The Swiss Settlement of Vevay, Indiana: The settlers, their relatives, their associates
Charles Emmanuel MIÉVILLE 
(ID #I3346)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 30 MAR 1776, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- DEATH: 1818, Vevay, Switzerland Co., Indiana
Father: Elie MIÉVILLE (bp. 06 SEP 1750, d. 08 JUN 1804)
Mother: Susanne Salomé MILLET (bp. 24 DEC 1752, d. 19 JUN 1809)
Family 1
:
Louise KRÄMER (b. 28 MAR 1788, d. 17 APR 1863)
- Charles MIÉVILLE (b. 30 DEC 1810, d. 1810)
- +Louise Henriette MIÉVILLE (bp. 08 APR 1812, d. bef 1841?)
- Charles MIÉVILLE (b. 06 MAR 1813)
- George MIÉVILLE (bp. 22 OCT 1814)
- Sophie MIÉVILLE (b. abt 1818, d. aft 1850)
Instructions concerning his itinerary upon arriving in Philadelphia were apparently sent to him in Europe in May, 1817. He was to travel via Pittsburgh, then along the Ohio River to Vevay. The date 07 sep 1817 also appears in the noted of Antoine Borel relating to these instructions, perhaps indicating when he was supposed to depart from Switzerland (a poor copy of the beginning of the instructions is in the internet version of the dissertation of Antoine Wasserfallen, 1999). The project, involving backing from other partners, was apparently instigated by a memorandum from Jean Jaques Dufour at Vevay, inviting Antoine Borel to establish a branch of the Bank of Indiana at Vevay.
He was certainly dead by 11 feb 1819, when Louis Gex-Oboussier was appointed as the administrator of the estate of "Charles Mieville Kramer" deceased, in Switzerland Co., Indiana (Probate Order Book I, 1814-1823, p. 79, on FHL microfilm #1310448).
Information on this family was also compiled by Pierre-Arnold and Jacqueline Borel, Livre de Raison et Chronique de Famille: Fascicule H. Quartiers Miéville, 2002, pp. 158-160 and elsewhere, citing a letter from Charles Emmanuel, then at Vaumarcus, to the commune of Colombier (Neuchâtel) dated 02 feb 1817 (Borel writes 1717, an obvious error), indicating that, due to unfortunate (financial?) circumstances, he is compelled to emigrate to America with his wife and three children. The town lent him 5 Louis d'Or, which he was to repay. Borel continues, apparently from unnamed sources at Colombier: "De ses 3 enfants, deux vivent encore en 1850 : Sophie, domiciliée à La Nouvelle-Vevey, en Amérique, où elle a épousé Monsieur Newkirh; Louise, sa soeur, aussi en Amérique, mère de 4 enfants : Louise, Hélène, Pierret et Charles." The name of the husband of Sophie should evidently be Newkirk, and we may be able to idenfity Louise's family through the names of the children—all of these people should be found somewhere in the 1850 US census. From this information, it appears the sons who were baptised at Colombier, Charles and George, had died, and that Sophie must have been born after the family left Colombier.
The marriage records in Switzerland County, Indiana suggest a slightly different scenario. Louisa H. "Maiville" married Jeremiah Newkirk in 1833, then Jeremiah remarried in 1841 to Martha Ann Blunk, then again in 1850 to Sophia "Mayfield", a plausible transformation of "Maiville" or "Miéville". If that is correct, it appears that Borel was mistaken in interpreting his sources at Colombier. In this scenario, Louise would have been dead by 1850, but her children should still be living with the Jeremiah Newkirk family. The census appears to confirm this scenario.
_Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE _______+
| (1696 - 1777) m 1721
_Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE ____|
| (.... - 1755) m 1746 |
| |_Susanne PETITPIERRE ________+
| (.... - 1733) m 1721
_Elie MIÉVILLE _________|
| (.... - 1804) m 1774 |
| | _Jean Jaques PETTAVEL _______
| | |
| |_Jeanne Marie PETTAVEL ___|
| (1725 - ....) m 1746 |
| |_____________________________
|
|
|--Charles Emmanuel MIÉVILLE
| (.... - 1818)
| _Jean Guillaume MILLET ______+
| | m 1703
| _Pierre Samuel MILLET ____|
| | m 1746 |
| | |_Jeanne Magdelaine CHOUPARD _
| | m 1703
|_Susanne Salomé MILLET _|
(.... - 1809) m 1774 |
| _David PERRENOD _____________
| |
|_Anne Françoise PERRENOD _|
m 1746 |
|_____________________________
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Elie MIÉVILLE (ID #I3462)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: greffier of Colombier, ancien de l'église
- BAPTISM: 24 JUL 1642, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- DEATH: 15 MAY 1697, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Father: Abraham MIÉVILLE (d. bef 1668)
Mother: Marie DROZ (dates unknown)
Family 1
:
Isabeau HORY (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 25 MAR 1668, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Henri François MIÉVILLE (bp. 17 OCT 1669)
- Jean Jaques MIÉVILLE (b. 1671)
- Anne Salomé MIÉVILLE (b. 1675)
- Jean Jaques MIÉVILLE (b. 1676)
- Elie MIÉVILLE (b. 1677)
- Marie Magdelaine MIÉVILLE (b. 1680)
- Jonas MIÉVILLE (b. 1681)
- Abraham MIÉVILLE (b. 1682)
- Jonas MIÉVILLE (b. 1684)
- Jonas MIÉVILLE (b. 1686)
Family 2
:
Susanne ANDRIÉ (dates unknown)
- Barbe MIÉVILLE (b. 1689)
- David MIÉVILLE (b. 1691)
- Susanne Marguerite MIÉVILLE (b. 1694)
- +Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE (b. 1696, d. 1777)
_Lienhardt MIÉVILLE _+
|
_Jonas MIÉVILLE _____|
| |
| |_Marie GARROT _______
|
_Abraham MIÉVILLE ___|
| (.... - 1668) |
| | _Bernard THOMASSET __+
| | |
| |_Jeanne THOMASSET ___|
| |
| |_Barbely HANZO ______
|
|
|--Elie MIÉVILLE
| (.... - 1697)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Marie DROZ _________|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
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Elie MIÉVILLE (ID #I3347)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: justicier, ancien de l'église
- BAPTISM: 06 SEP 1750, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- DEATH: 08 JUN 1804, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- BURIAL: 11 JUN 1804, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Father: Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE (d. 30 DEC 1755)
Mother: Jeanne Marie PETTAVEL (b. abt 1725, bur. 17 SEP 1797)
Family 1
:
Susanne Salomé MILLET (bp. 24 DEC 1752, d. 19 JUN 1809)
- MARRIAGE: 15 JAN 1774, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Susanne Salomé MIÉVILLE (bp. 04 AUG 1774)
- +Charles Emmanuel MIÉVILLE (bp. 30 MAR 1776, d. 1818)
- Marie Françoise MIÉVILLE (bp. 04 NOV 1777)
- Henriette MIÉVILLE (bp. 13 SEP 1779, d. 02 MAR 1780)
- Henriette MIÉVILLE (bp. 28 DEC 1780, d. aft 1853)
- Henri MIÉVILLE (bp. 04 FEB 1782, d. 1820)
- Julie MIÉVILLE (bp. 11 FEB 1784)
- +Marianne MIÉVILLE (bp. MAR 1786)
- Elie MIÉVILLE (bp. 01 SEP 1791)
- Sophie MIÉVILLE (b. 01 SEP 1791)
- George MIÉVILLE (b. 03 APR 1794)
From Elie back to the earliest Miéville, we follow Pierre-Arnold and Jacqueline Borel, Livre de Raison et Chronique de Famille: Fascicule H. Quartiers Miéville, 2002, for those ancestors and facts not found in the church records.
_Elie MIÉVILLE ______+
| (.... - 1697) m 1688
_Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE _|
| (1696 - 1777) m 1721 |
| |_Susanne ANDRIÉ _____+
| m 1688
_Jean Pierre MIÉVILLE __|
| (.... - 1755) m 1746 |
| | _Jean PETITPIERRE ___
| | |
| |_Susanne PETITPIERRE __|
| (.... - 1733) m 1721 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Elie MIÉVILLE
| (.... - 1804)
| _____________________
| |
| _Jean Jaques PETTAVEL _|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Jeanne Marie PETTAVEL _|
(1725 - ....) m 1746 |
| _____________________
| |
|_______________________|
|
|_____________________
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