We have reservations about several aspects of this tree, which has been compiled from two submitted sources and cross-checked with church records. The link from Mathieu at generation 3 to Mathieu at generation 4 is not found in the records. One tree suggests that the Philippe Dorey at generation 7, born in 1799, was Philippe Cyrus Dorey and emigrated to America where he married and had a family. However, this combination of baptismal names, at a time when second baptismal names were very uncommon in Jersey, seems most unlikely, and does not appear in the baptism record. There are also no baptism records for Philippe’s siblings Jane and Henry. The tree which shows Philippe emigrating to America (‘after 1800’) has him marrying Margaret Leete in 1828 and raising a completely different family. We do not believe that this Philippe was the son of Philippe and Judith Le Seelleur, but we are far from certain that the Philippe shown in this tree was their son, either.
An earlier tree in Jerripedia, Descendants of Matthieu Dorey suggests that the Philippe who married Judith Le Seelleur was married for a second time and emigrated to America with his second wife and baby son Philippe Cyrus. However, church records show that Philippe and Judith Le Seelleur were still married and having children in 1807, when Judith died, probably in childbirth. So the ancestry of Philip(pe) Cyrus Dorey is a complete mystery. It is possible that Philippe snr married again after Judith’s death and emigrated to Canada (several online trees show him dying in Nova Scotia), having a son Philip Cyrus after 1807, but still early enough to have married in 1829. But if he emigrated with his four children by Judith, as is also suggested by online trees, that would not allow for the first Philippe marrying, and raising the family shown below, in Jersey.
Based on the available evidence, all we can say about this tree is that we are reasonably confident about generations 1-3, generations 4-6 and generations 7 onwards, but the links between these sections are open to doubt.
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