Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America
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This is an important list of Huguenot family names represented in the membership of the Huguenot Society of America and incorporating the names of members claiming descent through the several ancestral lines. The names are arranged alphabetically, giving the place where the family name is first met with and the place of settlement in America. This reprint was excerpted from the Constitution of the Huguenot Society of America. [R101488]
French and Swiss Protestants
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This rare work is one of the earliest lists of Huguenot emigrants to South Carolina. It provides the names of a number of Huguenots who emigrated to South Carolina and applied for naturalization, their places of origin, parentage, the persons they married, and the names of children born before and after their arrival in South Carolina. [R101483]
History of New Paltz New York and it's Old Families
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This is the definitive history of New Paltz, one of the oldest Huguenot settlements in America and the cradle of surrounding settlements in Ulster and Orange Counties, New York. Part I introduces the reader to the chief genealogical records of New Paltz, with attention directed to church records, property holders, tax payers, land bounty rights, colonial regiments, county records at Kingston, musters of Ulster County regiments in the Revolution, and coats-of-arms of Huguenot families. Part II contains the histories of prominent New Paltz families, both Huguenot and Dutch. This second edition also carries an extensive 208-page Appendix. [R101485]
Huguenot Family Emigration to Virginia
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This definitive work on the Huguenot emigration to Virginia contains lists of refugees and emigrants and several passenger lists, the longest and most valuable of which is a record of baptisms at Manakin-Town, 1721-1754, which gives the names of godparents (usually relatives) and other genealogical data. An eighty-eight page Appendix contains a several-generation genealogy of each of the families listed in the sub-title above, while the index contains the names of approximately 4,000 individuals. [R101480]
Memoirs of a Huguenot Family
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Here is that classic history drawn from authentic family papers of the famous Huguenot family of Jacques Fontaine and the families of Fontaine and Maury, from whom thousands of persons now living in the United States are descended. The Memoirs concern the history of the family of De la Fontaine in France, England, Ireland, and Virginia, where Fontaine's sons and daughters mostly emigrated. [R101491]
The Annals and Parish Register of St Thomas and St Denis Parish
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Here is a collection of parish registers containing "vital records" of the French Huguenot settlement of South Carolina known as the Orange Quarter. Included are 700 marriage records, 1,000 birth or baptismal records, and 500 death or burial records, with 3,200 individuals identified in all. [R101493]
The French Blood In America
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The purpose of this work is to give a true estimate of the Huguenots as a factor in American life. Separate chapters deal systematically with the Huguenots in Canada and the settlements at Oxford, Narragansett, New Amsterdam, New Rochelle and New Paltz, and in the states of Maine, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia. Also included are sketches of Huguenot founders, soldiers, statesmen, churchmen, artists, and writers. Valuable appendices include a list of "Some English Surnames of French Origin" and a list of the "Present Members of the Huguenot Society of America" (1906). [R101486]
The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland
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This award-winning book is the definitive account of the principal Huguenot family settlements in Ireland. Mrs. Lee furnishes specific biographical and genealogical details concerning the more successful Huguenot families who settled in Ireland in the wake of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The book is also sprinkled with lists of Huguenot ministers, churches (with their dates of founding), apprentices, students, and so on. [R101482]
The Huguenots Their Settlements Churches and Industries in England and Ireland
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An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from France to England and Ireland. The most interesting feature of the work, to the genealogist, is the collection of 300 biographies of noted Huguenot refugees who settled in Britain. [R101490]
The Huguenots in France and America
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Lee's Huguenots in France and America is an exhaustive account of the origins of the Huguenots in France and kindred circumstances resulting in the rise of French Protestantism. An important section of nearly 100 pages is devoted to the Huguenots of America, with emphasis on the formidable Huguenot settlements at Oxford, Massachusetts, New Rochelle and New Paltz, New York, Frenchtown, Rhode Island and Jamestown, South Carolina. [R101492]
The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
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Professor Hirsch has written the classic account of the Huguenot settlement of South Carolina, which commenced in 1670. Genealogists will want to consult the work because it identifies all the important Huguenot settlements in colonial South Carolina as well as the eminent pioneers and families. [R101487]
The Huguenots or The Early French in New Jersey
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Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots settled widely throughout the New Jersey colony. This work, prepared by an officer of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, contains brief genealogical and biographical sketches of hundreds of early Huguenot families in the Garden State. With a new index. [R101489]
The Trail of the Huguenots
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This story traces the migrations of the Huguenots through Europe and across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, providing startling insights into the origins of many of our earliest colonial settlers. Over half of the book is devoted to the Huguenots and their direct descendants in Canada and the United States, dealing with those who settled in North and South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England. [R101454]
