Re: Descendants of Raphael Dupuy
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Re: Descendants of Raphael Dupuy
Larry Clark 2/04/03
Since most of the specifics in this question were discussed in detail and references were given in prior messages, I am not re-typing the details.Do a search under my name or Cameron Allen on this site and you will find the prior discussions.I am also writing this message from memory so I may have some minor errors as to datew, spelling or details.I would guess that the person you employed obtained their information from either "The Huguenot Brrtholomew Dupuy" by Rev. B. H. Dupuy or "Colonial Men & Times" by Lilie Van Cullin Harper or some other publication which got its data from those works.Both books were published between 1900 and 1920, and were generally accepted as correct.I, in fact, had written and submitted for publication an article based on those works which traced the ancestry of Jeanne de Vesc one of the Dupuy spouses.About 2000, Cameron Allen published an article in "The American Genealogist" in which he proved that the earlier lineage was incorrect (see the earlier postings); that the spouse of Bartholomew, the immigrant, was Marie Gardier, and also furnished church records from Holland and Germany proving that Bartholomew was from St. Jean de Marejouls(sp?) in Garde.Those notorial records for that community have not been microfilmed by the L.D.S., so a number of us who have participated in this forum contributed to a fund and hired a genealogist to check the records at the archives in Nimes.Those findings will be written up and published when the project is deemed complete.The records were searched to 1634 (earlier ones did not exist) and Barholomew and his fzmily were found.
The line in the original books was derived pricipally from 2 sources - A Genealogy of the House of Dupuy de Montbrun by Guy Allard published in 1685 and "La France Protestante" by Eugene and Emile Haag published in 1886.The Allard history covered the earlier generations to a purported link with the Dupuys of Cabrilles, which family is discussed in Haag.It was to this family that Barholomew, the immigrant, was annexed with no documentary proof.Since both the Cabrilles family and the St. Jean family have similar christian names (I have been unable to find "Bartholomew" in any other branch), the possiblity of having the records of the Cabrilles family investigated in the pertinent archives is being considered.I have only recently learned, thanks to someone on another list, a possible location for Cabrilles.
When our work is complete, and the contributors to the project agree, it will be published and a notice will be posted on the list.