Marie (Chaillon) Fontaine (abt. 1615 - abt. 1678)

Born about 1615 in Rue-au-Roy near Pons, Saintonge, France [uncertain]

Wife of James Fontaine — married 1641 in Saintonge, France

Descendants

Died about 1678 at about age 63 in Jenouille-Jaffe Estate, Veaux, France

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Biography

Marie (Chaillon) Fontaine was the Protestant ancestor of a Huguenot emigrant to England.

In his memoirs, James Fontaine states that his father married Marie Chaillon, his mother, in 1641. He further attests that his mother was:

"from the neighborhood of Pons, in Saintonge, where her father possessed considerable property, and resided at a country place named Rue au Roy, distant about a mile and a half from town. She was a handsome brunette, twelve years younger than her husband, to whom she brought a marriage portion of four thousand francs, which was expended, by her desire, in the purchase of the small estate of Jenouille, and the adjacent manor of Jaffe."^[1]

James Maury goes on to state that Marie and Jacques Maury had five children - two sons and three daughters, who lived to marriageable age.^[1]

Maury writes that his mother died at the age of 63, "at about the time that I had completed my college course and taken my degree. After she became a widow, she devoted herself with the greatest assiduity to her children, doing all that lay in her power both for their temporal and eternal welfare. She was tender and affectionate to them, but at the same time rigid in requiring from them a strict fulfillment of their duties." Maury states that at the time of his mother's death, he was not yet 25 years old. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Maury, Ann. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family - Translated and Compiled from the Original Autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine. Originally published Expanded Edition: New York, 1853. Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: Baltimore, MD, 1994, 2002, p.29, 53.

see also:

• Maury, Ann. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family - Translated and Compiled from the Original Autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine. Originally published Expanded Edition: New York, 1853. Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: Baltimore, MD, 1994, 2002.
• A Tale of the Huguenots, by Ann Maury and James Fontaine; John S. Taylor; New York, NY; 1838.
• Fontaine-Maury Society contributors. "http://www.fontainemaurysociety.com/fontainehistory.html. The Fontaine-Maury Society. Accessed 8 July 2022.
• http://juch.org/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I24715&tree=tree1
• Death date comes from the book: Colonel Joshua Fry of Virginia, p. 58

Acknowledgments

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