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  • Name: William Fanjoy
  • Birth: JUN-1755 in: London, England
  • Death: 1821 in: Milkish Inlet, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Father: William Fanjoy
  • Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN

Notes: Some sources indicate William was either born or baptized in the Holborn Parish in London.

Children of William and Isabella:

Samuel Fanjoy, b. @1775, m. (1) Mary Holder (2) Eliza Fullerton
Thomas Fanjoy, b. @1776, m. Lucy Vaughan
Eliza Rebecca Fanjoy, b. @1776 (some sources insist this daughter is two... Eliza AND Rebecca)
William Fanjoy, b. 1783, m. (1) Eliza Vaughan (d. 1812) m. (2) Ann Benson
Joseph Fanjoy, b. @1785, m. Elenor Jane Bunnell

Joseph and Elenor had:
Isabella Fanjoy @1817, m. Archibald Francis McLean
Benjamin Bunnell Fanjoy @1818, m. Margaret Phoebe Slocum
Rebecca Jane Fanjoy, b. @1820, m. John Watson
Edward Fanjoy, b. @1822, m. Catherine Ann Whelpley
Sarah Ann Fanjoy, b. @1822, m. George McLean
William James Fanjoy, b.@1828, m. Cecelia Olivia Lingley
Simeon Bunnell Fanjoy, b. @1831, m. (1) Eleanor McLean (2) Betsy Wiggins (3) Jane Fanjoy
Joseph Fanjoy, b. @1831
Eliza Ann Fanjoy, b. @1833, m. William A. Whelpley
Charles Thomas Fanjoy, b. @1835, m. Elizabeth Ann Gorham
George Allen Fanjoy, b. @1839, m. Delia Maria Whittaker.

From "English Convicts in Colonial America Vol 1, Middlesex 1617-1775 New Orleans", pg 92.
William was transported as a convict from London, England to Virginia. He was in the American Revolutionary War in Virginia and somehow ended up in Pennsylvania, where he changed the spelling to Fanjoy. Somewhere along the way he married Isabell a (UNKNOWN). William was caught stealing on 29-Aug-1773 in London, after which he wasordered to be transported for 7 years. Crossed on a ship with Finlay Gray, captain, which left England in January of 1774 and arrived in Virginia or Marylan d in March of 1774. In July of 1778 he was in New York. He's listed as being in Halifax in September of 1778 and in Jamaica in December of 1778. Later, he's found in Pensacola, Florida in January of 1779 and a participant in the Big Battle of Pens acola in May 1781. Later, we find William as a prisoner in Havana, Cuba and then back to New York.

In July 1775, William was a private in the 2nd Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line using the spelling "Fanjoux". On 7-Nov=1775 British Governor John Dunmore of Virginia issued a proclamation that all indentured servants and slaves who too k up arms for the British would be freed. This was tempting to young William as he was only two years into his seven year sentence, which would have been at the age of 20, since he was only 18 when sentenced. Somehow, he was able to join the Brit ish in Pennsylvania, using the spelling of "Fanjoy", joined the Pennsylvania Loyalist Regiment in Philadelphia, in December of 1777, under the command of Captain Joseph Swift 1st Battalion of Pennsylvania Loyalists. He was a corporal in Captai n Swifts Company. William arrived in Saint John, NB Canada in 1783, listed on the manifest of the ship "Bridgewater".

Another take on "Fanjoux":
"It appears that Fanjoux is the root surname, so they maybe listed as that or even Fanjoy the Canadian version of Fanjoux. Joseph is belived to be a grandson of a William Fanjoux a French Huguenot, sent initially from England as an indentured serv ant to Virginia as a teen and then after fighting for both sides in the Revolutionary War ends up in Nova Scotia on 270 acres of land. Later his sons emigrated down to Maine and grandsons to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Email: hagerdonngenealogy@earthlink.net"

From another genealogy message board:
Dot Smith asks:
"How do I find my Huguenots that came to England at the Edict of Nantes. We find Matthew and Paul Fanjoux citizens in London 1697. My William Fanjoux/Fanjeaux was b in England in 1773."

This would indicate the Fanjoy Line did originate in France, and later moved to England, then to the US. Whether it began as Fanjeaux or Fanjoux... could make a lot of difference, given the different meanings of each. May have morphed back an d forth, ending as Fanjoux in England, then Fanjoy in Canada. In a Google search, Fanjeaux gets over 56,000 hits, while Fanjoux only just over 550. That would obviously indicate that Fanjeaux is the more likely original spelling.


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