Show your our last ast name na m e v IS IT BASSETT 7 TN ENGLAND the bassetts bassetta Bas are a well IN known cornish family that Is 18 to say bay they have been from time out of mind associated with affairs in cornwall and have intermarried Inter married for centuries with families of that county until one could hardly imagine cornwall without the lie Bas bassetta but we must loo look beyond cornwall to find the file origin of the bassette bassetts Bae Bas in tact fact they came from normandy as can be well enough proved by the tact fact that the name of thurston bassett basset a companion of william the conqueror Is found on the roll of battle abbey since the days of the Plantage nets the bassetts bassetta Bas have been seated bested lit at teaddy the seat of the present representative senta tive of the family in england in a list of the prominent cornish families with whom the bassetts bassetta Bas have in married ter you find such names as a trenouth Tren Tr enove guve trelawny marry anys carveth G Pride aur and Raeul Rad elgh some of these once prominent families nave have since ance become extinct but their blood runs in the veins of the bassette bassetts Bae Bas the two most members of the family in england are bald to be sir francis barsett Bae sett vice ad admiral adira ira slid sheriff of cornwall to in the time of charles 1 I and aad another sit sir francis bassett first baron of Dun stanville in the time of king george III noted elli chiefly efly for his opposition to the american tin colonists just before the he breaking out of our revolution lie he held out persistently against peace with the american col colonies onles the fibbi of the name in oils country was waa william bassett basset t who sailed from england on the fortune in 1021 1621 he lived first tit lit duxbury but settled eventually at bridgewater ile he was waa associated with the chief dignitaries of the colony ills his son william lain bassett second was a close friend of governors winslow and and appointed them joint guardians of his bla children just before his early death A prominent member of the bassett family here was richard bassett governor of delaware about the time of the revolution G by mcclure newspaper Syndi syndicates cats 0 |