Re: Any Couzzourts out there?
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Re: Any Couzzourts out there?
12/31/00
Thanks to Debra and Kathy for the Polk Co., GA, info from 1900.I am descended from that group -- my grandfather was Noah David Sr.What I find most intriguing about this family is the wide variety of surname spellings, even sometimes within the same generation and locality.But, then, when we consider all the [mis]pronunciations, I guess we're lucky to have a spelling that's close.And even Cossairt (thanks to Jacques) isn't the original name."Courser" and "Coursier" are predecessors, apparently.From what I gather from my language studies, "Coursier" was an adapted occupation name, meaning, roughly, "He who supplies horses to/for the King," with the sly implication that it didn't matter how "Coursier" got the King's horses to begin with.Thus the name became synonymous with "Courser," meaning steed or charger, and not too much later, "Corsair," or pirate or freebooter.So it would seem that we do, indeed and in fact, descend from a line of horse thieves and pirates.Makes you wonder if the Huguenot excuse for traveling and migrating wasn't a cover of some sort.Oh, well.Thanks again, cousins, and have the happiest of new years.Jim