As the original story went, among the thousands of Hugenots who fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was a Viscount Francis Purcell de Bordeaux, a near relative of Henry IV and a nobleman of great wealth, who disposed of his landed estates at great sacrifice, nadda nadda yadda yadda. His commercial business, the old lady wrote, he transferred successfully, yadda yadda. For many years, she continued, the family remained in England. Not quite the way it happened. In fact, there was a family, about which virtually nothing is known. One of whom, Jacques, was a blacksmith who moved from Grenoble, France to Charleston, South Carolina at the appropriate time (of the revocation). His son Anthony, the only one of three boys to live to adulthood, was a carpenter.
Francis Purcell de Bordeaux, of Grenoble, formerly Dauphin, France, born perhaps 1550 (guess)
Pierre de Bordeaux, married Marie Dubois
Evremond Purcell de Bordeaux, married Catherine Fresne
Jacques "James" de Bordeaux born circa 1630-1650 in Grenoble and died before 20 December 1699 in Orange Quarter, Charleston, SC. Married Madelaine Garillion, daughter of Israel Garillion and Susanne Saunier. Cited on Ravenel List as son of Evremond. Occupation blacksmith.
Children:
Antoine "Anthony" de Bordeaux born after 1685 in Orange Quarter, Charleston, and died before March 1, 1724/25 in Orange Quarter, Charleston, SC. He married Marianna "Marian". Only son to live to maturity. Occupation carpenter. Left will naming his wife.
Jacques "James" de Bordeaux, born after 1705, Orange Quarter, Charleston, died March 8, 1767, married Esther Savineau (1720-1794) in St. Thomas Parish.
[Sources: "Bordeaux Family History," Milton L. Jackson, South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Volume 14, pp 215-220]
Daniel Bordeaux, born circa 1747 and died September 1, 1815 in SC. Married Elizabeth Martha Smith January 11, 1770 in SC, daughter of Josiah Smith and Elizabeth Darrell, born between 1745-1756.
[Sources: DAR Patriot Index, Part I, p 308, Hugenot Society of South Carolina, 29 November 1976; Marriage Notices in The South-Carolina Gazette and Its Successors (1732-1801), Issue_11 Jan 1770 [Thursday], Brent Holcomb]
Eliza Martha Bordeaux, born circa 1772, and died circa 1816. Married Stephen Alexander Juhan February 29, 1792 in Barnwell District, SC, son of Jean Juhan and Marie Payzant (born 1765 in Nova Scotia and died 12 August 1845 in Philadelphia)
[Sources: "HISTORY OF GWINNETT CO, GA" by JC Flanigan p 517.]
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