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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]
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.
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 ...
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 The Act was largely repealed by the Tories in 1711 by the Naturalization Act 1711 (10 Ann.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 [6] The section dealing with naturalizing the children of British subjects born abroad was, however, not repealed.
However, out of some 2,000,000 who left Russia by 1914, around 120,000 settled permanently in Britain. One of the main concentrations was the same Spitalfields area where Huguenots had earlier congregated. Immigration was reduced by the Aliens Act 1905 and virtually curtailed by the 1914 Aliens Restriction Act. [75]
Historians estimate that the number of men and women imprisoned or sent to the galleys for religious offences in the 40 years following the edict of 1724 was almost two thousand. [10] According to Antoine Court, eight ministers were executed in this period. [11] This was a much lower rate than had occurred during the later part of Louis XIV's ...
The Huguenot Burial Site (also known as Mount Nod Cemetery) is a former burial ground for Huguenots in Wandsworth, London. It was in use from 1687 to 1854. It was in use from 1687 to 1854. The burial site is located between East Hill and Huguenot Place in the London Borough of Wandsworth .