Adrien Dumais

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Adrien Dumoys married Catherine Pougnye in Etoutteville (France) on 12 August 1594. They had a son Jehan, who is the father of our ancestors in New France.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wesleyhcl... A branch of the Mauger less important than the one from Saint-Jacques settled in Saint-Rémi as soon as 1551. The family ties are strong enough for Barbe to be a godmother in 1618 and to give her name to Thomas Mauger?s daughter. She indeed liked that parish and its parishioners : she marries Pierre Mainfray there in 1620. Barbe gets remarried with Jean Dumay (the father) around 1626-1627. Before that, a notary act of Rouen in 1555 mentioning Jehan Dumays, rope maker from Autretot, allows us to learn more about the ancestry of our own ancestors. A compilation of all the acts for the Dumoys/Dumays of Autretot shows that there were adults of that name, in the records that were kept, as soon as the beginning of year 1546. There is one Jehan Dumay, rope maker, who is 23 years old in 1555, and another Jean Dumays who gets married, that same year, with a girl from Roquefort, Marguerite Berservoyse. The latter was probably older since according to the custom one has to be at least 30 to get married in the countryside. So when a rope maker or another tradesman states that he is from Autretot, it means he was born there and not necessarily that he lives there. Jehan and Marguerite, the newlywed, have a daughter, Marie as soon as 1556. After that, the couple disappears from Autretot.

One must not forget that in the remote countryside, the men, often labourers of craftsmen, rent themselves for the harvest season, the winter labours or according to the orders for the rope makers. The disappearance of the couple from the village lasts 13 years. In that period, children are born in various locations, depending of the duties. We have traced some information on a few of them. - Jehan (the son), who marries Elisabeth Henze in 1596 and becomes a father that same year; - Adrien, who marries Catherine Pougnye, in Étoutteville, in 1594; that couple would be the parents of Jehan, born around 1595, who is in fact Jean Dumay, the father of our first ancestors; he is traced in Dieppe (Saint-Jacques) in 1626; - Magdeleine, born in 1559; - Adélise, a daughter with a lovely name, whose year of birth is unknown but who is a godmother in 1595. Considering the results of researchers done in the registers of Autretot and Étoutteville, we can identify the sequence of the generations. Adrien, son of Jehan and Marguerite, born between 1556 and 1569, marries Catherine Pougnye in 1594 in the parish of his fiancé, Étoutteville. We know almost all of their children, except those who were born between 1602 and 1607. But the largest gap comes from the lack of information on the births between 1594 and 1600, especially as the parents who were elsewhere at that time gave birth to the one we are most interested in, Jehan (Jean) who appears as godfather in 1621 and is clearly said son of Adrien. Born between 1595 and 1599, he is the father of our first three ancestors : Étienne, André and Jean Dumay.

The identification of two more generations in the ancestry of our own ancestors is quite an accomplishment. Will it be possible to go back further in time? We do not think so. The Association will nevertheless keep up its work to validate its information on the ancestry of the Demers and the origin of their first ancestors.

References : DEMERS, Marcel, Bibliographical notes on Jean Dumay, the father, Miotte Lecombe and Barbe Mauger-Maugis, July 1997. OSSELIN, Anne, Rouen, France. Research Notes, 1997-1998. Change Date: 30 Nov 2006 at 14:59:13