BRASSEUR Tree
(Brashear/Brashears/Breshear/...)

This genealogy information is based upon research using US Census data; Mongomery County Historical Society records; Maryland State Archives; LDS Family History Center records and ULRICH and CLARK family information. More recent information is based upon materials of Charles Brashear (Professor Emeritus San Diego State University) who will be publishing a multivolume work on A Brashear(s) Family History. One of Charlie's quotes to me was "Contrary to Brasseur mythology, there is no proof that Elizabeth FOWKE was the wife of Robert BRASSEUR".  Another mythological story is shown in the details of "The deBrassier NONSENSE". This is copied from the book to attempt to correct the improper linkage to the American Brashear(s)/Brasseur family.

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The information below is the best currently know for the BRASSEUR family from France to the USA. The name is also spelled: Brassieur, Brashieur, Brashear, Brashears, Brassure, Brasheur, Brazier, Brasier, Broshear, Boshear, Beshear, Breshear, Breashear, and many other ways.  They settled in Nansemond COUNTY, Virginia in 1653. They move to Calvert County, Maryland in about 1658. The name BRASSEIUR (BRAS = arm, as in a part of the body (not the weapon) and SEIUR = lord or knight, hence...Lord of Arm or Might by Strength. The first Brasseiur was a page, his descendents Lords and Knights. Robert Brasseur was a Huguenot, that is, Puritan-Protestant dissenters who followed the teachings of John Calvin. Most of the country (at that time) was Catholic.During the mid to late 1500s, Huguenots were openly persecuted and several thousand were slaughtered in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre that occured on 24 August 1572.  Henry III of France feared the power of the Catholics and allied himself with Henry of Navarre and the Hughenots.  After Henry III was assassinated, Henry of Navarre became King and granted religious freedom to the Hughenots in some 75 towns where they were the majority. The proclamation granting religious and political freedom was know as the Edict of Nantes, 13 April 1598.  Even through the mid 1600s there were outbreaks and the Hughenots didn't get complete relief from oppression until the French Revolution, 1798.
 
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 BELT  BEST  BOS  BOWDISH  BRASSEUR
 CHEW  CLARK  CLARK / WHITEHEAD  CONSTABLE  DUVALL
 ELLIOTT  FOREMAN  HANSON  PARRIOTT / PARROTT  PETERSON
 RIXEY  SMITH  ULRICH  WEBSTER  WHITEHEAD
 WYNNE  YEOMAN/DIVORTY  ZINN    
There is a complete list of all names in these trees at the SURNAME list.
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I will eventually gather all the proof for the data presented here and capture it in my notes which are found in the SURNAMES list which contains all the data for each individual listed in the trees.
I will attempt to make THIS page correct based upon factual proof from the records.

Descendancy Charts for Robert Brassieur (Generations 1-15) Based upon data courtesy of Charles Daniel Brashear (much of the information is based upon the books: "The Brashear - Brashears Family 1449-1929" by Henry Sinclair and "The Brashear Story" by Troy L. Back and Leon Brashear)

False links to the Brasseur family - The deBrassier NONSENSE

The deBrassier NONSENSE

***Page Updated  5 August 2001***


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FAMILY of William Gowan BRASHEAR, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth CLAYTON Back to William Gowan BRASHEAR, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth CLAYTON


FAMILY of Ithra BRASHEAR & Hannah Elizabeth MIDDLETON Back to Ithra BRASHEAR & Hannah Elizabeth MIDDLETON


FAMILY of Joseph BRASHEARS & Mary CROSS (indications are that Joseph/Mary had no children) Back to Joseph BRASHEAR & Mary CROSS

FAMILY of Marsham BRASHEARS & Lucy PHELPS

Back to Marsham Brashears & Lucy Phelps

FAMILY of Tobias BRASHEARS & Martha BROCUS

Back to Tobias BRASHEARS & Martha BROCUS

FAMILY of R.T. Turner BRASHEARS & Daughter of TABOCA

Back to R.T. Turner BRASHEARS & Daughter of TABOCA

FAMILY of Belt BRASHEARS & Amelia DUVALL

Back to Belt BRASHEARS & Amelia DUVALL

FAMILY of Robert Samuel BRASHEARS & Phoebe NICKS

Back to Robert Samuel BRASHEARS & Phoebe NICKS


FAMILY of Charles Wells SELLMAN & Anna WHITHAM


Back to Charles Wells SELLMAN & Anna WHITHAM



FAMILY of Joshua "James" BRASHEAR & Ann CHEW