I27005: Lucrèce DE SENARCLENS (dates unknown)

_____ DE TORCULARI (ID #I7661)

(male)
Family 1 :

+Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT (b. BEF 1460, d. 1513)
+Jean DU TRUICT (d. bef 1538)
Etienne (Stephanus) DU TRUICT (dates unknown)

In the longer version of the the testament of Aymon de Torculari, there is a bequest to Stephanus, father of Aymon. There is also a shorter version that makes the same bequest to Stephanus, brother of Aymon. In the first version, the rest of the passage is found to be grammatically defective, referring to plural brothers when only one (Johannes) is named. The shorter version is grammatically correct, and we conclude that Stephanus is properly the brother, and not the father, of Aymon. A Johannes de Torculari is mentioned at Payerne in 1470, conceivably the father of Aymon, Stephanus, and Johannes.

The surname rendered in Latin as de Torculari has two French translations, du Pressoir and Dutruict (or Dutruyl, Dutreuil, etc., based on a different form of the same word in the patois). This causes some problems! When Latin documents are indexed by the local archives, they are usually indexed and abstracted with the French names rather than the Latin names. Some archivists have converted de Torculari into du Pressoir, others into Dutruict. It is necessary to check for all three versions of the surname to be sure of finding all the references! A further complication was introduced, it seems, by the historian Alexandre Daguet, who opined in 1896 that he was inclined to translate de Torculari as De Treytorrens, on the grounds that the de Praroman manuscripts, which contain several letters relating to the Falck family and their relations, contained a letter from Rome from Guillaume de Treytorrens to his "cousin" Peter Falck. Daguet was in error on this point; the records of the notaries make it clear that de Torculari is Dutruict, and the relationship of Falck to the de Treytorrens family has not yet been discovered. But the suggestion was probably what led other historians to repeat the error without comment. Daguet's colleague Father Jean Gremaud suggested the correction "Du Treuil" in the next issue of the Anzeiger (3:398, 1881), but perhaps Zimmermann did not notice it.

Based on a different tradition, the name de Torculari can also be gallicized as de Torculier, on the grounds that authentic French names such as Grenier, Brasier, etc., had been latinized as Greneri, Braseri, etc. So far, this form of "reverse onomastic engineering" has only been found in the inventory of the de Blonay papers (ACV PP 637), where there are two citations for "de Torculier" in documents dating from the 14th Century around Maxilly.

A number of citations relating to de Torculari (whether translated as Dutruict or otherwise) are found in the records of Geneva in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Almost without exception, they pertain to a family from the area around Perroy. The records discovered so far are not sufficient to reconstruct the history of that family. Among the officials of the cathedral at Lausanne, there is mention of a Franciscus de Torculari from St. Prex, active about the middle of the 15th Century.

There is some evidence to suggest that the family from St.Paul-en-Chablais has used the spelling Dutruel in modern times (at least as early as the middle of the 19th Century). There are still some Dutruel at St. Paul.

DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland

Lucrèce DE SENARCLENS (ID #I27005)

Jeannette DE SENEVEY (ID #I17913)

Richard DE SENEVEY (ID #I14251)

Claudine DE SIVIRIEZ (ID #I27621)

Jean DE ST.-GERMAIN (ID #I16640)

Michel DE ST.CIERGES (ID #I25537)

François DE SUPERSAXO (ID #I16639)

Hugo DE THIELAU (ID #I13869)

Marie Marguerite DE THIENNES (ID #I20844)

_____ DE TORCULARI (ID #I7661)

Abraham DE TREY (ID #I16864)

Abraham DE TREY (ID #I17944)

Abraham DE TREY (ID #I7346)

Abraham DE TREY (ID #I17192)

Abraham Isaac DE TREY (ID #I5566)

Anna DE TREY (ID #I7350)

Anne DE TREY (ID #I17939)

Anne DE TREY (ID #I17942)

Anne DE TREY (ID #I16795)

Anne Marie DE TREY (ID #I20695)

Antoine DE TREY (ID #I17108)

Antoine DE TREY (ID #I17219)

Auguste DE TREY (ID #I16879)

César DE TREY (ID #I20843)

Charles François DE TREY (ID #I26191)