Research Notes:

Jean Saillenfest mourut âgé de cinquante cinq ans environ et inhumé le lendemain en présence de Jean Larcher (beau-frère) de Germain le Blanc cousin qui ne peut pas signer. ¹

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SAILLENFEST

The surname is variously spelt in the Registers of Norrey-en-Bessin, Guerbaville and Notre Dame de Bliquetuit: Saillanfaits, Saillenfaits, Saillenfest... The name derives from the two verbs: sailler-"to rig out the studding-sail booms" on a ship (transitive), "to make good headway nautically (intransitive); and faire (from which faits)-"to do, make, fashion" (Harapp's French-English Dictionary). Hence the family occupations of shipbuilder, shipwright, sailor e.t.c. are described by the name itself.