Marius Adolphe Julien De Sanary

   Another name for Marius was Marius Adolphe Jullien.

  Research Notes:

Briony Neilson notes:
I'm an academic historian (specialised in the history of France and its colonies) working on a project about the history of connections between the French penal colony in New Caledonia and Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Part of my work is concerned with the writings of Marius Adolphe Jullien (aka Julien de Sanary), a Frenchman sent to New Caledonia as a convict, who later wrote poetry and after serving his sentence ended up living in Australia thanks to the petitioning of Gertrude Poyitt (aka Wolla Meranda).

I've not been able to find the online details of any family member closer to Gertrude than you and I am hoping that you might be able to help put me in touch with any family members that might have further information about Gertrude, including whether there might be documents still in existence (e.g. letters) that belonged to her or Julien de Sanary.

I have already accessed archival materials (published and unpublished) by her friend Julien de Sanary, but I'm very interested in exploring more deeply the relationship between your distant relative and the French former convict, and am wondering whether by some chance any documentation might have survived over the years and possibly come down to you or other family members. From what I've read, it seems that Gertrude was a great collector, so I would think that there is some possibility that some further records were made and might well have been conserved.

I would be extremely grateful to you for any information you might have. If I can offer further clarification on the nature of my interest in your ancestor and her friend, I'd be only too happy to do so.

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Ian Poyitt

• connection. Julien de Sanary notes:
My name is julien de sanary, i have heard a lot about the former jds and have met a guy doing some research in new Caledonia, my mum first told me the story about 40 years ago.

Interesting that my name was invented as his was , my mothers maiden name and my fathers name are not de sanary. have visited sanary sur mur in france several times and have a real connection.

Like very much to have any info that you may have on my namesake.

Kind Regards

Julien de Sanary 2nd

My link to Marias de Sanary (1859) are:

Marias de Sanary (1859) was friends with Isabella Poyitt (1863)
Her father was David Poyitt (1823) & he also had Normal Poyitt (1867) who married Fanny Williams (1872)
His father was Henry Williams (1840) who married Christina Nicol (1862)
Her father was George Nicol (1810) & he also had John Nicol (1844) who married Elizabeth Sutherland (1863)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Occupation: French poet. ⁵⁵¹

Marius had a relationship with Isabella Gertrude Ada (Gert) Poyitt, daughter of David Gould Poyitt and Elizabeth Armour, circa 1920 in Sunny Corner, Bathurst, NSW Australia. (Isabella Gertrude Ada (Gert) Poyitt was born on 4 Aug 1863 in Mitchells Creek, Roxburgh, District of Bathurst, NSW Australia, died on 12 May 1951 in Orange, NSW Australia mental institute and was buried on 13 May 1951 in C of E Sunny Corner, Bathurst, NSW Australia ⁵⁵¹.)