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The Huguenot population of France dropped to 856,000 by the mid-1660s, of which a plurality lived in rural areas. ... While many American Huguenot groups worship in ...
Wil Wheaton (1972–), American actor, atheist with distant Huguenot ancestry from Montserrat on his mother's side. [ 259 ] [ 260 ] Brian Wilson , American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.
By 1900 New Rochelle had a population of 14,720. [24] As the effects of continuing immigration continued throughout the northeastern United States and New York in particular, the early French Huguenot character of the town and its ruling class dissolved. In 1930 New Rochelle recorded a population of 54,000, up from 36,213 only ten years earlier.
The mayor and the militia lost control of the proceedings and a general massacre of the town's Huguenot population ensued, the rural pilgrims from out of town setting themselves upon the burghers, with over 50 houses looted and 100 killed. [15] The authorities sought in vain to re-establish control on 13 April but their orders were ignored. [16]
The damage done to the Huguenots meant a decline from 10% to 8% of the French population. [170] The decision of King Louis XIII to reintroduce Catholicism in a portion of southwestern France prompted a Huguenot revolt.
From 1821 to 1920, around 121,000 Basques and Bearnese people from Basses-Pyrénées emigrated to America—more than 108,000 from 1835 to 1901. [21] As of 2016, the exact number of people who fled from France during the Revolutionary-era is not known. [22] Between 1848 and 1939, 1 million people with French passports emigrated to other ...
The clock and churchtower of St Mary's Church, Rye. The town of Rye, Sussex had a small refugee population in the early 1560s. While not being in Kent, the Huguenot community at Rye interacted primarily with those in Kent, and a large number of Huguenots migrated to towns in Kent.
Huguenot participants in the American Revolution (67 P) Pages in category "Huguenot history in the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.