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Mr. Mocquerys's Crested Bobwhite (1 Viewer)

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")
Sweden
Here´s the Life span of the fairly unknown Mr. Mocquerys, commemorated in the Eponym ...

mocquerysi as in:
•the subspecies Colinus cristatus mocquerysi HARTERT 1894 (here) as "Eupsychortyx mocquerysi" ... but without any dedication nor explanaition, thereby simply trusting, following the clues given in today's HBW Alive Key:
mocquerysi
Albert Mocquerys (fl. 1902) French dental surgeon, collector in tropical Africa, Venezuela, and Madagascar (subsp. Colinus cristatus).
... most likely Albert Mocquerys (18601926), French (commercial) collector of various Naturalia (plants, insects, birds etc., etc.), in various places; Madagascar, Central and West Africa, Sao Tomé (1899-1900), Venezuela (1890-94) ... see for example, here, here or here.

Born in 1860, in Baie d'Antongil, Madagascar, Son of the amateur entomologist Emile Mocquerys (1825–1918) ... and so on. If ever a dental Surgeon (as claimed above) is unknown to me.

However; for what it´s worth, enjoy!

Björn
 
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
Crested Bobwhite ssp. Colinus cristatus mocquerysi Hartert, 1894
Albert Mocquerys (DNF) was a French dental surgeon who collected in tropical Africa, Venezuela (1893–1894), and Madagascar. He was lame in one leg and explained this to friends with the following (probably apocryphal) story. He was one of five people captured by cannibals in the Belgian Congo. The canny anthropophagi broke their prisoners' legs to prevent them escaping the cooking pot but, fortunately for Mocquerys, some Belgians arrived in time to save them.
 

All a little bit weak:

We have not established where Albert was born, but suspect it was either Rouen or Évreux in Normandy. His brother Georges (1865–1948) was born in the latter city where their father who had lived in both cities became established as a dental surgeon; a profession shared also by Simon and later by Albert and Georges.

We suspect that Mocquerys ultimately settled in Tunisia where his father and brother resided and assume this is where he died in 1926.


According here or here from Rouen.
 
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This shipping manifest suggests a 1862 birth (as does his death certificate below). What is intriguing as it mentions a wife Juliet absent from the Dorr et al paper.

I can confirm the father's details

NameEmile Simon Mocquerys
SpouseMarie Caroline Sutter
MotherZoé Elizabeth Lachausée
FatherSimon Mocquerys
Marriage26 oct. 1858 (26 Oct 1858) Paris

The idea he was born in "Baie d'Antongil, Madagascar" seems very fanciful. If his parent married in Paris in 1858 and his brother was born in Évreux in 1865 then France seems likely and Filae says Commune Eure. Dorr et al say he settled briefly in Bone, Algeria but he was there prior to 1897 according to them and is listed there in 1901 and he was still there in 1911 - attached. I suggest that this was his home. Incidental Georges lived there till 1903 too before moving to Tunisia.

However, he died on 10/10/1926 in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val de Marne, France) doc_viewer_editer_marqueur

Thus Albert Mocquerys (1860-1926).

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I am wondering why not to find here p. 78 of 192.

He actually died on 7 Oct 1926 in Paris, 13e Arrondissement: here, 2/31. (The record in the archive of the 5e Arrondissement is a transcription. His residence is indicated in the death record as "rue Gracieuse 3", which is in the 5e Arrondissement.)
He was buried on 10 Oct 1926 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne.
 
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