Lebeau

[North Star]

Hi Richard & others reseaching the Lebeau family,

I have just been bowled over by the Lebeau information which popped up when I Googled 'Oleron en St. Onge' and all your Rootschat info arrived!
Have therefore just registered with Rootschat & am not quite sure that I am doing things correctly so bear with me while I learn!
I am descended from Jean & Susanne Le Beau's son Daniel. His son, also Daniel born 1736, & married to Sarah Tindall, had a son James whose daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Beech on the 7th November 1818 at St. John, Hackney. They are my 3x gt. grandparents.
If I am not mistaken Daniel & Sarah also had a son Samuel whose own son Samuel was born in 1798. He was silk weaving in Braintree in Essex in the 19th c.  & the Lebeau name is mentioned as one of the old Huguenot names still to be met at the Braintree silk mills in an article in the 'Art Journal' of 1891. But I think the family has all gone from there now.
By co-incidence I went to the Braintree mill, now a museum, and saw the weaving just before it closed there, never realising that distant cousins had worked there a 100 years before,  although they would have  been in the old building burnt down about 1909

'Ancestry' also has the will of Sarah Lebeau nee Tindall of 1814, which is a fascinating account of her possessions. She was apparetly not one of the most poverty struck weavers.
So many, many thanks for supplying the earlier Lebeau records which I didn't know.
And a very happy New Year to you all - I am over the moon with what turned up from an idle Google!!
Stella.

[North Star]

Hi Wade,
Have just found your query 'am I am a Lebeau'?, but couldn't see how to reply to you so hope this gets to you. I haven't got the hang of Rootschat yet!
Tried one way but it wouldn't seem to 'go'!

And no, I am not,  but my 3x great grandmother was the Elizabeth Lebeau, daughter of James Lebeau & Ann Addlington, & she married  Samuel Beech in 1818. After that it is Samuel Beech son of this Sam & Elizabeth, and his youngest child Walter had a daughter Jessie Beech who was my grandmother born in Anglesea Street in Whitechapel in 1886.
James Lebeau was the son of  Daniel Lebeau & Sarah Tindall (she of the will - well worth a read if you are on 'Ancestry')
The mpother of the Samuel Beech who married Elix Lebeau was Charlotte Lesar, another French family. Any connections there?
Regards,
 Stella.

[dawnsh]

Hi Stella

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[Wade82]

Hello North star
Im afraid I have not got that far yet on the Lebeau line but I will let you know if I come up with anything.
Wecome by the way I still newish here to but everyone is very friendly and oh so very helpful.

[richarde1979]

Hello Stella

Glad the information proved useful for you.

Daniel Le Beau (1736-1811) also left a will, I can foward this to you if you do not have it.


so did Daniel Le Beau (1762-1813), his son perhaps?

Regards

Richard

[North Star]

A few items which may be of interest  to anyone looking out for Lebeau ancestors in Essex.

A newsaper report in the Essex Standard in September 1854, details an exhibition of silks manufactured in Braintree. At a dinner following the exhibition, the toast is proposed by a Mr. 'Lebow'. It is most likely that this is the Samuel Lebeau who was born in Shoreditch in 1798 - my 1st cousin 5 x removed!
 On the 1851 census he is living with his wife Mary Jane in Braintree & interestingly their 4 children mentioned are all born at different places, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Halstead & Braintree. Presumably Samuel was working at different silk mills at the time of their births.

The 'Art Journal' of 1891 has an article 'Silks & Satins' which gives details of the silks being produced at that time around the country. The names Le Beau & Le Vecq are mentioned as still being commonly met in Braintree.
And still in 1911 the name Samuel Lebeau (grandson of the above?) appears in Bocking, adjacent to Braintree, although by then the Lebeaus seem to be more cooca mat weaving than silk weaving.

There are many Lebeaus mentioned on the site 'Genealogie Protestante en Picardie' a delight I have just stumbled across.
Best wishes,
Stella.

[emmalouise1986]

Hi Just came across this site and feed  -  i am searching up my family tree and i have  got as fast as  Jean Lebeau & Susanne Tirar - I really want to find who was Jean's father and follow that line up I think his father was also Jean Lebeau abt 1680 who married judith hannetaux just cant find any information later than that? any suggestions  - thanks   

[Wade82]

hello all I havent been on here for many moons wasnt long after my lost post on this thread that life went abit wrong and my brother in law who i was doing this tree for sadly passed away but i just had a notifaction vand thought i should start it back up again for his daughter shes not even 3 yet and im sure at same point she will want to no who her family is/was on her fathers side so im going to go through all my old post and papers etc and get back to it for her

thankyou

[emmalouise1986]

Sorry for your loss I am sure your niece will appreciate it My mother died when I was small and recently had a lot of family upheaval so I am finding comfort in finding about my past and finding out where I come from. I wish someone had collected and kept things for me.


I think this is my LeBeau line so far oldest link first... So if anyone follows the same line or has any ideas please let me know I would love to trace the line back to France where it all began.

Abraham LeBeau /Jeanne Queul (Not sure on this link have just seen it suggested on another site tree but no paper work to link it together)
1690? Jean LeBeau / Judith Hannetaux
1696 Jean LeBeau / Susanne Tirar (Various spellings)
1723 Thimotee (Timothy) Lebeau /Anne Young
1762 Timothy Lebeau / Elizabeth Green
1806 John Lebeau / Susanna Juniper
1833 Singler Timothy LeBeau / Emma Reeve
1890 Frederick LeBeau / Ellen O'Leary
1912 Catherine LeBeau m William Davis (My Great Grand Parents) My LeBeau Start point