Esther Jeanne BONNEAU^[1]

1645 - 1674  (29 years)

• Name	Esther Jeanne BONNEAU  [2]
  Birth	1645	Doeuil-sur-le-Mignon, Departement de la Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France   [2]
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	GQZV-1K3
  LifeSketch	[3]
  	Ester Jeanne Pickens has been described by some historians as a woman of great beauty. She was a Huguenots* with very strong religious convictions. It was probably her strong personality that led their family out of France to Scotland, then to Ireland. It
  Name	aka (Lady le Bonneau) of France  [3]
  Name	Ester le Bonneau  [3]
  Death	1674	County Limerick, Ireland   [2]
  Person ID	I594777318	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Anthoine BONNEAU, II   d. 1649, Saint Andrews Parish, Charleston, South Carolina, British Colonial America
  Mother	Jeanne Elizabeth VIDEAU,   b. 1630, France d. Sep 1721, Carolina (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F536731657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Andre PICKENS,   b. 22 Jul 1644, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1700, County Limerick, Ireland (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1665	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [4]
  Children	1. Margaret PICKENS,   b. Abt 1662, Ireland d. Yes, date unknown   2. John PICKENS,   b. 1662, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, d. 1729, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age 67 years)   3. Robert PICKENS,   b. 1664, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, d. 1682, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age 18 years)   4. Israel PICKENS,   b. 1665, Bally Gully, Antrim, Ireland d. 1740, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 75 years)   5. Andrew PICKENS,   b. 1666, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 1 Jun 1708, Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland (Age 42 years)   6. Margaret PICKENS,   b. 1667, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, d. Yes, date unknown   7. Thomas PICKENS,   b. 1668, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, d. Yes, date unknown   8. Capt. William Henry PICKENS,   b. 1669, Campbelltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland d. 1735, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 66 years)   9. Thomas Picon PICKENS,   b. Abt 1670, France d. Yes, date unknown   10. Nancy Ann PICKENS,   b. 1671, County Tyrone, Ireland d. 1750, North Carolina, British Colonial America (Age 79 years)   11. Thomas PICKENS, Sr.,   b. 1672, County Tyrone, Ireland d. 5 May 1739, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 67 years)   12. John Henry PICKEN,   b. 1673, La Rochelle-Normande, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France d. 1777 (Age 104 years)   13. Israel PICKENS,   b. 1674, Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. 1749, Alexandria, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F536731650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Ester Jeanne Pickens has been described by some historians as a woman of great beauty. She was a Huguenots* with very strong religious convictions. It was probably her strong personality that led their family out of France to Scotland, then to Ireland. It is believed by some that they lived in Limerick, Ireland, but most agree that they were in the Northern part of Ireland. Three sons, Andrew, Robert, and John were born in Ireland and came with them to America in 1720. The long standing tradition is that she was the widow Bonneau whose maiden name was Benoit. Miss Eliza Pickens, great granddaughter of General Andrew Pickens in a paper prepared for D.A.R. said: "General Andrew Pickens' first home was in Buck's Co., Penn. The Pickens were French Huguenots and left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. General Picken's great grandfather, Robert Pickens held a good position in France and with every inducement to remain. He refused to live under Roman Catholic rule. He married an accomplished young widow, Madam Bonneau. The Huguenots were French Protestants most of whom eventually came to follow the teachings of John Calvin, and who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some remained, practicing their Faith in secret. Sources Source: S-1735369345 Repository: #R-2145420208 Title: Mariages, Saône-et-Loire, France, 1540 à 1903 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, comp. Base de données indexée à partir de registres de mariage. M??con, France: Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, 2009.Origi Note: APID: 1,1761::0 Repository: R-2145420208 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note: Source: S-2115777481 Repository: #R-2145420208 Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls Note: APID: 1,2204::0 Source: S-2118882068 Repository: #R-2145420208 Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv Note: APID: 1,7836::0 Source: S-2126527828 Repository: #R-2145420208 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=2283858&pid=256 Following per findagrave: The daughter of Anthoine Jr and Jeanne Elizabeth (Videau) Benoit of London Middlesex, England and later of La Rochelle France, the widow Lady Ester le Bonneau married secondly to Robert Andrew Picken(s) (aka Picon) in 1665 in La Rochelle Charente-Maritime, France. Excerpt from General Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) letter to General Lee in 1811: "There seems to be some support for the claim that one ROBERT PICON, a Scotchman or Briton at the court of France was a Protestant who fled from Scotland in 1661 to avoid persecution of Charles II. In France he is said to have married Madam Jean Bonneau, also a Protestant. They fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by King Louis XIV in 1685. Tradition continues that they went to Scotland, later to North Ireland."

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] compiled by James H Carney, Jim Carney. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 7 Sep 2024), entry for William Henry PICKENS, person ID LJLZ-1DQ. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 7 Sep 2024), entry for Esther Jeanne Bonneau, person ID GQZV-1K3. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 7 Sep 2024), entry for Robert Andre Pickens, person ID LR6M-8W3. (Reliability: 3).