Poissant · Glaude · Glode · Gload — 440 Years
The story of Frederick “Pip” & Eva “Mim” Gload — and the lineage that brought them to Champlain, and the nine branches that grew from their family.
Nine children · Thirty-five grandchildren · Four countries · Five surnames
Read the Full Story →Starting from Mim & Pip, this archive traces the Gload name back through centuries — from Poissant in Huguenot France, through Glaude and Glode in Quebec and upstate New York, to the Gload family of Champlain. Forward from Mim & Pip, nine children scattered from New York to Maryland, Illinois, Iowa, Arizona, and beyond. 440 years. Four countries. Five surnames. One family.
Salt, Soldiers, and Surnames — a narrative history of the Gload family through 440 years.
Thirteen generations from Huguenot France to modern Maryland. Five surnames, one family.
See how the Gload and Gemeny lines converge through Amelia Gemeny and Ted Gload.
Explore the maternal side — four lineages spanning five centuries and three countries.
Raised nine children during the Depression and WWII. 35 grandchildren. Every modern Gload branch traces back to their home in Champlain.
Huguenot court officer in Marennes, France. Sergent Royal. His faith defined the family’s persecution and eventual exodus.
Orphaned Huguenot soldier. Crossed the Atlantic aboard L’Emerillon. Forced to abjure his faith. Nine children in Quebec.
A godfather named Glode Maheu at his baptism changed the family name forever. Poissant → Claude → Glaude → Glode → Gload.
USAF Major. Mount Assumption ’47. Carried the family from Champlain to Maryland. Once spotted “Champ” on Lake Champlain.
The last surviving child of Pip and Mim. With her passing, the stories they carried now live only in what they passed to their children.
Robert’s grandson. Uses technology to rebuild what memory could no longer hold. Curator of this archive.
A Huguenot court officer in the salt-making capital of Saintonge, France.
An orphaned Huguenot soldier boards L’Emerillon at La Rochelle. Arrives Quebec in November, covered in ice.
On Palm Sunday, Jacques renounces his Calvinist faith at Pointe-aux-Trembles. The faith that persecuted them became the faith that sustained them.
Jacques receives 85 acres with Saint Lawrence frontage at La Prairie. The family puts down roots.
Claude “Glode” Poissant is baptized. Godfather Glode Maheu introduces the name that will eventually replace Poissant.
The British defeat the French on the Plains of Abraham. The world turns English. The family adapts.
Jacques-Marie “Jacob” Poissant dit Glode walks from St-Constant, Quebec to Champlain, New York. The family becomes American.
Three men from the extended Poissant/Glode/Fisher line serve the Union. Joseph Fisher takes shrapnel at Spotsylvania. Louis Fisher is grazed at Chancellorsville. Olivier Glaude catches a shell fragment at Spotsylvania. All survive.
First wife of Amos Glode. March 1918 — the same month the Spanish Flu first appeared in America.
Born May 6 in Champlain, the year the Depression began. He would live to see another pandemic.
Among the first to wear the new blue uniform. The Air Force had existed as a separate branch for barely four months.
Franco-American Catholic meets Italian-American Catholic. Both traditions rooted in parish life.
At 74, Bob and four grandchildren see three humps in Lake Champlain while bass fishing. Makes CBS News.
Age 90. Born the year the Depression began, died the year of another pandemic. Survived by wife of 63 years.
With her passing, all nine children of Pip and Mim are gone. The stories now live only in what they passed to their children.
Six Threads Through 440 Years
Religion. Huguenot → forced Catholic. Language. French → English. The surname. Five names, one family. Water. Salt marshes, Atlantic, St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Chesapeake. Military. Jacques in 1684, three cousins at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania, Robert in 1948, Ted in the USAF. Migration. Always south. Always west.
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