HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L Archives
Archiver > HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE > 2005-11 > 1131111091
From: "fuller.tony" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Marriage of MARTIN and LEFORT
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:30:41 -0000
References: <003801c5e0ee$7d985260$0301010a@NICHOLAS> <001401c5e11f$c10bf7f0$124cfa51@toshiba01> <001501c5e11e$43c04630$0301010a@NICHOLAS>
Hi Jeanette
Oh dear, seems to be one of those days. Quarto Series (QS) are the Huguenot
Church registers which have been transcribed and then published by members
of the Hug Soc of London/GB. The records for the Chapel Royal are in volume
28.
There is no marriage of WATSON and LeFort in the register either. There is
an Anne WATSON but she married a Huguenot cleric, nothing like Lefort
though.
BUT there are several Anne Watson's married etc at St James', Clerkenwell,
some miles away from the Huguenot Chapel but no Lefort though there are some
Le Huguenot names, not a Lefort.
The Anne WATSON that married the cleric came from the parish of St George's
Hanover Square where many Huguenot families lived.
Need to understand that the parishes of the Anglican Church were the places
in which the families lived for taxation purposes, that sort of thing.
Huguenot/French churches of that time had no parishes and Huguenots and
their descendants went to whichever church appealed to them on grounds of
geography, they liked the style of the Minister or Lecturer or they
preferred the Liturgy in French or English.
Because somebody lives in a parish - St Anne's Soho, St George's Hanover
Square, St Leonard's Shoreditch - doesn't mean that they didn't worship in -
say - Threadneedle Street, Chapel Royal or whatever else, that was solely
their preference.
Sorry, this is just going to cause more confusion. Baptism of Elizabeth to
follow later.
Regards
Tony Fuller
This thread: