Jacob Transols

Name Variations: Listed in Mutterstadt records as "Jean Jacques Trenstols"

Born: ~1657 Somme, Picardy, France

Died: May 1, 1734 Mutterstadt, Bavaria.

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Father: Jacques Transols

Mother: Marie Lebouer

Siblings:

• Jean (Johannes) (b. ~1661)
  
• Catherina (b. ~1668)
  
• Peter (b. 1670)

Wife: Elizabeth LeRoi (m. ~1690)

Children:

• Jacob (b. Oct. 20, 1692 in Mutterstadt)
• Susannah (b. ~1693 in Mutterstadt)
• Abraham

Other Details: Jacob and his wife were two of the thousands of Protestant Huguenots fleeing French persecution by the Catholic King Louis XIV. French massacres of Huguenots were common. In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes removed most of their rights in France unless they became Catholic. It is likely that Jacob and Marie fled to Mutterstadt some time after this Royal Decree and before 1692 when their first child was born in Mutterstadt.

Sources: All of this information comes from the Research of Scott Wallace and has not been verified elsewhere.