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*The first wave of many thousands of French-speaking Protestants were Walloon refugees who arrived in England from the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium and the Netherlands) in 1567, having been forced to flee the suppression of Protestantism by King Philip of Spain’s forces lead by the Duke of Alva. | *The first wave of many thousands of French-speaking Protestants were Walloon refugees who arrived in England from the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium and the Netherlands) in 1567, having been forced to flee the suppression of Protestantism by King Philip of Spain’s forces lead by the Duke of Alva. | ||
*Protestant immigrants from Flanders and Brabant spoke Flemish, a Dutch dialect, and can thus easily be confused with Dutch settlers. Edward III (1327-1377) encouraged the Flemish to settle in England, as he valued their silk and other textile skills. Other waves came in 1551 and 1567 fleeing the occupying Catholic Spaniards, as did the Walloons. They settled primarily in south eastern England, particularly in London, Norwich and Canterbury and were employed especially in silk weaving, the New Draperies and market gardening. In the 17th century more Flemish immigrants arrived with the Dutch to drain the fens of East Anglia (Beharrell).<ref>"England Church History", in Wikipedia, https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=England_Church_History&action=edit§ion=10, accessed 5 May 2021.</ref> | *Protestant immigrants from Flanders and Brabant spoke Flemish, a Dutch dialect, and can thus easily be confused with Dutch settlers. Edward III (1327-1377) encouraged the Flemish to settle in England, as he valued their silk and other textile skills. Other waves came in 1551 and 1567 fleeing the occupying Catholic Spaniards, as did the Walloons. They settled primarily in south eastern England, particularly in London, Norwich and Canterbury and were employed especially in silk weaving, the New Draperies and market gardening. In the 17th century more Flemish immigrants arrived with the Dutch to drain the fens of East Anglia (Beharrell).<ref>"England Church History", in Wikipedia, https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=England_Church_History&action=edit§ion=10, accessed 5 May 2021.</ref> | ||
*Both before and after the 1708 passage of the Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Walloons and French Huguenots fled to England, with many moving on to Ireland and elsewhere. In relative terms, this was one of the largest waves of immigration ever of a single ethnic community to Britain. | |||
*Of the refugees who arrived on the Kent coast, many gravitated towards '''Canterbury''', then the county's Calvinist hub. Many Walloon and Huguenot families were granted asylum there. Some of these immigrants moved to '''Norwich''', which had accommodated an earlier settlement of Walloon weavers. <ref>"Huguenots", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots, accessed 5 May 2021.</ref> | |||
===Germany=== | ===Germany=== | ||
====Germany Online Records==== | ====Germany Online Records==== | ||