Ghislain Vigne (abt. 1586 - 1632)

Born about 1586 in St Vaast, La Haute, Valenciennes, France

Husband of Adrienne (Cuvelier) Cuvellier — married 1608 in St Waast La Haut, Valenciennes, Nord, France

Descendants

Died 30 Apr 1632 at about age 46 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland

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Biography

Ghislain Vigne migrated from Amsterdam to New Netherland.

Ghislain Vigne is related to US President Theodore Roosevelt. Here is the trail.

The Vigne family sailed aboard either the Nieuw Nederland or De Eendracht ^[1]

Guillaume (Ghislain) Vigne was born in 1586 in Valenciennes, Province de Hainaut, France (73 km south of Brussels). His father, Jean de la Vigne was born in 1550 in Valenciennes, France, and died in 1622 in Amsterdam, Holland. Note: Father Jean's wife was Tanneken (last name Unknown), she died and was buried in Amsterdam in 1593, so if Ghislain was a son of Jean de la Vigne, Tanneken must have been his mother...

The Vigne family were Walloons, French-speaking Protestants, living in a disputed border area and subject to protracted wars involving the Netherlands, France and Spain. Valenciennes today is in the French Republic and the de la Vigne / Vigne family were French Huguenots.

In 1608, Guillame married Adrienne Cuvellier near Valenciennes in today's region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, just before "the 12-year truce" between Spain & Holland began in 1609. The truce provided some respite for the area but the Roman Catholic French monarchy had a plan to convert or kill the Protestant population living within and along its borders. After King Henri IV, who was sympathetic to the Protestant minority, was assassinated in 1610, many non-Roman Catholics fled that country after having their property confiscated.

This is most-likely why Guillaume Vigne and Adrienne Cuvellier emigrated to Holland in 1618 to the city of Leyden, which was a protective and tolerant haven from war and prejudice. The weaving and publishing industry were flourishing in Leyden which was the second largest city in Holland at that time. The boom in the Leyden textile industry owed a lot to the arrival of French and Flemish weavers.

Living among the Dutch, the Vigne name was changed to Vienje. Guillaume became known as Willem Vienje and Adrienne as Ariantje Vienje. [The "-je" ending in the Dutch version of their name was pronounced as "-yeh."]

In 1618, they were attending the Walloon Church, in Leyden, South Holland, Netherland. The Register of Baptisms in the Walloon Church in Leyden contains the following entries:

• 2 September 1618 Rachel, daughter of Ghilain Vignier and his wife. Witnesses: Antoine Hardewin and his wife, Ghilain Hardewin and Gertrude Quinze.

• 26 September 1619 Abraham and Sara, children of Gileyn Vinoist and Adrienne Cuvelier. ^[2]

• 26 December 1621 Abraham, son of Guillain Vivier and Adrienne Cuvelier. Witnesses: Charlie Bailieu and Jean Collas and the wife of Jean Adam. ^[3]

• 19 March 1623 Rachel, daughter of Guillain Vigne. Witnesses: Henri Lambert, Pierre de Fache and Marguerite Vigne. ^[4]

Guillame, Adrienne and three daughters including Christina emigrated from Amsterdam on 25 Jan 1624 to New Amsterdam on the De Eendracht. The Vignes were one of 30 Walloon families selected by the Dutch West India Company to establish a permanent settlement in New Netherlands ^[1][New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut]. We don't know whether the Vignes spent their first year at the Albany, Connecticut River or Delaware River settlements.

By 1625, Guillame was a farmer on land north of what is now Wall Street in Manhattan along the East River. They had five more children before Guillame died. Their son, Jan Vigne, was born shortly after their arrival in New Netherland. Only four adult children of Ghislain Vigne and Adrienne Cuvelier are mentioned in New Netherland records.

Guillame died prior to 30 Apr 1632 (although Van Laer is of the opinion that the year 1632 is probably wrong and should be 1635 or later) in New York, USA. On that date, his widow, Adrienne, made a deposition, as she was about to marry Jan Jansen Damen, a wealthy citizen of New Amsterdam. In that deposition, she describes her daughter Christina as a married person.

Ariantje married Jan Jansen Damen on May 7, 1638. Damen, sometimes referred to as "Old Jan," was a warden of the Dutch Reformed Church and also had a sizable tract of land west of the Vigne's.

Upon moving into the Vigne household, Damen found he had married into an extended family. Christine and Dirck were living there with their two young daughters. Maria's husband Jan Roos died in 1632, and she had married Abraham Ver Planck in 1634. By mid-1638 they had 3 or 4 children. Altogether the household consisted of six adults and 7 or 8 children, and possibly a few slaves. On June 21, 1638, Damen sued to have Abraham Ver Planck and Dirck Volckertszen "quit his house and leave him the master thereof." Dirck countered with a charge of assault and had witnesses testify that Jan tried to "throw his step-daughter Christine, Dirck's wife, out of doors."

Adrienne Cuvelier died in 1655. Most of her property was divided among the Vigne children and their families. On March 8, 1658, Dirck and his sister-in-law Maria Ver Planck were sued by Claes Van Elstandt, elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, for not paying for her grave. They said they had given the money to Van Tienhoven, who had disappeared 16 months earlier. All of the remaining heirs were then ordered to pay for the grave.

Owned the land that the New York stock exchange now sits on.

In the late 16th century, Valenciennes was part of the medieval County of Hainault; in 1678 it became a part of France. Once called Ghileyn Vignier. Became members of the Wallon Church in Leyden on October 1618. He again in 1622 was received by confession. He must have moved from Leyden for a short period. May have had a relative named Merguerite Vigne. Guillain or Ghislain was named for a Frankish saint, Gislanus, who in about the year 680 A.D. founded a monastery in Hainault six miles west of Mons, where the town of Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, is today and only 15 miles northwest of Valenciennces. He was the patron saint of Valenciennes; his feast is celebrated on October 9th.

Birth

ABT 1586 Valenciennes, Provence du Flanders, France^[5]

BET 1586 AND 1590

1596 Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France^[6][7]

Marriage

Husband: Guillaume Vigne

Wife: Adrienne Curvellier

France^[8]

1608 France^[5]

BET 1610 AND 1613 Prob. France/Belgium

Children

1. Christine Vigne
2. Maria Vigne
3. Rachel Vigne
4. Jan Vigne
5. Maria Vigne
6. Christina Vigne
7. Rachel Vigne
8. Abraham Vigne
9. Sara Vigne
10. Rachel Vigne
11. Jan Vigne

Residence

USA^[9]

Death

BEF 1632^[5]

Research Notes

LNAB

Vigne is the surname given for Guillaume by the Huguenot Society of America. The New Netherland Settlers project uses the names given by the society for the immigrants of the family. Quackenbush-118 02:44, 24 January 2017 (EST)

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The following materials appear to have been copied from published sources, including other websites. Some of the contents ought to be incorporated into the biography section. In doing so, avoid repetition/duplication of content, be sure to cite sources, and avoid plagiarising other authors' works.

About Guillaume 'Geleyn' de la Vigne. Wallonia, where Guillame Vigne was born, is a region that, today, spreads over parts of Belgium and the north of France. The name is sometimes written Vinje. The Vignes were one of the first families in New Netherlands, arriving in 1624. Source: Richard Cline Mar 1998

Guleyn (Ghislain) Vigne Born: C 1580 90, Valenciennes, Department of Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France .Married C 1608, Valenciennes, Department of Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, to Ariaentje (Adrienne) Cuvilje Died: 30 Apr 1632, New Amsterdam, the Dutch Colony (colony renamed in 1664 to New York)

Guillaume Vigne also aka William de la Vigne. Residence: 1623 Leiden, Netherlands, Immigration: Apr 1624 New Amsterdam

Vigne (Vigné, Vinje, etc.) . . . In 1947 Herbert F. Seversmith wrote an article "Ariaentje Cuvilje (Adrienne Cuvellier), Matriarch of New Amsterdam," published in National Genealogical Society Quarterly 35:65-69. An extended account is in his Colonial Families of Long Island, New York, and Connecticut, vol. 2 (1951), pp. 847-63, with additions at 2:1032-33, 3:1467, 4:1980-82.

Recent research has uncovered considerably more information, as revealed in Dorothy Koenig and Pim Nieuwenhuis, "The Pedigree of Cornelia Roos, an Ancestor of Franklin D. Roosevelt," New Netherland Connections [NNC] 2(1997):85-93, 3(1998):1:1-5, correction 3:2:34-35. See also William J. Parry et al, answers to queries, NNC 1(1996):4:95-97. Koenig and Nieuwenhuis (2:1:2) indicate that Adrienne's husband's name was Ghislain Vigne or Vigné, not Guillaume as previously thought. Like Zabriskie, the NNC authors agree that the Vigne family had to be among those who first came over in 1624, and that the Labadists had erred in implying that Jan Vigne was born in New Netherland in 1614.

The Vignes quickly died out in the male line, and later descendants are to be found in accounts of other surnames.

He immigrated on the trader ship, Tiger, which burned circa 1613. There is a story that Guillaume, the dockmaster, rescued Dirck Volckersten who was shipwrecked in New Amsterdam harbor. Ten years later, DIrck married his daughter, Christina. ^[10]

"The ship they arrived in New Amsterdam on was called the Tiger. It caught fire and was burned on the beach of Manhatten. While they were making a new ship from salvaged and green wood, they built log huts on the island. The Vignes were of the first settlers of New Amsterdam. They acquired considerable property where Wall Street is now located."

The location of Guelyn's bowery was just what would seem ideal for people staying on Manhatten to collect peltry brought down the trails or waterways. Most of the surface of lower Manhatten (Manatus) was covered with glacial bolders and conical hills of gravel drift, but there was a fertile tongue of land sloping down to the East River from the north/south ridge, with a clear brook on one side (Maiden Lane) and an inlet from the river on the other (Broad Street). Guelyn built his cabin on this East River strand at the spot where Wall Street now intersects with Pearl Street.
This narrative was found on the Internet: Contents Updated 14 June 1998 Jan Vigne - "the first white male born in New Netherland".

Of interest is this modern story: see: http://www.cathleenschine.com/journalism/ny_ground/
“In 1614, the Tijge , a Dutch trading ship, burned at anchor and sank in the North River. Three centuries later, in 1916, workers were digging a tunnel for the I.R.T. subway line. At the intersection of Greenwich and Dey, twenty feet below ground, their shovels hit wood: the charred keel and three charred ribs of a ship. The style of the ship was early Dutch, and radiocarbon dating of the wood indicated that the vessel was built some time between 1450 and 1610. There is no record of any other ship going down in flames in the North River at that time, which suggests that the Tijger, a trading vessel a world away from home, burned and sank beneath the water where almost four hundred years later two towering buildings devoted to world trade burned and sank to the ground.” (c/o Mike van Beuren {GENi})

Family . . . The Vigne family originated from Valenciennes, France. They had three daughters, Christine, Maria and Rachel, prior to their journey to New Amsterdam. Christine and Maria, the oldest and second-oldest, were probably born about 1610 and 1613, respectively. The youngest, Rachel, was baptized on March 16, 1623 at the Leiden Walloon Church. The Vignes sailed to America on the Nieu Nederlandt in April of 1624, and began their farm - one of the first six on Manhattan Island - by 1625.

First Born . . . The year 1624 (or 1625) witnessed the birth of Jan [Jean] Vigne, the first white male born in New Netherland. He was probably born on Manhattan Island. It is also possible that he was born at Albany, or in Connecticut or New Jersey. The Nieu Nederlandt's passengers were scattered to all of these places for a short time before returning to the safety of Manhattan. Jan's honor to be the first-born male was well-known and is recorded in The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, [ed. by Bartlett Burleigh James and J. Franklin Jameson. New York, 1913]. Excerpt from entry of 24 Sept. 1679, translation from Dutch: "We conversed with the first male born of Europeans in New Netherland, named Jean Vigne. His parents were from Valenciennes and he was now about sixty-five years of age."
Danckaerts overestimated or miscopied Jan Vigne's age - he would have been about 55, and not 65, in 1679. His true age is roughly substantiated by the fact that Jan was still in school in 1635, according to a prenuptial agreement in which his future step-father promised to feed and clothe him and ensure he attended school. At one time there was also a bronze plaque in the Town Hall, naming him as the first-born. The first European child born in New York was Sara RAPALJE, daughter of Joris Janszen RAPALJE and Catalina TRICO, in June 1625.

Jan grew up on the Vigne farm, just north of what is now Wall Street. We know there was a precipitous falling-out among the family after his stepfather Jan Jansen Damen moved into the house. Damen evicted two of Jan's married sisters and their husbands in 1638, and a year later his presence or influence may have pushed the third sister into marrying the scoundrel Cornelis Van Tienhoven when she was just 16 years old. It's difficult to pass judgment on this situation, however, since contemporary social standards did make him master of the house.

Atlantic Crossings . . . Jan may have sought an early exit from his stepfather's realm and apparently took the biggest step in leaving - by the age of 21 he was across the Atlantic and living in Utrecht, a city in the Netherlands. Jan's brother-in-law Van Tienhoven was from Utrecht, so it is likely that he was involved and may even have recommended this venture. It's also likely, knowing the characters of Damen and Van Tienhoven, that both of these men wished the only male Vigne heir would leave New Netherland and never return.

He married Emmerentje Gosens van Nieuwersluys [during her lifetime there were numerous spelling variations for every part of her name] in Utrecht in 1645, when he was 21. She was the widow of Lambert Wolf and already in her mid-to-late thirties. Her children by Lambert were daughter Aeltgen (1627), daughter Gysbertgen (1628) and son Herman (1631). Jan moved into her home on Oude Gracht in the Jacobsbridge section of the city. There they had three more children: Johannes in 1646 (probably died in infancy), Johannes (2nd, 1647, also died young) and Gosen (1648).
Jan returned to New Netherland in the spring of 1647. While there, his stepfather Jan Jansen Damen entrusted him to collect on some payments from the Dutch West India Company upon his return to Europe.

Also Known As:<_AKA> Willem Vienje

They were Walloons (Protestants) who fled France for Leiden due the terror. The Vignes were one of 30 Walloon families picked by the Dutch West India Company to establish a permanent settlement in New Netherlands in 1624. He was been called Guleyn, Geyeyn Geyan, Guleyn and also Willem Vinje (Vienje). The name means "vine" in French. They owned a farm just outside the fort and may have owned land just north of the wall on Manhattan. His first name may have been Ghislain.

Guillaume Vigne was the son of Jean de la Vigne. Guillaume Vigne was born circa 1586 at Of, Vallenciennes, France. Guillaume Vigne was born between 1580 and 1590 at Valenciennes, France. He married Adriana Cuveille in 1608 at France. Guillaume Vigne died circa 30-Apr-1632 at New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. He died circa 1632 at New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. He died in 1632 at New Amsterdam, New York County, New York.

He was also known as Guleyn Vigne. He was also known as Gulyn Vinje. He was also known as Guilliam Vinje. He was also known as Willem Vinje. He was also known as William Vigne. He was also known as Geleun Vinge. He was also known as Willem Vinje. He was also known as Guillaume Vigne. He and Adriana Cuveille resided at at Leuden, Netherlands, in 1623. Guillaume Vigne immigrated in Apr-1624 to New Amsterdam, New York County, New York; poss sailed on the Niew Nederladt. He left a will circa 1632

Dirck and his mother-in-law were named executors of the will, as recorded below:
"We, the underwritten, William WYMAN, blacksmith and Jan Thomaisen GROEN, as good men do attest and certify that before us appeared Dirck VOLCKERSON, the Norman and Ariantje CEVELYN, his wife's mother in order to agree with her children by her lawful husband, deceased; she gives to Maria VIGNE and Christine VIENJE, both married persons each the sum of 200 guilders as their share of their father's estate. To Rachel VIENJE and Jan VIENJE both minor children, each the sum of 33 guilders, under the condition that with her future husband, Jan Jansen DAMEN, she shall be held to keep the said two children in good support, until the come of age, and that she shall be obliged to clothe and feed them and make them go to school as good parents are bound to do."

Children of Guillaume Vigne and Adriana Cuveille:

1. Maria Vigne+ b. 1613, d. circa 1670
2. Rachel Vigne b. 16-Mar-1623, d. 18-Feb-1663
3. Jan Vigne b. after May-1624, d. 21-Dec-1689

• source from https://web.archive.org/web/20101121092939/http://conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p229.htm#i35922

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Olivetree genealogy Ships Passenger List for De Eendracht 1624 Amsterdam to New Netherland The Eendracht sailed from Amsterdam on January 25, 1624; Nieuw Nederland 1624 The Nieuw Nederland sailed on or after March 30, 1624; Ghislain and Adrienne (Cuvellier) Vigne and their children Marie, Christine, and Rachel were on either Niew Nederland or De Eendracht, as their son Jan would be the first male child born in the new colony. [Source: 375th Anniversary of the Eendracht and Nieuw Nederlandby Harry Macy, Jr., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S Originally published in The NYG&B Newsletter, Winter 1999] [
2. ↑ Source: Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken Bron Archiefnr 1004 scan baptism Abraham and Sara Vinoist 26 September 1619 Leiden Right page from bottom up 3d entry Archiefnaam Dopen Waalse Kerk Inventarisnummer 270
3. ↑ Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken Baptism Abraham Vivier 26 December 1621 right page, 11 th entry from top down Bronvermelding Dopen Vrouwekerk 1599 - 29 juli 1627., archiefnummer 1004, Dopen Waalse Kerk, inventarisnummer 270 Gemeente: Leiden Periode: 1599-1627
4. ↑ Source:Erfgoed Leiden en omstereken Bron Archiefnr 1004 Archiefnaam scan Baptism Rachel Vigné 19 March 1623 Leiden Left page from bottom up 3rd entry Dopen Waalse Kerk Inventarisnummer 270
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Clarke, Robert Gordon. Early New Netherland Settlers website. Guillaume (Ghislain) Vigne. Citing: NYGB Record: April 1910 page 110. Early Settlers of Bushwick, by Andrew J Provost Junior page 2. New Netherland Connections, January 1998 Volume 3 Number 1 page 2. Descent from Seventy Nine Early Immigrant Heads of Families, by James S Elston 1962 page 111. Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel E Bradt, by Bertha G Bradt 1943 page 10.
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7. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: Author: Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Ancestry Record worldmarr_ga #1263096 Text: Birth date: 1586, Birth place: Fr
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9. ↑ Seversmith, Herbert Furman,. Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith .... Washington: unknown: Note: Imprint of v. 5: Chevy Chase, Md.|||V. 5. The ancestry of Roger Ludlow ... by H.F. Seversmith. Listed on t.p. but lacking is: The ancestry of Sancha (De Ayala) Blount of Toledo, Spain by Milton Rubincam.: Accessed on Ancestry.com at Ancestry Record genealogy-glh16244015 #838 Text: Residence date: Residence place: USA
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• The Labadists visitors to New York this write under date of September 24, 1679 "We conversed with the first male born of Europeans in New Netherland, named Jean Vigne. His parents were from Valenciennes and he was now about sixty-five years of age."
• Citing Long Island Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. I, p. 115.

See Also:

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• "Guillaume Vigne." Family Search. Accessed Nov. 12th, 2022. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR73-D5Q.