 about 1687 - about 1757 (~ 70 years)
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| Name |
Jean Bertolet |
| Born |
about 1687 |
Chateau D'Oex, Pays-d'Enhaut, Vaud, Switzerland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Immigration |
1726 |
| Died |
about 1757 |
Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Buried |
Bertolet (Blacksmith Rd) Cemetery, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
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tombstone
In Memoriam - Jean Bertolet - with his wife Susanna nee deHarcourt Emigrated to America A.D. 1726 - Erected by his Descendants Sept. 4, 1902 - A Pious Upright French Huguenot Bishop |
| Person ID |
I000244 |
Strausstown Roots | KaMaMaBaHe |
| Last Modified |
9 Aug 2008 |
| Family |
Susanna deHarcourt, b. about 1690, Muhlofen Niederhochstadt, Germany , d. about 1757, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Married |
2 Feb 1712 |
Barbelroth, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
- Married: On Febraury 2, 1712, after three announcements in the church at Barbelroth, Jean Bertolet, son of Jean Bertolet, late of Chateau D'Oex, with Susanna, daughter of Jean Harcourt, of Muhlhofen. Certified to at Barbelroth.
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| Children |
| + | 1. Abraham Bertolet, b. 11 Dec 1712, Minfeld, Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany , d. 16 Jul 1766, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 53 years) |
| + | 2. Maria Bertolet, b. 12 Jul 1715, Germany , d. about 1802 (Age 86 years) |
| + | 3. Jean Bertolet, b. 28 Sep 1717, Minfeld, Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany , d. about 1789, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 71 years) |
| + | 4. Esther Bertolet, b. 12 Aug 1720, Germany , d. 1 Mar 1795 (Age 74 years) |
| + | 5. Susanna Sophia Bertolet, b. 17 Nov 1724, Minfeld, Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany , d. 1 Feb 1805, New Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Age 80 years) |
| + | 6. Frederick Americus Bertolet, b. about 1726, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. about 1769, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 43 years) |
| | 7. Peter Bertolet, b. about 1728, d. 02 Sep 1744, Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 16 years) |
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| Family ID |
F00094 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), p. 1262.
The Bertolet family of Berks county, Pa., has an ancient and honorable lineage, and for centuries before its planting in the New World played an important part in the history of the Old. The "Dictionaire de la Noblesse de France (1771)" says "The family Bertholet was originally from Brittany, where it comprised several branches, one of which settled in Picardie." From this Picardie family come the American line. "Picardie was an old Province adjoining the north of France, having on the north and west the English Channel."
Gabriel O'Gilvy, London, 1864, in his work on the Nobility of Normandy, etc., Vol. I., p. 157, says: "Bertholet (Germanized and Americanized Bertolet) 1470, ennobled by warrant of the francs-fief (francesfee) and new acquisitions: The widow Blesot Bertolot, of the vic. of Conches and Breteuil, was taxed fives livres.
"Bertolet, 1470, ennobled by warrant of the frances-fief and new acquisitions: Jean Bertolet of the vic. de Conches and Breteuil was taxed fifteen livres.
"Bertolet de Mezernay vic. de Caen: arms of blue, helmet with front of silver, lowered under two cuirasses of the same."
Part of the family in Picardie became Protestant, and the persistent persecution of the Huguenots after the Revolution of the Edict of Nantes, 1685, drove them to Bern, in Switzerland, whence they went to the Lutheran Palatinate.
"Jean Bertolet, St., was born in Picardie, France, where the family held large estates. During the religious wars he retired into Switzerland, and established himself on a farm near Gottenberg, which belonged to the 'Pfaltz-grafflische gemsin-schaft,' held by the Protestant congregation, and which had been confiscated from the Catholics and rented."
- [S428] Jean Wert, e-mail/My Bertolet DeTurck heritage, 09 Jul 2014.
The Bertholets were known as Huguenots - the name given to the Protestants of France about the mid-1600s.
Jean Bertolet was born in the town of Chateau D?Oex, in the district of D?Enhaut, Canton Vaud, Southwestern Switzerland in the district of Bern. He lived in Minfeld, in the Bavarian Pfalz, Germany on a farm for 14 years with his wife Susanna (Harcourt) Bertolet. Prior to her marriage, Susanna lived in Landau, Germany.
At the time of their marriage on February 2, 1712, Jean?s father (Jean) was deceased. Susanna?s father, Jean Harcourt was living in Mulhofen, Germany.
While living in Minfield, five of their children were born:
Abraham Bertolet December 11, 1712 Died July 1766 in Oley
Maria Bertolet July 12, 1715 Married Stephen Barnett
Jean Bertolet September 28, 1717
Esther Bertolet August 12, 1720 Married Dr. George De Benneville
Susanna Bertolet November 17, 1724 Married Jacob Frey
Two were born in the United States:
Frederick Bertolet 1726 or 1727
Peter Bertolet 1728 Died September 2, 1744
His passport to the United States is dated April 29, 1726. They arrived in America in the fall of 1726. He came to Oley in Berks County, Pennsylvania where his brother had purchased land in 1720. Susanna?s sister, Anna Marie Weimer was widowed by Mr. Weimer and remarried Isaac DeTurck. They had come to America in 1709, lived in New York three years and came to Oley in 1712.
Jean built their home in Oley in 1731. On April 4, 1757 he sold this home to his son Frederick. He died in 1757 at about 70 years of age and was buried in the family burial plot on the farm; a granite stone was erected on September 4, 1902.
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