From Tony <fuller.tony@wanadoo.fr> re: Secretary of the Australian Huguenot Society who is: <....... an irregular poster on the other list.> Thanks, Tony. That doesn't help us here on this list though. Name doesn't ring a bell but I could be wrong. He might be here too. 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. It might work.....Let's wait and see...... (as always, hope springs eternal). On the other hand, Shirley might pop up again with some info. Andrea

I see that Peter has sent in the website for the Aussie Huguenots so you can all read about them. I recently received my copy of the Huguenot Times that is edited by Robert Nash. You might all be interested in the contents. The Huguenot Dilemma: Anglicanism or Non conformity by Dr. Robin Gwynn (Robin lives in NZ) James Thomas Morisset (1780-1852) by Margaret Thompson.(Morisset arrived in NSW in 1817 with the 48th Regiment to be commandant of the Newcastle penal colony. Obituary for Cecile R Sharp who developed the Huguenot Surname Index. from the Quarto series. Australian Huguenot Families: Chamier by Anthony Chamier The society meets in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and I hope soon in Brisbane where I visit my family. Did get to one meeting in Melbourne last year. I was at a meeting of another Society in Brisbane in October and there were four of us with Huguenot interests and I believe the A. Hug Soc has about 20 members in Queensland. Shirley

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.