Dear Andrea and all listmembers, it looks a bit as if you are all so quiet, that Andrea has to do all the writing so we all get at least some mail :) I thank you for the long explanation about how to look for more information on a name, but I'm really only interested in the Guillaume FOUQUET I mentioned and his wife Susanne FIERE. They came from the Thierache, Picardie and were first registered in Frankenthal, Pfalz at 15 Dec. 1653, when they got married. The Guillaume FOUQUET married Jane EYRE in Virginia, could be a son of my Guillaume, we are researching that. In fact, this guy is in all US records listed as Gill Fuqua and no one really knows anything about his real name. FOUQUET is not a very common name and I would love to connect my line to the famous French painter Jean FOUQUET or with the French minister of finances Nicolaus FOUQUET, who build such a splendid castle (Vaux-la-Vicomte), that French king Louis XIV got yealous and put him into jail for the rest of his life. But he took the architects and craftsmen and had them built Versailles. But that doesn't really fit to the farmer from the Picardie, who raised (at least) 12 children, settled first in the Palatinate, later in Hessen (where Guillaume died), but his wife and the 12 children and their families moved on to the East and settled in the Uckermark, Brandenburg, some even moved further in the next generation and settled in East-Prussia. I'm now trying to build a family tree with as many of the decendants of Guillaume FOUQUET and Susanne FIERE in Germany as possible. While doing that, I'm getting pretty good at the history of the huguenots in Brandenburg, Prussia, especially in the Uckermark. So if you come over a huguenot name and places as Strasburg (also spelled Strasbourg), Prenzlau, Bergholz, Battin, in the late 17th century and throughout 1701-1850 you can ask me for connections. I'm doing most of my research in the central archive of evangelical church in Berlin, where they have microfiches of the french reformed churchbooks of Brandenburg (country of Germany). Here is something I found out about Daniel LABARRE married to Judith ROSSIGNOL and posted to the Labar lists today. Daniel (de) la Barre settled with his wife Judith Rossignol in the French colony of Prenzlau in the Uckermark, Prussia around 1707. (He was in the Palatinate before) Other family members were in Strasburg, Uckermark and in Bergholz, Uckermark all within a distance of like 20-30 miles. I also have a death entry for another Daniel Labarre, farmer, who died in Bergholz, Uckermark, 13 Jan 1700 in the age of 70 years, he originate from "Zelande" -Netherlands. The handwritings of both ministers (in Prenzlau and in Bergholz) are terrible to read. And the fotocopies I took didn't come out to good either. Today I found birth entries for the following children of Daniel Labarre and Judith Rossignol in the church book of the French reformed church of Prenzlau: Nr. 421 Esther Labarre, born 30 Jan. 1708 Nr. 465 Rachel Labarre, born 9 Jan. 1714 Nr. 511 Anthoine Labarre, born 29 April 1719 His profession is given as "maitre tisserant", his birth place as "franqueville proche de la ville de guises en France", Judith's birthplace as "du deserre dans palatinate". Now around that time the Palatinate was devasted by war with France (that is why the families left and settled in the East of Prussia). The borderline changed frequently. There are two other birth entries with a Daniel Labarre as father but with Anne Elisabeth Paul Caspart as mother. Good chance it is the same person, but could be a son just as well, since the profession is the same and the birthplace Franqueville but added province Picardie. Nr. 707 Marie Anne Alexandrine Labarre, born 29 July 1724 Nr. 812 Marie Sara Labarre, born 18 July 1729 Some more Labarre's from the same time in Prenzlau: Nr. 708 Anne Labarre, born 18.10.1724, daughter of Pierre Labarre, taylor from Effe? and Susanne Jacob, born in Fahrenwalde, Uckermark, the godfather is Daniel Labarre, grandfather of the child. Nr. 799 Henry Labarre, born 4 Feb. 1729, same parents as Nr. 708 Nr. 823 Marie La Barre, born 23 Jan. 1730, daughter of Abraham La Barre, tanner, born in Strasburg, Uckermark and Marie Neuveglise, born in Battin, Uckermark (my la Barre line) and from the same parents Nr. 938 Abraham La Barre, born 29 Aug. 1734 Nr. 986 Jacob La Barre, born 18 Sept. 1736 Nr. 1040 Elisabeth de la Barre, born 5 March 1739 Nr. 1079 Jean La Bart (that's how they spelled it !), born 4 Feb. 1741 No more birth entries for the other Labarre fathers, so they might have left after 1730 to go to America. The parents of "my Abraham La Barre (born 13 May 1708 in Strasburg, Uckermark)" are Guillaume de la Barre ( born 1684 Beindersheim, Pfalz) and Sara de Frene. Guillaume is the son of Abraham de la Barre (born 7 May 1654 Frankenthal, Pfalz) and Marie Jeanne Charles. Abraham is son of Abraham de la Barre and Anne du Pre. I hope all this will help you. Ina Friling

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