Re: Pery, Bourgeois Book abt 1750-1900
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Re: Pery, Bourgeois Book abt 1750-1900
Roy Bessire 9/25/00
Roy,
I am researching my GGrandfather's family. He came to the US and settled in Clinton,NY. His wife was Mary. From what we can gather they were in NY at least in 1854.
The last name has been spelled many ways-by people who obviously were not familiar with it. He ended up calling the family Besig.
In the 1870 census for Westmoreland,NY he was called "Sopael Bessige" age 48, farmer, born in Switzerland.(Could be Bessire)He had 2 sets of twins. One set were named "Steairy and Sophiry" and the other "Francis and Frances", other children were Joseph, Michael, Anthony and Casper.
Does any of this show up in your book?
We would really like to find the correct spelling of this Swiss name.
Thank you for your time.
Margaret
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Re: Pery, Bourgeois Book abt 1750-1900
Roy Bessire 2/28/08