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Bourdeaux

As the story went, among the thousands of Huguenots who fled France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was a Viscount Francis Purcell de Bourdeaux, a wealthy merchant. Full stop. The emigrant was James, a blacksmith, whose son Anthony was a carpenter and great-grandson Daniel was a planter. Daniel had a daughter Eliza, who died in 1816, and a son Isaac, who died in 1819. Isaac had one son, Lincoln, a mulatto, of whom nothing else — unfortunately — is known.

Sources: Juhan family records; Jackson, Bordeaux Family History; Flanigan, History of Gwinnett Co, Ga; Robison, History of the Bordeaux Family 1777-1930; Shaw, "Letters of Denization;" Salley, Warrants for Lands in South Carolina; Smith, "The Baronies of South Carolina," p. 33; Smith, "The Orange Quarter," p. 114

generation no. 1

Francis Purcell de Bordeaux, born c 1550 of Grenoble, France.

generation no. 2

Pierre de Bourdeaux. Married Marie Dubois.

generation no. 3

Evremond Purcell de Bourdeaux. Married Catherine Fresne.

Sources: Shaw, "Letters of Denization"; Salley, Warrants for Lands in South Carolina, p. 433; Smith, "The Baronies of South Carolina," p. 33

generation no. 4

Jacques (James) de Bourdeaux, born c 1630-50 in Grenoble, died before 20 December 1699 in Orange Quarter, Charleston SC. Blacksmith. Married Madelaine Garillion, daughter of Israel Garillion and Susanne Saunier.

Sources: Shaw, "Letters of Denization;" Salley, Warrants for Lands in South Carolina, p. 433; Smith, "The Baronies of South Carolina," p. 33

Marguerite de Bourdeaux, born before 1685, Grenoble, died SC
Madelaine de Bourdeaux, born before 1685, Grenoble, died SC
Judith de Bourdeaux, born before 1685, Grenoble, died SC
Antoine de Bourdeaux
Jacques de Bourdeaux, born after 1685, Charleston, died before 1699
Israel de Bordeaux, born after 1685, Charleston, died before 1699

generation no. 5

Antoine (Anthony) de Bourdeaux, born after 1685 in Charleston, died before 1 March 1724-25 in Orange Quarter (see will). Only son to live to maturity. Carpenter. Married Marianna (Marian).

Sources: Smith, "The Baronies of South Carolina," p. 33; Charleston Wills; South Carolina Archives, vol. 2, pp. 13-14; Moore and Simmons, Abstracts of the Wills, vol. 1, p. 290

Anthony Bordeaux, born after 1705, died before 5 April 1769
Daniel de Bordeaux, born after 1705
Israel de Bordeaux, born after 1705, married Mary Rivers
Jacques (James) de Bordeaux

generation no. 6

Jacques (James) de Bourdeaux, born after 1705 in Charleston, died 8 March 1767. Planter, Berkley County. Married Esther Savineau, born 1720, died 1794, in St. Thomas Parish.

Source: Jackson, Bordeaux Family History, pp. 215-20

four older children, names unknown
Daniel Bourdeaux, born c 1747, died 1 September 1815

generation no. 7

Daniel Bourdeaux, born c 1747, died 1 September 1815. Married 11 January 1770 Elizabeth Martha Smith, born 1745-56, daughter of Josiah Smith and Elizabeth Darrell.

Sources: DAR Patriot Index, part I, p. 308; Huguenot Society of South Carolina, 29 November 1976; Marriage Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette and Its Successors (1732-1801), no. 11

Isaac Bourdeaux (see will), born 1770-71, died c 1819
Eliza Martha Bourdeaux

generation no. 8

Eliza Martha Bourdeaux, born c 1772, died c 1816. Married 29 February 1792 in Barnwell District Stephen Alexander Juhan, born 1765 in Nova Scotia.

Sources: Flanigan, "History of Gwinnett Co, Ga," p. 517; Payzant, Payzant and Allied Jess and Juhan Families

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