On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:04:42 -0000, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > There is reference to people from Wales and the Welsh language in > Matthew's Bristol Directory of 1793-4, which may be of interest to some > listers: > The languages spoken commonly, are English, Welsh and Irish; and there is > every dialect of English used here that is known in England.' On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:53:57 -0000, Tony Harrison <a.harrison@tesco.net> wrote: > Hi Josephine > They seem to have omitted French as there was quite an influx of > Huguenots in Bristol Hi Tony, French may have been omitted because Britain was at war with France in 1793 or because the three languages mentioned were the ones spoken the most by the inhabitants of Bristol at the time. In 1793-4 there was a chapel in Orchard Street for French Protestants in which divine service was performed every Sunday in French. There was also a French School for Young Ladies in Kingsdown run by Ann Gautier. Josephine

Hi Josephine Lodowykus Mondet who was buried at Temple Church 22 June 1756 was a Huguenot merchant from Dublin who I presume was in Bristol on business. He is fom my wife's ancestors. In my family we have several Silk Weaver Huguenots I met a cousin who said her grandmother told her about our common gg grandmother speaking to her in French while sitting spinning. Tony ---Original Message----- From: Josephine Jeremiah Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 5:35 PM To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: [B&S] French in Bristol in the late 18th century ( was Welsh people and Welsh language in Bristol ....) On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:04:42 -0000, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > There is reference to people from Wales and the Welsh language in > Matthew's Bristol Directory of 1793-4, which may be of interest to some > listers: > The languages spoken commonly, are English, Welsh and Irish; and there is > every dialect of English used here that is known in England.' On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:53:57 -0000, Tony Harrison <a.harrison@tesco.net> wrote: > Hi Josephine > They seem to have omitted French as there was quite an influx of > Huguenots in Bristol Hi Tony, French may have been omitted because Britain was at war with France in 1793 or because the three languages mentioned were the ones spoken the most by the inhabitants of Bristol at the time. In 1793-4 there was a chapel in Orchard Street for French Protestants in which divine service was performed every Sunday in French. There was also a French School for Young Ladies in Kingsdown run by Ann Gautier. Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message