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From: "Tony Fuller" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] RE: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D Digest V04 #107
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:08:12 +0100
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Hi Ida

Interesting message ...

Sorry if this sounds brutal but I would have serious doubts about four
members of a family being beheaded for their beliefs as a sort of punishment
for beliefs through a judicial system - they would have had to have been
tried and dealt with through the religious courts and it would have been
rather unusual for a woman to have been beheaded, even an aristocrat - the
Catholic Church tended to banish them to convents rather than execute them
and then only after the Dragonnade and the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes.

If the family fled at the time of the St Bartholomew's Massacre or of the
massacre which preceded that, I could understand the deaths across a family
but outside of that, there were not that many judicial executions, rather
murders and executions because - say - pastors refused to abjure their
faiths and then they tended to have been burned - but there are lots of
stories about them happening, many of which aren't true. I'd look for
verification of that in the French State or Department records for the Rodez
area which may then help you pin the family down.

There are also some French genealogical societies or Departmental Records
Offices which may be able to help.

I've looked through all the Huguenot Society Quarto Series on CDRom, Smiles,
Durrant Cooper and Agnew's books on Huguenot history and the records of the
Dutch Church, naturalizations in America during the reign of Geo II, records
of the Weaver's Company and the Dover records and there are no hits with the
spelling of PEGUE/S in any of the records.

There are records available for the Anglican churches in London during the
period you would be interested in - try a Google search for the London
Metropolitan Archive (LMA) and send them an email, they will probably be
able to suggest something. If the family lived in the area of Leicester
Street/ Leicester Square, they may have worshipped in St Anne's Soho, St
James,, St Martin's in the Fields.

Sorry of this seems too negative ...

Regards

Tony Fuller


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