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I know from our family research that Huguenots fleeing from France(some
of my ancestors were from Sedan) after Louis the XIV issued the Edict of
Fontainebleau (1685), which made Protestantism illegal, stopped over in
Brussels before taking refuge in England and Ireland. My ancestors
resided in London for a time before traveling and staying briefly in
Amsterdam on their way to Virginia in the 1690s.
Paul M. Matchen, M.A., R.P.A.
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Subject: Re: Huguenot archaeology
Immigrant communities have been very hard to identify in UK as Geoff
suggests.However see Nigel Jeffries paper "Historically visible but
archaeologically invisible? The Huguenots of Spitalfields" in Medieval
Ceramics 25 (2001), 54-64/. /Some households have been identified in
Norwich as first generation Dutch because of artefact assemblages but
identification is complicated by massive imports of Dutch ceramics etc.
Dutch potters production has been identified in Exeter and London but
seems to have been rapidly abandoned. There are a few rural Hueguenot
settlements -Sandtoft in Lincolnshire and French/Dutch farms around
Thorney in Cambridgeshire though the modern village is a later planned
settlement (subject of a half written article by myself) but I don't
know of any relevant archaeology. The Huegeuenot settlement at Sandtoft
in Lincs was destroyed in riots in 1650 linked to the fen drainage and
extinction of common rights and many Hueguenots left for other parts but
some remained - I think there is a modern hamlet there today.
paul courtney
leicester
geoff carver wrote:
> i just did a short paper on the possibilities of finding evidence of
> religious (or other) minorities in european towns as part of an
> advanced exam; i don't know of anything specifically huguenot, but had
> pointed out that urban dynamix basically meant that traces of ethnic
> identity might be difficult to find, given the long histories of
> european cities, the tendency for people to come & go, etc., and the
> nature of the remains...
> what, for example, would a medieval jewish foundation or stairway look
> like? did the huguenots have distinctive material culture that would
> not have got lost somewhere in the piles of other detritus that
> accumulates in wells, cesspits, along old property lines, etc.?
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> Subject: Re: Huguenot archaeology
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> how about references to Huguenot archaeology in Europe?
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