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- Louis was a Huguenot who came to America through England and Holland and became part of the Dutch community in what is now New York. Louis was a mariner and it is believed that he drowned at sea. Afterwhich his wife remarried. Her second husband is unknown.
The Boulier name occurs with many variant spellings including the following: Boule, Boulje, Beljee, Belyee, Belyea, Bulyea, and Bolye. The variations can be accounted for by Louis being French and living in a Dutch community. He married a Dutch woman and his descendants' surnames take on a Dutch spelling (Beljee). Then when the family moves to Anglo/French settlements in New Brunswick the spelling takes on an Anglo/French appearance (Belyea, Belyee, Bulyea).
"Louis Boulier was apparently the first of this line to come to America. A few quotes from The Genealogy of the Boulier- Bulyea- Belyea Family 1697-1969, written and Compiled by Florence G. (Belyea) Tisdale and Marjorie A. (Belyea) Rennie, state:
"The traditional story, handed down in our family from our Loyalist forebears, who went to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from New York in 1783, was that our original ancestor in America was a Huguenot mariner who had sailed his ship from the western shore of France to escape from the persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. If our early family knew the name of "our ancient mariner" it was not included in the story or recorded. It is therefore the most rewarding fact discovered in our research to have traced the name of Louis Boulier."
And:
"In a history of the church restoration, found in the library in the museum at Tarrytown, maintained by the Daughters of the American Revolution; Louis Boulier, a native of Saintonge in France, had married Antje Konninck, in the Old Dutch Church of Sleep Hollow on May 23, 1697." -- From GENERATIONS, the newsletter for the New Brunswick Genealogical Society, by Cleadie Barnett, 27 Dec 1998.
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1670 - 1766 (96 years)
