Jean Messerole (abt. 1630 - abt. 1695)

Born about 1630 in Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Husband of Jeanne (Carten) Messerole — married 19 Jun 1660 in French Church of Mannheim, Electorate of the Palatinate (Pfalz), Germany

Descendants

Died about 1695 at about age 65 in Bushwick, Kings Co., English Colony of New York

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Biography

Jean Messerole was born around 1630 in the town of Calais, historic city on the English Channel, that had been disputed between England and France from the 14th to the 17th Centuries. The "Pale of Calais," or "Calasis" in French, separated the town and its surrounding rural villages from the rest of the French province of Picardie.^[1] Jean Messerole was a French Huguenot, a follower of the Calvinist Reformed Christian religion. As such, despite the Edict of Nantes, that guaranteed Protestants freedom of religion, he and his family were subjected to increasing religious persecution after King Henry IV was murdered by a Roman Catholic zealot in 1610. Jean's parents are not known; neither is the date of his leaving the Kingdom of France for the Protestant-ruled Electorate of the Palatinate ("der Pfalz") on the Rhine, in Germany. The latter probably occurred around 1656 when a new wave of anti-Protestant persecutions broke out in France.^[2]

On June 19, 1660, when he would have been about 30 years old, Jean Messerole married a Flemish woman named Jeanne (aka "Jonica") Carten in a Protestant ceremony in Mannheim, the Palatinate (Pfalz), Germany. He is said in that record to be a native of Calais. Jeanne Carten was born around 1631 in Rinkhout (Ringlet), Flanders, Spanish Netherlands (Belgium). ^[3] They had a son, Jean Meserole (Jr.), baptized on August 4, 1661, at the Reformed Church in Mannheim, Palatinate (Baden), Germany.^[4][5] https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nnship23.shtml

On April 16, 1663, Jean and his wife, "with a suckling child," emigrated to the New Netherland colony on the Dutch ship "De Bonte Koe". They settled in the village of Bushwick, now part of Kings County, Brooklyn, New York. Their son founded an important family there.^[6]

Jean Messerole Sr. died in Bushwick in 1695. His wife, Jeanne (Carten) Messerole, survived his passing. She died in Bushwick in 1712.

Birth

Jean Maserole was bp. ca. 1640 at Manheim, Germany^[7]

Marriage

Jean Maserole married Jeanne Carten (1644-1712 ) and had 2 children

Children

• Jean Meserole Born in New Amsterdam on 1649. Jean married Marretje Teunise Covert(b.Brooklyn, New York, USA on 1654; d. 1689 in Flatbush, Long Island. ) and had 7 children. He passed away on 1712 in Long Island, Kings, New York.

• John Meserole Born in New York Cty, New York, USA on 1661 .

Death

John Meserole died ca. 1695 in Bushwick, Kings County, New York

Sources

1. ↑ Pale of Calais (old) Article on Wikipedia. There is also a similar article in French under :Calasis".
2. ↑ "Wars of the Age of Louis XIV..." by Cathal J. Nolan, pg. 105 - states that young Louis XIV began a new wave of anti-Huguenot persecution 5 years before personally taking over the reins of government in 1661. Jean Messerole would have been about 25 to 26 at that time.
3. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP67-YYMP : 18 March 2023), Jean Muserole, 19 Jun 1660; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Bezirksamt Mannheim, Kreis Mannheim, Großherzogtum Baden, Deutsches Reich, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
4. ↑ Early New Netherland Settlers on RootsWeb - Jean Messerole/De Nisseau. Cites "Early Settlers of Bushwick," by Andrew J Provost Jr., page 40; and "William Adriaense Bennett," by Kenneth A Bennett 1998 page 235.
5. ↑ Early New Netherland Settlers on RootsWeb - Jeanne (Jonica) <?> Carsten (Cretin?). Some sources say her family was already in Mannheim by 1630 but no definite records have been found.
6. ↑ See preceding Note.
7. ↑ Source: #S06407 Data: Text: Date of Import: 27 Mar 2010

• Source: Ancestry.com---Jean Meserole

• Source: S06407 Title: v134t0402.FTW Repository:

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Messerole-16 was created through the import of Newsom.ged on Nov 6, 2012 by Hans Nielsen.

• Chet Snow added this profile to the Huguenot Migration Project, researched and edited the biography, adding sources, on August 1, 2017.

• Meserole-9 created through the import of RYER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Lawrence Schliessmann.