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Jean GARDIEN
Abt 1697 - 1770 (~ 73 years)-
Name Jean GARDIEN Birth Abt 1697 France 
Gender Male FamilySearch ID GB47-P3P _UID C186F2519E0F455F9B622C040AA2F4903881 Death 1770 Person ID I594778361 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 22 Sep 2024
Family Marie BOUILLY, b. Abt 1698, France d. Abt 1760 (Age ~ 62 years) Children 1. Judith GARDIEN, Gardner, b. 10 May 1725, Spitfields, London, England d. 1822, Goochland, Virginia (Age 96 years)Family ID F536731882 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Sep 2024
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Notes - Jean was born about 1697 considering first child was born 1717 LA PATENTE FRENCH HUGUENOT,SPITALFIELDS,LONDON,ENGLAND indicating that Marie, his wife, and himself were among the 50,000 French Huguenots escaping persecution in Europe by crossing the English Channel and taking refuge in London They had five children with Judith the last. Marie (1717), Jean (1719), Rachel (1721), Paul (1722), Judith (1725) all shoe they were born at Spitfields, London, England - a largely Huguenot center at the time.
At what point they immigrated to the colonies is not yet clear but In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the English Crown had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County. When they arrived, colonial authorities offered them instead land 20 miles above the falls of the James River, at the abandoned Monacan village known as Manakin Town, now in Goochland County. [3] So at some point after Judith was born in 1725, the Gardien family took leave of London for the colonies. The Poores were thick around Goochland County and sources certainly indicate that Judith and Abraham were married 19 April 1751 and raised their family there.. (see Poor-520)
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- Jean was born about 1697 considering first child was born 1717 LA PATENTE FRENCH HUGUENOT,SPITALFIELDS,LONDON,ENGLAND indicating that Marie, his wife, and himself were among the 50,000 French Huguenots escaping persecution in Europe by crossing the English Channel and taking refuge in London They had five children with Judith the last. Marie (1717), Jean (1719), Rachel (1721), Paul (1722), Judith (1725) all shoe they were born at Spitfields, London, England - a largely Huguenot center at the time.