Chastain
[ Jacques Chastain ] [ Estienne Chastain ] [ Pierre Chastain ]

 

 

Chastain Family Crest

Descendants of ?Estienne Chastain

Generation No. 1

1.  ?ESTIENNE1 CHASTAIN

Child of ?ESTIENNE CHASTAIN is:
  1. JACQUES2 CHASTAIN, b. Bet. 1598 - 1600.

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Generation No. 2

2. JACQUES2 CHASTAIN (?ESTIENNE1) was born Bet. 1598 - 1600. He married JEANNE AUDET Bef. 1675. She was born Bef. 1625.

Children of JACQUES CHASTAIN and JEANNE AUDET are:
  1. ESTIENNE3 CHASTAIN, b. April 20, 1625, Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France.
  2. JAQUES CHASTAIN.
  3. JEAN CHASTAIN, m. JACQUELINE BRETON, 1667.
  4. MARIE CHASTAIN, b. Abt 1664; m. JEAN DEMESNE, 1682.
  5. MOISE CHASTAIN, b. Abt 1647; m. JEANNE TRUMEAU, 1675.

     

Generation No. 3

3. ESTIENNE3 CHASTAIN (JACQUES2, ?ESTIENNE1) was born April 20, 1625 in Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France. He married JEAN LAURENT Bef. 1652. She died Aft. 1693.

Children of ESTIENNE CHASTAIN and JEAN LAURENT are:

  1. JAQUES4 CHASTAIN, b. December 22, 1652.
  2. ANNE CHASTAIN, b. February 25, 1654/55.
  3. JEANNE CHASTAIN, b. February 22, 1656/57.
  4. PIERRE CHASTAIN, b. April 04, 1659, Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France; d. 1728, Goochland County, Virginia.
  5. JEAN CHASTAIN, b. August 10, 1661.
  6. MARIE CHASTAIN, b. February 03, 1663/64.
  7. MARIE CHASTAIN, b. February 27, 1666/67.

 

Generation No. 4

4. PIERRE4 CHASTAIN (ESTIENNE3, JACQUES2, ?ESTIENNE1) was born April 04, 1659 in Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France, and died 1728 in Goochland County, Virginia. He married (1) SUZANNE RENAUD January 28, 1686/87 in Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France, daughter of PIERRE RENAUD. He married (2) ANNE SOBLET. He married (2) MAGDALENE TRABUE.

Children of PIERRE CHASTAIN and SUZANNE RENAUD are:
  1. ANNE5 CHASTAIN, b. February 23, 1687/88, Issoudun, Indre, Centre-Valde Lorie, France; d. Bef. 1727, Sumter, South Carolina; m. (1) REV. CLAUDE PHILIPPE (DE RICHBOURG), Abt 1700, France; b. April 16, 1678, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; d. Aft. January 10, 1718/19, Jamestown, Santee, South Carolina; m. (2) FRANCIS MORINNA, Bef. November 1725.
  2. JEAN ADAM CHASTAIN, b. 1690.
  3. MARIE SUSANNE CHASTAIN.
  4. PAULINE ELIZABETH CHASTAIN.
  5. PIERRE CHASTAIN.
  6. ARTHUZE CHASTAIN.
  7. JEANNE FRANCOISE CHASTAIN.
  8. PIERRE SAMUEL CHASTAIN.
  9. SUSANNE CHASTAIN.

Children of PIERRE CHASTAIN and ANNE SOBLET are:

  1.  JUDITH5 CHASTAIN, b. 1703.
  2.  SUSANNA CHASTAIN, b. 1705.
  3.  PIERRE CHASTAIN, b. 1707.
  4. MARY CHASTAIN.
  5. ELIZABETH CHASTAIN, b. 1711.
  6. RENE CHASTAIN, b. 1713.
  7. JANNE CHASTAIN.
  8. MARIE MAGDALENE CHASTAIN, b. 1720.

 

 

 

By Dianne Conaway Blankenstein,

daughter of Quata DeWitt Richbourg Conaway

I was born shortly after WWII ended and when Daddy was released from service we moved to a housing addition that was built for those returning from service in Fort Worth, Texas. My mother’s maiden name was Richbourg and she knew from her family history that her ancestor Rev. Claude Philippe Richbourg married Anne Chastain. One of our neighbors in the neighborhood was named Chastain and she became fast friends with my mother, because, like her, she was a bit older mother with a child my age.

In 1950 my parents built a house & we lived there about a year before Daddy was called back into service for the Korean War. My parents rented out their home & we moved to Fort Sam Houston Army Base in San Antonio, Texas. I started first grade in San Antonio & during that year my dad was released & we returned to our home in Fort Worth.

Much to my surprise Garvin Chastain was in my elementary school class. His family had also moved into our area of the city. Our mothers stayed friends. Mother always wondered if there was any connection between our families.

I started working with my father’s sister on genealogy when I was 14 years old. She was a school teacher and she & her husband did not have any children. I would spend weeks at a time with her & my uncle in Hillsboro, Texas, in the summer. She would drive us to Dallas to the library & I learned to read microfilm census records and copy information from books early on. My love of genealogy continued even after I became an adult and married and had a family.

I recently became interested in autosomal DNA testing. I noticed I was matching the surname Chastain. Garvin and I continued to have classes together through high school. We had reconnected on Facebook a few year back & I asked him about his family’s history and told him about my mother’s curiosity about a possible family connection.

He gave me his parents’ & grandparents’ names & I read census records, etc. – traditional type search. Even though he had not autosomal DNA tested, his line on back was the same as some of the Chastain people I DNA matched. That meant we were distant cousins. Our parents are deceased so I was never able to share this information with them. I know my mother would have been thrilled to know what we discovered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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