Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameLouis (Louis) Desormeaux, 5G Grandfather
Birth19 Sep 1673, Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
MemoAccording to Elisabeth Burton. Or 20th.
Death22 Jan 1748, Spitalfields, London, England
Baptism20 Sep 1673, Calais, France
Residence1702, Zandstraat, Belgium
Residence1672, Rouen, Normandy, France
MemoThis makes no sense!
OccupationSilk weaver.
Origin‘Middelbourg en Zeelande’. Middelburg.
Note 1His Will of 6 Jan 1747, (almost five pages) shows he had property in both London and the ‘country’. He appears to have been a rich silk-weaver and employer. He set up complicated trusts for his surviving children (several others appear to have died).
Note 2Louis or Lewis. Also spelt ‘de Zormeaux’. Almost certainly a Huguenot (Protestant refugee) from France. Elisabeth Burton says he was a weaver and lived in Norton Folgate near Spitalfields, London.
Note 3Huguenot Society Publication v. 27 Lists Louis Desormeaux in 1709 on the Oath Roll for Naturalization. Weavers Court Books 1610-1730 entry 27 Aug 1711 - Mr Lewis Desormeaux from Holland is adnmitted as a foreign master.
God-parentsClaude Hays and Renée Le Noble.
Note 4Louis’ identity is certain. Freddie Peirce-Howe, however, calls him Louis Pierre Constant Moreau-Desormeaux which does not appear as a name in other family records. Is this the same branch of the
Note 5Was he the Louis Desormeaux Junior, of 8 Vine Court Spitalfields, who developed packets of ‘Chemical British Japan Ink Powder’ to be used by stationers dissolved in water to make writing ink?
Flags CALRel, Desormeaux, Le Noble
FatherLouis (Louis) Desormeaux (1613-1674)
MotherSuzanne (Claude) Le Noble (~1632-1678)
Other spousesMachtelije Jacobs van Dijck
Marriage21 Apr 1712, St Botolph’s Church, Bishopsgate, London, England
Married MemoOr the French Chapel, Greenwich, England?
SpouseMarie HÉBERT, 5G Grandmother
Birthabt 1690
MemoFreddie Peirce-Howe says 1704 but she was surely not 8 years old when she married in 1712...
Death1763, Spitalfields, London, England
Note 1Marie or Mary. Freddie Peirce-Howe calls her Marie Anne Joseph Gaillard Hebert.
Flags CALRel
Children
SpouseElizabeth Porter (?-1780)
Marriage11 Feb 1762, St Botolph’s Church, Bishopsgate, London, England
SpouseGabriel Goyan (~1712-?)
Marriage18 Sep 1739, St Gregory-by-St-Paul’s, City of London, England
ChildrenAnne (Gabriel) (?-?)
4 MArmand (Louis) Desormeaux, 5G Uncle
Birth31 May 1717, Spitalfields, London, England
MemoAn online source specifies Spitalfields...
Death1747
MemoAn online source says 1747...
5 MJacques ‘James’ (Louis) Desormeaux, 5G Uncle
Birth16 Sep 1718, Spitalfields, London, England
Deathabt 1815, Spitalfields, London, England
MemoAccording to Freddie Peirce-Howe (aged 97 years).
8 MAbraham (Louis) Desormeaux, 5G Grandfather
Birth15 Jan 1722, Spitalfields, London, England
MemoOr 31 May 1717, Spitalfields, according to Freddie Peirce-Howe.
DeathMay 1785, West Ham, Essex, England
MemoAccording to Freddie Peirce-Howe.
SpouseMary CLARK , 5G Grandmother (1725-?)
Marriage25 Sep 1741, Essex, England
Married MemoEast or West Ham, Essex
ChildrenAbraham (Abraham) (?-?)
James Lewis (Abraham) (~1745-?)
10 FMarianne (Louis) Desormeaux, GGGG Grandmother
Birth24 Mar 1725, Spitalfields, London, England
Death?
SpouseJohn GILSON , GGGG Grandfather (1723-1788)
Marriage11 Jun 1747, St Dionis Backchurch, City of London, England
ChildrenJohn (John) (1748-?)
Margaret Desormeaux (John) (1751-)
Ann (John) (~1753-1834)
Mary Ann (John) (?-?)
Lewis (John) (1756-?)
Elizabeth (John) (1758-?)
Daniel (John) (?-?)
Katherine Emma (John) (?-?)
11 FVéronique Constant Desormeaux Moreau-Desormeaux ??, 5G Aunt
Birth1726
Death1800, Massay, Vierzon, France
Memo“Aged about 74 years”