Ancestry of Musson and related surnames, with family tree information! - Genealogy

Would our Musson, Mouson, Muston, Muson,
Mousson, and Mussen, Muzzin, Mousseaux
ancestors be surprised to learn, that
many years after their deaths, We are
interested to know more about their lives,
about their spouses, and about their
children? Likely they would!

Would it surprise you to learn that
the famous French Impressionist Painter,
EDGAR DEGAS, was a Musson? He was because
his mother was a Musson!
See his page, "Edgar_Degas"!

Many Musson's can trace their family history
to Musson's who were French Huguenots, who
barely escaped with their lives, the religious
Massacres, most notably The St. Bartholomew's
Massacres, by fleeing to England, settling in
Leicester, Warwick, Lincolnshire, and other
counties! Some of the descendents of these
Musson's found their way to The New World,
landing in Nova Scotia, Canada, Bermuda,
The United States, or Australia, New
Zealand, and South Africa! In fact, one of
the earliest known settlements in America
was made up of these French Protestants.

A good deal of evidence further suggests, that
although French members of the Musson Family
left France for England in the 1500's, that
Musson's were already living in England for
hundreds of years, prior to the arrival of
their French cousins!

One Musson family legend says that three
Mousson brothers, Hugeunots, who were nobles
of some kind, perhaps merchants to the French
Court, swam the English Channel to escape
death! Another account indicates that they had
sufficient time to charter a ship for the
journey!! Upon arriving in England, it is said
that the brothers settled in different places,
one staying in England, another settling in
Wales, and the third brother going to either
Ireland or Scotland. It appears equally plausible
from examining available records of this family,
that the brothers each settled in a different
county in England, which may account for the
appearance of many early Mussons in Leicester,
Warwick, Nottingham, Shropshire, Derbyshire and
Lincolnshire!

A great deal of work has gone into tracing
and compiling the Musson Family History!
Several people have devoted a number of
years of their lives, and spent a fair amount
of money to this end. To them, we will be
eternally grateful, for we owe them so much!
One such researcher, and a Musson descendant,
himself, is Mr. "Bob" Cell of Texas, who has
written and published the book,
"Musson Families in America": including
allied spellings.

AUTHOR(S): Cell, Robert F. (Main)
PUBLISHED: Edinburg, TX
(P.O. Box 3035, Edinburg 78540)
: R.F. Cell, 1993.

To obtain a copy of his book: click below!
Bob Cell

DESCRIPTION: iv, 447 p. ; 28 cm.
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and
indexes. SUBJECTS: Musson family.
LC CALL NO.: CS71.M978761993
DEWEY CLASS NO.: 929/.2/0973 ED: 20
FORMAT: Book
LCCN: 94-124937

Musson facts:

Musson is the 15,106th most popular last name (
surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.001%;
percentile is 75.348 [SourceCBN]

Musson, Louisiana, United States [Place] is in
Iberville Parish; location is 30°26'21"N 91°31'9"W
[SourceGSP]

Here, in one place, is information that can
be found elsewhere, if one were to take the
time to search a lot of old records, or to
search the Internet! Perhaps some visitors
to this site will be able to find find lost
relatives and branches of their families,
while contributing their own information!

A very good way to communicate with close
or distant cousins is to use our:

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family!

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Special Thanks are also extended to two people who
have supplied very valuable information, which can
be seen on the "Musson History" page:

Thomas Musson, of Arlington, VA, and
Roger MW Musson, of U.K.!

Eric Stoley has compiled a very good record of
the Musson family which first settled in
Otsego NY!

Tom Simmers, in California, brings us the Musson's
who came to New Jersey, Maryland and Washington
D.C. from Waltham on the Wolds in Leicester Eng.

And, then we came to know, these Commandments......

(1) "Thou shalt name your male children:
James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Richard, Thomas,
Samuel, or William!"

(2) "Thou shalt name your female children:
Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Virginia,
May, or Ann!"

(3) "Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female
children!"

(4) "Thou shalt, after naming your children from the
above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as:
Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sally, Hattie, Mattie and
Sukey --- making them difficult to trace!"

(5) "Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal
documents or census reports, and only where necessary,
you may use only initials on legal documents!"

6) "Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so
that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in
various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, or Kicks!"

(7) "Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make
sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned
in a fire, or buried so that NO future trace of them can
be found!"

(8) "Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors
and vague innuendo regarding your place of origin!

(A) You may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales....or Iran.

(B) you may have American Indian ancestry of the _______
______tribe.

(C) You may have descended from one of three brothers
that came over from____________."

(9) "Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones
with legible names!"

(10) "Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of
birth, marriages, or deaths!"

(11) "Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born
James Albert, thou must make all the rest of thy
records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart,
or Alfred!"

(12) "Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making
reference to them, although "Unknown" or a blank line is
an acceptable alternative!"

(13) "Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males,
and dozens of their cousins with identical names in order
to totally confuse researchers!"

Special Thanks to Donna Paszek, for sharing with us, these
little known Commandments! They explain a whole lot!!

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