I also think it is interesting to note that many of the Cuzners in Somerset were
weavers and this was a primary component of the Huguenot migrants to England.
The earliest Cuzner records I've found thus far are in the early 1700's so I
doubt that the Cuzners were part of the wave that came following the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes. It seems more plausible that if the Cuzner's were
Huguenot, they were part of the wave that came in the 1560 following the St.
Batholomew's Day Massacre of 1562. I believe there was a Huguenot church
established in Bristol in that period and a review of their records could be of
value. I haven't found these records online, so I have no idea. If anyone has
any thoughts on this line of research, I'd love to discuss.

Steve Cuzner
Cuzner, Faulkner, Robinson, Tanner/Pepperell, Exton, Greenland

--- In cuzners_in_their_genes_@..., Martha Mitchell
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> I found in your letter the first connection of the name  Cuzner to
Huguenot/Alsace.  My grandfather, John Henry Cuzner was born in Westbury,
Wiltshire in 1872 and came to the US  by way of Sidney Nines in Canada, sometime
in the 1890's. It was my grandfather who told me, himself, that the Cuzners were
Hugeunots.  The little research I've done was noting the spelling of the name
and at one time I had a copy of French surnames from the UMass library.  I found
Cousinier, which seemed the closest to some of the earlier spellings found in
and around Frome.  If I remember correctly, Cousinier translated into "preparer
of food" and then I connected that to the fact that the Huguenots tended to come
from the artisan/craft class of people in Europe.  We need also to remember that
those  fleeing persecution did not take an English  language course  before
leaving their countries of origin and that the English had their own way of
interpreting what they
> heard. We're also talking about the 16th and 17th centuries.  We may never
know the truth of the matter.  I commend you on your visit to England  with 
time  and the intention to do some real paper research.
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> I've been able to trace my grandfather to Harry Cuzner back to Simon, who's
father was Thomas, mothe,r Ann Adlam, but the cyber trail drifts off. . .
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>  Several of my grandfather's younger brothers came to the US, while others
remained in England, as did his two sisters. I am in close touch with his
sister's families and managed to visit Westbury. a number of years ago.
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> Martha Aldrich Mitchell
> Cuzner, Smith, Burd, Adlam
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> --- On Wed, 3/4/09, neecuzner <neecuzner@...> wrote:
> From: neecuzner <neecuzner@...>
> Subject: [cuzners_in_their_genes_] Hi Everyone just to go over our mandate for
Cuzners in our Genes
> To: cuzners_in_their_genes_@...
> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 3:56 AM
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> Alot of people think The Cuzners are closely related or have some
connections to one another. I know in my research, I have been trying several
years to even find the origins of the name. I have been tearing my house
apart...for those who do not know...I moved late last year and have a house I
have been packing alone though I have a roomie. I have MS so although not
handicapped, my energy leaves sometimes to be desired. Actually, have done a
great job the last few months. I should have laid my hands on that National
Geographic Kit I bought soon and sent off my DNA kit to at least start figuring
out from my moms side our geographical footprint many,many,many generations back
which might help point me in some right directions for my continued research.
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> I have explored the Heugunot rumor with no success. There was talk of a small
country, very tiny never the Swiss Alsac border that was eaten up by War
Treatries that was home to many Cuzners. I have never found that country though
have tried to find maps. I have to find my notes. These were notes from a
conversation from an elderly gentleman on my travels. I make it a point of
phoning every Cuzner in every city I land in wherever I travel as well all the
Mee's my other family name. I have been able to pull bits and pieces of
information here and there. My cousin belongs to the One Guild Name Studies and
as of yet Cuzner is registered but its origins not known. I have explored many
Jewish sites with no success. I have studied the language of names to try and
find out something but no one can figure it out. Some say Norman, some say
German, some say Heugonot. My mother had suspected because such a large cluster
of Cuzners lived only in the south of England
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Spanish that perhaps it was Spanish. I am not sure I agree with that. I suspect
it may be a Norman name though it does sound very exotic for a Norman name.
However, my mothers people looked very Viking in appearance. It is so hard to
say.
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with our searches with regards to finding our ancestors.
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> I would like to remind people that people that have been adopted into the
Cuzners family are also Cuzners and that blood is not the only tie that binds a
family to one another. If a bunch of decide to pool resources and do a DNA
surname test, then a course people who have been adopted would been exempt.
However, everything else applies. Support helping their ancestors,reunions and
hopefully supporting us as we are a sum of our parts.
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often does not apply to me but have come across many others with same surname
and it might apply to them. I thought starting this email list was a more
efficient way to not duplicate the wheel.
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> Always, end your emails with signatures with all your surnames associated with
your name...because your Cuzner will be associated with more than one
surname...for example..My Cuzner is also associated with Pickford,Collins. Crisp
and Greenwood... there are more.
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> However, always keep a signature at the end of your emails if you can remember
at the bottom of each email so people can keep your Cuzner family straight.
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upload a gedcom to our files area here. You may upload pictures free here.
Remember if you are from another country, your parents, grandparents, or their
grandparents probably immigrated from somewhere else. There are all sorts of
ships records,census records,etc. to check out how immigrated where and when. It
is detective work.
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> I hope to get to England this year though a family emergency might postpone
the trip until next year. However, I will be spending a month doing my Cuzner
research finally in England using paper archives. There comes a time when online
no longer is an option.
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> However, as this group becomes bigger and we get contacts all over the world,
we can start getting each other to do leg work for each other. I can check out
archives here for someone in Australia and so on and so forth. So, I think
people understand now when I say we are bigger than the sum of our parts.
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> I also think it would be fun one day to hold a Cuzner reunion regardless if we
are even all related. Through marriage,through irth or adoption.... lets be
proud of being indirectly or directly Cuzners even though we dont know where in
the hell the name came from yet or what country it even originated from.
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> Mee has not actually been a cake walk either...and that seems to be
English,Flemish, Irish,Australian and get this Chinese....sometime s there is
too much of a good thing....though I had the name professionally done and they
seem to think Flemish though the Chinese also make a good case. I know when
lived in a certain neighbourhood in Vancouver, got lots of letters from Chinese
Benevolance Society wanting money. If they could have seen this fair skinned
lass with auburn hair that was 5'9'...they would have been quite shocked...I
certainly was no petite,darked haired lotus blossum!!!
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