Roussel Family Notes
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In 1599,
on October 3, at 6 o'clock in the morning Laurens
Roussel was born to Pierre Roussel (Abt.1570) and
Madeleine Malefrein. He was baptized at Quilleboeuf by
M. Claude Pincheron. His godfather was M. George
Roussel (a Great-Uncle) and his godmother was Marie
Belleau (his maternal grandmother). He was married in
the Reformed Church at Pont Audemer by M. Casseral to
Elizabeth Desormeaux (daughter of Francis Desormeaux, an
apothecary) on May 2, 1627. At the time of his
marriage Laurens Roussel was a surgeon at Pont Audemer.
The couple had eleven or twelve children, and Laurens
died in 1677).
Laurens Roussel
(1628-1691)
Laurens, their
eldest son, was born on December 2, 1628. He became an
apothecary and married Marguerite Langlois in 1665, the
orphan daughter of a Rouen goldsmith. The couple had
five children. It would seem that Laurens was an active
dissenter, and prior to the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in 1685 he was placed under house arrest. This
made it impossible for him to escape abroad.
It was
decided that his wife, Marguerite, and their five
children, Marie, Isaac, Laurens, Stephen and Francis,
would
flee to
England.
Laurens died on August 1, 1691, at his home near the
church of St. Germain, in a suburb of Pont Audemer,
after a lingering illness, and was buried privately in
his own garden.
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The Church of
St. Germain,
in the suburbs of
Pont Audemer
Normandy, France. |
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