Re: Cuvilje or Cuvelier family
As I sit a read these replies and then look around. I remember hearing things from family members. When my grand father came to this country he was dark as night. But his papers read European so he didn't have to deal with what many black folks were going though.. In my culture records were not kept in hospitals or as record. Most black people back then were born at home so no official records. My mom up too 15 years ago thought she was born in 1932 but in fact she was born in 1931. It has been harder for me to track the Cuvilje name. My grand fathers name was Oswald.
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Is this ever interesting! It never entered my blond brain that our Cuvelier/Cuvilje group could be so diverse. Wonderful. So there is more to this story than Dutch/ French/ Walloon people escaping religious persecution in France and coming to what is now New York City.
Are you defining "my culture" as in the Dutch West Indies? Any particular place?
I know that people scattered to South America, Australia... and who knows where.
I have no solid idea where the Dirck was from, who had no real last name, and over the years was sort of given last names that changed spellings and turned into Fulkerson. With a sort of "made up" last name like that, we've been able to consider most folks with that name as relatec.
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Its very diverse thats what makes things so interesting. If people only knew how connected we all really are. When I say my culture yes I mean dutch/west indies and african culture. Somewhere along the line someone had a relationship with a black person..LOL I have been curious all my life. I am glad I am talking with you. I am learning so much more now just researching the web then I have in the past. I found someone in Jamaica with the name Cuvilie. Its like they dropped the J and added the I to make it easier to say.
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Nope no connection.. Now I did see a post with someone looking for any info on Luis Cuvilje.. I have to look for that website....
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I'm unfamiliar with the name Cuvelier but my 2nd great grandmother was Robertine Cuvillier, born about 1825. She married John Shanks Moffat ( b.1825 of Glasgow Scotland), and they lived their lives in St. Lucia in the West Indies. John reportedly died in Barbados in 1886, but I found and visited his grave in St. Lucia January 2013.
When I google Cuvillier I come up with almost nothing so think it is spelled wrong. So does anyone think the name Cuvellier might actually be Cuvelier?
Louis Mallet-Paret
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