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Subject: [HWE] HOTINE, HAUGHTON etc
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:59:09 EDT

hello everyone

just by chance, while looking for something else, i came across the following
entry in the Whittlesey Parish Records B/T.

unfortunately, as i only made a mental note of it, i'm not certain of the
year. I think it was 1734, it was certainly around that time

but the following is definately correct

Marriage, Whittlesey
MESSENGER James and An HAUGHTON

when i read this entry it rang a bell because someone made reference to
'Haughton' recently

my own thought are that this is very interesting as it does suggest there may
be a French or Dutch Connection as i think i have read somewhere that
'Messenger' is a variant of a Huguenot or Walloon name.

Trevor Bevis's Book 'the Rivermakers' outlines the history of a number of
families who came over from Holland with Cornelius Vermuyden to drain the Fens.

I have also read somewhere that of these families that left Holland in the
1620s, it is thought that they are descendants of a community of French
Protestants that were exiled from Calais in Northern France during the Spanish
Inquisition in the 1560s after the French regained control of Calais from the
English.

if anyone has any contrary information / evidence to what i have written,
please feel free to put me straight.

My own interest is in the HANCAR / ANCHOR family that first appeared in
Ramsey and Whittlesey in the 1680s, and i have some evidence to link with the
Hancar who were in Hatfield and Sandtoft before that.

David Anker
Yorkshire, England

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