Baiseur Background and Geneology



1614 - Canterbury, England

1634 - Wasquehal, Toucouring, MARCQ-EN-BAROEUL, Flers, Annappes, Lille St. Etienne, and Mouscron, France.

Summary

• Foulques III "Nerra" , Comte d'Anjou - le Grand Bâisseur (The Great Builder)

Fulk III Nerra, Fulk the Black or Foulques le Noir, Count of Anjou (987-1040), the most powerful of the early rulers of the Angevin dynasty.  Exposed at first to the attacks of the counts of Brittany, Fulk had to fight for a long time to defend his frontiers, finally driving the Bretons back beyond the frontiers of Anjou. having made himself master in the west, he turned his attention to the east and came into conflict with the count of Blois, Eudes II, over the territory of Saumur and a considerable part of Touraine. He defeated Eudes at Pontlevoy in 1016, and surprised and took Saumur 10 years later.

A ruthless warrior who burned and pillaged the monasteries in his path, Fulk nevertheless felt the need for pennance, making three pilgrimages to the Holy Land and founding or restoring several abbeys, including those in or near Angers, Loches and Saumur. He also built strongly fortified castles of stone (instead of wood) along the borders of his territory. For this reason he was called le Grand Bâisseur (The Great Builder).
[Enc. Brit. 5:44]

• Pennsylvania and New York:
  We have not found direct evidence of the connection between Jacques Milne Le Bâisseur and Boshaars, other than one written record in "History of the Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania" 1915, p.517, that claimed that George Beshor's great grandfather was Jacques Milne la Baseaur and 'settled' in New York (this was probably misinterpreted by the "History...", somewhat, as you read on).  George's son Matthias died in 1901 and is in the Frystown cemetery.  George was the son of Hans Jacob II.  Hans George Beashor, father of Hans Jacob, immigrated to US before 1738.  If we are to believe George, then Jacques was Hans Jacob II's father, Hans Jacob.
   
• France:
  Le Bâisseur <- ? <- Hans George <- Hans Jacob <-George, as we try to establish lineage in time.  This would put Jacques in the right time period, and certainly identify him in Norwich in the early 1600s.  However it is recorded (haven't found it myself yet) that Jacques is buried in Norwich, which would indicate that Hans George made the journey (maybe) and Jacque's never left Norwich.  Hans Albrecht is the ? above, indicating that a birth date of Jacques before 1600 is reasonable.  Was Hans Albrecht the only German-born son of Jacques?
   
• Canterbury and Norwich England: 
  Note below in the table (after you click on her name) that Sara's (No. 71 -1623) Father is Jaques Le Bâisseur, who supposedly immigrated from Guyenne France in 1610 to Norwich.  Ester (52) , Elizees (51), and Benjamin (50) have listed Jacques as their father, also.  So the issue is did Jacques emigrate from Guyenne (where he was born) or is he also from Duex Ponts (Zweibruken, where Hans Albrecht is recorded having been born)?  The English born children, assumed the French name, and apparently continued on until the 1700s...then the descendants migrated back, to the Palatine and America, and assumed German names?
   
• Conclusion:
  My theory (very speculative) is that Jacob Boshaar and Jacque Bâisseur are one in the same person.  BTW:  Jacques = Jacob translated.  So we have assumed that in our geneology tree that jacob boshaar (abt. 1590) is the oldest identified ancestor on the Beshore side.  Agnes was the name of the wife of both....Jacob Boshaar's wife's name was Agnes Pasour (sounds like Baisseur).

Huguenot Links

French Huguenot Historical Society http://huguenots-france.org/english.htm

Who were the Walloons and Huguenots?: http://www.island.net/~andreav/hugswalls.htm

Background

Many Americans have German ancestry, or perhaps better stated, have ancestors who at one time lived in what is today Germany. Although the concept of a Germaniæ Historica {east of the Rhine and north of the Danube} has been undisputed for over 2000 years, modern Germany, as a sovereign entity, did not exist 150 years ago. Moreover, as most people know, major border changes have occurred three times, just in the 20th century alone, the most recent being the reunification, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the communist government in East Germany. Frankfurt and Hessen were in the American Zone after the Second World War.

The French King's conquests not only finally secured Strasbourg and Alsace, but also laid strong claim to Lorraine, thereby assuring nearly another 300 years of war, first with the War of Spanish Succession(1701-1714), primarily fought in Bavaria and western Germany. Lorraine was part of the German Empire when seized by Louis XIV in 1678. It was restored in 1697, but France regained possession, by reversion, upon the death of Stanislaus of Poland (1766). In that time it was formally incorporated, but a portion returned to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War. See Trier. It was one of the sources of irritation leading to the second as well as first World Wars of this century. Many towns in Alsace and Lorraine have two names, of which one is usually the translation of the other. (e.g. Thionville and Diedenhoffen -- Betstein and Bassompierre -- Mainz and Mayence). The House of Cleves also is associated closely to this region. Duex Ponts and ZweiBrachen is another example.

Pennsylvania emerged during this time of extreme turmoil as one of the safe-havens for Protestant Germans, who did not fit the Lutheran mold or could not remain safely in French occupied lands. Established by Quaker William Penn, under authority of the Britsh government, Penn’s woods furnished fine productive land to those who would clear and farm it. It also became a place where “out-of-favor” communities could flourish in freedom. The Georgia Colony also gave refuge to the persecuted in the first years of its existence (circa 1733).

Below is a map showing the Franken and German tribes after the first millennium. The map names Mainz as Moguntiacum and Bonn as Bonna. Across the river from Bonn it shows the Tencteri tribe. North of them are the Sugambri and to the west of the Tencteri are the Chatten. It shows the tribe of the Turones east of Frankfurt. The Main river is designated as the "Moenus". The Turones live in an area where Germanic tribes of the Rhine-Weser group lived: Tencteri, Sugambri, Bructeri, Cherusci and Chatten. Therefore, I assume, that all these tribes are Germanic ones, including the Turones. On the other side of the Rhine, in what is today Belgium and France, there lived Celtic-Germanic mixed tribes like Treveri, Condrusi, Nervii. These groups lived together with "pure" Celtic tribes like Mediomatrices and Eberones. In relatively close distance to, but west of Mainz lived the Treveri.

Le Baisseuir or La Baisseur is of French origin meaning "one who kisses." Various spellings over the years include: Beshore, Baisseur, Besor, Bashair, Beashore, Basehore, Boeshoren and Boeshore as a few (Frances Bashore Francis Geneological Document has over 70 different spellings).

The earliest ancestor found to date is Jacques Milne La Baisseur, a French Huguenot, who fled his home in Guyenne (Aquitaine) in southwest France to England about 1610. In 1614 he is listed as a member of the French Huguenot Church in Norwich, England. About 100 years later, in 1708, some of his his desendents emmigrated to the Schoharie Valley along the Hudson River in New York State. Queen Anne financed such emigration to populate the Hudson River Valley to provide a better defense against marauding French and Indians (Queen Anne's French & Indian War).

The Boeshore family met other Palatines and Huguenots in NY in 1720 and moved with them to the Tulpehocken country in Berks Co., PA. (They followed Lake Oswego, then the Susquehanna River, then up the Swatara.)

Other descendents of Jaques Milne La Baisseuir returned to the Alsace and Bas Rhine are from Norwich, England about 1700 after the end of the Thirty Years War which reduced religious persecution. Among them was Jacob Baisseur or Boeshaar as listed on this the ships passenger list.

Medieval France: Portion of Aquataine (Guyenne), showing areas of population is shown below (Possible locations of where Jacques lived):

Another area of Le Baise River (Musical River) off the Garonne River is shown below:

The English Le Baiseur

THE FRENCH BAISEUR

• WASQUEHAL, Fr. : Note the Baiseur births/marriages in Wasquehal and Tocouring, France in the early 1600s (http://paul.povoas.free.fr/france/tabcwasquehal1.htm).  Earliest known is Amand Baiseur (d. 1676, as directly below)

•  Tocouring, Fr.