french huguenots

[elrowe]

Hi Stephen,
Just read your post, and now am a little curious as I to am looking at a Huguenots link as there was a rumour in the family, I also am researching the Maynards and wonder if there is a link between us?  I have a Mary Maynard, born 1831 in Tonbridge to a George Maynard, not sure yet where he is from, but London is not too far and wondered if there is a connection to your Maynards?  Regards, Carol

My grandmother's maiden name was Maynard, which is both an English and French surname. Is it a likely Huguenot surname?


Stephen

[XPhile2868]

I've sent you a PM.


Stephen

[marie1983]

i have Bellamys in my family and my grandmother always said it was originally french, looks like she may have been right then.

[sheila moss]

I am looking for information on Muters/Mutters in Larkhall and Stonehouse in Lanarkshire and wonder if you may be able to help me.  I have Ann Muter who married Robert Rodger and Janet Muter who married Gavin Rodger.  The two Rodgers are brothers but I don't know if the Muters are connected.  I am also interested in the descendants of Thomas Mutter and Margaret Denovan.
from Sheila Moss

[treebuster]

I am wondering whether the surname Laband is mentioned in your CD?
Also the surname Huett from la Rochelle ?
Thankyou

[jdbPA]

Anybody still out there?

My great-great grandmother's name was Richmul Jane Fisher (1820-1896) and married a William DeHaven in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania.  A census states that her parents were from England, unfortunately, I do not know their names.

It seems like Richmul is a variation of Richmael or Richmal, and could be a misspelling by the census taker.  She appears to have used her middle name later in life, and I was wondering if perhaps her mother had the same forename.  Does anyone know of any Richmul, (mal or mael), Fisher that may have emigrated probably after the Treaty of Paris and before 1820? 

Yeah, I'm grasping.  But it seems fairly sure that the name is peculiar to Lancashire and probably Anglo-Saxon in origin?  Some DeHavens want to claim French heritage.  Could the Richmul Fisher and DeHaven marriage offer a clue, coupling as the progeny of Huguenot refugees who eventually settled in North America?  Sorry, sounds like a Michener novel, but does anyone know if Huguenots settled in Lancashire, possibly intermarrying yet preserving a rare forename?   

http://www.prenombebe.net/prenom/richmael-au-canada,82043.html  (Looks like its a male name here. hmmmm)

Her granddaughter seemed to use the name as well, but it is so garbled in the census, I can only make out the Rich part , so I wonder if it was a family forename sometimes?

Too much conjecture I guess, but it is good to know that her parents were likely from Lancashire.

Thanks

JDB

[MosheVilliers]

Hi all, has anyone had any success locating the name Villiers on the CD? I'm trying to trace my Huguenot ancestors who settled in Ireland and this is the family name. They arrived in Ireland sometime in the 1600's. Any help or light you can shed on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Moshe.

[Maggie.]

Hi MosheVilliers,

I thought I had the CD mentioned earlier in this old thread but I cannot now find it, however I do have a CD issued by the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland called ‘Huguenot Families’ and in it I’m finding mentions of the Villiers surname, although so far no mention of Ireland.  It’s not the easiest CD to make sense of but so far I’ve found this:-

1) Villiers is mentioned in a list of families compiled in something called the ‘Wagner Collection’.  This means nothing to me but perhaps ‘g**gle’ will come up with something.

2)  In 1688 the United East India Company of the Netherlands sent 150 Huguenot refugees to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. They were apparently mostly vine dressers and husbandmen who were recruited to develop viticulture and wheat growing and the Villiers surname is mentioned amongst these refugees.  Apparently the Huguenot library holds copies of two books – CC de Villiers 'Geslachtregister der Oude Kaapsche Familien', also B de Villiers 2-volume 'De Villiers Genealogical Record (1997)'.

I shall continue trawling through.

Maggie 

[Maggie.]

Continuing …….

I’ve found mention of a family called ‘de Beauvilliers’ amongst a list of Huguenot families allied to the French family ‘Chartres’.  There is a whole chapter on this Chartres family, whose name appears in Irish records as early as 1579.

There is evidence of Huguenot settlement in Cork and Lisburn and emigration took place to Ireland before the French Revolution and the Edict of Nantes.  Also there is a ‘de Villereau’ family with links to Cork

That seems to be it.  Hope it helps a bit.

Maggie