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I hope the following info regarding the chapel and
community at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, ENG is of interest. This is a summary
of information obtained from the GENUKI web site for UK and Irish genealogy.
See more information re: GENUKI in section 3 below.

I have divided this post into three sections, as follows --
1) Brief history of this community
2) Surname list from surviving church records -- the records date as
follows:
marriages, 1643-1671; baptisms, 1642-1685, burials (very few), 1655-1681.
3) Accessing further information

1) Brief History of Sandtoft community --
Lincolnshire is a maritime county on the east coast of England. It is
geographically the second largest county in England, the land being flat and
low, especially on the coast. It is bounded by the Humber River and
Yorkshire to the north, by the North Sea to the east, by the counties of
Northumberland, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to the south, and by
Nottinghamshire, Leicester and Rutland to the west.
Sandtoft is in Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme (near the city of
Doncaster). It was once an area of fenland (marshes). In 1628, eighty
families from Walloon Flanders, fleeing persecution, settled in the area.
This was followed in 1635 by the arrival of a large group of Huguenots,
mostly artisans and farmers from Normandy and the Walloon country. Before
long, a chapel was built, where services were read alternately in Dutch and
in French.
Many of the refugee arrivals, wanting land to farm, joined in the
draining of the fens which had begun two years before their arrival in 1626.
The fenland natives, however, were against the drainage, believing that they
were being robbed of their rights of common given them by John de Mowbray in
the reign of Edward III.
As a result, there were fourteen episodes of violence during the years
1628 to 1631. Then several years of uneasy peace ended at the time of the
Civil War in 1642, with a period of greater unrest. Finally, in 1645, the
sheriff of Lincolnshire was given authority to suppress the riots, using any
parliamentary forces applicable to protect the participants (as those
draining the fens were called). Instructions were also issued to
repair the damaged drainage.
The fenmen, however, appealed to the courts to have the drainage halted.
When the Court of Excequer ruled against them in 1650, the result was more
violence. The Chapel at Sandtoft was vandalized and the village around it
demolished. The floodgates were opened, allowing the River Trent to overflow
the fens as it had before.
Because of their mistreatment in the Sandtoft area, small numbers of
Huguenots had periodically left for more friendly surroundings. As a result
of the riots of 1650, however, larger numbers began to leave, chiefly to
Huguenot settlements in adjacent Cambridgeshire, at Whittlesey, and also at
Thorney where a French Church was established in 1652.
In 1656, a group of Sandtoft Huguenots petitioned Oliver Cromwell to put
a stop to their persecution. Again, judgement was handed down in their
favour, but this made little difference in their daily lives. Litigation,
and frequent riots, continued until 1719, when the fenmen's case was
dismissed in the Court of Chancery.

2) Surviving Records (surname list) --
Unfortunately, only portions of the registers of the Sandtoft Chapel have
survived -- the rest have been lost or destroyed. The original records
were apparently once in the possession of the antiquary George Stovin, but
were not located amongst his papers after he died. Stovin did, however,
extract some entries from this register. These have been transcribed (by
Alan Stanier) and are on the GENUKI site.
Below is an alphabetical list of surnames which appear in the registers.
To access the full transcript of the entries, go to GENUKI at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/AMS/family/G-Sandtoft.html


SURNAMES (alphabetically) --

ACFAIR, AGER, ALBERT, AMORY, AMPLE, ASOLOM

BALE, BANRUEDT/BANDERETE/BAURUDET, BAREEL, BEAMARM, BEAUMONT,
BEAUSSART, BEHAR(R)ELL(E), BENITLAND, BENROCEDT, BERCHETT, BERNARD,
BLANCAR/BLANCART, BLUIQUE, BONDVEL, BRESME(R),
BRONGNE/BRUGNE/BRUNGUE, BRYNYE

CAIDOY, CANSTER, CARDOY, CARDUE, CASTLET, CHATELET,
CHAVATT(E)/CHAUATTE, CIGNY, CLAIS, CONY, COQUELAR, CORDAIN, CUGNY

DE BACY, DEBURGE, DE CHATLET, DE COUP, DEKERHUEL, DELAGAYE, DELAHAYE, DE
LANNOIS, DELAN(N)OY, DE LEPIERE, DE LA PORTE, DE LA
PRIX, DELESPISER, DELTUR, DE RAEDT, DER(R)ICK/DERIQUE , DE RATT, (DE)
ROUBAY, DESBIENS, DESCAMPS/DISCAMPE/DISCAMPS, DESCAY, DESCON, DESQUIRE, DE
VERLIER, DEWIT, DE ZEMBR/DE ZONMBER, DU BATTELET, DUBLIQ, DUBOIS,
DU(F)FOSSE, DUMERLYE, DUMOULIN, DUQUENNE, DUVERTIER, DUVERLIE

EGAR(D), ELBIET

FERRE, FERZ, FLAHAU, FONTAIN, FRANK, FROUCHART

GEUBAU, GLOVER, GOUGLER, GREBAULT, GUISELIN

HANCAR/HANQUAR, HARDICQ, HARLAY, HARNEW/HERNU, HENEGRAVE, HERSSIN

IMPSON, ISERBY

JACOB, JAQUEMINE, JORDAIN

LAMBER, LEBRAND, LE CONTE, LE COQ, LEENARDS, LEESPIER, LEFLOUR, LEGRAIN(E),
LEGRAND, LE HAIR(E), LEHOUG, LEHOUQ, LELIEU/LELEU/LELEW/LELUE, LENOIR,
LEN(N)OY, LERMIT(TE), LE ROUX, LEROY/LE ROY, LESPIERE/LESPIRRE, LETALLE,
LE VANELEY, LIENNAR, LOMBARD, LONGUESPEE

MAREQUILLY, MASSENGARBE, MATTS, MERQUEHIER, MERQUILIDE, MESINAN, MESSMAN,
MITCHELL, MORFIN, MOR(R)ILLION

OESLEY

PENSOY/PINSFOY/PINSSOY, PINCHEON, PORREE, PRIAM/PRIEM/PRIME

QUOY

RAMMERY, RANEY, RENARD, RENAULT, ROUB(L)AY

SALMON, SCANF(L)AIR, SCAVAT, SMA(S)QUE, STARKEY, STERPIN, SWARTE

TA(F)FIN, TAYLOR, TEURQOIN/TURQUINE, THERY,
TISSEN/TUYSSEN/TUSSEN(S)/TYSSEN, TREFFET

VANDEBEC, VANHOUGE, VANHOUQ, VANPOUILLE, VANPLUE, VANVALKENBURGH,
VENAIN/VEN(N)IN

WATERLOO, WATSON, WERQUIN

3) Accessing Further Information --
a) GENUKI web site (a huge amount of info re: UK and Ireland genealogy).
See home page at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/

For more details re: Sandtoft, go to this URL on GENUKI site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/AMS/family/G-Sandtoft.html

For the Lincolnshire Surname List, go to:
http://www.excel.net/~nclark/surl.htm

To access the GENUKI search engine by key word(s), go to:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/search.html

b) LDS has filmed transcriptions of the Sandtoft church records. See LDS
film # 1542408, ie. Part of the register of the French Protestant Church at
Sandtoft, Lincs., taken from material published in the Yorkshire
Archealogical and Topographical Journal, vol. 7. (This probably contains the
same info as on the GENUKI site but see further details of this filming in
the Family History Library Catalog on LDS web site www.familysearch.org
through Film/Fiche Number Search. )

c) Addresses for joining the Isle of Axholme Family History Society and/or
the Lincolnshire Family History Society are at:
http://www.ffhs.org.uk/members/ENGLAND.htm#2Lll

d) Mailing list for Lincolnshire genealogy -- subscribe at:
(for list mode), or at:
(for digest mode)



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