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Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American folk hero and the descendant of one Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV, whose family converted to Protestantism, fled France and settled in the north of Ireland. [677] Philippe de Corguilleray, colonist, French Antarctique. [678] Louis de Freycinet, French ...
Pages in category "Huguenots" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Some Huguenot descendants in the Netherlands may be noted by French family names, although they typically use Dutch given names. Due to the Huguenots' early ties with the leadership of the Dutch Revolt and their own participation, some of the Dutch patriciate are of part-Huguenot descent.
Fifteen or more Huguenot families who were driven from France as religious refugees settled on the ashes of Bennet's colony, and the settlement was unique among the Huguenot settlements in Ireland in that the French language survived, being used in church services till the 1820s and continuing to be taught in the town school.
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 ...
The French meaning of the name comes from the common French place name Laval, from Old French val 'valley'. This is also a Huguenot name (with the same etymology), taken to England by Etienne-Abel Laval, a minister of the French church in Castle Street, London, around 1730.French: habitational name from Lavelle in Puy-de-Dôme or various other ...
The Huguenot Society of Canada is an organization which published the Huguenot Trails publication from 1968 to 2003. [1] In 1985, it organized a conference to study ...
Francis Beaufort was descended from French Protestant Huguenots, who fled the French Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century. His parents moved to Ireland from London.His father, Daniel Augustus Beaufort, was a Protestant clergyman from Navan, County Meath, Ireland, and a member of the learned Royal Irish Academy.