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From: "Don Watson" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot-L] Re: Huguenot-D Digest V98 #25
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 08:14:18 -0500


You can read some interesting Huguenot
history at http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911/larue.htm.
The index is http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911/myheart.htm.
While it may not relate to your specific family,
it will offer insights into their trials and tribulations.

:)
Don Watson


-----Original Message-----
From: Maude Barrett <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 4:58 PM
Subject: [Huguenot-L] Re: Huguenot-D Digest V98 #25

>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 Washington’s
>'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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