Jacques Antoine MOGINIE

Abt 1688 -

• Name	Jacques Antoine MOGINIE
  Birth	Abt 1688	Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Moginier
  Reference Number	11597190
  Reference Number	12323664
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Moginie-12
  Person ID	I593	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family	Madeleine MOSER,   b. Abt 1675
  Children	1. Daniel MOGINIE,   b. Abt 1710, Chezalles, Vaud, Switzerland d. 22 May 1749 (Age 39 years) + 2. Jean Francois MOGINIE,   b. Abt 1715, Chesalles Switzerland d. Abt 1757 (Age 42 years)   3. Jean-Jaques MOGINIE,   b. Abt 1720, Vaud, Switzerland
  Family ID	F131	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Notes

  == Biography == {{Huguenot Emigrant}} Fortune of his sons Daniel and Francois (Jean Francois) DANIEL MOGINIE In ancient times the name Daniel Moginie was quite well known. He was an adventurer, and some fantastic stories are told of him. The Moginies are cousins of another Huguenot family, Champtaloup, who also emigrated from London to NZ. Moginies and Champtaloups regularly kept in touch with each other up to the 1960s, and are still found in NZ phone books. Here is an account of Daniel Moginier, "The Famous Peasant from Chesalles [Switzerland]", written by Jean-Claude Mayor and published originally in French by the Tribune de Geneve, 10/11/1972. :"Chesalles nestles in the hills above Moudon, a pretty, peaceful little village, reached by a bus route which meanders along between hedges, fields, and woods. :"It would be easy to assume that his story had always unfolded peacefully beneath the wide eaves of the farm houses. But, try ringing the bell at the last house on the right, the postman's house and asking him who the famous peasant was. He will lead you to a small garden and tell you – he lived there! :"The house is no longer standing – in its place are rows of onions and leeks. But the memory of the man lives on. He was called Daniel Moginier and was born in this village in 1710. Even as a child his mind was filled with wild day dreams. :"One of his relatives had told him that the house where he was born contained important documents, well hidden. Daniel waited until his father had left for the Vevey market to sell his wheat, and, grabbing a hammer, proceeded to make holes in the walls wherever he thought they sounded hollow. :"He discovered a scroll covered in strange characters. It was the beginning of the adventure. In Lausanne he was told that the writing was Arabic, and that he would have to consult a scholar in Holland to have it deciphered. :"Very easy! Daniel Moginier enlisted in Constant's regiment which was about to leave for Holland. There he met the scholar who confirmed that the document was extremely interesting. It certified that, 200 years before, the Moginier family had reigned over a small kingdom near the Caspian Sea, called Amorgines. :"The young soldier borrowed 49 ducats, boarded a boat, and set out for the distant mysterious lands where his ancestors had ruled. There he laid claims to his rights, became Commander in Chief of the Second Mogul Guard, grand porter (?) of the emperor's palace, Governor of the Punjab, and various other little things of a similar nature. [In the 1980s, Douglas Moginie of Auckland mentioned how, at the time of the Mogul Emperors in India, Moginier joined the Dutch Guards, studied artillery, and went to south-east Asia via Caucasia.; and a researcher who drafted a Moginie family "tree" states that Daniel Moginie married Naidone Begum.] :"This story would be incomplete, and would have been forgotten long since, if two things had not happened. Firstly Daniel amassed a huge fortune; secondly he bequeathed the story of his adventures to his brother François. It should be added, too, that he died on 22 May 1749 at the age of 39. :"François went to India to recover the fortune – of which he was the sole beneficiary – and was robbed and murdered aboard the ship which was bringing him home. From then on, whenever a Vaudois returned from abroad with a little money in his pocket, people speculated whether he might not be François Moginier's murderer . . . " Daniel's manuscript was recovered and published and even re-issued in 1912 in Lausanne by Th. Sack, editor, under the title "The Famous Peasant, or memoirs and adventures of Daniel Moginier." Serious folk maintain that the whole adventure is a farce, that it was invented a writer of the day, perhaps the bailiff of Eschallens. But Daniel Moginier certainly existed; his birth is registered in Chesalles. He served in Constant's regiment. And then there was no more news of him for a very long time. Did he die on a battlefield or on a throne? The mystery remains complete. --------- The origin of that article is probably the book with the same title written by Jean Henri Maubert de Gauvest 1721-1767 and published by P. A. Verney in 1754. Auckland University's National Union Catalogue Vol 370 P. 200, [item 3269.174.349] notes the revolutions of Persia [into] the Hindustan and the reign of Thamas-kouli-kan. [NM 0346587] The University also holds a film record (a negative), being a collation of the above which mentions [Daniel Moginie] as Omrah of the First Class, Commandant of the 2nd Guard, Grand Portier [gatekeeper] of the Emperor's placed and Governor of Palngeag [Punjab]. [NM 0346589 IU, Film 844M44, Oi] The dates above quite nicely match Francis Daniel Moginie christening entry at 24/6/1778 in the St Martins in the Fields church at Westminster, London. They may represent the period when the Moginies migrated from Switzerland to London. A history of Moginies was apparently published by Professor Baring Gould of Oxford; and apparently there was at one time an article about them in the London Gazette newspaper. (Info from Douglas Moginie, pre 1989.) Douglas Moginie b.1/10/1910 at Lower Hutt. His wife was born Peggy Fallover; her mother was Amy Anderson before she married Mr Fallover. The translation quoted here is attributable to Janie Gummer, wife of Robin M. Gummer, Auckland. == Sources ==