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Subject: Re: [HWE] How can you tell?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:33:25 +0000 (GMT)
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Thanks Tony. Much appreciated.

How can a baptismal certificate prove Huguenot ancestry? I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself I just don’t want to get my hopes up that they were Huguenots and for them to be severely deflated if I find out they were just being annoying liars!!

Will I be able to find out if my DU SOLEIL’s actually went to this school (the notes you kindly sent me that people on the admission to register list had to wait for an opening)?

Also with my ‘current’ surname, PERREN. It’s said to be French, but I don’t know if that is true or not in my case. Like I’ve said before, my gggg grandfather, James PERRIN, was baptised in St Anne, Soho in 1756. Might they also be Huguenots? If so, would the parish records help me there? I’ve looked in St Anne Soho and not come up with anything regarding James’ parents, James and Sarah’s marriage. My nana always said that the Perrens came over with William the Conqueror but so many have this story, I believe it to be fabricated.

Thank you so much for all of your help, Tony and Peter. Can anyone help me solve the puzzle? Were they or weren’t they? LOL. Maybe it’s one of those things, we’ll never know!

Thanks again.

Chloe

Tony Fuller <> wrote:Hi Chloe

Couple of things to bear in mind with the School. It was, as you say the
French Protestant School and was part of the overall structure of the
Consistory of the French Protestant Church in London - which by default was
populated by people who were Huguenot descended by the time the Du Soleils
were pupils there.

I think that I sent you all the references on the Du Soleils that were in
Quarto Series. The only way of moving forwards (or backwards as you're
looking for ancestors) is to look at the parish records for the parish in
which the family lived - St Anne, Soho, which was what I refer to as a
pseudo-Huguenot church because so many Huguenots lived in the parish and
attended that church - and to start hitting those records to see what you
might turn up.

It could be that the Du Soleil family only used those French/Huguenot
facilities as they saw as relevant to their lives - like the School, which
was effectively free and maintained by subscriptions from the local French
great and good but gave their children an education (in French for the
greater part) and also fitted them for a trade or to go into service - they
exercised their right to worship in any church that suited their beliefs.

I have a picture of the last French School in the 1920s when it was being
sold which I'll send on to you.

I'll send the translation that you asked for privately separately.

Hope this helps

Regards

Tony Fuller



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