Updated March 5, 2012 from the Swiss Cellier tree at MyHeritage !
Since earlier than year 1500, Cellier families have lived in several geographically-close communities of western (French) Switzerland.
We hoped and expected that connections would be found, and indeed the family tree approaches completion.
The
Swiss Cellier Family on this site contains the latest family tree information (limited to non-living persons, of Swiss ancestry with surname Cellier,
by birth or by marriage) imported from the
MyHeritage.com Cellier Web Site
maintained by Prof. Dr. François E. Cellier. We have joined the two major family branches, recognizing our common ancestor (unknown) Junod of Nods, 1450-????. These two largest branches are :
La Neuveville: ~422 Descendants of
Jehan Cellier (born about 1510 in Nods)
Nods: ~361 Descendants of
Collet Cellier (born about 1500 in Nods)
We also list a branch of Lausanne: 59 Descendants of
Elie Cellier (Huguenot, born 1624 in France)
There are also 47 as-yet unconnected individuals in about 20 groups.
Statistics: 892 people, 348 marriages, 792 births, 713 deaths, 3493 events/notes, 1050 pictures.
Please note that for privacy purposes, this website displays only non-living persons, and excludes persons who died
within ten years. Unedited ged files, complete with photos, are available upon request using the email link at the bottom of the page.
I also continue to maintain a second, expanded family tree (not yet updated with *all* the latest from MH):
Cellier of La Neuveville and Neuchâtel, last updated 17 August 2011, which is more complete for my branch of the family, as it contains persons beyond the direct Cellier surname lines,
who are connected to the family of my grandfather
Alfred Cellier 1870-1943
(Neuchâtel residents from 1829, with origins back to 1480 in La Neuveville, and earlier in Nods).
These 561 names include the tree for my Fernández-Cellier cousins descended from
Eugène, twin of Alfred,
and of his sister Marie-Cécile who married the author Ramuz.
We have also traced the ancestors of Alfred's wife
Margaret Aurelia RYAN,
my grandmother, to Connecticut's first colonial governor John Webster, 1590-1661. Margery's paternal grandfather
James T. Ryan founded the city of Eureka, California.
Here is my grandfather Alfred
and his siblings (click for larger photo):
1890~ Alfred Cellier.............1885~ Alfred, Eugène, Edouard, Marie-Cécile, and Charles Edouard Cellier
In late July 2011, cousin François discovered that we had mis-spelled the birth surname of Lydie, mother of my ancestor Victor Cellier. Her father
Abraham Gagnebin was
a well known doctor and naturalist in La Ferrière. Thus we find portraits of our g-g-g-g-great grandfather,
Abraham GAGNEBIN:
Abraham Gagnebin (1707-1800)
ALSO -
Many Cellier in Australia and in the USA have been now linked in the above trees, as sharing Swiss-heritage.
Your YDNA test results could help us clarify the family connections!
Scattered other Cellier histories exist, in the United States as well as in France, South Africa, Canada, and England.
There is no known connection between the author's grandfather, Alfred Cellier (1870-1943),
and the famous composer of the same name (1844-1891), who was born of French parents in London.
We have found three clusters of Cellier in the United States having an Alfred Cellier:
Cellier in California (the author's family, immigrated from Neuchâtel); Oklahoma; Alabama (?).
I have deleted the older trees of La Neuveville, Nods, and La Chaux-de-Fonds that were earlier presented in this web site,
because those Cellier persons are now completely contained in the trees listed above.
Useful Links :
Pending addition of a page for links, we begin a list of useful reference links:
Genealogy in French-speaking Switzerland
The trees herein were generated using Keith Wilson's iFamily, on the Macintosh. We are happy to share our information with interested researchers;
GED files are available upon request to Alfred~at~Cellier~dot~org.
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