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ORIGINS of my ANCESTORS |
PATERNAL BRANCH
1 / Side father of my father :
My CARAYONS come
from the Departement of TARN 
like the near total of
the existing CARAYONS. Six different branches of CARAYONS
coexisted in the middle of the 16th century... In occitan language CARAYON
was in the form of CARAGUENH (listed in 1278 in Viane),
CARGUIENH, then CARAGUIENH, then CARAGUION; the "g"
disappeared and that gave CARAYON. The majority of the patronyms
of my ascending occitans were francized : BIOU > BIAU, or
feminized: VALET > VALETTE. (the priests transcribed the names
as they heard them and, the final consonants of the words being
marked in occitan, they doubled this consonant and addition an E
final). In the villages having an occitan priest the patronyms
were not feminized, this is why 2 brothers marrying in 2
different villages were to bear slighty different names.
I could to date go
up my patronym only with Antoine
CARAYON was born near 1625 in Rayssac
(Raiçac >
Los Raissagòls), and married Marie CROS. He
deceased there before1676, in the hamlet of Panissaire.
Their son Jean CARAYON was born
near 1650 and married Marie MAYNEAU, originating
in Paulin.
Their son Antoine CARAYON, born
near 1680 in the hamlet of St-Martin-de-Jeannès, married
Anne CHAMAYOU.
Their son André CARAYON, born near
1710, married Jeanne BIAU, originating from
Paulin, in 1756.
Their son Jacques CARAYON was born in
1769 in Paulin, in the south-east of Albi, at his grandparents'
BIAU. He married in Rayssac, from where his wife Marie
MARC was also originating. He deceased in 1821, 52 years
old. The mother of Marie MARC, Catherine PUJOL,
makes me go up with the CORBIÈRE of Arifat by AVISOU
(see Anecdotes).
Their son Jean Pierre Auguste CARAYON after
having been a farm hand at St-Pierre-de-Trivisy where he met his
wife Jeanne VALETTE who was a maidservant in Lacaze, left for
Loupian (Hérault) where their elder son was born in 1845, and
finally settling in 1849 (?) in Viane (Viana, > los
Vianèses) 
in the
Mounts of Lacaune, in the hamlet of Colombier on
the heights of Viane in the house of his/her parents-in-law
VALETTE. (This house remained in family CARAYON until 1932, date
of the departure of the younger sister of my grandfather for
Murasson with her husband. This house, now renovated is still
there, after having changed several times of owner).
They had a small end of ground where they practised cultures of subsistence, which was enough to give them the occupation of farmers. They were poor, they had neither horse nor cow, perhaps a goat... The nickname of the CARAYON of the Dovecote was " the Cricket ". Among their 5 children, 3 died in the birth, their elder son had only 2 girls who died in their first year and thus only my great-grandfather, Louis, had viable children.
This one, born in
1855 in Viane, married in 1885 in Escroux (Capèla
d' Escròs > Los Escrosòls) after 4 years of service
military Marie GROS, born in Lacaune (Cauna
> Los Caunèses) 
in 1864
where her father Jean lived at the time, her mother Marie
Enjalbal being originating in Escroux, tiny hamlet. They had 7
children, Louis deceased in Viane in 1916 to 61 years. Enjalbal'
family had bought the ruins of the castle of Escroux, always
property of the nephew of Marie GROS. This one, Jean Louis GROS,
is well-known in Lacaune and its area as trader of pigs, his
trucks furrow all France. Lacaune, located in a basin at more
than 800 m of altitude, is a high-place of the saltings tarnaises
and profits from a microclimate and sources ("Cauna ":
cavity) which made a village of cures of it. The sheep of the
Lacaunaise race give the roquefort scheese, and the site of
Lacaune includes still exploited salte quarries.
The
Rocher of Viane is at the origin of Viane; it there was
established a castle, it was plundered and burned first once in
1483 by the bishop of Castres, rebuilds and flaring again in 1629
at the time of the wars of religion by the Marshal of Thémines.
The oldest known Charter of Viane goes back to 1278, the widow of
Philippe de Monfort being then Comtesse of Viane, another of 1339
fact state of a hospital... It was then in the valley that the
dwellings developed, at the foot of the Rock, in the hamlet of Pierre-Ségade
located at 500 m of altitude
on the road of Castres to Lacaune. The hamlet of the Colombier
is itself on the heights, on the road of Escroux.
Viane includes a
hamlet of the name of CARAYON ; some
see the origin of our patronym there, others think that our name
comes from a Romain or Gallic named Caraïus ;
the poete Frédéric Mistral, as-with him, speaks about " caraioun
small fire of chènevottes, from where the
surname languedocian Carayon is derived " These two
explanations seem contradicted by the orthography occitane of the
name. One finds in 1278 in Viane Laurens de CARAGUENH,
notary...
Viane was a high place of Protestantism :
4 confessions cohabit there: Protestants (most), Catholics,
Méthodistes (rare in France), and Adventists of the 7th day
(Sabbathiens). To comparison, the town of Albi counts only 225
Protestant families today...
Usually the Protestants (Reformed Church,
Calvinistes), called " Huguenots " by
the " Parpaillots " of Viane, bury their deaths
in their gardens, the other confessions using the cemetery
confessional, then municipal ; this tradition tends to disappear,
especially because of legal restrictions. Till the years 1950
catholic processions were often lapidated by the children of the
other confessions, the mixed marriages were non-existent or
scandalous, but the social life was alleviated, solidarity
between the inhabitants strong, the dwelling houses of the
various communities narrowly overlapping between them. Viane
counts 680 inhabitants today.
The town of Albi offered a strong resistance to the Reform, while Castres was one of the places of safety granted to the Protestants by the Edict of Nantes of 1598, revoked in 1685. Y also sat of the mixed Courts.
All this area is mountainous, the villages being preferably on the heights, between 500 m and 900 m of altitude, and the paths were not the simplest means to go from the one to the other; it is through fields that one moved, descending the hills. The bell-towers are often visible of one village with the other, but to go in a village or a nearby hamlet by the paths took sometimes hours. The winters were much harder there in XVIIIème century than now, as testify some the cattle sheds which were at the ground floor of the dwellings to heat them and the walls to the old houses covered with slates to protect them from the bad weather.
Life was very hard at
that time in this part of the Departement of TARN and
the men spent each year the Mounts of Espinouse to go to
work in the Departement of HERAULT in the
vineyards. (Jacques died 52 years, its son Jean-Pierre Auguste
with 49 years, and my great-grandfather at 61 years)...
This area knew the plague in 1693-1694
and 1709-1713, and the food shortage prevails in 1588,
1590, 1597, 1605, 1612, 1649-1652,1693-1694 and 1709-1713 (in the
1710 and 1711 price of corns quintupled). It was necessary to
await progress in the farming techniques, towards the end of
XVIIIème century, to reach a greater food security.
The pouring Northern of Espinouse receives precipitations coming from the Atlantic, and the vegetation is there almost that of Normandy; the villages which are located there, such it Salvetat-sur-Agout, thus have a rainy climate, and as of after the node, on the Southern slope, the vegetation and the climate become again Méditerranéens, Espinouse blocking precipitations.
The son of Louis
CARAYON and Marie GROS, Louis, my
grandfather 
also crossed Espinouse , but
like apprentice carter in Erépian (or in
Poujol); It entered, after its military service 
with the Company of
the Railroads of the South in Toulouse He had
known in Saint-Julien-Olargues Lucie Marie
Élina FOUILHÉ 
that he married in 1913. My
grandmother, with the death of my grandfather 1951 beginning
until 1965, was woman of household-linen maid in a family a few
days per week; immigrant of Eastern Europe before war, this
family was more or less hidden in a building in the street of my
grandparents after the invasion of the " free zone ",
at the end of 1942, and " was protected " by the
vicinity during the German Occupation... My grandfather, from his
profession, escaped from the hell during 1914/1918 war, " being
mobilized on the spot " at the railroad station of
Toulouse, where it carried out all his career as lamp
maker He had to refuse a promotion in Albi, because he
could not have paid the boarding school for the studies of
teachers of their 3 children (born in their grandparents FOUILHÉ in Saint-Julien-d'Olargues, at the hamlet of Cros,
they passed all there their school holidays, taking part in the
grape harvest, but always lived Toulouse). My grandfather never
had car...
From 1665 to our days, none of my ancestors CARAYON had other male children having had them-even male children that the my ascending direct successive, with the result that in spite of a number of CARAYON in France (2.377 births in France between 1891 and 1990 more than 800 CARAYON today in the directory including 277 in the Tarn and 135 in Hérault), currently only male CARAYON which are related for me are my 3 respective brothers and our 7 sons (of which none is yet married). SEE
2 / Side mother of my father :
The FOUILHÉ and
the DONNADIEU are originating in the High cantons of the North of
the Departement of HERAULT on the southernmost
slope of Espinouse, last buttresses of the Massif Central
mountains, from the village of Saint-Julien-d'Olargues and
more particularly of 2 of the many hamlets of this commune, the Cros
for FOUILHÉ (FOULIO in occitan), and Mauroul
for DONNADIEU (DONNADIÙ). Progressively generations,
the FOUILHÉ and the DONNADIEU married women originating in the
other hamlets of Saint-Julien ( Auziale, Horts, Tirocos,
Fabrègue High) as well as communes of Olargues,
Saint-Vincent-d'Olargues (Violgue, Raspaillac,
Mazarié, Coustargue), Mons (Bardou),
Rosis (Rosis, Douch), St-Martin-de-l'Arçon (Pomarède), two branches coming
from Nages and Murat-sur-Vèbre
(in Tarn other pouring of Espinouse). These
two families were farmer-wine growers and had an existence less
hard than branch CARAYON. Héraultais of this area had even come
from there to neglect the food crops, which posed to them
problems at the time of the winter 1940! The last FOUILHÉ wine
grower, the last of the long line of the Antoine says " the
Guard ", first cousin of my father, is deceased at the end
of 1999.
St-Julien-d'Olargues is a commune without borough nor center, consisted of 17 hamlets disseminated in the mountain and whose Town hall is located at hamlet of Castagnès; close from there the Priory of St-Julien is, only effective link between the hamlets and which gave its name to the commune, as its small cemetery where my ancestors rest; this priory is quoted as of the year 899 but the bell-tower and the bell which rhythm time go back to 1615. On the steps of the Priory pushes a tree (I do not know any more if it is an olive-tree) old several centuries. The hamlet of Mauroul nearer to St-Vincent-d'Olargues which was its parish, has also a small church, in perfect state. This hamlet, lost on the slopes of Espinouse at the edge of a ravine, connected by a bridge to the road which carries out to its node, is currently in resurrection, the new inhabitants restoring each house in an interlacing of small 60 cm broad lanes. In 1791 the parish of St-Julien included 698 inhabitants divided in 18 hamlets and smallholdings, then including the hamlets of Bardou, Corbou, Fenouillède, Vaulte, Ornac, Toulo (Mons), Cofumat and the Room (Olargues), as well as Coste (St-Martin-de-l'Arçon) and Calhié (St-Étienne)
St-Vincent-d'Olargues, near to the hamlet of Mauroul, is also a small village with many hamlets disseminated on the slopes of Espinouse.
It's in Olargues,
located a little low, than the exchanges
and social were done; small borough on Jaur river whose "
bridge of the devil " dates from the 13th century, dominated
by a turn-bell-tower, it preserves, hidden in its lanes, medieval
houses.
Rosis is a tiny hamlet of 4 or 5 houses lost on the heights of Espinouse to the top of the collar of Madale, which one reaches after 12 km of uninterrupted rise, and it was not simple at the time going to the nearest church. In the vicinity are the traces of a Roman camp, perched to 1.100 m of altitude.
With the end of the Middle
Ages, since 1350 and up to 1450 these villages first of
all knew a score of years of food shortages then were
devastated by the plague which carried in several waves more
half of the population Followed immediately afterwards of the
exactions of armed bands between 1380 and 1400. On this date
the hamlets and masages (of Occitan " masatge ",
hamlet) of the slopes of Espinouse are practically deserted, the
lords had to resort to the establishment of new families in order
to cultivate the grounds and to provide them incomes again. The
descendants of these families often cultivated in joint
possession the masages which had been allotted to their parents,
the lord perceiving his royalties overall, thus supporting in the
same place a significant concentration families of the same name.
Then this system of joint possession disappeared because of the
multiplication from the families, bringing to a parcelling out of
the grounds of the masages.
It is to be noted that the majority of the
patronyms of my ancestors of the Departement of Hérault are also
present in the Tarn, often besides cash of the Protestant
families...
All these villages and hamlets were difficult access and folded up on them-even, only Olargues and Poujol-s/Orb, located along Jaur and of Orb rivers on the road of Mazamet to Bédarieux skirting the Black Mountain, the Mounts of Espinouse and Caroux, profited from an opening towards the plains of Hérault.
The totality of my paternal
ancestors are thus originating, on the one hand, of small hamlets
located on a line going of the Mounts of Lacaune and going up
towards Albi (Departement of Tarn), left the Tarn called "
the Mountain ", except for two branches coming from close
villages located in Aveyron, and, on the other hand, of small
hamlets disseminated on the southernmost side of the Solid mass
of Espinouse and the Mount of Caroux, in the High cantons
(Departement of Hérault).
Along the years, 3 of the ancestors of my father were
born from unknown father, or at least except marriage ; in
each case their mother had been widowed for several years, and
another had a half-brother under the same conditions. This fact
strongly decreases the number of ascending which I will be able
to possibly find on this side.
CONNECT MATERNAL
The 8 great-grandparents of
my mother were born in 7 different Departments: Haute-Marne,
Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Vosges, Isère, Haute-Savoie, Creuse and
Seine-Maritime, and by going up their origins one adds the
Moselle, Indre, and the Eure.
They all the eight emigrated
in Paris between 1855 and 1860, the
majority after known in their departments of origin, and made
stock in Paris even.
1 / Side father of my mother :
DUCHÊNE / PERRIN (MEURTHE-et-MOSELLE / THE MOSELLE / THE VOSGES)
My DUCHÊNE (in
the past DUCHÊSNE) are originating in the Departement of
MEURTHE-and-MOSELLE and lived Nancy at
least since 1720; small craftsmen (figarist, shoe-maker) in the
old city (St-Pierre district), the streets where they remained
always exist under the same name (street of the college,
St-Pierre suburb). The near total of this branch is originating
in this department, except for the DEMASURE-CORINGER, originating
in the Departement of MOSELLE in Insmings
.. In 1830 Joseph DUCHÊNE settled in Thionville
where it held an inn, and where his son Jean-François was born. Joseph
turned over later to live in Nancy, and died there in 1848 (161
rue du Faubourg St-Pierre). In 1851 Jean-François married in
Nancy Marie Claire PERRIN and they left to Paris ..
My PERRIN are
originating in the Departement of VOSGES on the
one hand of Vagney 
(PERRIN and
GUSTIN), Sapois 
(FRANÇOIS) and of La
Bresse 
(now
winter sports resort, with the limit of Haut-Rhin) (PETITJEAN),
and in addition of the Rupt-sur-Moselle 
(LAMBOLÉ) and of Saulxures-sur-Moselotte
(CLAUDEL). The
PERRIN were farmers, the LAMBOLÉ small craftsmen. In 1818
Lambert PERRIN married Claire LAMBOLÉ in Vagney then they
settled in Nancy where them girl Marie-Claire married
Jean-François DUCHÊNE.
THIBAUD / CORBIER (ISÈRE / HAUTE-savoie)
My THIBAUD are
originating in the Departement of ISÈRE at St-Hilaire-de-la-Côte
in the West of Grenoble. They were farmers and
certain their descendants are it still, always at
St-Hilaire-de-la-Côte. My back-back-large-father Antoine THIBAUD 
engaged for seven
years in the army, took part in the Crimean War 
and the Campaign
of Italy 
under Napoleon III, then its
regiment was stationed in the suburbs of Paris where he knew
Francoise CORBIER, newcomer of the Departement of HAUTE-SAVOIE.
They married in Paris in 1866 as of its release of the
Army... Their daughter Julie Antoinette THIBAUD 
married in Paris in
1887 Émile Lucien DUCHÊNE .JPG "Emile Lucien Duchêne"){kind=small}
, son of
Jean-François...
The CORBIER are
originating in Chilly 
then of Massingy
in the Departement of HAUTE-SAVOIE. They
were farmers, but it is the branch which I know less, still not
having been able to go up very far...
2 / Side mother of my mother :
HENRY / SOUR (the VOSGES / HAUTE-MARNE / and MOSELLE)
The HENRY are
originating in the Departement of VOSGES and
more particularly in Grand 
in the
cœur of Vôge, very close to Domrémy 
from which it is
separated by the forest in which Jeanne of Arc heard
voices ; Jeanne DESPREZ, who married François HENRY in 1783, one
of downward is supposed one of the brothers of Jeanne of
ARC, by the MELCION family. Many works evoke this filiation. The
father of Jeanne of Arc had been born in Ceffonds in the Departement
of HAUTE-MARNE, his/her mother in Vouthon-Haut
in the Departement of MEUSE
Gallo-Roman place,
Grand was devoted to Grannus (Apollo), judicious capacity to
cure, and preserved the typology of this time 
A 2 km length rampart equipped
with towers every 80 m girdled the site, and one can see an
amphitheatre preserved relatively well there, one of largest of
the Roman world. The emperors Caracalla and Constantin came there
respectively into 213 and 309 after JC to look after itself in
its hydropathic establishment... During several centuries Grand
lived of its forging mills and factories of nails and tools, much
of my ascending of this branch were nailsmiths. The village was
touched in 1854 by an epidemic of cholera and
this date seems to coincide with the departure of large of all
HENRY.
The SOUR are
originating in the Departement of MOSELLE, of St-Avold
In 1726 Jean SOUR married Bonne PUNEROT in Avranville
(Departement of VOSGES) , and settled
there. Its Claude grandson married
in 1799 Libaire Marie MAULARD in Grand and in 1834 their
Libaire daughter married Jean
François HENRY there.
Extract of the parochial
register of Avranville " This present year 1781
August 12, the thunder fell on the bell-tower from
this church in the moment when one left Vespers, so that half of
the people was in the church and other half outside. The arrow of
the bell-tower was completely crashed to pieces by the thunder
clap, the much damaged tower and a part of the broken tiles of
the nave. If one had sounded in this moment, the bell ringers had
been infallibly killed ".
Signed PETITJEAN, priest of Avranville.
GOUJON / SILVESTRE (HAUTE-MARNE)
This branch is
originating in the Departement of HAUTE-MARNE The
GOUJON from Rimaucourt 
the SILVESTRE one
of Audeloncourt 
Joséphine Henriette GOUJON married in 1856 in Rimaucourt Jean
Nicolas HENRY, son of Jean-François; they initially settled in
Abainville (Departement of MEUSE) 
where my great-grandfather
Charles Alexandre HENRY was born in 1858, then they left for
Paris. Charles Alexandre 
married in 1886 Annette Jeanne JAMETON 
JAMETON / SABIN (CREUSE / INDRE / CHER)
The JAMETON are
originating in Bétête 
in the North of the Departement of
CREUSE in 1739. Jean JAMETON married Gilberte
POURRADIER, of La Cellette 
where they settled. Their son married
Gabrielle TABOURIN, of Champeix in 1827 Victor, son of the
latter, married Catherine Julie SABIN.
The SABIN are originating in Nouziers 
and married with the wire of
the generations of the women originating in La Cellette and Genouillac
Charles JAMETON my
back-back-large-father, companion metal worker, emigrated
in Paris at the end of his " Turn of France ".
The "Country " of this branch remained a long time with the variation of the transportation communication channels, the roads were still non-existent with the French Revolution.
DELESTRE / LECUIT (SEINE-MARITIME / EURE)
This last branch
is originating in the Departement of SEINE-MARITIME.
Originating in Yvetot 
in the country of
Caux, the DELESTRE, linen wire fathers, married NIEL, HOUVILLE,
LORAIN, MOREAU, originating in St-Clair-sur-les-Monts,
Auzebosc, Ste-Marie-des-Champs ..
Originating in Bois-Guillaume 
my LECUIT married LEFEBVRE,
PASQUIER, MARIDOR, LECHALUPÉ, originating in La Frénaye,
Grand-Camp, Auberville-la-Campagne, and St-Arnoult
in the EURE ... In 1835 Guillaume Alexandre
DELESTRE married in 2nd weddings Virginia Élise LECUIT in
Yvetot, and they emigrated in Paris where them girl
Ernestine Élise 
married in 1869 Charles JAMETON 
