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My Ancestors Schmoldt - Branches of the family Lefèvre & Billau (Billiau, Billiou, Bilyeu)

The branches Billau (Billiau, Billaud, Billiou, Billiot) and Lefevre

Relationship: 8x great-grandparents

Jean Billaud (1620-1715) oo Anne, born Dufosse (1635-1715)

Jean Billaud (Billiau) was born in 1620 Wicres in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France. His father was Jean Jacques Billiou, born about 1595, who also hails from that area; Jean was the grandson of Thomas and Ann Billiou Aime, born Barlow. Jean Billauds wife was Anne, born Dufosse (de Fosse). She was born 1635 Nord-Pas-de-Calais and died on 06.15.1715 in Plowen in Eastern Pomerania. The couple had five children:

I) Mathias (about 1657 to October 27 1735), married on February 4, 1693 with Marguerite Laurens, daughter of Pierre Laurens oo Marguerite Despierre. Mathias and Marguerite Billau had four children: Jean (22/02/1694), Mathias (1696-1703), Rachel (born March 30. 1698) and Marguerite (born April 6, 1701). Mr and Mrs Jean (born 1694), married on 17.02.1724 with Catherine Noe, had 8 children: Elisabeth (1724-1728), Susanne (born 05.09.1727), Marguerite (1729-1730), Elisabeth (1731/1732), Jean (1734-1739), Judith 1739-1746), Jean (1743-1760), Marie (born 07.04.1736 in Strasburg, Uckermark). Almost all children did not survive childhood.

II) Abraham Billaud (1670-1726), our ancestor, III) Anne (born 1680), married to Isaac H'Oudelet (1680-1721) IV) Pierre (born 1680, died 10/26/1750), the ancestor to Australia emigrated Billiau V) Isaac (born 1682), married on December 4 1704 with Caterine vague; They had six children.

Jean Billaud was a professional grower; he died a month after the death of his wife on June 15, 1715 in Plowen, Uckermark, at the age of 95 years. Jean Billiau (Billaud) is thus one of the oldest ancestors in the family history of fracture wit and Schmoldt with Lefevre & Billiau.

1655 the couple Jean and Anne Billaud had married. They had a son Abraham - our direct ancestor (1670-1726), who was married to Marie Claire Tourbier (1666-1729). Abraham (II), whose son, born in 1697, married on May 26, 1716 in the village Bergholz his wife Susanna, born Laramee; the last name is also mentioned with la ram. Susanna lived from 1694 to 1747. Abraham II survived his wife Susanna 27 years. At November 01 . In 1722, born in the village Grimme Issac (I) Billau. He was married to Esther, born Betac. On September 25, 1746 their son Issac (II) was born, who married his Elisabeth, born Ropitail in Rossow (Vorpommern) on November 09, 1769.

Relationship: 4x great-grandparents

Issac Billau

Place of birth: Rossow in Pomerania

Confession: Protestant / French Reformed (Calvinist)

Date of Birth: September 25 1746

Died on 10/13/1811 (1809) in Rossow, Vorpommern

Origin of the ancestors: France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais)

Location: Rossow (Vorpommern)

married to Elisabeth Ropitail on 11/09/1769 in Rossow

Children: Rachel Billau, later married Lefèvre

Parents: Issac Billau, born on November 1, 1722 in Grimme Bergholz, died on September 2, 1777 Rossow and Esther, born Betac (also Betaque), born on 02/04/1725 in Rossow / date of death unknown). It was the Urururgroßeltern (Billaud Jean and Anne, born Dufosse) Issac Billau, as religious refugees (French Protestants / Huguenots) from northern France, today's Nord-Pas-de-Calais, to the Palatinate emigrate to Western Pomerania. Isaac was the father of Rachel Lefevre, in turn, was the mother of Louise Wilhelmine Schmoldt. They arrived in the small town of Bergholz, still belonged to the Mark Brandenburg time in 1686.

The immigrants who settled in the area of today's district Uecker-Randow and in the nörlichen Uckermark, came to 1685 there. They settled et al in places like Rossow, Bergholz, Grimme and Plowen. Many families had settled after fleeing first in the area of Mannheim (it was then called "the Palatinate"). Even today, living descendants of the French Glaubensflüchtliche in Bergholz, as well as in space Pasewalk and Schwedt; there are names like Gombert, Bettac or Tourbier. In the Huguenot Museum in Berlin (French Church), the data in the old church books of the Huguenot families with members who were born in Germany archived.

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