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From: "Shirley Arabin" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Australian Huguenot Society
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:26:14 +1300
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the Huguenot descendants seem to be like the legendary Flying Dutchman or
the Wandering Jew, continually on the move from generation to generation.
Our ARABINs originated in Riez, Provence and with the Revocation the refugee
joined a regiment in William of Orange's army. He fought and settled in
Ireland, and for those of you who read Huguenot Families and saw Vivien
Costello's article on the intermarriage of army families will see his
progeny joined the army as well. Then there was Henry the lawyer and
gunpowder manufacturer (who else has an Irish gunpowder manufacturer?) He
had 9 sons, two to the army, two to the Royal Navy, a Resident Magistrate
( remember Peter Bowles the RM in the TV series), a land agent (estate agent
in those days) and two lawyers one of whom was a Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Only two of these sons had issue and it was the RM who had again 9
children - 7 girls and 2 boys. All 9 emigrated to Australia.
4 daughters were spinsters living in Melbourne; 3 married - one of these had
2 daughters who were Anglican martyrs in China in 1895 who died in a
massacre; another daughter only had 2 sons who died as children; the third
married into another Anglo Irish family the MAYNEs and there are still
people of that family in Queensland whom we plan to meet on our next trip.
Of the sons only one had issue - one son born in Melbourne - who had one son
born in Auckland - who had one son my husband Barry - we have one son and he
has one son. The other man in Aus. returned to England and did not marry.
HOWEVER, there is a large Arabin family in Australia who are descended from
a General Arabin (grandson of the refugee) and I have only this year been
able to make the connection.
Our daughter and family now live in Australia so that generation has moved
on. There are Arabin descendants in Italy, France, UK, Ireland, Canada,
South Africa, NZ and goodness knows where.

Shirley
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: [HWE] Australian Huguenot Society


> Anyway, I'm hoping that some of our
> HWE subscribers on the underside of
> the planet can be lured out of their deep
> camouflage by this topic. Perhaps
> some of them will even share wondrous
> tales of their Huguenot ancestry with us.

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