DE SAINT JEAN, SEGARD, BONTE, SELOSSE, Lille, Mouvaux, Halluin Options

[swaller]

Hello everyone my name is Sarah-Jane and I am from the UK and I am researching my family from France and surrounding areas. I do not speak French very well at all and I hope we can understand each other as I could really do with the help on my research and I may be able to help others as well. I hope I am doing this correctly..

I found your forum through dedicated research on Lille and its surrounding areas. My research has brought me to Mouvaux and recently a record from Le commune de catholic d'Halluin, from the Archives department.

I have been researching hard now for nearly three years and I have come to the C1600's. I do know it is getting harder and harder as the years go back and thoroughly checking and re-checking is so important now.

To try to give a basic idea of my research here is the following:-

My family of St John's always believed they were the noble St John's from the UK - but my research and talking to the family and finding interesting pointers, I followed the research and it brought me to Canterbury in Kent UK. where I brought the CD from the Huguenot Society in London and found the missing links to my family at the top of the tree. No one has got this far before, but on checking and re checking this is definately the family link. my 9th great Grand Father Nicaise (Nicholas) de Saint jean and his wife Marie (Mayre) Segard and one son Pierre De Saint Jean born 1630 Mouvaux, came to Canterbury sometime between 1633 -1638 from Mouvaux where they lived. I have found two other children baptised in Mouvaux, helene de saint jean born 1629 and Jaques de saint jean born 1633 but these two children never came to UK.

Nicaise and marie had two children in Canterbury madelainne de saint jean born 1638 Canterbury and abraham de saint jean born 1641 canterbury - there is possibly another son Jean de saint jean born 1639 canterbury still checking this one up.. Nicaise remarried in 1645 to Elizabeth Milvoye (MlLLEUOYE (MlLLENOYE) and in marriage cited the 'late Marie segard as the mother of three said children' and that was all.. I found a death in 1644 which is possibly Marie, but canterbury was not good at keeping death records..

Yesterday on searching the department archives I think I found a marriage in 1628 and something about Jaques de saint Jean but the writing is very very light and hard to read.

So this basically sums up where I am at the moment. I am looking for Nicaise De saint jean's family and marie segard's family in Mouvaux, Lille and any other interesting things about them and their families. I have linked to the family, BONTE, SELOSSE, DECOTTIGNIES, GODIN, MONNIER, MORTIER LEULEU, DELESTRIE, LEDOUX, LE SEDT, HAGNERE, VANDERSTEN amongst many others.

For anyone interested De Saint Jean became St John in and around the early C1700's in London as the youngsters grew and changed they became known via the english version of the name. They were artisans, grainers, silk weavers and weavers, Peter St John was a Master weaver - one 'St John' became a jeweller. The family moved to london in the late C1600's to Spitalfeilds and the surrounding area's and to this day they live in and around London or Canterbury.

I hope I have written this correctly as I am new to this forum as you can see I am a historical person and enjoy what I find out - I could go on forever it is so interesting.. to be able to track down Nicaise's and Marie's family, Mother, father, siblings where they possibly lived and worked would be such huge thing for me.

I hope I am at the right place to try anyway.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Thankyou

sj

[pjsack]

Hello everyone my name is Sarah-Jane and I am from the UK and I am researching my family from France and surrounding areas. I do not speak French very well at all and I hope we can understand each other as I could really do with the help on my research and I may be able to help others as well. I hope I am doing this correctly..

I found your forum through dedicated research on Lille and its surrounding areas. My research has brought me to Mouvaux and recently a record from Le commune de catholic d'Halluin, from the Archives department.

I have been researching hard now for nearly three years and I have come to the C1600's. I do know it is getting harder and harder as the years go back and thoroughly checking and re-checking is so important now.

To try to give a basic idea of my research here is the following:-

My family of St John's always believed they were the noble St John's from the UK - but my research and talking to the family and finding interesting pointers, I followed the research and it brought me to Canterbury in Kent UK. where I brought the CD from the Huguenot Society in London and found the missing links to my family at the top of the tree. No one has got this far before, but on checking and re checking this is definately the family link. my 9th great Grand Father Nicaise (Nicholas) de Saint jean and his wife Marie (Mayre) Segard and one son Pierre De Saint Jean born 1630 Mouvaux, came to Canterbury sometime between 1633 -1638 from Mouvaux where they lived. I have found two other children baptised in Mouvaux, helene de saint jean born 1629 and Jaques de saint jean born 1633 but these two children never came to UK.

Nicaise and marie had two children in Canterbury madelainne de saint jean born 1638 Canterbury and abraham de saint jean born 1641 canterbury - there is possibly another son Jean de saint jean born 1639 canterbury still checking this one up.. Nicaise remarried in 1645 to Elizabeth Milvoye (MlLLEUOYE (MlLLENOYE) and in marriage cited the 'late Marie segard as the mother of three said children' and that was all.. I found a death in 1644 which is possibly Marie, but canterbury was not good at keeping death records..

Yesterday on searching the department archives I think I found a marriage in 1628 and something about Jaques de saint Jean but the writing is very very light and hard to read.

So this basically sums up where I am at the moment. I am looking for Nicaise De saint jean's family and marie segard's family in Mouvaux, Lille and any other interesting things about them and their families. I have linked to the family, BONTE, SELOSSE, DECOTTIGNIES, GODIN, MONNIER, MORTIER LEULEU, DELESTRIE, LEDOUX, LE SEDT, HAGNERE, VANDERSTEN amongst many others.

For anyone interested De Saint Jean became St John in and around the early C1700's in London as the youngsters grew and changed they became known via the english version of the name. They were artisans, grainers, silk weavers and weavers, Peter St John was a Master weaver - one 'St John' became a jeweller. The family moved to london in the late C1600's to Spitalfeilds and the surrounding area's and to this day they live in and around London or Canterbury.

I hope I have written this correctly as I am new to this forum as you can see I am a historical person and enjoy what I find out - I could go on forever it is so interesting.. to be able to track down Nicaise's and Marie's family, Mother, father, siblings where they possibly lived and worked would be such huge thing for me.

I hope I am at the right place to try anyway.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Thankyou

sj