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From: "Kay Gassan" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25-26
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:48:08 +1000
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Hullo Rhonda,
For what it is worth. I have a Pierre Roge born about 1634 in Cantignon,
France (wherever that is). His son Pierre was born 1658 in Quaregnon,
Belgium-Hennegau and he died in Strasburg, Uckermark, Brandenburg, where the
family settled and the name became ROGER.
This Pierre's daughter Marie Magdeleine Roger married Francois Henry
Castillion. Perhaps Pierre had a brother named George.
I live in Queensland ands also interested in the Basque area as their are
people by the name of GASSAN who have lived in that region for centuries.
Kay Gassan
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Subject: Re: [HWE] HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25-26



> discussion re: 0 Negative Blood group.
>
> I must say to you all that Tony, is right I was, grasping at straws here.
> I have been working on my family history now for 20 years and have not
> been
> able to find the birth of my George Rogers who married Jane Leverton 03
> APR
> 1785 Belstone, Devon, England.
>
> I had noticed on the I.G.I. a few George Roger births from 1600's through
> to the 1700's in France and wondered whether I should begin looking in
> Huguenot church registers in England, for a Rogers connection. We as a
> family have spent so much money on private researchers but to no avail,
> they
> have all been well worth paying however, I can only accept Primary Sources
> which none can be found for our George Rogers, before his marriage to Jane
> Leverton1785. I have an Associate Diploma in Australian History so I would
> never look at following DNA as a research source for my Family History.
> So,
> you can all relax, I get your point you are absolutly right.
>
> However, I do find the 0 Negative factor interesting as in the past the
> majority of 0
> Negative people living in England, resided in the Devon, which is where
> the
> majority of Huguenot Churches were. It was just a thought.
>
> I had read that more than fifty percent of the French Basque population
> from
> around the French Pyrenees were Rh 0 negative, as opposed to sixteen
> percent
> for the rest of Europe. I then began to wonder were my Rogers family from
> the French Pyrenees, were they Huguenots as, if, they, needed to flee
> France
> Southern England, would have been the quickest escape.
>
> "Huguenots and Walloons in Devon"
> "The Huguenots and Walloons were, respectively, French and
> Fleming-speaking
> protestant refugees from persecution on mainland Europe.

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