Robert Brasseur

1584 - 1665  (81 years)

• Name	Robert Brasseur  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1584	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France   [3, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1615	Virginia, USA   [2]
  Religion	Hugenot who came to America to escape religious persecution  [6]
  		Cross-Huguenot
  Death	4 Dec 1665	Calvert County, Maryland, USA   [5]
  Residence	7 Oct 1708	Virginia, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I22558	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Florence Elizabeth Fowke,   b. 10 Jan 1592, Carpentras, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France d. 4 Dec 1665, Calvert County, Maryland, USA (Age 73 years)
  Children	1. Margaret Brashare,   b. 17 Jul 1642, Chuckatuck, Nansemond, Virginia, USA d. 7 Dec 1708, Chuckatuck, Nansemond, Virginia, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1584 - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Immigration - 1615 - Virginia, USA Death - 4 Dec 1665 - Calvert County, Maryland, USA Residence - 7 Oct 1708 - Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Cross-Huguenot

  
  

  Biographies and Histories

  History-BRASSEUR Family "The first Four Genertaions of Brashear(s) in America"

  
  

• Sources

  [S381] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2014;), Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1673-1756; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/182. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1673-1756; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/182 [S582] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), Place: Virginia; Year: 1615;1637; Page Number: 327. [S164] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2004;), Source number: 17767.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY. [S200] Ancestry.com, U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2013;). U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943 [S12] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2022;). [S4240] Huguenots of France, Huguenots of France. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the Calvinists. French Protestants were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s, and they were called Huguenots by the 1560s. By the end of the 17th century, roughly 200,000 Huguenots had been driven from France during a series of religious persecutions. They relocated primarily to Protestant nations including England, Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland, the Dutch Republic, the Electorate of Brandenburg, Electoral Palatinate (both Holy Roman Empire), and the Duchy of Prussia, and also to South Africa and North America. As the Huguenots gained influence and displayed their faith more openly, Roman Catholic hostility to them grew, even though the French crown offered increasingly liberal political concessions and edicts of toleration. In 1561, the Edict of Orleans declared an end to the persecution, and the Edict of Saint-Germain of January 1562 formally recognized the Huguenots for the first time. However, these measures disguised the growing tensions between Protestants and Catholics. History-Huguenots of France The Huguenots of France