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From: "Nathan White" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] DESTOURNELLE Family
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:35:46 -0500
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My ancestor was Thomas BRIAUS who settled at ManakinTown, VA around 1700. In a census taken in 1714 he was listed as having a wife, three daughters and two sons. One of these sons was named Edward. The name was spelled several different ways in birth records, but finally ended up as BRYARS, my mother's maiden name.
Edward and Sara Bryars had a son, Lazarus, born in 1739. This Lazarus had a son named Lazarus John, who settled in what is now Baldwin County, AL. Lazarus John had a son named Lazarus, born in 1799 in what was the Mississippi Territory, but is now in Baldwin County, AL
The 1799 Lazarus had a son named Wm Lawson Bryars, (1829-1863). Wm Lawson Bryars had a son named Charles Oswald Bryars, (1855-1929),
my grandfather. My mother, Marie Elizabeth Bryars, (1898-1933), was his oldest child by his second wife, Marie Louise McGill, (1875-1928).
All of these later births were in Baldwin County, AL where I was born in 1932.
Does anyone know anything about this family, such as where they came from in France?
Thanks,
Nathan Oswald White Naples, FL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Fuller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] DESTOURNELLE Family


> Hi Tracey
>
> I've looked for your names in the General Index to the Hug Soc of GB
> Proceedings and the Index to the Quarto Series, no trace.
>
> Doesn't appear in Agnew (1874 edition) or Durrant-Cooper (1862 edition) or
> Smiles. No trace of any of the spellings in the 16 books on the Family Tree
> Maker CDRom and no trace in the List of Foreign Protestants and Aliens
> Resident in England 1618-1688.
>
> You could try an email to who is the Librarian for the
> Huguenot Society but it won't be answered for a couple of weeks because of
> the Xmas break.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Fuller
>
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