Joseph
DOUYERE's extensive family
Joseph
DOUYERE's extensive family
The ascendants and descendants of Joseph Douyère and Madeleine Catherine Picard extend their branches over Australia, England, France, India, La Réunion, Madagascar, New-Caledonia, New-Zealand, Polynesia, USA, Vanuatu.
Bourbon island was decreed La Reunion island on March 13th, 1793. The origin of its name is the reunion of the patriots at Les Tuileries during the revolution years. Our family story is linked to the populating of : Joseph Douyere's descendants will find their lineages by clicking on their names, in the index of names. This photo of the Alsatian village : Wisches, is from the site sylviedalsace Pbase.com,vallée de la Bruche part. It's from this valley of the Bruche river, from Wisches in Alsace that Joseph Jean Jacques DOUVIER/DOUYER/DOUYÈRE left France to settle on Bourbon Island.
The burial vaults of the church still display our ancestors' names : Douvier et Charton. In fact DOUYERE was not his patronym. His family name was DOUVIER. On the church register, the I had been placed under the V.
The two letters were taken for a Y by the genealogists. Born on January 22nd, 1729 at Wisches (Alsace,
France), Joseph Douyère reached Bourbon island in 1751, aboard "la Mutine" from
Isle de France island (Mauritius). He married on November 19th, 1754, at
Sainte-Suzanne, Bourbon island a "bourbonnaise" : Catherine Picard, born in
this island, from parents who also were bourbonnais. Catherine's great-grand-parents, of various
origins, were amongst the first Bourbon island's inhabitants : Pierre
Collin, Julien Robert, Joseph Dango said Laverdure, Perrine Campelle, Catherine
Mise, Suzanne Ragolin. Here are some extracts of history pages from
the site Clicanoo : "...Après l'échec d'une tentative
d'établissement des Portugais....c'est à partir des années 1620 que les Français
avaient commencé à fréquenter la région de l'Anosy, Madagascar, notamment la
baie de Sainte-Luce (Manafiafy), où ils avaient négocié l'établissement d'une
habitation..." "...After a Portuguese failure to attempt a
settlement....from 1620, the French started to frequent Madagascar, the Anosy
region and more especially Sainte-Luce bay (Manafiafy), where they had
negotiated a house settlement..." "...En ce matin du 15 janvier 1638, le
Saint-Alexis part à la recherche de nouveaux territoires, dans l'hémisphère sud,
au bout du monde. Un grand lointain que les Portugais et Hollandais connaissent
déjà mais que les Français ont à peine exploré.....Dans les derniers jours de
juin 1638, il mouille en baie de Saint-Paul à l'île Mascareigne...une chaloupe
est mise à la mer et très solennellement, c'est le fils du capitaine, Salomon
Goubert qui fixe au tronc d'un arbre les armes du roi de France Louis le
XIIIème....." "...On January 15th, 1638, in the morning,
the Saint-Alexis sets off for discovering new territories, in the southern
hemisphere, at the end of the world : distant places already known by the
Portuguese and the Dutch, but barely explored by the French....In the last days
of June 1638, they lie at anchor in Saint-Paul bay, Mascareigne island (first name of Bourbon island)... a launch is put at
sea and very solemnly, the captain's son, Salomon Goubert, fastens a sign
bearing the arms of the king of France (Louis the 13th) to a tree
trunk...." "...Tout allait changer, en particulier pour
l'Anosy, avec la Compagnie française des Indes orientales en 1642... Jacques
Pronis...commis de la Compagnie décida de réunir les quelques Français d'abord
dans l'habitation de Sainte Luce puis en 1643 dans le nouvel établissement de
Fort-Dauphin........" "...Everything was going to change, in
particular for the Anosy region, with the creation of the Eastern India French
Company in 1642...Jacques Pronis... the Company's representative decided to
gather the few French firstly at Sainte-Luce's house, then in 1643 at
Fort-Dauphin, the new settlement ........" "...Avec Regnault, le premier gouverneur de
l'île Bourbon, arrivent de France en août 1665, une douzaine
d'hommes.....Débarquée du "Taureau", de "la Vierge" et de "l'Aigle blanc", la
petite communauté vit aux abords de Saint-Paul....Le 14 mars 1666, une
formidable armada quitte le port de La Rochelle....On aura tout vu! C'est
bien la première fois que je vois des femmes embarquer sur ma goélette ne
peut s'empêcher de lâcher le commandant d'un des bateaux........." . Ils
allaient vers l'isle Bourbon. "...In 1665, a dozen of Frenchmen arrive
with Regnault Bourbon island's first governor....Disembarked from the "Taureau",
the "Vierge" and the "l'Aigle blanc", the small community lives near
Saint-Paul....On March 14th, 1666, a sizeable armada leaves the port of La
Rochelle.....Wonders will never cease ! This is the very first time I see
women embarking on my schooner indeed cannot help to utter the
commander of one of the ships......" They were going away to Bourbon
island. "....A Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, le 27 août
1674, 75 Français furent massacrés et, le 9 septembre, le gouverneur et les 63
rescapés prenaient la mer....parmi ceux-ci des femmes malgaches qui
s'étaient unies par les liens du mariage avec les Français....". Ils vont
accroître la colonie de l'isle Bourbon. "....At Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar,
on August the 27th, 1674, 75 French settlers were massacred and on
Septembre the 9th, the governor and 63 survivors took to the open sea.....
amongst them, some malagasy women who were united in wedlock with
Frenchmen....." They were going to increase the Bourbon island's
colony. Saint Denis, Isle Bourbon, from a painting by M. Saint-Clair Renouard I invite you to discover these interesting
articles on the following sites : http://www.historun.com
http://www.liledelareunion.com/Fr/Histoire and two genealogical sites
: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/henri.maurel Very interesting books about the Indian Ocean islands and Madagascar can be bought from :
Many people contributed to the
genealogical research and we are thankful to them : Jean-Louis
Douyère, Pierre Douyère, Claude Krieger, Evelyne Henriot,
Sylvain Bégaud, Christene Anderson, Christophe Platier, Nell
Carland, Daniel Létocart and many others cousins who gave me
their data and photos to be added to the base. Would you please excuse any errors in the genealogy and
forward the details for rectifications. More details, history
and photos in the following pages Australia
India La
Réunion Madagascar Nouvelle-Calédonie Click on the hibiscus to return to the home page.
- Bourbon island (La Réunion island),
- the colonies of Sainte-Luce and Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar
- and to the history of the Eastern India French Company created in 1642.
Click on the fish to access the
genealogy.
You can admire more photos of this beautiful region on http://www.pbase.com/sylviedalsace/valle_de_la_bruche_&page=all
On Bourbon island the first census added a E to DOUYER.
Names ending with "er" in Alsace are not pronounced "é", they are said "ère", like Muller, not "Mullé" but "Mullère", or Gander not "Gandé" but "Gandère"
One can see how the freshly debarked Alsatian Joseph Douvier might have unvoluntary contributed to the change of his patronym with his accent.
New genealogical research are now showing that Douvier was originally Dabenhauer.
