The Demarest Family: David Des Marest of the French Patent on the Hackensack and His Descendants (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Demarest, Mary A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1397217596 ISBN 13: 9781397217592

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Demarest Family: David Des Marest of the French Patent on the Hackensack and His Descendants

It seems impossible to trace the family line in the old world with sure accuracy and adequate detail. The name runs far back and com petent students have given the ample results of their researches; and close connection of David des Marest with known families of his migration time is reasonably clear.

The descendants in America in the recent generations are so numer ous and they are so widely scattered that complete record of them is impossible. It has not been possible to attempt an entire tracing or to secure full information where tracing has been attempted. The male lines are given reasonably complete through the early generations and are largely developed down to the present day. The female lines are generally not extended beyond the immediate children. A great num ber of Demarest families of the present day, however, have not become known to this record.

The family name carries on in various forms additional to des Marets, des M arest and Demarest; it is somewhere Demorest or Demerest or Demaray; an especially frequent form in the south and middle west is Demaree. It differs sometimes among the members of an immediate family and even in the usage of one person. In this rec ord no consistency of form is forced. The form of any signature or record is generally preserved, changed in some instances of minor importance or of plain mistake in writing. The given names also appearin diverse forms. There is not only some mere diference of spelling but as well the difference of language form. French forms tend quickly to give place to Dutch. The given names also, then, are not forced into uniformity. The glossary will make clear the variances and the correspondences. The records of the early time, it will be noticed, often give date of baptism without date of birth; baptism usually was within two weeks after birth. Until recent generations a son quite customarily took as a middle initial in his name the initial letter of his father's name; this record inevitably does not in many individual instances conform to the actual use or omitting of such middle initial.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1397217596
• ISBN 13: 9781397217592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612