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From: "Frost Prioleau" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Walloons
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:47:56 -0700
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From this list, we have always heard that Walloons are descended from French
Huguenots (and presumably Protestant).

Then, why in present-day Belgium are Walloons the southern French-speaking
Roman Catholic sector and Flemish the northern "Dutch-speaking" Protestant
sector?

When did the Walloons switch back to Roman Catholicism?

H. Frost Prioleau
Piedmont, CA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Stramy" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Walloons


> Denise,
>
> >From Lorine McGinnis Schulze's Olive Tree Genealogy website:
> http://olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml
>
> "Huguenot & Walloon
>
> Huguenot: French Protestants who fled from religious persecution. They
> first went to
> Prussia, the German Palatinate and then came to America. Those in the
> French West
> Indies escaped to the southeastern coast of America. Others went to
> England and
> Ireland.
>
> Walloon: Walloons are from southern Belgium. The language of the
> Walloons is a dialect of French. Cornelis May of Flanders, Holland and
> about 30 to 40 families came to America in 1624 and established Fort
> Orange. This town is now known as Albany, NY."
>



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