Mary Louisa Vasseur

(1813-1868)

At a Glance

Mary Vasseur Brown was the daughter of French Huguenot woman, Charlotte Ann Layssard, who ran a candy shop in downtown Hillsborough.

Story

Mary Louisa Vasseur (1813-1868), born in Virginia, and William Henry Brown (1809-1865) were married in Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1830. They moved to Hillsborough, Orange County, NC in 1840. The Ancestry.com public member trees differ as to how many children they had. One lists 12 children while another lists 15 children. Her parents were Charlotte Ann Layssard (1789-1856) and Toussaint Vasseur who died ca. 1815. Little could be found about him. Charlotte Ann Layssard immigrated to the United States from the West Indies. Mary Louisa Vasseur Brown died in Hillsborough, NC. in 1868 [1].

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Mary Louisa Vasseur was born on July 27, 1813, in Virginia. She died on July 29, 1868.

Relatives

• Parents: Toussaint Vasseur (d. 1815) and Charlotte Ann Layssard (d. 1856).
• Spouse: William Henry Brown (1809-1865), married September 16, 1830. Halifax, Halifax County, NC [2] They had two daughters, Charlotte Ann Brown (1838-1880)  [2] and Laura H. Brown (1840-1915)  [2].
• Other children: seven sons (Henry Nicholas Brown, [Sr.] (1831-1908), Ferdinand Brown (1833-1836), Morry J Brown (b. 1835), William Pearmain Brown (1836-1837), Oliver B. Brown (1846-1870), Edwin Lewis Brown, [Sr.] (1850-1919) and Leigh Olin Brown (1856-1932)) and six daughters (Mary Jane Brown (1834-1906), Louisa Brown (b. 1834), Julia Frances Brown (1842-1925), Lucy Rebecca Brown (1844-1907), Olivia Bosanquit Brown (1845-1911) and Arabella William Brown (1848-1880)).

References

1. Ancestry.com.
2. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).