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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Huguenots, Immigrants and Family Folklore
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:15:33 +0000
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MY apparent Huguenots were living in Uttoxetor in 13th century! I have lots
of stuff about them from the Pipe Rolls - cant track my line back that far
of course but they were there. And I have studied the Huguenot records and
found no suggestion at all of the DUROSE family in them - as someone says,
it could well be a side branch from way back.

As for folklore, I have found there is often that grain of truth which has
been very well padded over the years. Or, in the case of one line, made up
to hide illegitimacy

Liz


>Hi folks,
>The Huguenots really started flooding into Britain in the middle half of
>the
>16th and early part of the 17th century the main event being the St
>Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 ordered by Catherine De Medici,


>I often do see cases of family folklore, no matter how implausible, turning
>out to have more than a grain of truth about them. The story might have
>been
>turned around, the facts bent to suit a particular person or situation but
>generally there is something in the story which can be verified. I always
>recommend amateur researchers write down the family folklore, especially
>before those capable of reciting pass on but then setting out clinically
>and
>methodically to establish or disprove it. Sometimes disproving folklore
>actually results in a far more interesting story coming out.
>

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