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From: "Martin" <>
Subject: Lehue
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:26:07 -0800

Mainly for Julie Hornung.


I did some quick research on the name which figures in your ancestry and
found the following:


[Mormon Church site]


There were a number of entries from the Huguenot Church, Threadneedle
Street, London. The name was mostly spelled, "Lehue", with a couple
where the final "e" was dropped.
If you think that your ancestors were part of the Huguenot diaspora,
then this might be of interest to you, especially as these people were
presumably still French speaking and close enough to their point of
origin to be able to spell their names with reasonable accuracy.


[GeneaNet]


There were 197 Lehues listed, most of those with the earliest dates
attached to them were from two towns in the Nord Department [59]. The
towns were, "Haspres" and "Saulzoir". There were also a few early ones
from the Meurthe-et-Moselle region. Those from later dates were more
widely dispersed.

I suppose that if I were you [and I hope that I'm not being too
presumptuous, as you may already know all this !]I would, at least as a
starting point, concentrate on these two towns as the most likely places
to find traces of my ancestors and I would also presume that "Lehue" is
the most likely original spelling of the name.


As for me, I already know that my ancestors came from a very small
village called, Monthelon, in the Marne Department. They were listed in
the records of the protestant temple which existed in the nearby hamlet
of Chaltrait. The later history of the family, outside France is well
documented and clear. The Chaltrait records are preserved in the
Departmental archives in Chalons-en-Champagne. I have seen them and I
was surprised by their excellent state of preservation and legibility.
The surname, "Blignaut" is spelt the same as it is today. However, to go
further back is the problem as there does not seem to be much in the way
of research on Protestantism in the region, which is not surprising as
it was not exactly a hotbed of Reform! What does seem clear, however, is
that the name belonged originally to a very small family and that it was
not perpetuated in France.
--
Martin


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