Re: The Brassier de Jocas Family, part 2
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The Brassier de Jocas Family, part 2
Charles Brashear 1/03/05
I think 1) there's a generation missing in England, perhaps one of the Brasseurs stayed there or one of his progeny went back to France when internal strife heated up there.2) The first Brasseur in the States was doing the work of the British crown, named his daughter elizabeth, who married John Turner, member of a British Noble family... she did not marry outside her "caste".3) To be a Catholic and papal supporter in america at the time did not allow you the high status the family enjoyed in the early generations.Germans, Jews, and Irish all immediately changed the spelling of their names upon arrival to the states.4)noblemen always have noble mistresses.Some of the gaps in transfer of estates is a tell-tale sign of illelegitimate children, which was not only a mark upon a family in catholic france, catholic/episcopalian england, but also in the religiously protestant colonies.
So all that is pointing me to researching the portions of the family banished to England, possibly the relationship with the Turner nobleman, as history shows these folks tend to inter-marry.
This Brasseur could still be the original hugenot- would not have, at the time, been given such a high position by the crown if he were pro-papacy.I also found records of a brashear, a barrister/lawyer, making frequent and i thought unusual trips to england and france, which i'll post when i dredge them up.
I'm going to look more closely at the relationship between the Turners and Brashears/Brassiers in England because the dating looks like there's a generation somewhere.
Also, not to diminish the "nobility" aspect of deJocas, but they became a marquisate, they became nobles by papal decree, not royal decree, after the relationship of the church to france had been hammerred out.
Maybe the Brashear that first settled here WAS the black sheep of the family, or at the very least saw the benefits of getting on the ground floor of the new world amidst the internal strife of europe.This would motivate, and has motivated, many a "nobleman" to obscure their lineage to be successful here.
So many unanswered questions, i believe, with the boys taken to England.