About Gaucheron descendants
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It is a working document and in no ways a definitive tree. My hope is that it will provide a place for interested parties to share their ideas and research.
If you have anything to add , however small, please contact me. All your photos, stories and anecdotes will help to put flesh on the dry bones!!
My tree owes much to my first cousin Wendy Bennett who has been active in researching the Gaucheron for many years. I need to credit also Pieter Bismeijer who has recently made contact with Alain Barrier, a french descendant, who has generously shared his research of the family in France.
Alain has now sent me, direct, copies of baptism, marriage and death records, as well as providing translations. I am deeply grateful to him.
Many others have also generously shared their trees with me and the info that they shared has been incorporated.
I am afraid that I was not thorough in recording my sources early on, and if you find info here which was supplied by you and not credited to you, I apologise!... Please let me know and I will rectify the situation forthwith!
I cannot guarantee it is error free. If you spot any errors please let me know so I can make corrections.
Earliest record of Gaucheron's in the UK include...
Glynda Easterbrook writes:-'The first Louis Gaucheron appears to have arrived in London at the end of 1681 (témoignage 27 December 1681). Aged 30, he is recorded as having come from Châteaudun, Beauce, Eure-et-Loir. He appears to have been the first member of the Gaucheron family to arrive in England, to be followed by other family members a few years later. Between 1681 and 1682 he received a total of £5.12s.6d charity (19 grants in all) from the French Huguenot Church in Threadneedle Street. The date of Louis' arrival is interesting. In the introduction to Publications of the Huguenot Society of London (now known as the ‘Quarto Series’) Volume 21, it is noted that the records of the témoign-ages of the Threadneedle Street church list 578 entries in 1685 (the year of revocation), but in 1681, the heaviest year, there were 912 entries representing 1,111 individuals.9 It is also noted that this can perhaps be explained by understanding what was happening in France in 1681. The dragonnades (the billeting of troops in Protestant homes) began in March, followed in June by a decree by which children of Protestants were allowed to be converted at the age of seven, and if they became so converted and left their homes, and conversion implied this, their parents were bound nevertheless to support them.'
Mar 10 1684 Isaac Pinot, upon report from Louis Gaucheron, foreign weaver, that he served at (blank) in France, is admitted a foreign journeyman - 1/s 10d (Extract from the court Books of the Weavers company 1610-1730)....
Having reveiwed all the information from France and re examined the Huguenot records here, I now believe that most Gaucheron descendants here originate from the nephews of the above Louis. The situation in France having worsened they came to join Louis born 1651, who was already settled here with his wife.
The two small boys Louis b c1681 and Pierre b 1684 in Bazoches en Dunois, Eure et Loir, France, who arrived in London c1685 with their father Pierre (born 18 Sep 1655 Chateaudun,
Beauce, Eure-et-Loir, France) and mother Aimee nee Fricheteau, and Grandfather Charles Gaucheron (b
Apr 1629 in Auvilliers, France) with his second wife Marguerite Mesmin. Both Charles and Pierre were
tailors and the Huguenot records state they received help in London in 1686.
The early Gaucherons lived in the hamlet Auvilliers near Ozoir le Breuil which is a little south of
Bazoches en Dunois and south-east of Chateaudun. (in the department of Eure et Loir, Normandy) (see
map below).
As so many Gaucheron descendents also descend from John Kemp, and I am frequently asked about his
origins I have now added his pedigree. New details have recently been added.
I realise the need to respect the privacy of living Gaucheron descendants, and so have privatised this info. It is held secure on the database and will not be shared without your consent.
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