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From: "fuller.tony" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] JENNIN/JENNINGS/GENINGS
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:23:52 +0100
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Hi Nicola

I think that you may be grasping at straws here because broadly, all you
seem to have is a lot of bits and pieces and no historical time line. And,
if as you say the family is not Protestant back to the 1750s, the chance of
them being Huguenot - especially as the name doesn't appear much in any of
the other 130 odd Huguenot references that I searched for the names - I
think that the chance of them abjuring when being a Protestant to
Catholicism, which would not would not have been a problem for them at all
in Ireland indicates that the family stuff you have is (a) Catholic and
probably (b) the family predates the Diaspora.

Any reference for any families being Huguenot before the 1540s are
non-starters because Calvin's Mission to France didn't really get under way
until then. I think that what you may have are references to the
French/Walloon workers taken over by various English monarchs to help with
the economic development of the British economy rather than Huguenot/Walloon
refugees.

Some records of the Pas de Calais were destroyed in the First World War but
by no means all of them tho from what I recall, there is little Protestante
material in the AD there.

I can send you information about Huguenot Trails privately.

Regards

Tony Fuller


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