The BRABANT Family Line
Daniel Brabant (parents not yet identified) b.? married Madaline de Bordeaux (daughter of James and Madeleine (Garillord) de Bordeaux)
Jean Brabant b. ? married Cornelius DuPre
Mary Magdalen DuPre married John Gignilliat (see Gignilliat ancestry)
James Gignilliat married Charlotte Pepper
Elizabeth Gignilliat married John Cooper
Susan Marion Cooper married James Decatur Pelot
Elizabeth Lavinia Pelot married George Tyler Rogers
Cornelius Decatur Rogers married Mary Ellen Murchison
Margaret Murchison Rogers married James Tinley Ryder
Mary Ella Ryder married Z.L. Chancellor
Margaret Ryder Chancellor married Lewis G. Bowdoin
Jean Brabant, daughter of Dr. Daniel and Madaleine DeBordeaux Brabant, was probably born in South Carolina. Her father was one of the original Huguenot emigres to SC. She and Cornelius DuPre were married 20 Nov 1708 in the Parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis. They were the parents of seven children: Cornelius b. ?; Elizabeth b. ? married Paul Porcher; Jean Elizabeth b. 12 Oct 1709, married Abraham DuPont; Mary Magdalen b. 13 Nov 1711 married John Gignilliat; Caroline b.?; Josias b.? married Rebecca Alexander; and Martha b. ? married Issac Porcher. Cornelius Dupre died probably in 1747 as that is when his will was probated, his widow, Jean lived in the parish of St. Johns, Berkley until 1750, managing her plantation of 534 acres or rice and indigo. (source-The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, p24, 155)
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