Summary: List of names for Huguenot Ancestors and some history involved. I'm researching my French Huguenot ancestors. A lot of them came from North France, French Flanders and the area around Lille. I learned that the area L'ALLOEU means "free earth" and that in former times LAVENTIE was the capital of that region which included Fleurbaix, Sailly-sur-la-Lys and La Gorgue. Laventie is about 23 km (14 miles) west of Lille. Most of my ancestors left France around 1650 because of their reformed religion (Calvinists) but some as late as 1680. They settled for more than one generation in the Palatinate (KURPFALZ those days) around the area of Mannheim and Landau. But the French king Ludwig the 14th tried to conquer the Palatinate after 1685 so they fled first to Hessen and after a few years moved on to the Uckermark. The Prussian Kurfuerst Friedrich Wilhem, called "der grosse Kurfuerst", had invited them and granted them land and financial help to set up a business or for farming. He needed people because his land was devasted by the 30 years war, plague and another war agains Sweden. In some areas as the Uckermark only ten percent of the population had survived. So he had plenty of empty houses and farms to give to the newcomers. The French colonist got their own churches, schools and even own law with own judges, they had the right to keep their French language, customs and of course religion. These separate French colonies existed for over one century. The families kept to each other and married within each other. In my own family my greatgrandmother Hermine Henriette Fouquet was the first to marry a German in Strasburg as late as 1873. Before that date the lines are almost complete French on both sides! The FOUQUET branch of my family is supposed to be from the Thierache, Picardie, but if you come across that name, please let me know as well. I'm looking for any information about the following people, and their ancestors and sibblings: 1. Margueritte SALOME, *ca. 1679 in Fleurbaix, L'Alloeu, fr. Flandres, daughter of Francois SALOME and Margueritte DE LA CROIX, oo at 20 Mar.1698 in Strasburg, Uckermark, Samuel FOUQUET, + 17 Mar. 1735 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 55 years. 2. Francois SALOME, *about 1640 in Fleurbaix, L'Alloeu, fr. Flandres, oo Margueritte DE LA CROIX, + 22 Dec. 1693 in Strasburg, Uckermark. 3. Margueritte DE LA CROIX, * ca. 1648 in Ennetieres-en-Weppes, Lille, fr. Flandres, oo Francois SALOME, + 4 Mar. 1709 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 61 years. 4. Marie Jeanne CHARLES, * ca. 1660 in Sailly-sur-la-Lys, L'Alloeu, fr. Flandres, daughter of Jean CHARLES and Anne DE VEINE, oo Abraham DE LA BARRE, + 24 July 1728 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 68 years. 5. Jean CHARLES, * about 1628 in Sailly-sur-la-Lys, L'Alloeu, fr. Flandres oo Anne DE VEINE died 16 Feb. 1698 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 70 years. 6. Anne DE VEINE, * ? in ?, oo Jean CHARLES in ?, died ? 7. Jean DE FRENE, * 1654 in Bremes, Calaisis, France, oo Sara Du MINY, + 17 Apr 1725 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 71 years. 8. Sara DU MINY, * 1655 in Guines or Marck, Calaisis, France, oo Jean DE FRENE, + 22 Mar. 1719 in Strasburg, Uckermark, age 64 years. 9. Francois NEUVEGLISE, * about 1630 in Laventie, L'Alloeu oo Margueritte LERNOU, + 1 April 1707 in Woddow, Battin, Uckermark, age 77 years. 10. Michee HARENG (or HERENG), * about 1665 in Gorgue, L'Alloeu oo Chretienne GOMBERT 11. Chretienne GOMBERT, * about 1665 in Gorgue, L'Alloeu oo Michee HARENG 12. Francois GOMBERT, * about 1665 in Gorgue, L'Alloeu son of Jacques GOMBERT and Marguerite SALOME oo Marie NEVEGLISE at 12 July 1691 in Battin, Uckermark 13. Adrien VAREMBOURG, * about 1647 in Laventie, L'Alloeu oo Catherine DE LA CROIX. + 22 March 1699, Battin, Uckermark, age 52 years. 14. Jehan VAREMBOURG, * about 1661 in Gorgue, L'Alloeu oo ?, + 15 Apr.1716 1707 in Woddow, Battin, Uckermark, age 55 years. Please note that I estimated some of the birthdates just by counting backwards from the birth of the children or the date of marriage, so the years given could vary especially for the fathers. Ina Friling from Germany