"From Beyond Remembrance

PART TWO

THESE ARE ACTUAL TRANSLATIONS OF DOCUMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL HANDWRITING WHICH I HAVE ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. THEY ARE LISTED IN DATE ORDER, AND ARE TAKEN FROM MARRIAGE BOOK I/1651-1819, AND FROM BAPTISMAL BOOK 1651-1676, BOTH FROM THE FRENCH REFORMED CHURCH (PROOF POSITIVE THAT THE LARUE FAMILY ATTENDED THERE). THE DWELLING PLACES OF MANY OF THESE PERSONS ARE IDENTIFIED ON A MARVELOUS 1663 MAP OF MANNHEIM IN MY OFFICE.

YM=YOUNG MAN (SINGLE) YW=YOUNG WOMAN (SINGLE) HW=HIS WIFE

GF=GODFATHER GM=GODMOTHER D=DECEASED

BP=BAPTIZED DAU=DAUGHTER

ESTIENNE DESCHAMPS AND MARIE DE LA COUR HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAU ESTHER 10 SEP 1654, GF AMAN BLEUSET AND GM MARIE DE LA RUE.

ANTHOINE LE ROUX, WIDOWER OF THE PROVINCE OF LA LEU IN THE LOW COUNTRY, AND MARIE JERY, WIDOW OF JEAN FREMEAU OF ARMENTIER, WERE MARRIED IN THE CHURCH 16 MAY 1655.

JEAN CLAES AND MARIE DE LA RUE HAVE BAPTIZED THEIR SON JEAN B 15 DEC 1655 BP 30 DEC 1655, GF ESTIENNE DES CHAT, GM MARGUERTIE DE FINE, WIFE OF PIERRE INGLAR.

ISAAC FOURMEAU AND JEANNE DU FOUR, HIS WIFE, HAD DAUGHTER MARIE B 19 DEC BAPTIZED 24 DEC 1654(?), GF JACQUES FOURMEAU, GM MARGUERITE PARCQUET.

JEANNE DU FOUR, WIDOW OF ISAAC FREMEAU, BP HER DAU ELIZABETH, B 22 MAY 1656(?) BP 26 SAME, GF ANTHOINE DE ROUX, GM ELISABETH DU FOUR, YW.

PIERRE, SON OF PIERRE LE ROUX OF CALAIS IN THE RECONQUERED COUNTRY, AND JEANNE GUERING OF THE PROVINCE OF ARTOIS, HAVE BEEN ESPOUSED IN THE FRENCH CHURCH OF THIS CITY THE 23 JANUARY 1656.

JEAN HUET CALLED COURTAINVILLE OF WALLESTADT, AND SARAH LE ROUX, HW, BP THEIR SON HENRY, B 26 JAN 1656 BP 27 SAME, GF HENRY PIETTE, RESIDENT OF HEYDELBERG, GF JUDITH JOLLY, HW.

JEAN LE ROU, WIDOWER, AND MARIE FARINEAU, WIDOW OF PIERRE GAVEL OF BLARY NEAR ST. AMAND IN THE LOW COUNTRY, ESPOUSED IN FRENCH CHURCH 30 JAN 1656.

PIERRE CRETON (CRESSON??) AND MARIE BLIE HAVE BP THEIR DAU JUDITH, GF PIERRE LE ROUX, GM JUDITH USILLE. (Karl Larew, Historian, says that Usille is forerunner of Gille. I do not agree).

PIERRE LE ROU AND JEANNE GUERIN, HIS WIFE, HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR SON, NAMED JACQUE, BORN 2 DECEMBER 1656 AND BAPTIZED 7 DECEMBER 1656, HAS FOR GODFATHER JACQUE LE CLERCQ AND GODMOTHER MARIE LE TALE.

JEAN CLAYE AND MARIE DE LA RUE, HW, HAVE BP THEIR DAU MARIE B 19 JAN 1658 AND BP 31, GF JACQUE DESROUART AND GM ELIZABETH CHATEAU.

PIERRE LEROU AND JEANNE GARIN, HIS WIFE, HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAUGHTER SUSANNE, BORN 9 OCTOBER 1658 AND BAPTIZED 17 OCTOBER 1658, AND HAS FOR GODFATHER ISAAK MUSNIER AND GODMOTHER SUSANNE POISONIER.

THE 6 DECEMBER 1658 HAVE BEEN MARRIED IN THIS CHURCH ABRAHAM ROUX, YOUNG MAN, SON OF ANTHOINE ROUX, BOURGEOIS OF MANHEIM, AND JEANNE DU FOUR, WIDOW OF ISAAC FREMOR, DAUGHTER OF JEAN DU FOUR, BOURGEOIS OF MANHEIM.

ABRAHAM LE ROUX AND JEANNE DU FOUR, HIS WIFE, HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAUGHTER JEANNE, BORN 19 OCTOBER 1660, AND BAPTIZED 28 OCTOBER 1660, WHO HAS FOR GODFATHER PIERRE DU FOUR AND FOR GODMOTHER JEANNE PLUQUET, WIFE OF JACOB FREMO.

ANTHOINE BURBEUR AND JEAN DELHOUTE, HW, HAVE BP THEIR DAU 13 APR B 6 APR 1662, NAMED RACHEL, GF ABRAHAM LE ROUX, GM RACHEL HUTE, WIDOW.

PIERRE LE ROUX AND JEANNE GUARIN HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAUGHTER THE 24 AUGUST BORN 11 AUGUST 1662 WHO HAS BEEN NAMED MARIE AND HAS FOR GODFATHER PIERRE BRAN AND GODMOTHER MARIE FRISQUERA.

JEAN CLAISSE AND MARIE DE LA RUE BP THEIR DAU 15 FEB 1663 B 8TH SAME, NAMED ESTHER, GF MICHEE YOLAND, GM CATHERINE FEUTRIE, HW.

ISAAC GILLET AND ESTHER MICHEE HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAUGHTER THE BORN 1663 WHO HAS BEEN NAMED MAGDELLAINE AND HAS FOR GODFATHER PIERRE GILLET AND FOR GODMOTHER MAGDELLAINE MICHEE. (APPARENTLY PIERRE WAS THE FATHER OF ISAAC GILLET, AND MAGDELLAINE THE MOTHER OF ESTHER MICHEE, ALTHOUGH BOTH COULD HAVE BEEN SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS. IF THEY WERE PARENTAL, THEN ISAAC AND MAGDELLAINE WERE PROBABLY HUSBAND AND WIFE). (MAGDELLAINE, OR IN THE GERMAN SPELLING, MAGDELEINE, WOULD BECOME THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM LE ROUX OF MANNHEIM, WHO IMMIGRATED TO THE NEW WORLD IN 1678. SEE THE BOOK, 'SIX GENERATIONS OF LA RUE AND ALLIED FAMILIES,' BY OTIS MATHER. HOWEVER, SEE THE BOOKS BY KARL LAREW, WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS CONCLUSION).

ABRAHAM LE ROUX AND JEANNE DU FOUR HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR SON THE 6 MARCH 1664 BORN 1 MARCH 1664 WHO HAS BEEN NAMED ABRAHAM, AND HAS FOR GODFATHER PIERRE SCABEL AND FOR GODMOTHER ELIZABETH COLLIER, HIS WIFE. (THIS IS THE BIRTH RECORD OF ABRAHAM, THE IMMIGRANT TO THE NEW WORLD).

PIERRE LE ROUX AND JEANNE GUARIN HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR DAUGHTER THE 21 AUGUST BORN 17 AUGUST 1664 WHO HAS BEEN NAMED ANNE AND HAS FOR GODFATHER FRANCOIS CAILLE AND GODMOTHER ANNE MARIN, YOUNG WOMAN.

PIERRE DU FOUR AND ANNE MASSI HAVE BP THEIR DAU 8 FEB 1665 B 2ND SAME, NAMED SUSANNE, GF ABRAHAM LE ROUX AND GM SUSANNE MASSI, YW.

ANTHOINE LE ROUX, BOURGEOIS OF MANNHEIM, WIDOWER OF D MARIE THIRY CALLED FREMAUD, OF MANNHEIM, AND CATHERINE OLIVER, WIDOW OF DENYS RENARD, WERE MARRIED IN THE CHURCH ON 7 MAY 1665.

DAVID LE ROUX AND MAGDELEINE DESPRES BP THEIR SON DAVID 14 SEP B 11 SEP ??, GF ROLAND LE CLERC, GM JEANNE BUISSON, WIFE OF JEAN WIBAUD. (This is probably a 1664 entry - the year is missing).

DAVID LE ROUX AND MADELEINE DES PRES BP THEIR SON JEAN 25 MAR B 1 MAR 1666, GF JEAN BONENFANT, GM MARIE MASSY, HW.

PIERRE BERNARD, SON OF ANTHOINE BERNARD AND MARIE FREMOST, HW, WAS B 17 SEP 1666 BP 23RD SAME, GF PIERRE DU HAMEAU, GM JEANNE DU FOUR, WIDOW OF ABRAHAM LE ROUX. MARRIED BY THE HONORABLE DU VIVIER, MINISTER, DURING THE PLAGUE.

PAUL GILBERT, YM OF TROIS CHATEAU, FRANCE, SON OF PIERRE GILBERT OF WALSTAT, AND SARAH LE ROUX, WIDOW OF JEAN HUET CALLED COURTENVILLE, MARRIED IN THIS CHURCH THE 18 DEC 1666, BY PASTOR MOLERUS, BY DISPENSATION, DURING THE PLAGUE.

FRANCOIS LE LOUY, WIDOWER OF JEANNE DESSALEU AND CATHARINE OLIVIER, WIDOW OF ANTHOINE LE ROUX, MARRIED 19 MAR 1667.

LOUIS DE FRANCE, YM OF LA LEU, SON OF NICOLAS DE FRANCE, AND JEANNE DU FOUR, WIDOW OF DECEASED ABRAHAM LE ROUX, BOURGEOIS OF MANNHEIM, WERE MARRIED IN THE CHURCH 17 APRIL 1667.

JEAN DE JOUHAATE AND SARA OLIVIER BP THEIR DAU SARA 11 JUL B 4 JUL 1669, GF DAVID LE ROUX, GF JEANNE LE MONT WIFE OF ROGER BROUCAAT.

NICOLAS DE COURCELLES AND ESTHER LE CAT BP THEIR SON DANIEL 21 NOV B 13 NOV 1669, GF JEAN DU FRESNE, YM, GM MADELEINE DESPRES, WIFE OF DAVID LE ROUX.

CONRAD ROBERT, YM OF LAFOND, SWITZERLAND, COUNTY OF NEUFCHATEL, SON OF D PIERRE ROBERT, AND ELIZABETH LA RUE, YW, NATIVE OF SEDAN, HAVE BEEN MARRIED 26 FEBRUARY 1670.

DANIEL HARNIER AND JUDITH LA VALLE BP DAU MAGDELEINE 7 AUG B 6 AUG 1670, GF DAVID LE ROUX, GM MAGDELEINE DESPRES, HW.

CONRADUS ROBERT AND ELISABETH LA RUE HAVE HAD BAPTIZED THEIR SON JACOB, B 19 OCT 1672 BP 27 OCT 1672, GF JACQUES BEZANCON, GM SUSANNE ROUGE, HW.

ANTHOINE DU FOUR AND JEANNE DU CAP BP THEIR DAU PERRONNE 18 B 12 JUN 1673, GF OTTO DE ROUX, GM PERONNE DU CAMP, YW.

JEANNE LOERGEIN BP HER SON PIERRE, BASTARD OF CHARLES LA ROSE, 13 JULY B 3 JULY 1673, GF PIERRE PETERMAN, GM JEANNE HARMAN, WIFE OF ROLAND DE LA RUE.

DAVID LE ROUX AND MADELEINE DES PREES BP THEIR DAU SUZANNE THE 27 B 25 JUN 1675, GF JEAN SALINGRE, GM AMANDE PRINGAL, HW.

AUGUSTIN LE LONG AND ANNE D'ALY BP THEIR DAU MADELEINE 19 B 12 MAR 1676, GF CHARLES LE LONG, GM MADELEINE DESPREES, WIFE OF DAVID LE ROUX. (See D'Aly notes, below).

DANIEL BRAND, WIDOWER OF MARIE PARRE, OF LOCLE, COUNTY OF VALENGIN, AND ELIZABETH DE LA RUE, WIDOW OF CONRAD ROBERT, HAVE RECEIVED THE NUPTIAL BENEDICTION IN OUR CHURCH 12 FEBRUARY 1679.

LOUIS DE FRANCE, WIDOWER OF JEANNE DU FOUR, AND RAISUINE YOUCHKER, WIDOW OF JEANE-GEORGE WISSENWASSWER, BOURGEOIS OF MANNHEIM, ESPOUSED IN THE CHURCH 25 APRIL 1683.

QUENTIN DESPRINGAL, WIDOWER OF FRANCOISE ROUSSEAU, AND MAGDELEIN DESPRES, WIDOW OF DAVID LE ROUX, HAVE RECEIVED NUPTIAL BENEDICTION 22 AUG 1683.

JACQUES LOSSIGNOL AND ELIZABETH VOISIN BP DAU FRANCOISE 18 B 15 DEC 1686, GF DAVID LE ROUX, YM, GM FRANCOISE SALOME, WIFE OF HONORABLE JACQUES MARIAGE.

THE 15 MAR 1703 ON THURSDAY BETWEEN 7 AND 1 O'CLOCK IS BORN A DAU TO JACQUE BEZANCON, BUTCHER OF THIS CITY, BY HIS WIFE MARIE LE ROU, GF PIERRE WAMPOUILLE, BREWER OF THIS CITY, GM ELIZABETH LACROX, HW, B 18 MAR 1703, NAMED ELIZABETH.

(THE RECORDS WERE BEING IMPROVED. PERHAPS THEY REALIZED FUTURE GENERATIONS WOULD BE READING THEM!).

ABRAHAM OF MANNHEIM (the Immigrant) ARRIVED ON STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, IN 1678, ON THE DUTCH SHIP 'DE TROUW' (FAITH), WITH JEANNE GUERIN leROU AND HER CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN MANNHEIM. THEY WERE FOLLOWED IN 1680 BY MORE OF THE FAMILY, ARRIVING ON THE SHIP 'CALEDONIA.' THE CHILDREN OF PIERRE AND JEANNE GUERIN leROU WERE JACQUES (B 1656), SUZANNE (B 1658), MARIE (B 1662), ANNE (B 1664) AND perhaps DAVID, (B ??). PIERRE leROU (WHOSE NAME WAS ALSO SPELLED LE ROUX), COUSIN OF ABRAHAM LE ROUX OF LEIDEN (the latter the father of Abraham the Immigrant), HAD DIED ON THE VOYAGE, WHICH ORIGINATED IN HOLLAND. JEANNE WAS UNABLE TO PAY FOR THE VOYAGE, AND SHE AND HER CHILDREN ESCAPED (EXCEPT FOR SUZANNE, WHO WAS CAPTURED AND LATER SOLD - SHE SPENT THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE) WHEN JEANNE WIELDED A HANDSPIKE AND TOLD THE CHILDREN TO RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. IF THEY ALL TRAVELED TOGETHER, WHY DID JEANNE GUERRIN LEROU SUFFER THE HANDSPIKE INCIDENT? THE ONLY ANSWER POSSIBLE IS THAT THE ADULT MALES INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT WERE SIMPLY TOO MUCH FOR THE LARUE FAMILY, AND THEY COULD NOT SAVE SUZANNE.

IN 1983 DON MITCHELL OF NEWTON, MA ASKED, "IF ANTHOINE OF LALLOEU AND PIERRE OF CALAIS WERE BROTHERS, THEN ABRAHAM (HUSBAND OF JEANNE duFOUR) AND PIERRE (HUSBAND OF JEANNE GUERRIN WERE FIRST COUSINS, AND ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT WAS A SECOND COUSIN TO JACQUES AND SUSANNE, THESE LATTER THREE BEING THE THREE CHILDREN WHO ARRIVED IN NEW YORK WITH THE WIDOW, JEAN GUERRIN LEROUX. THUS, THE PIERRE LEROUX WHO DIED ON THE VOYAGE WAS NOT AN UNCLE TO ABRAHAM, BUT HIS FATHER'S FIRST COUSIN."

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT AND MAGDELEINE GILLET NAMED THEIR CHILD PIETER (DUTCH), WHICH IS A TRANSLATION OF THE FRENCH PIERRE, OBVIOUSLY FOR THE PIERRE WHO DIED ON THE VOYAGE.

JAN ALIEE WAS BORN ABOUT 1661 AND DIED 16 MAR 1718 IN KENT COUNTY, DE. AFTER THE DEATH OF SUZANNE (1706-09) HE MARRIED MARRIETJE GARRISON DEGRAVE, WIDOW OF ANDREW TARBET (TIEBOUT) and WIDOW OF ALBERT TERHUNE, BOTH OF HACKENSACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH (BERGEN CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORD 55). JAN TRANSFERED FROM THE HUGUENOT CHURCH TO THE DUTCH ON 22 SEP 1694. THE CHILDREN OF JAN AND SUZANNE WERE (1) JANNETJE, BORN ABOUT 1686, WHO MARRIED STEVEN ALBERTSE VAN VOORHEES, THEN SIMON JACOBSE VAN WINKEL; (2) PIETER B ABOUT 1688, WHO MARRIED MARGRIETJE ALBERTSE VAN VOORHEES; (3) ABRAHAM, BORN ABOUT 1690, WHO MARRIED MARY RAYMOND; (4) JOHANNES, BORN ABOUT 1692, WHO MARRIED GERTRUDE (?); (5) SUSANNA, BAPTIZED IN HACKENSACK REFORMED CHURCH 10 MAR 1694, WHO MARRIED ANDRIES TIBOUT, THEN JAN JANSE VAN GEST; (6) JACOB, BAPTIZED HACKENSACK 12 JUN 1699; (7) MARITJE, BAPTIZED HACKENSACK 5 NOV 1704; (8) ANN (HANNAH) B ABOUT 1706 IN DELAWARE, WHO MARRIED (?) HAWKINS; (9) ELIZA BETH, BORN ABOUT 1707 IN DELEWARE; (10) RACHEL, BORN ABOUT 1708 IN DELEWARE, WHO MARRIED A TIBOUT, THEN NICHOLAS VAN DYKE. (NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK CITY). ABRAHAM ALYEE AND MARY RAYMOND HAD CHILDREN JOHN, MARY, SABRAH, JONATHAN, AND ABRAHAM. JOHN MARRIED GRACE (?) AND DIED IN 1771; MARY MARRIED HENRY ROTHWELL, THEN SAMUEL CARPENTER; SARAH MARRIED THOMAS TILTON; JONATHAN MARRIED SARAH TILTON; ABRAHAM DIED IN 1770, MARRIED (?).

RUTH HEIDGERD OF THE HUGENOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW PALTZ NY WROTE AS FOLLOWS: "Jan Aliee was born about 1661 and died 16 March 1718, Kent County De. He married 1688-9 Susan laRue Helling, widow of Tunis Hendrickse Helling and sister of Jacques LaRue. He married Marrietje Garrison DeGrave, Banns DRC Hackensack, 23 Sep 1709, the widow of Andrew Tarbet (Tiebout) and also the widow of Albert Terhune, both of Acquackanonck (Hackensack DRC 29,33,91, Bergen Church Record 55). He joined the DRC at hackensack 22 September 1694, transferring from the Huguenot Church." Mrs. Heidgerd further recorded as follows:

Holland Society Year Book 1913:
Baptism Parents Child Witness

18Apr1682 Jacob Laroe Jannetje Josias Marse Weybrect Hendrickse and his wife

Holland Society Year Book 1914:

Marriages

27May1710 Simon Jacobsen Van Winkel, ym born Bergen, and Jannetje Aljee, widow

Banns of Steven Albertse born Hackensack.

02Jan1681 Jacob Lerou, ym from Mannheim in th Palz and Wybrect Hendricks, yd from
Banns Bergen. Received Certificate 25 Jan 1681 to New York.

20May1683 Thomis Hendricks ym from NY and Susanna Lerou yd from Mannheim. Banns Received Certificate June 11.

10Mar1695 Jacob Jacobsen Van Winel, widower of Aaltje Damiels, and Grietje

Banns Hendrickx Hellingh yd, both living at Bergen, married March 26.

Holland Society Year Book 1915

Burials, Village of Bergen NJ, beginning 1666: No Aliees or Larues.

Register of Members of Church of Bergen, 1661, page 62:

7Oct1678 By Certicicate, Jacob Lareu.

The will of John Alley of Kent County, Delaware: Liber A-1 p. 98, dated 19Feb1718, mentions sons Peter and Abrahm Alley as oldest; Johannus; Hannah and Marry; Jacob; Jane, wife of Simon Van Winkel; Susanna, wife of John Vangasco; Elizabeth; and Rachel. Peter was not living in Kent County at the time. Executors are "Beloved sons Peter, Abraham, Johannus." Witnesses are John Hillyard, Esavell Smith, John Bradshaw. Will proved 16Mar1718, Benjamin Shurmer, Clerk Surrogate Court, Deputy Registrar, Dovertown.

From Prominent People of Delaware: The name was originally D'Allee, French Huguenot. John Allee purchased land in Kent County Delaware 1687. Will disposed of over 2,000 acres. Settled in Dutch Neck on the coast line between Dover and Smyrna. Abraham Allee was a member of the General Assembly of the Government in 1744.

Abraham Allee, who married Mary Raymond, was born about 1690. Their children: John, d 1771 m Grace ?; Mary m Henry Rothwell, then Samuel Carpenter; Sabrah m Thomas Tilton; Jonathan m Sarah Tilton; Abraham Jr d 1790 m ?.

Johannes Allee b c 1692 m Gertrude ?.

Jacob Allee b 1699.

I HAVE OFTEN BEEN ASKED HOW I ARRIVE AT MY CONCLUSIONS. MY BACKGROUND IS CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW, AND PSYCHOLOGY. IN CRIMINAL LAW, ONE PROVES A POINT 'BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.' IN CIVIL LAW, IT IS 'THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE.' THE PSYCHOLOGIST 'READS BETWEEN THE LINES' UNTIL THE TRUTH BEGINS TO EMERGE. IN DECIDING THAT ABRAHAM LE ROUX, THE IMMIGRANT, JOURNEYED FROM MANNHEIM TO THE NEW WORLD WITH HIS AUNT, HIS FATHER'S FIRST COUSIN, AND AT LEAST TWO CHILDREN COUSINS, I EXAMINED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

IN THE OTIS MATHER BOOK, 'SIX GENERATIONS,' ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT STATES THAT HE IS FROM MANNHEIM AND THAT HE ARRIVED IN THE NEW WORLD IN 1680. HE WAS APPARENTLY USING MANNHEIM AS HIS BIRTHPLACE, RATHER THAN AS A PORT OF ORIGIN FOR THE JOURNEY. HIS MOTHER, JEANNE DU FOUR, DID NOT TRAVEL TO THE NEW WORLD WITH HIM. AFTER THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LE ROUX OF LEIDEN, SHE MARRIED SEVERAL TIMES. THE LAST ENTRY CONCERNING HER IN THE MANNHEIM MARRIAGE BOOK IS WHEN LOUIS DE FRANCE, ESPOUSED TO RAISUINE YOUCHKER, IS LISTED AS THE WIDOWER OF JEANNE DU FOUR - AND THAT WAS 25 APRIL 1683. ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT'S first cousin once removed WAS PIERRE LEROU, HUSBAND OF JEANNE GUERRIN LEROU. THEIR CHILDREN WERE JACQUES, SUSANNE, MARIE, AND ANNE. ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT'S FATHER, ABRAHAM OF LEIDEN, WAS DEAD, (THE PLAGUE HAD DESTROYED MUCH OF THE MANNHEIM COMMUNITY), AND HIS MOTHER, JEANNE, HAD REMARRIED. THE LAST 'LARUE' (but not Le Rou) ENTRY IN THE MANNHEIM RECORDS IS IN 1686, WHEN DAVID LE ROUX, A YOUNG (SINGLE) MAN, WAS GODFATHER AT A BAPTISM. ANOTHER DAVID LARUE APPEARS IN THE NEW WORLD IN 1680, AND HIS DEATH IS GIVEN AS 1683. HE IS LIKELY THE AS YET UNESTABLISHED CHILD OF PIERRE AND JEANNE LEROU, AND MADE THE TRIP WITH THEM.

NICHOLAS D'AILLY AND WIFE CAME ON THE SHIP 'FAITH' WITH THEIR 15-YEAR-OLD SON, JAN, WHO WAS BORN IN MANNHEIM IN 1663. THIS NAILS DOWN THE YEAR OF ARRIVAL! THE RECORD SHOWS THAT THE D'AILLY FAMILY WAS FROM FLANDERS-ARTOIS, THE PRECISE AREA OF THE SUB-PROVINCE OF LALLEOU, THE HOME OF THE LE ROUX/LARUE FAMILIES, Anthoine being from the town of Wicres. ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT, HIS "UNCLE", "AUNT", AND TWO (OR THREE) COUSINS TRAVELED TOGETHER ON THE 'FAITH'.

JAN D'AILLY MARRIED SUSAN LARUE HELLING, WIDOW OF TUNIS HENDRICKS HELLING, AND SISTER OF JACQUES LARUE (BORN HUGUENOT COLONY MANNHEIM 1656), IN 1688 OR 1689, IN HACKENSACK, BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY! ASSUMING THAT JAN WAS YOUNGER THAN SUSAN BY FIVE YEARS (SUSAN WAS BORN IN 1658), JAN WAS BORN IN 1663 AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE FAITH WAS IN 1678. THIS CLEARLY UNDERLINES FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. FURTHER, JAN D'AILLY, (SPELLING VARIATIONS WERE AILLE, ALLEE, (ALYEA) JOINED THE DUTCH CHURCH AT HACKENSACK 22 SEP 1694, TRANSFERRING FROM THE HUGUENOT CHURCH! CERTAINLY HE HAD GROWN UP IN THE HUGUENOT COLONY IN MANNHEIM, and the name d'Allee is French Huguenot, BUT HIS 5TH CHILD, SUSANNA, WAS BAPTIZED IN THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN HACKENSACK ON 10 MAR 1694. JAN'S SECOND MARRIAGE WAS TO MARITJE DE GRAVE, DEFINITELY A DUTCH NAME, AND SUSANNA MAY HAVE BEEN HER CHILD. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE FIRST MARRIAGE OF SUSANNA LEROU, 'YOUNG LADY OF MANNHEIM,' WAS TO THOMIS HENDRICKS, 'YOUNG MAN OF NEW YORK,' ON 11 JUN 1683, AFTER FIVE YEARS OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, CLEARLY ESTABLISHING THE ARRIVAL DATE AS 1678. REMEMBER! OUR CALENDAR HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN AS IT IS NOW, AND IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO WRITE, FOR EXAMPLE, 1678/79 DURING ONE OF THE CONVERSION PERIODS. ABRAHAM THE IMMIGRANT WAS ESTIMATING WHEN HE GAVE THE ARRIVAL YEAR AS 1680! One final piece of evidence: In 1997, my sister, Martha, discovered the petition of this Susanna LeRou for release from 5 years of involuntary servitude, and to establish herself as a citizen. The year? 1683!

ON 02 JAN 1681 JACOB LEROU, YOUNG MAN BORN IN MANNHEIM, AND WYBRECT HENDRICKS, YOUNG LADY OF BERGEN, WERE MARRIED. SHE HAD TO HAVE BEEN A RELATIVE OF TUNIS HENDRICKS, THE FIRST HUSBAND OF SUSAN! THE UNUSUAL SPELLING (LEROU) IS VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR TIME FRAME. ON 07 OCT 1678 A JACOB 'LEREU' WAS LISTED AS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF BERGEN, AND ON 18 APR 1682 JANNETJE 'LEROE' WAS BORN TO JACOB 'LEROE' AND WEYBRECT HENDRICKSE. ACCURATE SPELLING JUST DID NOT EXIST, AND THESE IMMIGRANTS HAD LEARNED FRENCH AND DUTCH, WALOON-FLEMISH, GERMAN, AND NOW, ENGLISH!

IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED AT THIS POINT THAT IN KARL LAREW'S BOOKS, HE WONDERS HOW 'LA RUE' COULD BECOME (AS WELL IT DID, IN SOME CASES), 'RALO'. IN HIGH GERMAN THE 'LA' IS FAR BACK IN THE THROAT AND BARELY PRONOUNCED, WITH AIR ESCAPING IN THE SAME MANNER AS IN THE ROUGH-BREATHING OF THE SOUND 'H' IN GREEK. IT SOUNDS VERY MUCH LIKE 'SWALLOW' IN HIGH GERMAN, AND IN LOW GERMAN IS PRONOUNCED, 'HLA-ROW'! WE GET SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT INTO THE PRONUNCIATION AS IT WAS 'GERMANIZED' OVER THE CENTURIES!

THE CHILD OF ABRAHAM LE ROUX OF MANNHEIM, AND MAGDELEINE GILLET, ALSO OF MANNHEIM, WAS:

a. ANCESTOR #448, PIETER (PETER), B 18 MAR 1688 AND BAPTIZED IN THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, KINGSTON, NEW YORK, 25 MAR 1688. HE MARRIED HIS STEP-SISTER, (A#449) ELIZABETH CRESSON, B 1690, DAU OF OLIVE CRESSON, 2ND WIFE OF ABRAHAM OF MANNHEIM. PETER D 1783. WITNESSES TO HIS BIRTH WERE MOYSE DE GRAUE AND CORNELIA VAN DEN BOSCK.

THEIR CHILDREN:

1. ABRAHAM

2. ANCESTOR #224 JACOB, B 1715 D 1784 WHO M MARY ??, THEIR CHILD, (A#112) PETER.

3. ANCESTOR #226 ISAAC, WHO M PHEBE CARMEN, THEIR CHILDREN:

A. ANCESTOR #113 ELIZABETH, WHO M HER 1ST COUSIN, ANCESTOR #112 PETER, SON OF JACOB AND MARY HODGEN.

THEIR CHILDREN:

1. ABRAHAM
2. ANCESTOR #56 ISAAC, B 17 MAY 1773 D 04 AUG 1850, WHO M (A#57) ELIZABETH HUGHES, B 1776 D 20 JUL 1837. THEIR CHILDREN:

a. HANNAH
b. UNION

c. ANCESTOR #28 AARON, B 24 NOV 1800 D 30 DEC 1884, WHO M (A#29) ASENATH HARRIS, B 20 JUN 1813 D 17 NOV 1890. THEIR CHILDREN:

1. SARAH
2. HARRIETT
3. CHAMBERS
4. WILLIAM
5. ISAAC
6. THOMAS
7. MARY

8. ANCESTOR #14, JESSE LAFAYETTE, WHO M 1ST (A#15) HATTIE TWOGOOD. SOMEWHERE I HAVE SEEN OR HEARD THIS AS 'HATALIA,' BUT CAN'T LOCATE MY REFERENCE. IT IS LISTED AS HARRIET A. BRADLEY ON HER TOMBSTONE IN FRENCH PRAIRIE CEMETERY, IONE, ARKANSAS. NO BIRTHDATE OR DATE OF DEATH IS GIVEN BUT HER AGE IS GIVEN AS 81 YEARS, 4 MONTHS, 22 DAYS. I DISCUSSED THIS WITH A CHEROKEE INDIAN WHO STATED THAT 'HATALIA' AND 'TWOGOOD' ARE INDIAN NAMES. HER MIDDLE NAME WAS 'ALYDIA' HER FAMILY CAME FROM THE AREA OF THE SENECA INDIANS OF NEW YORK.

9. LOUIS
10. JOHN
11. ALBERT

d. DIANA

e. WILLIAM

f. SARAH

g. ANNA

h. ROSANNA

3. PHEBE

4. JACOB

5. DEBORAH

6. SARAH

7. LAMBERT

B. JACOB

C. JOHN

D. ISAAC

E. MARY

F. SARAH

G. REBECCA

H. SAMUEL

I. JAMES

J. JABEZ

DR. LARUE LIVED FOR A TIME AMONG THE QUAPAW INDIANS AND WROTE A BOOK TITLED 'LIFE AMONG THE QUAPAW,' WHICH WAS, ACCORDING TO LETTERS FROM HIS MOTHER- AND FATHER-IN-LAW, WHO APPARENTLY READ A DRAFT, WORTH PUBLISHING. Well......go to your public library and have them order for you, THE QUAPAW INDIANS, by W. David Baird; University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. Flip over to the NOTES on page 229......and read THIS!

38. Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, LXVIII, 257-59. Whether or not these figures told of some event in tribal life is unknown, since none of the skins have been preserved. Early in the twentieth century, however, DR. J. L. LARUE OF BELVA, ARKANSAS, reported that a Mr. Higgins, an English miner searching for a lost silver mine, found secreted in a cleft of the rocks on PILOT MOUNTAIN, located in Scott County, Arkansas, 212 slate tablets with three pictures on each side. Before sending them to England, Higgins let DR. LARUE copy the 1,272 pictures. When translated, the pictures told the story of Queen Singing Bird, the first Queen of the Quapaw Nation, and her husband, Silent Tongue, and reflected the "manners and customs of the Quapaws, their religion, and form of marriage." Documents that are supposedly translations of these pictures are on file in the ARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSION. See John Hugh Reynolds, "Aboriginal and Indian Remains," Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, I, 274-276. Although he discounts the story as modern, one scholar has concluded: "There is no reason to believe that they (the Quapaws) could not have developed a mnemonic system for the keeping of records" such as that maintained by the Delaware in the Walam Olum. (Paul Weer, "Passamaquoddy and Quapaw Mnemonic Records," Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, Vol. LV, 29-32).

My sister, Martha, recalls grandmother Mary Edna LaRue Holland (Mullins) telling stories about Dr. LaRue's visit to the "Quapaw on Pilot Mountain." Is there a book, "Life Among The Quapaw," on file in Arkansas? Are the above-cited translations in fact the source of this story? It is enough to take one's breath away! What a colorful figure Dr. LaRue must have been, and how slow Arkansas is in answering my requests for information!

DR. LARUE PRACTICED MEDICINE IN THE BELVA-IONE-BOONEVILLE-WALDRON AREA, AND AFTER THE DIVORCE LOCATED HIS PRACTICE ON THE 'OKLAHOMA' SIDE OF INDIAN TERRITORY (WEBBER'S FALLS). HE IS DESCRIBED BY ARKANSAS RESIDENTS AS 'A MAN OF GOOD GENERAL EDUCATION AND WHO HAD A GREAT MANY INTERESTS AND TALENTS, WITH A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC. HE ENJOYED SHARING HIS KNOWLEDGE WITH THE COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, TO WHOM HE SPOKE FREQUENTLY, ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. HE BROUGHT THE FIRST CYLINDRICAL RECORD PLAYER TO THE IONE SCHOOL, AND WHEN HALLEY'S COMET WAS DUE, CAME TO THE SCHOOL TO EXPLAIN TO THE CHILDREN WHAT THEY COULD EXPECT TO SEE.'

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED BY LORENE WOOTTEN BUSH OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS:

'GRANPA SLAWSON LOVED TO VISIT SCHOOL AND WOULD BRING CANDY, ORANGES AND WHATEVER, TO THE KIDS. THE TEACHERS WOULD INVITE HIM TO MAKE A SPEECH WHICH HE LOVED TO DO. OF COURSE, IT WAS ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR. HE GAVE LARGE FRAMED PICTURES OF LINCOLN, GRANT, LONGFELLOW AND HAWTHORNE TO THE SCHOOL. ANOTHER GRAND OLD MAN - A SOUTHERNER - WAS DR. LARUE, WHO WON HIS MEDICAL DEGREE AND TRAINING WHILE SERVING IN THE CSA DIRECTLY UNDER ROBERT E. LEE. HE ALSO LOVED TO COME TO SCHOOL AND TALK TO US ABOUT THE WAR. EACH OF THESE MEN TRIED TO OUT-DO THE OTHER. HE BROUGHT PICTURES OF ROBERT E. LEE, JEFF DAVIS, AND SOUTHERN POETS AND WRITERS SUCH AS SIDNEY LANIER. GRANPA SLAWSON WAS A FEW YEARS OLDER THAN DR. LARUE AND WORE A LONG WHITE BEARD, WHILE DR. LARUE HAD A ROBERT E. LEE TYPE BEARD. HE HAD THE FIRST PHONOGRAPH IN IONE WITH A BIG HORN SHAPED LIKE A MORNING GLORY AND BROUGHT THAT TO SCHOOL WITH MUSICAL AND COMEDY RECORDS, MOST OF IT CLASSICAL AND OPERA (INSTEAD OF CANDY, AS HE SAID CANDY WAS NOT GOOD FOR US.)'

I simply cannot imagine how Dr. LaRue, born in Iowa in 1847, could be remembered as a medical doctor reporting directly to Robert E. Lee of the CSA Army. Our memories play tricks on us, and this is one of the best examples of that truth. I have his military records, and he was a private in the Union Army. I think the roles, above, were reversed. His saddle, medical bags, drug bottles, surgical kit, Civil War era picture album, pictures of himself and his brothers, friends in Iowa, his daughters as children, and Civil War buddies in uniform, along with his enlistment papers and discharge photo, and a brief biography, are on display in the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, Oklahoma, placed there by my mother's half-brother, J. Forrest Mullins (deceased), and Dr. Charles Van Tuyl, of Porter, Oklahoma, my cousin.

Note:

KARL LAREW, A 'LAREW' FAMILY HISTORIAN AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, SAYS THAT ORIGINAL SPELLING OF GILLE (GILLET) WAS UZILLE. HE SHOWS DAVID GILLE AND MARIE CASIER AS PARENTS OF MAGDELEINE GILLE, WHO MARRIED ABRAHAM LE ROUX OF MANNHEIM. (KARL AND I DO NOT AGREE ON MAGDELEINE'S PARENTAGE). KARL CONTINUES: ABRAHAM AND MAGDELEINE HAD PETER, WHO MARRIED ELIZABETH CRESSON, DAUGHTER OF JOSHUA CRESSON AND ALCHE GERRITSZEN, JOSHUA THE SON OF PIERRE CRESSON AND RACHEL CLOOS (CLAUSE). PETER AND ELIZABETH HAD ABRAHAM, WHO MARRIED SYBIL LAMBERT AND THEY HAD JACOB, WHO MARRIED MARY FORTINER, DAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN FORTINER AND ISABELLA DOUGLASS. JACOB AND MARY HAD ELIZABETH, WHO MARRIED JOHN ALLEN, SON OF HUGH ALLEN. THEY HAD LAREW ALLEN, WHO MARRIED MARY VENOTT?, AND THEY HAD WILLIAM JASPER, WHO MARRIED MARY JANE TYNER, DAUGHTER OF STEPHEN TYNER AND ELIZABETH WOLF. STEPHEN'S FATHER WAS JOHN, HIS FATHER HARRIS, HIS FATHER JOHN HARRIS, SON OF SARAH TYNE AND JOHN HARRIS. SARAH'S FATHER WAS NICHOLAS TYNE. HARRIS MARRIED NANCY ADAIR; JOHN MARRIED FANNY MARTIN, WHOSE FATHER WAS GILES MARTIN. ELIZABETH WAS THE DAUGHTER OF DAVID WOLF AND FRANCES STUCKER. FRANCES' FATHER WAS JACOB, HIS FATHER JACOB, AND HIS FATHER MICHAEL STOCKER. MICHAEL MARRIED ANN MARGARET (??); HIS SON, JACOB, MARRIED ANNA EVA MARIE (??). JACOB II MARRIED ELIZABETH ROGERS, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM ROGERS. WILLIAM JASPER ALLEN AND MARY JANE TYNER HAD MARGARET ALLEN, WHO MARRIED WILLIAM MITCHELL, WHOSE PARENTS WERE WASHINGTON MITCHELL AND LETTE JANE BROWN. WASHINGTON'S PARENTS WERE PAUL MITCHELL AND ELIZABETH COLEMAN.

ELIZABETH'S FATHER WAS ROBERT COLEMAN. PAUL'S PARENTS WERE WILLIAM MITCHELL AND LUCY HADON. WILLIAM AND MARGARET MITCHELL HAD GEORGE,WHO MARRIED SARAH ECK AND FATHERED LOUIS, WHO MARRIED JOSEPHINE MYLIN AND FATHERED DON MITCHELL. THE FAMILY TREE OF SARAH ECK INCLUDES FEIGHTER, FICHTER, BENTZ, MCDONAL, GRUBB, PEASTER, PENCE, LOGAN, FISHER, EAGLY, SMITH, AND OBERLIN SURNAMES.

Other Links (not mine .. may no longer work)...

Dutch Reformed Church.http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/dutch_rc.htm

Dutch Baptisms........http://www.altlaw.com/edball/dutchbap.htm

Early Dutch Settlers NY-NJ.....http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/index/

DuBois Family.........http://www.intercom.net/local/richardson/DuBois.html

Haggerman Family....http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8401/index2.html

Truax Family.....http://www.apci.net/~truax/

Spier Family........http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/

Larow Family........http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/1546

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Books
Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families by Otis May Mather.

The Moons & Kindred Families by John William Moon.

Sketches of the Moon & Barclay Family by Anna Mary Moon.

A Genealogy of the Page, Moon, and Related Families.

Linking LaRues Newsletter
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424 Leonard Ave.
Washington, Pa. 15301
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