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The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, & Industries in England and Ireland. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street. Somner, William (1640). The Antiquities of Canterbury, or a survey of that ancient Citie, with the Suburbs, and Cathedrall. London: Printed by I.L. for Richard Thrale.
Some Huguenot immigrants settled in central and eastern Pennsylvania. They assimilated with the predominantly Pennsylvania German settlers of the area. In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the King William III of England had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County. [89]
Some German Catholics who arrived were sent back, and some immigrants were sent on to Ireland, New York and Carolina. The Act was largely repealed by the Tories in 1711 by the Naturalization Act 1711 (10 Ann. c. 9). [6] The section dealing with naturalizing the children of British subjects born abroad was, however, not repealed.
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge were Neolithic farmers originating from Anatolia who brought agriculture to Europe. [10] At the time of their arrival, around 4,000 BC, Britain was inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers who were the first inhabitants of the island after the last Ice Age ended about 11,700 years ago. [11]
Huguenot weavers were French silk weavers of the Calvinist faith. They came from major silk-weaving cities in southern France, such as Lyon and Tours . They fled from religious persecution, migrating from mainland Europe to Britain around the time of Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , 1685.
The 2021 census recorded 163,517 French passport holders resident in England and Wales. [10] The number of residents of England and Wales born in France was recorded as 155,322. [11] Of the French-born people recorded by the 2011 census, 66,654 (48.4 per cent) lived in Greater London and 22,584 (16.4 per cent) in South East England.
She was the youngest daughter of Huguenots from Sigournay in Poitou, France. [2] [3] Her parents were a silk weaver from France, Pierre Abraham Ogier and his wife Catherine Rabaud. [4] Louisa Courtauld and her family moved to London when she was young, the city in which she spent most of her career. Her family's home at 19 Princelet Street, a ...
Here he met and in February 1689 married Marie Le Jeune, another Huguenot refugee who had managed to escape from France with her three children. In Uckermark they were allocated an empty farmstead, together with building material, seed corn, two horses, a cow, and 50 Thalers. Uckermark was a particular focus of Huguenot resettlement.