Brief Life History of Francis
When Francis Bressie was born on 16 December 1689, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Bressie, was 7 and his mother, Sarah Champion, was 46. He married Elizabeth Wiggs in September 1713, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 2 March 1762, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Francis Brasey - Published information: birth-name: Francis Williams
- Francis Bracy in entry for Eliza. Bracy, "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917"
- 26 Feb 1721 Isle of Wight Co., VA Inventory of Estate of Francis Brasey Late of said Co.. Estate owes Hugh Brasey
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
Name Meaning
Italian:
variant of Bresci, itself a variant of Brescia .
habitational name from Bresso in Milan province,showing the same regularization of form, characteristic of northernItaly.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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