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The Du Pont family is an American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817). The son of a Paris watchmaker and a member of an ancient, but impoverished, Burgundian noble family, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, emigrated to the United States in 1800 and used the resources of this heritage to found one of the most prominent of American families, and one of its most successful corporations, the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company. Various members of the family managed the company well into the twentieth century and to this day constitute a substantial portion of the company's ownership.

The correct spelling of the Du Pont family name is du Pont when quoting an individual's full name and Du Pont when speaking of the family as a whole. However, the name of the chemical company founded by the family is correctly spelled DuPont.

Listed below is an alphabetical listing of selected notable members of the family. It is followed by a listing of their families in order of descent. The listing is intended only to illustrate the relationships among the notable members of the family and is not a complete genealogy. The only family groupings and lines of descent shown are those necessary to illustrate relationships for notable members of the family. By 1942 there were believed to be 705 direct descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and there are now well over 2000 living members of the family.

Alphabetical list of selected members of the family

Follow the numbered links to a person's location in the genealogy below.
Use the "up arrow" at the end of the line to return to the alphabetical listing.

The Family of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

First Generation

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817)  

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours married Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise le Dée de Rencourt and had the following children:

Second Generation

Victor Marie du Pont (Pierre-1) (1767-1827)  

Victor Marie du Pont married Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport and had the following children:

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (Pierre-1) (1771-1834)  

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont married Sophie Madeleine Dalmas (1775-1828) in 1791 and had the following children:

Third Generation

Charles Irénée du Pont  (Victor-2, Pierre-1) (1797-1869) ↑''' 

Charles Irénée du Pont married Dorcas Montgomery Van Dyke and had the following children:

Charles Irénée du Pont married Anne Ridgely and had the following children:

Alfred Victor Philadelphe du Pont  (Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1798-1856)  

Alfred Victor Philadelphe du Pont married Margaretta Elizabeth Lammot and had the following children:

Henry du Pont  (Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1812-1889)  

Gen. Henry du Pont married Louisa Gerhard (1816-1900) in 1837 and had the following children:

Alexis Irénée du Pont  ( Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1816-1857)  

Alexis Irénée du Pont married Joanna Maria Smith and had the following children:

Fourth Generation

Victor du Pont  (Charles-3, Victor-2, Pierre-1) (1828-1888)

Victor du Pont married Alice Hounsfield and had the following children:

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont II  (Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1829-1877)  

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont II married Charlotte Shepard Henderson and had the following children:

Lammot du Pont  (Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1831-1884)  

Lammot du Pont married Mary Belin and had the following children:

Antoine Bidermann du Pont  (Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1837-1923)

Antoine Bidermann du Pont married Ellen Susan Coleman and had the following children:

Henry Algernon du Pont  (Henry-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1838-1926)  

Henry Algernon du Pont married Mary Pauline Foster and had the following children:

William du Pont  (Henry-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1855-1928)  

William du Pont married Annie Rogers (Zinn) had the following children:

Eugene du Pont  (Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1840-1902)  

Eugene du Pont married Amelia Elizabeth du Pont and had the following children:

Alexis Irénée du Pont, Jr.  (Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1843-1904)  

Francis Gurney du Pont  (Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1850-1904)  

Francis Gurney du Pont married Elise Wigfall Simons and had the following children:

Fifth Generation

Alfred Irénée du Pont  (Irénée-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1864- )

Alfred Irénée du Pont married first, Bessie Gardner and had the following children:

Alfred Irénée du Pont married second, Mary Alica Heyward Bradford and had the following children: Alfred Irénée du Pont married third, Jessie Dew Ball and had no children.

Henry Belin du Pont  (Lammot-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1873-1902)

Henry Belin du Pont married Eleuthera du Pont Bradford and had the following children:

William Kemble du Pont  (Lammot-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1874- )

William Kemble du Pont married Ethel Fleet Hallock and had the following children:

Irénée du Pont  (Lammot-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1876- )

Irénée du Pont married Irene Sophie du Pont and had the following children:

Lammot du Pont  (Lammot-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1880- )

Lammot du Pont married Natalie Driver Wilson and had the following children:

Thomas Coleman du Pont  (Bidermann-4, Alfred-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1863- ).

Thomas Coleman du Pont married Alice du Pont and had the following children:

Henry Francis du Pont  (Henry-4, Henry-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1880- )

Henry Francis du Pont married Ruth Wales and had the following children:

William du Pont, Jr.  (William-4, Henry-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1896- )

William du Pont married first, Mary Lammot du Pont and had no children.
William du Pont married second Annie Rogers (Zinn) and had the following children:

Eugene du Pont, Jr.  (Eugene-4, Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1873- ).

Eugene du Pont married Ethel Pyle and had the following children:

Francis Irénée du Pont  (Francis-4, Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1873- )

Francis Irénée du Pont married Marianna Rhett and had the following children:

Alexis Felix du Pont  (Francis-4, Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1879- )

Alexis Felix du Pont married Mary Richard Chichester and had the following children:

Eleuthère Paul du Pont (1887-1950)   (Francis-4, Alexis-3, Irénée-2, Pierre-1) (1887- )

Eleuthère Paul du Pont married Jean Kane Foulke du Pont and had the following children:

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