A beautiful find: the spelling “Proulx” found in France as early as 1661

A beautiful find: the spelling “Proulx” found in France as early as 1661

12 July 2017 0 By Jean-Pierre Proulx

The poitevin genealogist Thierry Peronnet has just traced in the parish register of Celle-l’Evescault, dated September 18th, 1661, the baptismal certificate of a certain François PROULX*.

He is writing to us about this:

PROULX writing is an old and rare PROUST writing. We find the same type of endings in ‘aulx’, the plural of ‘ail’. As an attachment, an example of use in 1661 well before the PROULX of the New World. In the same parish of Celle-l’Evescault on 07-09-1662 (view 13) we find the writing PRIOULX.

Celle-Levescault is a commune and parish of Vienne located 80 km southwest of Poitiers.

This beautiful find raises a new question: it is, as we know, Father Antoine Proulx, grandson of Jean Prou and Catherine Pinel, who first added an LX to the name Proulx.

Did the venerable priest hear that the Proulx script, although apparently rare, had already been used in France? You never know! See: The mystery surrounding the « LX » at the end of the Proulx name – a new publication.

Mr. Peronnet worked closely with us to untangle the difficult filiation of Jean Proust which was also discussed on our site.

See: The proof is made: Jean Prou de Neuville is the son of Nicolas Proust and Catherine Montour.

Many thanks to Mr. Peronnet.

*register B-1660-1668 (baptêmes de 1660 à 1668). For PRIOULX it’s the same view 13 (in September 1662).