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Anne Maillard   see FAMILY TREE

Born: Abt. 1551 Felleries, Hainaut, France

Married: Avesnes, Hainaut, France

Died: Bef. 21 Apr 1640 Amsterdam, Netherlands

FATHER

Michael Maillard

HUSBAND

Jehan De Forest

CHILDREN

1. Melchior De Forest
    b. Abt. 1572

2. Jesse De Forest
    b. Abt. 1575
    m. 23 Sep 1601 Marie Due Cloux in Sedan
    d.  22 Oct 1624

3. Gerard De Forest
    b. Abt. 1583 Avesnes, Hainaut, France
    m. 15 Jul 1611 Hester de la Grange in Leiden   

4. Anna De Forest
    b. 1587 Avesnes, Hainaut, France
    betrothed 1 Oct 1606  to Jan Le Febure
    married: 21 Jan 1607 Amsterdam

5. David De Forest
    bap. 13 Apr 1603 in Leiden, Netherlands

Anne Maillard
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2021

Jehan De Forest of Avesnes married Anne Maillard of Felleries about 1570. (1) Felleries was an unwalled town fairly close to Avesnes.  An unknown source said they married 5 Jun 1570 but no proof has been found. Anne was the daughter of Michel Maillard who became mayor of Felleries in 1572 (2) Due to the religious persecution in the area, they left the area of Avesnes around 1601. (3) Their son Jesse was with his father in Sedan in 1601 when Jesse married Marie Du Cloux.  Their daughter Anne was probably in Amsterdam in 1601 as the record for her marriage in 1606 says she is "of Amsterdam for five years." Their son Gerard was probably in Leiden in 1601 since in 1605 he had obtained permission there to become a "dyer in black." Their son Melchior was in Lille and did not transfer his church membership to Leyden until 1611. 
So, in 1601 the family appears to be scattered.  Jehan De Forest probably left his business in Sedan to his son Jesse soon after Jesse's marriage in Sep 1601 and seems to have taken up residency in Berghen op Zoom in the Netherlands.  In 1603 they both transferred their church memberships to Leiden, Netherlands, and their son David was baptized in Leiden on 13 Apr 1603. Their son Gerard was also in Leiden.  However, their daughter Anne still resided 31 miles away in Amsterdam. They seem to have alternated their church memberships between the church in Leyden and the church in Amsterdam. (4)
A few years later they had gathered together and were mostly residing in Leiden. In 1606 Gerard was a member of the church in Leiden and also purchased land in Leiden.  Melchior moved to Leiden by 1611.  Jesse was in Leiden by 1615 when he was baptizing his son, Jesse.  Anne married in Amsterdam in 1606.  Since her father was not present to give consent, it is assumed her father, Jehan De Forest, died sometime around 1606. (5) His widow, Anne Maillard, lived another 34 years.  She was buried in Amsterdam on 21 Apr 1640. She was probably almost 90 years old.
 

Sources

The Deforests of Avesnes and of New Netherland: A Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History, 1494 to the Present Time  – 1900

(1) page 29
It must have been not far from 1570, say two years after the rout of Orange, that Jean de Forest, the presumed youngest son of Melchior, married Anne Maillard, daughter of Michel Maillard, a person of considerable note in the neighboring town of Felleries.  But this date is purely a matter of estimate, for the church registers of Avesnes do not go back so far.

(2) page 42
After the fashion of junior sons in those times, and indeed own to quite modern times, he received fewer parental favors than his elder brothers.  He was not betrothed into a family of gentlefolks, like Baltazar. He did not get to be alderman, nor fief-holder sur plumes, like Antoine.  He was not educated for the church and made "my lord canon,:" like Jaspard. A wife was selected for him (doubtless by his mother, more gallico) from the substantial but hardly aristocratic family of Maillards, residing in the neighboring unwalled town of Felleries, where Michel Maillard became mayor in 1572.

(3)  page 46    In the month of September 1601, we find Jean de Forest established as a merchant at Sedan, and obviously a professed Protestant already.  It is impossible to state the circumstances under which he turned his back upon his birthplace and his old religion.  His children at this period were strangely dispersed.  Jesse was with him, but Anne was at Amsterdam; Gerard was probably at Leyden; Melchior was at Lille.

(4) page 183
Registers of the Walloon Churches

O1 Feb 1603  Received member of the church of Leyden by letter from Bergues, Anne Maillard

29 Mar 1603  Received member of the church of Leyden, by letter from Berghen op Zoom, Jehan de Forest

30 Sep 1604  Received member of the church of Amsterdam by letter from Leyden, Anne Maillard.

9 Apr 1605    Received member of the church of Leyden by confession of faith, Gerard due Forest

May 1606      Gerard de Forest purchases land at Leyden of the burgomasters for a dyery.

3 Feb 1608    Received member of the church of Leyden by letter from Amsterdam, Gerard des Forest

12 Aug 1611    Married at Leyden, Gerard des Forests native of Avesnes in the country of Hainaut, and Hester de la Grange native of Leyden

26 Oct 1611   Received member of the church of Leyden by letter from the church of Lille, Melchior du Forest.

1 Mar 1615    Baptized at Leyden, Jesse son of Jesse due Forest and of Marie du Clou. Witness, Melchior du Forest

(5) page 48  In 1606, October 1st, "Anne des Forests of Avesnes, aged nineteen years, for five years at Amsterdam," was betrothed in the presence of her mother, Anne Maillard, to Jean Le Fevre, caffatier, resident of the Weaveries at Leyden,.

(6) page 185-6

19 Oct 1633 Gerard des Forest in his will  (not his last) in 1633, leaves two hundred florins to his mother Anne Maillard at Amsterdam.

21 Apr 1640  Anne Maillard buried at Amsterdam (Mort. rec. Wal. ch.)

The De Forests and The Walloon Founding of New Amsterdam by Lucy Garrison Green, 1916

page 20   1603 "Received member of the church at Leyden by letter from Beighem op Zoom, Jehan de Forest and Anne Maillard, his wife." Next year they are received members at Amsterdam by letters from Leyden.