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Guillaume Duval (1740 - 1794)

Guillaume (William) Duval
Born in London, London, Englandmap
Son of and
Brother of and
Husband of — married 28 May 1763 in Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Englandmap
Husband of — married 8 Aug 1768 in St. Leonard, Shoreditch, London, Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , and
Died at about age 53 in London, London, Englandmap
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Biography

Guillaume was born January 30, 1740 to Pierre and Marie Duval and baptized February 27th of the same year in La Patente, a French Huguenot church in Spitalfields in the East End of London. [1]

He passed away in 1794. [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Birth and baptism of Guillaume Duval (1740), England and Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970," Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.ca/
  2. ↑ Death: French Hospital Records, RECORD OF WILLIAM DUVAL, INMATE NO. 1355
  • Prescott C. Crafts, Duval Family History (unpublished manuscript).




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Roberts-39358 Alice (Roberts) Browning
Hi I am Alice Roberts and Pierre Duval was my ancestor a Frenchmen but don’t find French in my dna. Dies any other person show French in there dna?
posted by Alice (Roberts) Browning
Pat Davis
I don't show anything specifically French either although we both show dna links to William Duval. There was probably too much mingling of Europeans earlier to have have clear cut divisions. And that bit of dna could have been dropped anywhere along your line. I think they try to make genetics much more straightforward than it really is.
posted by Pat Davis
Astle-368 Marilyn Astle
Hello Pat Davis and Rosemary Stone. I am very interested in communicating with both of you as Pierre Duval and Marie Boulle are my 6th great grandparents. I have also found the Prescott Crafts work of great help and despite its lack of sources I have managed to verify much of the information from various genealogy sites.
posted by Marilyn Astle
Rosemary Stone
Pat,if you’re interested and feel like contacting me on Messenger,(Rosie Stone - profile pic: drawing of a grey Arab horse’s head),I’ll send you photos of my longhand notes that include quite a lot on Marie Madeleine Boulle and all of she and Pierre’s children.I understand the French used a different dating system from the English around this time,which complicates searches.According to my research so far both were born in France,as was their first child Marie Francoise born in 1735 in Jobourg,France.All the other children were born in London.Cheers.
posted by Rosemary Stone
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Rosemary Stone
Hi Pat,Rosie here.My paternal grandmother was Alice Martha Davall,her father Henry Davall,definitely.If familysearch has it right his father is William Davall,(born Duval),1803 in Newbury,the son of John Duval,b1767,who is the son of Pierre Duval,1743 and Marie Bachelier.The latter’s parents are given on some sites as Pierre Duval 1710 - 1794 and Marie Madeleine Boulle 1713 - 1755 and their children listed,including your Guillaume.I’m fairly new to this,but what I’ve quickly discovered is awful mistakes across several sites

that need fixing before I can even begin looking for anything further.(Talk about jumping in the deep end!) myheritage seems to have a lot of trees confusing Pierre Duval,1743 with an Acadian Pierre Duval who was deported and died with all his family aboard the duc Guillaume in 1758.I’d love your help and experience with this family if anyone feels inclined to collaborate.

posted by Rosemary Stone
Pat Davis
I have also found many family trees are not well sourced. My information, for the most part, is from Prescott Crafts' manuscript which is at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. My cousin "cherry picked" the information for our line, so I don't know how much info is of the other descendants. Another distant cousin from Scotland provided additional material.

The story I have gleaned, without many hard sources, is that Pierre Duval was brought to England as an infant (around 1700) in one of the Huguenot migrations. His testimony was given in the French Hospital records in London in which his birthplace was given as Bausse - don't know if that was a village or parish. He was trained as a weaver, as were his sons, Guillaume and Pierre.

I would be happy to share what information I have. The more help verifying information the better.

posted by Pat Davis
Rosemary Stone
Fantastic,thank you!Basse Normandie was a region of what is now Normandy,including part of the northwest coast of the English Channel.Pierre senior was born there in Jobourg.Interesting since there was at one time a Duchy of Duval in Normandy.I understand that the last tiny remnant of that is the island of Duval in the Geurnsey Islands,still in Duval ownership and run as a Geurnsey (cow) stud last time I looked.Family lore,from my grandmother,says her family came from Geurnsey,but as many Huguenots left France via the Channel Islands I’m not sure how long they were there.The only other fragments I have to go with that is “five generations of Davalls as bookbinders of London” and,reluctantly told,that Claude Duval,”The Silk-clad Highwayman”,was a distant uncle.He was born in Domfront,Orne,a department of Basse Normandie in 1643.He had a brother Daniel.Not a lot to go on is it?😅
posted by Rosemary Stone

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