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From: "Hanne Thorup Koudal" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Time Line
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:39:28 +0100


Walter Schlosser wrote "Zuflucht Hanau", page 15-21 in the book "Zuflucht -
Hanau. Tagungsschrift 32. Deutscher Hugenottentag Hanau 1981". He has the
following information about the people from the Netherlands in refugium in
England and Germany. 1522: Two augustinian munks in Antwerpen: Heinric Voes
and Johannes Esch, were arrested in December 1522. They were centensed to
dead as heretics and burned 1.th of July 1523 in Brüssel. 1547: The "
Schmalkaldischen Bund" looses, and at the Parliament in Augsburg 1548 the
conditions for protestants were harder. 1550: Karl V (Charles) on the top of
his power. Edikt in Augsburg 29.th of April 1550 wants the church back to
former conditions. The heretics were juged to strongly by the emperors
sister. Many evangelian christians went in refugium to England, where king
Edward VI was ruling in the years 1547-53. He was interested in reformation.
1555: Then the long war of freedom against Philip II of Spane started
(1555-98) in the Netherlands. There were about 30.000 refugees mainly in the
south and southeast of England. Under Maria Tudor (1553-1558), called the
catholic or the blody, many protestant refugees went away from England. In
1554 a group of English refugees had come to Frankfurt a. M. together with
the Scotch reformator John Knox. The next group of people from the
Netherlands leaving England came to Frankfurt a. M. in 1555. This group of
boat refugees with Johannis à Lasco were dismissed in Denmark, were they
wanted to be in refugium 15.09.1553. They were denied to settle as well in
Elsinore (Helsingør) as Copenhagen (København) in October 1553. I March 1554
they were shortly accepted in Emden., where Johannis à Lasco, had been
active before. In summer 1555 they travelled to Frankfurt. 1555-56: Problems
in Frankfurt between the Lutheranians and Calvinists - even though Calvin in
1556 tried to make peace between the two parts - lead to denial of religios
freedom in 1561. 1562: It is supposed that 18.000 people from Fandern and
Wallon were living in England. In 1562 a big group of reformed people were
livning in Frankenthal and other places in Palatinate (Pfalz). 1566: In 1566
the war of freedom in the Netherlands, and the duke of Alba (1567-73) was
assisting the Statholder. Many more refugees left and went to Germany.

Backhouse, Marcel: "The Flemish and Walloon communities at Sandwich during
the reign of Elizabeth I (1561-1603)". Brussel 1995. (90 6569 640 7
US4-A1934). These people were early in England.

This book is interesting for me - and perhaps also for you - because it
mentions the Flemish and Walloon Communities with a lot of interesting
details. "Although some Walloons had settled in Sandwich before 1566 a
separate French-speaking community was not established until the second half
of the 1560s. Most Walloons in Sandwich came from French Flanders and
Hainaut" and "The vast majority of the Flemish and Dutch-speaking community
originated from the Westkwartier of Flanders". "The six-teenth-century
Walloons came from Artois, Hainaut, Walloon Flanders and the Pays de
l'Alleu; Tournai, Armentières and Valenciennes were the major Walloon
towns." A table at page 29 mentions some places of origin: Alleu, Amiens,
Antwerp, Armentières, Artois, Bailleul, Bergues-Saint-Winoc, Comines,
Haringe, Hondschoote, La Gorgue, Laventie, Mesen, Monain, Riningelst,
Richebourg, Sailly, Steenswerck, Tournai, Warneton, Wervik, Westkwartier,
Wormhout. "Around Midsummer 1575 Antoine Lescailleet, the minister of the
Walloon Church at Sandwich, led a flock of one hundred Walloon families from
the Cingue Port to their new settlement in Canterbury." So all the
frenchspeaking people was transferred to Canterbury." This book mentions,
that between 1565-1625 a lot of Sandwich strangers left this town: 1565 56
persons went to Norwich, 1565 1 person went to Wesel, Germany, bef. 1593 5
persons went to London, 1571 13 persons went to Dover, 1571-1593 8 persons
went to Colchester, 1565-1582 5 persons returned to Flandern (and did not
return), 1572-1614 few persons went to Amsterdam, Arnemuiden, Delft,
Dordrecht, Zeeland, The Hague, Harderwijk, Holland, Middelburg, Rotterdam
and Schiedam, but far the largest group went to Leiden. "We identified no
less than 289 Sandwich Strangers who settled in the city between 1576 and
1625. They joined the Flemings who immigrated directly into Leiden from the
south".



I don't know much about Huguenots in England, but some of my ancestors came
from Hainaut, Pays de l'Allou, La Gourge, Laventie and are later in
Mannheim, Pfalz, Brandenburg. A few in Middelburg and Leiden. Perhaps some
of them went to England for a short time, and then returned to
Holland/Germany. The Walloons came to Sandwich about 1567 and at the same
time "The French-speaking Reformed Community and their Church in
Southampton" was formed. A book of that name is written by Andrew Spicer.
London 1997.



Some refugees from Hainaut were from the mining towns of le Borinage:
Wasmes, Warquignies and other places southwest of Mons in Hainaut. Other
small towns in this area: Jemappes, Pâturages, Colfontaine, Frameries,
Hornu, Cuesmes, la Bouverie. The people living here were frenchspeeking
probably Walloons, and some of them might be refugees from northern France.

Some years ago I got this list from anohter researcher (Pierre H. Roussel):

DEMOOR - DESMARAIS.
DELAERE - DESPATURES.
DELBECQUE - DUCOURANT.
VANDAELE - DUVAL, DELVALLEE.
VANDENBERGHE - DUMONT.
VANECKE - DUCHENE.
VERLYNDE - DUTILLEUL.
VANDEVELDE - DESCAMPS.
VANDERMEULEN - DUMOULIN.
VANHOUTTE - DUBOIS.
VANDEWEGHE - DUCHEMIN.
VANBELLE - DEBAILLEUL.
VANRYSSEL - DELILLE.

Sorry I am not able to help about the records and archives relating these.
But I hope someone can give more helpfull information on that.

Hanne Thorup Koudal

Denmark

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