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1824
SENEY SOLOMON
Mac Kinac County MI 592 Petitioners MI Early Census Index MIS2a1111988
1824
SENEY SOLOMON Michillimackinac MI No Township
Given MI Early Census Index First born whom we have records in
America is Solomon
SENEY. His name is in the St.
Luke's
Parish Church
Register, Church Hill,
Queen Ann's County,
Maryland. Also his
Last Will and Testament: Will of Solomon
SENEY of
Queen Ann's County and
Province of
Maryland, 7th September, 1761.
The
SENEY branch of our family were French Protestants (
Huguenots), members of the Reformed Church of France who were forced to flee their native country because of religious war, massacre, and persecution. They arrived in
America via way of
England, settling in Queens
Annes Co., MD during the later part of the seventeenth century.
The original French spelling of the
SENEY name was Senet - pronounced
Senay. Living among
English speaking people, the letter y became a substitute for the t, afterwich the sound of a quickly gave place to the letter e in the pronounciation. Thus for the past nearly 300 years the name
SENEY has been the English-American counterpart of the French name Senet.
Our first ancestor bearing the
SENEY name of whom we have record was Solomon
SENEY whose name is recorded in the St. Luke's
Parish Church register, Church Hill,
Queen Annes Co., MD.