Part I – House of Truax – Etymology

Part II – House of Truax – Historical

Part III – House of Truax – Church records

Part IV – New Amsterdam records

Part V – House of Truax – First Generation – below

It is easy to sit here in my chair and critique the errors in the below. However, one must keep in mind that we bear the benefits of others’ painstaking research and groundbreaking findings, without which we would also be starting from scratch. This is a very early version of the first generation and should not be treated as all fact, but as a historical snapshot of all the research that has gone into our people.

Next is some court records, and then he picks up with some more work he calls first generation, before he goes to the second.

Happy Hunting!

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First Generation

1 – Philippe du Trieux, together with his wife Susanna Chiney or de Scheene as it is universally written, doubtless, were passengers on the ship New Netherland which arrived in the waters of (now) New York Bay during the month of May 1623, and was one of the first settlers of Huguenot-Knickerbocker distinction known to historians of ancient New York.

Where or when the marriage occurred is a matter of conjecture [blogger’s note: that marriage has been found]. It may have been in a little hamlet in the north eastern part of France known as Chiney, where Susanna may have been born; or it may have been in Norwich or Canterbury, England, where the surname of de Trie, Destrie, etc; appears on the church records, and where, perhaps they, with other Huguenot refugees found a temporary asylum from the French Inquisition.

Earley [sic] in the 17^th century one Philippe du Trieu and Jacqueline Noriet, his wife, were residents of Amsterdam, Holland, where the church register contains the baptism of their son Philippe on the 3^rd of January 1616. The names of the same parties, presumably, appears as members of the church at Leyden in October 1617, by letter from Amsterdam. Again, on the 10^th of February 1619 they had another son

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Philippe baptised at Amsterdam on the 9^th of February 1620; the former son evidently having not survived. They also had a daughter Madeleine subsequently baptised at Amsterdam. Nothing further respecting this Phillipe or his wife Jacqueline has been discovered from record either in Europe or New Netherland, except the unsupported statement of de Forest to the contrary. Yet the fact remains that their issue, or those bearing the same names were subsequent residents of New Amsterdam; for, (see later), one Madalentie de Terneu was sponsor at the baptism of a child of her sister (?) Jacomina de Terreu.

The christian name, Philippe, seems to have been quite common in different Dreux, du Trieu families, even as far back as the year 1217 when Louis (Dreux) VI, King of France, had a son Philippe; while, during the early part of the 16^th and 17^th centuries the name is found in Canterbury and Norwich England besides different parts of Holland. It might have been possible that Philippe du Trieux who married Jacqueline Noiret was a nephew or a cousin of Philippe, it is absolute certain he could not have been – as claimed by some of the editors correspondents – a son of Philippe, else it would be

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a flagrant libel upon church records – which are absolute – as well as a most ridiculous supposition; for in such an event, Philippe would have been a grandfather at the age of about 29 years.

No more could it be possible in the presence of existing facts – as many seem to think – that Philippe married Jacqueline Noriet, and later Susanna de Scheene, or viceversa. The church records at Amsterdam, Holland, gives the years from 1616 to 1620 wherein the children of Philippe du Trieux and his wife Jacqueline Noiret were baptised; while the records at Leyden, Holland (see [illegible] from Justice Charles H. Truax, preceding), show that Philippe du Trieux and his wife Susanna de Scheene emigrated from Norwich, England on the 22^nd of April 1601. Also, on the same date of their arrival from Norwich, arrived one “Jacquemine, widow of Philippe du Trieux; doubtless, the widowed mother of Philippe, our progenitor. Other data of marriages of the issue of Philippe here recorded tends to show that at least three of their issue were born in Europe prior to the year 1620.

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It is unfortunate that all records of both births and marriage in New Amsterdam prior to the year 1639 have disappeared; hence, one must needs be governed for chronological data by attending circumstances. But the undisputed fact remains that Philippe and Susanna de Sheene were acknowledged man and wife, both in Europe and New Netherland, and were, as well, parents of [blogger’s note: this is incorrect; it has been conclusively established that the second theory is correct, that Philippe m1 Jacquemyne Noiret and m2 Susanna du Chesne. In his marriage to Susanna he is specified as Jacquemyne’s widower.  I do not know why Truax, or more likely his editor who I believe to be Howard S. F. Randolph, are so insistent that Susanna immigrated to the Netherlands with Philippe. Please, someone, enlighten me to these records!]

The following issue

2 – I, Jerome, born at Leyden. (Nothing further known of him).

3 – II, Philippe, perhaps born at Norwich. [blogger’s note: I believe b. Amsterdam, and there were previously acknowledged to be two Philippes]

4 – III, Rachel, born at Amsterdam, as per text of her marriage.

5 – IV, Sara, born at New Netherland, as per text of her marriage.

6 – V, Susanna, born at New Netherland, as per text of her marriage.

7 – VI, Abraham

8 – VII, Rebecca

[Blogger’s note: My own ancestor Maria should be added here, b. Amsterdam. Also Madeleine, and Isaac and Jacob.]

Source:

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 ]