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My interest in genealogy is grounded in my enjoyment of history. I am therefore interested in finding out anything about a person connected to our family lines.I also like to know about the life and times of the age in which they lived.
History
So far I have found out so much about so many things including ~
1 The Huguenots, their hardships,churches,settlements,trades and gradual assimilation.
2 The Australian Gold Rush at Ballarat ~ a large number of great grand aunts and uncles emigrated to Victoria, Australia
3 The sinking of the Titanic our great aunt,Annie Elizabeth Sage, nee Cazaly drowned in this 1912 disaster with her husband and 10 children.
4 Australian football ~ Roy Cazaly and our father shared the same grandfather.
5 The 19th Century Wesleyian Church ~ a great aunt Charlotte Cazaly married into the Jabez Bunting family.
The Family
The Cazaly family lived near Sommieres between Nimes and Montpelier in Languedoc Roussilion until 1685 when they were stripped of their property.
Margueritte Cazaly, a widow, escaped with her family (said to be 12 children) and settled in the East End of London.
Jean Pierre Cazaly (b c. 1725) married Jeanne Poulain (b 1733 in London her family came from Gourel,Seine Maritime to Canterbury and then the East End of London.
Some other early family names are Levesque, Larchevesque, LeGrand, Ouvrix Suet from Seine Maritime; Nash Duchemin Lamy, Rive,Pepper, Eagles and Brees in London.
It is proving very difficult (as yet) to establish sources in Gard France but clues are there; it is difficult when protestants were not allowed to marry officially or baptise their children.
Branches of this Huguenot tree are known to exist in France, England, Scotland, Australia with some people emerging in USA and Canada and New Zealand. If you are a branch or even a twig please contact me.
Like most families we have ancestors we cannot yet trace so if anyone has a Sarah Ann Smith from Gainsborough or a Sophia Ellwood from Cambridgeshire please own up!
I am trying now to be very careful to record sources and keep control of the burgeoning paperwork.
Good searching
Penny Cazaly
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