New Rochelle, located in the county of Westchester on the north shore of Long Island Sound, seemed to be the great location of the Huguenots in New York. Huguenot refugees also settled in the Delaware River Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania and Hunterdon County, New Jersey in 1725. [citation needed], Following the accidental death of Henry II in 1559, his son succeeded as King Francis II along with his wife, the Queen Consort, also known as Mary, Queen of Scots. Flemish and Huguenot surnames were common in Zeeland. Historians estimate that roughly 80% of all Huguenots lived in the western and southern areas of France. [99] Huguenot refugees flocked to Shoreditch, London. some French members of the largely German, Four-term Republican United States Representative. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685). The Pennsylvania-German, Volume 5 Full view - 1904. One of the more notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland was Sen Lemass (18991971), who was appointed as Taoiseach, serving from 1959 until 1966. [9] Reguier de la Plancha (d. 1560) in his De l'Estat de France offered the following account as to the origin of the name, as cited by The Cape Monthly: Reguier de la Plancha accounts for it [the name] as follows: "The name huguenand was given to those of the religion during the affair of Amboyse, and they were to retain it ever since. Dr Kathleen Chater has been tracing her own family history for over 30 years. ", Roy A. Sundstrom, "French Huguenots and the Civil List, 1696-1727: A Study of Alien Assimilation in England. It is now located at Soho Square. Helped establish the Scottish weaving trade. A list of submitted surnames in which the usage is Hungarian (page 2). Below is a partial list of Huguenot Ancestors who relate to current Members of the Society. The French added to the existing immigrant population, then comprising about a third of the population of the city. A French church in Portarlington dates back to 1696,[113] and was built to serve the significant new Huguenot community in the town. Huguenot Genealogy; Places & Traces Menu Toggle. In this last connection, the name could suggest the derogatory inference of superstitious worship; popular fancy held that Huguon, the gate of King Hugo,[7] was haunted by the ghost of le roi Huguet (regarded by Roman Catholics as an infamous scoundrel) and other spirits. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community. In the United States, the name France is the 2,209 th most popular surname with an estimated 14,922 people with that name. One of the most prominent Huguenot refugees in the Netherlands was Pierre Bayle. Other evidence of the Walloons and Huguenots in Canterbury includes a block of houses in Turnagain Lane, where weavers' windows survive on the top floor, as many Huguenots worked as weavers. Page 166. [35] The height of this persecution was the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in August, 1572, when 5,000 to 30,000 were killed, although there were also underlying political reasons for this as well, as some of the Huguenots were nobles trying to establish separate centres of power in southern France. "[62], Foreign descendants of Huguenots lost the automatic right to French citizenship in 1945 (by force of the Ordonnance n 45-2441 du 19 octobre 1945, which revoked the 1889 Nationality Law). 13 (Regiment on foot Varenne) and 15 (Regiment on foot Wylich). Others still argue that the terms didn't originate from derogatory roots at all, with some of the Protestant faction claiming the opposite, that the Huguenots were named out of loyalty to the line of Hugues Capet, a medieval ancestor of the King who ruled six centuries before. Research genealogy for Thomas Russell of Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, as well as other members of the Russell family, on Ancestry. Then he imposed penalties, closed Huguenot schools and excluded them from favoured professions. This group of Huguenots from southern France had frequent issues with the strict Calvinist tenets that are outlined in many of John Calvin's letters to the synods of the Languedoc. While most of the settlers in Volga (and later Black Sea) villages were German, there were also settlers from other European countries. Janet Gray argues that for the word to have spread into common use in France, it must have originated there in French. [11][12] By 1911, there was still no consensus in the United States on this interpretation. A two-volume illustrated folio paraphrase version based on his manuscript, by Jean de Rly, was printed in Paris in 1487. In 1562, naval officer Jean Ribault led an expedition that explored Florida and the present-day Southeastern US, and founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island, South Carolina. Edward VI granted them the whole of the western crypt of Canterbury Cathedral for worship. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Dutch Republic received the largest group of Huguenot refugees, an estimated total of 75,000 to 100,000 people. Inhabited by Camisards, it continues to be the backbone of French Protestantism. Thera Wijsenbeek, "Identity Lost: Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic and its former colonies in North America and South Africa, 1650 to 1750: a comparison". "Huguenot Trails" publications are available in the periodicals section of the Quebec Family History Society in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. The British government ignored the complaints made by local craftsmen about the favouritism shown to foreigners. They are Franschhoek in the Cape Province of South Africa, Portarlington in the Republic of Ireland, and Bad Karlshafen in Hesse, Germany. [citation needed] In 1705, Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia were the first areas to provide full citizens rights to Huguenot immigrants, followed by the whole Dutch Republic in 1715. The Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. The Catholic Church in France and many of its members opposed the Huguenots. Some of the earliest to arrive in Australia held prominent positions in English society, notably, Others who came later were from poorer families, migrating from England in the 19th and early 20th centuries to escape the poverty of. After centuries, most Huguenots have assimilated into the various societies and cultures where they settled. Joyce D. Goodfriend, "The social dimensions of congregational life in colonial New York city". The label Huguenot was purportedly first applied in France to those conspirators (all of them aristocratic members of the Reformed Church) who were involved in the Amboise plot of 1560: a foiled attempt to wrest power in France from the influential and zealously Catholic House of Guise. The city's political institutions and the university were all handed over to the Huguenots. Isaac and Esther's first three children were born in Mannheim between the years 1668 and 1673. The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many of them had occupied important places in society. VanRuymbeke, Bertrand and Sparks, Randy J., eds. [citation needed], Louis XIV inherited the throne in 1643 and acted increasingly aggressively to force the Huguenots to convert. ", Mark Greengrass, "Protestant exiles and their assimilation in early modern England. Instead of being in Purgatory after death, according to Catholic doctrine, they came back to harm the living at night. For example, E.I. The Edict simultaneously protected Catholic interests by discouraging the founding of new Protestant churches in Catholic-controlled regions. The 1709ers would have worshipped in this church that was by that time already nearly 600 years old. ", "L'affaire des placards, la fin de la belle Renaissance", "18 octobre 1534: l'affaire des placards", "This Day in History 1572: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre", Provisional Government of the French Republic, "Rise of 'neo-Protestantism' under Macron challenges traditional Catholic-secular approach to politics", "Welcome to The Huguenot Society of Australia", "Chronology French Church du Saint-Esprit", "French Huguenots and their descendants genealogy project", "Allocution de M. Franois Mitterrand, Prsident de la Rpublique, aux crmonies du tricentenaire de la Rvocation de l'Edit de Nantes, sur la tolrance en matire politique et religieuse et l'histoire du protestantisme en France, Paris, Palais de l'UNESCO, vendredi 11 octobre 1985", "Bayonne Online The first reference to Bayonne in history is in 1609 when Henry Hudson stopped there before proceeding on his journey up the river which would later bear his name. Some Huguenot immigrants settled in central and eastern Pennsylvania. The Huguenot Society of America has headquarters in New York City and has a broad national membership. Some Huguenots settled in Bedfordshire, one of the main centres of the British lace industry at the time. In 1840 there were 10 Hubert families living in Louisiana. If you know of more Huguenot family names in Australia, please email ozhug@optushome.com.au. Apart from the French village name and that of the local rugby team, Fleur De Lys RFC, little remains of the French heritage. Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. By the time Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1million people. Following this exodus, Huguenots remained in large numbers in only one region of France: the rugged Cvennes region in the south. In the United States there are several Huguenot worship groups and societies. Like other religious reformers of the time, Huguenots felt that the Catholic Church needed a radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope represented a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed. Bernard James Whalen was born on 25 April 1931, in Shullsburg, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States. Synodicon in Gallia Reformata: or, the Acts, Decisions, Decrees, and Canons of those Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Huguenots&oldid=1142115187. Gaspard de Coligny was among the first to fall at the hands of a servant of the Duke de . There is an aged carpenter here, 'La Combre,' of pure Huguenot descent, so that this name also, as well as another, 'Champ,' may be added to the list. Page 363. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes of 1598, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy. They purchased from John Pell, Lord of Pelham Manor, a tract of land consisting of six thousand one hundred acres with the help of Jacob Leisler. Most South African Huguenots settled in the, The majority of Australians with French ancestry are descended from Huguenots. 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 . Bette Davis (1908-1989), American actress, descended from the Huguenot Favor family on her mother's side. [13], The Huguenot cross is the distinctive emblem of the Huguenots (croix huguenote). Most Cordes families in the United States come from Germany but many of them have family histories that claim French or Spanish origins. Around 1294, a French version of the Scriptures was prepared by the Roman Catholic priest, Guyard des Moulins. Now, it happens that those whom they called Lutherans were at that time so narrowly watched during the day that they were forced to wait till night to assemble, for the purpose of praying God, for preaching and receiving the Holy Sacrament; so that although they did not frighten nor hurt anybody, the priests, through mockery, made them the successors of those spirits which roam the night; and thus that name being quite common in the mouth of the populace, to designate the evangelical huguenands in the country of Tourraine and Amboyse, it became in vogue after that enterprise. [66], A diaspora of French Australians still considers itself Huguenot, even after centuries of exile. Of the refugees who arrived on the Kent coast, many gravitated towards Canterbury, then the county's Calvinist hub. There have been many migrations in Europe since the Middle . In Paris the spirit was called le moine bourr; at Orlans, le mulet odet; at Blois le loup garon; at Tours, le Roy Huguet; and so on in other places. Huguenot immigrants settled throughout pre-colonial America, including in New Amsterdam (New York City), some 21 miles north of New York in a town which they named New Rochelle, and some further upstate in New Paltz. Some fled as refugees to the Dutch Cape Colony, the Dutch East Indies, various Caribbean colonies, and several of the Dutch and English colonies in North America. [citation needed] Surveys suggest that Protestantism has grown in recent years, though this is due primarily to the expansion of evangelical Protestant churches which particularly have adherents among immigrant groups that are generally considered distinct from the French Huguenot population. Many of the farms in the Western Cape province in South Africa still bear French names. Many settlers in Russia were French, or came from French-speaking areas of Europe. During the second wave, before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, refugees came mostly from the Dauphin, Cvennes and Languedoc regions; the major route of exodus was the passage from Lake Geneva to the Rhine River. Surnames found in Ireland which date to time in the 16th and 17th centuries when French Huguenots or German Palatines fleeing religious persecution in their home countries came to Ireland. Long integrated into Australian society, it is encouraged by the Huguenot Society of Australia to embrace and conserve its cultural heritage, aided by the Society's genealogical research services.[67]. While people don't usually think of German and Dutch people as having Iberian DNA, as many as 18% of the population of Western Europe shows Iberian DNA, and the Netherlands and Germany fall . Updated on January 12, 2018. I'll say a word about it to settle the doubts of those who have strayed in seeking its origin. Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s resulted in the abolition of their political and military privileges. Is an Index of family names appearing in "Huguenot Trails", the official publication of the Huguenot Society of Canada, from 1968 to 2003. At first he sent missionaries, backed by a fund to financially reward converts to Roman Catholicism. Andr Trocm preached against discrimination as the Nazis were gaining power in neighbouring Germany and urged his Protestant Huguenot congregation to hide Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. He died on 6 May 2001, in Cudahy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cudahy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. 24 July, A.D. 1550. [105], Many Huguenots from the Lorraine region also eventually settled in the area around Stourbridge in the modern-day West Midlands, where they found the raw materials and fuel to continue their glassmaking tradition. [citation needed] The greatest concentrations of Huguenots at this time resided in the regions of Guienne, Saintonge-Aunis-Angoumois and Poitou. Some Huguenot preachers and congregants were attacked as they attempted to meet for worship. With the precedent of a historical alliancethe Auld Alliancebetween Scotland and France; Huguenots were mostly welcomed to, and found refuge in the nation from around the year 1700. In the 18th century Germany looked to France as the model of civilization. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often married outside their immediate French communities. [28] They were suppressed by Francis I in 1545 in the Massacre of Mrindol. The Dutch as part of New Amsterdam later claimed this land, along with New York and the rest of New Jersey. The practice has continued to the present day. [54] An amnesty granted in 1573 pardoned the perpetrators. This Table contains the names of Huguenot families Naturalized [69] in Great Britain and Ireland; commencing A.D., 1681, in the reign of King Charles II., and ending in 1712, in the reign of Queen Anne. Our research is done by experienced and dedicated . Some Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron Saint Nicolas, similar to the Dutch Sint Nicolaas (Sinterklaas) feast. Raymond P. Hylton, "Dublin's Huguenot Community: Trials, Development, and Triumph, 16621701". Scoville, Warren C. "The Huguenots and the diffusion of technology. The collection includes family histories, a library, and a picture archive. The battle between Huguenots and Catholics in France also . FAQs; Blog; Past Newsletters; Scrapbook; Huguenot Names. The Huguenots are generally well-documented and it is often possible to trace them to their French home town. Some of their descendants moved into the Deep South and Texas, where they developed new plantations. Louisiana had the highest population of Hubert families in 1840. Skip Ancestry navigation Main Menu Home The Hubert family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. [41], In 1561, the Edict of Orlans declared an end to the persecution, and the Edict of Saint-Germain of January 1562 formally recognised the Huguenots for the first time. [57], The revocation forbade Protestant services, required education of children as Catholics, and prohibited emigration. Dutch and Walloon Calvinists arrived in force in Elizabethan England - there were over 15,000 foreign Protestants in the country in the 1590s, the majority Dutch and almost all of the remainder Walloon and Huguenot - but few needed to come once the independence of the United Provinces was secured. In Bad Karlshafen, Hessen, Germany is the Huguenot Museum and Huguenot archive. A series of three small civil wars known as the Huguenot rebellions broke out, mainly in southwestern France, between 1621 and 1629 in which the Reformed areas revolted against royal authority. See my info below about how to contact Alsace-Lorraine, the two provinces where many Huguenots once lived. . German who had married an American girl, the daughter of a man from Avignon and a woman of Franche Comt6. During this time, their opponents first dubbed the Protestants Huguenots; but they called themselves reforms, or "Reformed". See our Huguenot Surname Cross Surname and Variations -- Christian Name Ag / Agee / Oage -- Matthieu Allaire -- Alexandre Alle / Alley / Alie / Alyer / d'Ailly -- Nicolas The Manakintown Episcopal Church in Midlothian, Virginia serves as a National Huguenot Memorial. Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. [citation needed], With the proclamation of the Edict of Nantes, and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France abated. Whilst searching for a rellie who may have gone by a surname that is the anglicised version of a French word (Francois becomming Francewar), I found a few more French names in St Peter's records. [86] There was a small naval Anglo-French War (16271629), in which the English supported the French Huguenots against King Louis XIII. But many took the risk . Another Huguenot cemetery is located off French Church Street in Cork. By 1562, the estimated number of Huguenots peaked at approximately two million, concentrated mainly in the western, southern, and some central parts of France, compared to approximately sixteen million Catholics during the same period. Some of these French settlers were Calvinist or Reformed Protestants (Huguenots) who fled religious persecution in France. Consequently, many Huguenots considered the wealthy and Calvinist-controlled Dutch Republic, which also happened to lead the opposition to Louis XIV, as the most attractive country for exile after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. By 1700 one fifth of the city's population was French-speaking. By 1707 400 refugee Huguenot families had settled in Scotland. O. I. In relative terms, this could be the largest wave of immigration of a single community into Britain ever. The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured some of the Huguenots. The Huguenots furnished two new regiments of his army: the Altpreuische Infantry Regiments No. Research genealogy for Franklin (Frank) L. Haas of Richland, Fountain, Indiana, as well as other members of the Haas family, on Ancestry. John Gano. After petitioning the British Crown in 1697 for the right to own land in the Baronies, they prospered as slave owners on the Cooper, Ashepoo, Ashley and Santee River plantations they purchased from the British Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. The kingdom did not fully recover for years. When in 1808 a law signed by Napoleon forced all French Jews to take hereditary surnames, local Jews retained the family names they used for many centuries such as Crmieu (x), Milhaud, Monteux . After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, several Huguenots including Edmund Bohun of Suffolk, England, Pierre Bacot of Touraine France, Jean Postell of Dieppe France, Alexander Pepin, Antoine Poitevin of Orsement France, and Jacques de Bordeaux of Grenoble, immigrated to the Charleston Orange district. As both spoke French in daily life, their court church in the Prinsenhof in Delft held services in French. Examples of Huguenot surnames are: Agombar, Beauchamp, Bosanquet, Boucher/Bouchar, Bruneau, Chapeau, Deschamps, Dupont, Du Preez/Pree, Lamerie, Lepage, Martin, Rondeaux, Vernier and Vincent. By 1692, a total of 201 French Huguenots had settled at the Cape of Good Hope. [107][108][109][110][111] Huguenot regiments fought for William of Orange in the Williamite War in Ireland, for which they were rewarded with land grants and titles, many settling in Dublin. . gt I began Genealogy 35 years ago. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. Today I'm compiling a book titled, A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME: The changing fortunes of the Petit Family. Escalating, he instituted dragonnades, which included the occupation and looting of Huguenot homes by military troops, in an effort to forcibly convert them. Isaac moved to Mannheim, on the Rhein River, in the German state of Baden and married a cousin and fellow French Huguenot emigrant, Esther SY (also spelled SEE), in 1657. Both kingdoms, which had enjoyed peaceful relations until 1685, became bitter enemies and fought each other in a series of wars, called the "Second Hundred Years' War" by some historians, from 1689 onward. A royal citadel was built and the university and consulate were taken over by the Catholic party. War at home again precluded a resupply mission, and the colony struggled. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, invited Huguenots to settle in his realms, and a number of their descendants rose to positions of prominence in Prussia. [citation needed], In World War II, Huguenots led by Andr Trocm in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in Cvennes helped save many Jews. Other refugees practised the variety of occupations necessary to sustain the community as distinct from the indigenous population. Huguenots with that surname are not only found in French Switzerland, but also emigrated from . The superstition of our ancestors, to within twenty or thirty years thereabouts, was such that in almost all the towns in the kingdom they had a notion that certain spirits underwent their Purgatory in this world after death, and that they went about the town at night, striking and outraging many people whom they found in the streets. . ", Lien Bich Luu, "French-speaking refugees and the foundation of the London silk industry in the 16th century. Most French Huguenots were either unable or unwilling to emigrate to avoid forced conversion to Roman Catholicism. QC, in 1761. The museum is situated on the second floor of the tourist information centre, and entry cost us 4.50 each fora ticket that is valid for a year. [46], In what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 24 August 3 October 1572, Catholics killed thousands of Huguenots in Paris and similar massacres took place in other towns in the following weeks. They were regarded as groups supporting the French Republic, which Action Franaise sought to overthrow. In addition, many areas, especially in the central part of the country, were also contested between the French Reformed and Catholic nobles. By then, most Protestants were Cvennes peasants. "A Letter from Carolina, 1688: French Huguenots in the New World." [87] London financed the emigration of many to England and its colonies around 1700. Reply. By the end of the sixteenth century, Huguenots constituted 7-8% of the whole population, or 1.2million people. In the early 18th century, a regional group known as the Camisards (who were Huguenots of the mountainous Massif Central region) rioted against the Catholic Church, burning churches and killing the clergy. Some Huguenot descendants in the Netherlands may be noted by French family names, although they typically use Dutch given names. [56], Montpellier was among the most important of the 66 villes de sret ('cities of protection' or 'protected cities') that the Edict of 1598 granted to the Huguenots. A number of French Huguenots settled in Wales, in the upper Rhymney valley of the current Caerphilly County Borough. Many of these settlers were given land in an area that was later called Franschhoek (Dutch for 'French Corner'), in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa. The Huguenots of Guanabara, as they are now known, produced what is known as the Guanabara Confession of Faith to explain their beliefs. They founded the silk industry in England. Genealogical Publishing Company, Published: 1885, Reprinted: 1998. autumn snoop says 8 March 2017 at 12:22 am. His successor Louis XIII, under the regency of his Italian Catholic mother Marie de' Medici, was more intolerant of Protestantism. By 1687 Huguenots made up about 20 percent of the population of Berlin, making Berlin seem almost as much a French town as a German one. [16][17], The new teaching of John Calvin attracted sizeable portions of the nobility and urban bourgeoisie. The cities of Bourges, Montauban and Orlans saw substantial activity in this regard. The bulk of Huguenot migrs moved to Protestant states such as the Dutch Republic, England and Wales, Protestant-controlled Ireland, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the electorates of Brandenburg and the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Duchy of Prussia. After the 1534 Affair of the Placards,[37][38] however, he distanced himself from Huguenots and their protection. ), Swiss political leader) of dialectal eyguenot, from German dialectal Eidgenosse, confederate, from Middle High German eitgenz : eit . They were determined to end religious oppression. The ties between Huguenots and the Dutch Republic's military and political leadership, the House of Orange-Nassau, which existed since the early days of the Dutch Revolt, helped support the many early settlements of Huguenots in the Dutch Republic's colonies. Konstanze Dahn (real name Constanze Le Gaye) (1814-1894), German actress. Of the original 390 settlers in the isolated settlement, many had died; others lived outside town on farms in the English style; and others moved to different areas. The French Protestant Church of London was established by Royal Charter in 1550.
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