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From: "R. Bell" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] French History
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:13:20 +0100
In-Reply-To: <cc7.3de2ebd.3297934e@aol.com>


Hi,

The e-mail regarding the Bobo family has given me a vital clue on my own research. Thank you very much. One of my ancestors called Pasteur Roland Touzeau was born in the Saintonge according to his records after he fled to the Channel Islands during the persecution. I know he was born in 1649 but not where.

Roland's grandson married a Marie de Grave in Leicester Fields in London. In turn their great grandson by marriage called John W Jones (my great Grand father) went on to be the Comptroller General for whole of the UK Customs Service with the princely salary of £1000pa in 1900. He changed his name back to de Grave to acknowledge his Huguenot roots.

But, back to the point. It is bizarre, but we retired to the Charente-Maritime department of France 3 years ago before I started the research and now I know of course that that is the modern name for Saintonge. I HAVE RETURNED TO MY ROOTS UNWITTINGLY! Couarde is only 100Km's away so will visit it tout de suite to look at Jean Rivierre's book.

Also I am looking for info on a Jacques de Grave who born what is now Holland/Belgium in Lang(u)ekerke 1670. However, there is no such place now. Family legend has it that he was born in Ypres.

Suzanne de Grave
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Subject: Re: [HWE] French History


Tony and all,below is a source which has helped greatly in researching our
BOBO family in France. We are still at a loss in finding where our Gabriel
BAUBEAU was from 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and 1700 when
Gabriel was found on a land patent in Virginia.

I have a theory, unproven, that Gabriel escaped to England and hid out with
the SPENCER family. I found records in Forbes magazine that a bust or photo
of the Third Earl SPENCER's first in long line of given names was BOBO, but
the SPENCER genealogy does not mention that name.

Upon arriving in Virginia with a group of Englishmen, Gabriel BAUBEAU
quickly was a witness on a will in which Elizabeth SPENCER WHITE gave land to the
sons by her first marriage. Soon afterwards he and Elizabeth were married and
her land became known as BUBBOE's Plantation.

My unproven theory is that the SPENCER family sent Gabriel to Virginia to
marry the widow. They had one son Spencer BOBO before Gabriel disappeared an
Elizabeth was again managing the plantation. We later located Gabriel now
BOBO, in Charles Co., MD, and with another family.

If anyone can furnish clues to this puzzle in either France or the U.S.,
please let me know.

This is not a Huguenot fact, but Pope Celestine III was Hyacinth BOBO
(BOBONI, BOBONE and a part of the ORSINI family, and his brother Ursus BOBO is
supposed to have taken the family name to Gaul (France) where it became BEAUBEAU.


Have I worked in enough French and Huguenot information into the posting so
that I do not get 30 lashes from our watch dog?

“Dictionaire Des Familles du Poitou, 1680 – 1780”, a compilation of
Huguenot records representing the life work of Pasteur Jean RIVIERRE, were
copied from his notes in 1957. The three spellings, BAUBEAU, BEAUBEAU, BOBEAU
were found intermixed in “Volume 1, Aage – Brillaud”


Charles H. (Chuck) BOBO
BOBO Family Assn.
3101 Thurman Rd., No. H-22
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35805

E-Mail:

or
Web Site: _www.FamilyBobo.org_ (http://www.familybobo.org/)
Interactive Web Site: _www.Bobo-Family-News.info_
(http://www.bobo-family-news.info/)

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