Re: THE TALE OF TWO LATOURRETTE BROTHERS COMING TO AMERICA/DID OTHER PARISHIONERS AC
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THE TALE OF TWO LATOURRETTE BROTHERS COMING TO AMERICA/DID OTHER PARISHIONERS AC
John E. La Tourette 5/15/06
John,
I wanted to thank you for your very scholarly essay. I was interested in Jean Cazalz and Noel Cazalet since Cazalet is my name.
I wonder, if after reading all of the information below, you had any suggestions to assist me in discovering and documenting information to tie this together?
I have been trying to determine if Jean and Noel were related. While Noel did have a brother Jean, evidence indicates that Jean Cazalz was not he.
A friend in France found a document dated Dec. 28, 1702 in which a lawyer, Chrestien, represented Noel Cazalet of Montpellier, in the death of his brother, Jean. From this document I learned that Jean was a captain in the cavalry regiment of Courlandon and was killed in Italy.
In researching for battles in Italy in 1702, I found Luzzara and the siege of Guastalla, which occured on Aug. 15, 1702 and may have been where Jean died.
The document also confirms that Jean and Noel had two other brothers, Estienne and Pierre. That Pierre was deceased by 1702 and that he had children, who were "without citizenship," perhaps meaning that they had already fled France (I have some records of these children). It also confirms that Jean was married to Marguerite Durrant.
This family has been extremely difficult to trace for an amateur genealogist like me.
Of course, there were five children of Noel and Elizabeth Ony mentioned in the French Church records.
The only daughter, Catherine, married first Samuel Shurmur, an apparent business partner of Noel's son, John. they had one child Mary Shurmur, who married (alleged) Baron Frederick Von Weissenfels, who was a Lt. Col. in the New York Levies during the American Revolution. Weissenfels ended up a minor police officer in New Orleans and died there in 1806, but his decendents live in Kentucky, as I do.
Noel's sons have been much harder to track.
The last record of the Cazalets in the French Church Register is on Aug. 16, 1769, when Peter Cazellet married Elizabeth Burns. I have been unable to find any further record of Peter. You apparently had access to the original French Church records since you talk about signatures. I wonder if there would be any clues about Peter or Elizabeth Burns in that record?
I do know that Noel's son, John, lived until 1740, so he may be the father of Peter. I have not been able to determine if John's twin brother, Peter, lived to adulthood. If the Peter, who married Elizabeth Burns, was John's brother, he was certainly marrying late in life. Peter was baptisted Aug. 22, 1711, so he would hve been 57. Another brother Noel died as an infant, but the parents named another child Noel and I don't know what happened to him.
One of the few mentions of Cazalets in New York, that I have been able to find, is the 1860 Census, in which John A. Cazalet, 28, born, NY, appears. The 1900 Census indicates he was born in Nov. 1831. This is my direct relative.
Recently, I obtained the marriage certificate for John A. Cazalet's second marriage. He indicates on it that his father's name was Charles Cazalet. A portion of his mother's name is unreadable, but it seems to read "Mary J. Eb...?"
I can find no Cazalet, by any spelling I can think of, in the censuses from 1790 to 1850.
I am intriqued by having found a Cazalet Cazalet, gluemaker and tanner, in the city directory of Cork, Ireland in 1787 and 1810. Charles apparently died in 1812. I supposed Charles, the father of John A. could have been a child of Charles the gluemaker. He could have immigrated prior around 1830.
There is also a marriage notice in the Portland Maine Eastern Argus on Oct. 5, 1821 that says Charles Cazalet married Miss Judith Smith of Portland.
Any advice you might care to offer would be appreciated.
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