The Du Bois Family Crest

Chrétien Du Bois, a Huguenot gentilhomme of French Flanders, lived at Wicres, near Lille, the largest city in Northern France. The leading family of the name in that vicinity, and that to which he evidently belonged, was that of the Du Bois, Seigneurs de Beaufermez, and de Bourse, two old family estates. Two sons of Chrétien decided successively to come over to the New Netherlands, after having escaped religious persecution, the first, Louis, at Mannheim, on the Rhine, the second, Jacques, at Leyden, in the Protestant Netherlands. Louis embarked in 1660, with his wife and two sons, for New Amsterdam, and settled first at Wiltwyck, in the Æsopus country (now Kingston). He lived thirty-six years in his adopted land, and left seven sons to keep up the name. Jacques came over in 1675 only, died a year later, leaving only three sons. He had settled at Fishkill.

Family

Du Bois

Motto

Tiens ta foy.Hold to thy faith.

Blazon

Between Two Tree Stumps, Vert, The Lion Of The Shield.

Source

America Hereldica