Notes for: Vincent Tillou

Ann Messecar says that Vincent and his wife were in Rye, Sussex County, England 1694-1698.

Beginning on at least April 16, 1701 he was in New York where he is in the registers of the Eglise francoise a la Nouvelle York (p. 80) and was an active member there.

Then Vinvent was in the 1703 Census of New York City with a woman, two boys and three girls. That does pretty closely fit the birth dates I have found online for their children.

Baird v.2, in a note on page 17, says that Vincent Tillou, naturalized July 3, 1701, was made a freeman of the city of New York June 9, 1702. He married Elizabeth Vigneau. He was on the of "chefs de famille" in the French Church in New York in 1704. He died before May 20, 1709.

From: Ann Messecar [annmess28 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Subject: Bodines on the SI Census

?Dave,
?Do you have this?

There are several other entries in the church records in Rye, East Sussex, England, besides the Bodin one…

Children of Vincent Tillou/Tillow/Tillon and Elizabeth (Vignault/Vigneau?), French
.....Daughter Martha, bap. 14 July, 1695 at Rye.
.....Son Vincent, baptized 19 March 1698/9 at Rye. Died in the early 1720s. Married. No ch.

An older son, John Vigneau Tillou, was apprenticed in NYC in 1706 at age 15. (Probably born somewhere in England @ 1691)
Judith? Born Prior to 1703?
(Later children bapt. in the French Church in NYC; Anne (1703), Pierre (1705), Elizabeth (dob?).

Note: 1703 census of NYC. Vansent Tillou, plus one woman, and 2 boys, 3 girls.

Information at the following website seems to say that Vincent was a galley slave:
https://paperzz.com/doc/8176570/descendants-of-jean-%E2%80%9Cjacques%E2%80%9D-guyon