This is a continuation of my Truax transcriptions.

Part I – House of Truax – Etymology

Part II – House of Truax – Historical – below

This is going to be another short one. As soon as I saw that it was tracing a possible line of descent from royalty, I skipped ahead and saw that there was no evidence other than a similar name. We simply have no basis at this point for claiming a royal line. Mr. Truax, however, provides tantalizing clues to those who might wish to chase this possibility (not me)!

p. 16

Historical

In a genealogical research for data, especially through antique tomes of the old world, one is liable – like a drowning man – to grasp after any friendly straw floating near that might seem to give him succor. So, with the editor of this volume, who has been drifting for years in deep water, generally at the ebb; sometimes at the flow; but now, at the flood of the tide – in quest of the etymology, or the earliest data approximating the name known to-day as that of Truax or Truex.

The first historical mention thus far discovered by the editor, of any name approximating that known as Truax, is that of Dreux, which appears as an individual surname in the latter part of the 12^th century , while the surname du Trieu appears about two hundred years later, and both in the same province of France.

While the fact remains that during the last five centuries, the surname in question, having undergone  …

p. 18 is a chart showing “The above genealogical alinement [sic] of the royal line of descent from King Louis VI, of France, is verbatim from ‘Storvis [sic: Stokvis]-Manuel D’Historie [sic: Histoire] de Genealogie,’ etc; vol II, p. 108, now (1907) in the ‘Astor Library,’ N. Y. City.”

[Note: sadly, The Astor Library is no more; however the book mentioned is held by the NYPL; catalog entry http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b19836996~S1]

[That book is online at http://fmg.ac/resources/scanned-sources/category/28-stokvis and an image of the relevant page is below.]

Truax, T. de T., House of Truax. “Bien faire et ne rien craindre.” Historical Genealogy of the Truax-Truex Families of the United States and Canada, descendants of Philippe de Trieux, the first Huguenot-Knickerbocker of that name who settled in New Netherland in 16__ and embracing his posterity to the present date a period of nearly three centuries of Twelve Generations. Manuscript. From New York Public Library, Call No. NYGB Coll-94 Box 1 and Box 2. http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b18209329~S1 . (Accessed 18Jul2015)

[An interesting history of this manuscript can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~truax/TheHouseofTruax.html ]