| 6th Great Grandfather Abel Panchaud |
British Museum |
The BM has a trade card from Abel Panchaud showing 2 Chinese figures, one of whom is holding a watch. |
Abel's clocks are still in circulation today with a number of them being sold through specialist antique dealers. |
| 7th Greatgrand father, Rev Pierre Robert French Huegenot, first anglican minister in South Carolina, USA. His grandson Peter (Pierre) Robert was a captian in the miliita in the American Revolution |
Settled on the Santee River in South Carolina in later 1600 |
historical figure |
Would like any other information available |
| Abraham Jacques or Jaquith |
Spitalfield |
Resident |
Resident of Spitalfield |
| Ancestry |
Ashtead, Surrey |
Stephen Gaudin |
Family History research has encountered a brick wall with Stephen, who was a tutor for Lord Dudley at Ashtead Manor in the very early 1700’s. Any help appreciated.... |
| Ancestry |
London |
surname |
tracing descendants of Lewis Barbar who came to London in 1688 from Poitou, France, and was appointed Gentleman Armourer to George 1 |
| 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 |
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 |
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 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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| Caillou surname |
Spitalfields |
Person |
Christian name Daniel been passed down 300 years |
| Catherine Vanderstein |
Canterbury - Location prior to moving to Spitalfield |
Weavers - Ancestors of our family |
Peter St John 1700-1767 b Bethnal Green = Ann Baker 1702-
Pierre St Jean 1663-1712 b Canterbury = Catherine Vanderstein b 1668
The St Jean family appeared to leave France at the beginning of Louis XIV reign, first settling in Canterbury and then moving |
| 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 |
