Fleeing religious persecution of Protestants in France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes (which had guaranteed their rights), 200 000 French Huguenots emigrated to countries such as Switzerland. Germany, England, America, and South Africa. They came from two main regions in France and the Southern Netherlands, one region stretched from Flanders to the Loire Valley, the other reg...
Origin and Meaning of the Mesenbring / Mesenbrink Name The origin of the Mesenbring / Mesenbrink name is most likely either Northern Germany (Lower Saxony) or the Netherlands. It's also possible the name has multiple origin points from similarly-named family farms. With the exception of a handful of Mesenbrinks who originated in the Netherlands, the vast majority of Mesenbrinks can be traced t...
STANOVNIŠTVO POLUOTOKA PELJEŠCA SVEZAK 1 POPULATION PELJESAC PENINSULA VOLUME 1 Dr. Nenad Vekaric The old Peljesac families are numerous names that exist in Konavle and some of them are very typical (Bjelivuk Brau-tović Buzdohan Glumac Kličko Netica Kordič Letunić Mekišić Mišić Piplica Sabich Salatić Šturica Vlastelica Vrnjas). They were likely to discover the migration of the 15th centur...
Bring your well developed profiles of American women of the 1700s to this project.==notables==* Frances Slocum (Mo-con-no-quah, "Young Bear" or "Little Bear") was an adopted member of the Miami tribe.From List of American women's firsts * 1700s - Henrietta Johnston becomes the first female artist working in the colonies.* 1750 - Jane Colden was the first woman in America to win distinction as a...
Raadpensionarissen van het Graafschap Holland tijdens de Zeventien Provinciën:* 1480-1489 : Barthout van Assendelft ‧ c.1440-na.1502* 1489-1494 : Jan Bouwensz ‧ c.1452-1514* 1494-1497 : Barthout van Assendelft* 1500-1513 : Frans Coebel van der Loo * 1513-1524 : Albrecht van Loo * 1525-1544 : Aert van der Goes * 1544-1560 : Adriaen van der Goes * 1560-1568 : Jacob van den Eynde Raadpensionarisse...