Huguenot Family Stories
We are delighted to hear of your research into your Huguenot heritage, particularly in relation to Spitalfields. If you would like to share your findings here on our website, please email team@huguenotsofspitalfields.org
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 …
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 …
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 Catel …
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 …
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, a …