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Offline Nic011

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BELGIUM: Leswisse's from Belguim
« on: Tuesday 10 May 05 13:48 BST (UK) »
Hello

Does anyone know how I could trace back my great grandfathers family who come over from Belguim in the second half of the 19th century. 
Unfortunatly I don't know where in Belguim they were from.
thanks

Nicola
Leswisse  Swansea
Davies  Swansea
Milliner Gloucestershire
Melsome Gloucestershire
Niblett Gloucestershire

Offline XPhile2868

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Re: Leswisse's from Belguim
« Reply #1 on: Friday 13 May 05 23:59 BST (UK) »
The name sounds French, so it would be probably from the Francophone parts of Belguim (scroll down a bit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium) of Wallonia and Brussels, in the south west of Belgium.
Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire/Cumbria), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Cumbria), Bracewell (Lancashire), Moxham (Lancashire0

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