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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.
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]
Key work: Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. [336] François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, statesman. Key work: History of France. [337] Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer. [338] Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was ...
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.
Afrikaners are descended, to varying degrees, from Dutch, German and French Huguenot immigrants, along with minor percentages of other Europeans and indigenous African peoples. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] The first mixed race marriage which took place in Cape Town in 1664 was that of Krotoa , a Khoi woman, and Peder Havgaard, a Danish surgeon.
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 ...
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.
The building was built by refugee French Huguenots in 1766 as a church, it was later converted into a Baptist chapel, and in 1867 was acquired by a Jewish congregation. Historic England added the building as a Grade II listed building in 1987. [1] [4] It is the oldest surviving Ashkenazi synagogue in London.