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David THOUMINE's parents: David THOUMINE (1633-1698) and Aimee BUISSON ( -1685)

[I17] David THOUMINE (1675-1742)

[I17] David THOUMINE (1675-1742)

Name: David /Thoumine/

Prefix: Le Sieur

Sex: Male

Birth

Date: 30 May 1675

Place: Vale, Guernsey

Death

Date: 2 February 1741/42

Place: Vale Guernsey Le Sr DT senr.

Family as Child: [F7] ...of David THOUMINE and Aimee BUISSON

Husband: [I10] David THOUMINE (1633-1698)

Wife: [I13] Aimee BUISSON ( -1685)

Child: [I16] Marie THOUMINE (1671- )

Child: [I17] David THOUMINE (1675-1742)

Child: [I20] Roberta THOUMINE (bef1679-1679)

Child: [I19] Michel THOUMINE (bef1679-1679)

Child: [I18] Pierre THOUMINE (1683-1685)

Child: [I15] Jean THOUMINE (1694-1730)

Family as Spouse: [F13] ...of David THOUMINE and Elizabeth LE FEUVRE

Marriage

Date: 19 October 1699

Place: Vale, Guernsey

Husband: [I17] David THOUMINE (1675-1742)

Wife: [I21] Elizabeth LE FEUVRE ( -1708)

Child: [I22] David THOUMINE (1700-1748)

Child: [I23] Elizabeth THOUMINE (1703-1726)

Child: [I24] Esther THOUMINE (1706-1742)

Family as Spouse: [F14] ...of David THOUMINE and Judith NAFTEL

Marriage

Date: 29 October 1729

Place: St Sampsons by licence

Husband: [I17] David THOUMINE (1675-1742)

Wife: [I268] Judith NAFTEL ( -1742)

Child: [I85] Judith THOUMINE (1729-1758)

Note Record: 

03 Oct 1698 Le Sr DT owed a rente to Nicolas de Jersey jnr acsf Laurence henry d/o decd Pierre Henry (Carey Falla book 18).

20 May 1718 constable of Vale & St Sampsons re vraicing with Samuel Hocart. (ref gsymagwin49/50.p14)

19 Sep 1727 gp v Esther Thoum...

 

 

 This Sr David Thoumine who died in the epidemic of 1742 (see below) together with his second wife , Judith Naftel, & daughter Esther and her husband Sr. Jaques Hocquart and their daughter Elizabeth. 

 

On 20 May 1718 he was Constable of Vale with Samuel  Hocart, Constable of St Sampsons re a document about vraicing. (ref: The Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society Winter 1949/50.p14)

 

In the 1727 Livre de Perchage of the Clos du Valle he held the house at La Fontenelle which had been in the family’s hands since at least the 1590s.  He held 32 vergées in his own right, 25 vergées 4 perches

 had been added from the ‘heritage’ of his late wife, Elizabeth Le Fevre (mother of David & Esther) and a further 10 vergées 4 perches from his present wife, Judith Naftel.  At this time he was a douzanier &

signed the completed Livre as above.

 

His grandson, David Thoumine son of David (who probably took in his orphaned nephew), has his birth recorded in the family bible and his other grandson, Jacques Hoquart, the orphaned son of

Esther Thoumine (his daughter) wrote his name in the bible in 1744.

 

This line ended when Elizabeth Thoumine the sole surviving child of David Thoumine & Susanne Dumaresq married François Allez in 1793, and the property of ‘La Fontenelle’ passing to the Allez family.

 

1742 Epidemic

 

The epidemic of the early part of 1742, was described as a minor epidemic, possibly typhus.

It can be seen from the Vale burial registers the number of people buried in October, November & December 1741 were 3, 1 & 1 respectively.

Then January came and the burials started on the 12th totalling 11 for the month.  February rose to 14 and March dropping again to 11.  Thus giving a total of 36 against a more normal 5 over the same

period of time. 

When you consider the population of the Vale in 1727 was only 602 so was probably not much higher by 1742, a death rate of 6% in three months was abnormally high – even for a minor epidemic.  The

population for the whole of the island was estimated at 11,000 for 1750 so say a 5% death rate would be 550 – a considerable number for a three month period.

It was not just the Vale parish that was hit by this epidemic, I have noticed a similar cluster of burials in the Castel & presumably the rest of the island suffered as well.

A fair proportion of those who died in the Vale were certainly of a ‘well-to-do’ background.

As well as the Thoumine/Hoquart family deaths, Le Sr Daniel Henry, the schoolmaster, firstly lost his daughter Marthe on 23rd January, then another daughter Esther on 30th January, his wife, Marie Martin

on 31st January, his last surviving child, Marie on 17th February, and his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Marqui on 17th February.  He had only married three years before & lost all his family within a month.

 

The bible records the baptism of  DAVID THOUMINE, son of  David Thoumine & Ester Flaire on 19th September 1727. 

One of the children drew a small sailing ship on one of the blank pages at the front.  Other pages have been used for practising writing letters and signing their names.