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THE DENZEL BILLY JOE BREWER FAMILY HOME PAGE

Updated December 8, 2007
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"DISCLAIMER NOTICE":::PLEASE READ BEFORE VIEWING, "THE DENZEL BILLY JOE BREWER FAMILY HOME PAGE". ALL OF THE INFORMATION FROM MY GRANDFATHER, LEWIS BREWER b. 1875 d. DEC 29, 1960 TO THE YOUNGEST CHILD IS FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE or FURNISHED BY FAMILY MEMBERS--EVERYTHING FROM MY G/GRANDFATHER ISHAM BREWER b. 1831 FORWARD IS FROM OTHER SOURCES WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE ACCURATE; EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE "informational notes" ARE FROM "Federal and State Census Reports". IF YOU USE THIS MATERIAL BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER; PLEASE REALIZE THE IMPLICATIONS AND VERIFY THE DOCUMENTATION. I CANNOT TO "STRONGLY EXPRESS THE ABOVE STATEMENT"; PLEASE ALWAYS VERIFY YOUR INFORMATION"--DENZEL (BILLY JOE) BREWER--AMATUER GENEALOGIST.
I am researching the families of Brewer, Landreth, Manning, Creech, Trent, Hollon, Boone, Maynard and Maims. I was born and raised in the Wolfe County area of Campton, Kentucky. I graduated from "Wolfe County High" in 1955. "PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU FIND MISTAKES OF ANY KIND ON MY WEBPAGES OR ANY FAMILY GENEALOGY INFORMATION" AND IT WILL BE CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY.
"I would like to thank each and everyone who has been instrumential in my"GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH". Most of all to my wonderful Wife who has supported my sometime fanatical searches for the "ELUSIVE PHANTOM OF FAMILY STRUCTURE".
A Bit of Brewer History
"A thousand years ago, on the misty coast of Flanders, near the town of Bethune, in the little village of la Bruviere, there lived a family of Norman-Flemish gentry, now recognized as the progenitors of the Brewer family in American. When William the Conqueror invaded Britain in the year 1066, a member of that family, Drogo de la Bouerer or Bruviere, was among the invaders. His wife was a kinswoman of William and In the Conqueror regarded him highly and placed his name on the immortal Roll of Honor of Battle Abbey at Senlac or Hastings and there it is today."
"BONUEIER -This most probably stands for Bouerer, "Drogo de la Bouerer," as the monks of Meaux give the name. It is from their chronicle that we learn what little we know of this mysterious Fleming. He probably held the Seigneury of La Bruviere, near Bethune, and is styled "miles probus et in armis probatus." He had married a cousin of the Conqueror's and, it was doubtless to this alliance, no less than to his services in the field, that he owed his great English barony. He received the whole of the so called "isle" of Holderness - at that time a dreary and marshy district, but comprising no less than 87 manors with 27 others in Lincolnshire, of which the most valuable had been Earl Morcar's. He built Skipsea Castle, and must have also had a manor-house at Burstwick, afterwards the caput of the Seignory of Holderness. "At either one or the other must have occurred the tragedy that sent Drogo in all haste to court, before the tale might be told, or justice overtake him." (A.S. Ellis). Of this tragedy I have given an account elsewhere, but nothing beyond the bare facts has been preserved. Not even the name of the wife whom he "unhappily killed" has come down to us. We cannot tell who she was or why she was made away with; whether he was strung to sudden frenzy by jealousy, or planned beforehand how she was to die - That the deed was willfully done, his own conduct proves, for he escaped to Flanders with the money he had obtained from the king, and was seen in England no more. Little is known of his descendants, but according to Mr. Planche he is "presumed to have been an ancestor of the de Brewers or de Brieweres, so powerful in the 13th Century." Theodoric or Thierry de Bevera, lord of that place and Castellan of Dixmue, his heir probably, occurs several times early in the 12th Century, and married Beatrix, Daughter of Balwin de Gand, 'le Grand', Lord of Alost, nephew of Gilbart de Gand of the Survey." (In the Battle Abbey Roll, by Duchess of Cleveland, Vol. 1, P. 183-4.)"Reference: "In the House of Brewer" by Edward Denton Brew

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