Ancestors of Pierre Garcelon from Guernsey
With the Garcelons of Chaussenac and the Garcelons of « Tarrieu » in
Ally
Translated by Judith Gaillac
1. Carolyn’s comments
2. Link between the ancestors of Pierre Garcelon
from Guernsey and the Garcelon from Ally.
3. Explanation of Pierre Garcelon’s (Guernsey)
family and other Pierre Garcelons.
4. BEDAT family in Bordeaux
(in french) Janv. 2021
5. Maps of France Chaussenac
6. Pays des Garcelon d'Ally
7. Webmaster.
8. Pierre Garcelon of Guernsey
This presentation of the descendancy of the Reverend Pierre Garcelon is
based on documents by :
Carolyn Halstead (AH 124), Constance Hanscom 212p.
60Mo. (FE 124) and Juleen Reed (AV 124).
"Garcelon in Spain", "Copper
potmakers from Auvergne" and "Life
and Work of the Garcelons"
These three original pages have not changed since 2007.
changes are in progress on this page
Pierre Garcelon's family is presented in this page, in french :
les Garcelon de Tarrieu Amériques
Recently, we found a first marriage of Michel Garcelon
Simplified presentation:
1 Michel Garcelon, a notary royal in the late 1500s early 1600s, firtst married to Marguerite (de) Laval
We have neither the date nor the place of
their marriage.
1.2-François Garcelon, son of Michel Garcelon and spouse of Marie Serre residing at Tarrieu in Ally, Cantal,
1.3-Pierre Garcelon, of " Tarrieu " in Ally, son of François Garcelon and Marie Serre
Married to Marie Vayret on 4 September 1685 at Brageac, Cantal, France
1.4-Pierre Garcelon, a priest from Ally, abjures the catholic religion and becomes a protestant minister in Guernsey.
Married to Jeanne BEDAT in June 1734 in Guernsey.
1.5-James Garcelon, married to Delivrance ANIS on 29 February 1760 at Gloucester MA, USA
Michel Garcelon is married in second marriage to
Jeanne Vayret de Brageac. We have neither the date nor the place of
their marriage.
12 April 1610, in a marriage contract on parchment at Cheyssiol in
the parish of Chaussenac ; Michel Garcelon is said "notary"
(ad-12) and its signature appears.
(ad-11)
6 June 1618, after noon in the town of Aurillac Michel Garcelon
notary royal residing in Chaussenac appears before the court (Delalo n° 564 to 567)
1 November 1626 before noon in the house of Michel Garcelon notary
royal at Chaussenac (Delalo n°568 to 570)
- Jean Garcelon,
son of Michel Garcelon also notary at
Chaussenac, the last Garcelon to be a notary.
Michel, Jean, Antoine and Louis, sons of Jean, become merchant
potmakers in Alicante.
The trade is perhaps more profitable than the profession of notary,
they are in partnership with their cousin Pierre Garcelon,
son of François Garcelon (see the declaration of 13 April 1693).
At present, there is
no link between the Garcelons of Pouget in Ally, coppersmiths in
Calamocha in Aragon and the Garcelons of Chaussenac, merchant potmakers
in Alicante.
All these migrants from Ally and Chaussenac must have known and
kept company with
each other, their villages are very close, the family alliances are
very intimately interlinked, and, even if their destinations were
different, showing
solidarity was in their mutual interest, the experience of some being
necessary for the others, they had to know the
well tried and tested routes.
There is no-one suitable among the Garcelons of St Bonnet de
Salers.
Let’s go back to our merchant potmakers in Alicante:
It is here that we can measure the importance of the research
done and discoveries made by Emilio Benedicto Gimeno for Calamocha.
We know of no similar study for the migrations to Alicante!
We do not know when their migration to Spain began or whether
Alicante was their first destination.
In the table hereunder, we
have pieced together our party of merchant potmakers in Alicante.
There
is a possible doubt regarding Pierre Boudet, merchant potmaker, because
of the lack of records for him.
| Name |
Place of origine |
married
to |
died
at |
| Pierre Boudet |
? |
Antoinette
Garcelon |
after February 1684 |
| Jean
Garcelon |
Ostenac in
Chaussenac |
not found |
Alicante before oct.1685 |
| Antoine Garcelon |
Ostenac in Chaussenac |
son of
Jean |
no trace |
| Antoine Garcelon |
Ostenac in Chaussenac |
Jeanne Diernat |
Alicante in 1689 |
| Louis Garcelon |
Ostenac in Chaussenac |
Hélis Chadeffau |
Chaussenac in 1683 |
| Pierre Garcelon |
Tarrieu
in Ally |
Marie Vayret |
Chaussenac in 1728 |
| Géraud Pomeyrol |
Ostenac in Chaussenac |
? |
|
| Antoine
Cousques |
Cas in St Santin
Cantalès |
|
|
| Jean
Cousques |
Monédières
à St Santin C. |
|
|
| Pierre Dabernat |
Ostenac in Chaussenac |
|
|
Jean Garcelon, the notary, has another son Michel who does
not appear in any record.
But he is alive in 1667 since he is named
in his father’s will.
The Garcelon brothers, Jean, Antoine
and Louis, must have begun their migration before they married.
Their
sister Antoinette marries in 1664, Louis in 1678 and Antoine in 1684,
Jeanne, the youngest, in 1682.
Jean dies in Alicante with one
child, brought back to France by Pierre Garcelon, but we have not found
this Jean’s wife.
It should be noted that young children (aged
about 10) sometimes travelled with their fathers.
The possible routes towards Alicante and Calamocha (in
french)
The parish registers of Chaussenac begin in November
1674 and those of Ally in 1653.
24 August 1664, marriage contract of Pierre
Boudet and Antoinette Garcelon in
which he is referred to as a merchant potmaker trading in
Spain. Thus we have a first date of marriage.
Antoinette’s
four brothers seem to be absent on that day, are they already in
Alicante in Spain ?
Pierre Boudet’s place of death has not
been
found and the same unknown applies to a possible will.
It was usual
for merchant coppersmiths, even in Spain, to make a will there.
23
February 1667, Jean Garcelon, notary, mentions his four sons:
Jean, Antoine, Louis and Michel, in his will as for his daughters,
Antoinette is referred to as the elder and Jeanne as the younger.
18 July 1678, marriage of Louis Garcelon and
Hélis Chadeffau
Possible
period working in Alicante, very probably with his partners.
29 September 1681, Louis Garcelon buys some
land from Antoine Lescure.
That is how the migrants invested the
profits they made in Spain.
3 November
1682, Louis Garcelon, merchant about to leave for Spain, makes
a will and gives a proxy.
His absence will be short, as he dies the
following year.
Concerning the length of
the journeys: we have an example with the inventory after death in
Tortosa, Spain
on 20 August 1712 and the receipt at the notary
Delalo’s in Pleaux on 1 October 1712, six weeks later.
2
October 1683, death of Louis Garcelon at Ostenac.
8
February 1684, marriage of Antoine Garcelon to Jeanne Diernat
accompanied by Pierre Boudet, her brother-in-law
4
September 1685, marriage of Pierre Garcelon to Marie Vayret at
Brageac
24 October 1685, Antoine Garcelon gives his
proxy to his wife Jeanne Diernat before leaving for Spain
24
October 1685, agreement between Antoine Garcelon and
Hélis Chadeffau mentioning his companions
Period working in
Alicante, very probably with his partners.
27
November 1688, Jeanne Diernat rents out a house in Chaussenac
to Jacques Dubreuil, the Chaussenac parish priest, and thus we can
situate a Garcelon house in
Chaussenac. (in french)
23
February 1689, Antoine Garcelon’s will is drawn up by
Bertrand Campes, notary royal in Alicante
See receipt dated 7
December 1709
Pierre Garcelon and Marie Vayret
have their first son in 1686, Antoinette alias the
“Bastard” has been born before him, other children will be
born in 1690, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 1702, 1703 which does not leave
very much time for journeys to Spain. It looks as if the
adventure finishes abruptly, there are no more documents reporting any
activity whatsoever of our merchant potmakers in Alicante
13
April 1693, declaration by Pierre Garcelon, the last document
to confirm the adventure of the Garcelons merchant potmakers in
Alicante.
12 June 1709, Pierre Garcelon sets up a
clerical bond in favour of his son Pierre ensuring he will have an
income for life to practise his profession as a priest subject to his
renouncing all inheritance.
Pierre, having become a priest,
practised in the parish of Ally, in February 1716 Pierre is the
godfather of his cousin’s daughter
After that, we lose
trace of him.
Explanation of the word « Garrige
»
In records, Pierre Vayret, sieur of La Jarrige living in
Brageac is said to be residing at “Pradel” and very often
signs : « La Jarrige »
which may explain why he is
known by the name of « La Jarrige » which will stick with
his daughter after her marriage to Pierre Garcelon.
The following
record bears this out :
28 January 1657 at Brageac baptism of
Pierre Monfort, the godfather is Pierre Vayret, sieur of Garrige
(see the record)
7
January 1718, Antoinette Garcelon, Pierre the priest’s
aunt, widow of Antoine Belladen, makes her will, she makes provisions
in favour of her brother Pierre’s children with the exception of
Pierre, her nephew, but, as a result of the clerical bond granted to
him by his father , he has renounced all inheritance from his family.
Even
Antoinette alias “the Bastard” is a beneficiary.
But at
no time does she allude to Pierre the priest !
So
we do not know when or why Pierre left
Constance
Hanscom, one of his descendants, asked us if the education he
had received could have had an influence on his choice.
It is very
difficult to form an opinion.
Was he influenced by
the ideas his merchant potmaker uncles may have brought with
them?
Or by other migrants? The latter were sometimes
suspected of protestant sympathies.
What had happened with his
sister Antoinette alias « the Bastard », a name which
stayed with her all her life?
Could the behaviour of the clergy to
which he belonged be the cause?
Many questions, but the enigma
remains complete.
28 january 1721, we
find Pierre in London - England
Thus,
by his decision, Pierre, son of Pierre Garcelon and Marie Vayret de la
Jarrige, has ensured the continuity of the name Garcelon passed down
from Michel Garcelon the notary of Chaussenac.
It is up
to you, the American Garcelons, to write the rest of the story !