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From: "Jenny Sturges" <>
Subject: The frigate Richmond - Laussac Family
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:46:03 +0100


Hi Listers
Is there anyone who could help me with access to passenger records (Laussac family) to South Carolina in the 1680s? Possibly on the frigate Richmond. I have tried various websites without success. There was a De Laussac family living in London during this period. My earliest ancestor James Losack appears in St Kitts by 1728. I work full time and live a long way from resources in London, (UK) time for research is limited. Any internet help would be welcome.

My only information comes from a book
"Huguenot Ancestry" by Noel Currer-Briggs & Royston Gambier. 1985 Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. Shopwyke Hall, Chichester, Sussex, UK
ISBN 0 85033 564 7

"Charles II urged the Huguenots of England to migrate to South Carolina to grow grapes, olives and silkworms. This was one of many attempts to grow these crops in the southern colonies, and French vigerons from the Bordeaux region, and silkworm cultivators from Lyons had been brought to Virginia in the 1620s, though none of their names are known. In 1680 there was a large Huguenot emigration to Charlestown, South Carolina, which grew to a flood after the Revocation. This movement included the following families: Bayard, Bonneau, Benoit, Bocquet, Bacot, Chevalier, Corde, Chastaquier, Dupre, Deslisles, Dubose, Dutarques, de la Cousilliere, Dubouxdeiu, Faysseaux, Gaillard, Gendron, Guignard, Horry, Huger, Legare, Lauren(t), Lausac, Marion, Mazycq, Manigault, Mallichamp, Neuville, Peronneau, Porcher, Peyre, Ravenel, Saint-Julien and Trevizant. They were sent to produce wine and silk, many of them travelling on the frigate Richmond.

Please let me know if you find any Laussac family during your researches

Many thanks

Jenny
Somerset UK

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