From: gregmclean58 <greg@...>
Subject: [cuzners_in_their_genes_] Re: Hi Everyone just to go over our mandate for Cuzners in our Genes
To: cuzners_in_their_genes_@...
Date: Thursday, 5 March, 2009, 9:18 PM

Hi

I don't believe I'm related to your line but I have collected some information on them. Have a look at http://www.wact. com.au/Cuzner/ 161.html

Greg
--- In cuzners_in_their_ genes_@yahoogrou ps.co.uk, francesfairweather@ ... wrote:
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> Very interesting to read all the @Cuzner e mails can any one help me with the parents of Lionel Cuzner born 1794 in Frome married Ester Rolfe 1815 St .John's Frome. They had three children that I know of, one being Jeremiah born 1821 Jeremiah is my Gt Gt grandfather. Lionel and Ester are buried in Vallis Rd Cemetry.
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> Many thanks Frances Fairweather
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> From: stevecuzner <stevecuzner@ ...>
> Subject: [cuzners_in_ their_genes_ ] Re: Hi Everyone just to go over our mandate for Cuzners in our Genes
> To: cuzners_in_their_ genes_@yahoogrou ps.co.uk
> Date: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 5:28 PM
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> 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.
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> Steve Cuzner
> Cuzner, Faulkner, Robinson, Tanner/Pepperell, Exton, Greenland
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> --- In cuzners_in_their_ genes_@yahoogrou ps.co.uk, Martha Mitchell <martha_a_mitchell@ ...> wrote:
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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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> > --- On Wed, 3/4/09, neecuzner <neecuzner@ ..> wrote:
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> > Subject: [cuzners_in_ their_genes_ ] Hi Everyone just to go over our mandate for Cuzners in our Genes
> > To: cuzners_in_their_ genes_@yahoogrou ps.co.uk
> > 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
> > which is true and they lived in Somerset in areas known to be attacked by the 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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> > We sort of have a few mandates here. One is to assist and support each
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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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> > 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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> > Let us know how far you can trace your family geographically. If you can, 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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> 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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