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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.
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