Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Picardie. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration.

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Background History of Picardie at the time of the Huguenot Diaspora

Work in Progress

So far as Picardy is concerned, the provincial boundaries do not adequately represent an area whose inhabitants might well consider themselves Picards. This would include a considerable part of the Ile-de-France and some border districts of Champagne.The towns of Compiegne and Chateau Thierry, for example, important in the context of the Cape emigration, clearly fall within this greater Picardy.... In the Picardy colloquy one-third of the 15 000 members were attached to the churches of Calais and Boulogne-surMer, in Picardy, Saint-Quentin specialized in lawns and muslins.... No record of Gedeon le Grand in the United Provinces has been found, but Abraham, who left Compiegne towards 1693, married the widow Marie Mangard at Haarlem on January 13, 1699. His wife, the daughter of Pierre Mangard and Elisabeth Sezille, was born at Rosieres in Picardy about the year 1670 and had settled in Haarlem with her parents in 1688 before marrying the refugee Jean Mesant.

...extracted from Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 8 Cape settlers from Burgundy to Picardy

Countries of Dispersal

South Africa

• CORDIER Louis MARTINET Françoise ? PICARDIE then CHAMPAGNE 1688 ? Bethel, Drakenstein
• Jean de Bus (1672-) from Marck, Picardie
• Nicolas de Lanoy, from Guines/ Calais, Picardie. Came in 1688. died soon afterwards
• Marguerite de France, from Guines/ Calais, Picardie. Came in 1688.
  • Marie de Lanoy from Guines/ Calais, Picardie in 1688
  • Nicolas de Lanoy Jnr from Guines/ Calais, Picardie in 1688
  • Mathieu de Lanoy from Guines/ Calais, Picardie in 1688
  • Suzanne de Lanoy from Guines/ Calais, Picardie in 1688
  • Francois de Lanoy from Guines/ Calais, Picardie in 1688
• Pierre Jacobs (1646-1693) from Calais/Ville Eglis, Picardie x Suzanne de Vos (1647-1708) from Calais/Ville Eglis, Picardie
  • Suzanne Jacobs (1671-1696) Calais/Ville Eglis, Picardie
  • Daniël Jacobs (1673-1712) Calais/Ville Eglis, Picardie
  • Sara Jacobs (1677-1712) Calais/Ville Eglis, Picardie
• Anne Marton Calais, Picardie
• Pierre Mouy (died 1735) from Saint-Armand, possibly Calais, Picardie in 1699. Settled at de Krakeelhoek, Wagenmakersvallei
  • Marié Mouy (1685-1758) from Saint-Armand, possibly Calais, Picardie in 1699. Settled at de Krakeelhoek, Wagenmakersvallei
  • Jeanne Mouy (born 1686) from Saint-Armand, possibly Calais, Picardie in 1699. Settled at de Krakeelhoek, Wagenmakersvallei
• Jean Manie, from Calais, Picardie in c1688. Settled in Calais, Daljosaphat

North America

Britain

Ireland

References & Resources

• List of Huguenots embarking from France
• Huguenot Heritage Society of SA
• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 8 Cape settlers IV: from Burgundy to Picardy

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