Jehan (De Forest) de Forest (1543 - 1606)

Born 22 Oct 1543 in Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Hainaut Nord, France

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Maillard — married 5 Jun 1570 in Avesnes, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

Descendants

Died 22 Oct 1606 at age 63 in Vossemeer, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

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Biography

Jehan De Forest was born on 22 Oct 1543 in Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Hainaut Nord, France, son of Melchior De Forest (~1515–<1572) and Catherine Du Fosset (1510–1579).^[1]

Jehan (21) married Anne Maillard (18) (born about 1551 in Felleries, Hainaut, France; daughter of Michel (Maillard) Maillart and Marguerite Raulx) on 5 Jun 1570 in Avesnes, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. Their known children were:

1. Melchoir De Forest (1572–1654) .
2. Jeanne DeForest (~1575– ) .
3. Jesse Desforetz (1576–1624) .
4. Melchior De Forest (1581–1654) .
5. Michel De Forest (1582– ) .
6. Gerard De Forest (1583–1654) .
7. Anne des Forests (1587– ) .
8. Jean De Forest (1593– )

Jehan died on 22 Oct 1606 in Vossemeer, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, aged 58.

History

Listed as an ancestor of John W. De Forest in the "American Ancestry" reference volumes by Thomas Patrick Hughes, 1838-1911, published by Joel Munsell's Sons of Albany, New York.^[2]

Jehan de Forest, son of Melchior de Forest of Avesne and his wife Catherine du Fosset of Mons, was born in Avesnes, on the French side of the present Belgian border. When his widowed mother listed her children in 1572, she listed Jehan third. If he was her third child, born six or seven years after her marriage in 1533, he was born about 1540. [Jehan is an older form of the French spelling of Jean, closer to the English John or Dutch Johannes, variant forms of the same name.]
Jehan is said to have married Anne Maillard on 5 June 1570 and to have been the first Protestant in the De Forest family, but the source of these statements is not known. Anne was the daughter of Michel Maillard, mayor of Felleries, a village near Avesnes. Jehan and Anne seem to have lived at Avesnes when their children were born, but they were living in Sédan in 1601 and moved to Berghen op Zoom in Holland shortly thereafter, leaving the family business in France to their children:

1. Melchior was in Lille in 1601
2. Gérard in Avesnes, and Jesse in Sédan.

It is not known how long Jehan and Anne lived in Bergen op Zoom, but Anne Maillard transferred her church membership to Leyden, Holland, from Bergues [the French spelling of Bergen] on 1 Feb 1603; Jehan transferred his membership from Bergen op Zoom to Leyden just over a month later, on 29 March 1603.
However, Jehan and Anne did not stay in Leyden long. By 20 September 1604, Anne Maillard had been received a member of the Walloon Church of Amsterdam and once again Jehan [now called Jan] followed a little over a month later, on 25 November 1604. Their daughter Anne was betrothed in Amsterdam on 21 October 1606 and she stated at that time that she had been living in Amsterdam for five years. By the time she was married on 24 January 1607 in Amsterdam, her father had died on 22 Oct. 1606 before his daughter's marriage; the certificate of consent was not signed by him but by the minister at Vosmeer, near Bergen op Zoom.
Anne Maillard stayed in Amsterdam from 1604 until her death in 1640. When her son Gérard made a will in 1633, he described his mother as living at Amsterdam. According to the death records of the Walloon Church at Amsterdam, she was buried on 21 April 1640 at Amsterdam.^[3]

Research Notes

• Biography originally stated "Died 1606 Age: 65-66." But that does not add up with the given birth date and death.
• Avenes-sur-Helpe in Hainault province, Spanish Netherlands in 1600; today in Nord, France.

Sources

1. ↑ The Van Benthuysen Genealogy by A. S. Van Benthuysen and Edith McIntosh Hall (1953) p461
2. ↑ American Ancestry : giving name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776 - Hughes & Munsell - Published 1892 - Volume 3.pdf page 185
3. ↑ Quote from Source: genealogie online Richard Remme refers to sources: "
   • Rootsweb de la Montagne" supplied by Stewart, 10 jan 2016. Gedcom : rootsweb, Descendants of Jean Mousnier de la Montagne (1595-1670), compiled by Lois Stewart Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne
   • The DeForests of Avesnes and of New Netherland; A Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History, J. W. DeForest
   • A Walloon Family in America; Lockwood De Forest and his Forbears 1500-1848, J. W. De Forest

• White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p625.

• Note: notes on Jean de Forest: Ancestry.com

• Source: S-205080296 Repository: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree Ancestry 886 Repository: R-843443445 Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

• This profile was developed through the efforts of many people, including but not limited to: Rodney Timbrook Ancestors and Relatives_2010-09-10.ged, William Romanski, Paul Lee,
• WikiTree profile De Forest-12 was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.