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From: Eric REYHL <>
Subject: Re: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D Digest V04 #166
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:02:23 +0100 (CET)


Ve means "veuve" or widow and is still used in French, abriviated also as Vve.
Erich REYHL from "Haute Savoie". France





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> Objet : HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-D Digest V04 #166
> I am new to this list having just discovered that my wife has Huguenot
> ancestors. I would appreciate if someone could explain an abbreviation that
> appears in vol 21 of the Huguenot Society books.
>
> In the Temoignages section of the Threadneedle Huguenot church there appears
> the following
>
> FRERET
>
> Mad Susanne 31 May 1778
> Ve Marie Jeanne 1782
> Elizabeth 17 ans 25 June 1786
> Marie Madelaine: de l'Artilliere 1786
>
> The 'e' in 'Ve' is a superscript. This is presumably an abbreviation and I
> would be grateful for any advice on what it means.
>
> The first 3 names are daughters of Marie Madelaine. If Elizabeth was 17 at
> her Temoingage is it reasonable to assume that her elder sisters would have
> been about the same age at their Temoignage?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Kettle.
> Sydney, Australia.
>

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