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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
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
(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.