QC, in 1761. Barred by the government from settling in New France, Huguenots led by Jess de Forest, sailed to North America in 1624 and settled instead in the Dutch colony of New Netherland (later incorporated into New York and New Jersey); as well as Great Britain's colonies, including Nova Scotia. Raymond P. Hylton, "Dublin's Huguenot Community: Trials, Development, and Triumph, 16621701". If you know of more Huguenot family names in Australia, please email ozhug@optushome.com.au. Research genealogy for Franklin (Frank) L. Haas of Richland, Fountain, Indiana, as well as other members of the Haas family, on Ancestry. The "Hugues hypothesis" argues that the name was derived by association with Hugues Capet, king of France,[6] who reigned long before the Reformation. We visited Karlshafen in 1996 and again in 2008. Following this exodus, Huguenots remained in large numbers in only one region of France: the rugged Cvennes region in the south. By 1692, a total of 201 French Huguenots had settled at the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese threatened their Protestant prisoners with death if they did not convert to Roman Catholicism. By the time Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1million people. These surnames are most common in South Africa due to the immigration of the French Huguenots to the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century. Protestant preachers rallied a considerable army and a formidable cavalry, which came under the leadership of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. It proved disastrous to the Huguenots and costly for France. A rural Huguenot community in the Cevennes that rebelled in 1702 is still being called Camisards, especially in historical contexts. [16] This is true for many areas in the west and south controlled by the Huguenot nobility. McClain, Molly. In the early 18th century, a regional group known as the Camisards (who were Huguenots of the mountainous Massif Central region) rioted against the Catholic Church, burning churches and killing the clergy. [citation needed], Louis XIV inherited the throne in 1643 and acted increasingly aggressively to force the Huguenots to convert. Mine started well with 2 Huguenot children, Peter and Mary Petit, arriving from France all alone. Louisiana had the highest population of Hubert families in 1840. Instead of being in Purgatory after death, according to Catholic doctrine, they came back to harm the living at night. Dr Kathleen Chater has been tracing her own family history for over 30 years. However, in France, the name France is ranked the 2,810 th . Jean Cauvin (John Calvin), another student at the University of Paris, also converted to Protestantism. Past and current members have joined the Huguenot Society of America by right of descent from the following Huguenot ancestors who qualify under the constitution of the Society. Is an Index of family names appearing in "Huguenot Trails", the official publication of the Huguenot Society of Canada, from 1968 to 2003. ", Lien Bich Luu, "French-speaking refugees and the foundation of the London silk industry in the 16th century. Augeron Mickal, Didier Poton et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, dir.. Augeron Mickal, John de Bry, Annick Notter, dir., This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 16:02. Early ties were already visible in the Apologie of William the Silent, condemning the Spanish Inquisition, which was written by his court minister, the Huguenot Pierre L'Oyseleur, lord of Villiers. Reply. During this time, their opponents first dubbed the Protestants Huguenots; but they called themselves reforms, or "Reformed". Other founding families created enterprises based on textiles and such traditional Huguenot occupations in France. But many took the risk . "A Letter from Carolina, 1688: French Huguenots in the New World." When Paul Roux, a pastor who arrived with the main group of Huguenots, died in 1724, the Dutch administration, as a special concession, permitted another French cleric to take his place "for the benefit of the elderly who spoke only French". It includes links to books and societies that can help you find your ancestral name in France prior to the French Revolution, and it focuses on Protestant aristocratic families. When in 1808 a law signed by Napoleon forced all French Jews to take hereditary surnames, local Jews retained the family names they used for many centuries such as Crmieu (x), Milhaud, Monteux . Francis initially protected the Huguenot dissidents from Parlementary measures seeking to exterminate them. The Gallicans briefly achieved independence for the French church, on the principle that the religion of France could not be controlled by the Bishop of Rome, a foreign power. . [116] John Arnold Fleming wrote extensively of the French Protestant group's impact on the nation in his 1953 Huguenot Influence in Scotland,[117] while sociologist Abraham Lavender, who has explored how the ethnic group transformed over generations "from Mediterranean Catholics to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants", has analyzed how Huguenot adherence to Calvinist customs helped facilitate compatibility with the Scottish people.[118]. The warfare was definitively quelled in 1598, when Henry of Navarre, having succeeded to the French throne as Henry IV, and having recanted Protestantism in favour of Roman Catholicism in order to obtain the French crown, issued the Edict of Nantes. Janet Gray and other supporters of the hypothesis suggest that the name huguenote would be roughly equivalent to 'little Hugos', or 'those who want Hugo'.[6]. [99] Huguenot refugees flocked to Shoreditch, London. Raymond P. Hylton, "The Huguenot Settlement at Portarlington, C. E. J. Caldicott, Hugh Gough, Jean-Paul Pittion (1987), Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 16:02, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, gathered in each other's houses to study secretly, Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Angermnde, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, George Lunt, "Huguenot The origin and meaning of the name", "The National Huguenot Society - Who Were the Huguenots? History: As a name of Swiss German origin (see 1 above) the surname Martin is very common among the American Mennonites. Typically the Annual French Service takes place on the first or second Sunday after Easter in commemoration of the signing of the Edict of Nantes. [71] But with assimilation, within three generations the Huguenots had generally adopted Dutch as their first and home language. The pattern of warfare, followed by brief periods of peace, continued for nearly another quarter-century. As both spoke French in daily life, their court church in the Prinsenhof in Delft held services in French. Baird, Charles W. "History of the Huguenot Emigration to America." A Huguenot cemetery is located in the centre of Dublin, off St. Stephen's Green. [22] A few families went to Orthodox Russia and Catholic Quebec. [27] The Waldensians created fortified areas, as in Cabrires, perhaps attacking an abbey. A royal citadel was built and the university and consulate were taken over by the Catholic party. The surnames Boileau and Des Voeux have disappeared from this locality only a few years ago, General Boileau and Major Des Voeux with their families having left Portarlington. Ultimately, whatever the roots, the meaning of the term . [citation needed] Mary returned to Scotland a widow, in the summer of 1561. Since then, it sharply decreased as the Huguenots were no longer tolerated by both the French royalty and the Catholic masses. The Huguenots (/hjunts/ HEW-g-nots, also UK: /-noz/ -nohz, French:[y()no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The availability of the Bible in vernacular languages was important to the spread of the Protestant movement and development of the Reformed church in France. Two years later, with the Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, Protestants gained equal rights as citizens. Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. [63] It states in article 3: "This application does not, however, affect the validity of past acts by the person or rights acquired by third parties on the basis of previous laws. In 1654, additional grants were given and shelters were built as centers for trading with the Leni-Lennapes. ", Kurt Gingrich, "'That Will Make Carolina Powerful and Flourishing': Scots and Huguenots in Carolina in the 1680s. It is the last name of former New York Yankees baseball player, Derek Jeter. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. In relative terms, this could be the largest wave of immigration of a single community into Britain ever. The 1709ers would have worshipped in this church that was by that time already nearly 600 years old. There is an aged carpenter here, 'La Combre,' of pure Huguenot descent, so that this name also, as well as another, 'Champ,' may be added to the list. [16], Huguenots controlled sizeable areas in southern and western France. [84] This was a huge influx as the entire population of the Dutch Republic amounted to c.2million at that time. It precipitated civil bloodshed, ruined commerce, and resulted in the illegal flight from the country of hundreds of thousands of Protestants, many of whom were intellectuals, doctors and business leaders whose skills were transferred to Britain as well as Holland, Prussia, South Africa and other places they fled to. A fort, named Fort Coligny, was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops and Brazilian natives. After centuries, most Huguenots have assimilated into the various societies and cultures where they settled. [16] During the same period there were some 1,400 Reformed churches operating in France. Wittrock (= a German surname) Grz. The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured some of the Huguenots. In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. After petitioning the British Crown in 1697 for the right to own land in the Baronies, they prospered as slave owners on the Cooper, Ashepoo, Ashley and Santee River plantations they purchased from the British Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. Nearby villages are Hengoed, and Ystrad Mynach. There are many variations in spelling and not all are related. Page 166. [87] London financed the emigration of many to England and its colonies around 1700. ), was in common use by the mid-16th century. Huguenot Trails. I.". Are you a descendant of a Huguenot Family? autumn snoop says 8 March 2017 at 12:22 am. They purchased from John Pell, Lord of Pelham Manor, a tract of land consisting of six thousand one hundred acres with the help of Jacob Leisler. Among the Huguenots who left were a group of families from northern France, located near Calais, and what is now southern Belgium. Of the original 390 settlers in the isolated settlement, many had died; others lived outside town on farms in the English style; and others moved to different areas. He became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city. The Pennsylvania-German, Volume 9 Full view - 1908. This action would have fostered relations with the Swiss. The Huguenot Museum in Bad Karlshafen, Germany has some fascinating exhibits. Numerous signs of Huguenot presence can still be seen with names still in use, and with areas of the main towns and cities named after the people who settled there. It's also the last name of Carmelita Jeter, an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meter sprint. Menndez' forces routed the French and executed most of the Protestant captives. Various hypotheses have been promoted. They settled at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and New Netherland in North America. The Catholic Church in France and many of its members opposed the Huguenots. Those Huguenots who stayed in France were subsequently forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism and were called "new converts". Huguenots lived on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle, and also spread across provinces of Normandy and Poitou. The cities of Bourges, Montauban and Orlans saw substantial activity in this regard. Page 363. If you contact us without visiting the Museum the charge is 35 for up to two hours research, though we will discuss the likelihood of Huguenot ancestry with you, before taking your payment. [citation needed], In the early 21st century, there were approximately one million Protestants in France, representing some 2% of its population. He called this tip of the peninsula which jutted out into Newark Bay, "Bird's Point". French became the language of the educated elite and of the court at Potsdam on the outskirts of Berlin. "Huguenot Immigrants and the Formation of National Identities, 15481787". By the end of the sixteenth century, Huguenots constituted 7-8% of the whole population, or 1.2million people. [59], By the 1760s Protestantism was no longer a favourite religion of the elite. [citation needed], By 1620, the Huguenots were on the defensive, and the government increasingly applied pressure. [46], In what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 24 August 3 October 1572, Catholics killed thousands of Huguenots in Paris and similar massacres took place in other towns in the following weeks. 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Family name was not found in records of the Huguenot Society several years ago, and little follow-up has been made since then, hence my interest in participating in this project. Some Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron Saint Nicolas, similar to the Dutch Sint Nicolaas (Sinterklaas) feast. Other descendents of Huguenots included Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king; Reverend John Gano, a Revolutionary War chaplain and spiritual advisor to George Washington; Francis Marion; and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.
