Dear Jacqui, I just got a book from the library with ancestor charts of members of Berlin french reformed parishes around 1860-1880. (That means the charts were made up if a descendant was member around that time). Book title: Dr. Richard Beringuier: Stammbäume der Mitglieder der Fanzösischen Colonie in Berlin, Berlin 1885 There is one for Samuel BOUVIER born 1652 in St. Gignes (Diöces d'Uzes), left France in 1685 and died in Magdeburg 1735. His son Pierre born 1697 in Magdeburg has the profession stockings-maker master (Strumpfwirkermeister), that could fit to the silk weaver. It might not be the exact family but could be the lead to France. Ina