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Canadian Besner Family of French
Origins
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European
origins of our Besners
Until
recently, all that we knew of our ancestors' French origins, is that,
from the marriage contract dated the 21st of April 1760, he was the
eldest son of Jean Bézanaire and Marie-Anne Nogano (Nogarole
in local dialect), of Rieumes (Riomoux in local dialect) more exactly
of Savères, 6 km south-west and close to Rieumes, in the
Lombez diocese, in the province of Gascogne, France, today the
Toulouse diocese, Haute-Garonne department, in the region of
Midi-Pyrénées. He would have been born in this area in
1728, since his death certificate dated of October 3rd 1796 mentions
that he was aged 68 years old at the time of his death.
The
geographical area, where many of the events and documents took place,
was situated near the borders of the present day department
Haute-Garonne and Gers; these two departments were anciently included
in the province of Gascogne.
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France in
Europe
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Regions in France
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Midi-Pyrénées in France
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Departments of Midi-Pyrénées
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Canton of Rieumes in Haute-Garonne in the
region of Midi-Pyrénées
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Alain Costes has established
a partial family tree of the Bézanères, the tree was
completed by Mrs Marie-Renée Colin, born
Bézanère. With several Bézanères with the
given name "Jean", it wasn't easy, the results that we show here are
not, so it is told, one hundred percent accurate.
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The rural scenery of
the Savès area
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The conditions of origin of
the ancestor of French Canadian Besner family were rural and very
humble. It appears that his family did not own land until the 19th
century. From father to sons they were "helping hands", renting out
their arms; and lived in poverty.
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This house resembles
the one the ancestor of French Canadian Besner family could
have lived in
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The hearth was truly
the center of the house
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