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From: "Hanne Thorup Koudal" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Some books....
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:33:41 +0100
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Dear Tony

Thank you for your mail. I will write you tomorrow evening. I have to go to
Jutland early in the morning, because my son is competing in a gymnastic
competition in Aalborg, so I will not be able to make a list of towns and
people untill tomorrow evening.

Greetings Hanne Thorup Koudal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Fuller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [HWE] Some books....


> Hi Guys
>
> The Durrant Cooper book was one of a sort of disjointed series that was
> produced by a string of Victorian/Edwardian researchers (Smiles, Lart &
> Agnew et al) who, to a greater or lesser extent, used primary material,
> usually from the public records, to write histories of the Huguenot
> Diaspora, especially relating to the UK and Ireland.
>
> The problem with a good part of their work is that they were repetitive -
> they even pinched each others work, mistakes and all - and quite often,
> especially with Smiles, brought their own interpretation of history to
> their work. Lart is probably the exception to that rule as he tended to
> concentrate on lineages/pedigrees without his own slant. But there were
> good European series as well - the de Haag brothers produced a good
> history which looked at Walloons and for people researching the
> Walloon/French Churches, Baron von Schicklers three-volume series also
> covers good ground.
>
> The UK researchers did not have the access that we have to records,
> whether published in book form or now digitized - thought the majority of
> CDRoms tend to be synthesised from other sources (church records) or
> copies of older publications - like the Quarto Series.
>
> Hanne, try Robin Gwynn's book 'Huguenot Heritage' for a good overall view
> or the papers from the big conference a few years ago 'From Strangers to
> Citizens'. Additionally, the introductions to the QS books on Canterbury
> and Norwich have a good deal of material about the Walloon side of the
> Diaspora. But chasing names can be a fruitless exercise - my Huguenot
> ancestors only feature a few times in the Society's records because they
> married out quite quickly and frequently worshipped at
> non-Huguenot/Stranger churches, so they are difficult to find.
>
> Interesting that you mention Dover. The records of the first two
> French/Walloon churches there are long-missing but there is a set of
> records for the third and fourth churches available now, long-forgotten in
> the Hug Library in London. Plus there is a good deal of material in a
> book written by William Minet about the Dover and Canterbury communities,
> though slanted towards his family.
>
> The names being changed by clerks etc is something that we all have to
> contend with - as you say, the name changes come thick and fast - what
> annoys me is that Smiles, Durrant Cooper et al even went as far as
> Anglicising given names so Pierre became Peter, Jeanne became Jane etc,
> which, with family name changes can send researchers off on wild goose
> chases.
>
> One of the joys that I have with the CDRoms is that I can scan them
> electronically and I try to use all the information that I have to do
> longer name searches for people here - NOT AN OFFER TO DO LOOK UPS btw.
>
> What I do when I'm compiling data sets is to concentrate on the main name
> that I'm looking for - say Mauran - and then look at the derivations as
> well, think of what the names sound like and then search for those also. I
> put all the names on the index as Mauran with the derivations preceeding
> the name in brackets - that way you can compile alphabetical lists and
> compare for name shifts and also look for similarities, same year of birth
> but different name spelling - before people tell me its long winded and a
> waste of time, the only reason I do it is that it works for me.
>
> Hanne, what I'll do for you over the weekend sometime is to search all the
> CDRoms I have by Walloon place name - let me know which town/s you're
> interested in. I also have the records for the Dutch Church plus a big
> pile of other printed material on the Calaises area so, just to help you
> out, I'll have a quick look through those as well.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Fuller
>
>
>
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