DU BOIS, Louis

1626 - 1696  (69 years)

• Name	DU BOIS, Louis  [1]
  Born	28 Oct 1626	Wicres, Artois Province, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Jun 1696	Kingston, Ulster County, New York
  Person ID	I5827	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	DU BOIS, Cretien,   b. 1597, Wires, Artois, France ,   d. 10 Oct 1665  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	BRUNEL, Jeanne Masic,   b. Abt 1599,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2258	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BLANCHAN, Catherine,   b. 17 Oct 1627, Artois, Normandy, France ,   d. 18 Oct 1718, Kingston, Ulster County, New York  (Age 91 years)
  Married	10 Oct 1655	Mannheim, Baden, Germany
  Children	1. DU BOIS, Isaac   2. DU BOIS, Solomon   3. DU BOIS, Rebecca   4. DU BOIS, Louis   5. DU BOIS, Abraham,   b. 29 Sep 1656, Mannheim, Baden, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. DU BOIS, Jacob,   b. 4 Oct 1661, Esopus, Kingston County, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. DU BOIS, Sarah,   b. 14 Dec 1662, Hurley, Ulster County, New York ,   d. Abt 1726, Salem, Burlington County, New Jersey  (Age 63 years)   8. DU BOIS, David,   b. 13/13 Mar 1666/1667, Kingston, Ulster County, New York   9. DU BOIS, Matthew,   b. 3/03 Jan 1678/1679, Kingston, Ulster County, New York   10. DU BOIS, Magdalena,   b. 12 May 1680, Kingston, Ulster County, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F2257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Louis Du Bois was baptized on 21 October 1626 at Lille, parish church of Wicres, France, the son of Chretien Du Bois (and possibly a Cornelia [Unknown). Either with his parents or on his own he went to Mannheim, Germany in the Pfalz, German Palatinate. Abstracts of Mannheim Palatine Records translated by Louis Du Bois of Yardley, Pennsylvania in 1928 state: "In the year 1606, the Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate, being anEvang elical Prince and foreseeing a religious war, built the fortified city of Mannheim at the confluence of the Neckar and Rhine Rivers. Soon after, in 1618, there broke out the devastating 'Thirty Years War' and then the youthful fortress of Mannheim was taken and destroyed by the Bavarian General Tilly. The persecuted French Protestants were brotherly received in the German Evangelical country, particularly in the Rhineland. The Walloons were likewise welcomed in Mannheim and allowed to establish their own French Evangelical community with their own clergymen. For a time they were united with the German Evangelical Reformed church, which union was made with the understanding that services and Holy Communion should be held in the French language in the Spring and Autumn. "The civil and church records of Mannheim do not go back beyond the year 1621, the date of the city's destruction. It is only at a later date that the records of the French Protestants are to be found inscribed by French clergymen in the German church book of records. "The name Du Bois is found for the first time in 1653.... Louis Du Bois, son of the late Chretien DuBois, resident of Wicres in the vicinity of La Bassee, of the first part, and Catharine Blanchan, daughter of Mathieu Blanchan, bourgeois of Mannheim, of the second part, were married at the French (Protestant) Church of Mannheim (in the Pfalz, German Palatinate), the 10th of October 1655. (Note: A photostatic copy of this record is included in the DuBois Family History)"

  
  

• Sources

  [S160] WEB Page, http://www.vnla.com/vnl/gen/mcq/DuBois.htm#Sarah.