G'day stevebo
Charles Boileau B 1812/14 France
The Scarlet Pimpernel keeps on hiding!!
What I know is about the same as you, he was a " Rose Engine Engraver " look up the video series for this machine it's bloody brilliant but requires a hell of a lot of concentration probably caused his stroke in the end, there are two versions the Vertical and Horizontal Rose Engine lathe.enough of that for now, I live in Australia now so popping over to France is a bit time consuming and how the store their records is very complex. I am rapidly learning some Genealogy French though.
What I don't know is when Charles arrived in England and with whom?
Did he train in London it is possible but I have not found any records or relatives other than his children. he had 2 sons named Charles Richard both died sadly, the last son Richard survived so here I am.
I now think he was trained in the Department area of France Paris 75 or nearby in the watch and clock industries making watch and clock metal cases and engraving them with the complex patterns,
There was a clock maker [Horoleger] who may have been a relative who he may have trained under but his son was a master carpenter, 'Boileau a' Paris" on clock faces they had some very elaborate enameled and jewelled pocket watches plug the name into the net,\.
We do not know Charles's Parents names or where he was born, this is the big stumbling block, I am currently trawling through hundreds of Charles B's he may even have had other given names but it wasn't Ame'dee b 13 Feb 1815 Paris he was in France long after Charles left,
I lost contact with the Coventry Boileau's Elizabeth and Peter. he was in Hospital administration.
Sarah, Charles Wife's Father was a Sheet metal maker so it could be were they met in the first place
if he served time in France he was about 24 years old when he married basically a Journeyman just out of his trade training, I have not found his indentures in France either but they did exist,
He could have got his Jewelry skills from the above mentioned Horoleger.
My gran Adelaide said that the the French ladies that came over with their husbands to England before 1914 every year came from Piccardy, wine and pork merchants the Red / Auburn hair is a give away for Normandy in general but not proof.
So to progress we have to Know his parents names, where he was born, any siblings, did the family even survive The Great war Normandy was flattened then and later in ww2
Talk later
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