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DeGarmo Name

Once upon a time ...... Like one says at the Beginning of the French tale.,

It was once, Therefore, Reviews towards the end of the 15th century in Ille and Vilaine, in the south of Rennes, a family from GARMEAULX, small lords of this land ...... They Lived in the villages of Janzé, Tresboeuf, Lalleu, and neighborhood

By alliances They Were Garmeaux of Lords, the River, the Orchard, Hannetière, Hauteville, St Luke, Noah, Bourgneuf, Chauvelière, Grandmaison, Goasvalé in Plougonven.

 Maintained in the nobility of old extraction by decision of the reformation chamber of February 21, 1669. - On presentation of the evidence by Julien Garmeaux, applicant, Mr. de Couëtion Being the rapporteur -

The family Was regarded to be "Good and poor".

This family has totally disappeared from France in 1750, but survived and thrived in North America where its descendants number in the hundreds, under various names, the main one DeGarmo, easier to pronounce.

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Barnabas is not named in the judgments of the Reformation, but is mentioned in records about his daughters.

 

TRESBOEUF:

Good to Carmeaux possessed in 1513 the manor of course, which belonged to it before Barnabas Garmeaux.

Courts then passed to the family of Launay, and in 1637 Nicolas Launay, lord of course, was rector of Gosné. In 1659, the manor and the stronghold were built depending on châtellenie for Pierre de Launay, lord of the Courts. The latter's son, Guy de Launay, lord of the River, the courts, etc., made confession in 1682

The course is now composed of three juxtaposed villages and called the Court-Jambot the Court and the Court-Andouart-Landais.

 

RIVER (LA). - This mansion will face point in the records of the Reformation of the nobility in Britain; he was however old and sometimes bore the names of River Garmeaux (it still can), because of family Garmeaux who first possessed, and River Tresboeuf because he was at last century, considered the first noble house Tresboeuf, its owner claiming Ia lordship of the parish.

It is likely that the family had Garmeaux the 16th century the manor River along with that of course; but both houses belonged to the next century to the family of Launay, including a member, Étienne de Launay, adviser to the Parliament of Britain in 1620, married Jacquette Couriolle, lady Launay. Their son, Pierre de Launay, Adviser in the same Parliament in 1640, married Jeanne de Trémaudan and dwelt River, where he had several children. He took in 1645 the title of Lord of River Garmeaux, and

1670 those of lord of Launay-Ravilly, the River, the Courts, the Closneuf the Court-Briand, the Jousselinière the Tertre, etc.

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OLD NOBILITY of TRESBOEUF

It was a small enough that modern lordship of the manor Course Tresboeuf; it derived its name from Manor Course (note: there are still in Tresbœuf three juxtaposed villages, appointed the Court-Jambot the Court-Landais and Course Audouart) possessed in 1513 Good of Garmeaux, heiress of the late Barnabas Garmeaux . This family Garmeaux were in the same parish Tresboeuf another mansion, neighbor of course, called River Garmeaux. Stone Garmeaux, Lord said in 1513 instead of Garmeaux in Janzé, and husband of Aliette Duval, had to Garmeaux Guyon's son, Lord of River Garmeaux, who married Perrine Barbette; but towards the end of the sixteenth century, the two noble estates Course and River passed into the hands of a rich bourgeois family malouins the Launay.

The former mansion of the Course, Route de Brie. The courses were built in châtellenie in 1659 and had a high justice law with gallows four pillars. Garmeaux property of the family in 1513, and the family of Launay in 1637 and in 1682. Good to Garmeaux possessed in 1513 the manor of course, which belonged to it before Barnabas Garmeaux. Courts then passed to the family of Launay, and in 1637 Nicolas Launay, lord of course, was rector of Gosné. In 1659, the manor and the stronghold were built depending on châtellenie for Pierre de Launay, lord of the Courts. The latter's son, Guy de Launay, lord of the River, Courts, etc ... made confession in 1682 (Reformation of the Nobility, National Archives, P. 1711).

 

The old mansion River Garmeaux or River Tresboeuf located Saulnières road. He once had a private chapel and fled. Successive property Garmeaux families (in 1513), de Launay (in 1682), of Kerhos (the eighteenth century), Gardin lords BOISHAMON (in 1721 and 1740), Langle lords Coëtuhan. It is likely that the family had Garmeaux the sixteenth century the manor River along with that of course. But both houses belonged to the century following the family Launay, including a member, Etienne de Launay, adviser to the Parliament of Britain in 1620, married Jacquette Couriolle, lady Launay. Their son, Pierre de Launay, Adviser in the same Parliament in 1640, married Jeanne de Trémaudan and dwelt River, where he had several children. He took in 1645

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Owner of Good GARMEAUX the Manor of the Current Tresboeuf in 1513 daughter of Barnabé x ca 1515 COUAISNON Guyon Sieur of Rougeray who is brother of Nicolas COUAISNON x ca 1515 GARMEAUX Barnabas

and son of Pierre Sieur de COUAISNON Bremanfanil in Vezin x Margueritte PORTE

 

 

Happy married OF COUAISNON Guyon, son of Pierre and Marguerite COUAISNON OF DOOR, around 1500.

 

• Guyon COUAYNON remembered as noble in the reformation of the lights of the parish of Jaure made December 11, 1513

 

Parentage followed this house dates back to:

I. COAYNON Pierre, knight, lord of Breilmanfeny, Brielles, Passouer the Hagnelière and fiefs of Saint-Etienne-de-Tuebousl, in the parish of the Chapel of Erbrée, received seven confessions in 1417, due to heritages kept him in the parish of Brielles the village of Mazure and the highlight of the Dinestière;

made confession, December 10, 1432, the Countess of Laval, lady Vitre, places of Passouer the Hagnelière, etc. He married, in 1418, Marguerite de la Porte, eldest daughter of Sir Yvon de la Porte, knight and lady Jeanne de la Mothe.

From this marriage came:

1. ° René, Article come;

2. ° Guyon Coaynon recalled, as noble in the reformation of the lights of the parish of Jaure, made December 11, 1513, and to have acquired the hosting Rougeraye, where dwelt Miss Maid Garmeaulx, his widow, and their children;

3. ° Jacqueline Coaynon, Guyon's widow Grasmenil, Sieur Boaisbelin named in the Reformation of 1513, in which was included as noble, Robert, their son;

4 °. Coaynon Marie, who was with Jean des Vaux, her husband, Sieur de Boisgranier, Breilmorin and Vaugleme, included among the nobles of the parish of Louvigny, Rennes bishopric, in 1513 the Reformation.

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Roberde OF GARMEAUX.

 

Filiation assumed.

 

His nephew, or brother, Julien Garmeaux, born in 1633, will lord de Grandmaison

 

 

Roberde married Lord Pierre Grandmaison OF FILOCHAYE. Pierre died on 8 Jun 1659.

 

GRAND'MAISON (LA) LA SALLE. - This house, amounting to the same town of Salt, was bestowed on December 12, 1581, by Julien Le Corsin, lord of the River, Jacques Le Corsin, Lord of the Fresnais in Bath. The Grand'Maison then passed to the Lords of the Filochaye.

Stone of Filochaye went to confession Poligné Lord for this mansion on 10 September 1650. We have seen that this gentleman had married Roberde of Garmeaux and died in 1659. But the Grand'Maison was sold in 1695, with the Filochaye, Lord of the Mountains

 

- Choir of the Church of Salt. the tombs of the Lords of la.Filochaye.

On a white china plate with a square foot was written: Cy gist it. Pierre defunct body squire of Filochaye, died on 6 aoust 1659

The Stone of Filochaye, Sieur de Grandmaison, married Roberde of Garmeaux.

 

Our progenitor in America Pierre Marc "Pieter" de Garmeaux was born April 6, 1648 in Plougonven, Finistere, Brittany, France in Goasvale Manor. His parents were Gilles Aegidius and Maria (De Lesmelleue) De Garmeaux.

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When just 17 Pierre was recruited in Rennes, France into the Forment Company Carignan-Saliere Regiment.  Froment was the name of the Captain of the company. He enlisted to fight in the "Nouvelle France" area of Canada where the Carnignan-Saliere Regiment was to engage the Mohican Indians. Pierre received the scapula of the Carmel Mount on July 18, 1665. He used an alias "Villeroy" while he was in the French army.

Pierre arrived in Canada on one of several ships which transported the French Carignan-Saliere Regiment troops to Quebec, Canada. This was over 110 years prior to the Revolutionary War, and what is now the United States was just wild open country inhabited by Indians. When the war with the Mohican Indians was finished in Canada the soldiers had to choose between staying in Canada with a subsidy of one hundred French pounds, or go back to France.

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About 400 French soldiers remained in Canada, including Pierre. Subsequently Pierre decided to relocate into the open territory which is now the United States, and settled at Fort Orange on the Hudson River. He lived inside the Fort. Fort Orange became Beverwyck, and finally Albany, New York.


In 1683 Pierre married Catrina "Caatje" Van der Heyden in the Dutch 
Reformed Church in what is now Albany, New York. Catrina came from a wealthy Dutch family, and they had 10 children. In 1669 Pierre purchased land on Brewer Street from his brother-in-law Dirk Van der Heyden. Pierre died on March 6, 1741 and was buried in the Reformed Dutch Church Burial Ground.

Since Pierre came to this continent 111 years prior to the forming of the original 13 colonies of the United States there are very few records in the National Archives. Several of Pierre's sons served in the 
Revolutionary War, and proliferated throughout the US. There is no known record of the exact date of his arrival in Canada, and since he didn't come in through Ellis Island of course there are no records there. There is a work by Olive Turner Mac Arthur which was on file at the Library of Congress. She did an abbreviated DeGarmo family history. Note the name spelling change from Garmeaux to de garmeaux and finally DeGarmo.
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