Nicaise DU CLOUX

                   Birth: Lois Stewart; Ancestry.com.
Marriage: Lois Stewart Ancestry.com.
Death: Lois Stewart; Ancestry.com.

Note: The following information is obtained from Lois Stewart; Ancestry.com:
Nicaise lived at Chateau Regnaut as early as 1564. He was a merchant and a burgher of Sedan in 1582, 1583, and 1585. He was the chatelain of Chateau Regnaut in 1577 and captain of Chateau Regnaut in 1580. He also served as a tax collector. Daniel may be the son of Nicaise's brother Jean. The available sources are contradictory.

Records of DuCloux Baptisms of the Church at Sedan, Ardennes, France:

ChildDate of BaptismSponsors

Etienne30 June 1575Etienne Sale
Marie17 Nov 1577Maitre Jean du Cloux & wife Françoise Roland
Madelaine21 Apr 1580François Roussel & Madelain de Marolles
Madelaine24 June 1582Agean Thiery & Rose Despaquin
Françoise19 June 1583Gerard du Cloux & Française Mosoph
Louis31 March 1685Louis Aubertin & Artuse Croyer

Sources :

DeForest, J.W. The de Forests of Avesnes. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1900.

La Famille du Cloux, Bulletin des Eglises Wallones, Vol. 5, No. 3.

Van den Berg, C.H.W., Historische Reconstructie Van Het Voorgeslacht Van Daniel Du Cloux en Marie Dalechamp, Genealogisch Tijdschrift voor Midden en West Noord-Brabant en de Bommelerwaard, t/m 289, 1985, pp. 284-289.

Walloon Church Archive, Film #199815, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.