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From: "Tony Fuller" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Re: Naturalization and Denization, John Fountaine
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:52:43 +0100
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Hi Edwin

Thanks for the information about the American naturalization.

Much of the information that you've given about the 19th century is more
American history that Huguenot so far as the British end of research is
concerned.

I've looked at the Irish records and there are a large number of de la
Fontaines and any number of derivations in the Irish Huguenot Church
extracts. One of the problems is that the Huguenot records in Britain are
relatively short lived, as was the Huguenot community, though the
descendants obviously lived on. The community itself only lasted as a
separate entity broadly until the mid 1700s and it was only the French (not
Huguenot) school and La Patente, the Hospital, in London that maintained the
Huguenot traditions until the early 1900s, even the Church becoming
Protestant, rather than Huguenot/Calvinist quite early on.

By the mid 1700s, when your Fontain family sent sons to England and Germany,
the Huguenot community in Ireland was in decline as most of the Huguenot
people were integrated or integrating into the wider communities and whilst
families that were of Huguenot descent may have used particular churches,
had their own burial grounds and the like.

I don't understand your reference to the War of Northern Aggression Is
that a local term for the war of 1861-1865?

Regards

Tony Fuller

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