Individual Details
Rev. Nicolas Effard
( - 17 Apr 1638)
Nicolas received his education at Oxford some years prior to his marriage.
Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886, Volume II, "E", p.452
Effard, John, of Isle of Jersey, cler.fil. St. John's Coll. matric. [matriculated from St. John's College] 30 Oct 1612, aged 19. B. A. 6 Jun 1614.
Effard, Nicholas, B.A. (sup.18 April 1575)
Designation "fil" retained when a parent enjoyed a personal dignity - in this case, John was apparently noted as son of a cleric - his father Nicholas Effard.
Jersey Document dated 17 Jul 1601
"Copy of a contract between Nicholas Effard Minister of St. Saviour, Edouard Poingdestre, Constable of St. Savior and Edouard Messervy of the firt party and Helier de Carteret, Provureur of the Queen and Jean Le Febvre, Chief collector of tithes for the Queen."
"The Rev. Nicolas Effard, son of John Effard, jurat, R.C., of the island of Guernsey, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Perrin, seigneur of Rozel manor, Jersey and jurat R.C., was educated at the newly founded Elizabeth College in Guernsey, for we find in the registers of the Huguenot Waloon Church at Southampton the following entry for 6 April 1572: "Nicolas Effard et Nich. Careye, tous deux escolliers a Mestre Adrien Saravia, recut la Cene a l'Eglize de Southampton." Thus Nicholas Effard was a disciple of one of the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible. He was installed as the rector of St. Saviour's church on March 25, 1587.
He had probably studied at Oxford as well, because in 1605 "M. Phil. Maret fut mis a l'amende pour avoir dit a Mr. Nics Effard qu'il devoit quelques en Oxford."
Effard married first Marie, daughter of the Rev. Nicholas le Duc, rector of St. Jean in Jersey.
On July 21, 1587, he married Sara, daughter of the Rev. Pierre de Caumont, rector of St. Peter in Jersey. De Caumont had formerly been rector of Sainte Marie du Mont in Normandy, but fled to Jersey with other refugees of St. Bartholomew's Day in Sept. 1568 [sic - —the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre occurred on August 24, 1572]." A footnote states: "Pierre de Caumont was a member of the noble Huguenot family of that name of Chateau de Caumont in the Dordogne." [John Poindexter Landers,
"Poingdestre-Poindexter, A Norman Family through the Ages: 1250-1977,"
Events
Christen | 26 May 1582 | Paignton, Devonshire, England | |||
Marriage | 21 Jul 1587 | Isle of Jersey - Sara de Chaumont | |||
Death | 17 Apr 1638 | Isle of Jersey |
Families
Spouse | Sara de Chaumont ( - ) |
Child | Martha Effard (1589 - ) |
Child | Sara Effard (1590 - ) |
Child | Jean Effard (1593 - ) |
Child | Judith Effard (1595 - ) |
Child | ELIZABETH EFFARD ( - ) |
Child | Susanne Effard (1600 - ) |
Child | Marie Effard (1602 - ) |
Child | Nicholas Effard (1605 - ) |
Child | Peter Effard (1611 - 1666) |
Child | Jeanne Effard (1607 - ) |
Father | John Effard ( - ) |
Mother | Elizabeth Perrin ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. John Poindexter Landers, STB, MA, Poingdestre-Poindexter: A Norman Family Through the Ages 1250-1977 (Robert Downs Poindexter; Printed by Von Boeckmann-Jones, Austin, TX [1975]), p.20.
2. Mary Courtright Pettitt and Robert J. Pettitt, Thomas M. Pettitt's Family (Self Published. Highland CA: c1996. Out of print but available on LDS Microfilm #1750818, Item 13.), The Poindexter Family, p.21.
3. John Poindexter Landers, STB, MA, Poingdestre-Poindexter: A Norman Family Through the Ages 1250-1977 (Robert Downs Poindexter; Printed by Von Boeckmann-Jones, Austin, TX [1975]), p.20.