Governess of Louise, Queen of Prussia, and of the children of the Dutchess of Cumberland, who were Lady Marlborough and Lord Gallway. Death record indicates "ancienne gouvernante de sa majesté la reine de Prusse." Louise was Princess of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz before her marriage to the King of Prussia.
Samuel was the minister at Apples 18 nov 1627 until 1664, when he was succeeded by Jean Gabriel de Beausobre on 14 aug 1664. His widow appears in a document of 18 aug 1669, Jean Croutaz notary, where the surname is Gelius. Family record (some in Elisée Gelieu's own hand) has Samuel as the brother of Elisée, not his son, and gives the birthdate. Samuel's wife was the sister of the husband of Samuel's niece. (Under the Bernese regime, Apples was in the bailliage of Romainmôtier; records of that district have not been searched.)
Samuel enrolled with his brother Elisée at the Académie de Lausanne (listed with his brother Elisée in the Livre de Recteur, 1609), then enrolled at the University of Basel in September, 1614.
During his French service, while at Agen, in the south of the Perigord region, he is said to have encountered the last of the French Gélieu, one Bernard Gélieu, notary. Bernard greeted him warmly, and being rich and without heirs, offered to make the young officer his sole heir, on condition that he became Catholic. This was too much for the son of a protestant minister, and he refused the offer. (Henriod, La Genealogiste Suisse (1968), p. 83).
We did not find her in the baptisms at Apples, where her father was minister until his death in 1664, but the pasteur Bron, acting on the request of the Jaïn family in 1801, reported such a baptism at Apples dated 08 may 1634 (his correspondence is in ACV P Jaïn / 31). Susanne is mentioned as the wife of Spectable Isaac Girardet of Orbe, suffragant at Apples in 1657. Isaac next held the post of deacon at Nyon, and ended his career as minister at Begnins. In none of these places do we find any evidence that this couple had children. There is a gap in the marriage records at Apples 01 jan 1643 - 21 nov 1659.
Why did we not find this baptism? The baptisms at Apples in their current state have a gap between page 8 (the verso of the fourth folio) and page 9, so that there are no baptisms recorded between 01 sep 1633 and 28 aug 1637. In other words, at least one leaf was lost from the register before the pages were numbered.
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Perhaps born at Yverdon, where Samuel Gélieu was régent d'école (?) in 1623.
