Hubert Marcel GOUGEROT FILERIN, 1739-. Born in Bezons, France.
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Catherine Marguerite DE FLICHY RENARD, 1742-. Born in Bezons, France.
Children:
Jean Baptist Marcel Gougerot Flichy, 1773-. Born in Le Pecq, France.
Julienne Marie Louise Gougerot Flichy, June 2 1782-1783.
Jean Baptist Marcel GOUGEROT FLICHY, 1774-. Born in Le Pecq, France.
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Jeanne Charlotte Francoise HERAULT LECONTE, 1777-. Born in Conde-sur-Noireau, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Children:
Pierre Marcel Gougerot Herault, 1799. Born in Paris, France.
Pauline Charlotte Eugenie Gougerot Herault, Sept. 10 1801-approx. 1855. Born in Paris, France.
Arnold Cecile Francois BLANCHARD CAUCHOIS, 1798-1838. Born/died in Paris, France.
{ Married Oct. 27 1823.
Pauline Charlotte Eugenie GOUGEROT HERAULT, Sept. 10 1801- approx.1855. Born in Paris, France, died in Havana, Cuba.
Children:
Pauline Blanchard Gougerot, 1824- Born in Paris, France.
Julie Augustine Blanchard Gougerot, Oct. 11 1832-Nov. 16 1915. Born in Paris, France. Died in Cienfuegos, Cfgos., Cuba.
My grandmother Julie used to tell my father and mother that approximately during the year 1821, when Pauline was 20 years old, she was engaged to be married to a rich Frenchman (whose name we do not know). We do not know what was the motive that Pauline’s father, Jean Baptist Marcel Gougerot Flichy, who was a currier and owned tannery of leather goods, decided that his daughter should not continue the engagement, and that she should return the engagement ring to her fiancée. Pauline was offended with this change of events and she expressed her disappointment to her father and told him that, therefore, her decision was that she would marry the first man who would propose marriage to her, and this gentleman happened to be my great-grandfather Arnold Cecile Francois Blanchard Cauchois, who was also a currier. It was due to this lucky change of engagements that Pauline married Arnold, the man who would much later become my great-grandfather and, therefore, some generations later I was happy to be born.
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Pauline Eugenie Charlotte Herault married to Arnold Cecile Blanchard, at St. Eustache Church, Paris.
Many years later her daughter Julie used to tell members of my family that her parents told her that they had a very big wedding and that the church was beautiful. This is corroborated by the wedding certificate document that I hold, which shows the signatures of many witnesses on both sides of the family being present at Arnold’s and Pauline’s wedding.
Pauline learned bookkeeping and since quite young helped her father Jean Baptist and mother Jeanne with the bookkeeping of their families’ tannery business, as Pauline’s mother also belonged to a family of curriers. Some time later after Pauline was married, she also helped her husband Arnold with the bookkeeping of their leather goods’ tannery enterprise. From very young, Arnold liked the idea of being a tanner of hides, the same type of work to which his family was dedicated.
I know with certitude that other family ancestors in both Pauline’s and Arnold’s families were in the same line of profession “corroyeurs”, as it is written in some of the birth and marriage certificate documents where it is written “corroyeurs”, and these certificates that I hold date back to the year 1751.
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My great-grandparents Pauline and Arnold had two daughters, Pauline and Julie, one daughter was born in 1824 and the other daughter in 1831. My great-grandmother’s husband Arnold died in Paris in 1838, and their oldest daughter died around 1840. We cannot ascertain the reason of their early deaths, however, it is well known that during that time there were dreadful plagues in Europe.
After all this happened, my great-grandmother Pauline and her youngest daughter Julie emigrated to the United States of America around the year 1848, and lived in New York, in the area of Manhattan Island. I have a map of the area and street where they lived in Manhattan and I also have a map of the area and street where they lived in Paris. As told by my grandmother Julie, my great-grandmother Pauline owned a guest-house in Manhattan Island, where people lived. As written in the New York Census of August 1850, my great-grandmother Pauline and her daughter Julie were living in Manhattan Island at that time, and the Census records also show that they were 48 years and 17 years of age.
Some time later, my great-grandmother Pauline and her daughter Julie moved to Cuba around the year 1855, where Julie married a Spaniard, Lorenzo Martinez Arquiaga, who they had met in New York some years before. Pauline died in Havana, Cuba, of yellow fever. Some time after this happened, her daughter Julie and her husband Lorenzo settled in Cienfuegos, Cuba, where my father was born on November 25 1868, my father being the youngest of five children.
By: Elsie Martínez-Blanchard Pérez
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