Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Joles

Pages: [1]
1
Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Bosankoe/bosanquets
« on: Monday 08 November 10 00:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Jayne & Suze,
I am  Jolene Bosanquet and I live in New Zealand/Cook Islands.  Jayne. I sent a long email to you and Steve last night about where I fit in to the family.
I've done research from the other end viz the french connection but have a gap from from mid 1600's to when Thomas Bosanco  pops up in Holsworthy, Devon and marries in 1721.  With all the Johns in the family it would be logical to assume we come from a Jean Bosanquet.
But why does the name Thomas suddenly appear when we have so many Jeans/Johns?

The Bosanquet/ de Bosanquet/Bouzanquet, Bousanquet and Boussanquet  family came from the Languedoc Region in France. They were Hugeonots  and many left there to avoid persecution in the 1600's, others turned Roman Catholic to save their lands.  I have the info of the family in that area and family trees of Bosanquets who ended up in England, specifically London.  But it would appear our branch of the Bosanquet family went to Devon and then Cornwall and finally to London in the 1700's.  I believe their name was changed to Bosankoe or Bosanke or Bosancoth probably to avoid undue interest had they kept the french  Bosanquet spelling.

Records have a Pierre Bosanquet born around 1505 in Colognac and died in 1554. His son Pierre settled in Lunel.
Then we go into the Jean's for many generations.
 
The question is did they travel via Jersey en route from Lunel/Colognac in the Languedoc (Southern France) or go
directly from say Brittany to Devon?
Perhaps we should be looking for Bosankoes/Bosankes from mid 1600 to 1700 in Jersey?  Was there a census at all during this time?

Why did the branch of the family go there in the late 1850's and have two children borne there?  Were they returning to where family had been in the 1600's escaping persecution? 
 
Mathilda Selina Bosankoe b. 1859  was my Great Grandmother.  She married an Onslow and had two children -Henry Bosanquet Onslow and Annie Maud Onslow(my gran).
Annie then married her first cousin Edward James Bosanquet , son of John Joseph.  John Joseph and Selina were brother and sister.
Another twist is the name Bosanketh/Bosancoth recorded in Cornwall as early as 1525.  However it is fact that many Hugenots settled in Cornwall.

What we need to know at this stage is any record of Bosanquet or Gaussen or Coste (as these families intermarried several times - or Bosankoe, Bosanke in Jersey 1600's to say 1720?

Thankyou Suze for your advice so far.

Await to hear the next installment.
Kind regards
Joles (Jolene)

2
Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Bosankoe/bosanquets
« on: Sunday 07 November 10 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Jayne & Steve,
Im so excited, I delved further into the messages between you two and have found another 100years of relatives. Thankyou so much for all your hard work.
To summarize...
Thomas Bosanco of Holsworthy, Devon married Elizabeth Doole in 1721.  Do you have his birthdate?
Richard Bosankoe
John Bosankoe (tailor) of Camelford, Cornwell b?  married Margaret Bushby. He moved the family  to London
Joseph Bosankoe B 1804 Publican "The Free Trader" in Stepney and a cigarmaker.
Name change to Bosanquet in 1818 by Charles and again in 1891 Census.
M Mary who died in 1830 and then married her sister Elizabeth.
John Richard B 02 FEB 1825 m Elizabeth Anne Robins 1843 in Stepney. She was a hatter's daughter b 1827.
Then there is John Joseph b 28 AUG 1847 who married Alice Susannah Roghers in  1868 and Louisa Henrietta Rymer in 1906.   Steve, Jayne & myself descended from Susannah & John Joseph..
John Williams, Elizabeth Jessey and others including
my grandfather was Edward James Bosanquet b 1883 -  the youngest son of John Joseph.
My father Cyril Joseph Bosanquet b 1920 London, moved to
NZ in 1946.
Just to complicate matters I am "doubly related" as Mathilda Selina Bosanquet  who was John Josephs sister, born in Jersey in 1859 married Henry Onslow B 1854 of Cheshire. 
They had two children Henry Bosanquet Onslow and Annie Maud Onslow. 
Edward my grandfather and Annie were first cousins and they married in 1905.   They had 8 children but only 4 reached adulthood and of those 4, one died with no issued and between the other three - Violet, Lily & Joseph there were only
5 children.  Im the youngest at 57 and the others are in their
late 60's.
I am in touch with John David Bosanquet, his sister Sue and
their father John Charles Leslie Bosanquet - although not for some time so I do hope John Charles is still alive.  They are of the John Williams lineage of which I think you are Steve.
I heard that John William and Edward (my grandfather) both fell in love with the same women but John being the older by 20 years won out and that caused a major rift between the two brothers who had clothing companies opposite each other but they never spoke again or so the story goes.  On the rebound Edward married Annie who was boarding with them and who could make a delicious steak and kidney pudding!
I didnt know my grand father and only met my grand mother when I visited England as a 9yr old.  It was not till my Father passed away in 1982 that I found out I had a brother and sister and with the help of my Onslow relations and the Salvation Army traced them and now am in touch with them.

Incidentally if you need info on the French side I have that and have visited previous residences/villages in the Languedoc where the Bosanquets hailed from.  The challenge is trying to piece together from 1600's to 1700's and when Thomas parents perhaps arrived in England and was it via the Channel Islands.  Do you have any more information on their arrival in England?  I have info relating to David Bosanquet b 1661 in Lunel who  came to London in 1686 via Geneva. But we must be from a different line. I have info going back to Pierre who died in 1554.
My great great grandmother Mathilda Selina (John Joseph's sister)  was born in Jersey but that wasnt till 1859 and I dont know why they went there, do you?

I look forward to hearing from you and acknowledge once again your work to date. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Jolene



Pages: [1]