Jean Philippe DUTOIT 
(ID #I3149)
(male)- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: pastor at Lausanne, Bern, and Meyriez
- BAPTISM: 6 MAY 1719, Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: 22 FEB 1790, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- BURIAL: 25 FEB 1790, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland [1233]
Mother: Marie LYONS (b. ABT 1671, d. 14 MAY 1746)
Family 1 : Jeanne Louise AGUET (d. 22 MAR 1756)
- MARRIAGE: 20 DEC 1746, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Marie Magdelaine DUTOIT (b. 23 OCT 1747)
- Gabriel Jeremie DUTOIT (b. 19 SEP 1749, d. AFT 1793)
- +Marc Philippe DUTOIT (b. 12 JUN 1751, d. 1832)
- Louise DUTOIT (b. 9 NOV 1753, d. 01 SEP 1809)
- Charles Victor DUTOIT (b. 9 AUG 1755, d. 1838)
- MARRIAGE: 9 JUN 1762, Corcelles-près-Payerne, Vaud,Switzerland
He was minister at Lausanne at about the same time as the famous Jean Philippe Dutoit-Membrini. He was minister of the French church at Bern from at least 1752. He seems to be associated somehow with Samuel Chastellanat, minister at Mézières. 1752 and 1762: second minister at Bern; 1766: first minister at Bern. Marriage record of his son says that was also pasteur at "Meiry" (Meyriez). Registers at Bern show him as first minister 07 may 1765, with last baptismal entry there 12 jan 1775. He was minister at Meyriez 03 jan 1775, and presumably served there almost until the next minister Henri Dessonnaz was installed, 12 apr 1790. Henri Vuilleumier (Histoire de l'Eglise Réformée du Pays de Vaud, 1933) notes that he died in 1790 at the "cure de repos de Meyriez" (not correct, since we found his burial record at Lausanne), and that he was very probably the author of the Ordonnances éclessiastiques pour le Pays de Vaud that were published anonymously in Bern in 1773 ("De l'Imprimerie de Leurs Excellences"—a copy from Oxford University has been digitized on GoogleBooks).
Discovering his parentage has been difficult. The record of his first marriage at Lausanne gives no details of his background. However, his second marriage is recorded at Corcelles-près-Payerne, with interesting details:
"Jean Philippe Dutoit ministre et bourgeois de Moudon, diacre de l'église française de Berne, et Susanne Gabrielle Dance de Morges, ont, ensuite d'un brevet de 17 mai 1762, fait bénir leur mariage dans ma paroisse, de mon aveu, par Msr. le ministre Bourgeois, pasteur de Mesieres, son cousin."
The minister Bourgeois turns out to be Daniel Bourgeois baptised 21 dec 1717, son of Daniel Philippe Bourgeois and Marguerite Guidroz of Moudon. Daniel married Esther Marguerite Arthaud, daughter of Jean Louis Arthaud, and the latter was married to a sister of Marie Lions or Lyons, the same Marie who was the wife of Louis Jacob Dutoit. The Arthaud family appears more than once at baptisms with Jean Philippe Dutoit. For example, at the baptism of Gabriel Jérémie Dutoit 24 sep 1749, the sponsors are Gabriel Roy, pastor at Perroy, with his wife Pauline Arthaud, and Jérémie Arthaud (b. 1675, son of Paul Arthaud and Marie Crespin), with his wife Antoinette Sylvestre. It appears all of these families are well represented among the clergy of Vaud. Finally, once we know that Jean Philippe is associated with the Lions and Arthaud families, a baptism from 1735 now makes sense:
22 oct 1735: Jaques Philippe Paul son of Pierre Philippe Dutoit and Elizabeth Meistre, sponsors Jaques Dutoit, chamoiseur; Jean Philippe Dutoit, estudiant; Pauline Arthaud; Marie Bedard.
Pierre Philippe is the son of Louis Jacob Dutoit and Marie Lions, Jaques Dutoit is probably Pierre Philippe's brother baptised as Jacob and known to be a chamoiseur, Jean Philippe the student (presumably at the Académie de Lausanne, the nearest institution of higher learning that would warrant the epithet "estudiant" in the eyes of the Eglise Réformée) is now clearly identified as Pierre Philippe's brother, and not Jean Philippe Dutoit-Membrini, Pauline Arthaud is evidently the same woman who became the wife of the minister Gabriel Roy, and Marie Bédard must be the daughter of Susanne Lions and Daniel Bédard.
Our deductions about the parentage of Jean Philippe are confirmed in his lettre de bourgeoisie at Lausanne (AVL D 441/1 fol. 222): "Spectable Jean Philippe DuToit agé de 32 ans ministre du St. Evangile dans cette ville, fils du Sieur Louis Jacob Du Toit bourgeois de Moudon et de Marie Lions sa femme".
Documents recorded by Isaac Samuel Denis DuBrit, notary at Moudon, tell us which Jean Philippe is which: 07 mar 1744, Jean Philippe Dutoit, proposant (theology student) and his brother Pierre Philippe Dutoit, heirs of the late Jacob Dutoit, officier ballival de Moudon, and their unnamed coheirs, sold property to Eg. Jaques David Burnand, curial de Moudon and Chatelain de Siens. The property was a garden in Moudon. The witnesses were Monsieur le Proposant Jean Philippe Dutoit le Cadet, and the minister André Dutoit. (Thus, we know that the elder of the two Jean Philippe Dutoits was the son of Jacob, and the other Jean Philippe's parentage is well known.)
Among the mentions of Jean Philippe's descendants at Lausanne and elsewhere, at least one claimed citizenship at Vevey as well as Moudon and Lausanne. The parentage we have discovered does not suggest any connection to Vevey, but it is possible that Jean Philippe or his sons may have acquired bourgeois status there after leaving Lausanne.
[1233] Buried "sous les Cloîtres" at the Cimitière de la Cité, Lausanne. Burial record gives his age as 70 years and 6 months.
_Antoine DUTOIT _____+
| (.... - 1654) m 1634
_Pierre DUTOIT ______|
| (1638 - 1695) m 1662|
| |_Judith CAVIN _______+
| (.... - 1660) m 1634
_Jacob (Louis Jacob) DUTOIT _|
| (.... - 1743) m 1697 |
| | _Jean BOSSET ________
| | | (.... - 1647) m 1641
| |_Agathe BOSSET ______|
| (.... - 1734) m 1662|
| |_Anne GIRARD ________
| m 1641
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|--Jean Philippe DUTOIT
| (.... - 1790)
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| _Pierre LYONS _______|
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|_Marie LYONS ________________|
(1671 - 1746) m 1697 |
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|_Jeanne AUBERT ______|
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