0000039974 00000 n 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. 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). New Paltz, Ulster County, was founded in 1677 by Huguenots. Huguenot Migration Project - Member Interests List (FS Library book 944 F23f; not on microfilm.) 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. Shows dates and places of births, marriages, deaths, and migrations. Most of them have already been mentioned in connection with the Huguenot emigration from the seaboard provinces of western France. Increasing persecution from 1661 which culminated in the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) led to the second great wave. If you have protestant ancestors from Alsace, it is important to know if they were Lutheran or Huguenot. Records for Huguenots can be found in the records of these churches. Its purpose is "to perpetuate the memory of the Huguenots". In 1802 the Reformed Church was finally granted tolerance. The Huguenots - England's First Refugees (Card index of Huguenots of La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, 1602-1685). They have a research library containing over 4,500 books, journals, and files covering the history of French Protestants and on SouthCarolina history and families. Magazine today! 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. On this site you can type your 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. 327 46 ORIGIN of PRUETT Huguenots came in 1700. Publications in the Quarto Series are available in a number of libraries including the Huguenot Library. In France the term Huguenots was used to denote French Calvinist Protestants.[1]. You may download for a list of the Registered Lineages. Associated with these conductors of the colony, were a number of refugees, whom we shall only mention here, reserving a fuller account of them for another place. Flemish and Huguenot (French Walloon) surnames are common to Zeeland. There are different spellings of most names. The Huguenots were French Protestants from the sixteenth and seventeenth century who fled from the French Catholic government fearing persecution and violence. 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. Luckily there are a lot of records now online to help you discover your Huguenot ancestry. 0000042668 00000 n 0000004572 00000 n Many of these became the ancestors of you and me. WebRegistered Lineages | Huguenot Society of Registered Lineages The lineages which have been accepted for membership in the society to date are in the table below. Cyndi's List has a landing page for Huguenot links. Elias Prioleau was the first recoginzed and regular pastor of the French church.[2]. 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. Between 1677 and the early 1700s, Dutch-speaking French Huguenots from Harlem and Staten Island, New York, settled at Schraalenburgh (now Bergenfield) in the Hackensack Valley of Bergen County. An interesting website is the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands, made available by the Meertens Institute. National Huguenot Society Bible Records In 1564, the Huguenots attempted to colonize North America, building a colony nearby the modern day Jacksonville, Florida. 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. Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. 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. In the early 1700s, small groups of French Huguenot, German Palatine, and Swiss immigrants founded towns on the coast. Huguenot and Walloon Genealogical Resources Cyndi's List: Huguenot No list of links is better on any genealogical terms The period of 1562 to 1598 is known as the Wars of Religion in reference to a series of eight civil wars in which the kingdom of France was divided on religious lines as warring noble families fought for control of the crown. Men who refused could be sent to the galleys as slaves, imprisoned or executed. One Dubois family in London changed its name to Wood during the Napoleonic Wars, LeBlanc might be changed to White or Boulanger to Baker. Often Huguenot families would settle in one country, then move to another. Are you a descendant of a Huguenot Family? Catherine de' Medici summoned the French Catholic bishops and the Protestant ministers in 1561 to the Colloquy of Poissy (Disputatio Pussicena). The Huguenot Refuge in America - Muse protestant WebJoaquin Phoenix (1974-), American actor, distant French Huguenot ancestry on his father's side. FASTER ASP Software is ourcloud hosted, fully integrated software for court accounting, estate tax and gift tax return preparation. Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. That review resulted after a lot of thought and consultation in many names being dropped from our listings due to lack of good documentation. Webdwarfed the tiny Huguenot settlements within the present boundaries of Lancaster County.' %%EOF 0000014856 00000 n WebSometime between 1550 and 1580, members of the Reformed (Protestant) church in predominantly Catholic France (and her borderlands, parts of which were added to France) came to be commonly known as Huguenots--initially a derogatory term, then one held with pride.