Fazy

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HCR diary 29.10.1814 Mr & Mrs Fazy returned from Salonica

                      20.6.1818 at Aders "The Schunks, Platts, Mrs Fazy, Miss Lewis were my acquaintances"

                      22.7.1821 "Mrs Fazy has obtained a comfortable situation as superintendent of rich children by which provision is secured to her"

John Solomon Fazy married at Manchester Cathedral 15.7.1804 Eliza Becher (see Becher QV*) a sister of Carl Christian Becher (1770-1836) see Marquardt II p 442 where it says Crabb Robinson had met her In London in 1806 at Becher's, whose sister she was. He saw her again in Frankfurt in October 1846, when she asked Robinson's advice about the novels and children's books she wrote, though if the rest of my information is correct she was by then in fact Madame Lasserre. Jean Salomon Fazy 1771-1815 son of Louis Charles Fazy and his first wife Charlotte Marie Cazenove, from a Genevan family of watchmakers and Indian cloth printers, was in Lyon at the time of the revolution of 1793 and wrote an eyewitness account of it (Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise vol 17, no 98, p 93). He helped in the defence of Lyon against the forces of the Convention but escaped to Geneva and then emigrated to America with two cousins, J A & A C Cazenove.("Sir Francis D'Ivernois..." by Otto Karmin, 1920 Geneva p 282). He arrived at Philadelphia from Hamburg 11.11.1794 on the brigantine Sarah, Daniel May. captain ("Names of Foreigners.." by William Henry Egle). He was listed in a 1794 census of Philadelphia and was naturalised there 26.11.1795. Why he returned to Europe I don't know, but see Sarah Sophia Hennell (DNB 1812-1895) and Caroline Bray (DNB 1814-1905) sisters whose father James Hennell (1782-1816) was a traveller and partner in the mercantile house of Fazy & Co, Manchester. Both sisters were writers like Mrs Fazy. Jean Salomon's death date is given as 1815 in gen-gen,ch/FAZY but I found nothing of how or where he died. The same source gives his wife as Eliza Becker born Frankfurt about 1788 and says she married in 1822 Jacques Lasserre (1794-1868) a Genevan businessman, for whom see also Le livre du recteur de l'Academie de Geneve 1559-1878 vol IV