Barthélemy Gugy (1737-1797)

He was the son of Hans George Gugi, Captain in the Swiss Army. He was commissioned into the Sonnenberg Regiment (a Swiss Infantry Regiment loyal to the Kings of France). He served with distinction and while still a Major was decorated as a Knight of the Order of Military Merit - the highest honour available to a Protestant in France. He lived in Paris and by the time of the French Revolution in 1789 was Colonel of the regiment and was wounded in the fighting by a cut from a sabre. In 1792, he and his men refused to serve under the National Assembly and leaving to Canada via England, he purchased a seigneury at Machiche (Yamachiche) in Quebec where he died. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Guillaume Teissier de la Tour, Banker, of Paris. They were the parents of five children of whom three (listed above) reached adulthood.