Dwain Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Hi, I am doing some research into one of my ancestors who I believe is French. His name is Louis Michaux and he listed (in the Dutch VOC records) as being from Moitirou. I tried looking up Moitirou in Google maps but it doesn’t seem to exist. Could anyone advise if this is place in France? I’ve included a copy of the original records just in case I have misspelt it: Record 1 Record 2 Thanks in advance, Dwain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weegie Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Have you seen this? If it is a small hamet or such then it might not come up on maps. Near Bordeaux. https://www.geni.com/people/Louis-Michaux/734555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 This page might be useful. Person No 800 corresponds with the person you are researching, by the looks of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 I can't find Moitirou either. But there is a place called Montiron, in the Gers area, ESE of Auch. Just a chance that "Moitirou" could have been a mistranscription from the original... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwain Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 10 hours ago, Weegie said: Have you seen this? If it is a small hamet or such then it might not come up on maps. Near Bordeaux. https://www.geni.com/people/Louis-Michaux/734555 Interesting, I never thought of that – being a historical site I imagine there has to be a record of it somewhere, perhaps in Archives Nationales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwain Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 9 hours ago, Loiseau said: I can't find Moitirou either. But there is a place called Montiron, in the Gers area, ESE of Auch. Just a chance that "Moitirou" could have been a mistranscription from the original... You could be right. They do look very similar to me. I think there’s a possibility when they recorded his detail on the VOC ship, they may have misinterpreted it as “Moiitrou”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomme Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Dwain: There are the 1750 to 1815 Cassini maps of France (https://www.davidrumsey.com/xmaps10000.html or search for Cassini on https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte There is a comprehensive place name index for the maps http://cassini.ehess.fr/fr/html/6_index.htm I'm not at all sure your transcription of the place as Moitirou is necessarily correct. Looking at the place name in your record 1 there is no dot over the "i" whereas there is in his name and the "t" isn't crossed. In record 2 the "m" isn't capitalised. The problem is errors are often just copied through genealogy records as facts rather than being checked. Perhaps a lot of checking of other possible transcriptions in the Cassini place name index might be successful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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