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Ireland / Re: Huguenot Links - Follas
« on: Saturday 24 July 10 20:55 BST (UK) »
I may be able to add something to this topic.
I unfortunately cannot comment on the possible Follis/ Huguenot connection but I was born and brought up in Co Armagh, in Lurgan, and I note there are some earlier queries on an Archer/ Follis marriage in Lurgan
My late father (born 1917, died 2010), one of whose christian names was Archer (it was very common in N Ireland to use a family surname as a Christian name), was from 88 Hill Street, in Lurgan and he had a distant cousin who was a Follis, and was also from Hill Street Lurgan. I believe there were several families of that name in Hill Street at that time.
I live in England now but was born on the same day, in the same hospital and, subsequently, went to school with a male Follis descendant who (or so I was told by my parents) was a distant relative of my father's family. He still lives in or near Lurgan and could possibly contact him if it helped?
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I unfortunately cannot comment on the possible Follis/ Huguenot connection but I was born and brought up in Co Armagh, in Lurgan, and I note there are some earlier queries on an Archer/ Follis marriage in Lurgan
My late father (born 1917, died 2010), one of whose christian names was Archer (it was very common in N Ireland to use a family surname as a Christian name), was from 88 Hill Street, in Lurgan and he had a distant cousin who was a Follis, and was also from Hill Street Lurgan. I believe there were several families of that name in Hill Street at that time.
I live in England now but was born on the same day, in the same hospital and, subsequently, went to school with a male Follis descendant who (or so I was told by my parents) was a distant relative of my father's family. He still lives in or near Lurgan and could possibly contact him if it helped?
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