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Early Origins of the Bezer family

The surname Bezer was first found in Forez, a former province of France, now part of the modern Loire département, the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme départements, where the family held a family seat from very early times.

Early History of the Bezer family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bezer research. Another 289 words (21 lines of text) covering the years 1447, 1470, 1520, 1549, 1600, 1609, 1612, 1639, 1645, 1657, 1673, 1675, 1690, 1715, 1746 and 1759 are included under the topic Early Bezer History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Bezer Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Besset, Bessez, Besser, Bessey, Bessé, Bessée, Bezet, Bezez, Bezer, Bezé, Bezée, Bessait, Bessais, Bessaie, Bessaies, Bezait, Bezais, Bezaie, Bezaies, Du Besset, Du Bessez, Du Besser, Du Bessé, Du Bezet, Du Bezez, Du Bezer, Du Bezé, Du Bessait, Du Bessais, Du Bessaie, Du Bessaies, Du Bezait, Du Bezais, Du Bezaie, Du Bezaies, De Besseto, Bessette and many more.

Early Notables of the Bezer family

Notable amongst the family name at this time was Claude Du Besset, Lord of Besset during the 1600's; François Byssot de la Rivière (1612-1673), French settler to New France before 1639, he constructed...
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United States Bezer migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Bezer Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • John Bezer, accompanied by his wife Susanna and their five children, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1681
  • John Bezer, who arrived in Virginia in 1681
  • John Bezer, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1681 [1]
  • John Bezer, who settled in Delaware with his wife, Susanna, and his five children, John, Richard, Susanna, Elizabeth and Frances, in 1681
  • John Bezer, who settled in Maryland in 1682
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  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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