De la Condamine/Ozanne families
from 1308: France/Guernsey/Leith/Glasgow/London Mentioned in the Duc d’Anjou’s battle dispatches in 1368 – 60 years after Richard Ossane (now Ozanne) featured in litigation in Guernsey’s […]
Huguenot Family Stories
Tom Juchau
English Heavy Weight Boxing Champion (1765-1766): Huguenot Descendant Tom Juchau, born in 1739 in St Giles, London, was the son of a Calvinist, Charles Juchau, […]
Ruffy family
The Ruffy family (the widowed Madame Catherine Ruffy and her five children) settled in Spitalfields in 1687, along with 13,000 other Huguenots who arrived the […]
Bonifas family
The Bonifas family came from France to London in the 1700s because, as Huguenots, their life was difficult. The father, François Bonifas, had a cousin […]
Arno Family
I traced my roots in the early 1990s before computers, just lots of leg work around record offices and archives. I traced most of the […]