From a French Film entitled 5MI507
sent by Jean-Louis Rose and translated by Wayne Strasbaugh
Concerning a Joseph Noel, a vine grower, who fits the Joseph on the Princes Augusta and also some Strasbachs:
Unless
I mistake his notes, Joseph would have had to have had a third wife on our
side of the Atlantic. His first wife died in 1718 and his second in 1732. He
also seems to believe that this Joseph came from Liepvre in Haut Rhin, which
appears to be just over the mountain from Ville. I never recall looking at
its records, nor those of Rombach-le-Franc (which he mentions and is also in
Haut Rhin near Liepvre).
The
Strasbach material is interesting. There appears to be a big nest
of Strasbachs in Colroy-la-Grande. Yet another FHL film we should
examine. It would be meaningful if we could find some links between the surnames
there and the ones in Saulxures. However, I don't see how the younger
Nicholas listed in these records could be the one who married Catherine Gerard
in Saulxures. By my reckoning, he would have been only 16 in January
1718. That seems too young for marriage.
Wayne