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== French Protestant Settlements and Records == | == French Protestant Settlements and Records == | ||
Click on the link to find the settlements and records.<br> | Click on the [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/File:French_Protestant_Settlements_and_Records.pdf link] to find the settlements and records.<br> | ||
=== Step by Step === | === Step by Step === | ||
Huguenot ancestral research in England— | Huguenot ancestral research in England— | ||
* 1.Requires searches in the 19th and later centuries to be conducted in the parish registers of the Church of England. Most of the Huguenots assimilated into the Church of England society. | *1.Requires searches in the 19th and later centuries to be conducted in the parish registers of the Church of England. Most of the Huguenots assimilated into the Church of England society. | ||
* 2.Requires knowing that French surnames by the 20th century are very likely to have been anglicized, sometimes rendering it difficult to determine the original “Huguenot” spelling of the family surname | *2.Requires knowing that French surnames by the 20th century are very likely to have been anglicized, sometimes rendering it difficult to determine the original “Huguenot” spelling of the family surname | ||
* 3.Requires tracing them according to usual English ancestral research procedures viz, in not only Church of England parish registers and in Nonconformist registers, but in borough registers of occupations and trades, in tax assessments, churchyard inscriptions and burials, wills, parish chest records from the 1560’s to 1700 | *3.Requires tracing them according to usual English ancestral research procedures viz, in not only Church of England parish registers and in Nonconformist registers, but in borough registers of occupations and trades, in tax assessments, churchyard inscriptions and burials, wills, parish chest records from the 1560’s to 1700 | ||
*4.Assume that most Huguenot refugees came over to England in very poor or destitute conditions, although the average person was a skilled craftsman in a trade. Thus searches should be made in parish chest records in cases when they were poor or destitute, i.e. Rye or Winchelsea (Sussex) parish records. These records may be the only available record for a refugee, before moving on to or migrating to a larger township or city, such as Norwich, Canterbury, Dublin or London, or another country in the empire, etc. | *4.Assume that most Huguenot refugees came over to England in very poor or destitute conditions, although the average person was a skilled craftsman in a trade. Thus searches should be made in parish chest records in cases when they were poor or destitute, i.e. Rye or Winchelsea (Sussex) parish records. These records may be the only available record for a refugee, before moving on to or migrating to a larger township or city, such as Norwich, Canterbury, Dublin or London, or another country in the empire, etc. | ||
*5.searches to be made in borough archive records of guilds or livery companies, estate or land tax assessments—when they were wealthy such as a skilled tradesman or professional occupations | *5.searches to be made in borough archive records of guilds or livery companies, estate or land tax assessments—when they were wealthy such as a skilled tradesman or professional occupations | ||
2 | 2 Nonconforming Church – Protestant church which conforms to the Church of England’s Book of Prayer | ||
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