Does anyone have suggestions on how to follow this lead on my 6G grandfather ? Evidently he was the pastor of the French Church at Canterbury from 1733 to 1785 when he died. His biography in the history of that church (compiled by Francis Cross) says he was born in Leyden in 1705, "his father having taken refuge there during the Huguenot persecution", and went to university there. I suspect his parents were Charles du Blés and Françoise Blondel. I am not sure if it was actually his father or his grandfather who emigrated to Holland to escape persecution. I am hoping someone might be researching the same line. Bronwyn Stuckey