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From: Maude Barrett <>
Subject: [Huguenot-L] Re: Huguenot-D Digest V98 #25
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:58:19 -0700
Hello, I'm also newly subscribed and would appreciate any input and/or
possible places to research the European ancestors of my LAFUZE line.
This info is from a family reunion book from 1937...Samuel LAFUZE,
1776-1863, moved from Uniontown, PA with his wife, Eleanor (Harper) and
nine children to Union County, IN, in 1813. Oral tradition says that
Samuel was an orphan, whose father was "missing in action" during the
American Revolution (possibly drowned during General Washingtons
'Crossing of the Delaware December 26, 1776).
By tradition the family is believed to have lived in the old province
of Perche in Normandy near the Normandy beaches of D. Day. Being
Huguenots, they had to flee from France after the Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes in 1685, Many took refuge in England and Holland, the
latter more likely for the LAFUZE family. A graduate student of the
University of Michigan, reading material compiled by George Bernard Shaw
in preparation for his play, "Joan of Arc," found that a man named
LAFUZE was one of the followers of St. Joan 1429-31.
The earliest meaning of "fuze" is that of a spindle on which thread is
wound to be fed into a loom. The fact that Samuel, Sr. was a weaver may
be related to the meaning of the name, since occupations were once
strongly traditional. It is also consistent with the location of the
home in France near Bayeux and Lille, early centers of the textile
industry. This also places the family near Rouen, where Joan of Arc was
burned at the stake. Friends of the family, who traveled in n. w. France
about 1930 observed the name "Lafuze" there.
Sorry to be so wordy, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Maude Barrett
Marysville, WA
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