| Penry family |
Spitalfields, Artillery Lane Church |
a Baptism |
Dear Folks,
I believe these people may be my ancestors - here is the record in familysearch
DetailSource
Name: Gedeon Penry
Event Type: Baptism
Birth Date: 21 Oct 1714
Baptism Date: 31 Oct 1714
Baptism Place: Spitalfields, Middlesex, England
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| Peter St John |
Bethnal Green |
Weavers - Ancestors of our family |
Peter St John 1700-1767 b Bethnal Green = Ann Baker 1702- |
| Pierre Du Rieux |
Harrison Family Tree, My Heritage Website |
Pierre and Madeleine appear in my family Tree |
I have traced my family tree back to approx 1620 in Spitalsfield where a Pierre and Madelaine Du Rieux had a daughter Marie Madeleine Du Rieux, sometimes shown as (Mary Magdelen Dierux. I would appreciate any information you may have as to their anteceden |
| Pierre Moragne (1740-1807) & Cecile Bayle (1741-1806) |
Abbeville, South Carolina, USA |
Their descendants |
Pierre Moragne (1740) fled France and traveled to South Carolina (via England) where he helped to settle New Bordeaux, South Carolina. His descendants populated Abbeville, SC. |
| Pierre St Jean |
Canterbury & Mouvaux Nord Pas-de-Calais - Location prior to moving to Spitalfield |
Weavers - Ancestors of our family |
Pierre St Jean 1663-1712 b Canterbury = Catherine Vanderstein b 1668
Pierre St Jean 1630-1684 b Mouvaux Nord Pas-de-Calais b 1684 Kent = Elizabeth Destrie 1638- |
| Register of the Church of the Artillery, Spitalfields |
Spitalfields |
Church |
My ancestor, Esther Igou, is listed in this church registry (in 1702) along with the name Pierre Mallandain. Any info regarding Igou would be appreciated. |
| Rosier family |
Mitcham Surrey area |
family trace |
we know they were there from the early 1800s but no clue as to their early days |
| Sarah Gladman |
Spitalfields, born 1824 |
Direct ancestor of my family |
Daughter of Isaac Gladman and Mary, nee field. Married John Lacey in 1845 |
| Shop front |
56-58 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields |
Home of silk merchants Jourdain and Rybot, built c. 1756 |
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| Silk |
Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Nr Manchester |
Chapel Silk Wall Panels |
The original silk wall covering was woven in London's Spitalfields around 1700 when George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, refurbished the chapel in the Presbyterian style, before adding further silk between 1752 and 1754. The decoration behind the altar, |
| Silk weaver's home |
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal Green |
Huguenot Silk weaver's family home |
Charles Kingsley, author of 'The Water Babies' lodged next door during his social conditions research into the status of the poor. |
| Silk weaver's patterns woven |
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal Green |
Benjamin Hale's predecessors wove 'heavy patterned silk fabrics'. |
A pattern which survived into early 20th century was of a 'Paisley style' design in bright coloured hand-woven silk, also a web of silk ready for the loom in peach colour, and silk shears, worn and used (not scissors which catch the threads in their join |
| Silk Weavers |
Spitalfields |
occupation |
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| Silvercraft |
Actively traded and in private collections |
Silvercraft by Daniel and Charles May, Huguenot family in Blackfriar's, Shoreditch, BG etc mid-1700s-1800s |
Charles and Daniel both appear in Grimwade's Biographies, and their work is actively traded and can be seen online. There is a private collection of Charles May's thimbles in Australia. |
| silverware |
Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Nr Manchester |
2nd Earl of Warrington Silver Collection |
The Warrington Silver Collection was largely made by Huguenot silversmiths as they were incredibly highly skilled, and, in the early days, compartively cheaper than their English counterparts. |
| St Matthew's |
Bethnal Green |
Peter Renvoize whose family tomb is within the church grounds. He was a sibling of Elizabeth Renvoize. |
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| Street name |
London, SE5 |
de Crespigny Park |
Named after the 18th century Camberwell family of de Crespigny, of Huguenot origin, which included Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, whose estate was nearby. |
| Street name |
London, SE5 |
Champion Hill |
Named after the 18th century Camberwell family of de Crespigny, of Huguenot origin, which included Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, whose estate was nearby. |
| surname godier |
spitalfields |
surname |
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| Suzanne and Samuel DeVaux |
Spittalfields |
silk weaver family |
They had 2 children that I have found, Samuel and Madeline both baptised in the french Huguenot hospital church in the early 1700s |
