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.
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