Notes on Fillastre & Arondel pp 126-128

Date: 1550 to 1650
Location: Angey & Champeaux, La Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
Surnames/tags: Fillastre Arondel Huault

Notes on Fillastre & Arondel

See Barriault pp 126-128.

This is my translation from Barriault’s French. Everything is Barriault’s text – unless an insertion is marked with my initials, J.deR – except that I’ve sometimes reorganized word sequence and punctuation, and made other inconsequential adjustments, for the sake of clarity in English.

Historical note

ca.1629-1634: André Fillastre, Sieur Des Jardins, resided at the seigneurial manor house of Champeaux at least until 25 Feb 1634 (Champeaux parish register).

Explanatory notes

Note i. It is hard to trace the origins of the families that lived at Angey at the beginning of the 17th century, since the Angey parish records do not begin until 1689. That notwithstanding, close scrutiny of the Champeaux records enable us to establish that André Fillastre, Sieur Des Jardins, and his wife, Noëlle Arondel, were living at Angey in that period and that they were the parents of Agathe, Barbe, and Nicolas Fillastre.

In the documentation of the marriage between Adriane Fillastre and Jean Huault [de] “Gilberdière” (Champeaux parish register 1622), the bride is identified as a daughter of André Fillastre, Sieur Des Jardins, of Angey parish. It hardly seems likely that, at this time, there was more than one André Fillastre at Angey who bore the label of Sieur Des Jardins. We conclude that Adriane Fillastre, as well as her brother André and their sister Juliane, must also belong to this family.

Note ii. At the baptism of Gilles Huault, son of Adriane Fillastre (Champeaux register 1624), the godmother is identified as “Barbe, wife of André Fillastre of Angey.” Now, that is the only mention of Barbe [without surname], wife of André Fillastre, that we turned up, whereas we noticed numerous references to Barbe, daughter of André Fillastre. In light of those facts, we concluded that the priest at Champeaux likely made a mistake in identifying Barbe as the wife rather than as the daughter....

Note iii. At the baptism of Juliane Huault, daughter of Adriane Fillastre (Champeaux register 1631), Julien Grossin acted as godfather. Likely he was the husband of Barbe Fillastre, aunt of the child. Still, it must be noted that a man named Julien Grossin married one Jeanne Huault at Champeaux on Tuesday the 6th [?] of June, 1628. If that Jeanne Huault was [Jeanne] the sister of Jean Huault [de] “Gilberdière”, [the girl who was] baptized at Champeaux 28 Feb 1606, then Julien Grossin would actually have been the paternal uncle of Juliane Huault. With no other data, it is impossible to clarify this question.

Note iv. When Nicolas Fillastre and Ursule Bedouin got married, the groom’s father was described as having resided at the Champeaux seigneurial manor for the last 4 or 5 years. The fact that he occupied the seigneurial manor at Champeaux could indicate either that the family enjoyed a certain social status or that they simply performed some function at the chateau, just like the members of the Pierre family, who lived at the Champeaux manor 3 years earlier. (See Note ii for the family of Guillaume Pierre and his unidentified wife.) In the absence of supporting documents, we could not determine whether this branch of the Fillastre family was affiliated with the noble Norman family of le Fillâtre, referenced by Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois et Badier (Dictionnaire de la noblesse, vol VIII, 1969, p. 58), Jouglas de Morenas (Grand armorial de France, vol VII, 1975, p. 2), and Rietstap (Armorial Général, vol I, p. 669).

Note v. [On origins of surnames Fillastre and Arondel:] click here.

Source

• Barriault, Marcel. Famille DesRoches, special issue of Les Cahiers, the journal of La Société historique acadienne (Vol. 37, nos 2-3, Sept 2006).