Dear Heather, among the Huguenot families I'm researching in Brandenburg fromer Prussia is the family FEU. This sounds in German as FOY in English. It is also spelled FOUE or FEUT. The family (Pierre Foue)came from somewhere written as "doue en Hainaut". Pierre had a daughter Sara born 1691 in Gramzow, Uckermark. Maybe a hint to what to look for. Ina Jonas-Nolte

The "doue en Hainaut" is probably Douai, now in Northern France (Département du Nord - 59). Although Hainaut is now used as the name of a province in Belgium, there were substantial boundary changes between 1650 and 1713 eventually leaving Douai in France. The web site at http://www.cdt-nord.fr/fr/hain/sortha.asp shows that they still make something of their Hainaut past, as does http://www.lille.cci.fr/tourisme/hain02b.html . John Lindley North Yorkshire . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: [HWE] Researching FOY > Dear Heather, > among the Huguenot families I'm researching in Brandenburg fromer Prussia is the family FEU. This sounds in German as FOY in English. It is also spelled FOUE or FEUT. The family (Pierre Foue)came from somewhere written as "doue en Hainaut". Pierre had a daughter Sara born 1691 in Gramzow, Uckermark. > Maybe a hint to what to look for. > Ina Jonas-Nolte > > > ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== > HWE list has two archives you can search. > Access both archives through the list website at: > http://www.island.net/~andreav/archives.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >