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Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948–), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian. [136] [137] [138] Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family. [139] [140] Daniel Craig (1968–), English actor, descended from Pastor Daniel Chamier of Le Mont, near Mocas, west of Grenoble.
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.
English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The names can also be derived from places founded by people with English surnames.
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 -r-also began to disappear from the name on early maps, resulting in the current Acadia. [20] Possibly derived from the Míkmaq word akatik, pronounced roughly "agadik", meaning "place", which French-speakers spelled as -cadie in place names such as Shubenacadie and Tracadie, possibly coincidentally. [21]
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.
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.
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