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From: "Elayne Lockhart" <>
Subject: MARIE AND FRANCHETTE RICHENET
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:00:05 -0500


Hello listers. I am trying to find out the family history of my g.g. grandmother, MARIE RICHENET. She married ALEXANDER LOCKHART, solicitor, in Ireland in 1826, (Church of Ireland and therefore Protestant), but I have not found any other family members for her in Ireland. I also do not have the marriage certificate to obtain other names, just the license. She was French-speaking and we have a French psalmster (like a prayer book) from Geneva called "Les psaumes de David, mis en vers Francais, revus et approuvez pas les Pasteurs et les Professeurs de l'eglise et de l'academie de Geneve, 1716". There is a hand-written inscription from 1773 "Psaume appartient a FRANCHETTE RICHENET, Donne pour ses Etrennes le 13 Decembre, 1807". (A mother? sister?)

Our "family story" has always been that she was Huguenot and from Switzerland. I have located some records with the RICHENET name in Switzerland but not Marie or Franchette. Can anyone tell me if this is likely a Huguenot family? My other guess is that it has been assumed that being Protestant meant being Huguenot whereas it could have been more along a later Reform or Calvinist tradition.

I would be glad of any feedback or suggestions as to how I could follow up this situation. Thank you.

Elayne Lockhart
Toronto, Canada

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