See "Silver, Sails and Silk' by Alicia St Leger about the Huguenots in Cork. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Barnard" <alan_barnard@telus.net> To: <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [HWE] BESNARD CORK IRELAND > Your message interested me when you mentioned the name BESNARD because I > have never heard of it before. Family legend has it that our > BARNARD/BERNARD family were Huguenots. My family do not appear to have > ever been wealthy but could those names be anglicised versions of Besnard > ? > > Any thoughts anyone? > > Alan > > At 14:35 06-02-06, Lorraine wrote: >>JULIUS BESNARD owned linen mills Douglas, CORK IRE. His gt gfr PIERRE >>BESNARD md,MARIE DUBOIS in France. Born about 1630/1650. Does anyone >>have info. which would tell me what area of France they came from? My 6xgt >>gparents. Thank you. Lorra > > > ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== > Have you submitted your surnames for our list web site? > To do so will make your names accessible to others on the Web. > For more info, contact Andrea (list admin)at andreav@island.net. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >