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Notes for Jaques François Dutoit and Jeanne Dutoit

Research Notes:

John W. McCoy states, [1]

Evidently this is the Jaques François who was the son of Jaques Dutoit and Genon Martin. There do not seem to be any other Jaques François Dutoit's who belong at Neyruz at this relatively early date, when all the other Dutoit's there can be assigned to the descendancy of the first François who settled there. He is at Pont des Sauges rière Lausanne in 1738, where identified as son of the late Jaques of Neyruz (J. P. Jayet, notary, 26 may 1738), and only a few years later his presumed son Jean Louis baptises children there.

Jaques Dutoit is probably also the Jaques Dutoit of Neyruz and Moudon who is cited as a farmer ("granger") at Pont des Sauges 06 mar 1728 in a transaction recorded by Sebastien Buttex, notary at Lausanne, and again by the same notary 08 may 1734 as "granger à la grange des Sauges", leasing out two milk cows for the summer season to Claude Ethenoz and his wife Marie Combe.

The age at death for Jeanne Dutoit is given as about 72, but ages reported for the elderly are often greatly exaggerated in the registers of Cronay. Once we realized that her husband was most frequently referred to as simply Jaques Dutoit of Neyruz, we realized that the marriage of 1729 was probably theirs, establishing her parentage. She appears at a baptism in 1727 at Thierrens. Her baptism does not seem to be at Thierrens or Moudon. It is possible, given the inaccuracy of recorded age at death, that she could be Jeanne Sara born in 1703.


Footnotes:

[1] John W. McCoy, Dutoit: A family from Moudon, Switzerland (Published electronically, 2018), [Rootsweb_Dutoit], [RealMacDutoitSite].