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Re: sohier family in tx

guy19451 — 2009-04-11 22:45:18Z

Check on the net for The SOHIER of Boston, that branch emigrated from Jersey in the 18th century. George SOHIER (born in Massachusett) died a few years ago but his 3 sons still live in the eastern states. (Ted in Phili, for example).
Wouldn't be surprised if you were related to that Boston branch.
As for my part, I am French and live just across Jersey, where the first Jean SOHIER move around 1525. Obviously my ancestors chose to move back to the continent but stayed in the vicinity.

Regards from GUY

sohier family in tx

crazy4christ923 — 2008-09-10 20:05:21Z

Is anyone related to the George Vincent Sohier family in TX??

I just searched around to see if i could find my family tree on my father's side since i dont know any other sohier's but my dad and siblings...

Re: Famille SOHIER

2006-09-21 12:54:10Z

I am researching my husbands name-surrarrer--which does not appear --as is-- anywhere before a certain date--Ive learned that as the French huguenot name was translated by Dutch and English its spellings became widely varied.

Recently through a link from a personal family site I found through ristenbatt.com--some info connecting names I had, such as demaris and desmarets to sohier out of Bergen NJ dutch reformed church--which i imagine is yet another possible spelling. I know that they were originally from the NYarea

Have you found any connections with the name le serrurier out of france--ie Jacques le Serrurier had several children one named demaris born @late 1600's Other possible spellings have been shearer , sayer, sawyer suer etc

Re: Famille SOHIER

2005-11-01 00:42:06Z

I have Sohier ancestors, although not so close in time as usually interests me. The latest is a Maria SOHIER, born in 1620 in Deppe (spelling? I know of a DIeppe, France), Hainault, France and died on 2 Oct 1681 in Hackensack, New Jersey. Hackensack was a small town in the world that the Dutch created in the 17th century that included what became New York City.

I suppose that the Sohiers who ventured to the New World were Huguenots, probably the largest non-Dutch component of New Holland. They seem to have intermarried heavily with at first the Dutch and then the English who took over New Amsterdam and its surroundings and turned it into New York and eastern New Jersey in 1664.

But -- by piecing together information on Rootsweb I found them intertwining with what looks like a long line of the Des Marets/ Demarest family.

Some tell me that the long line of the Des Marets family that I have tied to the Crusades is the wrong one -- but the Sohiers could be interesting, too. Huguenot tales include much woe due to religious persecutions.

Famille SOHIER

2000-07-31 13:32:25Z

Famille SOHIER

2000-07-31 13:31:39Z