Part 5 – Earliest.
Today, because I have several sets of verifiable ancestors in my direct lines alive in the 1570s in Switzerland, Italy, and France, I could not determine which set may have been the earliest I have found to date. Therefore, I picked a set of many times great grandparents named Francois Jacques Faber and wife Odile who appear in my tree twice in the Duchy of Lorraine!
For clarification, this is in my Leies-Bold pedigree. The Fabers are NOT ancestors of the Gerbings, Koppels, Eckebrechts, or Kirsches.
The relationship to me is once through their daughter Susanna Faber, making them my 10th greats, and twice through their son Jacques Faber dit Schoff Jockel, making them my 12th greats. Susanna Faber is the ancestress of my 2nd great grandfather Johann Leies and Jacques Faber dit Schoff Jockel is the ancestor of my 2nd great grandmother Emilia Bold! When Johann and Emilia married they were 5th cousins twice removed!
Francois Jacques and wife Odile were found living in Urbach in the Duchy of Lorraine under the reign of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in the mid to late 1500s. I know next to nothing about either of them except that their names appear way back in the mists of my family tree twice in current day Moselle, France and the surname is believed to be from the word for smith.
Click me for a British history on the French surname.
Click me for the Wikipedia version.
Click me for the Lefebvre version.
That’s all I know of them at this time unfortunately.
Cinziarosa's Descendants (c) 