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    1. re: [HWE] Original UK Huguenot Registers
    2. Tony Fuller
    3. Hi Folks Will is of course right, the originals of the majority of the French Churches are at the PRO as follows (from Tracing Your Ancestors at the PRO): The registers of several foreign churches are in RG 4, listed separately except for those of the Scottish churches, which are included in the county lists; there are also a few in RG 8. Most are Huguenot (French and Walloon Protestant) registers, from the several churches of London, 1599-1840, and from Bristol I 687-1807, Canterbury 1590-1837, Norwich 1595-1752, Plymouth 1692-1807, Southampton 1567-1779 and Thorpe-le-Soken 1684-1726 (in RG 4); Huguenot registers from Dover, 1646-1731, are in RG 8/14. The Huguenot Society has published most of these registers. The other foreign registers are all from London; they are those of the French Chapel Royal 1700-1754, the Dutch Chapel Royal 1689-1754, the German Lutheran Chapel Royal 1712-1836, the German Lutheran churches 1694-1853, and the Swiss church, 1762-1839, all in RG 4. But, as they are available on microfiche, one set of which have been taken from the Hug Soc Proceedings, it is unlikely that you'll ever get your mits on the originals and unless you have a really good reason for doing so, there's not necessarily any reason (with current conservation policies) that you will. That is why places like the LMA in London and the OIOC at the British Library have copied all their BMD records onto micro-forms, so they don't have to give the public access to the originals which were becoming very tatty because of their continual usage. Regards Tony Fuller

    11/18/2003 06:11:11