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The Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 9), sometimes referred to as the Foreign and Protestants Naturalization Act 1708, [3] was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Huguenot cemetery, or the "Huguenot Burial Ground", has since been recognised as a historic cemetery that is the final resting place for a wide range of the Huguenot founders, early settlers and prominent citizens dating back more than three centuries. Some Huguenot immigrants settled in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Emblem of The Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America is a New York City–based genealogical organization. On April 12, 1883, the Society was inaugurated by a group of descendants of Huguenots who had fled persecution in France and who (or whose descendants) settled in what is now the United States of America.
The source followed by most modern historians is the Huguenot refugee Élie Benoist's Histoire de l'édit de Nantes, 3 vols. (Delft, 1693–95). E.G. Léonard devotes a chapter to the Edict of Nantes in his Histoire général du protestantisme , 2 vols. (Paris) 1961:II:312–89.
De Chair was the younger son of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair and his wife Enid Struben, daughter of Henry William Struben, of Transvaal, South Africa.The de Chair family were of Huguenot origin, descending from Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean Francois, Councillor to Charles IX, was created a Marquis in 1600 by Henry IV.
Louise Weiss (1893–1983), French journalist and politician, international affairs expert and pacifist. She was the daughter of an Alsatian Protestant mining engineer and philanthropist, Paul Louis Weiss (1867–1945), and a Jewish mother. [377] [378]
An Episode from the Dragonnades, painting by Jules Girardet A Protestant political cartoon satirising the Dragonnades. The Dragonnades was a policy implemented by Louis XIV in 1681 to force French Protestants known as Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism.
Surnames of Huguenot Families on the Huguenot Memorial in the Johannesburg Botanical Garden. There are many families, today mostly Afrikaans-speaking, whose surnames bear witness to their Huguenot ancestry. A comprehensive list of these surnames can be seen on the Huguenot Memorial in the Johannesburg Botanical Garden.