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From: "fuller.tony" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] GOOZEE family
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:33:37 +0100
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Hi Tim

This thing about biblical names being used to identify families of Huguenot descent is an urban myth. They are biblical and saints names and in the absence of many other modern names because they were too early for them, that's what was used and still is in many parts of the world, including France. It's not exclusively a Huguenot naming structure, it's as Catholic as it is Huguenot and as the Huguenots and Walloons didn't have any other given names to use, they used what they knew, the Catholic Saints names.

The name sounds Dutch - I know some Boer descended South Africans with similar surnames. Nothing in the Hug Soc of GB's Proceedings tho GOOSCHE does appear in one volume.

But there is a file on the GOOZEE family at the Hug Library in London, cross referenced to GOSSE tho that may only be an exchange of letters and a few references in the records of the French Hospital, La Providence.

Hope this helps

Tony Fuller
Editor, Huguenot Families, Hug Soc of GB&I
CEO, Huguenot Trails Ltd.

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