Cuzzins, I'm virtually pop-eyed, having spent the whole day trying to figure out exactly who the parents and grandparents of our esteemed ancestor Giullaume Neel SV/PROG are. When I started doing some research in this area of my own family tree over the weekend, I found they were listed as Pierre Neel (born Rouen) and Judith Gouye.
However, in trawling the Notices Genealogiques Sur Les Familles Genevoises for even earlier ancestors, I came across records that seem to indicate otherwise. As far as I can make out from these records:
* A Pierre Neel (Pierre Neel I) was born in 1567.
* His son (Pierre Neel II) is likely to have been a Pierre Neel born in Grenoble in 1601 and not in 1610 as currently noted. Grenoble is close to Roanne and this may have been confused for Rouen in some family trees. I can't find any records for a Pierre Neel born in 1610.
* Some sources give the names of the children of this Pierre as Pierre (Pierre Neel III?), Marie and Guillaume (Guillaume Neel I or Guillaume Neel the Elder).
This may mean that our ancestor is the son of Guillaume the Elder (Guillaume I) and an Unknown Neel, as records in several family trees indicate that it was Pierre who was married to Judith Gouye, not Guillaume.
Then again, Estienne and Jean (Jan) are shown variously as being the children of either Pierre (i.e. Pierre Neel III) or Guillaume the Elder (Guillaume I).
If some of the existing records are based on other family trees (MyHeritage etc.), errors may have crept in along the way because there were a number of Pierres in different generations. It's also possible that the older Guillaume was omitted by accident, and that some existing family trees have been contracted to show a Pierre as Guillaume SV/PROG's father rather than a Guillaume.
Any thoughts??
