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From: "Marc Demarest" <>
Subject: RE: [HWE] Where is "Du Menille en Picardie"?
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 08:24:55 -0700
In-Reply-To: <007001c5c6ad$a33ddef0$0300a8c0@semorley>




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From: Suzie Morley [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:29 AM
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Subject: RE: [HWE] Where is "Du Menille en Picardie"?

SM: Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. I thought I was doing very well to have
narrowed it down to Picardie ;o).

MD: I would put no stock in the "Picardy" part of the description (in part
because we'd have to know precisely where a fluid boundary was drawn at that
time, and in part because we have a specific place name, which is usually
more accurate than other attributions... like saying that Vancouver, BC is
in "the Oregon Territory" -- at one time, that would have been true, but the
territory's boundaries are significantly different now...yet Vancouver is
right where it's always been). I note a Menilles about 75K northwest of
Plessis Mornay on modern maps -- in the direction of Picardy, anyway...

SM: The period I am looking for, if she married in 1700 in Canterbury, would
be about the 1680's +/- 5 years. I can't find anything that resembles "Du
Menille en Picardie" or any of it's variants. My husband and I have tried
saying it in French with an English accent and in English with a French
accent, but we haven't got anywhere - we just end up talking rubbish to each
other.

MD: Rigobert Bonne's famous 1785 map of Picardy shows no town of that name
-- which is not conclusive, just interesting... I will go have a look at the
maps I don't have in electronic form, to see if anything crops up on
those...

The Map House in London has a copy of Covens & Mortier's 1730 map of Picardy
-- if you're feeling rich ;-> They are great folks, and will do leg work for
you and let you have JPGs before you buy... (no, not affiliated with them
;->)


(If you want a copy of the map in SID format, drop me a note and I'll
arrange to get it to you)

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