Marie Tiphaine < Tiffany >

From the Huguenot Society: The French refugees who made it to Manakin, Virginia came from all over France. Some had arrived in England some years before 1685 so that even heads of families, and even more children, had not been born in France. These, reading the times, escaped just ahead of the holocaust while others were able to escape to England soon after. It would take much too long, even if it were possible, to trace even a few of the families. We do know, however, that five families escaped at the time of the holocaust from Sedan, and they seem to be more or less representative of the refugees who made it to England. Let's trace their movements to see what happened in those years between 1685 and 1700. One of the five families was named Tipphané (Tiffany) and, though they came from Sedan, they did not come to Virginia but rather made it to New York City where their names became synonymous with jewelry. The names of the other four families who came directly to Manakin were LeGrand, Rochet, Michaux, and Sublette (Soblet). Sedan is an old city in Lorraine, only about five miles from Belgium, then the Spanish Netherlands. These families escaped to the Spanish Netherlands just before or just after 1685, and from there to the blessed Dutch Republic. That republic was headed by Stadhalter William of Orange, a staunch Calvinist and coreligionist of the Huguenots, and an implacable enemy of the supreme egotist and tyrant, the Roman Catholic Louis XIV.