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Cambridgeshire / Re: Hugeonots?
« on: Sunday 09 January 11 03:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Chloe

Thanks for your reply. I am sure that Valerie would love to hear from you. She is not online but I could give you her address once I have your email address. She likes to keep up to date with all the descendants of JHS and Anne nee Baxter. She gave me the family tree and I used it for my tree on Genes Reunited but I excluded living people and can't remember if she has you on her tree. 

I have seen photographs of your great grandfather's second wedding - to his cousin Pearl Sennitt, in about 1964. My great aunt and great uncle were there (Grace Campion and Ric (Frederic) Sennitt).

We visited Ruth at her house in St Ives not long before she moved to Oakington to be near 2 of her daughters, which is coincidentally where Henry Oasland is buried in the Dissenters' tomb. Valerie and I met a local historian there a few years before that and found out quite a lot about the Dissenting ministers.

There was a Sennitt family which emigrated to Australia something like 100 years ago - they were ice cream manufacturers and were descended from a half brother of our John (1800-68).

I have posted 3 messages now so should be able to access the personal messenging service and let you have my email address.

Regards

Anne

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Hugeonots?
« on: Sunday 09 January 11 00:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Chloe

Thanks for your swift response. I am the great grand-daughter of John Baxter Sennitt – Agnes’s older brother – so that makes us third cousins once removed. Unfortunately, your email address was removed by Rootschat and this is only the second comment I have posted so, at the moment, I can’t access the Personal Message system – but when I can, I’ll let you have my email address too.

Do you know Valerie Watson? She has a detailed family tree of the descendants of JHS and keeps up with all branches of the family. Through her, my mother and I met Ruth Harrison, a grand-daughter of Agnes - was she your grandmother, or are you descended from her uncle Herbert? I discovered our link to Henry Oasland through Valerie and then worked further back. I sent copies of the William the Conqueror tree to Valerie and to Ruth as well as some other Sennitt descendants. I would be interested to find out more about the Howletts and the Kimptons but have not managed to get very far back.

We are also supposed to be descended from Oliver Cromwell but I have not found the link – though we are descended from the Russells of Stretham which is near to the Russells in Fordham, Wicken and Chippenham with whom the Cromwell family intermarried.

As for Francis Sennitt, he seems to have been the first Sennitt in Stretham but I found some earlier Sennitts in Cottenham, including a Frances, Susanna and Edward. There is a Francis in the generation before who came from Cambridge – so I have tentatively put this Francis as Edward’s father. The first entry in the Stretham parish register for a Sennitt was the baptism of Mary, daughter of Francis, in 1712. Francis was a yeoman and he was buried at Stretham in 1738 – 15 years after his wife Damaris. Damaris is taken by a local historian to be Damaris Reade daughter of another local yeoman, John Reade. Damaris is not a common name so this is probably so but, if so, you would have expected their marriage to have been at Stretham but there does not seem to be an entry for this in the Register.

Are you a member of Genes Reunited? My tree is on there. Will be interested to hear more about your research.

Regards

Anne

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Hugeonots?
« on: Thursday 06 January 11 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
I am also descended from John Sennitt and Ann nee Howlett. It is through Ann that this line of Sennitts was descended from Huguenots - though  they arrived in England before the main wave of Huguenots and were therefore not strictly speaking Huguenots. Ann Howlett was the daughter of Joseph Howlett and Ann nee Kimpton, originally from Cottenham. Ann Kimpton was the daughter of William Kimpton and Sarah Perril who married at Oakington in 1753. William was the son of William Kimpton and Mary nee Oasland - daughter of Henry Oasland and his wife Elizabeth, who lived at Cottenham. Henry is one of the 3 dissenting preachers who are buried at Oakington just outside the churchyard. His father Henry was from Rock in Worcestershire who studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and became a Church of England vicar. He was one of those who refused to accept the Act of Uniformity in 1662 and was ousted from the church. He married a widow Mary Bradley, nee Henzey whose father Joshua Henzey was the son of Ananais de Hennezel, a glassmaker and Protestant living in the Lorraine region of France who came to England in about 1590 - for a combination of religious and economic reasons. Two other de Hennezels came over at the same time along with some Tyzacks - another glassmaking family with whom they intermarried. Ananais settled near Stoubridge which had the best minerals for glass. These families were amongst the first to produce flat glass. A member of Genes Reunited has traced the Henzeys back to William the Conqueror (through his daughter Princess Adela).
I am convinced that the name 'is simply a variation of 'Sennett'. I have sometimes seen it spelt 'Sennight' which is an old fashioned word from sevennight - meaning a week. I feel sure that Sennitt was originally a mispelling from someone who associated the name with the word.
I am descended from John S and Ann nee Howlett's son Joseph Howlett Sennitt and would be interested to know how you are connected.

Anne L

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