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The Huguenots in Ireland
Around the start of the eighteenth century, as Irish conditions became more settled, two groups of continental Protestant refugees were settled in the country with official, or semi-official help. The first of these, the Huguenots , were French Calvinists persecuted intermittently by the Catholic rulers of France throughout the seventeenth century. The second group were the German Palatines.
Small numbers of refugees from this persecution had come to Ireland, mainly via England, from 1620 to 1641, and again with Cromwell in 1649, but it was in 1685, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had guaranteed them toleration, that the main body of Huguenots began to arrive, mostly from the countryside around the city of La Rochelle in the modern region of Poitou-Charentes.
After the end of the Williamite wars, large Huguenot settlements were established in Portarlington, Youghal, Cork, Dublin, Waterford and Lisburn, where they became celebrated for their expertise in textiles, specialising in weaving, lace-making, and glove-making. In the course of time, they became thoroughly absorbed into Irish society through intermarriage, and names such as Boucicault, Maturin, Le Fanu and Trench are still familiar in Ireland today.
Approximately 5000 French Huguenots came to live in Ireland.
Scope:
Scope of this project is to look in to the history of the huguenots in Ireland and to identify those who came and settled in Ireland .
Please feel free to add Huguenot profiles or the profiles of their descendants.
Huguenot colonies in Ireland
Lisburn, Portarlington, Cork, Dublin, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Limerick, Tipperary, Louth, Monaghan, Cavan Killeshandra
Huguenot Patron
Henri Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny
Notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland
- Colonel Isaac Barré, British politician, gave his name to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Barre, Massachusetts; and Barre, Vermont
- Seán Francis Lemass
- Obadiah Williams, Irish merchant
- William Larminie, Irish poet
- Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer
- Charles Maturin , Irish Gothic writer
- James Gandon, Anglo - Irish Georgian architect
Irelands most prominent Huguenot family:
Ireland’s most prominent Huguenot family descend from David La Touche , a refugee from the Loire Valley who served at the Battle of the Boyne and went on to found the bank of La Touche & Sons. His descendants were to be instrumental in the evolution of Ireland’s banking institutions over the 18th century and to spearhead educational reform in the 19th. La Touche of Harristown
Related documents
Huguenot emigration paths found
- La Trobe family France
> England ---> Ireland
> New Orleans. - Beranger family France --->Netherlands---> Ireland
- Pettigrew / Petticrew -- France - Scotland - Ireland - South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio
- Mestayer : Languedoc France --->Dublin Ireland ---> London England.
- D'Olier : France ---> Amsterdam, the Netherlands
> Dublin, Ireland - Labertouche : France ---> Wexford & Dublin, Ireland ---> New South Wales
- Hautenville : Rouen, France ---> London, England,
>Lisburn, Ireland
> Dublin,Ireland
Irish Pensioners Of William III's Huguenot Regiments, 1702
The Irish Pensioners of William III's Huguenot Regiments, 1702. From Huguenot Society of London Proceedings, Vol. 6, No. 3, Nov. 1899.
List of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors
External links:
- Full list of Huguenots names of Dublin
- The Huguenot society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Portarlington and the Huguenots
- Huguenots in Ireland
- Huguenot Cemetery Dublin
- The Huguenots of Lisburn
- HUGUENOT FAMILIES taken from "Irish Pedigrees",vol.2
- List of Huguenots buried in the Dublin Huguenot cemetery