Re: Braase- Ger to TX 1870's
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In reply to:
Braase- Ger to TX 1870's
5/28/01
Lori,
Thank you for your posting to the Brase Forum.
I believe there are as many ways of pronouncing Brase as there are spellings.
My Brase ancestors settled in southeast Missouri and pronounced it Bra-zee.
There was another Brase linesettling in Illinois about the same time, across the river from the St Louis area.They do have the names of Charles and Herman appearing in some of their decendants.
I have always thought my Missouri line and the Illinois line had a connection but has been unproved. Both of these lines seemed to have come from Germany shortly before 1850.
Hope to receive more Brase researchers response to you question.
Jackie Hawkins