The Court messenger : journal of the Association of Philippe du Trieux Descendants
(Microfilm)

Quarterly

Quarterly, published March, June, September, and December.

Vol. 23 no. 1 (Mar 2003) -

Editor: Jennifer Smith.

Vol. 23-28 (2003-2008) bound with Association of Philippe Du Trieux Descendants newsletter, v. 17-22 (1997-2002).

Includes some bibliographic references.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Trieux (and variant spellings) families in America. Focus is mainly on (but not limited to) descendants of Philippe du Trieux, a Protestant Walloon-Huguenot who immigrated to New Netherlands in 1624. Other ancestors include Isaac and Jacob du Trieux (Philippe's sons), Jacob LaRue Truax, Elias / Gillis Truas, and Abraham Jacobse Truax. Descendants lived in New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma in the 1700's. Some were Loyalists. During the 1800's, some moved to Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, Northwest Territory, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec (Canada), Germany, Russia, and to Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in South Africa, and in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wyoming, and elsewhere. Some have Chickasaw bloodlines. Some have African American bloodlines.

Also available on microfilm.

The Association of Philippe du Trieux Descendants was formed in 1981, and was reorganized in August 1985 in Albany, New York. It was reorganized again in the year 1999. Membership information, photographs, genealogical reports, and more information is found on their web site.