Melchort De Forest
1521 - 1572 (51 years)
Generation: 1
1. Melchort De Forest was born in 1521 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France (son of Melchort De Forest and Jacqueline Bronchin); died in 1572 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France. Other Events:
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Melchort De Forest, of Asvesnes, France, was the father of Jean De Forest, the first Protestant of the De Forest family, and was the grandfather of the first De Forest emigrant to America. He married Catherine de Fosset, of Mons. Jean, their youngest son, married Anne Maillard, and settled in Holland along with thousands of his countrymen, Walloons and Huguenots. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447
Melchort married Catherine de Fosset on 4 Apr 1533 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France. Catherine and died. [Group Sheet]
Children:- Jean De Forest was born in 1543 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France; died on 22 Oct 1624.
2. Melchort De Forest and died. Other Events:
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Melchort married Jacqueline Bronchin. Jacqueline and died. [Group Sheet]
3. Jacqueline Bronchin and died. Other Events:
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Children:
- 1. Melchort De Forest was born in 1521 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France; died in 1572 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France.