Thanks to Hanne Thorup Koudal for his efforts on my behalf. I know that my surname is reasonably common in South Africa but, although my ancestors passed through Holland, I don't think the name still survives there. Two brothers came to England, however, only the birth of a daughter is recorded and so the name did not become established in the UK. Of course, it is possible that I have distant cousins on the distaff side in a number of places en route. My German is more than a little rusty, but I would be interested in seeing the relevant pages of Johannes Bischoff's book. By-the way, and excuse my ignorance,but how did the brewers manage to purify the water? Thanks again Martin Blignaut. -- Martin moslins1@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web

Hallo, there is a list of the members of the French colony in Berlin-Buchholz, as of 31. December 1699: in a book by Richard Béringuier:"Die Colonieliste von 1699". Berlin 1888, to be found via your library. In another book by the same author: "Die Stammbäume der Mitglieder der Französischen Colonie in Berlin", Berlin 1887 [which covers Berlin proper, and has been reprinted years ago] I do not find a BLIGNAULT. There is no list of all huguenot names in Germany; but, the "Deutsche Hugenotten-Gesellschaft", Hafenplatz 9a, D-34385 Bad Karlshafen, Tel. 05672-1433, e-mail: dhgev@t-online.de has a research center. You could write to them. Best regards Wolfgang Trogus _________________________________________________ Eine e-mail von/ an e-mail of Wolfgang Trogus wolf.trogus@t-online.de ; Tel. 07545-592 Kapellenweg 21a, D-88090 Immenstaad am Bodensee Homepage: http://home.genealogy.net/wolftrogus.html

Dear Martin Clean water could be arranged by boiling the water for 20 minuts, then the bacteria would die. Some people have boiled their water for some minuts and taken away worms and rats and other things. The beer was not always strong beer, but low-alcohol beer, wich was used at lot. Often people hat a dram (schnapps), wich was not expensive at that time. Perhaps the brewers also boiled the water before use. Some poor people have eaten cold food, because they did not have a place to cook hot meals. Ordinary people did not have much vegetables and fruits, but the huguenots got more vegetables f.ex. potatoes, asparagus, garlic, parsley. In Denmark the huguenots, who arrived at Fredericia in Jutland 1719-1721, brought the potatoes, wich the Danish people did not know at that time. The area, where they lived, was called "the parsley quarter", because of their strage food! - Perhaps partly because of their food they often got very old, much older than the rest of the Danish population. One mann died 106 years old (Abraham Clause Maire 1683-1789), but that was unusual even for huguenots. Often they were very well at the age of 80-90 years old. Hanne Thorup Koudal