I have Wendt ancestors in my history. My gggrandfather was Gottlieb Wendt, born around 1820 in the Poznan area. He came to Texas in the 1870's and lived in the Brenham, TX area. If this is a "hit" for you or anyone else. Let me know. Cal Goerdel

Could someone please help me with the county name (departement) for the towns of Caen and Bayeux in France? Many thanks. Sue Researching LE TOUZEY

Andrew , Herewith what Lart's has on the Boileaus I. Guillaume BOILEAU, 1420-1494, Tresorier des domaines Royaux de Nimes et Beaucaire x Etiennete BOURDIN, fa Jean 2. Antoine BOILEAU, sgr de Castelnau, La Garde, Ste Croix de Boirac +1530 x 1497 Françoise TROUSSELIER, fa Jean Dr Jur, Cller du Roi, Chancelier de la Faculté de montpellier 3. Jean BOILEAU sgr de Castelnau, Tresorier de Nimes, Protestant, *1500 +1562 x Anne de MONTCALM (there is aconnection to the Loriols by this marriage) 4. Jean BOILEAU de Castelnau, Ier consul de Nimes , 1543-1618, x 2) 1576 Rose CALVIERE de St cosme, fa Nicolas (there is a connection to the Loriols with this marriage too) (one of his children also married an AIREBOUDOUZE, CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LORIOLS) 5. Nicolas BOILEAU de Castelnau, *31/12/1578 +1657 x Anne de CALVIERE de BOUCOIRAN 18/3/1619 (ANOTHER CONNECTION to the Loriols) 6. Jacques BOILEAU sgr de Castelnau, *15/1/1626 +Lyon 17/1/1697 , Consul de Nimes, x Françoise de VIGNOLLES + 14/1/1700 Geneva, Jacques & Louise de BASCHI d'AUBAIS (there is a connection with the Loriols with this marriage too!) .... One of their children, Louise x 1708 Abel de LIGONIER, de Montcuquet, brother of Field Marshall Lord Ligonier, son of Louis and Louise du PONCET. (there is aconnection with the Loriols with this marraige too!) 7. Charles BOILEAU de CASTELNAU *1670 +7/3/1733 Dublin, x 30/12/1703 Marie Madeleine COLLOT d'ESCURY, fa Daniel & Dame Ctherine de la VALETTE. (the collots are still represented to this day in holland) 8. Simeaon BOILEAU de CASTELNAU, * Southampton 10/10/1717 +Dublin 15/7/1767 x 1741 Elizabeth de la COUR des Brisay, fa Teophile & Magdelaine VERGEZE d'AUBUSSARGUES +1788 Bur 13/12/1788 9. Solomon BOILEAU , *31/1/1745 x Dorothy GLADWELL 10. Anne x John REID, B.C.S. hope this fills some holes - still interested in your Sellon ancestry! All the Best, Peter de Loriol 74 Elms Road London, SW4 9EW, GB Fax: (0)207 622 4505 Tel : (0)207 622 9623

This is just a little publicity for a web site I have found very fruitful. Read on because there is a question for the experts at the end. A few weeks ago SKS, whose identity I regrettably cannot recall, posted a message about Philippe Ramona's site http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/englabst.htm which has some excellent resources for searching people and places in France. One link on this site worthy of particular note is "Geneactes", which enables search and help for publication of civil-status records from 1599 in French Communes or Parishes. http://www.geneactes.org/index-en.html. The beauty is some records throws up additional parishes by name and location code which help to trace other family members geographically who were principles in a baptism or a marriage.. Using it I felt a high degree of confidence in it as a copy of a primary source and it has already enabled me to check the accuracy of some of the Familysearch Pedigree Resource file data posted for my THEVELIN family!! I would be very interested to hear the views of other listers on the reliability of these records and their connection with French Protestant church records. I notice they contain more information than in the corresponding Protestant Church record at, for example, Guines, Pas-de-Calais published by the Huguenot Society. I'm sure Andrea will find a suitable place for it on the HWE-L website. Clive Bates Researching: TEVELEIN, THEVELIN, GIBBONS, GIBBENS, FISHER, BATES (- 1700) in Kent, France and Netherlands.

Have ancestors by this name from the Huntingdon area. Have been told they probably came from the Thorney Huguenots. Any info gratefully received. Thanks

Andrea asked:- Does anyone know what the Surtees Society is/was? It's mentioned in one of the footnotes in Reaney. Answer: It is/was (not sure if still extant) one of the many societies founded in UK in the 19th and 20th centures with the principal or subsidiary aim of editing and publishing transcriptions of historical documents. Huguenot Society is another , Harleian Society, Camden Society, Selden Society, Yorkshire Archeological Society, Southampton Record Society, etc. etc. Many English counties and cities had/have record societies and publications of this type. I seem to remember the Surtees Society has a Yorkshire and/or legal interest. Sets of these publications are to be found in many large city and university libraries in UK and N.America. Regards Bob Hairsine

dO YOU HAVE A LIST OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HUGUENOTS?--THANKS Alvenia Trahan Thibodeaux List Administrator: ISTRE-L@rootsweb.com -----Original Message----- From: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D-request@rootsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:01 AM To: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D@rootsweb.com Subject: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D Digest V01 #76

My example of `anglicisation' is conveniently short! Extract from our database/chronology:- 1661 5 Jun Mary Hairsigne & Richard Tendall married at the church of St Mary & St Botolph Thorney Abbey Cambs. Source: Thorney Abbey Registers 2 vols 1653 - 1837 Transcript of the registers of the English church at Thorney at Society of Genealogists Library. 1661 23 Nov Marie fille de Richard Tindall et Marie Hersin bapt.at Thorney Cambs. temoins: Abraham Hersin, Jenne Cosseau Source: Thorney Register: Register of baptisms of the French Church at Thorney Cambridgeshire. Huguenot Society Quarto Series Vol XVII. Commentary: Mary and Richard married at Thorney Abbey before English congregation. The clerk spelt what he heard in English form. 5 mths later Mary and Richard baptised their daughter in the same church according to the French protestant rite. The immigrant congregation's pastor or clerk wrote Mary's surname in the French form. Hersin was probably pronounced with the same French ending as `jardin', `voisin' etc so it is not surprising that English clerks in Cambridge and Yorkshire should write it in their dialect as `sign' or `sine'. Hence our two modern variants. You can how pleased I was to find these two! Regards, Bob Hairsine

Fellow listers -- Just wanted you to know that the list archives -- which, as you may be aware, has been mostly inaccessible for all lists since a "scheduled downtime" by Rootsweb on 23 Feb -- is now fully searchable. In other words, it's finally fixed! So, particularly those of you who've just joined us over the last month -- we have *over* 350 subscribers now! -- may want to browse through the archived messages via the threaded archives. I do see one minor glitch in the threaded archives -- there is one message listed for April 1999. Since this list did not exist until January 2000, I suspect it should have been archived under April 2000. Otherwise, everything looks fine. Accessing the list archives is quite easy. Please go to the list website at http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html and look in The Basics section. Full instructions are there. Andrea

Speaking of name changes, does anyone know how DeCOLIGNY (as in Gaspard de Coligny) may have been changed? I know my Jean OLIGNY was born in France in the late 1600's. His son, Jean-Baptiste I OLIGNY DIT MATHURIN was born in Tulle France (1723), but died in Quebec (1810). I don't know if they came directly from France to Canada, or maybe lived in another country before going to Canada. I think I have come across another OLIGNY living in England. Thanks, Shirley OLIGNEY BAKER Waco, TX

It is rumored that Hubertus MATTOON's family "might have" originated in Italy; moved to France (became Huguenot); later migrated (because of persecution) to Netherlands; to England; to America settling New England. There was one Phillipe MATON, a dyer, who emigrated from British Isles to American plantations 1600-1700. He is on a list which refers to persons of (Walloon or French) to America in 1621. Years ago, a Huguenot member looked for Mattoon in their book of persons qualified as Huguenots. Apparently there was one Phillip Matton or Mattoon, who had been accepted and later rejected since it was determine HE was born in 1655, England. Since then I have discovered that Phillip b. 1655 a son of Hubertus MATTOON. Hubertus is credited with two other sons also: John MATOON and Richard MATTOON. I am curious to know if Hubertus MATTOON has been qualified or rejected as being Walloon or Huguenot? Obviously, he is the person who was of the right age to have left Europe before the Edict of Nante. He settled in Portsmouth, NH as early as 1648/9 and married in 1653 to Margaret WASHINGTON. Since he was at Portsmouth, NH 5 years before marrying Margaret, I suppose she might not have been his first wife. Anyhow, I've tried to guess Hubertus' approximate birthdate, was it circa 1628-1633? If so, Hubertus was old enough to have been the son of Phillip MATON. (BELOW) I am curious if the Phillip MATON who came 1621 has been studied. He was old enough to have fathered Hubertus. And this is the Phillip MATON who might qualify as Huguenot or Walloon, obviously he wasn't b. in 1655. There is one other early MATTOON (Robert). I don't have his reference close by, but another reference I have suggests Robert is just one of seven other interpretations of given name: Hubertus/ Would appreciate any offer of enlightenment on these MATTOON subjects. Thank you /s/ Jackie -----------------------------------------

The CUPPLES', Northern Irishmen from 1650, are descended from the French Huguenot people, with a bit of Spanish thrown in according to family legend; persecuted out of France, over to England, through Wales and into Northern Ireland, with strong links to Scotland. Trouble is we don't know what dates and the name itself has been changed or modified over the years and it's only a guess as to what the original was. More than anything I'd like to discover what that was but am at a loss as to which direction to go now. I'm very hopeful that there will be a lead through this source. There has been a number of guesses, the best of which are Cappel, Cupeles, Coupleux. I realize it's a long shot but perhaps there is someone out there who can enlighten us. Complete strangers with experience in things Huguenot/Walloon, on hearing our name have informed us 'it's a well-known Huguenot name' but that's all they can tell us. I've found Cappels in England on the IGI in 1603 and then they va! nish and Cupples' appears in Northern Ireland which seems coincidental - but encouraging. Anyway, I am open to any helpful suggestions that may come up. Coral CUPPLES

Hi there, I am new to the list and have heard hearsay that the original Dulakes that came to England were Huguenots, and that they may have lived in Scotland for a while before settling in Surrey & Kent. I am currently back to Josiah DULAKE who probably married Elizabeth FOSDAY about 1802 and had children Josiah, William, Charles, Thomas, George, Fanny, Eliza, Benjamin, James, Sarah, Henry from 1803-1825). They were based at Westerham in Kent. I am descended from James who married Eliza Stone on 8 November 1840, and their son William Henry who married Martha ALLEN on 20 Aug 1871. Later generations were based around Croydon, Purley etc. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who might be researching any DULAKE names. Thanks Paula (mousetrap@tesco.net)

"K. Haddard" - Thank you for your interest. However it was Jacqui who was interested in the MARCHANT name, I was attempting to pass on some information to her. I am posting your reply back via the list for her to pick up. Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia My definition of marriage ... it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith 1771-1845, Canon of St. Paul's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "K. Haddad" <khaddad@attcanada.ca> To: "Andrew Sellon" <andrew.sellon@lineone.net> Sent: 22 March 2001 17:55 Subject: Re: [HWE] Re: Marchant > I think there are some very early Marchants associated with the Combs/Coombs > family - Archibald, I think, in MD/PA. at a settlement. Try to Combs > families web site. >

Is it possible that BURIA is a corruption of BURIE? Ira

Jacqui & Shirley When I first saw Jacqui's request about the name MARCHANT it rang a bell and so I searched my system, coming up with absolutely nothing. This greatly surprised me. It was only on seeing Shirley's reply that I realised what a fool I had been and searched again, but for LE MARCHANT. I have a listing of this family name on the island of Guernsey from the C14th for about 14 generations. They are mixed in with the CAREY family of Guernsey which I was interested in. If interested please contact me, I will send it off list as it will not be of general interest. Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia The English cleric and satirist Sydney Smith once observed two women quarrelling with each other from their respective attic windows across a narrow street in Edinburgh. "Those two women will never agree," he remarked. "They are arguing from different premises." From: "Shirley Arabin" <arabin@wave.co.nz> > I have Catherine le MERCHANT marrying William John ARABIN c1800. Have you > come across le Merchant at all ? > Shirley Arabin from Mount Maunganui > > From: "jacqui cock" <bartholomewj@optusnet.com.au> > > > This time I don't have a brick wall, but I would like to know if the name > MARCHANT is a Huguenot name, I hope, hope so. > > > Jacqui

Listers -- Announcing a new addition to our list website which is at: http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html. It's in the Beyond the Basics section and it's called Huguenot Links & Sites. I hope you'll take a look and give me some feedback, if you'd like to. There is a lot of information but I am always looking for more. Please send in your contributions (by posting them to the list) if you have suggestions for other sites which can be added in this section or anywhere else on the website. What I have in mind for this new section is information *about* Huguenots in various locations. (As opposed to the Organizations & Addresses section on the website which lists addresses which you can contact for information.) Hope you find the new website links interesting. Andrea

I have Catherine le MERCHANT marrying William John ARABIN c1800. Have you come across le Merchant at all ? Shirley Arabin from Mount Maunganui "It is so easy to condemn ... when the critic has to be responsible for nothing" Mr. Arabin in 'Barchester Towers' by Anthony Trollope. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jacqui cock" <bartholomewj@optusnet.com.au> To: <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 09:13 Subject: Marchant > This time I don't have a brick wall, but I would like to know if the name MARCHANT is a Huguenot name, I hope, hope so. > Jacqui >

Dear Andrew, First of all The huguenots like all societies were much stratified! Great huguenot families were listed amongst the Greater Noblesse- there were few of these that adhered to the New faith- and the Greater bourgeoisie (upper middle class) that made it even bigger once they moved to a new country, such as the FOLQUIER D'AIREBOUDOUSE (ennobled 1500), de POURTALES (ennobled 18th c ), SELLON (de) ennobled 19c and in Britain the BOUVERIES (now the Earls of Radnor) the MINETS, CAZALETS AND CAZENOVE, to name but a few. I have a more succinct BOILEAU pedigree ( from Larts Huguenot pedigrees) which i will post in due course. It'll flesh out quite a lot of the information you've got and give you some new info. The Boileaus were like a lot of the Huguenots who settled abroad and made good, they were enterprising , hugely industrious and rich. They had become ennobled towards the end of the 15th C. I would be interested in your proven filiation to ag labs in your Sellon line - it is extremely rare that ag lab families make good, so to speak, - in fact it is the exception that proves the rule. give me some ideas wher these settled and I will check my sources and archives! All the best, Peter de Loriol 74 Elms Road London, SW4 9EW, GB Fax: (0)207 622 4505 Tel : (0)207 622 9623

Hi Everyone, This time I don't have a brick wall, but I would like to know if the name MARCHANT is a Huguenot name, I hope, hope so. I have a John MARCHANT bap. 1726 in London s/o Samuel & Elizabeth (WARD) John went to Bedford & met Rebecca LYNFORD. They married in 1741 in Bedford. They had their first child James in Bedford, than moved back to East London where the rest of the kids were born. Also are WARD & LYNFORD huguenot names as well. Regards Jacqui