Hello All: In response to Andrea Vogel's posting of 8/12/00, there were LE HAIREs in the congregation at Thorney and possibly at Sandtoft before that (there is only a partial register extant from Sandtoft) - I do believe I saw them in the Guisnes Temple (Artois) register or book that was published by the Huguenot Society. Many of the French Calvinists gave their children names from the Old Testament - that is why there are so many Abraham, Benjamin, Ephraim, Samuel, Isaac, Josiah, David, Daniel, etc.names among them and they usually followed down through the generations and within family groups, which sometimes makes it very difficult to guess which son belonged to which family, etc. As for the women, their given names were Ann, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Susannah, Rebecca, etc. although I've seen plenty of Jennes and Elizabeths and French 'family' names. As for the listings on the LDS IGI, I have found the ones for the Walloon congregation at Thorney to be as accurate as the information published in the Huguenot Society Quarto series, which it must have come from - but they do not give the tremoins (witnesses) nor other details that may help research - also there were so many different spellings in the transcripts that I found it necessary to go back to the originals, but even there, in Latin, French, or English, the names are often not spelled the original way - I believe this is due in part to the Walloons' spelling names in their own Romand language (very like French but not the same language) and then to the settlement families having spent many years in the Netherlands before they went to Sandtoft and later to Thorney and its vicinity; but also because the pastors or elders did not write the name as it had been spelled in Artois, etc.- particularly in the later years of the settlement. Later when the register was transcribed from the Latin, the surnames took another turn, some very unusual. For instance the name TREGEDIN became TIGERDINE/TEGGERDINE and even TEAGARDEN. My people's name MARQUILLIER has become everything from MARKERLEY to MARKLEE so you must have a rather 'fluid' interpretation when you are looking for your surnames and take everything close until you can prove them one way or the other - de la Pierre I've seen as PIERE. And using the Soundex on the IGI doesn't always bring up the closest alternate spelling. I've found more just guessing differences, particularly on Census records and the IGI. Regards - Carol At 11:02 AM 8/12/00 -0700, you wrote: > Hello, listers -- > This is a (very late and slow) response to the 25 July post from Mike ><michael@hare9919.freeserve.co.uk> re: surname HARE (possibly once DE LA >HAIRE and ?Walloon in origin?). But, it's another example of how the IGI on >the LDS web site can turn up some interesting hints so I hope this is >helpful. snip> > Now to the IGI. For a start, there were *a lot* of listings with first >name Isaac or >Abraham. Thus my purely subjective and unsubstantiated conclusion (call it a >gut feeling) that there may well have been Huguenot or Walloon origins to >this name. As I've mentioned before, I've found that the names Abraham and >Isaac pop up regularly among French refugee families, even generations after >settling in England. Surname spellings varied -- HARE, HAIRE, DE HAIRE, DE >HERE, etc. > Has anyone out there had good results with the IGI? If so, I hope they >will post. Andrea