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Passion for the Past: Sarah & Rachel: The Wives of Paul Revere!
Paul Revere’s Ancestry
Paternal Ancestry (France)
Great-great grandparents: Jean Rivoire (b. in southwestern France about 1610) married Sarra Frassineau in 1632.
Great-grandparents: Jean Rivoire (b.
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about 1632), a merchant in Sainte-Foye-la-Grande, a small town on the Dordogne River, in southwest France, married Magdeleine Malapougne between 1653 and 1664.
Grandparents: Isaac Rivoire (1660-1731), landowner in Riocaud, a village south of Ste.
Foye, married Serenne Lambert in 1694.
Parents: Paul Revere (original name Apollos Rivoire) (1702-1754) born in Riocaud in 1702, was sent by his family to the New World in 1715. Arriving in Boston in early 1716, Apollos was apprenticed to the English-speaking goldsmith John Coney.
Following Coney’s death in 1722, Apollos set up his own shop in Dock Square (today’s Faneuil Hall). Some time in the 1720’s he anglicized his name, first to Paul Rivoire, then to Paul Revere, the name he gave his oldest son.
He married Debo