Huguenots coming to American colonies. Three family lines. All maternal.

Anita,
My Huguenot ancestors settled in Rhode Island. Gabriel Bernon & his wife came to America in1686. He was born in La Rochelle, France. He went to Canada on a merchant trip, but when he returned home, he was imprisoned because the church owed him so much money (& couldn't/wouldn't pay). He was a very rich French merchant & a Huguenot!!! His imprisonment lasted about 2 years. He was near death, so they let him go home to die, only he didn't & escaped to Holland. His wife Esther, with her children were sent to a convent. She feigned conversion to Catholicism & was released & able to join her husband in Holland, then to England eventually where her husband collected other Huguenots & emigrated to Oxford, MA, then eventually they moved on to RI where he founded Trinity Church in Newport & the Cathedral of St John in Providence, RI. There is even a plaque in his memory in the St John Church.

I wrote a research paper on him for a collage English course & entitled it "My French Connection". Got an A- on it!!! Had to include info about the Huguenot/Catholic conflict as well as some French history around that time to tie it all together. They are my 7th great grandparents on my mom's side.

I sent requests to add you to both of the Huguenot projects. I hope you will join both and add your ancestors to which ever seems appropriate.

Feel free to contact me thru my home email. I am on the computer every day and keep an eye on incoming mail...

Pat
pscoggin@cox.net

Anita,
When I put "Huguenot" in the search field for projects there are a lot of projects you might want to check out... esp. if your Huguenot ancestors came from other than France.

As for my Huguenot ancestors, I can claim to have a jail-bird for an ancestor, even though he wasn't really guilty of anything other that religious beliefs & being owed money!!! Some of his brothers remained Catholics & stayed in La Rochelle.
Pat

My Huguenot connection is with Jacob & Francis Flournoy, who arrived in Virginia in September 1700 abroad the ship "Peter and Anthony. These Huguenots initially settled in Manakintown and the surrounding area. (for those of you with Virginia Huguenot settlers.)

My 4th great grandfather a French Huguenot in the late 1800's fled France to Belgium then to Ireland. He opened the first Jewellry shop in Sydney Australia.

@Huguenots coming to American colonies: I continue the line of Michel DesLoges. The son of Michael in my line is Thomas DeLoach (American spellings, one of many) b. 1680 Isle of Wight, Virginia d. 1748.
Samuel DeLoach b. 1706 married Mary Boykin (1726-1773) d. 1764
William DeLoach b.1745 d 1827 Born Edgecomb, N. Carolina married Purity (Ruffin)DeLoach
Thomas DeLoach b. 1772 Edgecomb, N. Carolina d. 1839 m.Sally Pennington 1788-1839
Egbert H. DeLoach b. 1808 Logan, Kentucky d.1870 >Holmes, Miss.>Winn Parish, Louisiana married Eleanor Bullock
Martha Ann DeLoach b. 13 Sep 1849 d. 27 Jan 1918 b. Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
d. Grant, Louisiana Anita Wray Noirart1011@gmail.com

@Huguenots coming to American colonies: I continue the line of Michel DesLoges. The son of Michael in my line is Thomas DeLoach (American spellings, one of many) b. 1680 Isle of Wight, Virginia d. 1748.
Samuel DeLoach b. 1706 married Mary Boykin (1726-1773) d. 1764
William DeLoach b.1745 d 1827 Born Edgecomb, N. Carolina married Purity (Ruffin)DeLoach
Thomas DeLoach b. 1772 Edgecomb, N. Carolina d. 1839 m.Sally Pennington 1788-1839
Egbert H. DeLoach b. 1808 Logan, Kentucky d.1870 >Holmes, Miss.>Winn Parish, Louisiana married Eleanor Bullock
Martha Ann DeLoach b. 13 Sep 1849 d. 27 Jan 1918 b. Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
d. Grant, Louisiana Anita Wray Noirart1011@gmail.com

Trying to Determine if this family French Huguenot or not. What best references to find out if they listed anywhere???

Captain George Wolfe, II

Billie

https://www.huguenotsocietyofamerica.org/history/ancestors/

(I don’t think the George Wolfe family from Alsace-Lorraine is considered Huguenot).

I assume George Wolfe is Palantine German based on the name of who he married and where he settled. There's a large German immigration to William Penn's colony at the same time more or less as the "Scots Irish" who were a combination of Scots from the Ulster Plantation and Scots from Scotland. Others know much more than I do about this. I just glanced at his profile.

Huguenots started coming earlier, including to New England and also to South Carolina fairly early. Some came through England and Scotland. They were Protestants who were not only persecuted but killed en masse by Catholic soldiers (I think, at least that's my impression). America was settled by all sorts of usually Calvinist Protestants fleeing persecution, usually from Catholic countries, but also the Scots Presbyterians and others who had issues with the tithing and other religious policies of the Anglican Church in England and Northern Ireland.

Thanks all though I check.

Billie

A great background on the diverse countries of the Huguenot diaspora can be found in lectures on YouTube. My father's family came through Germany, and thought that was their origins for many years , which is the case of many whose names were not pronounceable i.e. d'Aubert to Ober. These families intermarriages are a really good clue to their origins, so I have been researching them along established lines in my family like the Tiffany family. My mother and father's families are also distantly related. I've read the material on the Crockett family, but it seems that only the southern branch was researched; the northern branch definitely were marrying Huguenot families, so I do not believe the accusations that the Crocketts have a spurious pedigree. It all still conjecture.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS8a7GWrAWg