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Biography Louis Du Bois was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790). Louis Du Bois is Notable. Louis du Bois was born in Wicres, France to Chrétien du Bois and his wife Françoise (le Poivre) du Bois on 17 June 1622. [1] [2] Chrétien moved his Protestant family from Wicres to Herlies after their son Toussaint was baptized in Wicres on 21 October 1626. [3]

The DuBois Family Association (DBFA) was formed in 1966 to preserve and purchase the DuBois Fort, the homestead of a grandson of Louis DuBois, a patentee of New Paltz. In 1968 the DuBois Fort was purchased from the DuBois descendants of Dr. John Dingman's family with funds raised by the DBFA and given to the Huguenot Historical Society.

SHOW ALL QUESTIONS Louis Du Bois (21 October 1626 – 1696) was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York.

Louis DuBois 27 October 1626–before 23 June 1696 • Brief Life History of Louis When Louis DuBois was born on 27 October 1626, in Artois, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, his father, Chrétien du Bois, was 29 and his mother, Françoise le Poivre, was 27. He married Catherine Blanchan on 10 October 1655, in Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire.

When Louis DuBois was born on 6 January 1695, in Hurley, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jacob DuBois, was 33 and his mother, Gerritje Gerretse Van Nieukerk, was 25. He married Jannetje Van Vliet on 16 April 1718, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 ...

History: This surname is listed (in the form Du Bois) in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. One of the several Huguenot ancestors bearing this name was Chrétien Du Bois from Flanders, whose son, Louis Du Bois (born 1626 in Lille ...