Jean Rapareilliet

It has been proposed that this father of an early New Netherland immigrant was a "renowned" Dutch/Flemish painter. Modern genealogists are neither able to find any examples of his work nor any mention of him in histories of Dutch Flemish art. Perhaps the adjectives 'renowned' & 'important' should be taken under advisement.

Jean RAPALJE was born about 1552 in Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. He died on 20 February 1605/6 at the age of 54 in Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. He was buried on 23 February 1605/6 in St. Nicholas Parish, Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. Jean was also known as Jean Jannssen Rapareillet. He has reference number 406. He was an important Flemish painter in the late 1500's to early 1600's "Colonial history of New Jersey First series Vol 32"

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Parents: Jacques RAPALJE.

Spouse: Elizabeth BAUDOIN. Elizabeth BAUDOIN and Jean RAPALJE were married in 1577.

Children were:

• Jehenne RAPALJE, Marie RAPALJE, Jeanne RAPALJE, Oliver RAPALJE, Anne RAPALJE, François RAPALJE, Nicholas RAPALJE, Bon Rapalje RAPALJE, Joris (Georges is French spelling) Jansen RAPALJE.

Zabriskie, George Olin, "The Founding Families of New Netherland, No. 4 - The Rapalje - Rapelje Family, Part III," de Halve Maen, Vol. 47, No. 2 (July 1972), pp. 12-13:

http://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000028304641369

After the publication of Part I of this article, Mr. Hugh T. Law of the French and Mediterranean Genealogical Research Asssociation, 1216 Lillie Circle, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121, furnished data about the parentage of Joris Janszen Rapalje which augments that previously given. We are grateful to Mr. Law and his client, Mrs. Irma P. Snow, for the information. It is based mainly on research performed in 1960 in France.

From his investigations Mr. Law drew two conclusions: (1) that Walloon and Huguenot families sometimes took their children to Roman Catholic priests to be baptized, in the absence of Protestant clergy or to avoid persecution; and (2) that Roman Catholic priests sometimes refused to recognize the validity of Protestant marriages and recorded children born of such marriages as illegitimate.

Mr. Law considers that the following six children of Jean Rapareillet were siblings, and that their unamed mother was "la femme Rapareille, molnier [miller]," who was buried February 23, 1606, at Valenciennes. All the baptismal and burial entries here given are from registers of St. Nicolaes Roman Catholic Church of that city, in the Département du Nord, France:

1. Olivier, son of Jean, baptized February 28, 1594.

2. Anne, daughter of Jean, baptized September 17, 1595.

3. Francois, son of Jean, baptized November 1, 1596.

4. Nicolaes, son of Jean, baptized July 10, 1598.

5. child, of undetermined sex, buried November 16, 1600, without baptism.

6. Georges [Joris Janszen, in Dutch], "illegitimate" son of Jean, baptized April 28, 1604.

Two older Raparelle children, also baptized in St. Nicolaes' Church, may have been sisters or half-sisters of Joris, namely,

(1) Jejenne, daughter of Jean, bapt. August 1, 1578; and

(2) Marie, daughter of Jean, bapt. July 28, 1580.

References:

• Hugh T. Law, "Chapter 7, Ancestors Traced to France: Joris Jansen De Rapalje and Catharine Trico," How To Trace Your Ancestors to Europe, 1987
• transcription of Georges Rapareilliet's baptism

Sources

1. American Genealogy: Being a History of Some of the Early Settlers of North America and Their Descendants, from Their First Emigration to the Present Time ... (Google eBook). Jerome Bonaparte Holgate. J. Munsell, 1851 - United States - 244 pages. Page 16-21. "Rapalje.". Warning: a known fraudulent pedigree is incorporated in this book.. See John Blythe Dobson, "The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent," Annals of Genealogical Research Vol.2, No. 1 (2006) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=10 and document attached.

Links

• The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent