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| Notes for Ambroise Sicard: Mornac is near Marennes, south of La Rochelle, France. This a small village on the Atlantic coast. His family had been there since the 14th century. Any further search for his ancestors has proved futile...probably because of his adherence to the Protestant faith, and in all likelihood the Catholic regime destroyed all Protestant records. He was a "saunier" i.e., a salt worker or salt farmer. Records indicate that he, his wife and 6 children fled their home in 1681. He left some vineyards valued at 40 livres. He arrived in this country with no wife and 5 children. The wife and this extra child may have died en route or the original French listing of 6 children may have been in error or one of the 6 children may have been Ambroise II's wife? The name SICARD is very old and was noted in the 10th century in Languedoc, south France. The name is derived from SIGHARD. Most of the SICARDs, SECORDs, SEACORDs, SECORs, et al in the United States are descended from the same patriarch - Ambroise. The others answering to this name were probable descendants of those who served under LaFayette and remained behind, ( for example, 1790 census lists a Stephen Sicard in Philadelphia county of PA) or immigrated later. One such, was an M. M. Secor who was born in a small Austrian town of Zika; came to US and became mayor of Racine, WI in 1884. Another SICARD which makes the delineation of this particular line difficult is the descendants of a NOAH SICARD born 1629 in Mornac also. He may or may not be related to our Ambroise. There are some SICARDs in Louisana who probably came from the French West Indies in the 1600s and some in Canada who settled there when it was a French possession. Since 1800, it has become almost impossible to differentiate between Ambroise's descendents and those Sicards, Secorskys, et al who have adopted our name. Have also found a Choctaw family named Secor. There was a SECOR (SEquential Collation of Range) satellite launched from Wallops Island, VA & Vandenberg AFB, CA. Also there is a SECORD (SEcure voice CORD board) - a desk mounted patch pannel for controlling user wideband & narrowband. There is a coat of arms which depicts a Phoenix rising from its ashes to a silver cross located between 2 gold stars on a blue background. The family arrived in the Westchester County area, north of New York City before 1688 via England where they had been wards of a French church in Threadneedle St in London. The church's refugee committee helped finance Ambroise's transport to the Colonies. He and his family were considered persons of "Middle Quality" and received 25-40 Pounds for this purpose. Ambroise was one of the founders of New Rochelle and is so honored. There is a Huguenot monument to commemorate that founding in that city. Ambroise Sicard's name is on it. He purchased 95 acres of land there in 1696. He signed an oath of allegiance to the Crown in 1689 and his name appears on the 1689 census without a wife and aged 67. Listed in 1710 as James, Senior age 75 in New Rochelle. 1 |
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