Susan ROCHET

   Other names for Susan were Mrs. Abraham MICHAUX and Mrs. Susan MICHAUX.

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Original spelling of the name in Sedan France is Rochet. Was baptised 15 July 1674. Susanne godparents were Pierre Dufray and his wife Suzanne Godet. The correct spelling is Rochet, pronounced Ro-Shay.

When Susanne (Jody's 6th Great Grand Mother) was a young girl her father in an attempt to get her to Amsterdam, to his brother Jean Rochet, engaged a lady to escort her there. This lady had a small baby and as they were crossing a small branch the baby cried. This was overheard by some soldiers and they were arrested. Her father later befriended a ships Captain to take her there. He transported her in a hogshead (wooden stave barrel) and loaded her abord the ship. She married Abraham Michaux in the Huguenot Church while in Amsterdam. It is not known if they were previously aquainted from Sedan France.

Her Will: My husband is deceased therefore I leave all of my property to my son John Paul Michaux, probated Dec 17, 1774. The will was made Mar 22, 1740, and honors her husbands request in his will. Early church records show name spelled Rochet.

July 14, 2000. Today I received a copy of Virginia Historical Magazine, published 1937-38 which includes a genealogy study by E G Eggleston. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Moses Rochet (no mention of Isaac) tried to get his youngest daughter Susanne to Amsterdam Holland, where many refugees had fled. Among these refugees were two of his daughters, who had kindly been received by Christian friends. They wrote their father to send their little sister to them, but fearing their letter might fall into the enemies of the Huguenots, they ask him to send "the little nightcap" they had left behind. After several attempts to get little Susanne out of France, her father arranged to have her shipped in a large oak cask, or hogshead, which was entrusted to a friendly sea-captain, who had the cask placed aboard his ship. When they sailed and were safely past the guards who were placed on vessels in the harbour, the cask was opened and Susanne was lifted out of her narrow, dark chamber, and was brought safely to Amersterdam, where her sisters received her with great joy. This story was published in 1933 in the Huguenot, No. 6, the Annual of the Huguenot Society. The story is highly prized by the Michaux family and has been widely distributed. There is no mention that Susanne had an uncle Jean Rochet in Amsterdam as supported by the Gemeentear Chief, of Amsterdam, in recording her marriage to Abraham Michaux (see notes on her husband Abraham). So this Jean has to be Jean Michaux, Abrahams brother who came to Holland with their father Jacob. This article says Susanne was named after her grandmother and godmother Susanne Rondeau. Was baptized April 13, 1667.

Became a member of The Threadneedle Church in London, Aug 20, 1702/03. Notes in the magazine identify her father as Jean , ie: Before Susanne Rochet, daughter of Jean, married in Amsterdam to Abraham Michaux, in 1692, her younger sister jeanne, as is shown by a new entry. She had been married in London Sep 9, 1689, at the Church of the French and Waloon refugees, called Les Grecs, to Jacques Trufet, probably a relative of the first wife of Jean Rochet. So it may be assumed that Jeanne encouraged her elder sister to settle in London.

Susan married Abraham MICHAUX, son of Jacob MICHAUX and Ann SEVERIN, on 13 Jul 1692 in French Reformed, Huguenot Church, Amsterdam, Holland. (Abraham MICHAUX was born in 1672 in Sedan, France.)