Walking It Back...A family history dedicated to my maternal Grandmother, Mrs. Dixie DuBose-Hollingsworth and all the living relatives of Lewis Asberry DuBose. Back we go, further into the distant past... * From here we continue back in time with both the DuBosc and Couillandeau lines; Suzannes lineage following her paternal line, and Isaacs following his paternal as well. Just as Andrew DuBose, Sr. is considered our First Born Colonial American ancestor, Isaac DuBosc (1665 - 1718) and Suzanne C. Couillandeau (1663 - 1740). (7th Great Grand Parents) would be considered our Last Born or Immigrant ancestors, arriving in Colonial America when Isaac was only about 6 years old or around the year 1671. They were the last to be born on foreign soil. Isaacs parents chose to return to France before they died, while Suzannes parents chose to stay and died as Colonial Americans. Isaac DuBosc was the youngest of; Louis DuBose (1630 -1668) and Anne Sanborne (1630 - 1734) (8th Great Grandparents) *Note: 8th Great Grandmother Anne Sanborne lived to be 104 years old in a time when life expectancy (the 17th Century) was only around 40 years. Good genetics! Its interesting that Isaac chose to employ the DuBosc spelling/pronunciation of his surname whereas his father clearly spelled it the way we spell it today, perhaps it was done to distinguish himself from his father. This inter-generational name play goes back and forth when we go further back in time. Louis lived a relatively short life; Died, Age 38 in France. Anne passed away after returning to her homeland of France also, but my years later in 1734. Archival travel records and ocean passenger manifests from the period indicate that Anne traveled to and from the Colonies back to France on at least two separate occasions after the death of her husband Louis in 1668 and her own death in 1734. Records indicate her passing while in France that same year. Louis DuBose died when his son was only 3 years old, and only shortly after bringing his new family to America. There is no evidence Anne ever remarried, and most likely cared for her children as a single mother or with help from unknown other/s. Louis DuBose Lifeline: Birth: 1630, Dieppe, , Normandy, France Marriage to Anne Sanborne: 1650, Age: 20, Dieppe, , Normandie, France Death: 1668, Age: 38, Dieppe, Normandy, France Anne Sanborne Lifeline: Birth: 1630, Dieppe, , Normandy, France Marriage to Louis DuBose: 1650, Age: 20, Dieppe, Normandie, France Death: 1734, Age: 104, France (where exactly is unspecified) Suzanne Couillandeau was the only child of; Pierre Couillandeau (1634 - 7/29/1724) and Suzanne Tramblade (1643 - 1678). Pierres Lifeline: (here we have an actual day/month/year for Pierres death) Birth: 1639, Tramblade, Xaintonge, France Marriage to Suzanne Tramblade: 1663, Age: 24, Latremblade, Charente, Maritime, France Arrival in South Carolina: 1695-1696, Age: 56 Death: 1724, 29 Jul, Age: 85, Jamestown, Berkeley, South Carolina, USA Ancestral Origin: Chalons-en-Champagne, Saint-Jean, France. Suzanne Tramblades Lifeline: Birth: 1643, La Tremblade, Saintonge, France Marriage to Pierre Couillandeau: 1663, Age: 20 Latremblade, Charente, Maritime, France Death: 1678, Age: 35, Jamestown, Berkeley, South Carolina, USA A difficult life? Unfortunate circumstances? Sickness on the journey over and afterward? Likely a bit of all three. There is one record indicating that Suzanne Tramblade may have died in childbirth and her 2nd and perhaps unexpected child at the age of 35 was stillborn. In any case, immigrants to the new world in the 17th Century faced many hardships. The journey over would have been fraught with dangers from the ship capsizing to dealing with Pirates on the High Seas. Once here, sickness and frequent food shortages might have precipitated an early death for Suzanne. Pierre lived till the ripe old age of 85, so obviously not every immigrants health fared so poorly. At the end of the 17th Century, approximately 200,000 people inhabited the British colonies in North America, and only 20,000 in South Carolina. The following century saw an explosion in numbers with the population doubling about every 25 years. The passage to America was treacherous by any standard. Many of the immigrants were too poor to pay for the journey and therefore indentured themselves to wealthier colonialists - selling their services for a period of years in return for the price of the passage. Crammed into a small wooden ship, rolling and rocking at the mercy of the sea, the voyagers - men, women and children - endured hardships unimaginable to us today. Pure Misery was the most common description of a journey that typically lasted seven weeks. Enjoy these images reminiscent of mid 17th Century life for European Immigrants to the New World.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:03:05 +0000
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