CHAPTER 1-B
Origins Of Flory Family (in The Old World)
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FAMILY ORIGIN MUST BE TRACED FROM IMMIGRATION AND CENSUS RECORDS, SINCE I COULD ACCESS NO FINAL AND VERIFIED RESEARCH THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN EUROPE ON THE EUROPEAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY. THE FOLLOWING LINK DOES SHOW VERY EXCELLENT ONGOING RESEARCH THAT IS EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE AND BENEFICIAL REGARDING THE ONGOING QUEST FOR VERIFICATION OF OUR "OLD WORLD" LINEAGE. USE THIS LINK FOR CONTINUING UPDATES IN THAT AREA.
OLD WORLD ORIGINS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS A BASIC TEXT ONLY. USE THE LINK PROVIDED ABOVE TO KEEP UPDATED ON THE SEARCH FOR OUR ANCESTORS. THE SHIP LISTS AND HUGUENOT RECORDS HAVE PROVED THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE IMMIGRANTS LISTED BELOW AND LIVING DESCENDANTS. STRASSBURGER, AN AUTHORITY OF "PS. GERMAN PIONEERS", LISTS THE FOLLOWING IN VOLUME 1:
JOSEPH FLORY (FLORIEY) (FLEURE) FROM PALATINATE, GERMANY; SAILED ON SHIP, HOPE, FROM ROTTERDAM, LAST COWES: ARRIVED AT PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHERE THEY TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AUGUST 28, 1733. THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN; JOHANNES (JOHN) 15; JOSEPH JR., 19; MARIA 21; HAINLEY, 17. HE WAS 51 WHEN HE SAILED AND SETTLED IN RAPHO TWP., LANCASTER CO., WHERE HIS SONS JOSEPH, WARRANTED 100 ACRES OF LAND IN 1746, JOHN, 100 ACRES IN 1746.
THE ABOVE ENTRIES ALSO APPEAR IN RUPPS "THIRTY THOUSAND NAMES OF IMMIGRANTS," 1727-1776 AND ALSO IN "MEMORIALS OF THE HUGUENOTS" BY STAPLETON.
THE NAME HUGUENOT WAS APPLIED TO FRENCH LUTHERANS BY A MONK IN THE COURSE OF ONE OF HIS SERMONS BECAUSE IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS TO CONGREGATE AROUND THE PALACE OF KING HUGO DURING THE EVENING. THE VARIOUS SPELLINGS SUCH AS FLEURY, FLURY, AND FLEUR, ETC., WERE USED INTERCHANGEABLY IN THE EARLY RECORDS AND CONFIRM THIS FRENCH ORIGIN. SOME OF THE NOTED FRENCHMEN WERE CLAUDE FLEURY, (1640-1723), AN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIAN, AND ANDRE FLEURY, (1653-1743), FRENCH CARDINAL AND STATESMAN. THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN FRANCE ON AUGUST 24, 1572, RESULTED IN THE MURDERING OF FIFTY THOUSAND FRENCH PROTESTANTS AND THE START OF HUGUENOT MIGRATION INTO PALATINATE, GERMANY, AND THE SURROUNDING STATES. THERE IS A TOWN NAMED FLEURY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROUEN IN NORTHWESTERN FRANCE.
THE ANCESTORS OF THESE LISTED IMMIGRANTS PROBABLY MIGRATED FROM NORTHEASTERN FRANCE ACROSS THE BORDER TO THE PALATINATE AREA AND WIRTEMBERG, GERMANY, SHORTLY AFTER THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW AND BEGAN TO ADAPT THEMSELVES TO THEIR NEW GERMANY SURROUNDINGS. IN THE INTERVENING PERIOD--FROM THE MIGRATION TO GERMANY AFTER AUGUST 24, 1572, TO THE MIGRATION TO AMERICA IN 1733--ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS ELAPSED, IN WHICH TIME THEY BECAME SO THOROUGHLY GERMANIZED THAT ONLY THE FAMILY NAME AND COAT-OF-ARMS, FLEUR-DE-LIS, RETAINED ITS FRENCH ORIGIN.
THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES IN 1685, WHICH MADE IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANYONE TO EXERCISE ANY RELIGION BUT CATHOLIC, CAUSED ANOTHER EXODUS OF PROTESTANTS INTO GERMANY AND THE SURROUNDING STATES.
THE WILLS OF SOME OF THE FLORY PIONEERS WERE WRITTEN IN GERMAN AND WERE SIGNED-"O"-WHICH IS PRONOUNCED THE SAME AS THE FRENCH "EU". BORN IN 1682, JOSEPH FLORY LIVED IN THESE GERMAN SURROUNDINGS OVER ONE THIRD OF THE FAMILY’S STAY IN GERMANY--OR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS OF THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS. HE WAS OF THE FOURTH OR FIFTH GENERATION IN GERMANY AND WAS GERMAN BORN. THIS SHOWS HOW COMPLETELY A MIGRANT CAN BECOME ASSIMILATED IN THE NEW SURROUNDINGS. BY 1795 GERMAN HAD DISAPPEARED FROM MOST OF FLORY WILLS IN THE NEW WORLD.
THE THIRTY YEARS WAR FROM 1618-1648 DEVASTATED GERMANY AND LEFT IT IMPOVERISHED AND LATER LOUIS XIV, OF FRANCE, TRIED TO ANNEX VARIOUS PARTS OF GERMANY SUCH AS THE PALATINATE AND BELGIUM, WHICH BELONGED TO SPAIN AT THAT TIME. THIS, TOGETHER WITH CONTINUAL WARFARE BETWEEN PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC FACTIONS, CAUSED UNREST AND CONFUSION FROM WHICH THE IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA WERE GLAD TO ESCAPE.
THE FAMILY SPELLING DIFFERS. CENSUS RECORDS SHOW FLORAS, FLORAY, FLOREY, FLEURY, FLURY, FLEURIE, FLORY, AND FLORIEY. JOSEPH OF PAXTANG, SON OF IMMIGRANT JOSEPH WAS A TAX COLLECTOR FOR THE KING’S TAX IN RAPHO TWP. IN 1757 AND SIGNED HIS NAME IN LONGHAND--FLORY--IT IS LOGICAL TO BELIEVE THAT SOME RELATIONSHIP AMONG THESE SPELLINGS EXISTS.
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