In reply to Shirley, I don't have a gunpowder manufacturer exactly among my Huguenot ancestors in Ireland, but something close to it, I think. Have recently discovered (from Charles Dalton's book English Army Lists & Commission registers 1661-1714 (pub. 1892-1904) which I consulted in the British Library, London on a recent visit) that a Daniel COTTIN was made Major of the Ordnance in Ireland in 1697. Wikipedia told me that means he was in charge of ammunition. It so happens that some of the earliest COTTONS in Ireland lived from the 1700's on the Lissan estate of the Staples family who are renowned for mining ore there in the 1600's. I am inclined to think that Daniel may be their ancestor and therefore mine. His family name is quite well-documented in England and France as Huguenots. Daniel served in Flanders in the 1690's as an officer in the Artillery Train. Does anyone on the list have an interest in the COTTIN/ON family, especially in Ireland or Devon, England? NZ Cottons have been told by a member of the Staples family that their ancestor came to Ireland from Devon. Barbara Holt ( another Nzedder) ----- Original Message ----- From: <huguenots-walloons-europe-request@rootsweb.com> To: <huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 43 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Australian Huguenot Society (Shirley Arabin) > 2. Re: Protestants and Cathars (Hanne Thorup Koudal) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:26:14 +1300 > From: "Shirley Arabin" <arabin@wave.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [HWE] Australian Huguenot Society > To: <huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <009e01c71511$a0508f90$0301010a@PangurBan> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > the Huguenot descendants seem to be like the legendary Flying Dutchman or > the Wandering Jew, continually on the move from generation to generation. > Our ARABINs originated in Riez, Provence and with the Revocation the > refugee > joined a regiment in William of Orange's army. He fought and settled in > Ireland, and for those of you who read Huguenot Families and saw Vivien > Costello's article on the intermarriage of army families will see his > progeny joined the army as well. Then there was Henry the lawyer and > gunpowder manufacturer (who else has an Irish gunpowder manufacturer?) He > had 9 sons, two to the army, two to the Royal Navy, a Resident Magistrate > ( remember Peter Bowles the RM in the TV series), a land agent (estate > agent > in those days) and two lawyers one of whom was a Lord Mayor of Dublin. > Only two of these sons had issue and it was the RM who had again 9 > children - 7 girls and 2 boys. All 9 emigrated to Australia. > 4 daughters were spinsters living in Melbourne; 3 married - one of these > had > 2 daughters who were Anglican martyrs in China in 1895 who died in a > massacre; another daughter only had 2 sons who died as children; the > third > married into another Anglo Irish family the MAYNEs and there are still > people of that family in Queensland whom we plan to meet on our next trip. > Of the sons only one had issue - one son born in Melbourne - who had one > son > born in Auckland - who had one son my husband Barry - we have one son and > he > has one son. The other man in Aus. returned to England and did not > marry. > HOWEVER, there is a large Arabin family in Australia who are descended > from > a General Arabin (grandson of the refugee) and I have only this year been > able to make the connection. > Our daughter and family now live in Australia so that generation has moved > on. There are Arabin descendants in Italy, France, UK, Ireland, Canada, > South Africa, NZ and goodness knows where. > > Shirley > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [HWE] Australian Huguenot Society > > >> Anyway, I'm hoping that some of our >> HWE subscribers on the underside of >> the planet can be lured out of their deep >> camouflage by this topic. Perhaps >> some of them will even share wondrous >> tales of their Huguenot ancestry with us. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:52:34 +0100 > From: "Hanne Thorup Koudal" <koudal@post5.tele.dk> > Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants and Cathars > To: <huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000a01c7151d$abf54000$6701a8c0@grar41201> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi David > > I think we have been talking HAUCHARD - family from Metz (Huguenots) > I don't know if the name could be related to HANCHARD. > > Frech reformed Church of Manheim: > HAUCHARD - LE ROY, veve MUCHERI > "Paul Hauchard, jeune homme, natif de la ville de Metz, fils de David > HAUCHARD, bourgeois de cette ville et Elizabeth le Roy, veve de Nicolas > Mucheri, en son vivant bourgeois de cette ville et Diacre de cette Eglise > ont ?t? mari?s en cette Eglise le 15. Avril 1668." > > Hanne Thorup Koudal > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE list administrator, send an email > to > HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE mailing list, send an > email to HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 43 > ********************************************************