DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland
Mathias MAYOR (ID #I8486)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: surgeon
- BIRTH: 1775, of Grandcour
- DEATH: 1847
Family 1
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Susanne MOREL (dates unknown)
- +Julie Henriette MAYOR (dates unknown)
Report of the archivist of Lausanne, 1952, said this Mayor family was bourgeois de Grandcour (near Payerne), and thus not related to the other Mayor families in this database. Mathias Mayor was famous as a surgeon and as the author of a treatise, La chirurgie populaire.
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Michel MAYOR (ID #I25381)
(male)
Father: Pierre MAYOR (d. bef 1507)
Mother: Nycollete SAUDAN (dates unknown)
Family 1
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- Claude MAYOR (d. abt 1568)
Michel is added as a son of Pierre Mayor and Nycollete Saudan in order to explain the joint ownership of property between his grandson the "pupil" François son of Claude Mayor son of Michel, and the grandchildren of Jaques Mayor son of Pierre. In order for François to have a half interest, he would have to descend from a branch separate from that represented by the descendants of Jaques (including, among others, the notary Claude Mayor). In addition, he would have to attach to the common ancestry at approximatley this point in the descent from the "original" Antoine Mayor alias de Vernay. François could not descend from Antoine's son Michel, whose descendants already have a reasonably well understood genealogy and a different set of jointly owned properties.
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Michel MAYOR (ID #I25384)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: alias de Vernay
- DEATH: bef 1506
Father: Antoine DE VERNAY ALIAS MAYOR (d. bef 1506)
Family 1
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- Antoine MAYOR (d. aft 1506)
- +Jean MAYOR (d. bef 1565)
- +Ottonin MAYOR (dates unknown)
His three sons Antoine, Jean, and Ottonin are mentioned several times in the terriers. The terrier ACV Fg 125 (compiled by Eg. Etienne Mayor, reconnaissance dated 04 oct 1603, fol. 967v ff.) , covering Mollens, reveals that the three brothers were the owners in 1531 of the mill at La Goille (usually called Gollies, Goillie, etc., apparently the same location as Goiles or Goylies, site of a leprosarium between the villages of Mollens and Ballens circa 1257), on stream called Le Veyron. The brothers also had a half interest in property for which the other half belonged to the Claude Mayor who had married Mermette, daughter of Jaques Matthey dit de Ballens. This fact might be taken as an indication that the Mayors of Mollens derive from a brother of Michel, father of the three brothers Antoine, Jean, and Ottonin. We hope to find more information in the earlier terriers for Mollens, particularly the one from about 1530 compiled by Egrège François Gros of Bière, the source of the information about the history of the mill in Fg 125.
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Ottonin MAYOR (ID #I25388)
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Father: Michel MAYOR (d. bef 1506)
Family 1
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- Pierre MAYOR (b. bef 1512, d. bef 1570)
- +Humbert MAYOR (b. BEF 1529, d. BEF 1603)
He may have inherited property held in the distant past by someone called Girard Cigoen or Agoen, or perhaps one of each. Some of the terriers seem confused about these names, but Ottonin's descendants ended up with a shared interest in property from this source, whether by inheritance or as the result of a sale, forfeit, or other transaction. Interestingly, there was also a Thivent Monod dit Cigoen, apparently in the early 16th Century, mentioned in a later terrier of Mollens. The connection with the Cigoen family probably dates from a period when the Monod family was still a part of the Mayor family.
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Pierre MAYOR (ID #I25387)
(male)
Father: Jean MAYOR (d. bef 1565)
Family 1
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- +Félix MAYOR (b. bef 1560)
- Jaques MAYOR (dates unknown)
_Antoine DE VERNAY ALIAS MAYOR _
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_Michel MAYOR _______|
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Pierre MAYOR (ID #I25375)
(male)
- BIRTH: bef 1500, of Ballens
- DEATH: bef 1569
Father: Jaques MAYOR (dates unknown)
Family 1
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The terriers, for example the section relating to Ballens in the terrier ACV FH 31 from about 1585, indicate that this Pierre was the father of Jaques and the late François, who had left two sons Sulpice and Pierre. This Jaques, with his nephews, held a 1/4 interest in a number of properties, another 1/2 owned by François son of the late Claude Mayor (the one designated as "pupil" above), and the remaining 1/4 held by "Discret" Claude Mayor (the notary whose records have survived 1567-1618, ACV DB 26) and his brothers Louis and François. These proportions would naturally follow if Pierre and Egrège Claude (father of Discret Claude the notary) were brothers, and if their uncle was Claude Mayor, father of the still-living François.
_Antoine DE VERNAY ALIAS MAYOR _
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_Pierre MAYOR _______|
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Pierre MAYOR (ID #I25371)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: alias de Vernay
- DEATH: bef 1507
Father: Antoine DE VERNAY ALIAS MAYOR (d. bef 1506)
Family 1
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Nycollete SAUDAN (dates unknown)
- +Jaques MAYOR (dates unknown)
- Humbert MAYOR (dates unknown)
- +Michel MAYOR (dates unknown)
There are many men called Pierre Mayor in the terriers that cover Ballens, and many of them are mentioned in the context of an indefinite past. It has been extremely difficult to determine how they should be connected.
One Pierre, already noted as feu Pierre Mayor in 1569, is mentioned in connection with the house of his son François, located next to the house owned by François pupil of the late Claude Mayor (1/2) and by Mory Saudan (3/8) and Pierre Saudan le Jeusne (1/8). This Pierre Mayor must not be not the father of Egrège Anthoine, Egrège Michel, Pernon, and Marguerite, as that Pierre dictated his verbal will late in 1570. Unless there is a different Jaques who was the adult son of Pierre circa 1570, we suggest tentatively that "Jaques nourry de Pierre Mayor", mentioned as early as 1569 in the records of the notary Claude Mayor (ACV DB 26), is the illegitimate son of the same Pierre who had the son François. Another reason for this suggestion is the fact that a Jaques Mayor is mentioned frequently in the 1622 terrier of Ballens in citations from a previous terrier of 1570, with his nephews "Sulpy" and Pierre Mayor. Given the apparently ancestry of the uniquely named "Sulpy" (properly Sulpice), it is necessary that this same Pierre had a son Jaques.
However, we have come to believe that the Pierre just described must be brother of the elder notary Egrège Claude Mayor.
The present Pierre is apparently the grandfather of the Pierre just described. He must be old enough to be the grandfather of the elder notary Egrège Claude Mayor, and old enough to be the grandfather of the "François pupil de feu Claude Mayor" who is cited in 1570.
The terrier FH 137, dating from 1506-1508, describes holdings of his son Jacobo (=Jaques), and tells us that Pierre had already died by 22 oct 1507 (fol. 436, also another reconnaissance on fol. 448). During the process of describing about 20 properties held by Jacobo, additional relationships are revealed. Jacobo had a brother Humbert Mayor. Their father Pierre Mayor had married Nycollete, daughter of Aymonet Soudan. Another daughter of Aymonet Soudan, Pernete, had married Mermet Solliard. Mermet and Pernete had a son Nycollet who was thus first cousin to Jacobo and his brother Humbert. Jacobo and Humbert were also related in some way to Antoine son of Michel son of Antoine "de Vernay alias Mayor", whose reconnaissance on fol. 421 (28 may 1506) of the same terrier actually refers to "Jacobo de Vernay alias Mayor" and indicates that Michel de Vernay alias Mayor had a brother Pierre, thus providing the link. Unless there is another generation between Pierre de Vernay alias Mayor and the present Pierre Mayor, we can add another generation to the pedigree of the Mayors.
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Pierre MAYOR (ID #I25389)
(male)
- BIRTH: bef 1512, of Ballens
- DEATH: bef 1570
Father: Ottonin MAYOR (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Françoise _____ (d. aft 1570)
This Pierre is apparently not the father of "Jaques norry de feu Pierre Mayor" mentioned as early as 1570 in notarial records. The latter Pierre is listed as deceased as early as May 1570, while the present Pierre died in November, according to the proceedings to establish his verbal will. This Pierre cannot be the son of the late François, either, as that Pierre is known to have been alive as late as 1596. However, this Pierre seems to be the brother of a somewhat mysterious Humbert Mayor, son of Ottonin (see notes on Pierre's son Anthoine). The terriers are clear on this point, so it seems that the Pierre who was the father of the notaries Antoine and Michel Mayor.
It must be another Pierre, this one the son of Jean, who was the father of Félix Mayor and his brother the minister Jaques Mayor, according to a number of "reconnaissances" found in the terriers of Aubonne. While there is at least one citation in the church records of a Félix son of Humbert Mayor in the early 17th Century, it now appears that he did not survive. The Félix who left children and who held property jointly with his brother the minister Jaques Mayor was the son of Pierre, son of Jean. See, for example, ACV FH 175 fol. 44 and elsewhere in the same terrier.
On the other hand, we are still wavering, because of the language of the nuncupative testament of the present Pierre. It was presented for probate 23 nov 1570 (Claude Mayor, notary, ACV DB 26/2, fol. 44v) by Egrège Michel Mayor in his own name and for Egrège Antoine Mayor his brother and their sisters Pernon and Marguerite. It also mentions Pierre's widow Françoise. The residual heirs are the said "Anthoine et Michel Mayor ses filz par egales portions", which seems to rule out Pierre as the father of two more sons Félix and Jaques, unless perhaps these two were sons by a previous wife. But that does not seem very logical, either, since Félix and Jaques left at least part of their inheritance—whatever it was—undivided until 1603. The conclusion we derive from the terriers examined so far is that there were two Pierres, one the son of Ottonin, the other the son of Jean.
A division of an obligation, this time derived from holdings originally dedicated for the support of a chapel at Aubonne, recorded in the terrier ACV FH 161, relates the succession of this obligation from Girard Cigoen and/or Agoen, represented 14 apr 1578 by Egrège Antoine and Egrège Michel Mayor (each obligated for 1/4), both sons of the late Pierre, and Humbert (for the other 1/2), son of Ottonin Mayor. The proportions again support the conclusion that Pierre and Humbert were brothers, and that Pierre left only the two sons, Antoine and Michel. How the family (Ottonin, in particular) came to hold property from Cigoen and/or Aigoen is not clear; in fact, the terriers seem perplexed: the name wavers among Cigoen, Tigoen, Aigoen, Agoen, etc., and it is not clear whether this constellation of similar names represents one Girard or two.
In the terrier FH 137 (1506, for the Château d'Aubonne) there seem to be three individuals: Girard, Pierre, and Jean Cigoen. The name is clear everywhere it occurs. In the terrier FH 161, for the chapels of Aubonne, there are several spellings, apparently derived from the prior terrier compiled by Jean Thomasset.
_Antoine DE VERNAY ALIAS MAYOR _
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