De Perier de Salvert family

The proven filiation of the de Perier de Salvert family goes back to the XVIIth Century in Le Havre in France with David Perier († 1644), shipowner in Le Havre[2]

Until the 18th century, the family belonged to the merchant and maritime petite bourgeoisie of Le Havre.[4]

A non-noble elder branch remains today in France under the name de Perier.[2]

The noble de Perier de Salvert family descended from Etienne Perier (1644-1726), shipowner and merchant in Le Havre,[5] captain on the king's ships and later captain of the Port of Dunkirk, who wa ennobled with his two sons in October 1726 by Letters patent of Louis XV[1]

Etienne de Perier (1644-1726) had two sons from his marriage to Marie Delaunay.[6]

The eldest, Etienne Perier (1687-1766), became governor of Louisiana and lieutenant general in the French Navy. He had 2 sons who died before him without issue and a daughter. This branch became extinct with him.[7]

The youngest, Antoine-Alexis Perier de Salvert (1691-1757), took the name of Perier de Salvert.[8] chef d'escadre in 1752 and commander of the order of Saint-Louis.He married in 1729 Marie Françoise Elisabeth Piotard with whom he had a son Louis-Alexis de Perier de Salvert (1730-1803), chef d'escadre, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, married to Catherine Françoise Gervais.[9]

His grandson, Louis-François-Achille de Perier de Salvert, born on September 13, 1818, in Cherbourg and died at age 86 on August 28, 1904, in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe).,[10][3] captain in the port of Pointe-à-Pitre in 1834,he married in 1814 Ellen Goostry[11][3] with whom he had a son Antoine Léon Charles Eugène de Perier de Salvert (1818-1904), collector of taxes in Pointe-Noire (from 1842) then justice of the peace in Basse-Terre (until 1878).[12][3]

The noble family de Perier de Salvert settled in Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe in the mid-19th Century with Louis-François-Achille de Perier de Salvert became extinct in Guadeloupe in 2018 with its last representative Hélène Mathilde Eléonore de Perier de Salvert (1938-2018).[2][3]

• Antoine Léon Charles Eugène de Perier de Salvert (1818-1904), collector of taxes in Pointe-Noire (from 1842) then justice of the peace in Basse-Terre (until 1878).[13] At the age of 24 he married on June 15, 1893, in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) Clairinette Sacue (then 53 years old), born on March 12, 1840, in Le Moule, Guadeloupe, with whom he had had two children: Victor (born in 1864) and Eugène (born in 1865).[3] In his marriage certificate of June 15, 1893, he legitimized his two sons.[14][3]

Elder branch, descends from Victor de Perier de Salvert (extinct in 2018):

• Victor Alfred de Perier de Salvert, born on July 11, 1864, in Saint-François, Guadeloupe[15][3] and died on August 10, 1944, in Basse-Terre.[3] He was a typographer at the colonial printing press in Basse-Terre and in December 1907 he received the Medal of Honor from the French Ministry of Commerce and Industry.[16] He received on March 26, 1926, the French Mdal of the Colonies with "honorable mention".[17] He married on September 26, 1931, in Basse-Terre Lise Marie Mathilde Rougemont de Bologne (born on September 15, 1869, in Basse-Terre and died two months later her marriage on November 19, 1931, in Basse-Terre). He then married on July 21, 1944, in Basse-Terre Edith Virginie Charlesin (born on July 17, 1900, in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe and died in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe on October 18, 1974) with whom he had an only daughter: Hélène Mathilde Eléonore de Perier de Salvert who follows[3]
  • Hélène Mathilde Eléonore de Perier de Salvert, born on June 23, 1938, in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Recognized in Basse-Terre on August 8, 1938, by Edith Virginie Charlesin and on August 18, 1938, by Victor Alfred de Perier de Salvert. She was legitimized by the marriage on July 21, 1944, in Basse-Terre of her father Victor Alfred de Perier de Salvert with her motehr Edith Virginie Charlesin.[18][3]

Hélène Mathilde Eléonore de Perier de Salvert married in 1960 in Basse-Terre Mathieu Justin Ladire, with whom she had an only son Max Ladire (born in 1960). Divorced in 1978 from her first husband, she married in 1985 Pierre Albert Louazel (born in Vezin-le-Coquet ( France) on May 30, 1941 and died in Mâcon (France) on March 28, 1996) whom she did not had no children.[3]

Hélène Mathilde de Perier de Salvert was a teacher in Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe then in Mâcon (France) where she settled with her second husband. After the death in 1996 of Mr. Pierre Louazel, she returned to teach in Basse-Terre at the Bébian school. She retired to Basse-Terre where she lived in 38 rue Peynier. She died on September 21, 2018 in Les Abymes (Guadeloupe). She was the last of her name and of the noble de Périer de Salvert family.[3]

Younger branch, descends from Eugène de Perier de Salvert (extinct in 1962) :

• Eugène Stanislas de Perier de Salvert, born on September 19, 1865, in Saint-François, Guadeloupe.[19] He was controller of Taxes in Guadeloupe and died after 1920. Eugène Stanislas de Perier de Salvert had 5 eecognized natural children from 3 different partners who legally bore the name de Perier de Salvert: Charles (1894), Télesphore (1899), Jeanne-Elisabeth (1906), Edouard (1907), Jacob (1919).[3]
  • Charles Joseph Vincent de Perier de Salvert (from his relationship with Joséphine William née en 1875 à Pointe-Noire etdeceased before 1914). Recognized by déclaration of his father On June 22, 1907, in Gourbeyre (Guadeloupe). Acknowledgment of paternity registered on his birth certificate.[20][3] He died in Le Raincy France on November 21, 1951.[3]

Engaged as a volunteer in Paris on August 26, 1913 and assigned to the 8th engineer regiment, Charles Joseph Vincent de Perier de Salvert was then an aviation worker assigned In Senegal (1926) then an artillery officer at the 401st DCA in Paris (1938) and assigned in 1940 to the 2nd passive defense regiment.[21][22]

Croix de guerre 1914-1918, with bronze star, Charles Joseph Vincent de Perier de Salvert was cited in the orders of the 32nd brigade on October 16, 1916: "Detached to the brigade's telephone station, constantly showed the most great zeal and commendable courage in going to check and repair the lines under heavy bombardment".

In 1934, he was a student-auditor at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.[23]

Charles Joseph Vincent de Perier de Salvert, then a law student in Paris, married on December 15, 1923 in Paris 5th district, Andrée Irissou, cashier, born April 18, 1899 in Paris 12th district and died September 20, 1954, in Villemomble.[24][3]

• Télesphore Marie Edouard de Perier de Salvert (from his relationship with Marie Sophie Thérèse Augustine Augustin, seamstress, born September 2, 1870 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe and died February 4, 1956 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe).[3] Born on January 5, 1899 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, and died in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, on June 4, 1965.[2] Married on August 13, 1927 in Basse-Terre to Marie Jenny Julienne Georgette Saley[25] His birth name Augustin is changed to de Perier de Salvert on his military service records with the mention "recognized by his father in 1918".[2] Incorporated in the 13th colonial infantry regiment of Martinique on June 17, 1918. He wa released from military obligations on April 15, 1947, "after an effective service of 20 years 9 months and 18 days" in Martinique.[26]
• Jeanne Elisabeth de Perier de Salvert (from his relationship with Marie Sophie Thérèse Augustine Augustin), (1906-1980), married to Elie de Derdane.[3]
• Édouard de Perier de Salvert (from his relationship with Marie Sophie Thérèse Augustine Augustin), born in 1907, without alliance or known posterity.[3]
• Jacob Joseph Léon de Perier de Salvert (from his relationship with Joséphine Souprayen), born June 27, 1919 in Saint-Claude (Guadeloupe) and died December 8, 1962 in Paris 10th district, buried December 21, 1962, in the cemetery of Bagneux. Taxes controller. Without alliance or known posterity. He was the last member of the noble de Perier de Salvert family in the male line.[3]

• Étienne Perier (1686 – 1766), French naval officer and governor of French Louisiana from 1726 to 1733.
• Antoine-Alexis Perier de Salvert (1691 – 1757), French naval officer appointed to the rank of chef d'escadre in 1752, commander of the order of Saint-Louis,
• Éléonor Jacques Marie Stanislas Perier de Salvert (1748 – 1783), lieutenant de vaisseau in the French Navy

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  Letters patent of nobility in 1726 for Étienne de Perier and his two sons Etienne de Perier and Antoine-Alexis Perier de Salvert
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  governor Étienne Perier (1686-1766), brother of Antoine Alexis Perier de Salvert
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  Antoine Alexis Perier de Salvert (1691-1757)
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  Antoine Alexis de Perier de Salvert signature
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  commemorative plaque Jacques de Perier de Salvert
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  Louis-Francois-Achille de Perier de Salvert (1764-1834)
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  Louis François Achille de Perier de Salvert signature
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  Marriage Antoine Léon Charles de Perier de Salvert with Clairinette Sacue (1893)
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  legitimation of Victor de Perier de Salvert and Eugène de Perier de Salvert (1893)
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  Mathilde de Perier de Salvert (1938-2018) last member of the noble family de Perier
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  Birth certificate Mathilde de Perier de Salvert on June 23, 1938

Coat of armes granted in 1726 to the noble de Perier family

In 1726, when Etienne de Perier and his two sons Etienne de Perier and Antoine Alexis de Perier de Salvert were ennobled by Letters patent, they obtained for themselves and their descendants the concession of the following coats of arms: Argent, on a vert fess accompanied by four Cinquefoils of the same set one on each canton of the shield[27]

The main alliances of the noble family de Perier de Salvert are : de Launay, Le Chibelier, Perreau, du Plessis, Piotard, de la Duz, Bigot de Morogues, de Gervais, Goostry, du Lièpvre du Bois de Pacé, Sacue, William, Irissou, Augustin, Souprayen, Ladire, Loysel etc.[3]