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American families of Huguenot ancestry (20 C, 1 P) B. Bosanquet family (11 P) C. Cazenove family (8 P) Constant de Rebecque (6 P) Courtauld family (15 P) D. De ...
Huguenots lived on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle, and also spread across provinces of Normandy and Poitou. In the south, towns like Castres, Montauban, Montpellier and Nîmes were Huguenot strongholds. In addition, a dense network of Protestant villages permeated the rural mountainous region of the Cevennes.
Pages in category "Huguenots" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Beginning in the late 1500s and peaking in the wake of the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), French Protestant refugees from France, the Huguenots, brought surnames like Dubarry (Aquitaine), Blanchard (whole France), Duhamel (Normandy, Picardy) and Dupuy (Aquitaine) into the English namespace, when the historical record shows these names had not been present prior to the fifteenth century.
After the accession of Elizabeth I, a small number of Huguenots returned to London, including Jan Utenhove in 1559. [2] In 1561, the Dutch Church of London were allowed by Great Seal of July 6th 1561 to send 25 Huguenot families to settle in Sandwich to revitalise its otherwise-dwindling economy. [5]
The Huguenots had been granted substantial rights in the 1598 Edict of Nantes, but Louis XIV renounced the Edict in 1685, triggering massive persecution. [2] Tens of thousands of Huguenots fled France to England including Sicard. From England, Sicard brought his family to the English colony of New York in 1688.