Hey Marc, Thanks for bringing that book to our attention. It makes sense to me that these people would have been involved in a variety of occupations. In looking at microfilm from the 1600s I have come across references to strangers in a variety of roles. Some probably weren't Huguenots, but probably some of the others were. And that includes a family living outside London whose patriarch was listed as a yeoman. Shane > From: "Marc Demarest" <marc@noumenal.com> > Date: 2006/11/16 Thu PM 09:52:35 EST > To: <marc@noumenal.com>, <huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [HWE] Occupations > > > Following on the brief conversation about "Huguenot occupations" earlier > this week, I dipped into Robin Gwynn's > pamphlet *The Huguenots of London* (which you can probably find copies of on > abebooks.com or alibris.com) and > came up with this: > > "Not only were the French churches of Threadneedle Street and the Savoy > divided by character, history and type > of worship, but the members of the congregations to the east and west of > London pursued quite different trades..." > > Gwynn goes on to footnote a scholarly article I'd pay money to get my hands > on: > > E.H. Varley, "The Occupations of Protestant Refugees in the Seventeenth > Century," published in > Geography (Volume XXIV), in 1939. > > Then Gwynn whacks up some of Varley's data and produces this chart for the > period 1689-1716: > > Eastern London Western London > > Doctors/ministers 160 86 > Food/drink/clothing 24 207 > Jewellers/clockmakers 8 119 > Merchants 31 100 > Military professions 4 131 > Naval (merchant?) 60 11 > Wigmakers 8 53 > Textile workers 465 44 > All others 81 330 > > It's pretty easy to see how a single-minded focus on Spitalfields might lead > one to conclude Huguenots were disproportionately weavers and clerics. > > Interestingly enough, Gwynn goes on to note that the Savoy Huguenot > communities were > far more assimilative than the the Spitalfields communities both in matters > of > religious ritual and more secular ways, including Anglicization of names. > > It's a great little pamphlet. I recommend it. > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message >