This may possibly be the François Barthélemi Léorat, manufacturer of playing cards, who worked in Magdeburg between 1707 and 1715. He left Magdeburg, and died in Erlangen 10 years later.
_André LÉORAT _______+ | (.... - 1645) m 1595 _Mondon LÉORAT _______| | (1598 - 1658) | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______+ | (.... - 1635) m 1595 _François LÉORAT _______| | (1628 - 1680) m 1660 | | | _Pierre ROUSSET _____ | | | | |_Isabeau ROUSSET _____| | (.... - 1631) | | |_Jeanne FANGET ______ | | |--Barthelemi LÉORAT | (1661 - 1725) | _Anthoine JOHANNOT __ | | (.... - 1669) | _Barthelemi JOHANNOT _| | | (.... - 1673) | | | |_____________________ | | |_Marie Jeanne JOHANNOT _| (.... - 1703) m 1660 | | ______ PINET ________ | | |_Anne PINET __________| | |_____________________
_Etienne LÉORAT ______+ | (.... - 1647) m 1608 _Etienne LÉORAT ________| | (1617 - 1668) | | |_Jeanne Marie CHOMEL _ | (.... - 1650) m 1608 _Gédéon LÉORAT ______| | (1653 - 1739) m 1681| | | ______________________ | | | | |_Françoise DE MARSANNE _| | | | |______________________ | | |--Bartholemy LÉORAT | (1684 - ....) | ______________________ | | | ________________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Catherine VEYRE ____| m 1681 | | ______________________ | | |________________________| | |______________________
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | (1638 - 1687) m 1665 _Etienne LÉORAT ______| | (1672 - ....) | | |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___+ | (1643 - 1691) m 1665 _Alexandre LÉORAT ___| | (1704 - ....) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Marie CHOMEL ________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Catherine LÉORAT | | _Pierre JOHANNOT ____+ | | (1643 - 1725) m 1681 | _Mathieu JOHANNOT ____| | | (1682 - 1744) m 1706 | | | |_Anne BOURGET _______ | | m 1681 |_Anne JOHANNOT ______| | | _Isaac PERRIN _______ | | |_Marie Claire PERRIN _| (1679 - 1753) m 1706 | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _André LÉORAT _______| | (.... - 1645) m 1595| | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Catherine LÉORAT | (1599 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _Jaques D'ANTI ______| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______| (.... - 1635) m 1595| | _____________________ | | |_Catherine BONNIER __| | |_Catherine JAUSSAUD _
_Etienne LÉORAT ______+ | (.... - 1647) m 1608 _Etienne LÉORAT ________| | (1617 - 1668) | | |_Jeanne Marie CHOMEL _ | (.... - 1650) m 1608 _Gédéon LÉORAT ______| | (1653 - 1739) m 1681| | | ______________________ | | | | |_Françoise DE MARSANNE _| | | | |______________________ | | |--Catherine Françoise LÉORAT | | ______________________ | | | ________________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Catherine VEYRE ____| m 1681 | | ______________________ | | |________________________| | |______________________
The death of Charlotte occasioned the following paragraph in the registers:
"LEORAT: Le Maicredi 23me jour de May 1691. Honnéte Charlote Leorat veuve de Sr. Jean Leorat bourgeois est decedée - par un accident tres-lamentable. Elle étoit allée à son Domaine appellé Moulez, & s'en revenant sur les trois heures apres midy, se rencontrant au chemin de Sorzieu en un tems ou l'air étoit fort couvert avec pluye, tonnerres & éclairs; il y eût un si violent qui l'étouffa sur la place ou elle tomba, & se fit sur des pierres quelques contusions au visage, que ceux quie vindrent au secours luy virent tout noircy de la fumée, & ses coiffes prêques brûlées, & nottamment tout le long de son corps du côté gauche que étoit tout noir & comme brûlé. On l'emportât chez-elle, & le lendemain on l'enterra au Cimetiere hors deome."
It took a great deal of research to decide which of the two contemporary Charlotte Léorats was the subject of this record. We believe we have finally worked it out. The key is that her husband is identified as Jean Léorat, bourgeois. This title is consistently applied to this man to distinguish him from the other Jean Léorat, marchand. Now, the Jean Léorat who was identified as bourgeois is the subject of a marriage contract to Charlotte Léorat, in connection to which there is a ruling for a dispensation. The dispensation was necessary because the parents of the bride and groom were first cousins. Unfortunately, both of the Charlotte Léorats were related in this way to Jean Léorat! But when we list the sponsors of the children of Jean and Charlotte, the matter is clarified. The first child, Magdelaine, was sponsored by Etienne Léorat and Magdelaine Veyrin (Jean's father and Charlotte's mother), while the second child, André, was sponsored by André Léorat and Catherine Perrin (Charlotte's father and, apparently, Jean's mother Catherine Paret). The close relatives of the other Charlotte do not appear among the sponsors at the baptisms of the children of Jean and Charlotte.
_Mondon LÉORAT ______ | (.... - 1583) _André LÉORAT _______| | (.... - 1645) m 1595| | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______+ | _André LÉORAT _______| | (1604 - 1680) m 1639| | | _Jaques D'ANTI ______ | | | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______| | (.... - 1635) m 1595| | |_Catherine BONNIER __+ | | |--Charlotte LÉORAT | (1643 - 1691) | _____________________ | | | _André VEYRIN _______| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __| (.... - 1669) m 1639| | _____________________ | | |_Jeanne ANDROL ______| | |_____________________
Witnesses at the baptism were Jean Laurans and Charlotte Chomel. She is apparently not the Charlotte Léorat killed by lightning in 1691.
_Mondon LÉORAT ______ | (.... - 1583) _André LÉORAT _______| | (.... - 1645) m 1595| | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______+ | _Pierre LÉORAT ______| | (1596 - 1652) m 1645| | | _Jaques D'ANTI ______ | | | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______| | (.... - 1635) m 1595| | |_Catherine BONNIER __+ | | |--Charlotte LÉORAT | (1648 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _Jaques LAURANS _____| | | m 1601 | | | |_____________________ | | |_Marie LAURANS ______| (1618 - 1681) m 1645| | ______ BLACHE _______ | | |_Marie BLACHE _______| (1573 - ....) m 1601| |_____________________
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | (1638 - 1687) m 1665 _Etienne LÉORAT ______| | (1672 - ....) | | |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___+ | (1643 - 1691) m 1665 _Alexandre LÉORAT ___| | (1704 - ....) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Marie CHOMEL ________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Claire LÉORAT | | _Pierre JOHANNOT ____+ | | (1643 - 1725) m 1681 | _Mathieu JOHANNOT ____| | | (1682 - 1744) m 1706 | | | |_Anne BOURGET _______ | | m 1681 |_Anne JOHANNOT ______| | | _Isaac PERRIN _______ | | |_Marie Claire PERRIN _| (1679 - 1753) m 1706 | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __
_Etienne LÉORAT _____+ | (.... - 1659) _Jean LÉORAT ________________| | (1638 - 1687) m 1665 | | |_Catherine PARET ____+ | (1606 - 1666) _André LÉORAT _______| | (.... - 1756) m 1694| | | _André LÉORAT _______+ | | | (1604 - 1680) m 1639 | |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___________| | (1643 - 1691) m 1665 | | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __+ | (.... - 1669) m 1639 | |--Claire LÉORAT | | _Claude LAGRANGE ____ | | (1600 - 1686) | _Louis LAGRANGE _____________| | | (1638 - 1711) m 1664 | | | |_Jeanne ROUSSET _____+ | | (1607 - 1674) |_Jeanne LAGRANGE ____| (1672 - 1756) m 1694| | _Pierre LÉORAT ______+ | | (1596 - 1652) m 1645 |_Isabeau (Elizabeth) LÉORAT _| (1646 - 1719) m 1664 | |_Marie LAURANS ______+ (1618 - 1681) m 1645
_Etienne LÉORAT ______+ | (1672 - ....) _Alexandre LÉORAT ___| | (1704 - ....) | | |_Marie CHOMEL ________ | _Pierre Mathieu LÉORAT _| | m 1775 | | | _Mathieu JOHANNOT ____+ | | | (1682 - 1744) m 1706 | |_Anne JOHANNOT ______| | | | |_Marie Claire PERRIN _+ | (1679 - 1753) m 1706 | |--Claire Elizabeth LÉORAT | (1776 - ....) | ______________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Elizabeth GISCARD _____| m 1775 | | ______________________ | | |_____________________| | |______________________
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (.... - 1659) | | |_Jeanne SALA ________ | _Jean LÉORAT ________| | (1638 - 1687) m 1665| | | _Pierre PARET _______+ | | | (.... - 1629) | |_Catherine PARET ____| | (1606 - 1666) | | |_Louise CHOGNARD ____+ | | |--Elizabeth LÉORAT | (1681 - ....) | _André LÉORAT _______+ | | (.... - 1645) m 1595 | _André LÉORAT _______| | | (1604 - 1680) m 1639| | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______+ | | (.... - 1635) m 1595 |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___| (1643 - 1691) m 1665| | _André VEYRIN _______ | | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __| (.... - 1669) m 1639| |_Jeanne ANDROL ______
Identified as Isabeau, wife of François Chanal, in one record, and in another as the daughter of Etienne Léorat, bourgeois, who married François Chanal.
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _Etienne LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1647) m 1608 | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Elizabeth (Isabeau) LÉORAT | (1626 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jeanne Marie CHOMEL _| (.... - 1650) m 1608 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _Pierre LÉORAT ______| | m 1600 | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1604 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jeanne FRESSENEL ___| m 1600 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
This appears to be the Etienne who married Françoise de Marsanne. Father and son appear with exactly the same phraseology, so that we at first believed the father lived until 1670, until we discovered his death record. Now it appears there were at least three men of the same name described the same way.
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _Etienne LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1647) m 1608 | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1617 - 1668) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jeanne Marie CHOMEL _| (.... - 1650) m 1608 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
Occupation listed in 1673 as greffier de la cour des Equivallens.
_Mondon LÉORAT _______ | (.... - 1583) _Jean LÉORAT ________| | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL _______+ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (.... - 1659) | | | ______________________ | | | | |_Jeanne SALA ________| | | | |______________________ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1639 - ....) | ______ PARET _________ | | | _Pierre PARET _______| | | (.... - 1629) | | | |_Anthoinette VIGIERE _ | | |_Catherine PARET ____| (1606 - 1666) | | _Jean CHOGNARD _______ | | (.... - 1606) |_Louise CHOGNARD ____| | |______________________
There were at least 3 Etienne Léorats who married at least 3 Marie Chomels! The wife in this case is listed in La France Moderne as Jeanne Marie Chomel, but she is identified at every baptism where she appears simply as Marie Chomel, in the protestant registers at Annonay. In 1619, Etienne is identified as "greffier des gabelles", 1633 as "juge grevetier", and 1636 as "bourgeois", the latter apparently to distinguish him from his nephew Etienne the tailor. Evidently, references to Etienne Léorat bourgeois as late as 1670 must be to the younger Etienne "bourgeois", who seems to be his son.
_____________________ | _____________________| | | | |_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (.... - 1647) | _Joseph MONTCHAL ____ | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | _Pierre ROCHE _______ | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___| | |_____________________
La France Moderne adds another child, Gédéon, but he seems to belong instead with Etienne Léorat (son of Etienne) who married Françoise de Marsanne.
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _Jean LÉORAT ________| | | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (.... - 1659) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jeanne SALA ________| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | _Anthoine LÉORAT ____| | | | |_Jeanne SALA ________ | _Jean LÉORAT ________| | (1634 - ....) m 1654| | | _____________________ | | | | |_Magdelaine GUERIN __| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1667 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Isabeau RÂCLE ______| m 1654 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
Witnesses at the baptism were Etienne Léorat, greffier, and Jeanne Androl widow of the late André Veyrin.
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (.... - 1659) | | |_Jeanne SALA ________ | _Jean LÉORAT ________| | (1638 - 1687) m 1665| | | _Pierre PARET _______+ | | | (.... - 1629) | |_Catherine PARET ____| | (1606 - 1666) | | |_Louise CHOGNARD ____+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1668 - ....) | _André LÉORAT _______+ | | (.... - 1645) m 1595 | _André LÉORAT _______| | | (1604 - 1680) m 1639| | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______+ | | (.... - 1635) m 1595 |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___| (1643 - 1691) m 1665| | _André VEYRIN _______ | | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __| (.... - 1669) m 1639| |_Jeanne ANDROL ______
Witnesses at the baptism were Etienne Fressenel and Jeanne Léorat, daughter of the late Pierre Léorat, advocat, and of Marie Laurans her mother.
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (.... - 1659) | | |_Jeanne SALA ________ | _Jean LÉORAT ________| | (1638 - 1687) m 1665| | | _Pierre PARET _______+ | | | (.... - 1629) | |_Catherine PARET ____| | (1606 - 1666) | | |_Louise CHOGNARD ____+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1672 - ....) | _André LÉORAT _______+ | | (.... - 1645) m 1595 | _André LÉORAT _______| | | (1604 - 1680) m 1639| | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______+ | | (.... - 1635) m 1595 |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___| (1643 - 1691) m 1665| | _André VEYRIN _______ | | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __| (.... - 1669) m 1639| |_Jeanne ANDROL ______
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (.... - 1659) | | |_Jeanne SALA ________ | _Etienne LÉORAT _____| | (1639 - ....) | | | _Pierre PARET _______+ | | | (.... - 1629) | |_Catherine PARET ____| | (1606 - 1666) | | |_Louise CHOGNARD ____+ | | |--Etienne LÉORAT | (1677 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Marie CHOMEL _______| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
_____________________ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (.... - 1583) | | |_____________________ | _Pierre LÉORAT ______| | m 1600 | | | _Nicolas MONTCHAL ___+ | | | | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______| | | | |_Marguerite ROCHE ___+ | | |--Eve LÉORAT | (1614 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jeanne FRESSENEL ___| m 1600 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
_Mondon LÉORAT ______ | (.... - 1583) _André LÉORAT _______| | (.... - 1645) m 1595| | |_Anne MONTCHAL ______+ | _Mondon LÉORAT ______| | (1598 - 1658) | | | _Jaques D'ANTI ______ | | | | |_Marie D'ANTI _______| | (.... - 1635) m 1595| | |_Catherine BONNIER __+ | | |--François LÉORAT | (1628 - 1680) | _____________________ | | | _Pierre ROUSSET _____| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Isabeau ROUSSET ____| (.... - 1631) | | _____________________ | | |_Jeanne FANGET ______| | |_____________________
Citation in Leiden Index gives parents, date of burial, and age at death as 3 year, 4 months, 15 days. No other records for this family appear in this index.
_Mondon LÉORAT _______+ | (1598 - 1658) _François LÉORAT _______| | (1628 - 1680) m 1660 | | |_Isabeau ROUSSET _____+ | (.... - 1631) _Barthelemi LÉORAT __| | (1661 - 1725) m 1699| | | _Barthelemi JOHANNOT _+ | | | (.... - 1673) | |_Marie Jeanne JOHANNOT _| | (.... - 1703) m 1660 | | |_Anne PINET __________+ | | |--François LÉORAT | (1706 - ....) | ______________________ | | | ________________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Jeanne CARRON ______| m 1699 | | ______________________ | | |________________________| | |______________________
_Jean LÉORAT ________+ | (1638 - 1687) m 1665 _Etienne LÉORAT ______| | (1672 - ....) | | |_Charlotte LÉORAT ___+ | (1643 - 1691) m 1665 _Alexandre LÉORAT ___| | (1704 - ....) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Marie CHOMEL ________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--François LÉORAT | (1738 - 1747) | _Pierre JOHANNOT ____+ | | (1643 - 1725) m 1681 | _Mathieu JOHANNOT ____| | | (1682 - 1744) m 1706 | | | |_Anne BOURGET _______ | | m 1681 |_Anne JOHANNOT ______| | | _Isaac PERRIN _______ | | |_Marie Claire PERRIN _| (1679 - 1753) m 1706 | |_Magdelaine VEYRIN __