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Gabriel Baubeau (bobo201)

Father:
Mother:

b. 1629 in France [Dunn]

mc. 1650 in Poss Flornoy, Champagne, France, Catherine Rivault [Dunn]

Issue: [Dunn]

Gabriel Baubeau (bobo1001), b. 1651, dc. 1704

Laurence Baubeau, b. 1656 in Saint Sauvant, France

Jean Baubeau, b. 1657 in Saint Sauvant, France

Information:

The following is from the “Dictionaire Des Familles du Poitou, 1680 – 1780”, a compilation of Huguenot records representing the life work of Pasteur Jean Rivierre. (Robert G. Bobo, August, 1997)

Sworn by the people in 1681:
In the Town os St. Sauvant: Gabriel Baubeau with his wife Catherine Rivault and their children Gabriel, Laurence and Jean, ages 30, 25 and 24.

1697:
“Louis Bobeau was 30 years old and Jean Bobeau was 22 years old when they went with 400 others to the Easter Assembly convened secretly in the St. Sauvant Forest on April 9, 1697 where a boy from the countryside preached to them. Then, caught red-handed in the act with 7 others , the Guennots, Chenebault, Durand, Lesecq, Gallard and Pierron, they were imprisoned at Poitiers and, with their companions, condemned to death.
Sentencing to be carried out on May 7, 1697. According to the Declaration of July 12, 1686 they were condemned to death because the new converts had been convinced to assemble and hear the preaching of the RPR.”
“Jean should be hung and strangled at Saint Nicholas Square in Poitiers and his dead body placed (displayed) on the main road in Couvre. Louis should be hung and strangled on the public square of Saint Sauvant and his dead body placed on the main road of Poitiers.”

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