Zalewski Family Genealogy

Pierre-Jean QUINET[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Male 1782 - 1870  (~ 77 years)


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  • Name Pierre-Jean QUINET 
    Nickname Peter 
    Baptism 14 Aug 1782  La Paroisse de Contréglise, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Compté), France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 7
    Christening 15 Aug 1782  La Paroisse de Contréglise, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Compté), France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    WikiTree Link Quinet-7 
    Immigration 1832 
    Residence Between 1832 and 1841  Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Naturalization 8 Aug 1841  Onondaga, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Occupation 1850–1860  [1, 3
    Residence 1855–1860  Fredonia, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    FamilySearch ID LC8P-3TY 
    Death Between 1860 and 1870  Fredonia, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I1100  Zalewski Family
    Last Modified 28 Oct 2021 

    Father Antoine QUINET,   b. 14 Jun 1757, Contraglise, Haute-Saune, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Monique MARIZOT,   b. 27 Dec 1750, Contraglise, Haute-Saune, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 20 Feb 1781  Contraglise, Haute-Saune, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F408  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marie-Françoise GRANGIER,   b. 19 Mar 1788, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1860 and 1870, Fredonia, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 13 Feb 1811  Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9
    Children 
     1. Nicolas-Joseph QUINET,   b. 7 Jul 1813, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1879, Stockton, Rooks, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     2. Jean-Claude QUINET,   b. 5 Nov 1815, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1815, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     3. Claude Françoise QUINET,   b. 9 Mar 1817, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1899, Wrightstown, Brown, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     4. Marie QUINET,   b. 11 Nov 1819, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Appoline Pauline QUINET,   b. 6 Feb 1822, Menoux, Département de Haute-Saône (Franche-Comté), France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1914, Morrison, Brown, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     6. Guillaume QUINET,   b. Between 1823 and 1826, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     7. Emilie-Francoise QUINET,   b. 3 Sep 1827, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Apr 1915, Champion, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     8. Joseph Pierre QUINET,   b. 23 Aug 1830, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1920, De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     9. Josephine QUINET,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F441  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Nov 2021 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1832 and 1841 - Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1855–1860 - Fredonia, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Between 1860 and 1870 - Fredonia, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • In addition to being a weaver (tisserand) it seems that Pierre was also an iron monger and dealer in hardware. Jacques Charbonnier, who discovered this information, explains it this way: "(Translation by RLQ) "On the subject of Pierre, before he was married at age 28 he worked as a weaver at Contréglise in the house of his father or another person in his family .... He was perhaps an apprentice, then a companion, but he was not the'patron (boss)'. After his marriage he set up his home at Menoux, the village of his wife, and it is there that he had his children. At Menoux, he worked for his own family and [apparently --RLQ] wanted to take on another more profitable occupation and became a hardware merchant, an iron monger. I have often run across this change of occupation among my ancestors after their marriage. After arriving in the US, he worked where he could, perhaps odd jobs downtown to start ... but in the countryside there was a place for them, so he became a farmer as indicated in the census.: Jacques Charbonnier (email, jacques.charbonnier@free.fr, 23 June 2004, Subject: Re: La famille QUINET-GRANGIER ... Commentaires !)



      Dates of marriages of children place La Famille Quinet in Wisconsin between 1841 (marriage of Polly) and 1845 (marriages of Nicolas and Emily Frances), and the births of the first two children of Moise-Joseph Runnoe and Pauline Quinet further narrows the move to Wisconsin to the period between May 1842 (Josephine Runnoe born in NY) and 3 Nov 1844 (Isaac Runnoe born in WI). This, of course, assumes that the extended family all moved together (quite a logical assumption in those days). See individual records.

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      The following -- together with wrong turns and dead ends -- traces a research project to find where the Quinet ancestors came from in France. The project did not culminate until 16 June 2004: Robert L. Quinnett.



      According to Jennie Philpott, who died in Canada in 1951, the Quinet family came from a place which sounded to her like "Min New." : Letter from Jennie Philpott in the possession of Robert L. Quinnett. She was recalling what she had heard as a child. She could neither read nor write French, and that was the best way she could pronounce the place her mother used to talk about. If one measures about 20 miles north of the approximate edge of the city limits of Paris, there is a place called Mouy on the Thèrain River about 12-13 miles SE of Beauvais. If one measures from the center of Paris, it hits on the Oise River somewhere between Chembly and Chantilly, but angling it a little to the west hits at a town called Mery-sur-Oise. On 25 March 1999 Robert L. Quinnett checked for telephone numbers belonging to anyone named Quinet in the area referred to above, namely in the valley of the Oise (Val d'Oise--95000). Only one Quinet (Jean-Baptiste) was found in the town of Pontoise @ 01 30 31 16 72. Some names similar to Quinet (orthographic) were found, however: a Quenet in Pontoise and Chainay, Cuennet and Quesné on up the Thèrain river in Beauvais



      The two towns above don't sound like "Min-New." Mouy sounds like "Moo-ee" and Mery sounds like "Mair-ee". Neither fit, but it's possible that Jennie, a child, misunderstood an entire conversation or comment and that the word or words referred to something else entirely, not a location from which the family came. Also, by the time she wrote the letter in the forties, she might have forgotten what it sounded like.

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      In 1982, a descendant of Octavia Quinet and Peter Neuens, stated that the Quinet Family came from "Minuex" France, close to Paris: Marjorie Adair Neunes Gratton, MERRY CHRISTMAS to the descendants of the QUINET -- NEUENS FAMILY (December 1982), from Shirley & Harold Tisdell, 29492 County Road 181, Paynesville, MN 56362 (grandmat@tkdlink.net), 27 December, 2002.



      On 7 January 2002 I [Robert L. Quinnett] used Microsoft Expedia Maps, http://www.expedia.com/, in an attempt to find "Minuex", France. It does not exist. The closest town by sound to both "Min-New" (above) and "Minuex" (also above) is "Menoux" in Franche-Comté, south of the Alsace-Lorraine region and half-way across France from Paris. A search in the Internet using Cousins Gen-Web (http://cousinsgenweb.francegenweb.org/) revealed that no one appears to be researching the name of Quinet in Menoux, so no sudden solution to this had so far developed. It would not be until 16 June 2004 that I would be forced to look at Menoux again.



      On 16 June 2004 I received information that Pierre (a weaver) and Marie (Marie-Françoise GRANDGIER) were married on 13 February 1811 at Menoux, Haute-Saône.: LDS, Family Search microfilm #1071343, information from Jacques Charbonnier, jacques.charbonnier@free.fr, email dated 16 June 2004, Subject: Famille QUINET ou ... extra-terrestres ? ... SUITE and email dated 22 June 2004, Subject: La famille QUINET-GRANGIER ... Modificatif ! This second email corrected the spelling of the surname of Marie-Françoise to GRANGIER.

      ***



      The History of Franche-Comté [from http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/French_Regions/Franche-Comte/franche-comte_9.htm]

      Franche-Comté was originally a part of Burgundy <../Burgandy/burgundy_4.htm>. Burgundy originally consisted of several historic kingdoms, counties, duchies, and a province situated within France. During the 5th century AD, the Bourguignons, a Germanic tribe, invaded and established the first kingdom of Bourgogne in France. The kingdom expanded until it included most of what is now southeastern France and part of present-day Switzerland.

      The Bourguignons were conquered in 534 by the Merovingien <../../French_History/history_The_Merovingiens_481-751.htm> rulers of the Franks and were later absorbed into the Carolingian <../../French_History/history_the_carolingiens.htm> Empire. In 843 Burgundy was divided between Charles I of France and his brother, Emperor Lothair I. In 879, the kingdom of Provence, or Cisjurane Burgundy, was organized in the south, and in 888 the kingdom of Trans-Jurane Burgundy was created in the north.

      After the new kingdom of Burgundy <../Burgandy/burgundy_4.htm> emerged in 888, its kings secured very little control over the local counts in Cisjurane Burgundy. In 933 the two kingdoms were united as the second kingdom of Burgundy, with the capital at Arles <../Provence-Alpes/provence-alps-cote_d_azur_town_info.htm>. The lack of control persisted after the kingdom was annexed, in 1033, by the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II.

      Two other divisions of this area, the duchy of Burgundy and the Free County of Burgundy, or Franche-Comté, were also established. The name ?Franche-Comté? came about as follows: In 1127 a local count, Raynald III, refused to do homage to the German king Lothair II. After 10 years of conflict, Raynald was victorious. Thereafter, he was the franc-Comté or "free count". Raynald?s territory then became known as the Franche-Comté.

      From 1295 to 1477 Franche-Comté was influenced by France; after 1482 it passed to the Spanish line of the Habsburg family, and in 1678, as the result of the Treaty of Nijmegen, it was permanently joined to France as a French province. In 1790, Franche-Comté, like the rest of France, was broken up into départements.

      ***

      Menoux has 229 inhabitants and is located in the Canton of Amance, Arrondissement of Vesoul, Département of Haute-Saône (70), and Region of Franche-Comté in France. Its Postal Code is 70160.

  • Sources 
    1. [S192] 1860 US Census, Fredonia, Ozaukee Co., Wisconsin; p.710; h.1149 f.1007; Peter Quinette; 13 June 2010.

    2. [S67] Ancestors of Pauline Thompson.

    3. [S191] 1850 US Census, Mignon [Mequon], Washington Co., Wisconsin; p.212B; h.1134 f. 1165; Peter Kinney; 13 June 2010.
      Listed as Peter Kinney

    4. [S246] Wisconsin Census, 1820-90, Peter Quinnet; 1855, Fredonia, Ozaukee Co., p. 002.

    5. [S287] 1855 Wisconsin Census, Peter Quinnet; Image 00471 Line 7.

    6. [S391] France, Haute-Saône, Marriage/Baptism/Death Civil Registrations, 19 January 2017; scanned document; Menoux 1813/1822; Image 74, Page 2, 1817, Entry 16, Claude Francois Quinet.

    7. [S392] France, Haute-Saône, Marriage/Baptism/Death Parish Records, 19 January 2017; scanned document; Contreglise 1772-1792; Image 66, Entry 2, Pierre Quinet, 14 Aug 1782.

    8. [S519] New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980, Peter Quinet; 8 Aug 1941; Onondaga County, New York.

    9. [S391] France, Haute-Saône, Marriage/Baptism/Death Civil Registrations, 19 January 2017; scanned document; Menoux 1804-1812; Image 89, Marriage, Pierre Quinet & Marie Francoise Grangier, 11 Feb 1811.