Re: Name Latue - country of origin.

[billbir]

I have a 5x GG Andrew Latue, born in Co. Durham in 1751. His name does not sound English and I had thought that it was probably French and that the family were displaced Huguenot's. However, on looking up the name in FamilySearch, there were a number of entries from the Netherlands and particularly Amsterdam. I am ideally, looking for a Latue that died in England but was born in the Netherlands, to try to connect with my Andrew. Can anyone advise me, whether there are immigration records, going back to the 1700's, that would list entrants from the Netherlands. I have no idea, what port they would use, as there were none, to my knowledge, on the NE coast of England. Any ideas as to how I could follow this up?

[KGarrad]

I don't think there are any immigration records?

And why couldn't they use Newcastle Upon Tyne? Just as they do today?
(DFDS sail Newcastle to Rotterdam!)

[billbir]

Hi KGarrard,

Thanks for the reply and fair comment about Newcastle! If there are no immigration records, then I am stumped.

[Rena]

Good luck !!  I've never heard of the surname and it doesn't seem to appear in the national archives because the only results that came  when searching for "Latue" was "Latus".  Surfing only brought up a "Jose Latue" who was Spanish.

Below is the Surname Distribution map, which shows that approximately 1,302 people bear this surname.

Besides the UK the other main country showing is Indonesia, which was/is part of the Dutch East Indies, so your thinking it might be Dutch could be correct. 

http://forebears.io/surnames/latue

[KGarrad]

If Andrew was born in County Durham, have you found his baptism?
That would give his father's name.

If you have his father's name then the place to try is the Dutch website www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home

[billbir]

Hi Rena/KGarrard
Thanks for your replies. The only information I have on Andrew Latue is:-

Andrew Lettue buried 31 Dec 1828 aged 77 Kelloe, Durham

I also know that he married Isabella Wilson in Pittington, Co. Durham in 1779. I have not found any further information. Notice here his name is spelled differently and on his marriage it was Lettew, so very confusing. I have had this problem before, as most of my ancestors in this branch, could not read or write, so their names were often misspelled.
I have recently taken a DNA test and my ethnicity does reflect 6% Western Europe.
Thanks for taking an interest in my problem.
Bill

[KGarrad]

So, you don't know where he was born?

[billbir]

Hi,
No I only know what I have presented above. I know that his burial was registered in Easington district, at Hetton on the Hill, Pittington Parish. He also married in Pittington, but whether he was born there, I have no proof, but am still looking. On Durham Online, his name on death is shown as Lettue.

[KGarrad]

So, your original remark was wrong?

I have a 5x GG Andrew Latue, born in Co. Durham in 1751.

Sorry - I am just getting confused by different statements?