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The Huguenot population of Canterbury grew significantly following the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572. [29] In 1597, after an inquiry by the Consistory, it was found that the congregation including men, women, and young children numbered 2068. [40]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Brick Lane has changed with successive waves of immigration as newer communities reclaim the area as their own and older ones move out. [1] The documentary explores the history of many first-generation immigrants over the centuries, [2] it works its way back and forth in time through three groups of immigrants, [3] from French Huguenots to Jewish immigrants and more recently Bangladeshi residents.
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.
An 1820s portrait of the traveller woman Margaret Finch from Norwood. Theoretically, Romani people and travellers had been expelled from England since the 1560s, but there was nonetheless a community in London in the 18th century, particularly in Norwood. They were particularly associated with horse dealing and fortune-telling at London's fairs.
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