Descendants of Denys Le Cornu (1420)

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Descendants of Denys Le Cornu



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  • 1 Denys Le Cornu (1420-liv 1479) (St My) [1]
    • 2 Abel Le Cornu (1450-by 1513) (St My) [2] m Jeanne
      • 3 Denys Le Cornu, dit des Coulombiers (1480- ) (St O) [3] m Catherine
        • 4 Unknown Son Le Cornu (1510-by 1568) (St My) [4] m Unknown
        • 4 Thomas Le Cornu (1515- ) [6]
        • 4 Geoffrey Le Cornu (1520-by 1571) m Madelaine Fallu, daughter of Jean
          • 5 Gilles Le Cornu (1545- ) (St O) [7] m Perronelle
            • 6 Jean Le Cornu (1575-1637) [8] m (by 1607) Isabel Journeaux, daughter of Jacques and Marie
              • 7 Pierre Le Cornu (1600-1663) (St O) [9] m Marie Gasnier ( -1675), daughter of Richard (St O)
                • 8 Jean Le Cornu (1635-1669) (St O) [10] m (1659, St O) Marguerite Chevalier, daughter of Nicolas
                  • 9 Pierre Le Cornu (1661- ) (St O) [11] m (1686, St O) Elizabeth Gibaut ( -1716), daughter of Nicolas and Marie Laurens (St L) [12]
                  • 9 Marie Le Cornu (1664- ) (St O) [18] m (1687, St O) Nicolas Le Gresley, [19] son of Nicolas (St O)
                  • 9 Philippe Le Cornu (1667- ) (St O) [20]
                  • 9 Abraham Le Cornu (1673- ) (St O) liv. 1731 [21] m Sara Le Ruez (St O) [22]
                    • 10 Abraham Le Cornu (1699- ) (St O) "junior" m (1728, St O) Rachel Gabourel [23]
                      • 11 Rachel Le Cornu (1728- ) (St O) m (1789, Tr) Philippe Le Gros (Tr)
                      • 11 Sara Le Cornu (1731- ) (St O) [24]
                      • 11 Jean Le Cornu (1734- ) (St O) "son of Abraham jr." m (1765, St O) Rachel de Caen, [25] daughter of Simon (St O)
                      • 11 Philippe Le Cornu (1736- ) (St O)
                      • 11 Marie Le Cornu (1739- ) (St O)
                    • 10 Philippe Le Cornu (1703- ) (St O) [26]
                    • 10 Nicolas Le Cornu (1709- ) (St O) [27]
                    • 10 Marie Le Cornu (1711-by 1716?) (St O)
                    • 10 Jeanne Le Cornu (1713- ) (St O) [28]
                    • 10 Marie Le Cornu (1716- ) (St O) m (1748, St My) Edouard Jean (St O)
              • 7 Jeanne Le Cornu ( -1668) (St O) m Thomas Hascoul (St O)
                • 8 Susanne Hascoul m Pierre de la Place, Revd. [29]
            • 6 Philippe Le Cornu (1572-1650) (St O) [30] m Jeanne Dauvergne ( -1655), daughter of Jacques and Marguerite Syvret, daughter of Gregoire, son of Jean, son of Jean (St O)
              • 7 Philippe Le Cornu (1600- ), liv. 1676 [31]
              • 7 Jacques Le Cornu (1610-liv 1650) (St O) m Unknown
                • 8 Philippe Le Cornu (1640- ) (St O) [32]
              • 7 Daughter Le Cornu ( -by 1650) m Pierre Le Brocq (St O)
            • 6 Marthe Le Cornu m Andre Le Cornu, liv. 1608 [33]
            • 6 Magdolene Le Cornu m J. Le Veslet (St My)
          • 5 Katherine Le Cornu m Helier Hamon
    • 2 Denys Le Cornu (1460- ) (St My) [34] m Unknown
      • 3 Jean Le Cornu (1490- ) (St My) m Unknown
        • 4 George Le Cornu (1520- ) (St My) m Unknown
          • 5 Son Le Cornu (aft.1553- ), a minor (1573) [35]
      • 3 Katherine Le Cornu m Guillaume Le Maistre [36]



Notes and references

  1. ↑ Langton reference: VII, 196: Seigneur of the Fief au Vesque
  2. ↑ Langton reference: VII, 196: Seigneur of the Fief au Vesque in 1479
  3. ↑ Seigneur of the Fief au Vesque (St Mary) in 1513, claiming that Sir Hugh Vaughan, Captain of the Island, had wrongfully taken possession the said fief, which his family had owned for the statutory period of forty years and longer. It is furthermore stated that during the French occupation of the Island "the father of the said Denys went to part of England, not wanting to take the French oath; that after the English reclaimed the Island, the properties were returned to the said Denys by the Captains who then had the governance of the said Island....": ABSJ VI, 210-211. Denys Le Cornu owed the Crown in 1528 four quartiers annual wheat rente in St Mary, on his Fief au Vesque: Extente (1528). Philippe Le Bosquet, a successor of his, paid this in that of 1607
  4. ↑ He either predeceased his father or was Seigneur, as above
  5. ↑ Seigneur of the Fief au Vesque (1568), presumably in right of his wife, as the ainé or eldest, entitled to the senior third part of the inheritance which had belonged to Denys Le Cornu. The second part was that of Thomas. The Le Bosquet family held this fief for many generations
  6. ↑ Settled in London. In 1577, he sold his inheritance from his father, Denys Le Cornu and Catherine his wife, and that from his grandparents, Abel Le Cornu and Jeanne his wife, to Helier Le Feuvre. The sale was successfully challenged by Gilles Le Cornu, son of Geoffrey, citing his co-sanguinity and his being in the direct line of the above Le Cornus which included both Denys and Abel, and their respective wives
  7. ↑ Claimed successfully in 1577, by retraite lignager, the second part of the inheritance of Denys Le Cornu, from Helier Le Feuvre. He delivered an aveu, or declaration of his land, in 1566 and 1571: “Gilles Le Cornu and Helier Hamon, in right of his wife, divide the inheritance of Geoffrey Le Cornu: CH 3/47 and CH4
  8. ↑ Of Val Bachelier, St Ouen. He gave a donation to the poor in 1608 as Jean Le Cornu, son of Gilles. Jean Le Cornu, son of Gilles was Vingtenier of Millais (1618): Cour Extraordinaire 29 and 4/93
  9. ↑ CH 9 (1637): “Pierre Le Cornu, son of Jean and of Isabel Journeaux divides his parental inheritance with Thomas Hascoul, in right of his wife, daughter of the above. Described in 1657 as “Pierre Le Cornu, son of Jean, son of Gilles, of St Ouen”
  10. ↑ Described in 1687 as "the late Jean Le Cornu, son of Pierre, of Les Landes"
  11. ↑ Baptized as (translated) “Pierre Le Cornu, son of Jean, son of Pierre”, with as godparents Richard Gasnier and Elizabeth Hacquoil his mother, widow of Pierre Gasnier”
  12. ↑ Pierre Le Cornu and Elizabeth Gibaut, his wife, left their syllabic initials engraved, together with those of their son Jean, baptized in 1689, on their home, Les Landes Farm, Millais: “17 PLCN. EGB. ILCN. 16”; see also Joan Stevens, Old Jersey Houses, Volume II, 146
  13. ↑ Godparents: Nicolas Le Gresley, son of Nicolas, and Marie Le Cornu, his fiancée
  14. ↑ Their firstborn child, Marie Le Ruez, had in 1731 as godparent, as was often the case, Pierre Le Cornu, the infant`s grandfather
  15. ↑ The ILCN whose initials are a feature over a doorway at Les Landes Farm, together with those of his parents. He was baptized as Jean Le Cornu, son of Pierre, son of Jean
  16. ↑ Both Jean and his sister Jeanne Le Cornu, were unmarried
  17. ↑ Godfather: Pierre de la Place
  18. ↑ Marie was baptised as "the daughter of Jean Le Cornu, son of Pierre," with Philippe Herivel and Marie Chevalier, wife of Edouard Horman, for godparents
  19. ↑ "From near Vincheles"
  20. ↑ Godparents: Philippe Le Cornu and his wife
  21. ↑ Described in 1713 as being of Portinfer
  22. ↑ Marriage identified from deeds and their children`s baptisms
  23. ↑ Marriage identified, as above
  24. ↑ Godparents: Godparents: Abraham Le Cornu and his wife, grandfather and grandmother. From deeds, Langton ascertained that Sara had died unmarried
  25. ↑ Jean and Rachel`s syllabic initials are engraved on their former property Maison de Portinfer: "JLC . RDC 1765". Jean had rights, as had his immediate forbears, to the font and lavoir at Portinfer
  26. ↑ Godparents: Nicolas Le Gresley and Marie Le Cornu, his wife
  27. ↑ Godparents: Nicolas Le Ruez, son of Philippe, from near Vincheles, and Elizabeth de la Place, his wife
  28. ↑ Baptised as the daughter of "Abraham Le Cornu of Portinfer and Sara Le Ruez, his wife"
  29. ↑ Members of the de la Pace family featured every now and then as Le Cornu godparents
  30. ↑ RP3/68 (1610): “Gregoire Heryvel and Collette his wife, daughter of Pierre Langlois and Beneste his wife, sell to Philippe Le Cornu, son of Gilles, land abutting upon Les Vaulx Bachelier and upon the length of ground belonging to the heirs of Gilles Le Cornu, and a field at Portinfer.” Also, RP4/325 (1615), in which Jean Le Feuvre spld to Philippe Le Cornu, son of Gilles, a small parcel of land on the Fief of Vinchelez de Bas, adjoining upon the north the purchaser`s land and upon the south, the house of Collas Le Cornu. RP5/184 (1618) gives the location of some land bought a little further to the west in that year by Philippe Le Cornu, son of Gilles, being situated within Piece de la Grande Devise
  31. ↑ Cour de Catel 20 (1658): “Philippe Le Cornu, son of Philippe, son of Gilles”, and CH 12 (1650): “Philippe Le Cornu, ainé, son of Philippe; Jacques Le Cornu, son of Philippe and Pierre Le Brocq, in right of his defunct wife, the younger children of the said Philippe senior,” regarding the division of their paternal inheritance, thus identifying the younger siblings, and (1655): “Philippe Le Cornu, elder son of the late Philippe, Pierre Le Brocq, daughter of Philippe and the late Jeanne Dauvergne”, which confirms the placements by naming their mother
  32. ↑ CH15 (1676): “Philippe Le Cornu, elder son of the late Philippe Le Cornu and Jeanne Dauvergne. Philippe Le Cornu, son of Jacques, younger son of the defuncts”
  33. ↑ Reference not supplied (1608): Andre Le Cornu, in right of his wife, daughter of Gilles Le Cornu and sister of Jean”. They had a son named Philippe Le Cornu
  34. ↑ Tentative placement
  35. ↑ CH4/284 (1573, St Mary): Clement Le Montais, guardian of the under-age son of George Le Cornu, eldest son of Jean Le Cornu, eldest son of Denys Le Cornu… Katherine Le Cornu, wife of Guillaume Le Maistre, and daughter of Denys Le Cornu mentioned
  36. ↑ Langton Miscellany, at La Société Jersiaise: "1573: The son of George Le Cornu, son of Jean, son of Denys; Richard Le Bas and Marie his wife, daughter of Guillaume Le Maistre and Catherine, daughter of the said Denys"
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