| Abraham Jacques or Jaquith |
Spitalfield |
Resident |
Resident of Spitalfield |
| ann blampin or blampain |
cornwall |
person |
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| Any info in finding a link to where we came from would be very helpful. The surname is Eteen. |
Norfolk area |
We seemed to settle then migrated to London. |
My surname might have change somewhat, I would love to find out from what and where we originated. |
| Art |
Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, Hackney, London |
Painting of the Roubel Family |
I am related to this family and have seen the original in their collection. They bought it as an example of a family in an interior. The Roubel family were jewellers and clockmakers and had a shop in Wade's Passage in Bath. The father had worked for Paul |
| Art |
Westminster Abbey |
Memorials to, and sculpures by, Huguenots. |
Effigies and sculptures by Roubiliac, Poultrain, Le Sueur. Memorials to Field Marshal Ligonier, Isaac Casaubon, David Garrick. |
| Art |
City of London |
Sculpture/Fountain of Maternity by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902) |
Born Paris of Huguenot background. Took refuge in England 1871-1879. |
| Art and manufacture |
Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 |
Extensive collection of silk and ceramics. |
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| Artwork & furniture |
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU |
Paintings by Rousseau & Van Somer, Marot-style furniture, carvings by Pelletier, chimney piece by Le Sage, boundary screen by Tigou. |
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| Boughton house & Montagu house |
Northhamptonshire and Bloomsbury respectively |
Houses belonging to Ralph Montagu, 17th century british ambassador to France, Hugenot fan, art lover and lecher |
Montagu house is no more (transformed into the BM) but Boughton Hs is still full of furniture and paintings made by Hugonots |
| Burial ground |
Wandsworth, London SW18 |
"Mount Nod" - burial ground at top of East Hill containing numerous French tombstones." |
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| Burial ground/cemetery |
Bunhill Fields, London |
Early nonconformist cemetery |
Burials of Huguenots were usually in Anglican churchyards thus they appear in parish registers, but some can be found in the early nonconformist cemetery at Bunhill Fields, London. |
| Cabinetmaking |
Private collections of descendants, USA |
Three marquetry Victorian boxes made ca 1900 by Huguenot cabinetmaker James Lefevre Claisse of Bethnal Green |
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| Ceramics from the Chelsea Porcelain Factory |
Brighton and Hove Museum |
The factory was run by Flemish Huguenot Nicholas Sprimont |
www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk |
| Christchurch Mansion |
Ipswich |
Tudor brick mansion house within Christchurch Park |
Purchased in 1735 by Claude Fonnereau, a wealthy London Merchant of Huguenot descent |
| Craftsmanship & memorial |
St Paul's Cathedral, London |
Gates by Jean Tijou inside the cathedral. Memorial to Captain Edward Riou RN at the west end of the crypt. |
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| Eteen |
Norfolk |
Settlement and surname |
Can’t find my family link, it fades out in a Huguenot settlement area. |
| Family Oral Story |
England |
Huguenot ancestry |
Susan Sheppard (b. 1799, Herts, England), dau. of Marie de Fawcett, a French Huguenot. No evidence ever found, no trace of any Marie de Fawcett ever found. |
| French Church |
Soho Square, London W1 |
The direct descendant of the first foreign Protestant church founded in the City in 1550. |
Modern doorway carving represents the Huguenot refugee experience. |
| great grand mother |
spitalfield location ? |
unknown |
kirk married name of great grand mother, my grand mother ,daughter Rose Violet kirk |
| Henri de Bossart, chef |
lived in Battersea, London, worked in Soho |
no known trace except Census |
Had two sons: Victor and Henri (both family Christian names alternating each generation). Believed to have arrived in London as a refugee in the late 19th century |
