This is from the "The BOBO Roots-Cellar" newsletter which I edit (VOL. IV, No. 2, July 2000) for persons researching the BOBO (BEAUBEAU, BABAU, BAUBAU, etc. surname).  This newsletter is copyrighted and intended for individual use and may not be uploaded in any form to commercial websites or released for sale. E-Mail: <A HREF="mailto:FamilyBOBO@aol.com">FamilyBOBO@aol.com</A>; BOBO Family Website: <A HREF="http://www.familybobo.com/"> http://www.familybobo.com/</A>  New Information Found On BOBO Family in France ROBERT G. (Bob) BOBO has reviewed materials on the BOBO family in France and discovered materials he overlooked in the "Rivierre Journals" in earlier research.  Bob comments, “Some of it is puzzling to me, and I don’t know if anyone can make sense of it.” Additional Translations Bob adds, “This translation is material that was overlooked because it was thought to be repetitious.  Although it does recount some of the same events, after closer examination, it appears to be from a different source. “Recanted in 1681 at the inquiry (questioning) in Couhe: At Couhe: Louis BOBEAU, 70 years old. Pierre BOBEAU with Judith MILLET and Isaac, age 10, Magdelaine andRenee, ages 16 and 14. At Ceaux: Abraham BAUBEAU with Jean NICHOLAS and 3 children. At Brux: Jean BOBEAU, age 19, son of Jean. At Saint Sauvant: Gabriel BAUBEAU with his wife Catherine RIVAULT and their children Gabriel, Laurence and Jean, 30, 25 and 24 years old. At Messe: Abraham BAUBEAU with Catherine LIREUIL and Abraham, age 9, Jaques BAUBEAU and Catherine, newborn. At Rom: Jean BOBEAU with Frances BACHELIER. Jaques BOBEAU with Marie MINEAU and Isaac, age 7. Louis BOBEAU, age 26. (Perhaps the condemned from 1697)” “Louis and Jean BOBEAU, 1697, ages 30 and 22 years old, condemned to be hung for the Easter assembly of 1697 by the Presidial (court?) of Poitiers, to be hung in Poitiers and Saint Sauvant.” “Louis BOBEAU, age 30 and Jean, age 22 whenthey turned themselves in with 400 others on April 9, 1697 at the Easter assembly.  Secretly convocated in the Saint Sauvant Forest (King’s Woods)where a country boy preached to them. Taken in flagrant misdemeanor with 7 others the GUENNOT, CHENEBAULT,DURAND, LESEEQ, GAILLARD and PIERRON and 33 others along the roads by thesentencing of (?) on May 7, 1697 as new converts duly reached and convinced ofhaving allowed themselves to assemble and to have heard the RPR preach andconforming the Declaration of July 12, 1686. Jean should be hung and strangled at Saint Nicholas Square in Poitiersand his dead body placed (displayed) on the main road in Couvre.  Louis should be hung and strangled on thepublic square in Saint Sauvant and his dead body placed on the main road ofPoitiers.”                “Sentencing was broken (overturned) in an appeal in Paris.”                “Local traditionbased on a kind of Kingdom of this BAUBEAU (family) of which the descendants would be in Argentina.”  (Based on a conversation with an unnamed source, March 15, 1980)                “The plan ofescape, filled with precautions, Girault from Bagnault, son-in-law of the fugitive (?) took these objects to be his, not at his mother-in-law’s house but at the home of Mirabeau, responsible for the transport at another address in Charbouneau to arrive at the BAUBEAU’shome, the wife not forwarned or not yet (aware?)” (Robert G. Bobo, July, 2000)                All quotations from “Dictionaire Des Familles du Poitou, 1680 – 1780, Vol. 1”, by Pasteur Jean Rivierre, copied from his notes in 1957. The Gabriel mentioned in this information seems to be our Gabriel BABAU who came to Virginia in 1700.  We have not found him, yet, on ship's lists from England to Virginia. We have earlier information this researcher discovered on the BEAUBEAU family in the Poitou area of France.   Charles H. (Chuck) BOBO, Coordinator The BOBO Family Assn. FamilyBOBO@aol.com or ChuckBobo@aol.com