The building of our today families
After this sketch of the origins of our different families and their ancient history, I would try, in the following pages, to describe how, from these ancestral nucleus, the different family groups have formed and how they have evolved..
The descendance of Bonaventure Huguenin
In Rimaucourt, little rural town in the department of Haute Marne, the 17th February 1756, Jean Huguenin, son of Francois Huguenin and Nicole Voilleque, married Marie Leclerc. From this marriage, were born a son, Louis Claude and a girl, Marie. Louis Claude Huguenin married, the 10th of February 1795, in Rimaucourt, Marie Anne Mercier. He had been preceded by his sister Marie who had married in 1793 Claude Routhier.
Louis Claude Huguenin, at first schoolmaster, became an eminent citizen and, in 1830, he was mayor of Rimaucourt. He had two children, Francois, born the 25th of July 1806, and Marie Anne. Francois became afterwards a merchant and settled in Chavanges (Aube) where, the 20th of November 1831, he married Rose Christine Magnin. His son, Bonaventure Alexis, is born here the 17th of October 1832. This last one made a career of Post clerk and then settled in Paris. He had married Marie Louise Pelagie Detremont, from Champagne, and they had a son Edouard Louis Alexis Marie, born in Paris the 11th of November 1872 and dead in Saint Eugene (Algeria) the 11th of September 1940. He was my paternal grand-father.
When he married Marthe Andree Drieu, the 28th of February 1896 in Paris, Edouard Huguenin was a Post clerk and did afterwards an eminent career. In the year 1918, he was Chief of Service at the Post Ministery in Paris and, at his death in 1940, he was Honorary General Inspector of the Post and knight of the Legion d'Honneur. His wife, Marthe Drieu, was the daughter of Achille Edmond Drieu, from Saint-Lo (Manche), who was a Director of the Christofle Establishment in Paris. Marthe Drieu is dead in Algiers on the 13th of August 1952
The Huguenin family had left France after the 1914 war for Algeria where Edouard Huguenin had been posted in Constantine at first, then in Algiers where he achieved his career as Regional Director of the Post Office and Chief of the Colonial Post Department at the General Government of Algeria. He has had two children: a daughter Yvonne Marthe Julia, dead after a few days, and a son, André Edouard Edmond HUGUENIN, my father, born in Paris the 18 of June 1808 and dead in Rennes the 27th of June 1978. Andre Huguenin did a career of hospital medicine doctor which he achieved as a Medicine Professor at the Medicine School of the Rennes University. He was married twice.
From his first marriage with Suzanne Marguerite Marie Revel, born in Paris the 24th of June 1911, daughter of Léon Albert Casimir Revel and Julie Anna Pages, were born four children:
1) Bernard André HUGUENIN, born in Algiers the 22nd of September 1934, married the 10th of september 1956 in Ploubazlanec (Britany) with Jacqueline Baldou, born in Tunisia the 7th of July 1930, daughter of Julien Baldou and Andree Richard. Bernard Huguenin has four children: Stéphane, Isabelle, Laurence and Christine.
(2) Nicole HUGUENIN,born in Algiers the 10th of June 1936. She married the 13th of August 1962 in La Roquette sur Var, Jean Pierre Gonon. She has two children, Xavier and Pascale Gonon.
(3) Françoise HUGUENIN, born in Algiers the 5th of November 1942. She married in 1964 Michel Raybaut, born the 16th of August 1943. Françoise has three children, Florence, Eric and Carole.
(4) Jean-Michel Henri HUGUENIN, born in Algiers the 24th of April 1944. He married in Paris Edith Treuil,the 6th of July 1976.They do not got children.
After his divorce, in 1945, Andre Huguenin married in Algiers with Simone Morisset. He had, from this second marriage, an other daughter Marie Claude. Andre HUGUENIN was Officer of the Legion d'Honneur and Commander of the tunisian Order of the Nicham Ifthikar.
The descendance of Jacques Revel
Pietro, a son of Jacques Revel and Anne Marie Baudoin, both recorded in the Census of 1827, is born in La Roquette sur Var the 29th of November 1787. His full name was Pierre Lazare Revel and he married, the 25th of January 1816, Marie Lucie Ugo. He died the 24th of January 1816 leaving six children. One of his sons, Maurice Revel, was born in La Roquette the 15th of June 1820 and died the 23rd of July 1868. From his marriage with Rosalie Raybaut, celebrated the 14th of August 1851 in La Roquette, came three children and among them, Seraphin Revel, born the 18th of January 1856 in La Roquette and dead, in the same village, the 13th of October 1927.
Séraphin Revel
Seraphin Revel was a schoolmaster and has had five children with his wife Alexandrine Bottin (born the 6th of March 1854 and dead the 1st of September 1930). The elder son, Albert Léon Casimir REVEL, born in Sallagriffon the 25th of May 1879, dead in Nice the 23rd of March 1961, had married the 31st of July 1906 in Paris, Julie Anna Pages, born the 5th of October 1883 in Anduze (Gard) and dead in Paris the 16th of February 1965. She was the youngest daughter of Jean Antoine Pages and Marie Adele Balmayer.
A first child comes soon but does not survive (Henri Seraphin Jean Revel, born the 14 of May 1907 and dead the 9th of November 1908). The second child was a daughter, Suzanne Marguerite Marie REVEL , born in Paris the 24th of June 1911. She married, in 1933 in Constantine (Algeria), Andre Edouard Edmond Huguenin and, after their divorce, married a second time in 1946 with Jean Maurice Pierre Emmanuel LAQUIERE (born the 10th of August 1918 in Algiers and dead the 28th of June 2005 in Cannes). At that time she had four children (Bernard, Nicole, Francoise and Jean-Michel Huguenin) and gave birth to two other daughters, Joelle and Marie-Christine Laquiere.
The descendance of Jean Antoine Pages
Jean Antoine Pages and his wife Adele Balmayer have had twelve children whose only six girls survived. All these girls, induced by their father, were, at least at the beginning, employees in the french Post Office, a position what we call in french "Demoiselle des Postes".
The sister of Jean Antoine, Rosalie, married in Anduze (Gard) during the year 1870, the son of a miller, Jean Baptiste Bonnal. One of her sons, Julien, has married the 10th of November 1890, one of his first cousin, Marie Marguerite Pages, daughter of Jean Antoine. From this marriage came Pierre, chemist Engineer, born in Anduze the 17th of August 1897, and Henriette, born in Sarcelles (near Paris) the 4th of April 1912.
The six daughters of Jean Antoine Pages have had a numerous descendance whose details will be found in the family geneological file.
Marthe Rosine Pagès, born in Rieutort de Randon the 11th of November 1865, dead in Nice the 2nd of November 1955, married in 1887, Jacques Albert Pages (he was not a parent), born in 1863 in Nimes (Gard) and dead in 1925 in Paris. They reared three children:
- Andrée Jeanne Adèle Pagès (born in Anduze the 17th of October 1888, dead in St Amand-Montrond the 5th of january 1982), wife of Georges Louis Pierre Nativel (see, in the genealogical files, the families Nativel, Foucault, Altieri, Gilles, Bagnouls and La Selve).
- Yvonne Pagès (born in 1890, dead in 1893)
- Simone Pagès (born in Paris the 10th of March 1893, dead in Nice the 25th of December 1992, wife of a U.S. citizen, Earl J. Smith (see, in the genealogical files, the families Smith, Vincent, Dorthan and Benarroche).
Ernestine Pagès (born in 1870), wife of Henri Pagès, brother of Jacques Albert, the husband of her sister Marthe. (without any desendance)
Marie Prospérie Pagès (born in Mende the 2nd of October 1872, dead in Roujean the 30th of January 1970, wife of Antoine Paillet (see, in the genealogical files the families Paillet and Arrighi).
Marie Nathalie Pagès (born in St Germain de Calberte the 6th of August 1874, dead in Paris the 8th of December 1962, wife of Augustin Ange Casimiri (see, in the genealogical files, the families Casimiri and Mercier).
Marie Marguerite Angèle Pagès (born in Mende in 1877, dead en 1970), wife of Julien Bonnal, his first cousin (see, in the genealogical files, the families Bonnal, Clerc et Barraud).
Julie Anna Pagès (born in Anduze the 5th of October 1883, dead in Paris the 16th of February 1965, wife of Leon Albert Casimir Revel (see, in the genealogical files, the families Revel, Huguenin, Gonon, Raybaut, Priol, Martino, Ottavi, Morin, Sinquin, Le Deschault de Monredon, Letellier and Perrier).
