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- David Uzille was from Calais but his family came originally from near La Moussaye (south of St. Malo) in lower Brittany. He was a farmer, born about 1635. He married Marie Magdalina, the eldest daughter of Philippe Casier from Calais, before 1659.
North of La Rochelle lies Bretagne or Brittany. Its peninsulas jut into the Atlantic Ocean with forests, heaths, valleys, Druid ruins and ancient castles. In Lower Brittany are those people speaking a variant of the old Celtic language. Brittany was conquered by the Norman dukes and later became an affluent Duchy. Here, Charles of Blois fought with the house of Montfort but it was finally taken by the Crown. One Breton name found here is Glaude Le Maistre [Delameter] whose ancestors were lords of Garlaye in the diocese of Nantes. Near La Moussaye, was the original seat of the family of David Uzille. The Reformed Church at Nantes and La Moussaye was supported by the Le Maistres and Uzilles.
least some of them seem to have been the followers of Louis du Bois who came to America in 1660 on the Dutch ship, the Gilded Otter. Blanchan and Crispel had arrived a few months earlier and a few of the others came later, settling at Esopus. Du Bois was married in Mannheim, 10 Oct. 1655, to Catherine, daughter of Mathese Blanchan, who was also from Flanders. Du Bois was the son of Chretien du Bois, an inhabitant of Wieres, a hamlet in the district of La Barree near Lille, (then in Flanders), where he was born, 27 Oct. 1627.
The French name Uzille was corrupted into Gille. One version of the name was Ziele - which may be a step toward Gille. (The name was also spelled Seely in later years.)
It is interesting to note the striking similarity between Uzille (and its alternate spelling, Usile) on the one hand, and the place name Ousille-la-Riviere on the other. The Norman Le Roux were lords of Ousille-la-Riviere. Brittany, the home of the Uzilles, is beside Normandy. Perhaps therefore, the name Uzille comes from the place name Ousille.
David and Marie Uzille's son, Pierre aka Peter, was born in Mannheim in 1660. At about that time, the Protestants in Mannheim became afraid that the Catholic Duke of Lorraine was preparing to invade their land. This may be why the Uzilles and the Casiers went to the Netherlands and took ship on the Gilded Otter, reaching Manhattan in April 1660. Isaac Tayne (Marie Casier's brother) had moved to New Amsterdam before them. Also on board the Gilded Otter was a man named Jacob Leisler - later to become famous as the leader of Leisler's Rebellion.
The Uzilles and the Casiers were in New Harlem in 1661. This means that David and Marie's daughter, Magdalen, was almost certainly born there, since she was baptized in 1662. Magdalen was the first wife of Abraham La Roux the Immigrant. David Uzille eventually moved to Esopus, New York, which is probably where Abraham married Magdalen. The Casiers remained in New Harlem, i.e. - Harlem, New York City. Magdalen's brother Peter Uzille, married Cornelia Damen (my 8th great-grandparents) in 1685 while he was living on Staten Island; later he too, appears to have moved to Esopus. Cornelia was a sister to Lysbeth Damen, who married, Jan/Jean Casier, first-born son of Philippe and Marie (Taine) Casier. Peter and Cornelia had a daughter Sophia baptized in 1691, who married Storm Bradt (my 7th great-grandparents). Another daughter, born circa 1686, Marie Usile, was recorded phonetically in her marriage record as Marie Oeycke and she married Leonard-Tremi aka Jonar Le Roy in 1703. He was also known as Jonas Larroway and was the originator of the Larroway Loyalist line in Ontario. By 1686, David Uzille had left Harlem for Staten Island.
(© 1996, Lorine McGinnis Schulze, OliveTree Genealogy)
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1635 - Aft 1662 (> 28 years)
