Friday, November 8, 2013

Family Migrations VII

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Today's post will take a look at the migration of five families: Billiou, DuBois, Wall and Goddard.

Billiou: Technically, the family could be credited with two slightly different migration patterns. Pierre Billiou arrived on Staten Island in 1661 from Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands. He had fled his home in Lille, France [French Flanders]. As a Walloon [French Protestant], Pierre moved to Leiden, where the Protestants were welcomed. Pierre was one of the original patentees of Staten Island. He died there in 1701. His daughter, Marie, had arrived in New Netherland a short time before the rest of her family with her Uncle Louis DuBois. She lived with the DuBois family until her marriage to Arent Jansen Prall in 1670 and joined her parents on Staten Island about 1675. Flanders, New Netherland/New York

DuBois: Louis DuBois was a native of Wicres, then a part of the Spanish Netherlands [Fr. Flanders], he married in Frankenthal, near Mannheim, Paltz, Germany. The family apparently stopped in Leiden to visit his sister Francoise Billiou and invited her daughter, Marie to join them on the trip to America. The family settled at Wildwyck on Esopus Creek [now Kingston]. Louis founded the trading post of Nieu Dorp [Hurley] and was a founder of New Paltz. He died in Kingston. Flanders, New Netherland/New York

Wall: William Wall was a native of Ireland and settled in Newport, Rhode Island. The family later relocated to Warwick. Granddaughter Susanna married Holden Rhodes. Ireland, Rhode Island

Goddard: Henry Goddard was from Gloucestershire, England. He first located in York, Massachusetts [now Maine], then in Rhode Island at Jamestown. Daughter Susanna married William Wall. England, Mass./Maine/ Rhode Island

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