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Gauche BE ARCE
HUSBAND:
[F7436]. Gauche BE ARCE.
Son Austin is said to have come from Southampton, England.
From the original diary of Zerviah Newcomb, who married Josiah Bearse, a grandson of Austin:
Her diary is called, "A True Chronicle of the Bearse Family." It is said that the above manuscript is deposited in the Congressional Library and states that Austin Bearse married by Indian rites at the Mattachee Indian village Mary, daughter of John Hyanno, a Mattachee Sagamore, and son of the Sachem Ihyannough who befriended the Pilgrims on their first arrival. In Zerviah Newcomb's diary, Austin Bearse was said to be of the Romany or Gypsy race, and the name was originally Be Arce. He belonged to a family of Continental gypsies who had emigrated to England. There was great persecution. For some minor infraction of the English law, Austin was deported to the colonies. On arriving at Plymouth, Austin was the only prisoner allotted to Barnstable. (S2).
CHILDREN of Gauche BE ARCE [F7436]:
- [F3718]. Augustin BEARSE. Born in 1618 at or near Southampton, England. He married Mary Hyanno [F3719] in the summer of 1639 in the Machatache Village on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He died between 1686 and 1697.
SOURCES:
- [S1]. http://millennium.fortunecity.com/hibernium/1/family/dat333.html#4.
- [S1]. http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze297s2/hyanno.htm. Quotes as one source: 26 June 1939 - From Gypsy Lore Society, University of Liverpool, England.