General Notes

SOURCES:
LDS FHL Ancestal File # 8XHM-2P  (familysearch.org)
"Kitter Chouinard and Allied Families" Sharon Kitter kittersl@@hotmail.com, who has generously shared with us the following narrative at AWTP, excepts thereof are given:

"DuBois signifies from the forest and was a family name in Artois, France, and in Normandy before William the Conqueror left its shores.
The erasure of the record of Cretian's marriage and family was to prevent his children from establishing claim to the validity of descent to titles and estates, but the validity of Louis' claim of descent is established for the purpose of genealogy. The record at Mannheim, Germany, where he married, states that he was the son of Cretian DuBois of Wicres, a little village in the Province of Artois, near Lille, France. The old register at Wicres has been examined and found to contain the registry of baptisms of three sons of Cretian DuBois, but in each case the Christian name of the son is torn out in accordance with the King's order. This erasure of names from the records was done to remove all trace of the Protestant subjects."

The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin in Duchy of Normandy . The heraldic records of Paris commence the "geneology with Geoffroi DuBois, a knight banneret and a companion of Duke Williams in the conquest of England 1066."
"Chretien DuBois (this entry) was a descendant of the knight Geoffroi. He was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of DuBois Seicneuno(?) of Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wieres, in La Bassee near Lille in French Flanders now Artois."

It was undoubtedly owing to Chretien being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt to obliterate the public records of the family and destroy all evidence of his connection with nobility of France.

"Some Sources" (supplied by narrator stated above):
"1. Gosman, Lillian May (Briggs), "Gosman Genealogy and related families", 1963.
"2. Reeve, Vera, "Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors", 3rd edition. The National Huguenot Society: Wash. DC; 1983."
"3. Le Fevre, Ralph, "History of New Paltz, NY, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820): Including the Huguenot Pioneers, and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the Revolution." Albany, NY: Fort Orange Press; 1903. pg. 253,280-1"
"4. Smyth, S. G., "The van Metre Genealogy". pg. 12-17, 20-31."
"5. Heidgerd, William, "The American Descendants of Cretian De Bois of Wicres, France". New Paltz, New York: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968."
"His parentage was supplied to me by Kim Everingham. It seems to be highly credible. Previous theories have been proposed, but disproven. (Source: http://www.chrisman.org/pedigree/out10.htm#RIN4021)".