« Reply #63 on: Wednesday 30 January 13 15:24 GMT (UK) »
Hello John
Yes just had a look at the Ronssoy registers myself and Adrien and his siblings certainly don't have anything out of the ordinary recorded on their baptisms, and are down as born in legitimate marriage. Of course it varies from parish to parish and on the personal inclinations of the cleric but usually there was some indication if the child was protestant, a note of illegitimacy at very least, or the child bought into the church by midwife, or neighbours. Some were very explicit, the worse I have come across from the period was a cleric who wrote something along the lines of 'today I baptised the miserable bastard of two devious huguenots, the child born forever dead to the love and mercy of God'! Eye opener to the attitudes faced by the majority of Protestants who remained in France.
Bellenger, Sebire, Soubien, Mallandain, Molle, Baudoin - Normandy/London
Deverdun, Bachelier, Hannoteau, Martin, Ledoux, Dumoutier, Lespine, Montenont, Picard, Desmarets - Paris & Picardy/Amsterdam/London
Mourgue, Chambon, Chabot - Languedoc/London
Holohan, Donnelly, McGowan/McGoan - Leitrim, Ireland/Dundee, Scotland/London.
Gordon, Troup, Grant, Watt, McInnes - Aberdeenshire, Scotland/London