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Subject: Chassereau & Huguenots
Posted by:Rachel M A Payne <rach@rmapayne.demon.co.uk> on Tue, 08 Jul 2008, in response to Chassereau & Huguenots, posted by Carl Beech on Fri, 17 Aug 2001
I was surfing idly online and came across this link and I have to reply since I am aware of a connection with my own roots.
I know that a young Jacques Chasserau was "secreted in a barrel" as a stowaway on a ship to England following the St Bartholomew massacre. He obviously settled in London and was married in St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London to Anne (?) Johannot. This is what I remember in my head just now, but I do have more details I can give when I find them. My grandfather had the name Chassereau as one of his first names and I have the genealogy going back to Jacques through female lines. Please let me know if you want more details. I would also like to discover more about the Huguenot link. I benefited in some small way from a Huguenot bursary when I was at school.
Yours,
Rachel Payne
- Subject: Would like more Chassereau info
Posted by:Steven Elmore <cherubim76@hotmail.com> on Tue, 13 Jan 2009, in response to Chassereau & Huguenots, posted by Rachel M A Payne on Tue, 08 Jul 2008
Hi. My mother's maiden name is Chassereau and I've tried to trace back the family to France/England, but to no avail. I keep dead ending in the Charleston, South Carolina area. It may help me to have some information on the English branch (as some may have later traveled to the states). I may be able to make a geneological connection with that information.
Thank you!
- Subject: Chassereau immigrants to England
Posted by:Rachel Payne <rach@rmapayne.demon.co.uk> on Mon, 26 Jan 2009, in response to Would like more Chassereau info, posted by Steven Elmore on Tue, 13 Jan 2009
Dear Steven,
I live in England and am interested in the Chassereau family coming from France around around 1700. My grandfather had the name Chassereau as part of his name and a family link (through female line) to an early refugee. I have a genealogy on Genesreunited. In particular I have details of one Francois Chasserreau who was born at Niort in France in 1698 and who escaped to England "secreted in a barrel on board ship" in 1712, when aged 14, as I have already posted. His father Jacques Chassereau of Niort also had another son Antoine who obviously also came to England as he married Esther Larcher in St Martin-in-the Fields in London in 1727. Francois married Anne Johannot of Eynsford, Kent on May 12th 1727 at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London. As far as I know they had 6 children: Francis (b.14.8.1729); Anne (b.12.4.1732); Esther (1734); Elizabeth Anne (b.10.7.1737); Jane (1739); and Marguerite (19.9.1738). Any who bear the name Chassereau in the US may well have descended from the youngest, Francis, who died in Marylebone, London, in 1767. I would dearly love to know more about the descendants of the other five I don't know about. My descent is from the 3rd, Esther. If you have any more details about descendants who went on to America, or any other Huguenot families, I would be very grateful to receive them. I hope to do research into the period of immigration and write of it.
Thanks,
Rachel Payne
- Subject: Chassereaus
Posted by:Steven Elmore <steven@cslewis.org> on Wed, 28 Jan 2009, in response to Chassereau immigrants to England, posted by Rachel Payne on Mon, 26 Jan 2009
Hi Rachel, thank you for the information. Though I am not able to make the connection yet from America back to England or France, your information may yet help me to find the link. My oldest Chassereau ancestor that I can find information about is John Chassereau, who was born about 1760. More information on him can be found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=smears&id=I6258
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