As of 1991, she was said to be living in Memphis, TN.
_Solomon VICTOR ____________________+
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________+
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860
_William Clinton VICTOR _|
| (1893 - 1981) m 1914 |
| | _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______+
| | | (1853 - 1941) m 1871
| |_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
| (1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| |_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _+
| (1851 - 1942) m 1871
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|--Veretta VICTOR
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| ____________________________________
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| _Louis HANSEN _________|
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|_Molly HANSEN ___________|
(1891 - ....) m 1914 |
| ____________________________________
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|_Christina NELSEN _____|
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|____________________________________
Records of Greenwood Cemetery, San Diego, California, indicate she took possession of her father's ashes 21 october 1933. She was living with her husband in Los Angeles at that time. Family records give her birthplace as Putnam Co., Okalhoma, but there is no such county in either Oklahoma or Nebraska! Family insists she was the only one not born in Omaha, so it may be that she was born in Putnam, Dewey Co., OK. 1910 census shows her born in Oklahoma, but all other children in the family born in Nebraska.
[4068] Family information gives birthplace as Putnam Co., OK, which does not exist. She was said to be the only one of the family not born in Omaha. One of the two census listings for this family in 1900 was Harrison Township, Dewey Co., OK.
_Victor VICTOR ________+
| (1798 - 1870) m 1829
_Solomon VICTOR ____________________|
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860 |
| |_Liena MEYER __________
| (1800 - 1870) m 1829
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| | _John DANSON __________+
| | | (1793 - 1835) m 1818
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________|
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860 |
| |_Catherine POWER ______+
| (1797 - 1834) m 1818
|
|--Vervia Marie VICTOR
| (1901 - 2007)
| _William Mickle REEDY _+
| | (1821 - 1857)
| _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______|
| | (1853 - 1941) m 1871 |
| | |_Mary Kerr RANKIN _____+
| | (1824 - 1902)
|_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
(1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| _John MCDOUGALL _______+
| | (1810 - 1884)
|_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _|
(1851 - 1942) m 1871 |
|_Elvira URAN __________+
(1812 - 1900)
He is mentioned several times in the vital records of Pyrzyce 1840-1847. He is listed on the Matrikel of 1853, but he was apparently dead by the time the list of 1865 was compiled, his household identifiable on that list by the name of his widow. In 1853, he has a son Solomon, age 20, but in 1865, that Solomon is not in the household of his widow.
A death record in Berlin, for their son Joseph, calls him Wygdor Salomon Victor, and his wife, Liebe Meyer.
A key question concerning this man is whether he was also called Moses. If so, he is the same man as "Moses Victor", identified as the father of our Solomon Victor in Solomon's marriage record in England. This idea has some circumstantial support, for our Solomon was born in the the same year as Victor's son, and our Solomon's mother was a Meyer, as was Victor's wife. There is also an unexplained citation, the betrothal announcement by "M. Salomon Victor und Frau" for their daughter Henriette with Kauffmann Herrn Adolph Burchardt of Berlin, 24 jan 1849, discussed further below.
Family oral history (sometimes calling him Moses Isaac Victor, but the information we obtained from the widow and three daughters of Walter Victor in the 1960's did not include a middle name) says that the father of our Solomon Victor was a leather merchant in Berlin. No trace of this man has been found in the records of the Jewish community in Berlin, but it is possible that he lived in one of the out-lying districts or suburbs.
A Moses Victor, tailor, arrived in Hull, England from Hamburg on the ship Queen of Scotland 11 may 1846 (alien registration cards on Ancestry.com). A directory of Manchester, England, supposed to be from 1861, but lacking the title page, has an entry for "Moses Victor and Sons", suggesting that the family may have opened, or attempted to open, a branch office there. However, no other trace of this elusive business has been found.
In the few surviving records of what was then Pyritz, Prussia, now Pyrzyce, Poland, there is a man called "M. S. Victor" with a wife Bertha Philippi and apparently a son Louis. We suspected this was our Moses, and that this couple also had a son Solomon. The naming pattern in Pyritz and other Jewish communities in the area at that period was that the second name was that of the father. A Solomon, son of Wigdor, a citizen of Pyritz, had taken the surname Victor in 1812, when the government required all Jewish citizens to choose a permanent family name. "M. S." and "Victor S." Victor, who appear in records from Pyritz from about 1840 until about 1865, are of the right age to be sons of this Solomon. The surname adoptions lists for this region all seem to have survived, and this is the only Victor family in the area.
Testimony from the criminal trial of our Solomon Victor in 1870, in Bloomington, Illinois, on a charge of attempted murder, establishes that our Solomon had an uncle Michael in Pyritz, who may have been declared insane and institutionalized. The same testimony stated that Solomon's mother was a Meyer, which in turn would imply that our Solomon should have been a son of Victor Solomon Victor, whose wife was Liena Meyer (Victor S. Victor also had a son Solomon, according to a list of the Jewish community in Pyritz compiled in 1853, and a Solomon Victor of his generation, evidently a son of Michael Victor, was still in Pyritz in 1865). However, the testimony in 1870 was technically hearsay evidence and was therefore not pursued further, and the parentage and relationships of the people from Pyritz who were mentioned were not clearly stated in the newpaper account of the trial. One solution that seemed plausible initially was that "M. S." Victor from the records of Pyritz was the elusive Moses, the father of our Solomon. That possibility had to be discarded once the marriage of Michaelis Victor and Beile Leise Philippi, on 21 may 1823, was located at Griefenberg, Poland.
But if "M. S. Victor" is Michael, uncle of our Solomon, then we can either give more weight to the family story, and show Moses as a brother of Victor and Michael, with the proviso that Moses must also have married a Meyer, perhaps the sister of Victor's wife Liena Meyer, or else show "Moses" as a nickname for "Victor" (or vice versa), since in the latter case no significant difficulties remain, the man called Victor in the Jewish census of Pyritz in 1853 would be the same man called Moses in our family story.
Another line of reasoning starts with a family tree posted on MyHeritage.com, starting with a Julie Henriette Charlotte (generally known as Henriette) Victor, born in Pyritz in 1829, and her husband Adolph Burchardt. The family tree includes Henriette's siblings, a nearly exact match with the children of Victor Victor and his wife Liena Meyer from the sources in Pyritz, but without the names of these parents, and with incomplete information about the siblings that strongly suggests the information was not copied from our own transcripts of the Matrikeln of 1853 (Henriette is not on that list, as she had already married and left the area for Berlin) and 1865. In other words, the family tree looks like what we would expect, if the Burchardt family had preserved the names of Henriette's aunts and uncles but knew nothing else about them, and if that is the case, then Henriette should be the daughter of Victor Victor and Liena Meyer. However, we also found a newspaper notice of their betrothal (Verlobung) in 1849, in which her parents are identified as M. Salomon Victor und Frau. It seems extremely unlikely that the Burchardt family would have preserved the names of the children of Victor Victor, believing them to be their aunts and uncles, if their actual ancestor was instead the daughter of Michael Salomon Victor! One possible solution is that all of these assertions from the family stories are correct, and that Victor Salomon Victor is in fact the "official" name of the man who used the nickname Moses, the father therefore of our own Solomon Victor as well as the father of Henriette.
So far, there do not seem to be any official records that can prove the matter one way or another. However, it was the general practice for the Jewish families of Prussia to publish notices for betrothals and burials, as well as notices relating to their businesses, in the local newspapers. Even if no newspapers from Pyritz have survived, the business and social ties of the Victor family with Stettin and Berlin are already evident from the scattered notices that we have found in the digitized newspapers that have been indexed and that have found their way onto Google. More discoveries can be expected as additional newspapers are digitized and indexed.
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| (1798 - 1870)
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Birth certificate obtained via "Remember When", Surrey, took less than 3 weeks using MasterCard, £ 8.25. Where: 1900 - Gosper Co., NE, 1910 - Marinette, WI, 1920 - Chicago, IL, age listed as 47 instead of 57, with the 2 children, marital status listed as widow, even though William Freeman was still alive and living in NE.
She was in Omaha from about 1890 until at least 1905. There are several mentions in the Omaha World Herald:
October 15, 1899: Society: "A very pretty wedding was that which united in marriage Miss Virginia R. Victor of this city ot Mr. William H. Freeman of Lexington, Neb. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Marion Victor, 2620 (?) Burdette Street, Wednesday at 1 o'clock P.M. in the..."
January 4, 1903: Births: "boy, to William Freeman of 2613 Burdette St."
February 28, 1904: mention of William Freeman and Mrs. Virginia V. Freeman in "Lodge Room Gossip".
March 21, 1905: letter from Virginia V. Freeman.
A long article about a meeting of the Omaha Board of Education appeared in the Omaha Daily Bee, 29 jun 1890. Virginia R. Victor is on the list of assistant teachers elected to the district faculty at that meeting.
Question for further research: is there any significance to that fact that her husband's family came from Canada? It seems unlikely, since the Freemans arrived in Nebraska before the Victors came to Quebec. However, the shared connection to Canada may have been what brought these families closer when they encountered each other in Omaha.
Since several of the Freeman descendants eventually came to California, it is possible some facts about the Victor family may still be found among them.
If our genealogy is correct, her middle name might commemorate her aunt Rosalie Victor, wife of Abraham Maass of Pyritz.
[4005] Births Index, first quarter 1863, vol. 1C p. 254. Certificate from General Register Office shows address as 19 Marian Street, Bethnal Green, sub-district of Hackney Road, Middlesex Co. (no such address in 1861 census).
[4006] Certificate number 6031502, per on-line Illinois Death Index, 1916-1950.
_Salomon VICTOR _____+
| (1765 - 1817)
_Victor VICTOR ______|
| (1798 - 1870) m 1829|
| |_____________________
|
_Solomon VICTOR ___________|
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860 |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Liena MEYER ________|
| (1800 - 1870) m 1829|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Virginia Rosalind VICTOR
| (1863 - 1935)
| _John DANSON ________
| | (1759 - 1814) m 1787
| _John DANSON ________|
| | (1793 - 1835) m 1818|
| | |_Frances BRAGG ______
| | (1764 - ....) m 1787
|_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON _|
(1832 - 1916) m 1860 |
| _Michael POWER ______
| | (1770 - 1815)
|_Catherine POWER ____|
(1797 - 1834) m 1818|
|_Elizabeth TOVEY ____
(1771 - 1851)
Besides his invention of a "logging engine", Walter had a variety of jobs. In 1900, he is listed in the census of Omaha, NE as a mail carrier. That census shows he came to the US in 1867 and was a naturalized citizen. (We now know that he arrived from Liverpool on the steamship St. George, arriving at Quebec on 23 jun 1868. Presumably his family moved to Wisconsin a few years later, for they are not found in the 1870 census there, nor in the 1871 Canadian census.) By 1916, he is in Seattle, listed as a painter, and carpenter (1917), and then a ship joiner (1918). By 1919, only his wife is listed in the Seattle directory. Not listed in San Diego directories, and no obituary there.
First mention of his occupation as US mail carrier is in the 1890 Omaha City Directory.
Locations between 1888 and 1933:
A search of deeds in Los Angeles County was informative:
A number of records were filed after the death of Walter Victor, including the final settlement among his heirs-at-law, 01 jun 1936: Bk. 14231, p. 62, case number 153236, estate of Walter M. Victor, divided equally among the three daughters Vervia M. Kidson, Hazel Bullock, and Gertrude McNutt, and the three sons Richard Victor, Robert Victor, and William C. Victor. Vervia Kidson was the administratrix. The property consisted of the SAME three lots for which Matilda Altwein had sued, Lot 122 of Tract 2573, Lot 1 Block 12 of Tract 1033, and Lot 76 of Tract 2467, all in Los Angeles Co., thus establishing that the Walter M. Victor of 11216 Budlong Ave. was in fact the same Walter M. Victor who had married Rose Reedy. A deed drawn up the next day and circulated among the heirs in the next few days reveals that William C. Victor was then residing in Battle Creek, MI, Hazel and Robert were in Seattle, Richard was in Fresno Co., CA, and Gertrude was in Los Angeles Co. (she appeared before notary Francis P. Grogan). The three lots, however, had been sold to the State of California by the Tax Collector of Los Angeles Co. in 1930 for a total of $49.23.
The lot in Tract 2573 is probably the site of his house at 11216 Budlong. On the current map for this tract, "Corinth Heights", it appears the street addresses have been changed since 1930.
In the lawsuit of Matilda Altwein, she states that she entered into a bona fide common law marriage about 9 years ago (thus 1921-1922), that they jointly obtained property, and that he fraudulently conveyed it to her. She sought $5,000 for services rendered (housekeeping at $10 per week) and asserted that $3,000 was the cost of Lot 122 (on Budlong Ave.). Walter admitted that she had kept house for him during the last 4 years, but that she was hospitalized twice, once for 10 days, and a second time for 3 weeks, and that he had conveyed to her 15 acres of property in Washington State valued at $150. The judge cited statute that she could collect for unpaid wages for only the last two years, deducted time during which she was sick and thus not keeping house, plus insurance premiums, doctor bills, and hospital costs, to arrive at the figure of $649.54 which Walter owed her. At least one document in the case file indicates that Walter Victor was out of the county at some time in 1931, and it is possible she never collected. She turned over the judgement to one C. C. Solter for collection, 08 oct 1931. (See Los Angeles Times 11 jul 1931, not examined.)
The estate file of Walter M. Victor says that Walter was "a resident of Los Angeles County" at the time of his death. The addresses of his heirs are given:
The first documents mention only the property on Budlong Ave., house and lot estimated at $400. Later, after a proper search of county records, the list of property is as cited above, and the appraised values of these parcels are $800, $25, and $500, respectively. A notice to creditors was published in The National Voice for several weeks from 14 nov 1935 to 24 jan 1936 (notice examined, does not give any details). The final report indicates that the estate was valued at $1,325 and was distributed as indicated above.
[4014] Certificate indicates death at San Diego Hospital, last residence at Salvation Army Hotel, 739 2d Ave., occupation as Paper Hanging & Paint Contractor. Much information incorrect; informant was the funeral director.
[4015] (Indigent?) burial at Mt. Hope Cem., San Diego, 06 oct 1933, then removed to Greenwood Cem. 21 oct 1933, where cremated and returned to Mrs. Vervia Kidson, signature of her husband Edward H. Kidson, Los Angeles.
[14517] Marriage was performed by James J. H. Reedy, father of the bride.
[14711] Listed in city directories as husband and wife, but no marriage found in Los Angeles Co. Lawsuit of Matilda Altwein in 1930-31 indicates they were not legally married, had "bona fide common law marriage" about 9 years.
_Salomon VICTOR _____+
| (1765 - 1817)
_Victor VICTOR ______|
| (1798 - 1870) m 1829|
| |_____________________
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_Solomon VICTOR ___________|
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860 |
| | _____________________
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| |_Liena MEYER ________|
| (1800 - 1870) m 1829|
| |_____________________
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|--Walter Moses VICTOR
| (1865 - 1933)
| _John DANSON ________
| | (1759 - 1814) m 1787
| _John DANSON ________|
| | (1793 - 1835) m 1818|
| | |_Frances BRAGG ______
| | (1764 - ....) m 1787
|_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON _|
(1832 - 1916) m 1860 |
| _Michael POWER ______
| | (1770 - 1815)
|_Catherine POWER ____|
(1797 - 1834) m 1818|
|_Elizabeth TOVEY ____
(1771 - 1851)
still living - details excluded
_Solomon VICTOR ____________________+
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________+
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860
_William Clinton VICTOR _|
| (1893 - 1981) m 1925 |
| | _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______+
| | | (1853 - 1941) m 1871
| |_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
| (1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| |_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _+
| (1851 - 1942) m 1871
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|--Warren Myles VICTOR
| (1929 - 2005)
| ____________________________________
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| _______________________|
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|_Kathryn Ivera NOONAN ___|
(1894 - ....) m 1925 |
| ____________________________________
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|_______________________|
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_Solomon VICTOR ____________________+
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________+
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860
_William Clinton VICTOR _|
| (1893 - 1981) m 1914 |
| | _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______+
| | | (1853 - 1941) m 1871
| |_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
| (1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| |_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _+
| (1851 - 1942) m 1871
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|--Wayne VICTOR
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| ____________________________________
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| _Louis HANSEN _________|
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| | |____________________________________
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|_Molly HANSEN ___________|
(1891 - ....) m 1914 |
| ____________________________________
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|_Christina NELSEN _____|
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|____________________________________
[4027] Social Security Death Index: #709-12-6451, retired railroad employee.
_Victor VICTOR ________+
| (1798 - 1870) m 1829
_Solomon VICTOR ____________________|
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860 |
| |_Liena MEYER __________
| (1800 - 1870) m 1829
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| | _John DANSON __________+
| | | (1793 - 1835) m 1818
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________|
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860 |
| |_Catherine POWER ______+
| (1797 - 1834) m 1818
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|--William Clinton VICTOR
| (1893 - 1981)
| _William Mickle REEDY _+
| | (1821 - 1857)
| _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______|
| | (1853 - 1941) m 1871 |
| | |_Mary Kerr RANKIN _____+
| | (1824 - 1902)
|_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
(1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| _John MCDOUGALL _______+
| | (1810 - 1884)
|_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _|
(1851 - 1942) m 1871 |
|_Elvira URAN __________+
(1812 - 1900)
She disappeared after visiting her brother Richard Victor in April, 2006. Her automobile was later found in a ravine in Butte Co., CA, but there was no body nor any evidence of foul play. We understand remains were eventually found and identified.
1950 census: 3914 Olive, Los Angeles: Wilma McAfee, 25, divorced, b. California, stenographer, son Roger, 4, b., California.
_Solomon VICTOR ____________________+
| (1833 - 1900) m 1860
_Walter Moses VICTOR __|
| (1865 - 1933) m 1892 |
| |_Marion (Mary Ann) DANSON __________+
| (1832 - 1916) m 1860
_Robert Ingersoll VICTOR _|
| (1895 - 1984) m 1920 |
| | _James Jackson Hamilton REEDY ______+
| | | (1853 - 1941) m 1871
| |_Eulia Rose May REEDY _|
| (1877 - 1967) m 1892 |
| |_Carrie (Candace) Elvira MCDOUGALL _+
| (1851 - 1942) m 1871
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|--Wilma Lorraine VICTOR
| (1925 - 2006)
| ____________________________________
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|_Myrtle Dorothy PAGE _____|
(1902 - 1951) m 1920 |
| ____________________________________
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_Jaquemin D'AIGNÉ _______|
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|--Jaquette VIEILMARCHIÉ
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| _Jean DE CRESSIER _______+
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| _Jean DE CRESSIER ___|
| | (.... - 1498) |
| | |_Jeannette BERTHOD ______+
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|_Marguerite DE CRESSIER _|
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| _Petermand DE GLÉRESSE __
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|_Grède DE GLÉRESSE __|
(.... - 1498) |
|_Françoise DE BARISCOUR _
Another reading of her name is Virchaud, at the baptism of her daughter Eve Judith 27oct 1716. The baptismal record says that Judith is from the comté de Neuchâtel. Other baptisms apparently belonging to the same couple calls her Judith Fevot (12 apr 1719, 25 apr 1726).
Appears as the mother of Pierre Paret at baptism in 1606, the same baptism where Jean Chognard appears as Pierre's father-in-law. Another interpretation is possible, though it does not seem very likely at this time. Jean Chognard could conceivably be the step-father of Pierre Paret, having married Anthoinette Vigiere, the mother of Pierre, and Pierre's wife could be a sister of Jean Chognard.
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She is cited on several occasions in the minutes of the Consistory of Lausanne because of disagreements and distrubances within her family.
Surname also spelled Vilem and Vilaud.
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_Jean David VILAN ___|
| (.... - 1750) |
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|--Jean Jacob VILAN
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| _Pierre DUTOIT ______+
| | (1638 - 1695) m 1662
| _Jacob (Louis Jacob) DUTOIT _|
| | (.... - 1743) m 1697 |
| | |_Agathe BOSSET ______+
| | (.... - 1734) m 1662
|_Marie Sara DUTOIT __|
(.... - 1759) |
| _Pierre LYONS _______
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|_Marie LYONS ________________|
(1671 - 1746) m 1697 |
|_Jeanne AUBERT ______