Hi Guys Esteemed, eh Shirley, never been called that before but thank you - and when you're in London, I'd be happy to show you (even have lunch?) a couple of quick win libraries that you might want to visit. OK, Huguenots in the Far East. The Dutch VOC (equiv of the British Honourable East India Company) had a large Huguenot staffing complement, which is inevitable considering the Dutch propensity for Protestantism. The paper I'm reading in Dublin (18th October, Gilbert Library, limited places but some left) is on behalf of an Australian academic who has written a paper on the VOC which is not one of my personal research areas but I can answer questions on it at the conference. My paper is on the family of the equally esteemed family of Kinta and Jack Delamain, not sure whether they still belong to this group, who were Huguenots who ended up in the East India Company via Ireland, England, some went back to France, New Zealand, Mexico and the US. My paper is based on a recent history of Jack's Delamain line which I researched and wrote for him. Interestingly, when the HEIC was founded in 1600 and for the first 200 years of its history, only Protestants were admitted as shareholders and in the 1600s and early 1700s men going out to India had to prove baptism into the Anglican Church, a practice which continued in their maritime department until it was disbanded in 1833. In the early days in India the factors and other English company people had to attend prayers twice a day and they were fined if they failed to do so. Incidentally, I now have hundreds of references to Huguenots in the HEIC, especially those attending the HEIC Military Seminary at! Addiscombe in SE London, which I'm preparing for publication at some time next year, but it's still WIP. A tangential point. Jack and Kinta live in N Carolina in the wonderfully named Kill Devil Hills. I was shocked to see that the recent hurricane which hit the eastern seaboard hit Kill Devil Hills and the suggestion on the BBC was that was where the hurricane first made land. I'm sure that we would all be thinking of out friends and colleagues (huge Huguenot group and library in S Carolina and many Huguenot descendants in both states) from HWE that may have been effected by the hurricane. Even if they have no power at the moment, they will eventually get this message so good luck guys. Right, that's it for the time being. I have the pics back from my recent French holiday and definitely househunting there now, so if anybody has an interest in the French Protestant Church at Bergerac (where, so I read, Cyrano did NOT come from despite there being a statue of him across the road from the Church) let me know and I'll send pics. And they have a series of lectures at the Church throughout the summer so I'm going to get in touch to see whether they want an English Huguenot descended person to give a paper there - not that I need an excuse to go back!!!!!! Take care guys Regards Tony Fuller