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Huguenot Walloon Casier & Uziele Family
I made a few changes on http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ and have moved the Huguenot Walloon Casier & Uziele Family. Please have a look around and find an ancestor or two!
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Philippe Casier
Philippe Casier (my 10th great-grandfather) of Calais France, is first mentioned in the Huguenot settlement of Martinique in the French West Indies. In 1635 a party of old and experienced settlers had gone to Martinique from the neighbouring island of St. Christopher, which had been settled by French Huguenots in 1627. Philippe and Marie (Taine) Casier's first two children, Jean and Marie, were born on Martinique. In 1645, Philippe Casier and others left the island and returned to Europe. Casier went first to Calais, then to Sluis, Flanders where his daughter Hester was born. Many French and Walloon exiles from England and from the Dutch seaboard were fleeing to Mannheim, drawn there by assurances of freedom and protection under the government of the Protestant Elector, Charles Lewis who held out strong inducements to the refugees to settle there. Some time after 1652, Philippe and his family moved to Mannheim in the Lower Palatinate of Germany, along with other Huguenots and Walloon Protestants. Read more about Casier Family
David Uziele (Uzille)
Philippe's daughter Marie Casier married David Uzille David Uzille (my 9th great-grandparents) about this time and in 1660 their son Peter Uzille (my 8th great-grandfather) was born in Mannheim. David Uzille was also mentioned as from Calais, but no doubt was of the Brittany family. Casier was not content at Mannheim. His wife's brother, Isaac Tayne, called also Le Pere, the Father, had gone to the New World earlier and had been made a burgher of New Amsterdam. The Casier family, Uzilles included, followed.
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