Bessette , Besset Dit Brisetout, Besset Dit Bassett, Basset, de Centerville

Bessette, Besset dit Brisetout, Besset dit Bassett, Basset, de Centerville - All are descendants of "Bethel de Centerville" (870-917) of Rouen-Normandy, France. Bethel was born in Mont-Saint-Michel which is a 3acre rocky islet topped by a famous Gothic abbey, 1 mile off the coast of France in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel in the English Channel. His descendants became Knights, Lords, Barons of Drayton, Staffordshire, England. They ruled the area with a strong arm and held many Baronies,...
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Bessette, Besset dit Brisetout, Besset dit Bassett, Basset, de Centerville - All are descendants of "Bethel de Centerville" (870-917) of Rouen-Normandy, France. Bethel was born in Mont-Saint-Michel which is a 3acre rocky islet topped by a famous Gothic abbey, 1 mile off the coast of France in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel in the English Channel. His descendants became Knights, Lords, Barons of Drayton, Staffordshire, England. They ruled the area with a strong arm and held many Baronies, and Manorial Lordships. Bethel de Centerville's 4th. great generation grandson "Knight" Sir Thurston Bassett came to England with "William the Conqueror" in 1066 and became the Lord of Drayton, Staffordshire, with five hides of land at Drayton, to be name the "Lord of manor of Draiton" and later in the Domesday Book of 1086 he is listed as "Thurston" as Lord of the Manor of Draiton, Staffordshire, England. This became the seat of generations of "Besset's" to hold the power of Drayton, and then they branched out to other areas of England to include: Heddington, Wycombe, Umberleigh, Tehidy, Scapcote, Blore, Hints, Fledborough Hall, Ipsden, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Northumberland, and the Bassett of Beaupre who took over Southern Wales. They: in the beginning left France with "William the Conqueror" then their descendants returned to France, then a descendant "Jean Bessett dit Brisetout" (1643-1707) arrived in New France, (Montreal) Quebec, Canada on June 18, 1665 as a soldier of the "La Tour Company" of the "Regiment of Carignan". His descendant "Leon Alphonse Bessette (1896-1966) arrived in Hardwick, Vermont, United States of America in 1916 and married "Dorilla Rosalie Boudreau on Oct. 28, 1918.