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From: "Carol J. Markillie" <>
Subject: Walloons MARKILLIES/MARKLEYS
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:41:30 -0800

Hi Dave:
Our particular Marquilliers were sentenced to permanent exile in October
1558, a week after the Spanish Inquisition was invited into northern France
by du Guise and the Catholic Church. But after the Inquisition started
persecuting people in northern France and the Netherlands they were being
sentenced over a period of probably 100 years or more. There were
Marquillies at the chapel at Guisnes where they worshipped until the 1800s
and there are Marquillies living in the region and around the other areas
of northern France today as there are other Walloon family relatives. And
there are all the Roman Catholic relatives of the Walloons who never left
France, etc.
Our group went north and eventually to England in 1628 to work in the fen
drainage with a group of other Walloons that were hired by Vermuyden. They
went to the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase first and then moved into
the area of Thorney Abbey in Lincolnshire and later members of the group
settled in Cambridgeshire, etc.
I certainly think all the Markillie/Markley/Muckley/Markeley, etc. names in
the fens stand a good chance of coming from the same people.
Do you have Sherry McQuade's e-mail address? My posting was returned.
Regards -
Carol

>Can you remind me when the Huguenots and Walloons were "driven into
>exile". Is it possible to put a year on it that is related to an event
>that brought about the exile.
>
>As you know I have MARKLEY's/MUCKLEY's going back to the late 1600's
>and a lot of these came from around Stilton, Stanground etc just south
>west of Peterborough.
>
>>From your posting to McPopcorn (Sherry McQuate I believe) I see there
>were MARKILLIE's up the road in Spalding.

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