[HWE] SIX & variants > Thorpe- ["Carol J. Markillie" <markilli@inr] Reply to DIGEST Message: #2 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:45:51 -0700 From: "Carol J. Markillie" <markilli@inreach.com> To: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000820124551.00880100@pop3.inreach.com> Subject: Re: [HWE] SIX & variants > Thorpe-le-Soken look-up Thanks to Carol Markillie for her remarks about SIX and SAY families. Carol, we are searching for an Abraham SEAY, formerly SIX or SAYE, who is reported to have come from a village in French Flanders called Wicres, which is just up the road a piece from Marquillies (Is this the place from which your surname was derived?) So, knowing that Wicres is an area where many SIX families have lived, we are interested in any SIX from that area who might have taken refuge in England before embarking for Virginia. One big problem is that all of the official records of Wicres burned in 1915. So notaries' records there and church registers in England are our only hope. We would not normally think that SIX and SAYE are related (one being Wallooon and the other Flemish) except that both are names that sound something like SEAY, which can be pronounced [say] or [seh] in the UK and Down Under and [see] in America. The French Languedoc name SAY and the variants of the Flemish name SOYEZ, SOY, SAYE, SAEY (which also incliudes SAY) cannot be dismissed, but for now, we think SIX is our best bet. There is an Adam VIGNES listed at the Huguenot settlement in Manakin, VA but so far he cannot be connected to my ancestor Naomi LAVIGNE, LOVIGNE, LOVINE, or LOVING. But your having seen LAVIGNE in the Huguenot Society Quarto series bears investigation as does Marty's August 11 posting about the will of an Adam VIGNE on the VA-Roots List. Hope the GGRN may prove useful to you. Thanks again and Best regards, Hugh Seay