french huguenots

[DMP]

Thank you for looking
Donna

[patagonia]

Hi Patricia

Does the name Beaufoy appear in your lists?  My husband's family have a connection and it was always said that they were Huguenots.  They seem to have lived around Meriden and done the odd bit of intermarrying!

Pat

[Suffolk Mawther]

Julia Sawalha is the last of the latest 'celebrities' on BBC TVs Who Do You Think You Are programme (in UK Wednesday 9pm BBC1)

The programme tells of her father's Jordanian/Bedouin family and her English mother's Huguenot ancestors.

This might be an opportunity to see how their researchers go about looking into Huguenot researches.

SM ...

[hobnob123]

Hello
I have been told that the Dent name  in my family was adopted out of gratitude to Dents the glovemakers . I quote my father below..

"My Grandmother Williams, nee Dent, always said that her side of the family came over from France as Huguenots. She maintained that this ancestor was a jockey who was taken in by the Dent Glove family of Nottingham in and he changed his name to Dent out of gratitude. Unfortunately, I have no idea what his original French name was and Grandma Williams didn't know either."

I thought the Dents were based in Warminster and do not understand the reference to Nottingham however it is possible they had a factory there . I just wonder if anyone has any record or way of knowing what peoples previous names  were? Can we find out this thought of thing? Any thoughts would be most welcome.

[leam]

We have always been told that the Bellamy family (my grandmother's maiden name) from Lincolnshire were originally Huguenot refugees.  This is a story my mother was told, her grandfather etc etc. Is there any way of finding out?
Thanks Lisa

[bearkat]

Hi leam,
Welcome to rootschat.

Have you traced your BELLAMY family through the census?

[leam]

Hello
Yes, so far as I can.  On the 1841 census my great great great grandfather was William Bellamy born around 1800 in the Spalding area of Lincolnshire (he married Elizabeth Thorpe). All the Bellamy men seem to have been called William!

[bearkat]

Why not post a look up request for his baptism on the Lincolshire board.

[patrish]

I have always thought that my husbands grandmother who's maiden  name was Saint might have been descended from the Huguenots but now it seems his 2 x gt grandfather was born in  Staffordshire and was in the iron trade, doesn't  sound likely to me now.  


Patrish.