The Swiss Settlement of Vevay, Indiana: The settlers, their relatives, their associates
Esther PORTAZ (ID #I4137)
(female)
- BAPTISM: AUG 1641, Villette, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
Mother: Jeanne FAUQUEX (dates unknown)
Her marriage contract with Isaac Jossevel was recorded by Faucherre, notary at Moudon, 03 sep 1673 (ACV DL 40/4). At that time, she was the widow of Philippe Pictet, by whom she had two living sons, for whom provisions were made in the contract. She was accompanied by her brothers-in-law Thomas Dutoit (husband of her sister Estiennaz Portaz) and Pierre Pictet (brother of her late husband).
_Clément PORTAZ _____+
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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_Jean PORTAZ ________|
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Estiennaz PORTAZ (ID #I4136)
(female)
- BIRTH: ABT 1640
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- DEATH: AFT 1682
Father: Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
Mother: Jeanne FAUQUEX (dates unknown)
No baptism is found at Cully or Villette, but the records of both parishes seem poorly kept.
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Born after 1637, based on her age at the birth of her last known child.
_Clément PORTAZ _____+
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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_Jean PORTAZ ________|
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|--Estiennaz PORTAZ
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Henri PORTAZ (ID #I4124)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: notary, etc.
- BAPTISM: 12 FEB 1649, Cully, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: 11 FEB 1721, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
Mother: Claudine de Palézieux dit FALCONNET (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Elizabeth DE DIESBACH (b. 1652, d. 18 MAR 1720)
- Daniel PORTAZ (bp. 29 MAR 1681, d. 10 OCT 1750)
- Magdelaine PORTAZ (bp. 18 MAY 1682)
- +David PORTAZ (bp. 20 AUG 1685, d. 1764)
- David Benjamin PORTAZ (bp. 21 APR 1687)
- Jeanne Françoise PORTAZ (bp. 14 JAN 1690)
- Elizabeth Catherine PORTAZ (bp. 9 NOV 1692)
- Rose PORTAZ (bp. 3 JUL 1694)
His notarial registers from 1669-1720 have survived, and include the marriage contract of his niece Judith Dutoit and David Bergier, 1701. By 1704, he is described in the records of other notaries as "Lieutenant de la Cour et Juridiction du Jadis Chapitre de Lausanne", and it is apparent that he acted as an officer of that court, which had taken over judicial functions for an area formerly controlled by the Bishop of Lausanne before the Bernese occupation.
The surname is most often spelled Portaz in the 17th and 18th Century, but sometimes Porta. In more recent times it has settled on Porta.
After his baptism at Cully, Henri's next mention in the records at Cully seems to be 09 feb 1668, when he was one of the sponsors at the baptism of Jean Henri, son of Jaques Joran and Jaqueline Portaz (Henri's sister).
He was admitted to the bourgoisie of Lausanne on 26 apr 1688, as the following extract from the records of the city of Lausanne shows:
Bourgeoisie.
Jeudi 26 Apvril 1688.
Egrege et prudent Henry Portaz fils de feu Sr. Jean Portaz de Culli pretendant estre Bourgeois de ceste Ville pour se croire desscendre de Saturnin Portaz receue a Bourgeoisie l'an 1574, Mais n'ayant en cest (?) bien esclairci et Justifié sa desscendance, Nous n'avons pas cependant Jugé a propose d'entrer avec luy [un] proceds qui pourroit Causer de grands frais au public, mais avons mieux aimé pour l'Eviter la Recepvoir comme nous faisons presentement et admettrons a Nouveau Bourgeois pour Luy et ses successeurs legittimes et ce tant de Grace Speciale et pour plusieurs preignantes et legittimes Considerations que pour et moyennant la Somme de deux Cents et cinquante florins pp. applicables à l'achet de brochets de Cuir pour servir contre les dangers de feu, Oultre un grant d'isseu (?) des droits pour chacun des Assistans, Soubs les conditions portées et contenues aux Reglemens de cette Chambre fait le 20 8bre 1657 concernant les charges, Item qu'il apportera acte des Srs. ses freres comme ils renonceroient a toutes pretentions a cette Bourgeoisie, et qu'ils ne la recercherent Jamais n'y les leurs avenir pour n'est avoir a present aucun legittime fondement puis que la present concession faitte a leur frere n'est que gratuite et particulliere a luy seul et aux siens, sans qu'elle puisse estre tirée de Consequence pour qui que ce soit.
Ce qu'il a promis d'effectué en dhue forme le 1 May et en meme temps presté le serment requis et payé tout le prix deditte passation livré a Monsr. le Maisonneur comme aussi les Droits de la Chambre a Monsr. le Boursier.
[Marginal notation: Il a masles Daniel, David.]
From this, we see that Henri believed, or at least claimed, to descend from Saturnin Portaz, who appears in the earliest church records at Lausanne. The document also establishes that Henri's father was Jean Portaz of Cully.
An old genealogy of this family is found in a discussion of the Swiss descendants of Dom Antonio I, Prieur de Crato, King of Portugal (A. de Faria, "Descendance de D. Antonio I, Prieur de Crato, XVIIIe roi de Portugal," Archives Héraldiques Suisses 21:39-67, 1907). Antonio's claim to the throne of Portugal was not widely recognized, and he spent much of his life in Paris, where he died in 1595, leaving six sons and four daughters. Of these, Don Emmanuel de Portugal (1568-1638), a colorful character in his own right, married Emilie de Nassau, princess of Orange. They separated, and princess Emilie settled in Geneva. She later acquired the barony of Prangins, near Nyon. Her daughter Maria Belgia or Maria Belgica was thus raised near Nyon and became the bride of Johann Theodore de Croll (or Groll or Kroll), a soldier from Heidelberg. It is the descendants of this marriage who are the subject of the account by de Faria. Among them was Adrienne de Martines, who married David Benjamin Porta. Unfortunately, de Faria used a system of Roman numerals and typefaces to indicate the generations of the descendants, making it extremely difficult to follow the information. He does not give a source, but much of the information can be matched with what we have been able to tease out of the primary sources.
_Clément PORTAZ _____+
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_Regnier PORTAZ ____________________|
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_Jean PORTAZ _________________________|
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|--Henri PORTAZ
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| _Jaques de Palézieux dit FALCONNET _|
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|_Claudine de Palézieux dit FALCONNET _|
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Hugoz PORTAZ (ID #I4160)
(male)
Father: Pierre PORTAZ (dates unknown)
Marriage contract recorded by George Ansel (ACV DG 4/1). The bride's father, evidently a widower, remarried the next day.
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Jaqueline PORTAZ (ID #I4138)
(female)
- BAPTISM: 4 JAN 1644, Cully, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
Mother: Jeanne FAUQUEX (dates unknown)
Her marriage contract (Antoine Cornut, notary at Villette) mentions Jean Delavaulx, her guardian, and Samuel Blondet, her stepfather, both justices for the parish of Villette.
_Clément PORTAZ _____+
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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_Jean PORTAZ ________|
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|--Jaqueline PORTAZ
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Jean PORTAZ (ID #I4132)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: justicier
- BIRTH: BEF 1615, of Cully
[850]
- DEATH: 1656, Villmergen
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Father: Regnier PORTAZ (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Jeanne FAUQUEX (dates unknown)
- Claude PORTAZ (bp. 28 APR 1637)
- Pierre PORTAZ (bp. 9 SEP 1638)
- Estiennaz PORTAZ (b. ABT 1640, d. AFT 1682)
- Esther PORTAZ (bp. AUG 1641)
- Jaqueline PORTAZ (bp. 4 JAN 1644)
- Louis PORTAZ (bp. 23 NOV 1645)
Family 2
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Claudine de Palézieux dit FALCONNET (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: JUL 1647, Villette, Vaud, Switzerland
- +Henri PORTAZ (bp. 12 FEB 1649, d. 11 FEB 1721)
- Abraham PORTAZ (bp. 3 FEB 1652)
There seem to have been at least three men called Jean Portaz about 1630 in the vicinity of Villette and Cully. Jean Portaz l'aîné married at Villette 8 oct 1629 to Magdelaine relaissée d'Antoine DuPort. This Jean Portaz died before 02 feb 1632 leaving widow Magdelaine DuBois who then married David Lyonnas. Meanwhile, another Jean Portaz son of the late Clément married 04 nov 1630 to Ursule Thurin de Romont, widow of the late André Destraz of Lutry. Jean son of René or Regnier was most probably still young for marriage in 1632.
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Since his first known appearance as a sponsor at a baptism was in 1632, it follows that he should have passed the age of first communion by that time, usually about age 16-17, and so he should have been born no later than 1615.
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Died at Villmergen, in the first war of that name.
_Pierre PORTAZ ______
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_Clément PORTAZ _____|
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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|--Jean PORTAZ
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Jeanne Marie (Marguerite) PORTAZ (ID #I4112)
(female)
- BAPTISM: 19 AUG 1715, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: 1781
Father: David PORTAZ (bp. 20 AUG 1685, d. 1764)
Mother: Marie Louise OLIVIER (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Jean Louis MURET (b. 1715, d. 1796)
- MARRIAGE: 21 AUG 1754, La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland
- +Jules Nicolas Emmanuel MURET (b. 19 FEB 1759, d. 1847)
There are several version of her name, including Jeanne Marie (baptismal name), Jeanne Marguerite, and Marguerite Louise Marie. The marriage record says Jeanne Marguerite.
_Jean PORTAZ _________________________+
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_Henri PORTAZ __________|
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| |_Claudine de Palézieux dit FALCONNET _+
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_David PORTAZ _________|
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| | _Hans Jacob VON DIESBACH _____________
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| |_Elizabeth DE DIESBACH _|
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| |_Rosine MANUEL _______________________+
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|--Jeanne Marie (Marguerite) PORTAZ
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Lydie PORTAZ (ID #I4147)
(female)
Father: Regnier PORTAZ (dates unknown)
She is identified as the daughter of René Portaz and also the sister of Jean Portaz when she appeared as sponsor for baptisms in 1629 and 1632 at Villette.
_Pierre PORTAZ ______
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_Clément PORTAZ _____|
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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|--Lydie PORTAZ
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Pierre PORTAZ (ID #I4135)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 9 SEP 1638, Villette, Vaud, Switzerland
Father: Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
Mother: Jeanne FAUQUEX (dates unknown)
No further mention, apparently, so he must have died young.
_Clément PORTAZ _____+
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_Regnier PORTAZ _____|
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_Jean PORTAZ ________|
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|--Pierre PORTAZ
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Regnier PORTAZ (ID #I4146)
(male)
Father: Clément PORTAZ (d. BEF 1630)
Family 1
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- +Jean PORTAZ (b. BEF 1615, d. 1656)
- Lydie PORTAZ (dates unknown)
His name is usually spelled Regnier or similar in the records of the district of Lavaux. We find this spelling sometimes also in Lausanne in the 16th Century, interchangeable with René or Renez. In Lausanne, also, we find a René Portaz baptised in 1579, son of Saturnin Porte or Porta or Portaz. The records of the notaries help assure us that the Regnier of Cully is the son of Clément, not the son of Saturnin. Futher, the act of bourgeoisie in Lausanne for Henri Portaz in 1688 reveals that Henri Portaz believed himself to be, or at least claimed to be a descendant of Saturin (admitted to citizenship at Lausanne in 1574), but as he had presented no proof and apparently threatened legal action if his claim to citizenship were denied, the city council simply avoided the issue by conferring a new grant of citizenship on him and his descendants.
The family notes included in de Faria's account of the descendants of Dom Antonio I, King of Portugal (Archives Héraldiques Suisses 21:39-67, 1907) did not follow the descendants of Saturnin, but they do give a great deal of information about the descendants of the present Regnier.
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_Clément PORTAZ _____|
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Saturnin PORTAZ (ID #I4159)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: Maître
- BIRTH: of Lausanne
- DEATH: AFT 1589
Father: Pierre PORTAZ (dates unknown)
He appears several times in the surviving early church records of Lausanne. His surname is written at first Porte, then Porta. In the next generation, it is Portaz. His marriage contract, recorded by George Ansel (ACV DG 4/3), specifies that he has brothers Claude and Pierre of Cully, and that his brother Hugoz, who married Jeanne Groz alias Merlin, sister of Rose, has died.
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_Pierre PORTAZ ______|
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|--Saturnin PORTAZ
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Sebastienne PORTAZ (ID #I4163)
(female)
Father: Pierre PORTAZ (dates unknown)
Pierre Planchet received from Claude Portaz and his brothers Pierre, Saturnin, and Hugues, 300 florins for his marriage to Bastianne daughter of the late Pierre Portaz and sister of Claude and his brothers, 09 mar 1572 (Simon Pierre Chalon, notary at Lutry, ACV DI 22/4, fol. 57v). This document provides the name of the father of the Portaz brothers.
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_Pierre PORTAZ ______|
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