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Key work: Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. [335] François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, statesman. Key work: History of France. [336] Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer. [337] Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was ...
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. [82] When they arrived, colonial authorities offered them instead land 20 miles above the falls of the James River, at the abandoned Monacan village known as ...
Canterbury hosted the first congregation of Huguenots in England. [1] This first Huguenot church in Canterbury was founded around 1548, in part by Jan Utenhove who relocated from Strasbourg, alongside Valérand Poullain and François de la Rivière.
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 ...
La Montagne or La Montagne or Lamontagne is a surname of French (Norman) origins but is possibly related to some surnames within Ireland and England. The word "montagne" in French translates as the word "mountain" in English. Also, there were French Huguenots who settled within the United Kingdom during the 16th and 17th centuries.
De la Cour is a French-language surname, meaning "of the court". The alternative forms Delacour and Delacourt were used by a Huguenot refugee who settled in Portarlington, County Laois, as well as his descendants who later moved to County Cork and then to England. [1] [2]
The patriarch, Richard Dana (c.1620—1690) was said to have been born in France.A Huguenot, he would have fled to England as a result of the Edict of Restitution of 1629, and subsequently emigrated to New England, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts by 1640.
Some French Huguenots who had moved to England by the 18th century bore the surname "Pelegrin". [ 4 ] The first records of the surname Peregrine in England are from Norfolk in the 13th century, where these Norman descendants held vast estates.