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4th and 11th September - the Guildhall Art Gallery is hosting two talks on Evelyn and Sophia De Morgan.
September to October 2018 - Autumn Organ Concerts at Christ Church Spitalfields celebrating the Richard Bridge Organ restored by William Drake:
Monday 10th September at 7.30pm: William Whitehead
Monday 15th October at 7.30pm: Catherine Ennis
Monday 12th November at 7.30pm: Konstantin Reymaier
Advance Notice: 1 May to 16 June 2019 - Huguenot Silver: Turtles, Taste and Tureens. Tessa Murdoch, V & A Deputy Keeper, Sculpture, Ceramics, Metalwork and Glass, will be leading a course on Huguenot silver at the Museum. Costs £378 for adults and £356 for seniors.
We were asked
Q: Were there Huguenot sword makers in Newcastle?
A: We contacted the Tyne & Wear Archives, who could not trace Huguenot sword makers. They did however hold deeds relating to families of prominent glassmakers, named Tyzack, Henzell and Body.
Q: Who were the Camisards ?
A: They were Protestants of the Cévennes region who wanted to win back freedom of worship after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They used guerrilla tactics to keep at bay the troops of Louis XIV. The rebels called themselves ‘The Children of God’ and feeling they were led by God’s Spirit, the peasants with no military training felt invincible. The Camisards were intensely religious: they gathered in secret to worship, they sang Psalms and prayed, under their chosen leadership. For two years, they fought valiantly for their cause but were ultimately defeated in May 1704.
Q: I heard there were collections to help the Huguenots ?
A: In the 1680s both Charles II and James II authorised nationwide church collections to aid the Huguenot refugees. In 1686, the first grant was made from the Royal Bounty. The Bounty was not just for London Huguenots but for French refugees wherever they had settled in Britain.
An extract from the Parish Register of Norton-In-The-Moors, Staffordshire, May 1686 says “For the distressed Protestants that came out of France £1 9 8 half pence”'.
More information from the Huguenot Society is available here.
We were told
That there is a beautiful fan at the Fan Musuem in Greenwich, designed by Huguenot Francis Chassereau, who was also a Director of the French Hospital.
The elegant houses in De Beauvoir Square, Hackney were designed by a Huguenot architect Robert Lewis Roumieu, who also designed the French hospital in Victoria Park.
Reputedly ‘The most fashionable museum in New York City’ - The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology - is home to a red silk damask dress designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite around 1775. More info
A glimpse into the world of Susannah Dalbiac, a fourteen-year old Huguenot girl in 1775 is brought to life by a blog by one of her descendants. The Dalbiac family were successful silkweavers who lived in Spital Square after fleeing from Nîmes. More info
We have been given the names of many Huguenot families who lived in the desirable street of Crooms Hill in Greenwich during the 1700s. These include: Blaquière, Boyer, Delamotte, Guigier, Lanier, Loubier, Olivier, Noguier, and Savary.
Not long ago, ‘Who do you think you are’ revealed that Derek Jacobi was a Huguenot descendant, and in the latest TV series, BAFTA-winning actor Olivia Colman also discovered that she has Huguenot ancestry. |
