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La Famille De Bary La Famille de Bary Google map Bois de Barry (Bois meaning wood or forest) Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium Excerpts from Notice généalogique & historique sur la famille De Bary: originaire de Tournay, en Hainaut, établie depuis 1806 a Guebwiller, en Alsace. Author - Alfred de Bary. Date: 1877 Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Rights: domaine public Provider: Bibliothèque nationale de France. http://books.google.com/books?id=4wAbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA149&vq=Pierre&dq=de+Bary+Pierre&output=text The BOIS DE BARRY (spelled Bari, or BARY, and in error Barri or Barry) is located in southwest Belgium two miles east of Tournai (Doornik in Dutch/Flemish), and equa-distance between Tournai and Leuze on the Grand Route from Tournai to Brussels. It is situated on the left bank of the River Escaut (Scheldt in Dutch) and is located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels in the western portion of the province of Hainaut (Walloon region) which is in the lowlands at the southern limit of the Flemish plain (Flanders). (Geographically, it is located in Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Europe; 50° 35' 0" North, 3° 32' 0" East.) Bary was formerly a municipality and was merged along with other municipalities into Tournai. The Kingdom of Belgium was not formed until 1831. The northern half of Belgium speaks Flemish (which is called Dutch and is a Germanic language) and the southern half speaks French. TOURNAI was an important river port and the Scheldt River was a natural border. The River Scheldt begins in northeastern France, enters Belgium at Tournai, flows through west Belgium, by Antwerp, and northwest to the North Sea in the SW Netherlands. Tournai came under the control of the Romans (who called it Castrum Tornacum) circa 50 AD who used Tournai as a staging point on the road to Cologne and also as a port to begin the sail from Tournai to Britain. In 486 AD, the Franks conquered the region and made Tournai its capital; in the middle ages, (approximately 1,000 years from the 5th to the 15th century) Flanders extended over the modern-day Belgian provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders, and Hainaut. Tournai was a major prosperous center for artisans and merchants. The Catholic Bishopric of Tournai was the religious capital of Flanders from 496 to 1559; just over 1,000 years. By the 12th century, the large forest east of Tournai was already named Bary and was part of the domain of the Lords of Bary. Romans enter Tournai https://flagspot.net/flags/be-whtto.html THE REFORMATION The 16th century was the tumultuous period during which the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation transformed the culture of Europe into our own modern age. When the 16th century began, Western Europe had only one religion, Roman Catholicism. During the 16th century, Tournai was a bulwark of Calvinism (French Huguenots). The first Protestant martyrs were burned in Brussels July 1, 1523. At Frankenhausen, 1000 are killed and protestant ministers are hanged by Catholic princes. After a siege in 1581, Tournai was conquered by the Spanish governor of the Low Countries. After the fall of the city, its Protestant inhabitants were given one year to sell their possessions and emigrate, a policy that was at the time considered relatively humane, since very often religious opponents were simply massacred. By the end of the 17th century and into the 18th century, roughly 500,000 Huguenots had fled France during a series of religious persecutions. Huguenot persecution was one of the main causes of the French Revolution, because by this time (1789) France had lost the middle class which gave it stability and a good economy. http://www.trabel.com/tournai/tournai-history.htm http://www.orange-street-church.org/text/huguenot-rearguard.htm http://french-at-a-touch.com/French_History/edict_of_nantes_%5B1589%5D.htm FAMILIE DE BARY Antoine de Bary, born in 1492, in Bois de Bary in Tournai had seven sons; Louis, the second son, was born circa 1530 in the French-speaking City of Tournai, Hainaut, Flanders, which was then a political division of France. The Bary family was French Huguenot. (French Protestants; known as the Protestant Reformed Church of France since the 1560’s). Louis would be Samuel Frederick de Bary’s 7-great grandfather. In 1576, four years after the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of Huguenots in Paris, Louis de Bary and his brother Jacques paid their exit taxes and “refugeed” (emigrated) from Tournai to Cologne. The distance from Tournai to Cologne was about 187 miles (301 km - Cologne was a Free City from 1475 until 1794. The de Barys emigrated 22 years before the April 13, 1598 Edict of Nantes issued on 13 April 1598 by Henry IV of France which granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic - The Edict was revoked in 1695. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Imperial_City LOUIS DE BARY returned to Hainaut (to Mons) in 1582. In 1583, Louis settled in Frankfurt am-Main (Hessen- Nassau, Prussia) where this branch of the family would remain. Louis had three sons: Jean, Pierre, and Jacques. He became a citizen of Frankfurt and in 1588 was known as Louis de Bary of Mons. Louis was deacon and elder of the Walloon church in Frankfurt in 1585, 1589, 1593 and 1595. Louis died in Frankfurt on 26 October 1597. (In present day, Frankfurt is the largest financial center in continental Europe.) The generational descendants of Louis are PIERRE (Louis’ second son), ISRAEL born 1609, FRANCOIS born 1643, JEAN born 1675, ISAAC born 1715, JEAN born 1744, and CHRISTIAN, born in Frankfurt am-Main in 1775. Christian was Louis’ 6-great grandson and would be the father of Samuel Frederick de Bary. Christian would become a banker in Frankfurt. In 1801, Christian married Sophia Christina Caroline Pilgrim. Sophia’s father was August Theodor Pilgrim (born 1745 in the Rheinland and died 19 March 1804) and her mother was Wilhelmine Christine Overgott. Sophia, who was the 8th of ten children, was born October 7, 1781 in the Rheinland and died March 23, 1853 in Oehringen, Wurtemberg. Christian died in 1857 in Frankfurt am-Main, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. The most well-known children of Christian and Sophia were Samuel Frederick, Guillaume, and Albert. In 1852, Samuel Frederick (see below) would become Mumm’s sole agent in America to market their wines in the United States and Canada. Guillaume (born Johann Adolph Wilhelm William) was born 21 August 1816; married Eugenie Hoerner of Stuttgart; they had three sons: Alexandre, Louis and Arthur de Bary. Guillaume died 4 October 1875. Albert, born in 1824, married Leonie Fassin. They had two children: Raul and Helene. Albert became a naturalized French citizen. Both Guillaume (William) and Albert were employed at G. H. Mumm et Cie at Reims. Guillaume was chef (managing partner) de la maison of G. H. Mumm et Cie. (Reims is 80 miles east northeast of Paris in northern France, Reims rhymes with “rance.” SAMUEL FREDERICK DE BARY was born January 12, 1815 in Frankfurt am-Main, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. Frederick de Bary’s first job was as a salesman for a large manufacturer of dry goods in Frankfurt. (America's Successful Men of Affairs, Edited By Henry Hall, Vol. I, The New York Tribune 1895, Page 172.) On August 15, 1844 in Crefeld, Rheinland, Prussia, Frederick married Julie Scherpenhausen who was born October 16, 1819 in Crefeld. Julie’s parents were Daniel Scherpenhausen and Catharina Tillmanns Scherpenhausen. Frederick de Bary and Julie had three children: 1) Adolphe was born October 11, 1845 in Crefeld, Rheinland, Prussia; he would join his father’s New York business and also would become a Director for the Florida steamboat company DeBary-Baya Merchants’ Line. 2) Christian Friedrich, born March 20, 1849 in Crefeld, Rheinland, would be called Frederick Jr. and 3) Eugenie born June 3, 1858 in New York City. Daughter Eugenie de Bary married Hugo Friedrich Wilhelm Von Mauch of Stuttgart who was born September 8, 1851. They moved to Germany in 1877 and lived in the Märchenstrasse in Stuttgart, the capital of Wurttemberg. They had one daughter and three sons. Hugo Von Mauch died on August 31, 1918 and Eugenie died on August 13, 1934 in Stuttgart. GUILLAUME (WILLIAM) DE BARY – BROTHER OF FREDERICK ALBERT DE BARY – BROTHER OF FREDERICK DE BARY DE BARY BORN 1816 IN FRANKFURT AM-MAIN BORN 1824 IN FRANKFURT AM-MAIN FREDERICK DE BARY AND JULIE SCHERPENHAUSEN ADOPHE, FIRST CHILD OF FREDERICK AND JULIE MARRY AUGUST 15, 1844 IN THE RHEINLAND, PRUSSIA. DE BARY BORN OCTOBER 11, 1845 IN PRUSSIA CHRISTIAN FREDERICK WAS THE SECOND CHILD OF FREDERICK AND JULIE DE BARY. BORN 1849 https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AChristian~%20%2Bsurname%3A%22de%20bary%22~%20%2 Bfilm_number%3A997035 HUGO FRIZ VON MAUCH WAS THE FIRST CHILD OF HUGO FRIEDRICH MAUCH AND EUGENIE DE BARY MAUCH. BORN OCTOBER 10, 1878 IN STUTTGART * * * * * * * .
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