Hullo Lesley Many thanks for your very fast look-up ! You seem to have sent your reply only a short time after I posted my message this morning. The two Clement men and their families that you found on Huguenot lists are definitely of interest. I have already found a few of Clements arriving in England in the 1600's. The earliest is Jan Clement who married Antoinette Jehanes in Southampton in 1571. They could be the parents of my Joseph as Dyer mentions a Jehanes family in the Diocese of Kilalloe which some researchers had confused with a Jones family. Does anyone out there have any interest in the Jehanes family, I wonder? Vol IV of the Huguenot Society of London mentions the same Jan Clement as a native of Darquigehem sur Le Lis which is not in my atlas. Does anyone know here it is? ). His wife Antoinette was a native of Valenciennes. I have met the Michael you found in a publication of the London-based Huguenot Society in which it said he asked for his last grant in August 1682 "to go back with his family to Holland." He was an attorney from Guise (which is in France ), not too far south of Valenciennes. The James you found is probably not the father of a Charlotte who was buried at the French Church of St Patrick on 2 May 1698, dau of "Jaques Clements and Charlotte Henry ( unless latter was a second wife.) My problem is to isolate which one of a number of Clement(s) family members leaving the Continent was my ancestor. I think I need to try to find out next whether they are all from same part of France or Holland or elsewhere. An American, Beverley Sinn Clement in her family history, 1996, on an LDS fiche said she had found no evidence of French history but much evidence of Dutch ancestry in her family which made her assume they were French Huguenots. She is descended from a Jan Clement who emigrated from Holland to New York in 1665. A book about origins of names says that Clement is a typical name people take when they need a new name because it had good vibes, having belonged to two Popes in the 14th century). This may account for the number of Huguenot Clement family members I have to choose from. I have a hunch ( based on their physical appearance only) that mine may have been originally Spanish Jews who escaped to Holland in the 15th c. I have not tackled any Continental country's records yet at the LDS but plan to do so soon. I presume that the lists you found in your book do not give country of origin for James Clement? No need to reply if they don't. Finding my Irish Clement ancestral line is made slightly more difficult by the fact that, according to an LDS film called "The origin of the Clements family in England and Ireland", there was, in 1100, a Norman, Robert Clements, who migrated from France to England then to Ireland. He later returned to France as Prime Minister and Regent and in 1214 his son Henry was given the Lordship of Mey and of Aquitaine by the French King. An English and Irish Clements family branched from the Clement du Mey family of France in Oliver Cromwell's time. I suspect most of the Irish Clements later prominent in politics and high society in Ireland were descendants of that line, not my Huguenot line. I am having some success at present asking others who are researching Clement families in Ireland to look at photos of my 19th century family. Two have seen a facial likeness to some members of theirs which is encouraging and may help us get me back to a common ancestor. Incidentally, sorry I forgot to send the message to you personally as well as to the list. I presume you sent the list your reply? I will send my response to it in case someone may have a comment that helps me. Thanks again, Barbara Holt in NZ