THE GUIGNION (GUIGNON) FAMILY HOME PAGEUpdated June 24, 2003 |
Robert A. (Bud) GUIGNION 2770 St. Emile Street Montréal, Québec H1L 5N3 Canada 514-351-1853 |
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| This page is an attempt at compiling a record of the GUIGNON/GUYGNON/GUINON/GUIGNION family name wherever it might have appeared over the past centuries. In tracing our ancestry we often concentrate on our own direct line and on the male members of the family. This attempt at tracing the extended GUIGNON line includes the female members of the family at least to their first marriage. As my ancestor is from Guernsey, Channel Islands, that is where my search has had its beginnings. I have found the family name to first appear in A LIST OF RECORDS IN THE GREFFE of the Island that is dated from about the year 1485. Further confirmation of this family being in Guernsey as early as 1535 appears in an article in the GUERNSEY SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, LOCAL RESEARCH, REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1907. The article written by Lieut.-Colonel T. W. M. Guérin, entitled GUERNSEY CROSSES appears on pages 358-366. To quote some of Lieut.-Guérin's article, "The custom of erecting crosses in memory of the Passion of our Blessed Lord in streets and public places is of very ancient origin. This custom continued in use down to the Reformation in England, and still prevails in Catholic countries." Almost a century later we might not be able to make such a general statement about this custom being continued in so called "Catholic Countries." "In Guernsey, as will be seen by the appended list, numerous wayside crosses existed before the Reformation, but as might be expected after the Calvinist rule during the latter half of the 16th and early part of the 17th centuries very few remains of them have come down to our times." Not having visited Guernsey I cannot speak with any authority but it would probably be safe to add that 93 years after Lieut.-Colonel Guérin's article there would be considerably less evidence of these crosses existing today. On pages 362-363 of his article Lieut.-Colonel Guérin lists the cross names and the towns and villages, roads, etc., where crosses were located. For brevity I will list only the place names and the number of crosses located in that area except for the St. Martin area where my ancester appears to have first located and this will be quoted from Lieut.-Colonel Guérin's article. St. Peter-Port (3) St. Martin's (10) The Forest (2) St. Andrew's (1) St. Peter's-in-the-Wood (6) Torteval (2) St. Saviour's (7) Catel (12) St. Sampson's (2) Vale (6) The St. Martin's crosses are named and located in Lieut.Colonel Guérin's article as follows: La Croix de la Salle de Fermain (In the Note Book of John Bonamy, King Procureur, 1497.) La Croix Bertran (At the cross roads leading to the mill of Sausmarez manor and to Jerbourg.) La Crois des Blanches (At the cross roads leading from Les Blanches to Callais.) La Croix de Jerbourg (Near the site of Mr. Waterman's house.) La Croix Guerin (At the junction of la Rue Maze and La Grande Rue.) La Croix Falaise (On the right hand side of La rue de la Couture leading from the Rectory to Saint.) La Croisie (Near the site of the old priory of Martinvast.) La Croix Falaise (A second cross of this name near La Villette.)) LA CROIX GUIGNON (At Les Pages de Haut.) La Croix Guillon (The exact site of this cross is doubtful but it is mentioned in a Lettre of 7 Feb. 1707.) The question that I continually ask myself is, Where did the family members come from? Certainly the name is in French church and civil records of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and it is to several Departments of France that I also directed some of my search. My attempt to establish a connection between the Guernsey and the French families has as yet been unsuccessful. The immediate task for me is to connect the several Guernsey families that I have data on. The reports on some of these families follow. |
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