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From: "J.Marvin Chastain" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot-L] re. Jean Pierre BONDURANT'a ahnentafel & what is a Huguenot
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 08:11:18 -0700


jeffery a. duvall wrote:
>
> In going through my files last night, I discovered that the first name of
> no. 10 in my earlier Ahnentafel of Jean Pierre BONDURANT should probably
> read "Ambroise" rather than Amboise. At least he appears as such in the
> text of the *Histoire de Genolhac* by the Abbe. C. Nicolas. In addition,
> I've just read a message from Pierre which indicates that he also shows up
> as Ambroise de JOYEUSE, Sgr. de Lasaribal, in the *Armorial du Gevaudan &
> Languedoc* -- it appears that the name "Lasaribal" and L'Aribal" are also
> variations of the same name, but I've no sense of whether or not one is more
> accurate than the other.
>
> As to the question of whether or not Jean Pierre BONDURANT (1677-1734) was a
> Waldensian or a Huguenot, I'm afraid that I have to disagree with Marv
> Chastain's statement that he was a Waldensian.
>
> Certainly his maternal relations appear to have been Huguenots. Both his
> maternal grandfather (Pierre BARJON) and an uncle (Guillaume BARJON) were
> identified as Huguenot ministers. In fact, his uncle Rev. Guillaume BARJON
> was the leader of a group of Huguenot refugees who initially settled in
> Arau, Switzerland (following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes) and
> later moved to Helmarshausen-Karlshafen in Hesse, Germany. Jean Pierre
> BONDURANT's parents' marriage (which was performed by Rev. Guillaume BARJON)
> took place in the Reformed Church at Barre-des-Cevennes, Lozere. Also, Jean
> Pierre's baptism was recorded in Genolhac as being in the "R.P.R." church on
> 1-Aug-1677 (he was born in Genolhac on 18-Jul-1677). My understanding is
> that R.P.R. was a derogatory term (standing for "religion pretendedly
> reformed") for Huguenots. Is that correct? I should also note, that this
> same "R.P.R." shows up in many of the records associated with birth, death,
> and marriages in the BONDURANT family kin-network (i.e., including the de
> BELCASTELS, BARJONs, and so forth).
>
> Jeff Duvall

The names of Jean Pierre Bondurant, Jean Martain and one other Manikin
colonist appear in a book, "Waldenses in The New World" found in the
University of Washington main library. I think the Waldenses had been
pretty well integrated with the rest of the evangelicals by the time
they fled France. Jean Pierre didn't leave until 1698, 13 years after
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. By 1705 there were pitched
battles still being fought between Evangelicals and Catholics in the
Cevennes.

I have information sent to me from friends in Germany about Pastor
Barjon, but it seems to be written in sort of a combination of French
and German which another friend who was born and raised in Germany can't
decipher. Anybody know if they had a "Huguenot language"?

Marv Chastain

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