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Subject: Re: [HWE] What do you do...? Help!!! (PS)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:22:38 +0100 (BST)
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And this might sound like a very very stupid question - but were all Huguenots silk weavers, or were when they came to England, and other places? As far as I know my Dusolei's were coopers.
Also have another ancestor who I can't find any info on before 1756. He was James Perrin, born in 1756 to James & Sarah Perrin in St Anne Soho. Perrin is supposed to derive from France. james jnr grew up to be a builder/bricklayer. Might they also be descended from Huguenots? James Jnr changed the spelling of the surname around 1807 (when he married) to Perren which is the spelling that I still use today. How can I find out if they were Huguenots too?
There is another surname that stops c1720 in the Shoreditch/Spitalfields area. The surname is Chiswick. I have always thought that they must have originated from Chiswick Middlesex somehwere along the line but starting to think that that might not be the case. Aaron CHISWICK and Sarah ?? had John Chiswick in 1725. I can't find Aaron before this date. They switched to and from Shoreditch and Stepney from c1720 to c1840. Samuel (Aaron's great grandson born in 1776) Chiswick was a cooper, as was his son John Joseph Chiswick.
Sorry to throw this on everyone, I'd really appreciate some advice/tips etc.
Back to work now!
Chloe
"fuller.tony" <> wrote:
Hi Chloe
I've had a look in the records of the Weavers Company from 1610-1730.
There are no DuSoleil or similar in the Court Records which give the lists
of all those admitted as apprentices, masters from the UK or abroad for all
that time.
There are two references to Jean Du Soul, though it's difficult to determine
whether they are the same person, the first from 1674 and the second in
1677.
There are two references to John Du Soul, the first in 1683 when he was
admitted a foreign weaver and the second showing him taking an apprentice,
Matthew Delafountaine in 1685.
That's it as far as I can see. Probably worth while writing to the Weaver's
Company in London to see whether they have anything later than 1730.
Regards
Tony Fuller
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