Rene, I want to wish you and everyone a very Merry Christmas and may your Christmas be filled with many blessings and much happiness and joy,. I want to tell you that a direct descendant of Antoine Jean Baptiste Verloin Degruy has moved back to New Iberia from New Orleans, and she grew up here in New Iberia and we were girlhood friends, her name is Anna Ross Maulin Duval Twichell, and her email address is [email protected], and I sent her email address to you awhile back sometime in November and she said that she has never received an email from you concerning the Degruy website, she is a history and genealogy lover and is very interested in learning more about the Verloin Degruy line. Anna Ross descends to the Degruy line through Marie Threse Degruy, who was the wife of Francois Cezar Boutte, Senior and the daughter of Antoine Jean Baptiste Verloin Degruy. In talking about genealogy and history, Anna Ross shared with me this piece of information that I think will be of great interest to the Degruy website, she told me that it was always said in her family that the Degruy were related to or descended to Madame de Noailles, who was very closely tied to Versallies Palace and King Louis 14th of France. I looked up in an old encylopedia and found that the de Noailles family of France were a noble family drawing their lordship from titles near BEauvis, with Antoine the noted admiral of 16th Century and his brothers, Francois and Gilles, ambassadors, the de Noailles family attained promience as great generals of the 17th and 18th centuries. Anna Ross has a master's degree in history and she has done extensive research on Louisiana history and is very interested in becoming a member of the Degruy family website, Thank you very much for your kind consideration, Merry Christmas, kitty courts> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:35:22 -0600> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [DEGRUY] message from David> > This sounds like the perfect place.> Someone, however, has already responded, so it may be gone.> But David's number is 504 828 6245> I'd call him as soon as you can and maybe you can head off the others at > the pass, so to speak.> Just tell him how you connect. He'll enjoy the contact. He will > Especially Enjoy hearing about Hermitage Plantation. [You ought to let > the list know as well about this wonderful project, unless you're > keeping it under wraps. David has no computer or email, so as much as > he has to offer, he's really out of the loop.> Happy Holidays....> > > > > Robert Judice wrote:> > Saw your note re: the DeGruy mantle and am interested. We are in the process> > of restoring Hermitage Plantation (ca. 1812-14) in Ascension Parish and> > would be used there. Please send more information. My connection to the> > DeGruy family is as follows: Marie Louise Hyacinthe DeGruy married Antoine> > Boutte and 3 of their daughters married 3 Judice brothers in the St.> > Martinville area in the late 18th century. Thank you.> >> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, listadministratordegruyl <> > [email protected]> wrote:> >> > > >> David says that he has a [not too large] carved wooden mantel from a> >> Degruy house in the French Quarter on Dumaine. He has been storing it at> >> a church since Katrina, but they have told him that he has to take it> >> away before Dec 22 or 23 or they will throw it out. He doesn't have a> >> place to put it. He'd like a Degruy to get it. I know he'd like some> >> sort of monetary compensation for it, but, if he can't get that, he will> >> give it to a Degruy rather than have it put into the trash.> >>> >> So... if any one out there would like a piece of Degruy history, give> >> David a call. If you don't have his number contact me off list and I'll> >> give it to you. I'd get it myself, but getting it to St. Louis would be> >> a bit cost prohibitive!> >>> >> Please share this message with anyone who may not be on our Degruy list.> >> I know there are researchers out there who do not have computers.> >>> >> That's the message.> >>> >> Renée> >> The productivity of our Degruy list depends upon generosity in sharing> >> family research. This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be> >> assumed to be "fact." 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