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Searching for Gonon family of Thiers

Searching for Gonon family of Thiers

Posted: 16 Feb 2015 12:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gonon
Searching for information about family of brothers Antoine (1865-1924) and Joseph Gonon. They were in the cutlery business. I know Antoine lived in Paris in the 1920s and was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1921. As far as I know, Joseph headed the company in Thiers.

Lise

Re: Searching for Gonon family of Thiers

Posted: 17 Feb 2015 9:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Feb 2015 9:13AM GMT
Hello Lise!

I did some searching for you and found some documents. I checked your tree first to make sure I wasn't including information you already had.

First is that Antoine and Joseph had no other siblings. You show them having a sister marrying a Penot, but they had no sister.

I'm attaching Antoine Gonon's birth record showing he was born 10 January 1865 in Thiers. He married Marie Ygonet on 5 August 1890 in Thiers (record attached). She was born in Thiers on 11 July 1871 to Vital Ygonet and Benôite Doupeux. I found no children born to them in Thiers.

Joseph (Jean Joseph) Gonon was born 21 April 1868 in Thiers (record attached).

I'm also attaching the 1872 and 1881 censuses for the family. In the 1872 census they are living with the boy's maternal grandparents who ran a cutlery business.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to try and find. Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Soosi
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Re: Searching for Gonon family of Thiers

Posted: 17 Feb 2015 1:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you, Soosi!

I am just starting to learn my way around French records and only just found the departmental records for Thiers on-line. You clearly know your way already! Could you advise me on where to find other records on-line for France?

Yesterday I plowed through departmental civil records to find the marriage records going back several generations of Gonon men. (I couldn't figure out how to attach the records to my tree so I'll be going back to get them later.) Then I got stuck in the French Revolution. Antoine Gonon married Michelle Dujoux no later than 1797 (when a child was born in Thiers.) They both died in Thiers. So it's likely they married there. But the civil records seem to end there and the parish registers on the site are not indexed. So where to look if I don't want to slog through the parish registers page by page?

How did you determine that Antoine and Joseph had no other siblings? I learned that Antoine had a brother-in-law and sister-in-law named Penot from his funeral announcement. They must then be on his wife's side if you're sure there was no sister.

It's so generous of you to respond to my query. Obviously I'm at the baby-steps stage of researching in France. Any advice you can offer on where to be looking will be very much appreciated.

Thanks, again,

Lise

Re: Searching for Gonon family of Thiers

Posted: 17 Feb 2015 8:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Correction: the Penots who were listed in the funeral announcement (attached to my tree) were niece and nephew. The brother- and sister-in-law were M. & Mme. Auguste Hygonnet.
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