A bit odd this, I join the list in order to pursue my wifes Huguenot (FORTRY/DE LA FORTERIE) ancestry and then a 140 year old family story in my own family starts to look as if it also leads towards Huguenot ancestry. I am interested in a HARLEY family who are christening children and getting married in Shoreditch St Leonards in the mid and late 18th century but who might have previously been worshippers at Threadneedle Street. Repeated forenames are Abraham and Anna/Hannah/Johanna, they may also have used Benjamin and John. A piano teacher may feature somewhere ! Ian Wallace (in Bexleyheath, Kent).

Hello Ian: The HARLEYs or actually HARLAYs - there is a river in northern France by that name - certainly are French - some were Huguenots/Walloons and there were quite a few at Thorney, Cambridgeshire - you can get those names by going into the LDS IGI at <http://www.familysearch.org/default.asp> There have been quite a few HARLEY lists put into the rootsweb.com archives so if you look in rootsweb under the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, etc. you may come up with a lot of names. In the Thorney register I have the marriages of: Jaques MARQUILLIER and Marie HARLAY and another Jaques MARQUILLIER and Susanne HARLAY The spelling frequently became HARLEY. I've read that one of these HARLEYs went to America and with his partner started HARLEY-DAVIDSON Motorcycles. Regards - Carol California > I am interested in a HARLEY family who are christening children and >getting married in Shoreditch St Leonards in the mid and late 18th century >but who might have previously been worshippers at Threadneedle Street. >Repeated forenames are Abraham and Anna/Hannah/Johanna, they may also have >used Benjamin and John. A piano teacher may feature somewhere ! > > Ian Wallace (in Bexleyheath, Kent).