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From: "Jenny Beaumont" <>
Subject: [HWE] CATHERINE family
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:19:50 +0000

Has anyone come across the CATHERINE family (tradition says from Brittany)?

My family are CATTRAN from Newlyn (Paul) in Cornwall and the early records
list them as CATHERINE. The earliest are Thomas CATHERINE m Margaret
RICHARDS 1 Dec 1694 at Paul, buried 2 Oct 1737 at Paul. (Also a Thomas
CATHERINE m Thomasine - Thomasine was buried 6 July 1709 at Paul, a widow.)
There are other possible family in the immediate area, the earliest being a
marriage in 1575. So far I haven't traced a baptism for Thomas CATHARINE.

There is also a GRUZELIER family at Paul. Three marriages are recorded for
1726, but no baptisms before that. And a ROUFFIGNAC family who appear in
Paul in 1775 , but have been traced back to a baptism in London in 1686 at
Threadneedle Street. It seems that the father may have been a Minister from
Rochefoucauld - but I haven't traced this myself. There are also baptisms
at St Luke Old Street, Finsbury 1763. This family were navy men and a will
states "his grandfather Jacob de Rouffignac, refugee for religion in Louis
XIV time".

Can anyone give me any links?

Regards
Jenny Beaumont
Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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