Louis DeMaranville (abt. 1684 - bef. 1772)

Born about 1684 in Paris, Île-de-France, France

Husband of Susanna (Crapo) DeMaranville — married 8 Dec 1729 in Rochester, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 28 Sep 1772 before about age 88 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Louis DeMaranville was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Biography

Jean-Louis DeMaranville was born circa 1684 in Paris, France. He was a French Calvinist Protestant, aka French Huguenot. He fled his homeland due to the anti-Huguenot religious persecution under French King Louis XIV in the late 17th Century, landing in New England in the English province of Massachusetts Bay.

Marriage

Louis married Susanna Crapo in 1730

Children

Louis and Susanna had 11 children:

1. Chaumont DEMARANVILLE (22 February 1731-)
2. John DEMARANVILLE (about 1732-)
3. Mary DEMARANVILLE (30 July 1735-)
4. Frances DEMARANVILLE (about 1737-)
5. Susannah DEMARANVILLE (1739-1818)
6. Gabriella DEMARANVILLE (about 1742-20 March 1818)
7. Elizabeth DEMARANVILLE (1745-15 April 1775)
8. Thankful DEMARANVILLE (about 1746-)
9. Charles DEMARANVILLE (about 1744-1834)
10. Stephen DEMARANVILLE (15 August 1750-24 September 1827)
11. Louis DEMARANVILLE (about 1739-)

Death

It is believed Louis passed away before 1773 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Notes

• Joseph Joslin, Barnes Frisbie and Frederick Ruggles, A history of the town of Poultney, Vermont: from its settlement to the year 1875, with family and biographical sketches and incidents (Google eBook), 1875, 305.

Note mi; Came to Dartmouth from Paris, France per Mayflower Families. oc; An army officer in France at the age of 19 per tradition. m; Louis DeMoranville & Susannah Crappo married 8 December 1730 at Rochester, Massachusetts per Vital Records to 1850. pro; The will of Louis D'Marainville of Dartmouth, yeoman, dated 26 Jun 1772, was disallowed 6 Oct 1772. The final distribution of the estate 9 Apr 1775 per Mayflower Families. hi; Legend says Louis DeMaranville was born in Paris, France, and was a young officer in the army, age 19. One morning while walking in the garden he saw his new step-mother punishing his little sister and becoming enraged pulled his sword and knocked her bonnet off. To escape a worse punishment he was put on board a war ship of which Francis Crapo was Captain. This vessel was wrecked off the shore of Cape Cod, and four men and the boy Peter Crapo were saved in a boat said to have landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. No date is given of their coming but it was probably before 1700. A rhyme of the men's names heard repeated by descendants of the five families was - Louis DeMaranville and Louis Voteau, Old Peter Juckett and Francis Crapeau. per DeMaranville Genealogy. hi; At the time that Peter Crapo married, Louis Demaranville is said to have made a vow that he would not marry until he could marry a daughter of Peter Crapo, which he did in 1730, and is said to have had thirteen children. It is said that while waiting for his future wife to grow up that he cleared up an exceedingly nice farm for those days and built thereon a wall so wide that a yoke of oxen could be driven on top thererof. A portion of this wall is shown today (1921) on the old homestead near Braley's Station in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. per DeMaranville Genealogy. hi; A deed dated 1773 refers to Louis as lately deceased and while we do not know how old he was at his death, yet if our legend is true he must have been more than 100 years old, and it has been claimed 110. The family has been noted for its longevity, also for its musical and inventive ability. per DeMaranville Genealogy. hi; It is not known how much truth there is in this legend, but this we do know that the men mentioned in the rhyme and the boy Peter Crapo were all in the town of Rochester and married before 1735 and therefore could not have been of the Arcadians (who were not driven out until after 1740) as has been alleged. per DeMaranville Genealogy.

Note: See notes of wife and her father. Parents were not in "Descendants of Pierre..." nor in "Mayflower Families...", vol 1. The former said he was said to be one of the four men saved with Pierre Crapo, born "Paris, France, perhaps about 1660, d about 1770 at Dartmouth". (This is a strange guess as it would make him 110 years old at time of his death.) The latter gives no birthdate, says he came to Dartmouth from Paris, France, and that he died at Dartmouth before 28 Sep 1772. It says his will was dated 26 June 1772, called him yeoman, that it was disallowed 6 Oct 1772 and that the final distribution of the estate was 9 Apr 1775. It is very doubtful he was born as early as 1660. This was probably a guess, based on the theory that he was one of the survivors of the shipwreck of which Pierre was also a survivor. (See notes of Pierre for more about this theory.) Perhaps he was son of one of the survivors. LDS proxy ordinances are in the IGI, the father's name just Demaranville. This entry says he was born Paris, Oneida, New York, but this is probably an erroneous assumption as the only records I have seen concerning him say he was born Paris, France.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115012229/louis-demaranville

• Mayflower families Through Five Generations 2006 Vol. 13 p. 71
• “The descendants of Louis DeMaranville and Susanna Crapo.” http://www.curtsanders.info/k3urt/Demaranville/#INTRO. Accessed 8 Jul. 2019.
• Full text of 'DeMaranville Genealogy: Descendants of Louis DeMaranville'.” [1] Accessed 8 Jul. 2019.
• My Ancestors on RootsWeb: Jean-Louis de Maranville WikiTree has more-realistic birth year. See also the RootsWeb profiles for his wife and her father, Pierre / Peter Crapo for details on this group of French Protestant Huguenots who fled to New England around 1700 and became leading citizens in America.
• Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records 1690-1881; Author: Bristol County (Massachusetts). Register of Probate; Probate Place: Bristol, Massachusetts

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Middletown families minus.ged on 10 February 2011.