Most Huguenot Churches' registers in Great Britain were not kept much later than about 1830. Requires knowing that French surnames by the 20th century are very likely to have been anglicized, sometimes rendering it difficult to determine the original “Huguenot” spelling of the family surname

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. But in the reign of William and Mary, the largest number of foreign refugees were Naturalized in these countries, from 1689 to the 3rd July, 1701.

Caillemotte: La Caillemotte, younger son of the old Marquis de Ruvigny, commanded a Huguenot regiment at the battle of the Boyne, where he was killed. Cosne-Chaverney: Captain de Cosne-Chaverney came over with the Prince of Orange in command …

27/11/2018 · A brief survey finds this to be a French origin surname, but most likely after the Normans, since it retained the original French spelling. I checked out the Huguenot Society, and they have Bouchers on record as confirmed Huguenot refugees to Britain in the 17th century.

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Huguenots in the Freedom Records of the City of London, 1714-25, Michael Gandy 8 Huguenots from Brittany, Michael Gandy 11 The Pousset family, Susan Wheeler 12

14/12/2012 · The settlement of Portarlington is quite interesting because it’s the only one in the British Isles that was built specifically for Huguenots. It was actually built for them in 1692. The majority of the people who went there were veterans from William III’s army, Dutch William who came over in 1688 to take the crown with this wife Mary.

From 1887 onwards, the Society’s Quarto Series has published a variety of original records concerning Huguenots in Great Britain and Ireland, including church registers, details of Huguenot charitable relief and records of naturalizations. The series contains information on thousands of members of Huguenot congregations and communities and each volume is extensively indexed.

04/02/2016 · The Flemish, Huguenot and Walloon refugees were the only groups allowed to have separate churches before 1642, and this was in order to conduct services in their own languages. The very active Huguenot Society has published and indexed most of the important records of all three groups, and these have also been filmed and extracted onto the IGI. The Huguenot …