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Other Countries / Re: Latour / Lantour / Lautour of Calcutta, India
« on: Wednesday 05 March 14 21:26 GMT (UK) »
Hello Perks,
That would be a nice tie up. The dropping of the "u" in de Lautour does make it all a bit more difficult as there are many "la Tours" in France. For example the painter Georges de la Tour, is not related at all. (On an aside Toulouse Lautrec and the de Lautour family share a common an ancestor, Count Raymond of Toulouse.). The name merely means "of the tower" as coming from a tower or a place with a tower. The Family origins are in the Languedoc area. In an area called Comminges, close to the Spanish border. St Bertrand of Comminges and it's wonderful church is on the pilgrimage route to Compestella. Over the centuries branches of the family ended up in various parts of the country. Initially they were very tied up with an abbey called "Bonnefont" which is now a ruin, and gave a lot of money to it. A lot of the research material came from church records, but that's all way back in the history. A book on the family was researched and published a hundred or so years ago and in the 1990s a member of the genealogy society here, just because she wanted to, did a lot more research but mostly into our 4xgreat grandmother's family who came after Francois. I do know he died in Paris, but have no idea where he or Ann Hordle (his wife) are buried. Will try and find that book today, but it looks like we will be on the move again some time soon, this time I hope for quite a while. It's been pretty topsy turvy here what with earthquakes and floods We have moved 6 times since 2009 not all because of the earthquakes and a flood, but still it's wearying. Oh and Frances de la Tour, the actress, is related, somehow.
Regards
That would be a nice tie up. The dropping of the "u" in de Lautour does make it all a bit more difficult as there are many "la Tours" in France. For example the painter Georges de la Tour, is not related at all. (On an aside Toulouse Lautrec and the de Lautour family share a common an ancestor, Count Raymond of Toulouse.). The name merely means "of the tower" as coming from a tower or a place with a tower. The Family origins are in the Languedoc area. In an area called Comminges, close to the Spanish border. St Bertrand of Comminges and it's wonderful church is on the pilgrimage route to Compestella. Over the centuries branches of the family ended up in various parts of the country. Initially they were very tied up with an abbey called "Bonnefont" which is now a ruin, and gave a lot of money to it. A lot of the research material came from church records, but that's all way back in the history. A book on the family was researched and published a hundred or so years ago and in the 1990s a member of the genealogy society here, just because she wanted to, did a lot more research but mostly into our 4xgreat grandmother's family who came after Francois. I do know he died in Paris, but have no idea where he or Ann Hordle (his wife) are buried. Will try and find that book today, but it looks like we will be on the move again some time soon, this time I hope for quite a while. It's been pretty topsy turvy here what with earthquakes and floods We have moved 6 times since 2009 not all because of the earthquakes and a flood, but still it's wearying. Oh and Frances de la Tour, the actress, is related, somehow.
Regards