Whoever she was, she might also be the Ancellexia, widow of Petrus Bovet, who made a "reconnaissance" for property subject to the Priory of Lutry about 1503 (ACV Ff 34, fol. 11, terrier compiled by Pierre Marchand, not yet examined).
Given name is written clearly "ancellina relicta quondam Johannes pignyollet de chessard" and "ancillesca relicta quondam Johannes pigniollet de chessard" in two notations in the record book of Nicod Méan of Payerne, 1502 and 1507 (appears to be acknowledgement of debts, 3 sacs of meal and 7 livres lausannois). Another document involves "Girardus filius quondam Johannes pigniollet de chesat". (Another researcher reports "Annelisa", clearly an anachronism.)
Given name is written clearly "ancellina relicta quondam Johannes pignyollet de chessard" and "ancillesca relicta quondam Johannes pigniollet de chessard" in two notations in the record book of Nicod Méan of Payerne, 1502 and 1507 (appears to be acknowledgement of debts, 3 sacs of meal and 7 livres lausannois). Another document involves "Girardus filius quondam Johannes pigniollet de chesat". (Another researcher reports "Annelisa", clearly an anachronism.)
Named in her husband's testament of 24 mar 1524, Rodolphe Demont, notary at Moudon.
(ID #I4336)
She apparently survived at least until 1853, when a notice in the Vevay Reveille (20 oct 1853, p. 3, col. 1) noted that land offered for sale from the estate of Hezekiah Roberts was subject to dower rights of Polly Raymond, widow of Francis Louis Raymond.
Who was Mary? The widow of Hezekiah Roberts was apparently Mary LeClerc, they were married in Switzerland Co. 15 sep 1849. (However, the 1850 census calls her Mary Jane, age 17, wife of Hezekiah F. Roberts, married within the year. Clearly, this cannot be the same Mary who was the widow of Francis Reymond, who died in 1837! Or is there confusion because of more than one Hezekiah Roberts in the area?) Perhaps the land records of Switzerland Co. will eventually reveal the connection between Roberts and Raymond.
Among other hypotheses that can be discarded, she was not a Thiébaud, because the list of eight children who came to the US with Frederick Louis Thiébaud in 1817 and named in his naturalization papers does not include a Mary.
Probably the mother of Marguerite but not of Nicolletus Gachet. Marguerite is apparently termed "paternal sister" of Nicolletus in a document of 15 may 1474 recorded by Jean de Trevaux, notary at Payerne.
Vevay settler.