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Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. American Presbyterianism can trace its origins to this foundation. WebSo far as we have yet ascertained, the following are the names of the refugee families which were Naturalized in Great Britain and Ireland: Abauzit Abelain Abraham Acque Adam Adrien Agace Ageron Aissailly Alart Alavoine Albers Albert Albin Alden Aleber Alexandre Allaire Allais Allard Allat Allen Allix Allotte Alvant Amail Amelot Amiand Amiot The Huguenot Society also published the journal Huguenot Families (1999-2009). By 1565, Spanish military efforts had wiped out the colony martyring many Huguenot settlers. From South Carolina French Huguenots led by Laudonnire settled in Florida in 1564. Does your relative's arrival in Britain coincide with one of these? Shows dates and places of births, marriages, deaths, and migrations. You may download for a list of the Registered Lineages. Some French Protestant records may have been published or indexed by a local genealogical society library. They show dates and places of births, marriages, deaths, and migrations. Huguenots settled on Staten Island and in New Harlem, Bushwick, and Flushing in 1657 and 1658. You can see surnames L-Z here. American Presbyterianism can trace its origins to this foundation. New Paltz, Ulster County, was founded in 1677 by Huguenots. Publications in the Quarto Series are available in a number of libraries including the Huguenot Library. It is suggested to contact the library so materials will be available. 327 0 obj
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Most of them have already been mentioned in connection with the Huguenot emigration from the seaboard provinces of western France. Luckily there are a lot of records now online to help you discover your Huguenot ancestry. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often began to marry outside their immediate French communities fairly rapidly, which led to their assimilation. Geni requires JavaScript! It included, in whole or part, the territory ofthe present townships of Amity, Exeter, Earl, Oley, Pike, District,and Rockland. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Strictly speaking the term Huguenots refers to French Calvinists, in English the term embraces Walloons and Dutch refugees from the Low Countries. %%EOF
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* Family links: ** Spouse: Ga Surname has also been reported to be:* Duenil * Dunnell * Dwinel * Dwinell * Dwinnell Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) The ancestral listing on our website is an open listing which means it is periodically updated from time to time as new information becomes available. The Huguenots had their beginnings in Charleston in 1681. Alphabetical by name. Ancestor 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Agee, Elizabeth Faure, Jacques Faure, Marie If such proof and documentation has not been verified by and placed on file with The National Huguenot Society, then the Huguenot name will not be listed on our site. xref
(FamilySearch Libraryfilm 199,954-56.) The term has its origin in early-16th-century France. A few French Huguenot surnames that remain common today include the surnames Du Plessis, De Villiers, Joubert, Le Roux, Naude and Rousseau. Huguenots in Nouvelle France Qubec (New France Quebec) 1604-1763, Michel Barbeau Author, researcher, compilerand consists of, Huguenots from France (319 pioneers) http://pages.infinit.net/barbeaum/fichier/, Calvinists from Switzerland (21 pioneers) http://pages.infinit.net/barbeaum/suisses.htm, Huguenots in Nouvelle France Qubec(New France Quebec)1600-1765, Listing of family names obtained from the writings of many authors andVarious Online Sources, Click on the links below to open in new windows. WebJoaquin Phoenix (1974-), American actor, distant French Huguenot ancestry on his father's side. Internet Archive; Lart, Charles E. Huguenot pedigrees. 0000002442 00000 n
Now the Huguenot Society Journal, published annually since 1885, it includes articles on aspects of Huguenot, Walloon and early Dutch history, as well as individual families. In the early 1700s, small groups of French Huguenot, German Palatine, and Swiss immigrants founded towns on the coast. The liberal religious culture, laws, and policies in colonial Rhode Island created a wonderful location for French Huguenots. The roll of the Narragansett settlers, headed by Carre, Berthon, and Ayrault, embraces the following names:Jean Julien, Jean Coudret, Elie Rambert, Daniel Lambert, Andre Armaud, Daniel Large, veuve Galay, Abram Tourtellot, Pierre Le Moine, Ezechiel Bouniot, Pierre Traverrier, Etienne La Vigne, Moise Le Brun, Jean Beauchamps, Jean David, Jacob Ratier, Jean Galay, Menardeau, Pierre Bretin dit Laronde, Daniel Le Gendre, Daniel Renaud, Daniel Jouet, Milard, Belhair, Jean Lafon, Amian, Ezechiel Grazilier, Paul Bussereau, Etienne Jamain, Louis Allaire, Theophile Foretier, Jean Chadene, Josue David senior, Josue David junior, Jacques Magni, Jean Magni, Etienne Robineau, Francois Legare, Rene" Grignon, Pierre Tougere, Dechamps, Jean Germon, Paul Collin, and Guillaume Barbut. 8. Try 6 issues for just 9.99 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? WebWest profiles 100 Spanish and French surnames using maps showing the present-day (as of 1986) distribution of households of a given name in Louisiana and surrounding states. The most vital are the Returns of Aliens, made in the early 17th century; the naturalisation and denization records from 1500 to 1800; and all the extant registers of French churches in this country. This website requires a paid subscription for full access. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950. [89] [90] [91] River Phoenix (1970-1993), American actor, brother of There are different spellings of most names. Barlow seems to be the English spelling of her last name. WebFrench Huguenots was that of the Oley Valley in Berks Countyeast of Reading. 0000002925 00000 n
WebHuguenot immigrants began arriving in North America as early as the sixteenth century, establishing small communities in French Canada. 0000010269 00000 n
Her parents were Thomas Billiou and Ann Aime. Vergan French (Huguenot) Family history states that In France the term Huguenots was used to denote French Calvinist Protestants.[1]. Catholic France allied itself with Savoy, Spain, and the papacy to form the Catholic League; the Huguenots received support from England, the Netherlands, and the German Protestant states. Some Huguenots translated their surnames. Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. Magazine today! Les familles Protestantes en France (XVIe sicle-1792) (French Protestant families from the 16th century to 1792). An initial plantation of 300 established Fort Caroline now part of present day Jacksonville. More are being added all the time. However, anyone seeking to join the Society or claim as a supplemental ancestor a name which is not on the list, including any that were once accepted but have been dropped, will need to provide appropriate documentation to validate that the ancestor was, in fact, a French Huguenot. While many family histories are given at length, and others are mentioned only briefly. Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi and Laurence Olivier are just some of the actors who have Huguenot ancestry. 0000005091 00000 n
As well as images and information, this website includes links to all of the Huguenot museums in France. 0000006738 00000 n
Secondly, Huguenot settlements in the UK were all in the south of England, Scotland and Ireland, while some went to the French-speaking Channel Islands. As they fled, a diaspora of Huguenots travelled across the globe, settling and forming new communities in America, Africa and Their settlement, in King William Parish, near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town. These are all on CD-Rom. FASTER Accounting Services provides court accounting preparation services and estate tax preparation services to law firms, accounting firms, trust companies and banks on a fee for service basis. Catherine de' Medici summoned the French Catholic bishops and the Protestant ministers in 1561 to the Colloquy of Poissy (Disputatio Pussicena). A Huguenot Memorial Museum has been established at Franschhoek. 2) If the place [s] are not known, then search England (Great Britain) naturalizations in order to find an ancestor. Be prepared to find the correct church records by organizing in advance as many of these exact details about the ancestor as possible: Carefully evaluate the church records you find to make sure you have really found records for your ancestor and not just a "near match". Other Huguenots settled in Monmouth County. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950. During this period the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre occurred in 1572: beginning in Paris, thousands of Huguenots were murdered; in the following days thousands more were killed in Aix, Bordeaux, Bourges, Lyon, Meaux, Orleans, Rouen, Toulouse, and Troyes. 0000010034 00000 n
Often Huguenot families would settle in one country, then move to another. Sometimes people from these mainland European countries later moved to Britain, South Africa or the Americas: Huguenot lineage can cross continents. xdQMHQ*mmQPP&aTFId WExtNuI "OKH-"P7|7of c<4UCk=}7j#'(rP$bOLA/62ASM;=`A>+P4'mK6)-qUQ$@z%vO!otJXS By 1718, the earliest tax assessment list for Conestoga in the present Lancaster County listed 43 English surnames, 78 Swiss-German surnames, and only 7 surnames which can be identified as belonging to French Huguenot families.' Since 1938 they have been subsumed in the Protestant Church of France. Alphabetical by name. Today, the Society has nearly 2,000 members who are descendants of those Huguenots.". Flemish and Huguenot (French Walloon) surnames are common to Zeeland. WebPast and current members have joined the Huguenot Society of America by right of descent from the following Huguenot ancestors who qualify under the constitution of the Society. The museum has artefacts and displays about the Huguenots' history. 0000058804 00000 n
She died 04 Nov 1794. Strictly speaking, the term 'Huguenot' should only be used to describe a French Protestant of the 16th to 18th centuries. In 1687, a second church was built along the Cooper River. Protestant ministers were forcibly exiled, while ordinary Huguenots had to become Catholic. Name adoption registers (naamsaanneming registers) were created to record the family names that were adopted. FASTER Systems provides Court Accounting, Estate Tax and Gift Tax Software and Preparation Services to help todays trust and estate professional meet their compliance requirements. FASTER ASP Software is ourcloud hosted, fully integrated software for court accounting, estate tax and gift tax return preparation. There are many thousands of people in Britain who have French Huguenot heritage they know nothing about, as Sir Derek Jacobi discovered when he appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? Ezdchiel Carr, the minister of the colony, was a native of the isle of Re, and had studied philosophy and theology in the Academy founded by Calvin at Geneva. WebMost of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. Learn how your comment data is processed. If one or more of the details do not line up, be careful about accepting the entry as your ancestor. Is an Index of family names appearing in Huguenot Trails, the official publication of the Huguenot Society of Canada, from 1968 to 2003. Huguenot Trails publications are available in the periodicals section of the Quebec Family History Society in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. OLDy$hn+lEVEvsL.H
BqrONIOr7 Publication Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors, DAR/SAR Huguenot Ancestors with DAR numbers, Online Dues Payments for Members-at-Large, About The Huguenot Ancestral Name Listings, Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors of The National Huguenot Society. Pages 181-87 describe Protestant records, their content, and history. Periodicals. Rev. http://pages.infinit.net/barbeaum/suisses.htm, The Judicial Archives During the British Regime and Lower Canada -1780-, Province of Quebec During the British Regime 1763-1791, Montreal, Quebec City, Trois-Rivires in the Early Days of British Canada, GenWebCanada updates Quebec cemetery listings, RootsTech announces free online conference presentation schedule, Am I My Fathers Son, or Genealogy Revisited, Amarilda Desbiens, Scottish adoptee in Baie-St-Paul? 0000053613 00000 n
1750 . In 1688 the Huguenots established New Rochelle in Westchester County. An initial plantation of 300 established Fort Caroline now part of present day Jacksonville. Brigham Young University Department of Independent Study offers a free online self-paced course, Huguenot Research. 0000007121 00000 n
Their descendants in many families continued to use French first names and surnames for their children well into the nineteenth century, as they tried to keep some connection to their heritage. France. Cahiers du Centre de Gnalogie Protestante (See France Periodicals . The most vital are the Returns of Aliens, made in the early 17th century; the naturalisation and denization records from 1500 to 1800; and all the extant registers of French churches in this country.These are all on An interesting website is the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands, made available by the Meertens Institute. Bibliothque Wallonne (Leiden). Its members, of course, are the descendants of the French Protestants who fled their homeland during the religious wars of the 17th century and, especially, following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. Partner websites such as Ancestry.com, Findmypast, MyHeritage, and American Ancestors can be searched free-of-charge at any FamilySearch Center. WebThe Huguenots brought this surname to England, and from there it may have been introduced to North America. 0
A group of French origin, mostly descendants of Huguenots, came to the area beginning in 1680. The Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors of The National Huguenot Society, Fifth Edition 2012, together with any supplements or addenda that have been or might be issued, provides the definitive listing of proven Huguenot ancestors whose descendants have joined The National Huguenot Society over the years. 0000001922 00000 n
The Huguenots The names are alphabetical phonetically, then chronological in order by the event date. For example Pierre Minuit who bought the Island of Manhattan for 24 dollars, according to the legend; Isaac 0000013285 00000 n
The Jerripedia website has an A-Z of those who took part in a formal renouncement of Catholicism (known as abjuration). They are also the easiest to research because they needed help, especially at the end of their working lives, which generated records (check out the holdings of the Huguenot Library). French Canadian Pioneers The Martins of Quebec. du Pont, a former student of Lavoisier, established the Eleutherian gunpowder mills, which produced material for the American Revolutionary War. Children of NOAH FERRY and EXPERIENCE AL Abigail (Billiou or Balliou or Barlow) Dunham was born in England, probably around 1600. &L^zd>@DG$="P)Z61wCZWdUVBO% 3
If the name you are interested in is not here, the people are not Huguenots. Huguenots were not the only French people to migrate to the UK so a French surname does not automatically suggest Huguenot descent. United States Church Records Huguenot Church Records. The Spanish had already staked claim in that locality and soon rid the area of the French. By 1565, Spanish military efforts had wiped out the colony, martyring many Huguenot settlers. Men who refused could be sent to the galleys as slaves, imprisoned or executed. 0000003811 00000 n
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It was The name index of this work has been digitised: PDF 112Mb. 1, New York, 1886. Its history, notwithstanding, is a brief and melancholy one. Its purpose is "to perpetuate the memory of the Huguenots". The immigrant was Jean Papineau, a Huguenot from Niort, near La Rochelle, who came to New Oxford, Massachusetts around 1686, where he was junior partner (with Ren Grignon and Gabriel Bernon) in a cham From: Find A Grave Memorial# 13547923; Born: 1654, France* Death: June, 1710 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island* Esther LeRoy Bernon was the wife of Gabriel Bernon. Discovering that you have Huguenot ancestors in your family can add an exciting element to your family tree. 0000007898 00000 n
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The names displayed are those for which The National Huguenot Society has received and has on file in its archives documented evidence proving, according to normally accepted genealogical standards, that the individual listed was indeed a French Huguenot during the period of 1520-1787. Fiches op de registers, collectie Montauban, 1647- 1682 (Card index of Huguenots of Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, 1647-1682). Large scale emigration was encouraged by the Cape of Good Hope colonial authorities and during 1688 and 1689 the first such arrivals occurred with many settling at Franschhoek (the French Corner). For example, E.I. Proof of descent from any such Huguenot ancestor listed in this book or, alternatively, providing documentation that an ancestor not listed in the publication was a French Huguenot during the period 1520-1787 will qualify an individual for membership. This page has been viewed 47,733 times (0 via redirect). As time progressed, and the relationship between the Protestant Huguenots and Catholic France became more tenuous, immigration to the colonies of British North America increased. There are published indexes, and members of the society can access all of the Proceedings on its website. Publications of the Huguenot Society of London. Members of the society include descendants of Huguenot families immigrating to America before November 1787 and anyone who has made the Huguenots a subject of research papers, etc. 0000014856 00000 n
A similar migration of French Huguenots left its imprint on Ireland in surnames like Blanc, Cobbe, Deverell and Trench. Huguenot and Walloon Genealogical Resources Cyndi's List: Huguenot No list of links is better on any genealogical terms As well as Derek Jacobi, there are other celebrities who have discovered their Huguenot ancestry. It has been compiled by the Huguenot Society of Australia and is available to buy on CD-Rom. Archives nationales. They stuck together and many remained nonconformist. Includes many parish register transcripts from cities chiefly in Great Britain and Ireland. Their 'stories' have been passed down, and should be verified. Due to persecution, n 1685, about 200,000 Huguenots fled to foreign nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, England, and America. 57 Volumes. 1-2). French Huguenot and Swiss families mingled with the Germans. 0000004572 00000 n
In the second half of the 16th century, the majority of Huguenots who came to England were from this region. 0000008622 00000 n
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950. WebHuguenot Surnames See our Huguenot Surname Cross Surname and Variations -- Christian Name Ag / Agee / Oage -- Matthieu Allaire -- Alexandre Alle / Alley / Alie / 0000005971 00000 n
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Are you a descendant of a Huguenot Family? Women, too, could be locked up and their children taken away to be brought up in convents. The term has its origin in early-16th-century France. Carefully compare any record you find to known facts about the ancestor, "New Netherland" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at, "Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. He was now between thirty-five and forty years of age, and had already been pastor of two congregations in France, those of Mirambeau in Saintonge and La Roche Chalais in Guyenne. Text in French. A colony was established at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 for the Dutch East India Company: the wife of the first Dutch Governor was a Huguenot. These unindexed papers contain the history of these two groups of people. 929.14 A512a. 2B. Within five years from the time of its foundation, the colony was broken up, and nearly every family had sought a home elsewhere. On 18 August 1811, Napoleon issued a decree, based on French law, regarding adoption of surnames. And, in the larger cities of South Holland, surnames are the Dutch version of French and German surnames. From the 1660s, Huguenots' rights were chipped away. The library is open to non-members for a research fee of $10. In the autumn of the year 1686, a body of French Protestants, comprising forty or fifty families, arrived in New England, and established themselves in the territory now covered by the State of Rhode Island. Some names are obviously French, but others were misrecorded, such as the Chataigne family in Wandsworth who became the Chattings. 0000107191 00000 n
By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. a road-trip up dead ends, If you shake your family tree, watch for the nuts to fall, Virginie Bruneau Dutauld The Protestant Teacher, Doc Penfro, Wales and the OBray Family Name Part 2, Doc Penfro, Wales and the OBray Family Name Part 1, The Beginnings Of The Original Plymouth, Devon England, From Daguerreotype to Digital in Four Generations. Kathy Chater is a historian and the author of Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians. The French blood in America. Many of the parish registers mentioned in this inventory are also available on microfilms at the FamilySearch Library. (FS Library film 199,755-953.) WebMany Huguenot names are still amongst us; the following may be given as examplesBarr, Blacquiere, Boileau, Chaigneau, Du Bedat, Champion, Chenevix, Fiduciary Accounting Software and Services. Thousands of Huguenots 'converted', but up to 400,000 fled France over the next decades. Thus, the ancestral listing on our site is not and never will be a complete and exhaustive list of all French Huguenots. Containing more than 200,000 entries, this is a master index to all of the publications in the Quarto Series. Bibliothque Wallonne (Leiden). (vols. This page was last edited on 8 December 2022, at 21:13. episode as did actor Julia Sawalha. London, England: HSL, 1969-1985. trailer
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