Hi, I'm new to Huguenot research and hoping that someone onlist may share my interest in the VARENNE family of London. So far my early info on the family is from PCC probate listings (documents online) and the IGI. Earliest reference is baptism of Ezechiel VARENNE on 30 Dec 1688 at Threadneedle St French Huguenot, London, son of Ezechiel and Jeanne. A successive line of Ezechiels were apothecaries; later VARENNEs were Church of England clergymen. They married women with surnames of BRUGNIER, du CONTE, FULTON, PILLISSIER, all in London My point of entry is a Cof E Reverend of Leckhampstead, Bucks named John Theodore Archibald REED, a scholar of St Paul's School, born 1759. He was orphaned by the age of 6 and looked after by family friends who put him through school. I believe the friends were VARENNEs, as one of JTA's sons was named George Varenne REED and a George VARENNE was at St Paul's school at the same time as JTA - both were exhibitioners to university in 1779 (George went to Cambridge, JTA to Oxford). George VARENNE and his namesake George Varenne REED were both acquainted with Charles Darwin. Rev JTA REED is a distant relative but very interesting, with a past cloaked in mystery. I would love to know more about the VARENNEs, with whom he was clearly closely linked and hope the list may be able to help. In hope Celia Renshaw In Chesterfield UK