Early Records from the Districts of Aubonne and Morges, Canton Vaud, Switzerland
Françoise MAYOR (ID #I12226)
(female)
- BAPTISM: 22 JUN 1652, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Isaac MAYOR (b. bef 1636)
Mother: Susanne JAQUEMARD (dates unknown)
Family 1
:
Jean Louis DEVENOGE (d. bef 1703)
- MARRIAGE: 31 JAN 1673, Bière, Vaud, Switzerland
- Abraham DEVENOGE (bp. 25 MAR 1688)
A document recorded by the notary Jean Pierre Monod, 02 jan 1703, shows that Jean François Mayor and his sisters Gabrielle and Jeanne made a settlement with Françoise Mayor, widow of the late Jean Louis De Venoge of Cossonay, regarding the estate of their aunt Françoise Jaquemard, wife of André Beliard who was living at Geneva. The document does not state that Françoise Mayor was a sister of Jean François Mayor, but that seems a likely conclusion.
_Antoine MAYOR _______________+
| (.... - 1616)
_Jean François MAYOR _|
| (.... - 1658) m 1624 |
| |______________________________
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_Isaac MAYOR ________|
| (1636 - ....) |
| | _Gabriel (dit Riguet?) MONOD _+
| | |
| |_Jaqueline MONOD _____|
| (1606 - 1668) m 1624 |
| |_Jeanne GUION ________________+
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|--Françoise MAYOR
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| ______________________________
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| ______ JAQUEMARD _____|
| | |
| | |______________________________
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|_Susanne JAQUEMARD __|
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| ______________________________
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|______________________|
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|______________________________
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Gabriel MAYOR (ID #I13968)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 12 APR 1722, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: 24 JAN 1790, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean Pierre MAYOR (bp. 8 APR 1688, d. aft 1759?)
Mother: Anne Jeanne Barbille GUEX (d. 26 FEB 1759)
Family 1
:
Judith BERGER (b. abt 1725, bur. 12 MAY 1792)
- MARRIAGE: 29 MAR 1745, Eclépens, Vaud, Switzerland
- Jeanne Marie Henriette MAYOR (d. 08 APR 1749)
- Susanne MAYOR (d. AUG 1751)
- Samuel MAYOR (dates unknown)
- +Henriette MAYOR (dates unknown)
- +Louise Susanne MAYOR (dates unknown)
- Jeanne Susanne MAYOR (b. 21 FEB 1762)
The marriage record in the parish of La Sarraz (1745) says he was the son of Jean Pierre Mayor of Ballens. He appears to be the only Gabriel Mayor who would be about age 67 at the time of his death in 1790, a fact that is consistent with this parentage.
He is apparently the Gabriel Mayor who was the brother of Pierre François Félix Mayor, whose baptism has not been located. After the death of Pierre François Félix, one of his daughters had an illegitimate child. The sponsors at the baptism of the child were Gabriel Mayor and his wife Judith Berger, though the relationship is not actually stated. There does not seem to be any other Gabriel Mayor who could be the brother of Pierre François Félix.
_Jean MAYOR _________+
| m 1641
_Pierre MAYOR ____________|
| |
| |_Jeanne MONOD _______+
| m 1641
_Jean Pierre MAYOR _________|
| (.... - 1759) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Jeanne Urbaine REVERDIL _|
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| |_____________________
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|--Gabriel MAYOR
| (.... - 1790)
| _____________________
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| __________________________|
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| | |_____________________
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|_Anne Jeanne Barbille GUEX _|
(.... - 1759) |
| _____________________
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|__________________________|
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|_____________________
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Gabriel MAYOR (ID #I16182)
(male)
- BIRTH: of Ballens
- DEATH: bef 1803
Family 1
:
Jeanne Susanne CONVERS (d. 14 JAN 1803)
- MARRIAGE: 20 DEC 1740, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
- Anne Benigne MAYOR (d. 31 DEC 1802)
- Louise Susanne MAYOR (dates unknown)
- Jean Marc Rodolph MAYOR (dates unknown)
- +Isaac Gabriel MAYOR (d. bef 1803)
One of the Gabriel Mayors, "assesseur et Conseiller de Ballens", was buried there 24 jan 1790, age 67. That man was almost certainly the son of Jean Pierre Mayor who was baptised 12 apr 1722. But that Gabriel was the one who married Judith Berger, his parentage clearly stated in his marriage record at La Sarraz. Consequently, the Gabriel Mayor who married Jeanne Susanne Convers must be someone else. One possibility is the Gabriel Félix Mayor, son of Jaques Isaac, who was born in 1720. Another is Isaac Gabriel, son of the same Jaques Isaac, born in 1719.
Whoever he was, this Gabriel Mayor's death does not seem to be recorded in the parish of Bière, and there is still no clear evidence as to his parentage.
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Gabrielle MAYOR (ID #I2163)
(female)
Family 1
:
Augustin MONOD (bp. 28 APR 1605)
- Gabriel MONOD (bp. 2 MAR 1634)
- +Félix MONOD (bp. 1 MAR 1635)
- Isaac MONOD (bp. 11 JUN 1639)
- Jaqueline MONOD (bp. 19 JUL 1642)
- Gasparde MONOD (bp. 4 MAY 1645)
- Jeanne Jaqueline MONOD (bp. 7 MAR 1647)
- Jean Louis MONOD (bp. 5 AUG 1649)
- Jean Pierre MONOD (bp. 25 APR 1652)
Parentage of Gabrielle is not definitely established. Could she be connected with the Mayor families in Aubonne? This is suggested by the presence of Jaques Mayor and Gasparde Del'Harpe at a baptism in 1645. Or, since the 1740 terrier of Yens (ACV FH 246) reveals (fol.371) that as of 02 dec 1676, a vineyard at Yens was owned half by Philippe and Etienne Gabriel Mayor, and the other half by Félix Monod "charge ayant" of his brother Jean Louis Monod, is she somehow connected with the family of Philippe and Etienne Gabriel Mayor?
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Gaspard MAYOR (ID #I2005)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: notary, conseiller de Mollens
- BAPTISM: 27 MAR 1642, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: bef 1694
Father: Jean MAYOR (bp. 9 JUN 1615)
Mother: Jeanne MONOD (bp. 18 AUG 1616)
Family 1
:
Jeanne Imberte FAVRE (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 11 APR 1670, Aubonne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Jeanne Susanne MAYOR (bp. 1 OCT 1672)
- Magdelaine MAYOR (bp. 12 APR 1674)
- Jeanne Marie MAYOR (bp. 16 APR 1676)
- Andrienne MAYOR (dates unknown)
- Jeremie MAYOR (bp. 26 MAR 1682)
- Gabrielle MAYOR (bp. 8 FEB 1684)
- Jean Isaac MAYOR (bp. 19 JUL 1685)
- Jean Pierre MAYOR (bp. 25 JUN 1689)
- Jean Immanuel MAYOR (bp. 27 OCT 1691)
He was a notary. His registers for the district of Morges covers 1677-1691 (ACV DB 27). During a part of his career, he also served on the council of Mollens, and his records reflect the business that came before the council. The marriage record at Aubonne omits the given name of the groom, but does specify that he is from Ballens. He was dead by 20 jan 1705, when his widow Jeanne Imberte Favre, acting for her children Jean Isaac Mayor, Andrianne Mayor, and Jeanne Susanne Mayor (this list does not necessarily include all of her children), advised by Gaspard's brother Pierre Mayor, operateur, sold property to Christophle Convers and others (Jean Pierre Monod, notary at Ballens, ACV DK 82/1). Another transaction on the same date also names their nephews Jean Isaac and Jean Louis Pirod. The last register of Gaspard Mayor is signed on the last page by his son Jean Isaac Mayor.
_Jaques (dit Mathey) MAYOR ___+
| (1544 - 1599)
_Estienne MAYOR _____|
| (1575 - 1618) m 1599|
| |_Claudaz BAUDIN ______________+
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_Jean MAYOR _________|
| m 1641 |
| | _Gabriel TRIPOD ______________+
| | |
| |_Esther TRIPOD ______|
| (1576 - ....) m 1599|
| |______________________________
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|--Gaspard MAYOR
| (.... - 1694)
| _Thievent MONOD ______________+
| | (.... - 1622)
| _Isaac MONOD ________|
| | (1590 - 1622) |
| | |_Catherine GUIBERT ___________
| |
|_Jeanne MONOD _______|
m 1641 |
| _Abraham CONVERS _____________+
| | (1566 - ....) m 1582
|_Jaquemaz CONVERS ___|
(.... - 1623) |
|_Léonarde ("Henarde") BARBIE _+
m 1582
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Gédéon MAYOR (ID #I924)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 19 MAR 1598, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Félix MAYOR (b. bef 1560, d. aft 1624)
Mother: Mya HUGUET (b. aft 1560)
Family 1
:
- Jeanne Jaquemine MAYOR (bp. 16 APR 1626)
- Félix MAYOR (bp. 3 FEB 1633)
- +Anne MAYOR (dates unknown)
Witness at baptism in 1626, Bière. Beyond that, there is considerable confusion. There seem to have been 4 different men bearing this name toward the middle of the 17th Century.
One Gedeon Mayor -- not this one! -- was a minister. He served in Lavigny from around 1670 until 1677, when he became minister at Aubonne, until his death in 1704. A document of Gaspard Mayor, notary, 22 dec 1677, notes a neighboring parcel of land belonging to the "hoirs de feuz hon. Gedeon Mayor", thus referring to another Gedeon, not the minister. The same day, Phillippe Mayor sells a parcel for his mother Marthe Cloux, who was married to the second Gedeon, the one born in 1615. Also, 27 nov 1680, Jean Golaz makes his testament and includes a bequest of 50 florins to his "filiale" (goddaughter) Jeanne Marie Mayor, daughter of the late Gedeon Mayor, vivant de Mollens.
The present Gedeon was the eldest of the four. The children assigned to him are probably correct, since the second Gedeon was not married until 1641, and the other two were born after 1640.
_Jean MAYOR _________+
| (.... - 1565)
_Pierre MAYOR _______|
| (1538 - 1564) |
| |_Jaquema CHALLET ____+
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_Félix MAYOR ________|
| (1560 - 1624) |
| | _____________________
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| |_____________________|
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| |_____________________
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|--Gédéon MAYOR
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| _____________________
| |
| _Jean HUGUET ________|
| | (1540 - 1597) |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Mya HUGUET _________|
(1560 - ....) |
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
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|_____________________
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Gédéon MAYOR (ID #I1761)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: bourgeois de Mollens
- BAPTISM: 19 FEB 1615, Mollens, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: bef 1677
Father: Jean Jaques MAYOR (bp. 4 OCT 1579, d. bef 1657)
Mother: Jeanne MAYOR (bp. 29 NOV 1584)
Family 1
:
Marthe CLOUX (bp. 9 DEC 1621, d. aft 1677)
- MARRIAGE: 18 JUL 1641, L'Isle, Vaud, Switzerland
- +Gabrielle MAYOR (bp. 26 JUN 1642)
- +Jeanne MAYOR (bp. 27 OCT 1644)
- Isaac MAYOR (bp. 9 NOV 1646)
- +Jaqueline MAYOR (bp. 21 MAY 1648)
- Elizabeth MAYOR (bp. 26 JAN 1651)
- +Philippe MAYOR (b. bef 1653)
- +Estienne Gabriel MAYOR (dates unknown)
- +Jeanne Marie MAYOR (d. bef 1701)
This should be the Gédéon who married Marthe Cloux, based on age. The one who married Martha Cloux seems to have died by 1677, but this conclusion rests on the fact that mention of his death is found in notarial documents on the same day that a separate transaction shows Philippe Mayor selling property for his mother Marthe Cloux. He is not the minister, who was much younger.
Other records show that his daughter Jeanne Marie married Jean François Baudin and that two of his sons were Estienne Gabriel Mayor, Lt. of Mollens and Philippe Mayor.
_Claude (dit Mathey) MAYOR _+
| (1504 - 1582)
_Claude (dit Mathey) MAYOR _|
| (1553 - 1584) m 1578 |
| |_Mermette MATHEY ___________+
|
_Jean Jaques MAYOR __|
| (.... - 1657) m 1605|
| | _Pierre MAYOR ______________+
| | | (1512 - 1570)
| |_Marguerite MAYOR __________|
| (1560 - 1617) m 1578 |
| |_Françoise _____ ___________
| (.... - 1570)
|
|--Gédéon MAYOR
| (.... - 1677)
| _François MAYOR ____________+
| | (1522 - 1581)
| _Pierre MAYOR ______________|
| | (1559 - 1609) |
| | |_Collarde MESSIEUX _________
| |
|_Jeanne MAYOR _______|
m 1605 |
| ____________________________
| |
|_Claudaz BARBIE ____________|
|
|____________________________
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Gédéon MAYOR 
(ID #I2603)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: Minister at Aubonne
- BIRTH: abt 1638, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: SEP 1704, Aubonne, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean François MAYOR (bp. 18 APR 1603, d. bef 1658)
Mother: Jaqueline MONOD (b. bef 1606, d. aft 1668)
Family 1
:
Jeanne PIDOUX (dates unknown)
- Susanne Gabrielle MAYOR (b. 11 JUL 1670)
- Benjamin Sigismond MAYOR (bp. 15 JAN 1672, d. 1707)
- Isaac Imbert MAYOR (bp. 1678)
- Jeanne Aimée Françoise MAYOR (bp. 1682)
- Jean Michel MAYOR (bp. 1684)
- Jean Gabriel MAYOR (bp. 1685)
The correct parentage of Gédéon Mayor the minister was elusive. The published edition of the Livre du Recteur of the Académie of Geneva gives his parents as David Mayor and Susanne de Saussure, which is not correct. He could not be identified with any of the baptisms at Ballens, Bière, Mollens, Aubonne, etc. The solution was found in the records of Bernard Grosjean, notary at Geneva, (AEG, vol. 15 pp. 356-357, 10 oct 1663), an obligation for 24 escus blancs for making and providing clothes, Spectable Gédéon Mayor son of the late Jean François Mayor of Ballens, proposant en théologie, declaring himself an adult over the age of 25, with his brother Isaac, to Theodore Reitter (Reiter), tailor and citizen of Geneva. Reitter had provided clothes for Gédéon while the latter was pursuing his studies in Geneva, and had also provided the wedding apparel for his brother Isaac Mayor some years previous.
He is mentioned again with another brother in a document recorded 25 nov 1668 by Henri Portaz, notary at Lausanne, in which Spectable Gédéon Mayor and Jean Baptiste Mayor his brother, acting also for their mother (not named) and their "indivis" (i.e., other relatives with whom they share an undivided interest in some property or estate) acknowledge their debt to Madame de Dignens for grain etc. This document proves that the Gédéon who was a theology student (denoted by the title Spectable) also had a brother Jean Baptiste, and that his own father had died by 1668. Among the Mayor baptisms so far analyzed, there are only two named Jean Baptiste, and only one has a brother Gédéon.
The document of 1663 is transcribed in full here:
(AEG Bernard Grosjean, notary, vol. 15, pp. 356-257, 10 oct 1663.)
Obligation.
Personnellement establi Spectable Gedeon fils de feu Sieur Jehan François Mayor de Balans au Baliage de Morges se disant majeur et passé vingt cinq ans, proposant en Theologie, lequel de son bon gré etc. confesse devoir et estre tenu de bien payer au Sieur Theodore Reitter Maitre tailleur d'habits bourgeois de Geneve icy present et acceptant, asscavoir la somme de vingt quatre escus blancs ^ vallants de dix florins piece bonne monnay dudit Geneve pour cause de façon et fourniture d'habits tant pour ledit Sieur Confessant pendant qu'il a esté en ceste cité en suivant ses estudes, estoffe et argeant à luy fourni, que aussi pour le Sieur Isaac Mayor son frere il y a quelques années scavoir pour le habit de nopces d'iceluy pour lequel il paye de gré et en fait son debte propre le tout suivant le compte et accord fait entr'eux ce jourd'huy en sort que comme bien content ledit Sieur Mayor confessant en quicte ledit Sieur Reiter et les siens avec parties ? payable la susdite somme de vingt quatre escus blancs &c. dans trois mois prochains en ceste cité dès ce jourd'huy à raison de sept pour cent à peine et promessions par serment obligeant ses biens par submissions constitutions renonciations et clauses requises, fait et prononcé audit Geneve au logis ou pend sous l'enseigne La Galere, presents honnorable Aymé des Champs de Crans tailleur ? de cottens ? et Sieur Jehan Claude Lemat ? habitant boulanger tesmoins requis.
^ Il dit scavoir pour le habit de nopces d'iceluy pour lequel il a payé de gré et en fait son debte propre le jour...?
[signatures :] G. Mayor, Aiemé des champs, B. Grosjean notaire (avec paraphe).
(It is not clear precisely where the insertion at the end of the document belongs. The carat preceding it matches the carat after the first mention of the vingt quatre escus blancs, but this reading seems unnecessarily awkward.)
_Jaques MAYOR _______+
| (1537 - 1575)
_Antoine MAYOR _______________|
| (.... - 1616) |
| |_____________________
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_Jean François MAYOR _|
| (.... - 1658) m 1624 |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |______________________________|
| |
| |_____________________
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|--Gédéon MAYOR
| (1638 - 1704)
| _Jaques MONOD _______+
| | m 1568
| _Gabriel (dit Riguet?) MONOD _|
| | |
| | |_Aymaz JAQUEMET _____+
| | m 1568
|_Jaqueline MONOD _____|
(1606 - 1668) m 1624 |
| _Bernard GUION ______+
| | (.... - 1588)
|_Jeanne GUION ________________|
|
|_Maurisaz DUBUGNON __
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Gédéon MAYOR (ID #I2004)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 11 APR 1642, Ballens, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: David MAYOR (bp. 6 AUG 1598)
Mother: Marie DESAUSSURE (dates unknown)
At first, it seemed this must be the Gédéon who was minister at Aubonne (deacon 1670-1677, pastor 1677-1704). However, a notarial record at Geneva proves otherwise. It is not known what became of Gédéon son of David. The published Livre du Recteur de l'Académie de Genève gives this parentage for the minister, though on what basis is not known.
By about 1720, there was also a notary Gédéon Mayor active in the area around Aubonne. Perhaps the present Gédéon was that notary?
_Jaques MAYOR _______+
| (1537 - 1575)
_Pierre MAYOR _______|
| (1557 - ....) m 1582|
| |_____________________
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_David MAYOR ________|
| m 1638 |
| | _François LAGNEL ____
| | | (.... - 1589)
| |_Pernette LAGNEL ____|
| (1553 - ....) m 1582|
| |_____________________
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|
|--Gédéon MAYOR
|
| _____________________
| |
| _Jaques DESAUSSURE __|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Marie DESAUSSURE ___|
m 1638 |
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
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