# Birth: ABT. 1583 in Angers of Anjou, France
# Death: 1631
# Note:
Pierre Perduex, a native of Angers of Anjou, was many years advocate to Parliament of Paris, Master of request to the Duke of Anjou, and chief magistrate of the Criminal Court of Angers. The tradition is that the early Perdues were Huguenots and that they left France for England and Ireland before coming to America. It is not known who was the first Perdue to come to America. Dr. William Perdue , a descendant of Pierre, came to Pennsylvania from County Antrim, Ireland in April, 1737. The following is an exact quotation from the records of Herman E. Perdue, attorney of Salisbury, Maryland.
"An elaborate manuscript compiled and emblazoned in the College of Arms containing "Sundrie Ancient Remembrance of Arms, Genealogies and other notes of Gentility belonging to the Worshipful name and families of Perduex." In the first reign of the Normans there flourished two noble families of the surname Perduex, and that they were of like noble lineage or offspring of "The Dutchy of Normandy". This is from the book "Early Settlers of Upper Sumner County Tennessee". These information was compiled by Lee Alton Absher, M. D. of Knoxville, TN in 1966.Debra Poole and Lewis Williams family
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