The area of Leiden is one of the best documented areas as far as Huguenots/Walloons are concerned. Have you for example consulted the "Leiden Collection". This is a card index of such people and is available on film through the LDS. It covers the period 1500 - 1828 and the appropriate film number can be found by entering Leiden as the place and then church indexes. There are 10 printed pages of film references. There is also an interesting publication by the Nord Genealogie which lists alphabetically protestant marriages in the Leiden area. You would need to contact the - Groupement des Généalogique de la Région Nord-Flandre-Hainaut-Artois, BP62 - 59118 Wambrechies Cedex. It covers the period 1575 - 1710 and was published in 1976 and comprises 47 volumes. Should you require further sources please come back as there are so many it would take days to type them out. Roy Day ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter E. Wilson" <wewilson@owt.com> To: <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:05 PM Subject: [HWE] Symonson/Dutch-Walloon in 1600? | Listers: | | Moyses Symonson (Symons, Symonds, Simons, etc.) known in New England as the | "pilgrim" Moses Simmons came from Leiden, Holland, landing at Plymouth on | Nov. 9, 1621 in the ship, Fortune. Several early writers have concluded | that Moses Simmons (Symonson, etc.) was born to a Dutch/Walloon family in | Leiden and not originally part of the Puritan group that immigrated to | Leiden from England by way of Amsterdam. | | My questions to the list are two: | | 1) Does anyone have any info or is anyone researching this Dutch/Walloon | family? | | 2) Can anyone suggest a historical reference on the Walloons in and around | what is now Holland in the early 1600s? | | | -- W.E. Wilson | Richland, WA | | | | ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== | To unsubscribe (if you are in list mode), | type and send only the word unsubscribe to: | Huguenots-Walloons-Europe-L-request@rootsweb.com | | ============================== | Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases | http://www.ancestry.com/search | Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! |