The DuPRE Family History
The DuPres, French Huguenots, fleeing persecution, brought to America no records of their ancsestry; at least none have been found to date. In a search for facts concerning the forebearers of Josias and Martha DuPre, the names of French notables, who may have been connected with the family, have been taken from Lempriere's "Biographical Dictionary".
John DuPre de Guyer, a hermit who was among the earliest to bear the name, built in the solid rock, with only the help of his servant, the hermitage at Friburg, the chimney of which rises to 98 feet. Mary DuPre, a learned lady of the 17th Century, studied rhetoric, poetry, languages and philosophy. Lewis DuPre d'Aunay, a native of Paris, wrote scientific subjects. The name DuPre is found in the list of surnames drawn from the registers of French churches at Dublin and at Portarlington. The name is mentioned in "The Huguenot Settlements Ireland", 'Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina', No. 47 pages 23-30.
The DuPRE Family Line
Samuel DuPre married ?
Josias DuPre married Martha ?
Cornelius DuPre married Jean Brabant (see Brabant ancestry)
Mary Magdalen DuPre married John Gignilliat (see Gignilliat ancestry)
James Gignilliat married Charlotte Pepper (see Pepper ancestry)
Elizabeth Gignilliat married John Cooper (see Cooper ancestry)
Susan Marion Cooper married James Decatur Pelot (see Pelot ancestry)
Elizabeth Lavinia Pelot married George Tyler Rogers (see Rogers ancestry)
Cornelius Decatur Rogers married Mary Ellen Murchison (see Murchison ancestry)
Margaret Murchison Rogers married James Tinley Ryder (see Ryder ancestry)
Mary Ella Ryder married Z.L. Chancellor (see Chancellor ancestry)
Margaret Ryder Chancellor married Lewis G. Bowdoin
Margaret Ellen Bowdoin married Robert Floyd Lewin (see Lewin ancestry)
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