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Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, CHARLES ETIENNE (1814-1874), Belgian ethnographer, was born at Bourbourg, near Dunkirk, on the 8th of September 1814. He entered the Roman Catholic priesthood, was professor of ecclesiastical history in the Quebec seminary in 1845, vicar-general at Boston in 18 4 6, and from 1848 to 1863 travelled as a missionary, chiefly in Mexico Plate I.
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Fig. 2. - Margaret de Camoys. 5350. Trotton, Sussex.
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Fig. 4. - Sir Nicholas Burnell, 5382. Acton Burnell, Shropshire.
Fig. 5. - Margaret Lady Cobham, 1385. Cobham, Kent.
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Fig. 7. - Sir Symon de Felhrigge and Margaret his wife, 1400. Felbrigge, Norfolk.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/charles-etienne-brasseur-de-bourbourg.html. 1910.
