deMouilpied and Blondel Family Coats of Arms

This is the colored version of the de Mouilpied Family Coat of Arms. Also included on the right, is the Coat of Arms from the Blondel family. Thomas de Mouilpied, over in the left column there, was married to Marie Blondel, also pictured over on the left. These are the oldest photos known from the deMouilpied family.

DOUBLE CLICK ON THE COATS AND THEY WILL ENLARGE

Anyway, these coats are from another cousin who had them and aren't they wonderful! This dates back to the late 1500's. As a reminder, this Coat refers to a "Du Port, Seigneur de Mouillepie et de Boismasson."

There are several Blondel Coats but this is the one passed down to Marie. Supposedly there is a Blondel Coat of Arms in the St. Saviour Church on Guernsey up at the top of a column. I am hoping someone will visit the church and report back letting us know if it is the same. As I explained in a previous blog, families would alter Coats as they changed generations and/or families.

Australian Cousin Responds - for Betsy de Mouilpied

Roger from Australia has been in contact. Here you go:

My great grandmother on my mother's side was Betsy Tardif de Moulpied b. Dec. 26, 1873, (listed in the St. Martin's Church birth records) from the Channel Isles. She married a La Galle, also from The Channel Isles in the late 1890s and went to live in India where my Great Granfather's regiment was posted. After he died (1919?) My Grandfather, his two brothers and one sister, with their mother migrated to Australia (around 1920).

Now, I was responding to the last two posts:

1. While Grandma La Galle as she was known, was the only de Moulpied that we know of, we do use the space between the de and the Moulpied part.

2. We also pronounce de Moulpied as described by the Guernseyman.

There must be quite a few de Moulpieds in the US. So far I can only find one here in Australia.
I would be interested in hearing from any others in Australia.

Well done for putting the blog up and the information contained. It's prompted me to look for my family tree notes that I have stored somewhere. I am happy to send relevant details of names, births and deaths etc of what I have here regarding the de Moulpieds if I can find it.

Grandma was a lovely lady, She died in about 1964 or 65. I can barely remember her. Mum used to take us to visit her. I still remember a painting she had on the wall in the lounge-room of men working in the rain trying to repair a dam that was bursting.

rtyshing@bigpond.com

PS on my father's side we have an interesting story to tell of the Tyshings. Interesting mix too -Guernseyman and Chinese!!

BUT THERE'S MORE!

Betsy Tardif de Mouilpied was born in 1873 (possibly in England) but the family was back on Guernsey by the time of the 1881 census she had a brother Thomas John who it says in my notes died in 1882 but I have no birthdate yet. The census records they were living at Moulin Huet Rd, St Martin, Guernsey

Their parents were Thomas John de Mouilpied who is listed on the 1881 census as a Carpenter who was born in 1843 and died in 1891 his wife was Marthe Manger (as shown in the records) or maybe Mauger (as I have in my notes) who died in 1912.

Betsy married Alexander Charles La Galle in 1899. If she hadn’t left Guernsey by then it must have been very soon after as my Grandfather was born in March 1900 in Sangor in India where his father was posted

That’s all I have in the notes I’ve found from a de Mouilpied perspective The only new bits I gained from them were the dates of death of both her parents, Her father’s middle name (which is useful as there are so many Thomases and Betsys (mostly spelt Betsey) and Betsy’s date of marriage

There seems to be a bit of an interesting quirk with the middle names of girls Betsy’s was Tardif which may possibly be a maiden name of her father’s mother. The reason I think this is that Betsy’s daughter was given de Mouilpied as a second name. So while it’s not consistant there may be a pattern of maiden names being passed on as second names.

Descendant List of deMouilpieds

Well here it is. Not exactly what I had in mind but I was not able to attach it in slide show format. However, I believe this is at least readable for you. Pardon the scribbles from over the years however they might be helpful. We do have more details in proper genealogy format thanks to cousin Kathy which is available and will be in the future, so stay tuned.

Please note that half way down the page, a Nicolas b. 1819, generation 9, son of Nicolas and Rachel Martin is the father of the Mid west deMoulpieds. Just below him is Jean b. 1822, who went to Australia. On the second page below you can see Joseph b.1829, father of the East Coast deMouilpieds. The common grand parent these 2 lineages share goes back to Nicolas b.1721, generation 6, married to Rachel Thoume.

As you can see this needs modernizing! But for the moment, where do you fit in?

de Mouilpied Descendants

From de Mouilpied Descendants

From de Mouilpied Descendants

Who Was Charlotte de Mouilpied?

Charlotte b. April1, 1821, was Thomas de Mouilpied's 6th child, out of 7, and 3 years older than Joseph. At 27, Charlotte married Francis de la Mare, a Reverend from Jersey. This was his second marriage after his first wife, Marguerite Gavey, died during the birth of her second child. As an instant mother, Charlotte and her new husband set sail for Gaspe, Canada. Charlotte's first child, Theophilus, was probably born in Gaspe, around 1850, but later died in 1852 from diphtheria. Charlotte was busy having almost one child every year. Alpheus, whose grand daughter shared the lovely photos for the Thomas Slide Show, was born on April 23, 1853, Gaspe. Two more children would die before Charlotte would return to Guernsey, only momentary.

Charlotte's husband was sent to Mauritius and Africa to minister. It is thought that Charlotte also went, leaving the children behind in Guernsey. Upon returning from South Africa, Francis was washed over board in 1869.

In the meantime, Alpheus, at only 15, headed to America to make his fortune in 1868. Charlotte's other son, Clarence b. April 10, 1862 ( we have so many photos of him) headed to Rio de Janerio. The story goes that Clarence was told to stay on board to avoid yellow fever but he had a reputation for being naughty. And so Clarence did indeed become ill and died May 4, 1884, in Rio.

Charlotte stayed in Guernsey, living next door to her father's manor house until her death at 88 on May 31, 1902.