I've just joined the list though I think I emailed Andrea some years ago off list. I have the same Olive line in Canterbury as Andrea though we part company as far as I know when her family moved to Whitstable. The line runs: Jaques Olive and Marie Vere/ Verre married in France? - Jean born 16 Oct 1676, bap 29 Oct 1676 at Walloon Church, Canterbury and Sara Blancher/Blanchard/ m? -Jaques/James bap 22 Apr 1711 Walloon Church m. Katherine Pout 13 Aug 1738 at St George the Martyr, Canterbury - Thomas bap 19 Mar 1748/9 St Mary Bredin m Elizabeth Court 13 May 1771 at St Mary Bredin - James b about 1772 Kent? m Lucy Austin 15 May 1793 St Dunstan, Canterbury - Charles bap 14 May 1797 St Dunstan m? Jane Griffen? Glasgow, Scotland? -Lucy Mary/Maria b about 1821 Kent? Glasgow? Ireland? By way of background, Charles was a soldier in the First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade (Green Jackets) from 1816 to 1824. During this time they formed part of the army of occupation in the Cambrai area after Waterloo until the end of 1818. After spending 9 months in Gosport, they went to Glasgow in September 1819 where there were civil disturbances (the Radical War) and then on to Belfast and thereabouts in November 1820 with further moves to Armagh (March 1821, Naas (November) and Kilkenny (December), Dublin (November 1823) and back to Belfast (Sept 1824) and finally Nova Scotia (July 1825). Charles was discharged on health grounds at Belfast with phthisis, a form of TB, doubtful, as he died in 1868 from asthma. Possibly he was exhausted from moving every two minutes. Jane , his wife, had been born at Belfast between 1797 and 1801 and her family had apparently emigrated to Glasgow. Their second child, William, was christened in Rathkeale, Limerick, in 1823 and the third, George, born in Kent about 1824. The family emigrated to Port Stephens in NSW in 1827 to work for the Australian Agricultural Company. This is rather long-winded. I'm now trying to trace the Huguenot connection and am looking for advice. I gather Guines was a reformee centre and the names Olive and Blanchard occur in its registers. I have seen it suggested that the French like the Irish lost a lot of their records in various upheavals of the populace. I was wondering. The IGI early records all seem to be Catholic and in Aude, centre of the Cathars. Anyway, all help appreciated. I do want to trace the others too. I'm currently checking Canterbury churches. Sue Ellis, Australia