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Mission: Please feel free to use the ship and cross symbol on Geni.com, it was made for that purpose. This Project seeks to acknowledge people who self-identified as religious Huguenots, sometimes called "French Huguenots," who lived between 1540 and 1790, spoke French, or a language associated with French, were Protestant / Reformed Christians, and were somehow persecuted or discriminated ag...
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. Amongst the first Huguenots to come were Francois Villion (Viljoen) (who might rather be a Walloon) in 1671, Pierre le Febre in 1683, Jean de...
Under construction, feel free to contribute! Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Béarn. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. Background History of Béarn In 1564, Queen Jeanne III of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret), firmly opposing Rome, declared Catholicism outlawed and disbanded monasteries, confiscating ch...
INDEX of the PROJECTS NEEDED for the provinces of origin of the French Huguenots: Please come & join & help. Here is a Template for a Huguenot Province of Origin Project . Provinces 1 Isle de France (Paris) 2 Berri Berthault de Saint-Jean 3 Orléanais Avice, Basché, Bruère, Cellier, Cordier, Couvret, Foucher, Godefroy, Grillon, Le Roux, Machepasté, Martineau, Rétif, Ro...
Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in [ ]. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. * All welcome to join & contribute (Map: Coertzen, Pieter. 1988. Die Hugenote Van Suid Afrika 1688-1988: Cape Town, Tafelberg.)=Background History of [ ] at the time of the Huguenot Diaspora=Countries of Dispersal==South Africa*==N...
Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Languedoc. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. * All welcome to join & contribute (Map: Coertzen, Pieter. 1988. Die Hugenote Van Suid Afrika 1688-1988: Cape Town, Tafelberg.)=Background History of Languedoc at the time of the Huguenot DiasporaThe lands of Languedoc..are s...
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 wer...
Battleground Ireland=Ireland became a battleground almost by accident - having left England, James II had de facto handed William the crown on a silver plate. His only hope of restoration was linked to a return to his realm. And only one part was considered secure and sympathetic enough - Catholic Ireland, effectively ruled by the Jacobite Tyrconnel.Tyrconnel was determined to hold on to power ...
Join this project (Actions > Join Project) if you would like to become part of it Soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, King William and Queen Mary ascended to the throne of England. They offered the Huguenots the privilege of settling in Virginia. About 600 came to Virginia in 1700- 170. Many settled at a deserted Indian village called Manakintown.which is on the south side of the...
Paulus Balliet (1717-1777) was a Huguenot(French Protestant) who fled Catholic France for America. Paulus came to Philadelphia,PA and settled in Lehigh County in 1738. Paulus ran a Tavern/Inn, and helped found Ballietsville,PA, and credited with being the founder of the First Line of Balliets.
Scope===Scope of this project is to look in to the history of the huguenots in Britain and to indentify those who came and settled in Britain.=The Huguenots=An estimated 50,000 Protestant Walloons and Huguenots fled to England, about 10,000 of whom moved on to Ireland around the 1690s. In relative terms, this could be the largest wave of immigration of a single community into Britain ever. Of t...
The Zuid-Beveland arrives in Table Bay 19 August 1688 * Ship’s type: Pinas * Construction: Built in 1680 for the Chamber of Zeeland at the VOC ship yard in Middelburg.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1681 until it burnt out in 1690 in Amsterdam.* Length: 130 feet* Breadth: 31 feet* Draught (depth): 13,5 feet* Loading capacity: 518 tons* Flag: Chamber of Zeeland =Voyage to the Cape:*Date of depart...
Notable Huguenots or people from Huguenot descent United States Arts & Entertainment=== James Agee , American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author Earl W. Bascom , American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor William Christopher, American actor Joan Crawford , American actress Davy Crockett , American folk hero Johnny Depp , American actor Philip Morin Fr...
Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Normandie. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. * All welcome to join & contribute (Map: Coertzen, Pieter. 1988. Die Hugenote Van Suid Afrika 1688-1988: Cape Town, Tafelberg.)=Background History of Normandie at the time of the Huguenot DiasporaImportant with regard to Hugu...
Notable Huguenot descendants - Britain=>>> ===Arts, Entertainment and sports===* Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens*Tony Cottee, West Ham United and England footballer* Piers Courage , English racing driver*Phil de Glanville, England rugby union international (private profile)* William De Morgan , British art potter, tile designer, and author*G.E.M. de Ste. Cr...
The Voorschoten arrived in Saldanha on 25 April 1688, & in the Cape on 13 April 1688* Ship’s type: Fluitschip * Construction: Built in 1684 for the Chamber of Delft at the VOC ship yard in Delftshaven .* Term: In use by the VOC from 1684 until 9 November 1706 when it was dismantled in Batavia.* Length: 131 feet* Breadth: 31 feet* Depth: 13,75 feet* Loading capacity: 558 tons* Crew: 155-172 men*...
Huguenots were French Protestants, the term possibly deriving from mispronunciation of the Swiss-German Eidgenosse, meaning sworn companion or confederate. They were at the centre of political and religious disputes in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Under Henri II (1547-59) they formed a powerful group which included the king of Navarre and Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, and was...
Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often began to marry outside their immediate French communities fairly rapidly, which led to their assimilation. Their descendants in many families continued to use French first names and surnames for their c...
INDEX of the PROJECTS for the ships that brought French Huguenots from the Netherlands to the Cape* VRIJHEIJT 23 June 1686** du Toit * EEMSLAND 13 October 1687** de Péronne * BOSWIJK c1687** Veron * VOORSCHOOTEN arrived Saldanha Bay 13 April 1688, arrived on JUPITER in Cape 8 May 1688 ** Days: 130. People: 192. Deaths: 1 (0.52 %)** Marais, le Roux, Fouché, Souchay, Pinard, Tabourdeaux, Malherbe...
Please attach the profiles of French Huguenots who were born in Provence. If possible, also add their names into the text below, according to their country of emigration. * All welcome to join & contribute (Map: Coertzen, Pieter. 1988. Die Hugenote Van Suid Afrika 1688-1988: Cape Town, Tafelberg.)=Background History of Provence at the time of the Huguenot DiasporaThe French provinces of Provenc...
The Spierdijk Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 23 April 1688=* Ship’s type: Fluitschip * Construction: Built in 1685 for the Chamber of Amsterdam at the VOC ship yard in Amsterdam.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1685 until it was sold on 28 June 1708 in Batavia.* Length: 130 feet* Breadth: 32 feet* Depth: 14 feet* Loading capacity: 606 tons* Crew: 120-200 men* Flag: Chamber of Amsterdam =Voya...
The Vrijheid arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 23 June 1686* Ship’s type: Jacht * Construction: Built in 1666 for the Chamber of Amsterdam at the VOC ship yard in Amsterdam.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1666 until 17 July 1691 when it was sold in Batavia.* Length: 170 feet* Breadth: 39 feet* Loading capacity: 1210 tons* Crew: 240-300 men* Flag: Chamber of Zeeland =Voyage to the Cape: *Date o...
The Oosterlandt arrives in Table Bay 25 April 1688 * Ship’s type: Spiegelretourschip ("Transom return ship" built for transport between the Dutch Republic and the settlements and strongholds of the Dutch East India Company in the East Indies. On an outward voyage these ships carried guns and bricks for the settlements and strongholds, and silver and golden coins to purchase Asian goods. On a re...
The Schelde arrives in Table Bay 5 June 1688 * Ship’s type: Jacht * Construction: Built in 1682 for the Chamber of Zeeland at the VOC ship yard in Middelburg.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1683 until it was dismantled in Batavia in January 1703.* Length: 140 feet* Breadth: 35,5 feet* Draught (depth): 14,75 feet* Loading capacity: 733 tons* Crew: 200-250 men* Flag: Chamber of Zeeland =Voyage to ...
The Borssenburg arrives in Table Bay 12 May 1688 * Ship’s type: Kat * Construction: Built in 1686 for the Chamber of Amsterdam at the VOC ship yard in Amsterdam.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1686 until it was wrecked at Surat on 7 May 1697.* Length: 115 feet* Breadth: 27 feet* Depth: 9,5 feet* Loading capacity: 320 tons* Crew: 80-100 men* Flag: Chamber of Amsterdam =Voyage to the Cape:*Date of...