The Sum of Us The Sum Of Us | 1 4 | The Sum Of Us Jeanneret The Sum Of Us | 5 Janneret Jeannerat Jeannerot Jeannotat, Jeannottat Jeanneney Jeannenez Jeannesson, Jonneret Johannot Johannes Jeanneret- Gris Jeanneret-Grosjean Jeanjean Jeanpierre Jampierre Jeanperrin Jeangirard Jeanjaquet Jeanhenry Jeanclaude Jeanrenaud Jean-Gueninn Jeanguenin Jeanguenat Jean-Richard JeanRichard Jeanrichard Jean-Mairet Jeanmairet Jeanneret Jeanmonod Jeanmonnot Jeangros Jeangroz Jeanningros Grosjean Grandjean Petitjean Jean-Cartier Jean-Quartier Jeanquartier Jeanbourquin Jeanbourgquin Jean- Prêtre Jeanmaire Jeanclerc Jeancier Jeanfavre Jeandrevin Jeanbrun Jeandroz Jeandupeux Jeanloz Jehanneret Jonerey Jennerick Generette Jeneret Genrett Janerette 6 | The Sum Of Us HISTORY OF THE FAMILY JEANNERET ORIGINATING FROM LE LOCLE SWITZERLAND Genealogical search, or more exactly the search of the surname can hardly be made beyond the 15th century. At that time the shortage of personnel, the shortage of documentation and the lack of their text do not make it possible to establish with certainty affiliation. One must be often satisfied with probability and limited data. During the 14th Century, amongst subjects of the Princes of Valangin we find in year 1350, the name of Yermin which becomes Small Jehan then Jehanneret then Jeanneret. In 1447, the population of valley-I-Ruz becoming more numerous, the lord of Valangin supports the colonists who from there in the High Jura will call themselves as clearer- ploughman. At the 14th Century they are established in Segue, with the Between-two-Mounts, Locle the Lime of Bottoms. A family of the name of Jeanneret is installed with the hamlet of Crozot on Locle, an official letter going back to 1612, addressed to Jean-Jacques Jeanneret, Bourgois of Valangin. Franc-Habergeant, confirms the existence of this family to the farm of Cernaye. Certain nicknames or physical characteristics were not long in differentiating between families, thus a large strapping man took the particle "large- Jean", Jeanneret-Grosjean. One strongly grisonnant took the nickname of "the gris" from where Jeanneret-Gris comes from. Switzerland is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe, with more than 70 percent of its area covered by the Alps with peaks of 4,634 m, in the central and southern sections, the Jura (Celtic for forests) in the Northwest. The Juras are much lower and smaller than the Alps, and are popular for cross country skiing. The renowned Swiss watchmaking industry began in the Jura mountains, introduced by the Huguenots escaping from France. Switzerland is a confederation of 23 states, called cantons. Originally the canton of Neuchatel was under Prussian control and it was not until 1815 that it became the 18th member of the Swiss Republic. Neuchatel canton is known for speaking the purest French in France & Switzerland, the other main languages of the Swiss Republic are German in the West and Italian in the south. Neuchatel canton covers the towns of Le Locle, La Chaux de Fonds, Travers, Neuchatel and many more but those stated appear to be the main areas that the name Jeanneret is established. Le Locle is near the French border and lies approximately 15 km North of Neuchatel and 10 km West of La Chaux de Fonds, Travers is approx. 15 kms South west of Le Locle. The Huegenot Society of South Carolina confirms the name Jeanneret as a Huguenot family. The Sum Of Us | 7 Freedom of the City On the 9th October 1798, on payment of forty six shillings and eight pence, Lewis Jeanneret was granted Freedom of the City. 10 | The Sum Of Us History of Fleet Prison until the Fleet Market, and ran alongside the prison to The prison was built in 1197 off what is now Farringdon Ludgate Hill. Street, on the eastern bank of the River Fleet after which it was named. It came into particular prominence from The head of the prison was termed the warden, who being used as a place of reception for persons committed was appointed by Letters patent. It became a frequent by the Star Chamber, and, afterwards, as a debtor’s practice of the holder of the patent to farm out the prison and for persons imprisoned for contempt of court prison to the highest bidder. This custom made by the Court of Chancery. In 1381, during the Peasants’ the prison long notorious for the cruelties inflicted Revolt, it was deliberately destroyed by Wat Tyler’s men. on prisoners. One purchaser of the office, Thomas Bambridge, who became warden in 1728, was of In 1666, during the Great Fire of London, it was burned particularly evil repute. He was guilty of the greatest down on the third day of the fire, the prisoners fleeing extortions upon prisoners, and, according to a committee at the last moments. The then-warden of the prison, Sir of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the Jeremy Whichcote, purchased Caron House in Lambeth state of English gaols, arbitrarily and unlawfully loaded after the fire to house the prison’s debtors while the with irons, put into dungeons, and destroyed prisoners prison was rebuilt on the original site at his own expense. for debt, treating them in the most barbarous and cruel manner, in high violation and contempt of the laws. He During the 18th century, Fleet Prison was mainly used for was committed to Newgate Prison, and an act was passed debtors and bankrupts. It usually contained about 300 to prevent his enjoying the office of warden. prisoners and their families. Like the Marshalsea prison, it was divided into a restrictive and arduous Common During the Gordon Riots in 1780 Fleet Prison was Side and a more open Master’s Side, where rent had again destroyed and rebuilt in 1781–1782. In 1842, in to be paid.[1] At that time prisons were profit-making pursuance of an Act of Parliament, by which inmates of enterprises. Prisoners had to pay for food and lodging. the Marshalsea, Fleet and Queen’s Bench Prisons were There were fees for turning keys or for taking irons off, relocated to the Queen’s Prison (as the Queen’s Bench and Fleet Prison had the highest fees in England. There Prison was renamed), it was finally closed, and in 1844 was even a grille built into the Farringdon Street prison sold to the Corporation of the City of London, by whom wall, so that prisoners might beg alms from passers-by. it was pulled down in 1846. But prisoners did not necessarily have to live within Fleet Prison itself; as long as they paid the keeper to compensate him for loss of earnings, they could take lodgings within a particular area outside the prison walls called the “Liberty of the Fleet” or the “Rules of the Fleet”. From 1613 on, there were also many clandestine Fleet Marriages. The boundary of the Liberties of the Fleet included the north side of Ludgate Hill, the Old Bailey to Fleet Lane and along it The raquet ground of the Fleet Prison as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11). Wikipedia, Public Domain The Sum Of Us | 11 Edward Pryce JEANNERET Edward Pryce Jeanneret was apprenticed to John 2 December 1798 - 5 August 1882 Munro Berry, Citizen and STATIONER to learn his art on 7 December 1813. Born 2nd Dec 1798 to Lewis Jeanneret and Mary Ann Pryce. He was baptized at the Independent NOTICE is hereby given, that Congregational chapel, St Luke’s in Finsbury, the Partnership lately subsisting London on the 30th December 1798. He did not see between us the undersigned, much of his mother as she died in March 1800, of William Harris and Edward dropsy, and was buried at St Luke’s. Pryce Jeanneret, of Basinghall- On 21 August 1822 he married Mary HARMAN in Street, in the City of London, St Peter’s in St Albans. Mary was stepdaughter of and St. Albans, in the County William Harris, a rich farmer from St Albans. In of Herts, Cotton Manufacturers, 1824 Edward insured the premises at 60 Aldersgate was ‘this day dissolved by mutual Street, London where he was in business as a cotton consent,— merchant. In 1830 he was working in partnership Dated this 17th day of October with his father-in-law as cotton merchants at 44 1834. Basinghall Street, London. However this venture William Harris and Edward went wrong. In his will, Harris bemoans the fact Pryce Jeanneret that he wasn’t leaving much to his heirs on his death London Gazette 1869 in 1841 because of the failure of the partnership which was dissolved on 17 Oct 1834. In 1841 Edward and Mary are living in Finsbury where he is working as a clerk. In 1851 he is working as an actuary for a Savings Bank in Moorfields (close to Finsbury) and by 1856 he has been made a partner in the Union Bank of London. He has also moved to a new house in the suburbs newly created to provide accommodation for those working in London – 19, Barnsbury Park. From 1865 to 1871 he is a partner in the Albion Bank. He appears to have retired around then. In 1881 he gives his occupation as Retired Savings Bank Officer. He died on 5 August 1882. Edward and Mary had no children but they seemed to have been very hospitable to members of Mary’s Harris family who were recorded as staying at 19 Barnsbury Park in various census returns. Perhaps as recognition of their help, Mary’s stepbrother Bevan Harris christened his youngest son Albert Jeanneret Harris in 1871. Mary lived on until 1895, first in Brighton, and later with her step-niece Rose Harris in Nottingham.