18th Century silk weaver - Spitalfields

[Gary Allison]

Just wondering if William Field, Weaver from Spitalfields  c. 1750/70 was  a Huguenot.

Regards,

Gary
Australia.

[farmeroman]

Just wondering if William Field, Weaver from Spitalfields  c. 1750/70 was  a Huguenot.

Regards,

Gary
Australia.

William Field does not show up in a search of the Huguenot Society registers, so I suspect not.

[Gary Allison]

Thanks very much for that.

Gary.

[farmeroman]

Thanks very much for that.

Gary.

You're welcome.

Just in case it's relevant, a 67 year old widow named Marie/Mary Field was an inmate of the Huguenot hostpital in 1836. She was a resident of 10 Wilkes Street, Spitalfields, and was the daughter of Jean Barbotau and granddaughter of Jean Barbotau, a refugee of Mars de Blaire, France. A bit of a long shot, but could she have married a son of William Field?

[farmeroman]

Ah, the PDF search can be a bit weird on French documents, so I checked the Index of St. Jean, Spitalfields 1687-1827 and came up with:

FIELD. 1732, 3 Sept. Guilliaume, f. de Thomas, et d'Anne Ardelay; bap. par Mr. J.
d'Agneaux, Min. du St. Ev. P. Le pere. M. Magdellaine Jardelay. Ne 16 Aout

Could Guilliaume be your William?

Also three other children of Thomas & Anne:

FIELD. 1734, 15 Sept. David, f. de Thomas, et d'Anne Hardeley; bap. par Mr. J.
Barnouin, Past. P. Daniel David Pontardant. M. Marie Hardeley. N£ 24 Aout.

FIELD. 1738, II Juin. Thomas, f. de Thomas, et d'Anne Hardeley; bap. par Mr. J.
Manuel, Past. P. Nicholas I'Heureux. M. Anne Samson. Ne 26 Mai

FIELD. 1743, 28 Nov. Thomas, f. de Thomas, et d'Anne Hardeley; bap. par Mr. P.
Masson, Past. P. Le pere. M. La mere. Ne 9 Nov

So I may have been a little hasty saying that he was definitely not a Huguenot. This doesn't necessarily mean that he was, but he could have been.

[Gary Allison]

Hi whoever you are.

Thanks very much for the info & it is the right family. Still awaiting more info & will let you know.

Cheers,

Gary.

[farmeroman]

Hi whoever you are.

Thanks very much for the info & it is the right family. Still awaiting more info & will let you know.

Cheers,

Gary.

You're welcome. I hope it helped.

Regards,
Steve.

[ptdrifter]

Sorry to hijack the thread...
I'm looking to see if the Vango family were Huguenots , and I have a couple of the Field family marrying into the Vango family.
In particular the variously spelt Marsey/Mercy Field(s) married Bartholomew Vango in 1732 in Fleet Prison records.
Wonder if there is a link with Gary's Field line?

[farmeroman]

Sorry to hijack the thread...
I'm looking to see if the Vango family were Huguenots , and I have a couple of the Field family marrying into the Vango family.
In particular the variously spelt Marsey/Mercy Field(s) married Bartholomew Vango in 1732 in Fleet Prison records.
Wonder if there is a link with Gary's Field line?

Nothing like Vango in a general search of all of the Huguenot registers or a manual search in the St. Jean Spitalfields or Threadneedle Street indexes.

So unless its a misspelling or an anglisization of something else I doubt that they were Huguenots or Walloons. 1732 could very well be a case of Anglisization, especially where an English church or the Fleet is involved in a marriage.

As an example of Anglisization my ancestors were originally the De L'Epaule family from the Ardennes, France, Epaule literally translates as Shoulder, a name they gradually adopted as they began to be integrated into the Church of England in the late 17th and early 18th century. During the transition there were cases of the same person using both name during their lives.The French version has numerous different spellings in the Huguenot records, some barely recognisable.