Photos of de Mouilpied Homesteads on Guernsey

A co-worker of a relative in Australia was visiting Guernsey and, knowing her last name was de Mouilpied, was kind enough to locate the two well known lovely homes and take photos. Note on the second photo the cursive iron writing on the house at the entrance of the name Mouilpied. An additional photo is of a recently renovated project of the local "fountain" on the street of Les Mouilpieds. I can't quite read it all, but there seems to be a path to what used to be running water. The plaque also goes out a limb with its translation of "muddy feet", which isn't quite as nice as "spring-fed". Enjoy the photos.

deMouilpieds Go to England

Guernsey is a hop , skip and a jump to Britain. Guernsey has always considered England the Mother land despite its fierce independence and close location to France. So it seems obvious that there should be a lot of de Mouilpieds in England, but there really are not that many-at least the actual name.

There is a chance however that there are many deMouilpied descendants from the Mother's side in which case the surname is lost but not forgotten. My logic goes like this:

In 1939 the Germans began what would be a 5 year occupation of the Island of Guernsey. Prior to the beginning of the occupation, Britain sent ships to Guernsey to evacuate the islanders. The population was about 40,000 and it is estimated that 17,000, mostly children and women, were evacuated to England. It is logical to assume that out of 17,000, mostly women and children, that many women stayed in England, married and had offspring. Were any deMouilpieds? We would love to know!

Mystery in Maine

Four weeks ago I joined cousin Kathy and Deborah, who's from Maine, to go to Gaspe, Canada to finalize information about Joseph and his early life. While in Maine, I revisited my notes about a lineage there that I would like to clarify.

Starting with Joseph, he had 6 children - Emily Sophia, Sophia Hamelin, Francis Arthur, Charles, Walter and Alfred. I come from Charles, who settled in Manchester, NH.

Charles had six children - Clara, Walter (my grandfather), Maybelle, Elizabeth, Maude and Charles Kenneth. Charles Kenneth went to Maine.

Looks like Charles married an Elizabeth Pinkham and had only one daughter- Sandra. A Maine obit reads: daughter of Charles K. and Elizabeth
M.
(Pinkham) deMoulpied. Sandra was employed by Sears for
several years before retiring in 1990. She is survived
by her
three daughters, Julie A. Perkins and her husband, Kevin
of
Bucksport, Suzanne E. Brown and her husband, Bruce of
Veazie and Carol A. Hanscom and her husband, Ronald of
Brewer; six grandsons, William "BJ" Mooney, Matthew
Perkins, Daniel Hanscom, Jared and Justin Brown and
Samuel Hanscom.

What's fuzzy is it looks like Kenneth married again to an Eleanor and there is a Virgie name floating around too that I would like information on.

Any Maine cousins out there? I would love to hear from you: demoulpied@gmail.com

More later