Suzanne Tellier) in the 1610’s and 1620’s (Microfiches généalogiques, Den Haag). It remains to determine whether they were descended from or otherwise related to Adam Tellier and Claire Louchart.

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Mark of Claire Louchart

14 February 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Wife of Adam TELLIER (#20) living in the parish of St. Jacques.

Mother of “Marie” baptized in the Protestant Church of Amiens, 11 January 1565.

Current texts are taken from the 7/9 version of the bios.

The Geet Family

The Geets were merchant fillatiers and seem to have had business relations with rural folks whom they supplied with wool and other materials that were then turned into thread or yarn the weavers could use. Spinning also took place in the home workshops of weavers or woolcombers. Other members of the Geet family like Noe and Jean had variations on the theme.

Signature of Noe Geet
Signature of a Geet Family Member
Signature of Pierre Geet
Another Signature of a Geet Family Member

Batch 2

Mark of Pierre Cornet

27 April 1579
Notary Martin

Weaver, living probably in parish of St. Jacques in the rue des Corroyers.

He became a master weaver 6 July 1564 (ref: HH 273, fol. 175). He and his wife Jehenne Herembourg baptized “Isabelle” in the Protestant Church, 3 June 1565; Jehenne died on or before 19 April 1571. (postmortem inventory FF 362 where he is identified as husband of the late Jehenne Herembourg and a weaver. Then there is apparently a later marriage to Thoinette le Roy mentioned in the notarial act from which his signature was extracted.

Signature of Laurens Lescuyer

9 May 1582
Notary Lymeu

(var. LESCUIER, LECUIER)

He is described as a “merchant.” Received as a master “sueur de vielz” 13 December 1554 (HH 272, fol. 257). Godparent for a Protestant baptism 3 June 1565. His wife Marie Obert died on or before 16 April 1577. (FF388/20, rue de la Double Cheele) Minor children: Jehan, Anthoinette, Marguerite and Marie Lescuier. Part of a delegation from the Protestant congregation in Amiens summoned in 1581 to appear before the city council and ordered by the king of France not to hold services at Allonville outside Amiens. BB 45 fol. 66v 16 June 1581. In an act of 26 June 1581(Lymeu fol. 181) this status and activity are attrubuted to him: “His honor (“Honorable homme”) Laurens Lescuyer, one time receiver and farmer of revenues for the seigneurie (noble estate) of Hailles,” living in the parish of St, Firmin-en-Castlllon in Amiens.

The prenuptial agreement of his daughter Marguerite Lescuier and Jehan de la Croix, dyer (teinturier), 25 October 1585 (Lymeu, fol. 435v) employs the Catholic formula, made increasingly more explicit toward the latter part of the 1580s, by the use of the phrase “in the sight of Holy Church, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman”. Laurens was imprisoned under the Ligue and was selected by ballot in March 1594 as one of the ten most notorious heretics in Amiens whereupon he and the others were expelled from the city. (Ref. BB 53, Fol. 124) There is also a Michel LESCUYER part of a Protestant delegation in 1576 and also, same name, on the early 17th century register of baptisms. Laurens’ relation to him is unclear.

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Signature of Jehan Hourdequyn

15 November 1580
Notaries Quignon/Cretu

Merchant woolcomber, living with his wife Marie du Caurroy (#44) in the rue du Vert Aunoy in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castillon at the sign of the Running Swan (le Cigne Courant).

Suspect with his wife in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castillon, July 1562, Fol. 114 verso. The couple baptized a daughter “Marie” in the Protestant Church 17 December 1564, godparent Pierre Garet (see #85). Accused with several other woolcombers in 1570 of conspiring to organize military action on behalf of the national Huguenot agenda in villages around Amiens (see A.M. CC 193 c. fol. 11 and 13 for this alleged plot). Part of a Protestant delegation unsuccessfully requesting the establishment of Protestant worship inside the city in 1576. By 1585 when he made out his last will and testament, he shows signs of having decided to return to the traditional church. The will acknowledges the virgin and saints, requests burial in the parish churchyard and specifies that his coffin is to be carried to the ground by the priests of the parish. On the other hand no masses are specified, arrangements being left to the executors of his will Nicolas Jourdain, his brother-in-law and Jean le Vasseur, his son-in-law. (Lymeu 11 June 1585). Hourdequin died four days later (postmortem inventory FF 441/15) and Marie du Caurroy later that same year. (FF 444/7) There are Hourdequyns on the 17 th century Protestant register but there is another Jehan Hourdequyn married to Marguerite du Boille and they may be the parents of the 17th century Hourdequyns*

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Mark of Loys Gorlier

13 January 1580
Notary Martin/DeMyraulmont)

Cloth cutter living in Amiens. 

Suspect with his wife (not named) in the parish of St. Leu, Fol. 111, July 1562.  He is the parent with Thoinette DU PUIS of “Judith” a child baptized in the Protestant church 19 July 1565.  He was received as a master cloth cutter (pareur de draps) in Amiens on 28 January 1555. The document recording this describes him as a “native of Saint Saulveur recently living in Doullens.”  He may be the same Louis Gorlier who baptized a son “Jean” in the Catholic parish church of St. Leu, 21 April 1580 according to the Ficher Guerlin.  There is a Margaret GORLIER on the 17th c. Prot BR but not known if she is related.

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Signature of Loys Longuespee

16 October 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau 433/450

note: I had a second signature of his extracted from a different act which appeared somewhat clearer and is currently numbered #87.(source 31 March 1584, Lymeu/Rogeau 274/450).

This latter document identifies Vincent as a merchant weaver, living in the parish of St. Leu. In the register of trades in Amiens he is noted to have taken Ezechiel Heudebourg as an apprentice weaver HH 275 fol 116 23 May 1583. On 5 August 1591, he was chosen as a deacon in the Threadneedle Street Church in London where he took refuge. (Ms. 3 Fol. 104).

He is mentioned as deceased in 1593 (Ms. 3, Fol. 180). His wife Jacqueline le Febvre was also deceased before 18 May 1595 ( according to A.M. FF 504/28). The de Montormel family seems to have been widespread within Amiens Protestant society. Marguerite de Montormel a suspect in the parish of St. Leu, Fol. 111 was the wife of the merchant weaver Adrien Billot, a godparent on the Protestant Baptismal Register (1564-65). Postmortem inventory of Adrien Billot,, 12 March 1587. A.M FF 458/13.

Minor children “Noel” and “Catherine”. Barbe de Montormel (see # 40) was the wife of the bourgeois Jean de Mons, living in the parish of St. Germain; he was also a godparent on the Register. Tutelles FF 1252, Fol. 146. Marye de Montormel, daughter of Vincent de Montormel and Jacqueline Lefebvre, was the wife of Noe Geet’s son also named Noe (see #70) .Suzanne de Montormel married Philippe de Marseilles and they were members of the 17th century Reformed Church in Amiens. They had a son named Louis de Marseilles.

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18 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau

(var. CAMPAIGNE)

Son of deceased Fremin de Campaigne and Barbe Barbier, living in the parish of St. Loup (Leu) accompanied by his brother Jean de Campaigne (#73), weaver, living in the parish of St. Jacques. This prenuptial contract between Guillaume and Alizon Bernard (#28) follows the Protestant formula omitting the phrase that the marriage would take place “in the sight of Holy Church.”

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Signature of Guillaume de Champaigne

Mark of Alizon Bernard

18 April 1585
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau

She was the daughter of Gabriel BERNARD and Benoiste LEFEBVRE who had both passed away by the time the prenuptial agreement described in the notarial act was created. She was accompanied by Adrien Martin her brother in law, sueur de vielz, and her sister, Martin’s wife, Jehenne Bernard.

Signature of Vincent de Montormel

19 January 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Drapery weaver (tisserand de draps) living in the parish of St. Leu.

Suspect in the parish of St. Leu, July 1562, Fol. 112v. He was godparent of “Judith”daughter of Bastien Largent and Marie Maine baptized in the Protestant church of Amiens 16 May 1565. A Nicolas Longuespée was a parent with Catherine Gobin of “Elie” a child baptized in the Protestant church, 8 December 1564. A Marguerite Longuespée from Amiens married to Samuel Mahut was received as a member of the Walloon Church of Leiden, August-October 1619.

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Mark of Zacharie du Castel

31 July 1582
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, marriage, 180/450

Weaver living in the parish of St. Jacques, fiancé of Marie DE BOUBERS (see #31).

Protestant prenuptial contract. The phrase [the marriage will be solemnized] “in the sight of Holy Church” is crossed out in the contract. Zacharie was accompanied by Marie Caron his mother, widow of Jehan du Castel (Zacharie’s father) and Jehan de Poilly, his uncle, a weaver living in the parish of St. Remy. Marie de Boubers, the bride-to-be, was accompanied by her father, Jean de Boubers, weaver, living in the parish of St. Souplis. Her mother Yolen Demerliers had passed away. The couple were refugees in England, becoming members of the Strangers’ Church in Canterbury. A nexus of relations existed among many of the exiles prior to their departure from Amiens. Here is one example: Pierre Geet who had moved from Conty to Amiens and the parish of St. Remy supplied Zacharie du Castel and Marie de Boubers, now also living in the parish of St. Remy, with two looms and other equipment on a short term leasing arrangement (4 January 1584, Lymeu fol. 4-4v) on their promise to return these six months later on August 1.

He passed away sometime before his wife Marie. According to the Canterbury Death registry: “Marie de Boubers “daughter of Jan Bomber” (i.e. Jean de Boubers) and widow of Zacharie du Casteaux (i.e. du Castel)” died in Canterbury on April 26th 1597. Zacharie, himself described as “an elderly man,” died two months later on June 9 th . Acts of the Walloon and Strangers’ Church in Canterbury, 26 April 1597, “Deaths” p. 570. A son of his “Jean” died on 10 August 1597.

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Mark of Marie de Boubers

31 July 1582
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, marriage, 180/450

Fiancée of Zacharie du Castel, living in the parish of St. Souplis, accompanied by her father Jean de Boubers, weaver. The phrase [the marriage will be solemnized] “in the sight of Holy Church” is crossed out in the prenuptial contract. (179/450). refugee in Canterbury.  Marie de Boubers “daughter of Jan Bomber” (i.e. Jean de Boubers) and widow of Zacharie du Casteaux (i.e. du Castel)” is mentioned in the Canterbury records 26 April 1597, p. 570.

11 September 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze (and Tellier?), 423/450

Merchant living in the parish of St. Firmin-à-la-Porte.

His wife is Jehenne BOULLEFROY (#33). He was a suspect in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castillon, July 1562, Fol. 114.. He is described as a “shoemaker” “cordonnier” His daughter Ester by a previous marriage to Adrienne Prier was married to Charles Grebert, shoemaker, living in the parish of St. Martin au Bourg, 24 October 1580, Lymeu fol. 339. Part of a Protestant delegation called before the Catholic dominated town council in 1581 and ordered not to hold planned services outside Amiens in Allonville. BB 45 fol. 66v 16 June 1581; “Pierre Laloue, innkeeper (hostelain)” part of a second Protestant delegation, 23 June 1583, discouraged by the Catholic authorities from attending services the next day in Picquigny on the property of a Protestant nobleman and his wife. A. M. BB 46, fol. 40, Durand inv. BB, p. 94. Laloue and Boullefroy were refugee members of the Huguenot Church of London, Threadneedle Street, post-1585

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Signature of Pierre Laloue

Signature of Jehenne Boullefroy

1 October 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 426/450

Wife of Pierre Laloue. living in the parish of St. Firmin-à-la-Porte (see #32).

They were refugees to England after 1585, during the reign of Queen Elisabeth I along with their daughter Anne Laloue, wife of Charles Baron. The consistory of the Threadneedle Street Church looked askance at reports of religiously compromising behavior e.g. attendance at Mass, of Jehenne Boullefroy and Anne Laloue in the port city of Dieppe evidently while en route to England. Jehenne struggled to extenuate their conduct before the Consistory, which also found their personal conduct since coming to London problematic.

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Signature of Noel Maigret

6 November 1577
Notaries Demerliers/Castelet, 55/450

Weaver, living in the parish of St. Jacques as of 1563 when a daughter “Elaine” was baptized in the Catholic parish church in September 22, 1563 (Ficher Guerlain) Note the Protestant Church probably did not function at this time.  Godparent for 2 children baptized in the Protestant Church in 1564 and 1565, including “Noel” son of Pierre Dufour (see No. 3) and Philipotte Dorion. Received Master weaver CC 149, 59 verso (date?). He was married to Perringne LA VIELLE, refugee to Sudan in 1587 according to BN Aff 4555, Roolle des huguenaulx…en may 1587”

Signature of Jean de Gannes

21 January 1581
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 105/450

Master tailor, living in the village of Conty outside Amiens.

Widower of the late Collaye le Meux, his prenuptial contract, Protestant in form, concerns his upcoming marriage to Francoise LE MORT (see #36). In February, 1585, de Gannes was being harassed by the Confraternity of Tailors (Cousturiers) in Amiens to contribute to the expenses of the confraternity which include expenses for Catholic religious observances. The Amiens town council ordered him to contribute to the confraternity though he need not attend the services in person seeing that he insists he is a member of the “alleged Reformed Religion.” He asks for a written statement from the town council seemingly preparing for a legal appeal of their decision (ref: A.M. FF780, Folio 173). De Gannes and his wife are on a list of 1587 at the Bibliothèque nationale drawn up by the authorities enumerating Protestants formerly living in Amiens who have left there following the Edict of Reunion/Edict of Nemours in 1585 and were allegedly “outside this realm in Sedan.” BN Aff 4555, fol. 42-44, “Roolle des huguenaulx….en may 1587” De Gannes diedbefore 5 October 1593 according to a marginal note in the notarial act. Francoise le Mort lived on as a Protestant until at least 1611, date of her last will and testament. [see #36]

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Mark of Francoise le Mort

21 January 1581
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 105/450

Widow of Robert Morel, living in the parish of St. Remy in Amiens she is marrying Jean de Gannes, master tailor, living in the village of Conty outside Amiens. The marriage contract is Protestant in form; she is accompanied by her uncle, Claude Le Mort who has Protestant associations as well. (see No. 37)

Jean de Gannes and Francoise are on a list of 1587 at the Bibliothèque nationale drawn up by the authorities enumerating Protestants formerly living in Amiens who are allegedly “outside the realm in Sedan.” BN Aff 4555, “Roolle des huegueaulx…may 1587” Jean de Gannes died before 5 October 1593 according to a marginal note in the notarial act. Francoise Le Mort lived on as a Protestant in Amiens until at least 1611, date of her last will and testament with the notary Peze 3E 30644, 11 June 1611.

Mark of Claude le Mort

21 January 1581
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 105/450

Sueur de vielz living in the parish of St. Remy in 1581.

Accompanied his niece Francoise Le Mort (see 35 and 36) at the signing of her prenuptial contract with Jean de Gannes. At the death of Claude Le Mort’s first (?) wife, Jeanne GERMEL, there were two minor children : Jean and Zacharie. post-mortem inventory 22 May 1563, FF 334/20. Did Jean become the adult person in # xx who emigrated to England after 1585 and raised three children there? (Jean, Anthoinette and Pierre according to site Roelly). A Zacharie, Le Mort married to Anne Salle, died in Amiens in 1615 survived by his wife, numerous children -- and an older brother Jean. FF 640/9, 22 April 1615. The inventory contained “a pair of psalms and a bible in French”. get signatures if possible.

The connection with the Germel family via his first wife could have been an important influence on Claude Le Mort’s religious outlook (see also Marguerite Germel and note, Pierre GERMEL seems to have been a figure of some importance, i.e. godparent to multiple Protestant couples and grown children refugees in England after 1572). Concomitantly, there was a Pierre Lemort hauled before the courts in 1550 on suspicion of protestant views. After the death of Jeanne Germel in 1563 Claude contracted a second marriage to Philipperon CAULIER. They baptized a son “Abraham” in the Protestant Church 11 March 1565. Claude Le Mort lived on the rue de Beauvais at the sign of the Great Wind. HH 272 Fol 294, 10 September 1556.

Signature of Pierre Hauleve

1 January 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 202/450

Marriage contract Protestant in form.

Weaver living in the parish of St. Remy, son of the late Francois Hauleve and of Marguerite Obry, who was currently married to the ribbon maker Robert Mahieu. Pierre Hauleve’s fiancée is Marie de MOCHEAULX, daughter of the weaver Nicolas de Moncheaulx, living in the parish of St. Leu. Refugees in England, Pierre and his wife (not initially named but later identified as Marie de Monchau) baptized “Jacques” in the Canterbury Church 11 July 1591; “Luc” in the same on 21 October 1594; “Paul” 17 October 1595; “Marie” 20 November 1597; and again “Marie” 3 August 1600.

According to the Canterbury death records the couple lost almost all of these children in infancy or childhood: “Paul” on 21 October 1596, barely one year old; “Luc” 27 September 1597, not quite three years old; and the first “Marie” 14 July 1599, not yet two. Pierre was elected elder (ançien) of the Canterbury Church, 21 June 1599, a few weeks before child Marie passed away. (Consistory Acts page 148).

He was a witness in the Canterbury Church at the baptism of “Dorcas” daughter of Michel Carette and Elisabeth Pudefin (recte Putefin) on October 6, 1605. Two months later, a Pierre Holleve was married in the Protestant Church of Amiens to Marie de la Vallée, 25 December 1605.* Could this be the same person? I suspect more likely a grown son. Already as of 22 November 1602, a person of this name appears as a godparent on the 17 th century Amiens BR. But our Pierre Holleve was still in Canterbury? A Pierre Holleve/Hollene was received as a master weaver (sayeteur) and son of a master 15 January 1605 (HH 277, fol. 8). His trademark is similar but not identical to the one above. Our Pierre Holleve was already a master weaver in 1583!

*Marie de la Vallee died not long after the birth of their daughter “Marie.” See Tutelles FF1252, fol.115. 

A Pierre Halle married to Jenne Herman turned up in Leiden October-December 1610 by testimony of the Amiens Reformed Church, and a child named Daniel was baptized the father being Pierre Halle in the Leiden Walloon and Huguenot Church (Waalse Kerk) in 1611. In any case, the Holleve (Hollené) surname proliferates on the 17 th century Protestant BR from Amiens. (Roelly site)

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25 May 1583
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau, 233/450

Master cabinet maker living in the parish of St. Remy.

In this act Salle takes on an apprentice cabinet-maker from the village of Tilloy. His identification as a Protestant is based on his inclusion on a list of Protestant delegates in the 1580s and his imprisonment as a Huguenot during the ultra-Catholic League. (18 May 1589, Forced loan, 20 ecus, AM BB 50, fol. 23-24; 13 June 1589, “in consideration of his poverty, long detention and large number of children, ordered released on condition of leaving the city with his wife and family and promising to do nothing against the cause of the Ligue” BB 50, Fol. 49; 7 February 1591 asks to have leg irons removed, BB 51, Fol. 182 (they will write to Duc D’Aumalle to see if he can be considered a prisoner of war); 31 July 1591, Liberated on condition of posting bond before withdrawing to Gravelines, BB 52, Fol. 40.

Jacques SALLE (postmortem inventory FF491, 10 December 1592)  and wife Catherine DE WERPS (# 95) (postmortem inventory FF477/1, 1595) were both deceased when Zacharie LE MORT, uncle by marriage was appointed guardian in 1600 of their children. A son also Jacques Salle, born 13 August 1576, was declared of age 1 June 1604, another son Abraham and daughter Magdalene were declared of age on 7 April 1606. Magdalene married Daniel FRERE in the Protestant Church. Four children ensued between 1607 and 1615. Sources:  A.M.FF 1251, fol. 88, FF 1252 fol. 36. Although Jacques Salle’s connection to Protestantism is first shown in the 1580s, its roots may have been deeper.

His father Pierre Salle, also a skilled cabinet maker and his mother Anthoinette Parmentier, were listed as “suspects” in the Parish of St. Remy in July 1562. Pierre Salle died in January 1572 leaving behind a half dozen minor children, some of whom, like Jacques, persevered in the Protestant faith.

Signature of Jacques Salle

Signature of Barbe de Montormel

13 November 1583
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Widow of the goldsmith Jean de Mons, living in the parish of St. Germain.

In 1564-65 Jean de Mons was godparent for two children baptized in the Protestant church of Amiens. Jean de Mons died in or before June 1576, postmortem inventory described him as a bourgeois of Amiens, rue des Potz, Amiens, survived by Barbe de Montormel and minor chidren: Jehan, Francoise de Mons l’aisne; Marye and Francoise de Mons le jeune and Anne de Mons. Francoise de Mons (one or the other) married Estienne Vasseur (see #13); another Francoise de Mons married the master locksmith Jean Darly, active in the 17th century Protestant Church. This Francoise was present at Jean Darly’s postmortem inventory rue de Beauvais FF 693/13, 15 October 1621. Books were present among the goods inventoried.

Barbe de Montormel’s husband Jean de Mons was previously married to Marye d’Arragon. Barbe was the sister of the merchant weaver Vincent de Montormel, who was elected a deacon of the French Protestant Church in exile in London (see No.’s 29 and 87).

Mark of Noel Corbellet

21 September 1585
Notaries Quignon/Lymeu, 93/450

Merchant, merchant weaver living in the parish of St. Remy.

He was apprenticed as a weaver to Noel Maigret (see #34 and #17). Following the proclamation of the Edict of Nemours, effectively outlawing Protestantism, Corbellet took refuge in Sedan according to the “Roolle of Huguenaulx in the Bailliage of Amyans, May 1587,” B.N. AFF 4555. He gave Philippe Quignon, in Amiens his power of attorney. Corbellet’s presence in Sedan is documented as late as 1605 (Amiens notaire Quignon 3E30598, marginal note dated 17 September 1608 on an act of 7 May 1601, concerning the sale of house by Corbellet, rue des Wateletz in Amiens, to Francois Boullenger and his wife).

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Mark of Pierre Barbier

3 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon, 353/450

“Merchant viésier” living in the parish of St. Remy.

A neighbor denounced him as a “huguenot” during a public argument in December 1561 and he replied with insults of his own. An argument with his wife Thoinette Oger caused them to come before the city magistrate’s court. Suspect in the parish of St. Remy, July 1562, Fol. 96v. After second marriage took place after Thoinette Oger’s death 23 May 1583 to Collaie his first wife’s death he married Collaie Caulier, widow of Jehan Warin, living in the parish of St. Jacques. Prenuptial agreement 23 May 1583 (Lymeu). and he was identified during the Ligue as a protestant and imprisoned and exiled for a time.

His will on 20 March 1594 used the Protestant formula (Lymeu Reg. Test); I published an article on him in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, a historical journal, published in Amiens: “Pierre Barbier, Huguenot,” Bulletin of the 3rd and 4th trimesters 2008, vol. 69, nos 687-688, pp. 383-87.

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Mark of Jenne de Hermessen

17 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze, 355/450

Described as the widow of Nicolas Cucu.

Nicolas Cucu was a suspect in the parish of St. Michel in July 1562, Fol. 125v and was stripped of his office of royal sergeant because of his protestant affiliation. In 1599, fourteen years after making the mark shown here, Jenne de Hermessen was still being described as “widow of Nicolas Cucu, living in the parish of St. Remy” in an act in the register of the Amiens notary Roussel” (26 April 1599) but on this occasion she signed her name as well as repeating the same mark as in 1585 in between her first and last names.

From this point on, it becomes a bit more problematic in terms of her biography. Around 1601-1603, Estienne Berio, a wealthy Protestant merchant from Hainaut in Flanders, who came to Amiens just after the reestablishment of the Amiens church, married a woman named Jenne de Hermessen the daughter of Jacques de Hermessen and Francoise Hemot. They had five children baptized in the Amiens Protestant Church between 1604 and 1614 (Roelly site). The question is whether this Jenne de Hermessen was the same person as the widow of Nicolas Cucu whose mark and later signature we discussed above? The signature of the wife of Estienne Berio on a 1608 document is smaller and finer and more assured than those earlier ones although there are resemblances.

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Mark of Marie du Caurroy

12 July 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 390/450  

Widow of Jehan Hourdequyn living in the parish of St. Firmin-en-Castlllon.(see #23).

The act represents the settling of a debt with Loys Longuespée and falls not long before Marie’s death. (on or before 27 November 1585). Among her effects were a painting showing the story of the miracle of the five loaves of bread. Her goods were left in charge of Jehan Vasseur her son-in-law. The Du Caurroy family included many Protestants of the heyday period of the 1560’s, but not many later.

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Signature of Pierre Beuger

30 November 1580
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 3E28873-389r

Weaver, living in the parish of St. Leu. He may have started out as a woolcomber in 1554 (apprentice) and 1559 (master woolcomber). He was fined (100 sous parisis) for failing to decorate the front of his house in honor of the processions of 1562. With his wife Barbe LE ROY, Pierre Beuger baptized a son “Andrieu” (apparently named after his father) in the Protestant Church of Amiens, 1 October 1564. He was also a godparent for another Protestant child. In July 1572, a man of this name was received as an apprentice sayeteur/weaver under Anthoine de Moncheaulx  which would make sense given the congruence of religious orientations between the two men if Pierre Beuger wished to retrain as a weaver. HH 274, fol. 114 verso. He died on or shortly before 10 February 1583, a couple of years after his signature on the act of the notary Lymeu.

His post-mortem inventory contained mention of several books, displaying his continuing connection with Protestantism : “a bible, a book of epistles, and some other small books written in Latin and covered in parchment.”  (FF 420/5) Pierre Beuger had an assured signature but it is doubtful he had learned Latin. His wife Barbe le Roy survived him and they had a minor child named “Judith” a girl’s name highly favored by Amiens Protestants.  They also had a grown daughter named “Marie” married to Christophle LE FEVRE, a weaver/merchant weaver to whose care Beuger’s goods were assigned.

Also on hand at the inventory were his father Andrieu, a farmer from the village of Vaulx and a brother (?) Anthoine living in Flaisselles.  Marie Beuger and Christophle Le Fevre went into exile in CANTERBURY, England  at the French Protestant Church there (see No.71 for signature of Christofle Le Fevre). They had at least one child baptized in the Canterbury Strangers” Church. Returning to Amiens after the Wars of Religion and the reestablishment of the Amiens Reformed Church around 1599, they baptized “Magdaleine” in that church (a few miles outside the city at Guignemicourt) on 18 August 1602.(ref: I.3 A.D.S.) Marie later married Estienne Tourneur in the Amiens Church, 18 July 1605 and several children ensued from the marriage.

Signature of Henry de Buires

30 November 1580
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 3E28873-389r

Weaver living in the parish of St. Leu.  With Marie LE CLERCQ, he was father of a child “Esther” another favored girl’s name, baptized in the Protestant Church of Amiens on 3 August 1564. “The daughter of Henry de Buires”  (this same Esther?) was the prescribed recipient of a small testamentary bequest from the Protestant widow Fremine Le Febvre, 1585 (#75).  Troubled under the Ligue : “A person named de Buires”  was selected by ballot as one of the ten most notorious heretics and was ordered to be expelled from the city in March 1594. (Ref. BB 53, Fol. 124) (See also Laurens Lescuyer, Pierre Barbier who met the same fate)

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23 April 1580
Notaries Lymeu/Peze

3E28873-135r weaver living in the parish of St. Leu.

Anthoine was the son of the master weaver Regnault de Moncheaux.  He became a master weaver himself on 9 October 1560. (HH 273, fol. 99). He married Jehenne BILLET and they baptized “Helie” in the Protestant Church on Sunday 30 July 1564 in the interval between the first and second Religious War. After the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in Paris in August 1572 and its coercive repercussions in the provinces, notably in Amiens, the couple reconciled two children in the Catholic parish and Jehenne Billet attended mass on 3-4 occasions according to her. 

The family fled abroad however in 1573 and found refuge in the French Protestant Church of London, where they confessed and repented for their lapses.  The de Moncheaux-Billets returned to Amiens sometime before 1576 when a new peace was published between the confessional forces. Jenne Billet died on or before 23 September 1577, with the couple living in the rue des Minimes in the parish of St. Leu. Anthoine de Moncheaux was part of a Protestant delegation notified in 1581 of the cessation of services in Allonville. He married Paquer Remy around this time. He made out a Protestant will in 10 December 1583 (Lymeu Register) before his death on or before 12 December. There was a minor child “Josue” entrusted to the care of Pacquer Remy.

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Signature of Anthoine de Moncheaux

Mark of Jehan Geet

11 April 1584
Notaries Quignon/Caron

(Geet-LeMort-2), weaver living in the parish of St. Jacques St. Jacques (See resemblance of his mark to that of Pierre Geet #14)

Signature of Jehan le Mort

11 April 1584
Notaries Quignon/Caron

(Geet-LeMort-2) Sueur de vielz living in the parish of St. Remy In the rue de Beauvais.

He and his wife Marie Geet  (#50) went to England to Canterbury probably after 1585. (source: BN Aff 4555, fol. 42-44v, “Roolle des huguenaulx…en may 1587”) They had at least six children:  Jean the younger, Anthoinette, Pierre, Marie, Elizabeth, and Jeanne. Jean the younger and Pierre were born in Amiens;  Jeanne (“Jane”) was baptized in Canterbury 11 July 1591). Thoinette (Anthoinette) was born in Amiens but all seem to have married in Canterbury.

Jehan le Mort and Marie Geet (Jaiet) were present at the betrothal of Jean le Mort the younger and Susanne de Villers in Canterbury, 25 May 1602. Pierre le Mort had already married Adriane Gamin (Gawin?) native of Fransu (?) near Amiens 14 March 1602 in Canterbury and he and Adriane went from there to Leiden where they were received as members in October 1603. Jean le Mort, the elder, died, presumably in Canterbury sometime before 1614. For more  about the marriages of Thoinette, Marie and Jeanne le Mort in Canterbury see the bio of Marie Geet (Jayet) (#50).

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Mark of Marie Geet

11 April 1584
Notaries Quignon/Caron

(Geet-LeMort-2) Daughter of Pierre Geet and wife of Jehan le Mort (#49) living in the parish of St. Remy.

She and her husband went to England, to Canterbury, probably after 1585. (source: BN Aff 4555, fol. 42-44v, “Roolle des huguenaulx…en may 1587”) They had at least six children:  Jean the younger was born in Amiens, Anthoinette in Amiens, Pierre in Amiens, Marie (place of nativity not given), Elizabeth (born in Canterbury, baptized 9 October 1595) and Jeanne (born in Canterbury, baptized 11 July 1591). All married in Canterbury.

Pierre le Mort married Adriane Gamin (Gawin?) native of Fransu(?) near Amiens 14 March 1602 and he and his wife Adriane went from Canterbury to Leiden where they were received as members of the Walloon Church in October 1603. Jean le Mort the younger (le Jeune) married Susanne de Villers native of Hubersan in Boulenais in Canterbury 8 August 1602 [p. 649] and then was remarried to Jeanne Bourgeois native of Canterbury in 1613. 

Marie le Mort married Florent Soufflé in Canterbury on 18 January 1614 [p. 667]. Elizabeth married Jacob Hattu, 12 June 1614 [page 669] Her father Jean le Mort the elder was by then deceased but Marie Geet his wife, whose mark appears here, was still alive and present at the signing of the contract as was Jean le Mort the younger. Thoinette (Anthoinette) le Mort married Jacques Huet, widower, native of Lille, in Canterbury on 9 June 1616 and Jeanne le Mort born in Canterbury was married in Canterbury in 1617-18 to Samuel Chasteau (Chastel) – perhaps a descendant of Zacharie du Castel (#30)? Though a Jacques le Mort and a Magdaleine le Mort appear on the 17th Century BR of the Amiens church, it is evident (pending further research) that by and large the members of the Le Mort – Geet family remained in England.

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Signature of Jehan Cadot

18 July 1594
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 3E28869-f226v

Sueur de vielz living in the parish of St. Firmin-the-Confessor.  He was an apprentice sueur de vielz as of 25 August 1544 under Estienne Pye and a master on 24 October 1552. Suspect with his wife in the parish of St. Germain, July 1562, Fol. 121v. With wife Barbe Potel (also Postel) baptized “Jacob” in the Protestant Church of Amiens 25 February 1565 (Oger Rolland the tanner was godparent).

He and his wife are listed on the document at the BN as a merchant living in Amiens and one of the exiles in England (rather than Sedan) after the 1585 Edict of Nemours. BN AFF 4555, fol. 42-44v.  The couple is in Amiens as of 26 April 1593 where they execute a joint will, which follows the Protestant formula. Their adult children in the 1590s were Thobie and Marie Cadot. Marie appears as wife of Christofle Doubliez on the 17th century Protestant BR, 3 June 1607. They baptized “Esther” in the 17th century Protestant Church.  Thobie Cadot married Elisabeth Facquet, daughter of Gullaume and Claudine Desmerliers (Prot BR 1564-65). Though both were offspring of Protestant parents, Thobie and Elisabeth baptized five children, all sons, in the Catholic churches of Amiens between 1600 and 1608 : St. Jacques 1600, St. Firmin-en-Castillon, 1602-1608. [ref. Ficher Guerlin and Roelly]

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18 October 1594
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 3E28869-f226v

(alt. POSTEL)

Wife of Jehan Cadot, sueur de vielz, living in the parish of St. Firmin the Confessor.

Barbe was apprenticed as a weaver under her brother Charles Potel, 30 December 1549 HH 272 Fol. 151 verso. Barbe and Jehan baptized “Jacob” in the Protestant Church of Amiens 25 February 1565 (Oger Rolland the tanner was godparent). The couple are listed on the document at the BN as one of the Protestant exiles (in England?) after the 1585 Edict of Nemours. BN AFF 4555 They were in Amiens as of 26 April 1593 where they execute a joint will which follows the Protestant formula. Their adult children in the 1590s were Thobie and Marie. Marie married Christophe Doubliez and they baptized a child in the 17th century Protestant Church 3 June 1607. Thobie Cadot’s confessional choice remains uncertain. Thobie Cadot married Elisabeth Facquet, daughter of Guillaume Facquet and Claudine Desmerliers (another Protestant couple). Thobie and Elisabeth baptized five children all sons in the Catholic parish churches of Amiens between 1600 and 1608 (Roelly).

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Mark of Barbe Potel

Signature of Anthoine le Voir

9 March 1580
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, (3E28873-f91r)

Merchant woolcomber living in the parish of ?; he was apprenticed as a woolcomber (“houppier”) under his father Pierre Eloy, 6 June 1544 (ref. HH 272, fol 18). He married Adrienne Piedeleu and they baptized “Susanne” in the Protestant church Date? He was appointed guardian of the children of his brother-in-law Nicolas Piedeleu in 1571.  He died shortly after the abovereferenced notary act.

His widow Adrienne was present for the marriage of their daughter “Suzanne” (see above) to Valentin du Pre, woolcomber (pigneur) 4 September 1582 (Lymeu). The marriage act followed the Catholic formula. THOUGH IT IS STUCK IN AT THE END ACCORDING TO MY NOTES.  Fol. 383. Though there is no evidence of persistence, the “Piedeleu” name of his wife connects him to a story of suffering and martyrdom…Guillementte Hecquet widow of Hector Piedeleu and then of Augustin Courtin was brought before the Chambre Ardente and tortured (check). Courtin was implicated too in 1549. Courtin a woolcomber xx 60 years old was shot in Tagny; her daughter-in-law Madeleine de Moliens, widow of Nicolas Piedeleu, showed up in London after St. Bartholomew with many children in tow.

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Mark of Bastienne Caron

18 October 1594
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, (3E28869-f226v)

Married to the weaver Anthoine LE VOIR, living in the parish of St. Leu. Previous marriage to Ernoul le Febvre? (See #96 and #97)

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Signature of Anthoine Eloy

18 October 1594
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, (3E28869-f226v)

Weaver living in the parish of St. Leu.  Married to Bastienne Caron (le Caron) (#54), he was previously married it seems to Marguerite Billot and with her baptized “Jehan” in the Protestant Church, 5 August 1565.

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Signature of Marguerite Germel

24 July 1595
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau

Widow of Pierre Docquois, living in the parish of St. Germain, prenuptial agreement for her marriage, to Isacq du Feu, custom tailor, living in the parish of St. Germain. He is the son of deceased Charles du Feu and Raulline Touret, formerly living in Bonviller prez Brethoeuil. Margaret is one of the children of Pierre Germel a weaver from St. Germain parish who remained active in the Protestant Church at least through 1581.  Several of her siblings (Marie, married to Estienne Rose and Jean Germer, unmarried) went to London from Amiens in the wake of St. Barthlomew’s Day. 

Marguerite appears on the 17th century Protestant Baptismal Register on numerous occasions, 1607-1609. She married again this time (her third marriage) to the locksmith Pierre Darly the elder, in the Amiens Protestant Church 26 April 1609 (a property inventory for her, not a postmortem AM FF 590/6, 12 April 1609). The genalogical fiche for Pierre Germer, her father, shows nine children in all. Jeanne Dague widow of Pierre Germel died on or before 19 September 1595. Postmortem inventory A.M. FF 508/22. Her movable property was entrusted to Isaacq du Feu, recently married to Marguerite.

Besides Marguerite and in addition to Marie and Jean Germel mentioned above, there was Barbe, married to Anthoine LIETART, a weaver. Lietart left Amiens for England in 1585 for “religious freedom,”but later returned to Amiens; and Nicolas Germel, who baptized several children in the Amiens Protestant Church in the early 17th century. In the postmortem inventory of Barbe Germel, 3 December 1586, A.M. FF 451/2. Jehenne Dague is mentioned as her mother, but whether this is the mother of all of the children is uncertain.

Updated 11/17/2024

From Canterbury Archives (Archives of the French and Walloon Church of Canterbury)

Signature of Jean Rochin

31 October 1588
U47-G-2_201v

Marriage of his daughter. Merchant woocomber and lace maker. He was received as a master woolcomber 11 April 1554, HH 272, fol. 236 verso.

He is listed among the suspects of the parish of St. Michel, July 1562 along with his wife and mother living in the rue du leu qui va a Rome, Folio 125). They subsequently moved to the rue de Metz in the parish of St. Firmin en Castillon. He and wife Marie Nollent baptized “Marie” in the Protestant church of Amiens, 26 October 1564. His wife passed away on or before 8 August 1575, leaving Jean Rochin with five daughters, all minors, presumably in descending age order as follows: Catherine, Jehenne, Marie, Suzanne, and Jacqueline.

A.M. FF 382/20, The family took refuge in Canterbury some time in the 1580s, where the marriage of his eldest daughter Catherine to another Amiens refugee Guillaume des Rivieres took place. Several baptisms in the Canterbury church followed. Jacqueline, the youngest daughter, married Nicolas de Bettencourt in Amiens 30 October 1605. They baptized a daughter “Suzanne” in Canterbury in April 1606, but showed up in Leiden in 1609 and other children were baptized in the Walloon Church of Leiden: in 1611 (“Salomon”) and 1613 (“Jeanne”).

Suzanne Rochin married the shoemaker Anthoine de Villers. During their engagement Susanne was denied participation in the service in Canterbury. The Consistory found fault with the fact that she and her fiancé were separated physically; he in Amiens and she in Canterbury. (November 1597). That same month it was was stated that the elders were tasked with reconciling Jean Rochin and his daughters. 17 November 1597. The problem involving the geographical separation of Suzanne and her fiancé persisted and continued into January 1598. Finally Suzanne agreed (19 Jan 1598).

They were later received as members of the Leiden Walloon Church, 1 October 1603. Suzanne died in Amiens around 27 April 1615. There was at least one child. “Isabelle.” Marie Rochin, the middle child, married Jean Grenier. Prenup 24 June 1604, notary Roussel E28829. Marie makes mark. Grenier signs. Anthoine de Villers her brother in law accompanies and signs. At the baptism of their daughter “Elisabeth” in the Amiens Protestant Church, 29 May 1605, Marie’s sister Jacqueline was a godmother. Grandchildren of Jean Rochin were thus born in Canterbury, Amiens, and Leyden in Holland and possibly other places.
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Signature of Catherine Rochin

31 October 1588
U47-G-2_201v

Catherine Rochin, eldest of the five daughters of Jehan Rochin (see #57) and her husband Guillaume des Rivieres (#59) baptized several children in the Walloon and Huguenot church of Canterbury. e.g. 11 February 1593 “Jan” son of Guillaume Desriviere (witnesses include Pierre Hallue and Elie Collee); December 19, 1596 “David” Witnesses: Christophle le Fevre, David Francourt, Marie Rochin and Jacqueline Rouchin, sisters to Catherine, mother of the child ; March 16, 1599 “Jeanne” (Jane) Witnesses included Marguerite Fleury; March 19, 1601, “Jacques, son of Guillaume Deriviere. Witnesses included: Thoinette daughter of Jan (i.e. Jean) le More (i.e. le Mort); September 16, 1604 “Jeanne” (a second time, the first child named Jeanne having died 3 May 1600 at about 14 months old).
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Mark of Guillaume des Riviers

19 July 1583
U47-G-2_201v

A native of Amiens, he sought refuge in Canterbury. His godfather from Amiens Jean Berquier accompanied him at his prenuptial contract in Canterbury with fiancée Catherine Rochin (#58) The couple baptized several children in the Protestant church in Canterbury: e.g. 11 February 1593 “Jan” [“Jean”] son of Guillaume Desriviere (witnesses include Pierre Hallue and Elie Collee); December 19, 1596 “David” Witnesses: Christophle le Fevre, David Francourt, Marie Rochin and Jacqueline Rochin, sisters to Catherine, mother of the child ; March 16, 1599 “Jeanne” Witnesses included Marguerite Fleury; March 19, 1601, “Jacques, son of Guillaume Deriviere. Witnesses included: Thoinette daughter of Jan le Mort . September 16, 1604 “Jeanne” (a second time, the first child named Jeanne having died 3 May 1600 at about 14 months old).

A Marie de Riveri married to Jean Le Blond is mentioned on the 17 th c. Amiens Protestant church’s baptismal register but I do not know if there is a relationship to Guillaume. A Jean le Blond was also in Canterbury during the exodus of the 1580s. A document from Amiens dated 1580 notes a Jean le Blond the elder a weaver living at that time in “Camp de bery,” in England, who was present for the notary document along with Jean le Blond, the younger, also a weaver, living in Amiens. (Amiens notary Martin, 20 September 1580).* Still, of the five daughters of the refugee wool comber Jean Rochin, only Catherine Rochin married to Guillaume Desrivieres would seem to have remained permanently in Canterbury. *A postmortem inventory in Amiens for Jean le Blond the elder, weaver, and Catherine Germer, his wife, was made on 9 Janauary 1597, FF 524/18. Jean le Blond the younger was appointed guardian of the children, it was he presumably who was married to Marie de Riveri.
Updated 11/27/2024

Mark of Elie (Hélie) Collee

18 August 1589
U47-G-2-62

Elie (Hélie) COLLEE (source for signature 18 August 1589, U47-G-2-62) He was the son of Francois Collee, a “suspect” in the parish of St. Leu in July 1562 (fol. 111v) and was received as a master weaver 15 October 1585, HH 275, fol. 168. Sometime after October 1585, he took refuge in Canterbury. He was there already at least by 14 October 1588 when he and wife Marguerite Flory dictated a joint will and testament.*

Elie also was a witness along with Jean le Mort and Pierre Jayet (i.e. Geet) at the will of the Amiens merchant dyer (teinturier) Andrieu de Haudricourt Helie/Elie Collee and Marguerite Flory baptized a daughter “Suzanne” 29 September 1591; a son “Elie” 24 March 1594; and another daughter “Judith” 30 July 1601 in the Canterbury Church. Witnesses at this latter baptism were Pierre and Jan Le More, Marie and Judith Denys The child “Elie” died at the age of five on 5 August 1599. Elie Collee the father died (presumably in Canterbury?) sometime prior to 1607, when Marguerite Flory/Fleury remarried in the Canterbury Church. *A document in Amiens makes mention of him as a “merchant living in Canterbury”.in 1595 (postmortem inventory of Marguerite Boutart widow of Jacques de Revelle, A.M. FF 562/12, 17 February 1602).

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Signature of Jean Le Mort

18 August 1585
Canterbury, U47-G-2_62

Jean LE MORT in Canterbury (source for signature 18 August 1589, U47-G-2_62) This signature from the Canterbury Archives matches the one from theAmiens notaries (#49) See earlier bio

Updated 11/27/2024

18 August 1589
Canterbury, U47-G-2_62

Pierre GEET in Canterbury (source for signature 18 August 1589, U47-G-2_62) This signature from the Canterbury Archives matches the one from the Amiens notaries (#14). See earlier bio

Updated 11/27/2024

Signature of Pierre Geet

Signature of Symon Heuet

22 November 1588
U-47-G-2_34, bridegroom.

[alt. Simon]. A native of Amiens he married Marie Vasseur, daughter of Adam Vasseur and Magdaleine Havart (#66) also of Amiens in the French Protestant Church of Canterbury. He was accompanied by his brother Jacques Heuet (#67). The couple had children in Canterbury, “Marie” Heuet, baptized 26 September 1591 and “Susanne” Heuet, baptized 3 March 1594. Simon is a witness at an act involving Francois Havart (#67). A Guillaume Heuet from Amiens was inscribed as a member of the Walloon Church of Leiden, the first Amiens protestant refugee identifiable as a member of this French-speaking Dutch protestant church, 2 July 1585 (RegionalArchives Leiden, Ms. 40)

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Mark of Jacques Heuet

22 November 1588
U-47-G-2_34, brother of Symon Heuet, groom.

In addition to the above, he is present in Canterbury as early as July 1581, and appears as a witness at numerous acts of baptism between 1595-99
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Signature of Marie Vasseur

22 November 1588
U-47-G-2_34, bride to be

Daughter of Adam Vasseur and Magdaleine Havart. Marie Vasseur was baptized in the Amiens church 28 September 1564 and married in the Canterbury Church on or around the date above in 1588 to Symon Heuet (#63). Their children “Marie” Heuet 1591 and “Susanne” Heuet 1594 were baptized in the Canterbury Church. “Marie, daughter of the late Adam Vasseur” died 18 March 1598. Acts of the Canterbury Church, “Deaths”
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Signature of Adam Vasseur

22 November 1588
 U-47-G-2_34,

Father of bride Marie (see #65). He and his wife were suspects in July 1562 in the parish of St. Michel, rue de la Gloriette (Fol. 125), the same street and parish as Jean Havart and his wife (see No. 67). With Magdaleine Havart his wife, parent of “Marie” baptized in the Protestant Church of Amiens, 28 September 1564 (BR fol. 3v). Adam Vasseur, Magdaleine Havart and Jean Havart, probably also Francois Havart were already members of the Canterbury not later than 8 September 1581. See Consistory Act of this date, Actes Vol. I (1581-84), fol.5 verso.
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Mark of Francois Havart

14 November 1589
U-47-G-2_187, groom to be.

Groom to be. His mark is like father’s (JH No. 68) only lacks one horizontal line. “Chip off the old block” They would appear to have been weavers from the nature of the marks
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Mark of Jean Havart

14 November 1589
Canterbury, U47-G-2_62, Father of Francois.

Jean Havart and his wife were suspects in the parish of St. Michel, rue de la Gloriette in July 1562 (Fol. 125), the same parish and street as Adam Le Vasseur and his wife (most likely Magdaleine Havart). Jean Havart was godparent at birth of Marie Vasseur 28 September 1564 in the Protestant Church of Amiens and also for another Protestant couple. This was before his removal to Canterbury not later than the 1580s. The mark appears to be that of a weaver.
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Mark of Jean Bride

14 November 1589
father-in-law of Elisabeth PEUTFIN (PUTEFIN)

He is the stepfather of Elizabeth Peutefin (#69). Bride is present along with Elizabeth's mother Nicole Nauquier at the wedding of Elisabeth P and Francois H --. Elisabeth’s mother Nicole Nauquier is present but no signature of hers appears at the end of the act. There were two Jean Brides listed as suspects in July 1562, one from the parish of St. Sulpice (Fol. 120), one from the neighboring parish of St. Leu (Fol. 112v) both with their wives. A Jehan Bride is witness for an act in the Canterbury Church 7 March 1596. Later that year in September 1596 he was on the outs with the Consistory: “Jehan Bride will be exhorted that if he wants to be reconciled that he must first obtain a suitable habitation.” Actes, fol. 47.

He is also noted as the father of “Judith” baptized 19 September 1596. Witnesses Jacques Huet, Pierre Holeve, Elisabeth Peufin, Marguerite Grimaupon. I found the identical mark as in the above act on a document in Amiens, dated 14 July 1601 (FF1238/62). At that point he is described as a cloth weaver (tisserand de draps), “aged 70 or thereabouts” living in the parish of St. Leu. So he was one of those who returned to Amiens after their exile in England. There is also a Nicolas Bride present in Canterbury in the 1590s. A Jean Bride and Marie du Bos/ du Bois baptized “Jean” on 8 July 1602 and “Marie” on 20 July 1605 in the Amiens Protestant Church (A.D. Somme, I.3)
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Signature of Noe Geet

8 May 1597
U-47-G-2_37

Witness in Canterbury along with Jehan le Mort (#49) to the will of Pacque Peucelle. Noe Geet was married to Marie de Montormel, daughter of Vincent de Montormel (#87). Noe and Marie baptized a son also named“Noe” in the Protestant Church of Canterbury, 16 November 1595. Pierre Geet senior (#14) and his wife Michele du Pont (parents themselves of a child baptized in the Protestant Church of Amiens in 1564-65) and also Pierre Geet the younger (le jeune) and Marie Geet (probably the wife of Jean le Mort) were among the witnesses for this baptism.

Noe seems to have been in Amiens at least briefly in 1595 to sign the postmortem inventory of Vincent de Montormel and Jacqueline le Fevre. He traced the same bobbin like mark as appears in the Canterbury will above on the i1595 inventory in Amiens. Some of Noe Geet’s own goods, inventoried in Amiens, 15 May 1598, in the presence of his wife (or widow?) Marie de Montormel included “a pitcher in the English style (“un becq à facon d’Angleterre”) A.M. FF542/6.
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Mark of Christophe le Febvre

14 October 1588
U-47-G-2_198v

He was son-in-law of Pierre Beuger (#45) and a witness at his post-mortem inventory in Amiens, 10 February 1583. A. M. FF 420/5. At that time, he was already married to Marie Beuger, the daughter of Pierre and Barbe le Roy; subsequenty, Barbe le Roy, Christophe (alt Christophle) took refuge in Canterbury, Engalnd. Christofle was witness to the will of Marguerite Flory in 1588. On 6 January 1592, Christophe and Marie baptized “Marie”in the Canterbury Church. Witnesses included Jehan le Mort, Marie le Fevre and Marguerite Flory (notwithstanding her will in 1588, she was still alive!).

March 9, 1595, they baptized “Jacques” in the Canterbury Church. The couple later returned to Amiens where Marie gave birth to a daughter "Magdaleine" whom they baptized in the Amiens Protestant Church, 18 August 1602.  It appears Christophe Le Febvre would have died before 18 July 1605 when Marie Beuger married Estienne Tourneur in the Amiens Protestant Church.
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Mark of Marguerite Flory

14 October 1588
U-47-G-2_198v

Joint will with Elie Collee (#60) in Canterbury. Jean Le Mort and Christophle Le Febvre were witnesses. After Elie Collee died, Marguerite remarried on 15 February 1607 Jacques du Bu, widower, native of Courbie (probably Corbie). There were other Florys from Amiens in Canterbury: Pierre Flory, son of deceased Renauld Flory [a weaver]. Renauld possibly identical with “Raoult Floury” a non-decorator from the parish of St. Leu in 1562?
Updated 11/27/2024

Current texts are taken from the 10/24 version of the bios.

Batch 3

Signature of Jean de Campaigne

18 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 356/450

Weaver living in the parish of St. Jacques. A witness at the Protestant formula marriage contract of his brother Guillaume (see #27 and #28). He is very probably the person of the same name listed as a “native of Amiens” and inscribed on the book of burghers, the so-called Poorterboek, in Leiden, South Holland, 15 January 1593. [De Nieuw Ingeshreven Poorters getuigen en borgen van Leiden, 1576-1603].


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Signature of Adrien Martin

18 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 356/450

Sueur de vielz living in the parish of St. Leu (St. Loup). A witness at the Protestant formula prenuptial contract of Alizon Berna(rd) and Guillaume de Campaigne (#27 and #28). He was the husband of Jehenne Berna sister of Alizon Berna(rd) , There is an Adrien Martin admitted to the Walloon Church in Leiden along with his wife 6 october 1602 but the wife’s name is Marie Orbain and the place of origin is not specified. Three children of this couple were baptized in Leiden in the Walloon church in the first decade of the 17th century.

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Mark of Fremine le Febvre

18 April 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon, 358/450

A protestant will.  She is described as the widow of Jehan Guillemer, living in the parish of St. Loup (St. Leu).  My research indicates that Jehan Guillemer or Guillemetz was a weaver (sayeteur) living in the parish of St. Jacques in 1562, and that he was fined 60 sous for failing to decorate the front of his house for the Corpus Christi processions in late May 1562.  The will of Fremine Lefebvre does not mention any children from the marriage with Jehan Guillemer, though it (touchingly) directs small money gifts to children of relatives or acquaintances, notably members of the Sauvalge family and also the daughter of Henry de Buires (#46). She requests that Jehan de le Porte (possibly the same as shown in this exhibit i.e. #94?) serve as the executor of her will. The inscription around her mark does not say “mark of the said Lefebvre”  but “mark of the said testator” (in French “testatrice” feminine or “testateur” masculine}…

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Signature of Jacques de l'Abeye

23 March 1584,
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau, 273/450,

 23 March 1584, notaries  Lymeu/Rogeau) merchant gressier, living in the parish of St. Germain in 1584; Claude Harduyn and Hester Dodo also sign this act. In 1562, he was a suspect with his wife in the parish of St. Sulpice, Fol. 119; in 1565 a godparent on the Protestant BR, 3 May 1565, fol. 11.  He and his wife seem to have been related to the family of Anthoine Dodo. Ester was a part inheritor of Marguerite Autiquet, wife of Jacques de l’Abbeye. Her post-mortem inventory is FF 368/16, 16 August 1572, “near the grain storage of the city” Jacques de l’Abbeie’s Protestant will Lymeu Registre testaments, 28 nov 1589. His widow Denise Lietart’s later will was Catholic in form.Her postmortem inventory August 1595, FF507/12. A 17th century connection?
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Mark of Melchior Thuillier

30 August 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau 303/450

Marchant living in the parish of St. Remy. Sometimes described as a merchant rubentier.  By the terms of this act, Pingre bought a house in the rue des Louvetz from Jacques Salle and Catherine de Werps. He was on the 1587 list of the Bibliotheque Nationale of artisans from Amiens who left the city for Sedan in the wake of the Edict of Reunion of 1585. He was related to (son of?) Anthoine PinguereL and Guilemette du Corron, parents of the 1564-65, Protestant register of baptisms; and half-brother to the weaver Daniel Pingre. Jehan Pingre died before 1601, leaving children Pierre, Ysabeau (married to Jacques Courtois), Marie, Marie II,  and Jehenne. Guilemette du Corron was involved in Protestant protests in the city of Tournai, according to Gerard Moreau, historian of Protestantism in that city.

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Mark of Jean Fournier

9 April 1579
Notaries Martin/Martin, 7/450

Weaver, no parish mentioned in the act; Suspects of this name in the parish of St. Leu in July, 1562, on Folio 112 (with wife) and 112 verso. previous history, with Helene Allart parent of “Esther” on the Prot BR 3 May 1564, fol.2. There are also two other Jehan Fourniers in 78/450. Their marks are different.  This requires further investigation.

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Signature of Robert Dignaucourt

17 June 1580
Notary Lymeu/Peze, 118/450

Merchant living in the parish of St. Remy; apprentice woolcomber under Jehan Vigneron, 15 October 1548, HH 272, fol. 120; master woolcomber 23 July 1550 HH 272, fol. 165;  Suspect with his wife in the parish St. Remy, July 1562, Folio 95v. Godfather on Protestant BR fol 5 “daniel” son of Jehan Putefin and Jehenne Dignaucourt, 23 November 1564 and 13 verso godfather of “Jehan” son of Pierre du Caurroy and Catherine Chocquet, 29 July 1565.

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Signature of Jehan Pingre

9 April 1579
Notaries Martin/Martin, 7/450

9 April 1579, notaries  Martin/Martin) a weaver (sayeteur), husband of Marguerite Caulier, parish of residence in 1579 not indicated.  On the Protestant Baptismal Register of 1564-65 there was a Melchior Thuillier married to Michelle Franssure  who was a woolcomber rather than a weaver (BR fol. 8, A.M. FF105, fol. 100v, 17 October 1562). Though there are cases where former woolcombers have taken up the weavers trade and though the name seems rare rather than common, I cannot confirm that the Melchior Thuillier, weaver, who signed the notary act in 1579 and the Melchior Thuillier, woolcomber on the 1564-65 BR, were one and the same the same person.

To deepen the intrigue and to pick up the woolcomber thread, however, we learn from Dutch archives that a Melchior Thuillier, woolcomber and native of Amiens, was received as a member of the Walloon Church of Leiden 2 October1604 by testimony of the Church of Canterbury.  This Melchior Thuillier of the early 1600s, described in the records as the widower of Marie Lotilgé (or Lotigier) was engaged in Leiden on 12 August 1605 to Marguerite Collincamp, another Amiens refugee, widow of Riquier du Fay. Charles Thuillier, Melchior’s grown son by a previous marriage and also a native of Amiens had preceded his father, establishing himself in Leiden and marrying Catherine de Pilleer or Spilliere (native of Tournai) in the Dutch city in 1598.  Though Melchior and Marguerite Collincamp do not seem to have had children by their marriage (Mechior, if identical with the father on the BR in 1565, would have been at least in his sixties), Charles Thuillier and Catherine Spilliere baptized five children between 1601 and 1614.  “Jean” 4 November 1601, “Marie” 5 October 1602, “Elie” 1609, “Elizabet”  11 September 1611 and “Sara”  6 February 1614.  Melchior Thuillier was a witness at the baptism of “Salomon,” son of Nicolas de Bettencourt 23-January-1611 (see #101) a fellow native of Amiens and a fellow woolcomber, but I have seen no reference to him after that date.

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Signature of Jehan de Boubert

13 May 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 288/450

Weaver living in the rue du Clairon. Suspect in the parish of St. Leu, July 1562, Fol. 112. By the mid 1580s he had been married at least four times, the fourth time 23 May 1584 to the widow Jehenne DU PUIS (Lymeu, fol. 277). One of his earlier wives, Anne CHRESTIEN died on or about 10 March 1583. Her postmortem inventory contained “A book, entitled the Bible in French and three other small books.” A.M. FF 420/23. Minor children: David, Ester, and Judith. Jehan was also father of an adult daughter Marie de Boubers, who was the wife of Zacharie du Castel (#30 and #31). Jehan went to Canterbury where he married Pacque Peucelle native of Fromelle and widow of another Amiens native Loys Harembourg, 21 March 1596.*  Marie his grown daughter, then widow of Zacharie du Castel died in Canterbury on April 26th 1597 and Jean de Boubers, characterized in the notice as “an elderly married man” died shortly after her on June 9, 1597. One month prior to that 8 May 1597, Pacque Peucelle made out her own will, designating Boubert as her legatee (this is the document signed by Amiens refugees to Canterbury Jean le Mort and Noe Geet on that day).  Pacque died in Canterbury 27 February 1598.  Canterbury Consistory Acts, “Deaths” pp. 570-71. 

* The earlier marriage of Peucelle and Loys Harembourg occasioned a kind of standoff between the prospective couple and the Threadneedle Street Consistory. I published an article on this incident (in French) : “The “obstinacy” of Loys Harembourg : an Amiens weaver’s showdown with the Consistory of the London Refugee Church,” in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, vol. 69, number 691 (2009), 537-43.

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Signature of Nicolas Pointel

1 May 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 278/450

Laboureur, living in the village of St. Aubin-les-Amienois otherwise known as St. Aubin-Montenoy. This village was located 14 miles southwest of Amiens. He seems to have been the son of Anthoine Pointel, a merchant and innkeeper and Marie Rolland. This couple lived for a time or had a second residence in Amiens, on the busy commercial artery the rue de Beauvais in the parish of St. Remy.   Anthoine was among the non-decorators and was fined 10 livres (a largish sum suggesting he was well-off since the fines were allocated in general based on the wealth of the individual). The couple appear on the Protestant register of baptisms. Nicolas is mentioned on the postmortem inventory of Anthoine Pointel 27 April 1580. (A.M. FF 401/21).  
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Signature of Jehenne de Louvencourt

13 September 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Cretu, 305/450

I  was attracted to this act in the notary and the signature of Jehenne de Louvencourt partly by the thought of her possible connection to other de Louvencourts from Amiens with Protestant affiliation, such as the de Louvencourt brothers, Jean and Francois, who sought refuge in Geneva in the 1550s and smuggled books into Amiens or the Nicolas de Louvencourt, a town councilor in 1561-62, tolerant toward if not adhering to the cause of the Reform or on the consideration that her husband Pierre du Gard II, Sr. de Maucreux was one of the 4 surviving children of the Huguenot ex-mayor of the city Me Pierre du Gard.  This latter was father of a child baptized Protestant, 30 September 1564 and also of two daughters, Marie and Barbe, who married two sons of the d’Ainval family, scions of the provincial nobility, who continued in the Reformed faith well into the 17th century if not beyond. 

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Mark of Gervais Mangnier

24 November 1580
Notaries Quignon/Du Mons (?)  78/450

Houppier, widow of Marguerite Fournier, living in the parish of St. Jacques. Enguerrand Fournier is part of the Fournier clan mentioned here, as are Jehan, Jehan le Jeune and Pierre Fournier; With Helene Cavis parent for “Jehan” Mangnier on the BR, fol. 1 verso. Godparent Jehan Laurenier 30 July 1564; his postmortem inventory 31 august 1581 mentions he was a woolcomber, peigneur de laine living in the “verte rue.” A very small valuation of his property 12 ecus 24 sous. as of his death,  FF 409/15. There is a minor child not named in the inventory said to the child of the late Mangnier and Roberde (sic rather than Helene) Caulis as on the Baptismal Register. 

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Mark of Pierre Garet

12 April 1580
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 111/450

Master weaver, living in the parish of St. Leu in 1580. Son of a master weaver, received as a master weaver (HH 273, fol.22 11 February 1559 n.s.)  Godparent on the BR for “Marie” daughter of Jehan Hourdequyn and Marie du Caurroy, 17 december 1564, fol. 5 verso.  He was subject to a forced loan under the Ligue. 

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Signature of Hester Dodo

23 March 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 273/450

(second version of #5)

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Signature of Vincent de Montormel

31 March 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau, 274/450

(second version of #29)

Current texts are taken from the 8/1 version of the bios.

Batch 4

Mark of Fiacre Muydeble

19 March 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze, 350/450

Master weaver living in the parish of St. Jacques. Takes as an apprentice by this act the son of a rural laborer (manouvrier) Robert Ducroquet. A person named FM was a suspect in the parish of St. Jacques in Amiens in July, 1562. With wife Jehanne Lierre father of a son “Jehan”  baptized in the Protestant Church of Amiens, 11 March 1565, Jehan Randon godparent. An uncertainty regards the identification of the FM on the BR as a weaver inasmuch as there was a tile roofer (couvreur de thuile) named FM in Amiens in 1560.

Signature of Guillaume Facquet

18 May 1585
Notary Lymeu

(widower of Claudine  Desmerliers m. Catherine Baron 366/450 Prot marriage). He was a royal sergeant of the baronnie and chatellainie of Picquigny, but prior to acquiring that position he appears to have been trained as a weaver. HH 273, Fol. 155v, 5 October 1563.  He died before 1587 see marginal note 366/450 offspring? Louis Facquet, a son, married to Suzanne Varlet baptized children in the Amiens Protestant Church of the 17th century. Barbe Facquet, a daughter living in Amiens, parish of St. Firmin the Confessor, married the weaver Pierre BINAULT, son of Pierre (master weaver) and Jehenne Allin living in Amiens, parish of St. Jacques, prenuptial contract Lymeu, 24 February 1595, Fol. 82. They do not show up on the Protestant Register in the 17th century but a Jehan Binault does.  Another daughter Isabel Facquier was married to Thobie CADOT, son of Jehan CADOT (qv), This couple baptized their children in the Catholic Church in the first decade of the 1600s.

Mark of Fremyn de Bully

17 October 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau 433/450

Tisserand de draps (drapery weaver). He and his wife were “suspects” in the parish of SFCON. He was godparent to “Ester” daughter of Henri de Buires and Marie LE CLERCQ, his wife and also for Francois DU PUIS, houppier and Claire HENRY, his wife. DE BULLY’s household goods were apparently pillaged in the anti-Protestant Easter riots in Amiens in 1568, an event that resulted in numerous deaths.

Signature of Jehan de Talle

9 June 1582
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau

I have found two signatures for a woolcomber of this name  No. 91 and 92.   No.91 (167/450) is identified as a woolcomber living in the parish of St. Jacques1) There was a Jehan Talle married to Perrine JOURDAIN who baptized a daughter “Susanne” in the Protestant church Sunday, 2 July 1565. The godparent was Pierre FLAMENG, a woolcomber 2) There was a Jehan Talle, woolcomber (peigneur de laine), said to be a native of the village of Belloy and living  in the Verde Rue,* parish of St. Jacques, who was a member and spokesperson for a Protestant delegation appearing before the town council of Amiens 30 June 1576 and requesting permission under the latest treaty to establish Protestant worship inside the city 3) There was a Jehan Talle, woolcomber, member of the Protestant group notified of the decision to bar services in Allonville. Note to self  Find incident “I’ll kill all the Huguenots in the Verde Rue” and I think I have others living there. The specification that the signatory (above #91) was living in the parish St. Jacques is an argument in its favor, although we could be dealing with two protestant woolcombers of this name.

Signature of Jehan de Talle

22 May 1585
Notary Lymeu/Rogeau

This signature is from an act dated 22 may 1585 which concerns a parcel of land and mentions Marie Damanez as the wife of a Jehan de Talle woolcomber. 370/450

Signature of Jehan Lhoste

10 July 1579
Notaries Martin/Pecoul

Marchand sayeteur, no parish given, 14/450 debt with Anthoine de Vaulx, tailleur d’habits; a Jehan Lhoste was a suspect in the parish of St. Leu. Lhoste was godparent for two couples on the Protestant register of baptisms; in both cases, the husbands Nicolas Godyn and Guillaume Saulvage were weavers, but the identification with No. 93 can only be regarded as possible.

Signature of Jehan de le Porte

14 October 1585
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze

Marchant SF Con 431/450 act also signed by Vincent de Montormel. A Raoul de le Porte and his wife were suspects in the parish of SFCON. A person of this name figures as a godparent on the Protestant register of baptisms of 18 June 1565, and also on the Protestant register of baptisms in 1602 but the name was common and the identification can only be termed possible. The signature does not correspond with that of Jehan de la Porte found in the Canterbury documents among Amiens refugees or with the trademark of a master weaver of this name  HH 272, fol, 151 verso.

Signature of Catherine de Werps

30 August 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Rogeau

Par St. Remy wife of Jacques Sallé master menuisier303/450. Able to sign her name and undergoing with her husband the travails of imprisonment and exile under the Ligue.

Signature of Ernoul Lefevre

16 May 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze

Par St. Jacques saieteur 284/450.  A joint will with Bastienne CARON No. 97

Mark of Bastienne Caron

16 May 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Quatorze joint test 284/450,

Par St Jacques. A joint Protestant will with Ernoul LEFEVRE No. 96

Mark of Magdeleine Vignon

13 December 1584
Notaries Lymeu/Quignon

Magdaleine Vignon was a daughter of  the stockingmaker Nicolas Vignon and Anthoinette Randon his wife, who figure on the Protestant Register of Baptisms and in the non-decorator protests.  Magdaleine married Guillaume Pigou  who died sometime before 12 July 1583, postmortem inventory, A.M. FF 422/16, 12 July 1583, rue de la Vieserye.  Minor children Laurent and Jehenne Pigou. She then married Mathieu MONTHOIS.

Her sister Louise, at one time married to the weaver Francois HUE, later a widow, showed up in Leiden in 1615 as a member of the Walloon Church. Three female members surnamed MONTHOIS were married to important figures in the early 17th century church. (see Roelly) Also, members of the PIGOU family were important figures in it.

From the Regional Archives of Leiden, the Netherlands

Signature of Thobye du Mon

Leiden 1622
Notary Jan MOTE, inv 286 Blad 082

His signature matches that which is on a postmortem inventory in Amiens A.M. FF 654/14.  According to the Leiden document,  Thobie du Mon, son of Nicholas du Mon, a weaver of ras, was about 54 years old in 1622. That would put his birth presumably in Amiens around 1568. According to the Register of Metiers, Thobie became a master saieteur as son of a master on 15 October 1587 (about the age of 21); and took an apprentice Henry Couvreur on 16 October 1600. HH 275, fol. 205 verso and HH 276, fol. 97.

Thobye du Mon and Marie QUIGNON were married 2 April 1617 in the Amiens Protestant Church; the couple were received members of the Walloon and Huguenot Church of Leiden, between August and October 1619.  Previous wife Jeanne LHOSTE, postmortem inventory Amiens A.M. FF614/17, 8 March 1612; and Marye DU BOIS, postmortem inventory, Amiens A. M. FF 654/14, January 31 1617. Du Mon had two children by his marriage to Jeanne Lhoste : “Jacqueline” and “Tobie” The latter was a member of the Amiens Church and married Judith Poullain. Discous or Translate the Leiden document

Signature of Nicolas de Mons

1622
Notary Jan MOTE, inventory 286, Blad 082,

Matches with his signature on the postmortem inventory of Marguerite Gorlier, his former spouse, A.M., FF 662/7, 11 October 1617.  Nicolas de Mont and Brisse LIROT his wife after Marguerite Gorlier, were married in the Reformed Church of Amiens between September and December 1617. They were then received members of the Walloon and Huguenot Church of Leiden in December 1619. De Mons is described as a master weaver. The address is rue de la Blanquetaque.  Nicolas and Brisse baptized “Jeanne” in the Walloon Church of Leiden, 27-12-1620. Six years later Brisse was married to Bauduin Binne and they baptized “Judith” in the Walloon Church. Nicolas de Mons was therefore most likely deceased before 1625 or 26.

1622
Ditto as to notary.

Of the three Amiens Protestant signatures found together on the pages of the Leiden notary Jan Mote in 1622 we have the most immediate information about Nicolas de Bettencourt a woolcomber who made his mark in the form of a sprawling serpentine. The document offers us the useful information that he was a native of Amiens and the son of Salomon de Bettencourt and that he was around 45 years old (in 1622), putting his birth in Amiens around 1577.

About his father we also know a few things Salomon de Bethencourt seems to have been among a rambunctious group of Protestant woolcombers whom the Catholic authorities eyed with suspicion*.  He, along with woolcombers Symon Frere and Jehan de Bettencourt, were fined by the Catholic authorities in 1570 for living in the rue de Beauvais, too close to the town walls in violation of an ordonnance applicable to “those of the new religion” i.e, Protestants. The authorities feared betrayal by such person to Protestant forces roaming in the countryside and compelled the Protestants to relocate. When Salomon’s wife Jeanne CAUREL/COURCHEL? died on or about 20 March 1574, , the family were living in the rue des Watelez, a narrow street off the rue de Beauvais. A.M. FF 375/22.

Nicolas Betencourt, Salomon’s son, married Jacqueline Rossin in Amiens 30 October 1605. Jacqueline was one of the five daughters of Jean Rochin, a merchant woolcomber (see # ) who went from Amiens to Canterbury in c. 1580s. In April 1606 Nicolas and Jacqueline were back in Canterbury, perhaps to avoid unfavorable comment in Amiens, baptizing a daughter Susane who looks to have only have been carried seven months into the marriage.  (Canterbury baptisms Susane d. of Nicolas Bettencourt witnesses Guillaume Desrivieres, Marie Collee, Fremine Moure, p. 76 on diskette) The couple then went to Leiden in South Holland at some point where he and Jacqueline were present at the baptism of a son “Salomon” (evidently named for Nicolas’ father) in 1611 and “Jeanne” in 1613. Jacqueline attracted unfavorable notice from the Leiden Consistory in 1609 for her alleged sexual misbehavior (“paillardise”) MS 41 Actes du Consistoire, 1611-1648 – check dates here. Nicolas de Betencourt received poor relief from the Leiden Church in early 1616 (Ms. 127, Arch Regionaal).

Mark of Nicolas de Bettencourt

Mark of Marguerite le Jeune

1633
Notaries Laurens Vergeyl, inv. 334, blad 087

Signature of Anthoine Paien

1637
Notary Laurens Vergeyl, inv 335, blad 147.

RMEL Nov 1632 and again August 1635.  He and Marthe le Sourd were engaged on 5 July 1635 in Leiden.  He was described as a weaver (raswerker in Dutch), native of Amiens, living on Long Street (Langegracht). Marthe (see No. 104)  is described as a native of Leiden but her parents and sisters were all from Amiens. Anthoine was father of “Anne” 12 April 1643 in the Walloon Church.

Mark of Marthe le Sourd

1637
Notary Laurens Vergeyl, inv. 335, blad 147

She was born in Leiden but her older siblings were born in Amiens (children of Chretien LE SOURD and Marie ERELIN). Anthoine PAIEN and Marthe Le Sourd had numerous offspring baptized in Leiden between 1640 and 1660.

Signature of Zacharie le Mort

1659
Notary Kaerl Outerman, inv no. 452,

Act number 42. Zachary le Mort was born around 1617 in Amiens and was married in Leiden to Rachel BODELO, a native of Leiden around 2 September 1638. They had six children from 1639-1659, most of whom in turn married in Leiden (see Jouke list)

Mark of Hester Boulenger

1667
Notary Adriaen den Oosterling, inv 1066

Act number 81. Ester Boulenger was born around 1602 in Amiens and was married in Leiden in 1625 to Pasquier MARTIN and they had nine children between 1626 and 1642. In 1662 she became engaged to Pierre Beaumont native of Valenciennes 

Mark of Jean Parmentier

1626
Notary Jan Angeliis, inv 295 blad 033

Jean Parmentier is recorded as a godparent in the Amiens Reformed Church at a date of 6 April 1603. He and his wife Marie Acauchie were received members of the Leiden Walloon and Huguenot church as of 11 October 1603 by testimony of the Church of Amiens.  A child of theirs named “Abraham” was baptized, 20 March 1604 in Leiden, Marie Acauchie was received as a member of the Leiden Church again 30 July 1611, presumably a trip to Amiens having intervened. The couple had a troubled existence. The Leiden consistory suspended both spouses from Communion, after an act of assault and battery by Jean caused Marie to miscarry a child she was carrying.  (15 June 1615), Acts of the Consistory, Archives Regionaal No. 41. Marie Acauchie, if I read the entry correctly, appears to have tried to induce Marie Parmentier, an adult daughter of theirs, to engage in prostitution (.June and August 1616) Arch No. 41, pp. 46-47. On a Tax Book of 1622, Jean Parmentier, Marie Acauchie and Abraham their son are listed as living in the Jannetkenspoort (North Rapenburg District). Marie is listed as living in the South Rapenburg.

Mark of Sara Parmentier

1626
Notary Jan Angelis, inv 295, blad 033.

She was another daughter of Jean Parmentier and Marie de la Cauchie, born in Delft, South Holland probably in the 1590s and married in Leiden, engaged 12 October 1618 to Baptiste BENSE or BEUSE from Amiens, Three children were born in Leiden of this union between 1621 and 1625 (Baptiste Beuse is in the Catalogue of Members 1623-34).Jean Parmentier and Marie Acauchie Sara’s parents and Marie Parmentier a sister(see above) were witnesses at baptisms of Sara’s children and/or her betrothal.  Beuse is mentioned in the Consistory Acts. check precise reference

Current texts are taken from the 8/1version of the bios.