Father: Estienne de la Chaumette (1525-~1604)
Mother: Catherine Bourthouneyron (1538-)

Marriage: 1 Aug 1569 Rochechouart, Poitieers, France
Spouse: Thevena de la Clarveillon
Birth: abt 1552            France
Death:

Children:   
Jean (~1576-)

Occupation:   Avocat Barrister-Notary, Served as consul of Rochechouart, France 

Nancy Shumate Miller describes the de la Chaumette family:

The family name De la Chaumette, which became Shumate in America, is of old French origin. It is found almost exclusively in the provinces of Poitou, Saintonge, La Marche, Angoumois, and Limousin regions covering most of Ancient Aquitaine. Low plateaus known in France as "Les Chaumes", the Roofs or the Watersheds, cross these historic lands; several names often found in the area reflect the prominence of this characteristic. Indeed, the Gallic word calmis, meaning "high, bare plateau" seems to be the origin of such names as Chaulmes, Chaumes, Lachaumes, and De la Chaumes, together with their dininutives, such as the family name De la Chaumette.

The earliest mention of the name occurs in Poitou, in the second half of the thirteenth century, when two brothers, the De Calmis, were invested with lands lying near the towns of La Fochefoucauld and Rochouard, by Count Alphonse of Poitiers, the younger brother of Louis IX, known as Saint Louis. Barthelemy de Chaumette was in residence in the garrison castle of Biennac, a dependency of Rochouard, in 1260; the Archives of Rochouard list Jean de Rosiers, Seigneur de Graine and husband of Jeanne de la Chaumette, as founding a vicarage at Biennac in 1400; on 11 August 1502, Antoine du Teil, Sieru de Saint Christophe, married Francoise de la Chaumette. A contemporary and possibly a brother of Francoise was Pierre de la Chaumette, Sieur de Brissoulet, who was living between 1506 and 1519. These well known people in this area of France were the large family of De la Chaumettes -- virtually a clan, as they have been described -- lived until the end of the seventeenth century are undoubtedly founders of our line. 1

1. From a Family Tree web page by Michael J. Wyatt quoting The Huguenot Family of De la Chaumette, by Nancy Shumate Miller, Ph. D.

This page was prepared by Charles Hartley.