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superior rank: “aleur*,’ marc handsd'eutre raer, clergymen and physician*, but all came for one cause—to escape religion* persecution; all bad made the same sacrifice; all were bound In one brotherhood of kindness.It has been supposed, says Mrs. Ra-venel, that lands were given to these immigrants. but this is shown to be a mistake, as only two free grant* are on record. They bought on the aatbe terms as other aettlers, and some took up large estate*—the |eChaatalgners, Helgneurs do Cramanche et de Lisle, 3,000 acres: Gouland de Vervaat, 12,000 acres, etc. Neither of these families survives in Carolina except in the femaleline.The Cbnstalgnler name, which Is a variation of Chastain, belonged to a disting-uiahed house of France that traced Its lineage uninterruptedly bark to the eleventh century. It was early and honorably Identified with the Protestant cause in Western France. Philippe Chastalgnler. abbess of a nunnery in Poitou, entered into correspondence with Calvin in 1540. with the purpose of abandoning the cloister and professing the®vangellcal faith—a purpoae which she # carried out together with eight of her nuns, learlng only one in the convent. The Chastaigniers, who went tto South Carolina. xtere descended from ’a branch of thisfamily established In La Rochelle, three members of which filled the office of Mayor of that city. Auguste Ohastalgnier, Selg ueur de Cramabe, whose chateau ofuauis nnin rrom I lt;20 to 17S4, when theregister of births ends. He was evidently a man of culture and prominence, since afootnote in French in one of the old records regarding him states that he waa for a long time an active member of the council in his native city during the seventeenth century,which must have immediately preceded hla coming to King Will lama* Pariah, at tb* opening of the eighteenth century.James Powell Cocke msrrled Mary Mag-delaine Chastain, daughter of Stephen and Martha Chaataln. Their son, Chastain Cocke, was born in, *#4*. and through him tbair descendants 4mbrac* auch names as
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sun, Jul 07, 1907
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