Jean Baptiste Crelis and Marie Françoise Ayet

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Husband Jean Baptiste Crelis

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1759-1763 - (Kaskaskia, Illinois)
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Marie Françoise Ayet

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           Born: Abt 1698
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Oct 1776 - Kaskaskia, Illinois
         Buried: 30 Oct 1776 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 1

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Children

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1 M Jean Baptiste Crelis

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1762 - (Kaskaskia, Illinois)
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Angélique Pilet dit La Sonde (Abt 1733-1776) 2 3
           Marr: 2 Sep 1755 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 4

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2 M Joseph Crelis

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           Died: After 1779
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         Spouse: Thérèse Godeau (Abt 1746-1766)
           Marr: 16 Nov 1763 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 4

         Spouse: Marie Louise Marquis-Dupuyau (      -      )
           Marr: 31 May 1768 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - Jean Baptiste Crelis

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The following are from the parish records of Kaskaskia, Illinois (La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), Marthe F. Beauregard, Vol 2):

On February 30, 1743 Jean Crely is a witness to a wedding.
On February 16, 1749 and on June 11, 1752 two slaves belonging to J. Bte Crely marry.

DEATH:

Jean Baptiste Crely was alive September 16, 1759 when he was the godfather of his grandson Antoine Crely. On January 19, 1763 widow Crely is the godmother of a slave in Kaskaskia. Also on November 16, 1763 the marriage record of Joseph Crely and Thérèse Godeau indicates that his father is deceased.

BELTING:

On page 88 of Kaskaskia under the French Regime Natalia Belting says that Jean Baptiste Crely was a cooper. She speaks of his wife and of his two sons Joseph and Jean Baptiste. On page 52 she says, "No fences but only a double furrow divided one field from another. Barns, though sometimes built on the habitant's land inside the town limits, were usually erected either on the commons or on this cultivated land. They were of good size, larger than many of the houses, but of similar construction -- posts in the ground, thatched roofs and a single story in height. Urban Gervais' barn at Prairie du Rocher was 80 by 35 by 14 feet. A few had stone barns. There were other smaller structures, some of them windmills, some of them tenant houses, dotting the fields. Jean Baptiste Crély, a cooper, in June 1748, hired Pierre la Bonté, master mason, to build a house on Crély's land east of the Kaskaskia. It was to be of stone, 19 feet square, 22 feet high, with two lean-to's, one at each gable end, and a wooden porch on all four sides."

FRANCE:

For information about the Crelis family in France see https://sites.google.com/site/creelygenealogy/france

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General Notes: Wife - Marie Françoise Ayet

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The following are from the parish records of Kaskaskia, Illinois (La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), Marthe F. Beauregard, Vol 2):

On January 19, 1763 la veuve Crely (Marie-Françoise) is the godmother of a slave.
On February 13, 1763 two slaves belonging to la veuve Crely marry.
On March 22, 1764 the wife of Joseph Crely (Thérèse Godeau) is the godmother to a slave owned by widow Crely (fils de Catherine, sauvagesse de la veuve Crely).
On October 5, 1768 Marie-Françoise Crely is a godmother.
On November 1, 1770 Marie-Françoise Crely is a godmother.
On May 1, 1775 a one year old slave belonging to Mme. Crely dies.

It is not clear why her surname on the marriage records of her two sons Jean Baptiste and Joseph (Ayet) is different from the surname on her burial record (De L'Oeille-Oeille).

1 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 186. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

2 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 194. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

3 Natalia Maree Belting, Kaskaskia Under the French Regime, pg 97. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

4 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 85. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.