VALOIS, BOIVAL, BOYVAL DE VALOIS

I. Francois BOIVAL ca. 1585-ca. 1630*. The basis for this possibility is from Joël Bigot, a genealogist in Le Deluge, a village very close to Corbeil-Cerf: “François BOIVAL était effectivement parrain de Jacqueline DESMAREST, fille de Pierre, née le 30/11/1617 à Corbeil-Cerf.” Thus a BOIVAL was in Corbeil-Cerf in 1617; and was a godfather to a DEMAREST. And Francois is a name repeated to this day. And a DESMARETS was godmother to Laurens BOIVAL in 1649 in the same village.

II. Laurens BOIVAL 1619-1649. A death entry in Corbeil-Cerf shows that he died 17 January 1649 and was then 30 years old. Carpenter.

III. Laurens BOIVAL 1649-ca. 1707.Born 26 April 1649 in Corbeil-Cerf. By 1666 “LB” was “known as VALLOYS”. During his acting career, he was known as Laurent BOYVAL, Sieur DE VALOIS, the latter moniker he adopted as a dit. Comedien.

IV. Francois BOYVAL DE VALOIS. Born “Dauphine” ca. 1670-1678-died after November 1742, then living in Valence en Dauphine. Comedien.

V. Charles Friedrich Guillaume DE VALOIS. Born Hannover 14 February 1708. Died after 1751. Actor, singer, musician.

VI. Louis Gabriel VALOIS. Born 31 January 1738 in Strasbourg. Died 12 February 1787, Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, then controlled by the Austrians. Hussar in a Baden unit commanded by an Austrian..

N.B. I have not been able to determine that any descendant line of any of the above direct ancestors exists today, other than the line below from Francois Joseph VALOIS b. 1777.

VII. Francois Joseph VALOIS. Born 3 June 1777, Rastatt, Died 10 April 1854 in Rastatt. Master wood turner, flintmaker. N.B. Francois Joseph had two wives. All 19 children were born in Rastatt between 1803 and 1832.

VIII. Their names: Frederic Louis, Joseph Amandus, Louis Ottmarus, Maria Barbara, Joannes Evangelista Valentin, Johann Baptiste, Ludwig, Joseph Karl, Christian Louis, Marianna, Maria Anna Catharina, Joseph Jacob, Edouard, Augustus, Albert, Adolph, Jacob Joseph, Karl Leopold.

If you are part of this family, you are descended from one of the above Eighth Generation forbearers.

My line continues from Jacob Joseph VALOIS.

IX. Jacob Joseph VALOIS. Born Rastatt 26 Nov 1829. Emigrated to the U.S. aboard the Ship Elisabeth from Havre, arriving New York 9 January 1851. Died Providence , RI 25 January 1912. Boot and shoe maker.

X. Charles Robert Augustus VALOIS, born Boston 9 August 1881. Died Miami, Florida 25 August 1971. Carpenter, cabinetmaker, display maker, bridge tender.

XI. Frank Jacob VALOIS, born 24 November 1909, Boston, MA, died Miami, Florida 4 November 1972. Plumber, teamster, sand hog, contractor, builder.

XII. Robert Arthur VALOIS, born 13 May 1938, New York City, NY. Lawyer.

XIII. and XIV. I have children and grandchildren. Some of you or your descendants are in the XVth or later generation and if I have that information, it will be mentioned in the family history I am writing.
Revised 6 March 2005