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From: Charles <>
Subject: Re: "Three Brothers" Legends
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:40:09 -0700

Hello. I know this thread is getting stale, but I keep coming back
to it... so much fun it is... My family, surnamed Holland, not only
had three brothers, but the additional prize of being "some of the
wealthiest people to immigrate to America up to that time."

I of course, thought, well, where is the money now?

The legend is pretty thoroughly debunked, but you will see it
frequently in the Holland research anyway. (the typical scenario.
One guy immigrates to Virginia. another to Maryland as an
indentured servant. another pops off a ship and promptly gets
himself into the ads as a missing indentured servant.... ) This
does bring up another question for me, and I will post it separately
& can't wait for the return of our mods from the godson ceremony....

Mr. Barron... is this Dr. Saucier Larry's father? I didn't
know he did research in genealogy. I live in raleigh myself.

--chas

"John W. Barron" wrote:

> Robert:
>
> I am a descendant from Francois Brouillette from Avoyelles Parish in
> Louisiana. I am very interested in your perspective, since it
> supports the work that was done by a Dr. Saucier from Raleigh, NC
> who spent quite a bit of time in Vincennes looking into this.
>
> Do you have specific citations that would prove this point of view,
> since I have had to defend it on quite a few occasions, based on the
> challenges I have received? Any help you can give would be
> appreciated.
>
> > My "Three Brothers" Legend came from the fact that there were three
> > males of of an age to sire children in the same small town in
> > Indiana (Vincennes) at the same time (1770-1790) with the same
> > surname (Brouillet). So about 100 years later, the only Brouillets
> > that still lived there believed the three orignal Brouillets were
> > brothers. And to give it some credence, a well-meaning abeit
> > misinformed person who had volunteered to help with the indexing of
> > the parish records made a notation on top of the page of B's that
> > "three brothers came from Canada according to family records". The
> > die was cast! It took me three years of tracing all three Brouillets
> > (Louis, Francois and Michel) to prove that Francois was the nephew
> > of Louis and the brother-in-law of Michel (they married Bonneau
> > sisters).
> >
> > And they did the traditional geographical splits. <g> Louis took
> > his whole family and moved to New Madrid, Francois took his family
> > and moved to Louisiana and Michel who was the progentor of all the
> > later Brouillets in Indiana remained and is buried in Vincennes.
> >
> > - Bob Page -
> > (Robert Evans Page)
>
> --
> John W. Barron
>
> PCS Mobile Phone: 919-272-2384
> NAWCC Member # 105930
>
> Avoyelles Parish (LA) Web Page:
> http://www.mindspring.com/~jwbarron/avoyeles.ht

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