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London and Middlesex / Huguenot celebrations.
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 18:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again John,

I forgot to say that the reason why, is that it is the 250 anniversary of the Revocation & that was what brought the floods of Huguenots to our shores.
Stella.

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London and Middlesex / Wood Street.
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 00:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Richard,

You mentioned to John  that you have a database of silk manufacturers in Wood Street. Is there any information about a Richard Phillips?

My ancestor Samuel Beech, son of John of Shoreditch,  was apprenticed to Richard Phillips of Wood Street, on 1st August 1782. Phillips was a member of the Fishmongers Co., but  a weaver by trade.
I will be visiting Wood Street again soon during the 250 Revocation of Edict of Nantes commemorations, and would love to know if that particular house is one of the ones still there.

I have presumed that Samuel was of English stock. I have never been able to find his father's origins. But Samuel married Charlotte Lesar in 1790.
Her father Abraham was in the  Haberdasher's Co.,  but  was also a weaver by trade, son of Paul I think -again I have not found any definite antecedents but believe them to possibly be of Huguenot origin.

On a different topic, did you find the picture of the 3 generations of the Saunders family?
All the best,
Stella.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Lebeau
« on: Saturday 19 January 13 23:26 GMT (UK)  »
A few items which may be of interest  to anyone looking out for Lebeau ancestors in Essex.

A newsaper report in the Essex Standard in September 1854, details an exhibition of silks manufactured in Braintree. At a dinner following the exhibition, the toast is proposed by a Mr. 'Lebow'. It is most likely that this is the Samuel Lebeau who was born in Shoreditch in 1798 - my 1st cousin 5 x removed!
 On the 1851 census he is living with his wife Mary Jane in Braintree & interestingly their 4 children mentioned are all born at different places, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Halstead & Braintree. Presumably Samuel was working at different silk mills at the time of their births.

The 'Art Journal' of 1891 has an article 'Silks & Satins' which gives details of the silks being produced at that time around the country. The names Le Beau & Le Vecq are mentioned as still being commonly met in Braintree.
And still in 1911 the name Samuel Lebeau (grandson of the above?) appears in Bocking, adjacent to Braintree, although by then the Lebeaus seem to be more cooca mat weaving than silk weaving.

There are many Lebeaus mentioned on the site 'Genealogie Protestante en Picardie' a delight I have just stumbled across.
Best wishes,
Stella.

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Suffolk / Re: eliza burwood nee miller
« on: Saturday 05 January 13 18:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,
Just found the Burwood queries.
If anyone has any infomation about the parents of Margaret Burwood who married John Lucock at Orford Suffolk in 1731 I would be so delighted.
There are a number of records of John Burwoods in the Aldburgh & Orford areas but I can't find a christening.
Many thanks,
Stella

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London and Middlesex / Re: Lebeau
« on: Saturday 05 January 13 16:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Wade,
Have just found your query 'am I am a Lebeau'?, but couldn't see how to reply to you so hope this gets to you. I haven't got the hang of Rootschat yet!
Tried one way but it wouldn't seem to 'go'!

And no, I am not,  but my 3x great grandmother was the Elizabeth Lebeau, daughter of James Lebeau & Ann Addlington, & she married  Samuel Beech in 1818. After that it is Samuel Beech son of this Sam & Elizabeth, and his youngest child Walter had a daughter Jessie Beech who was my grandmother born in Anglesea Street in Whitechapel in 1886.
James Lebeau was the son of  Daniel Lebeau & Sarah Tindall (she of the will - well worth a read if you are on 'Ancestry')
The mpother of the Samuel Beech who married Elix Lebeau was Charlotte Lesar, another French family. Any connections there?
Regards,
 Stella.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Lebeau
« on: Saturday 05 January 13 04:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Richard & others reseaching the Lebeau family,

I have just been bowled over by the Lebeau information which popped up when I Googled 'Oleron en St. Onge' and all your Rootschat info arrived!
Have therefore just registered with Rootschat & am not quite sure that I am doing things correctly so bear with me while I learn!
I am descended from Jean & Susanne Le Beau's son Daniel. His son, also Daniel born 1736, & married to Sarah Tindall, had a son James whose daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Beech on the 7th November 1818 at St. John, Hackney. They are my 3x gt. grandparents.
If I am not mistaken Daniel & Sarah also had a son Samuel whose own son Samuel was born in 1798. He was silk weaving in Braintree in Essex in the 19th c.  & the Lebeau name is mentioned as one of the old Huguenot names still to be met at the Braintree silk mills in an article in the 'Art Journal' of 1891. But I think the family has all gone from there now.
By co-incidence I went to the Braintree mill, now a museum, and saw the weaving just before it closed there, never realising that distant cousins had worked there a 100 years before,  although they would have  been in the old building burnt down about 1909

'Ancestry' also has the will of Sarah Lebeau nee Tindall of 1814, which is a fascinating account of her possessions. She was apparetly not one of the most poverty struck weavers.
So many, many thanks for supplying the earlier Lebeau records which I didn't know.
And a very happy New Year to you all - I am over the moon with what turned up from an idle Google!!
Stella.


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