Tony and all,below is a source which has helped greatly in researching our BOBO family in France. We are still at a loss in finding where our Gabriel BAUBEAU was from 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and 1700 when Gabriel was found on a land patent in Virginia. I have a theory, unproven, that Gabriel escaped to England and hid out with the SPENCER family. I found records in Forbes magazine that a bust or photo of the Third Earl SPENCER's first in long line of given names was BOBO, but the SPENCER genealogy does not mention that name. Upon arriving in Virginia with a group of Englishmen, Gabriel BAUBEAU quickly was a witness on a will in which Elizabeth SPENCER WHITE gave land to the sons by her first marriage. Soon afterwards he and Elizabeth were married and her land became known as BUBBOE's Plantation. My unproven theory is that the SPENCER family sent Gabriel to Virginia to marry the widow. They had one son Spencer BOBO before Gabriel disappeared an Elizabeth was again managing the plantation. We later located Gabriel now BOBO, in Charles Co., MD, and with another family. If anyone can furnish clues to this puzzle in either France or the U.S., please let me know. This is not a Huguenot fact, but Pope Celestine III was Hyacinth BOBO (BOBONI, BOBONE and a part of the ORSINI family, and his brother Ursus BOBO is supposed to have taken the family name to Gaul (France) where it became BEAUBEAU. Have I worked in enough French and Huguenot information into the posting so that I do not get 30 lashes from our watch dog? “Dictionaire Des Familles du Poitou, 1680 – 1780”, a compilation of Huguenot records representing the life work of Pasteur Jean RIVIERRE, were copied from his notes in 1957. The three spellings, BAUBEAU, BEAUBEAU, BOBEAU were found intermixed in “Volume 1, Aage – Brillaud” Charles H. (Chuck) BOBO BOBO Family Assn. 3101 Thurman Rd., No. H-22 HUNTSVILLE, AL 35805 E-Mail: ChuckBobo@aol.com or FamilyBobo@aol.com Web Site: _www.FamilyBobo.org_ (http://www.familybobo.org/) Interactive Web Site: _www.Bobo-Family-News.info_ (http://www.bobo-family-news.info/)

Hi, The e-mail regarding the Bobo family has given me a vital clue on my own research. Thank you very much. One of my ancestors called Pasteur Roland Touzeau was born in the Saintonge according to his records after he fled to the Channel Islands during the persecution. I know he was born in 1649 but not where. Roland's grandson married a Marie de Grave in Leicester Fields in London. In turn their great grandson by marriage called John W Jones (my great Grand father) went on to be the Comptroller General for whole of the UK Customs Service with the princely salary of £1000pa in 1900. He changed his name back to de Grave to acknowledge his Huguenot roots. But, back to the point. It is bizarre, but we retired to the Charente-Maritime department of France 3 years ago before I started the research and now I know of course that that is the modern name for Saintonge. I HAVE RETURNED TO MY ROOTS UNWITTINGLY! Couarde is only 100Km's away so will visit it tout de suite to look at Jean Rivierre's book. Also I am looking for info on a Jacques de Grave who born what is now Holland/Belgium in Lang(u)ekerke 1670. However, there is no such place now. Family legend has it that he was born in Ypres. Suzanne de Grave e-mail - richard.bell@tiscali.fr -----Original Message----- From: huguenots-walloons-europe-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:huguenots-walloons-europe-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of ChuckBobo@aol.com Sent: 24 November 2006 01:14 To: huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HWE] French History Tony and all,below is a source which has helped greatly in researching our BOBO family in France. We are still at a loss in finding where our Gabriel BAUBEAU was from 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and 1700 when Gabriel was found on a land patent in Virginia. I have a theory, unproven, that Gabriel escaped to England and hid out with the SPENCER family. I found records in Forbes magazine that a bust or photo of the Third Earl SPENCER's first in long line of given names was BOBO, but the SPENCER genealogy does not mention that name. Upon arriving in Virginia with a group of Englishmen, Gabriel BAUBEAU quickly was a witness on a will in which Elizabeth SPENCER WHITE gave land to the sons by her first marriage. Soon afterwards he and Elizabeth were married and her land became known as BUBBOE's Plantation. My unproven theory is that the SPENCER family sent Gabriel to Virginia to marry the widow. They had one son Spencer BOBO before Gabriel disappeared an Elizabeth was again managing the plantation. We later located Gabriel now BOBO, in Charles Co., MD, and with another family. If anyone can furnish clues to this puzzle in either France or the U.S., please let me know. This is not a Huguenot fact, but Pope Celestine III was Hyacinth BOBO (BOBONI, BOBONE and a part of the ORSINI family, and his brother Ursus BOBO is supposed to have taken the family name to Gaul (France) where it became BEAUBEAU. Have I worked in enough French and Huguenot information into the posting so that I do not get 30 lashes from our watch dog? “Dictionaire Des Familles du Poitou, 1680 – 1780”, a compilation of Huguenot records representing the life work of Pasteur Jean RIVIERRE, were copied from his notes in 1957. The three spellings, BAUBEAU, BEAUBEAU, BOBEAU were found intermixed in “Volume 1, Aage – Brillaud” Charles H. (Chuck) BOBO BOBO Family Assn. 3101 Thurman Rd., No. H-22 HUNTSVILLE, AL 35805 E-Mail: ChuckBobo@aol.com or FamilyBobo@aol.com Web Site: _www.FamilyBobo.org_ (http://www.familybobo.org/) Interactive Web Site: _www.Bobo-Family-News.info_ (http://www.bobo-family-news.info/) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message