Jacques Jan (Mahieu) Le Mahieu (abt. 1550 - aft. 1611)

Born about 1550 in French Flanders, France [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1611 after about age 61 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands [uncertain]

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Biography

Jacques le Mahieu is the presumed (but not proven) father of Hester le Mahieu (wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke), Marie le Mahieu (wife of Jean de Lannoy and mother of Philip Delano, 1621 immigrant to Plymouth Colony), and daughters Jenne, Anthonette and Françoise.

Marie Mahieu's birthplace is given as "Lille" in the 1596 record of her wedding banns. The 1602 wedding banns for Marie's sister Jenne give Armentiers, a village near Lille, as her birthplace. The 1603 record of the wedding banns for Marie's sister Hester to future Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke show that Hester was born in Canterbury, England. The 1605 record of the wedding banns for their sister, Anthonette, shows her birthplace as Houpeleyne, Armentiers. Their sister, Françoise, was betrothed in 1611 and is described as being from Bondu, which is a hamlet near Lille and Armentiers.^[1]

"Lille...now lies in northern France. Formerly it was a part of Walloon Flanders. Heavily Protestant, the area was captured by Catholic armies under Parma in 1578, and many Walloon Calvinists fled to England directly... We may assume that Hester Mahieu's parents were among these refugees, taking with them their young daughters Mary and Françoise. Hester was evidently born in Canterbury, although the Walloon Church records there do not contain references to the family. It is quite possible that her father was Jacques Mahieu, the witness to the betrothal of Françoise Mahieu and Daniel Cricket. Jacques Mahieu and his wife, whose name was not recorded, were received into communion in the Leiden Walloon Church on 10 Jun 1590, with letters of transfer from the Walloon Church in London, dated 30 April 1590."^[2]

"Another sister of Hester Mahieu's, Françoise, was betrothed on 22 April 1611 to Daniel Cricket, a woolcomber from Sandwich in England. She was accompanied by her cousin, Mary le Pon, and by her sister, Mary le Mahieu. Françoise is described as being from Bondu, which is a hamlet near Lille and Armentiers. Daniel Cricket was accompanied by Laurens Lanse, his master, and by Jaecques Mahieu, his acquaintance.^[2]

Jacques Mahieu is widely believed to have been a Huguenot.^[3] The Huguenots were French Protestants who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some Huguenots remained in France, practicing their faith in secret. However, "French-speaking Protestants who fled from religious persecution and civil war on the continent are all loosely referred to as Huguenots...this term properly refers to only those from France, and not to the Walloons from the Low Countries."^[4]

Research Notes

There's a conviction/verdict from 5 February 1627, that says (a) Jacques Mahieu was banished for 3 years from Leiden in 1627 because of begging...

Crimineel klachtenboek 1533-1811(Akte)datum: 05-02-1627 Plaats: Leiden
Genoemd Jacques Mahieu geboren te Armentiers
Bijzonderheden: Delict: Bedelarij
Eis: Geseling en 12 jaar verbanning uit Holland en West-Friesland
Vonnis: 3 jaar verbanning uit Leiden, Rijnland, Den Haag en Haagambacht ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, "The Pilgrims and Other English in Leiden Records: Some New Pilgrim Documents," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 143 (1989), pp. 195-199. (Link by subscription.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, "The Pilgrims and Other English in Leiden Records: Some New Pilgrim Documents," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 143 (1989), p. 199. (Link by subscription.)
3. ↑ The National Huguenot Society The names displayed are those for which The National Huguenot Society has received and has on file in its archives documented evidence proving according to normally accepted genealogical standards that the individual listed was indeed a French Huguenot during the period of 1520-1787. If such proof and documentation has not been verified by and placed on file with The National Huguenot Society, then the Huguenot name will not be listed on our site. : accessed 30 Jan 2018
4. ↑ England History of Huguenots, Walloons, Flemish Religions (National Institute) : accessed 30 Jan 2018.
5. ↑ Leiden archief (a) Jaques Mahieu (born Armentiers) was banished from Leiden for 3 years 5 February 1627 (crime begging) Bronvermelding Crimineel vonnissenboek, inventarisnummer 3+11, blad 168 vso Gemeente: Leiden Periode: 1624-1628

• Bangs in both NEHGR (1989) and Mayflower Descendant (2007).
• Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill. Descendants of Edward Small of New England . Riverside Press, Rev. edition (Houghton Mifflin, Co., New York, 1934)