Notes for: Vincent Tillou
There is a birth record for a Vincent Tillou among the abstracts by the Genealogical Circle of Saintonge on Geneabank. That must be this Vincent Tillou. So he is actually a nephew of Peter Tillou - not Peter's son. The sponsors, or godparents, seem to show a strong family relationship with Jeanne Suzanne Hain who married Francis Bridon, Jr. We later find Vincent's children mentioned in the will of Suzanne Bridon, wife of Francis, Jr. They were her nephews and nieces.
Source: NV3
Code commune: 17429P
Commune: SOUBISE Prot
Code dpt: 17
Département: Charente-Maritime
Acte: N
Date: 14/06/1665
Nom: TILLOU
Prénoms: Vincent
Sexe: M
Commentaire nouveau né: ° 29/05
Nom du père: TILLOU
Prénoms du père: Jean
Nom de la mère: HUET
Prénoms de la mère: Marie
Nom parrain/témoin: VIGNAUD
Prénoms parrain/témoin: Jean
Nom marraine/témoin: HAIN
Prénoms marraine/témoin: Jeanne
N° enreg.: 1786747
Releve CG Saintonge
The following is from "Huguenot Ancestors Represented in the Membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey":
PIERRE TILLOU
St. Nazaire before 1691 NEW YORK
Pierre Tillou, said to have been the ancestor of the Tillou family in America, fled St. Nazaire, France with son Vincent, in 1681 and was naturalized in England on March 21, 1682. He was made a Freeman of the city of New York on June 9, 1702.
The Calendar of the New Historical Manuscripts (English) recites a petition, dated 1691, of Abraham Tonneau, Alexander Morisset, Peter Tillou and Laurens Cornifleur, French Protestants, that they be made burghers and citizens.
Vincent Tillou, a son, married Elizabeth Vigneau, daughter of John Vigneau and his wife Elizabeth. The will of Elizabeth Vigneau, widow of John, dated May 28, 1704-,mentions her daughter as “Elizabeth, widow of Vincent Tillou."
"Huguenot Emigration to America" - C. W. Baird, Vol. 2, p. 16, 17.
"N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical," Vol. 7, 15.144.
Ann Messecar says that Vincent and his wife were in Rye, Sussex County, England 1694-1698.
Beginning on at least April 16, 1701 he was in New York where he is in the registers of the Eglise francoise a la Nouvelle York (p. 80) and was an active member there.
Then Vincent was in the 1703 Census of New York City with a woman, two boys and three girls. That does pretty closely fit the birth dates I have found online for their children.
Baird v.2, in a note on page 17, says that Vincent Tillou, naturalized July 3, 1701, was made a freeman of the city of New York June 9, 1702. He married Elizabeth Vigneau. He was on the of "chefs de famille" in the French Church in New York in 1704. He died before May 20, 1709.
From: Ann Messecar [annmess28 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Subject: Bodines on the SI Census
?Dave,
?Do you have this?
There are several other entries in the church records in Rye, East Sussex, England, besides the Bodin one…
Children of Vincent Tillou/Tillow/Tillon and Elizabeth (Vignault/Vigneau?), French
.....Daughter Martha, bap. 14 July, 1695 at Rye.
.....Son Vincent, baptized 19 March 1698/9 at Rye. Died in the early 1720s. Married. No ch.
An older son, John Vigneau Tillou, was apprenticed in NYC in 1706 at age 15. (Probably born somewhere in England @ 1691)
Judith? Born Prior to 1703?
(Later children bapt. in the French Church in NYC; Anne (1703), Pierre (1705), Elizabeth (dob?).
Note: 1703 census of NYC. Vansent Tillou, plus one woman, and 2 boys, 3 girls.
Information at the following website seems to say that Vincent was a galley slave:
https://paperzz.com/doc/8176570/descendants-of-jean-%E2%80%9Cjacques%E2%80%9D-guyon