Daniel wrote: > The page acts weird, if you open it, it comes up, then the tripod homepage > comes up over it, so you need to back up to see it. Doesn't sound like any web page I've seen. What's the URL? > I have a problem > with some info on your web page. First Blanchards in America "In North > America, the first English immigrants of the family name BLANCHARD were Agnes > Blanchard who settled in Massachusetts in 1639; Thomas Blanchard who settled > in New England in 1652" Indeed, that's not right. > OK here is my info on it. Agnes was the Second Wife > of Thomas, who came to America in 1629 and lived in Charlestown, On the north > side of Boston, Thomas's first wife was Elizabeth, who dies on the voyage to > America, Agnes maiden name was Brent. Elizabeth had a child during the > voyage, who died days later. Some of this is right, but garbled. Agnes was the 2nd wife, but she was a BENT, and she died on the voyage, and the child who died on the voyage was likely the one born in England the year before. Elizabeth died in 1636. > Thomas was one of four children believed to be > the children of Pierre Jean BLANCHARD. Pierre Jean was Believed to be a > Huguenot, and fled France for religious freedom. He had four children (all > this is speculative, this about Pierre Jean) So far, all the evidence I've seen about Thomas indicates that he came from a Blanchard line that had been in England for many years. A former member of this list once claimed that he either had or expected to get some evidence for a Huguenot connection, but nothing turned up here. The speculation has an obvious basis (the name "Blanchard" is clearly of French origin, and there are Blanchards in France to this day), but there is apparently no evidence to back it up, and there were certainly Blanchards in various parts of England for centuries before Thomas showed up. John Chandler PS: I haven't made any index entries for this posting -- this stuff has all been discussed here before.