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Some surnames have an unclear origin, like Berger, meaning shepherd in French, and mountaineer in Dutch and German. The particle De also means From or From the in French and means The in Dutch, which does not help finding the origin. Flemish surnames are also common, due to Flemish economic immigration from 1850 to 1950. See Flanders name.
Key work: Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. [336] François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, statesman. Key work: History of France. [337] Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer. [338] Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was ...
In 1924, the US issued a commemorative half dollar, known as the "Huguenot-Walloon half dollar", [145] to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Huguenots' settlement in what is now the United States. Frenchtown, New Jersey, part of the larger Delaware River Valley, was a settling area in the early 1700s.
Its meaning narrowed yet again during the French and Dutch periods and, at Belgian independence, the term designated only Belgians speaking a Romance language (French, Walloon, Picard, etc.) The linguistic cleavage in the politics of Belgium adds a political content to "the emotional cultural, and linguistic concept". [ 9 ]
Huguenot Society of Canada; Huguenot-Walloon half dollar; List of Huguenots; J. Isaac Jacquelot; Françoise Marguerite Janiçon; Julian Jarrold; Charles-Étienne Jordan;
American families of Huguenot ancestry (20 C, 1 P) B. Bosanquet family (11 P) C. Cazenove family (8 P) Constant de Rebecque (6 P) Courtauld family (15 P) D. De ...
History of the Walloon & Huguenot Church at Canterbury. Canterbury: Printed for the Huguenot Society of London. Hovenden, Robert (1891). The Registers of the Wallon or Strangers’ Church in Canterbury. Lymington: Printed for the Huguenot Society of London. Kershaw, Samuel W. (1885). Protestants from France in their English Home. London: Samson ...
De la Cour is a French-language surname, meaning "of the court". The alternative forms Delacour and Delacourt were used by a Huguenot refugee who settled in Portarlington, County Laois , as well as his descendants who later moved to County Cork and then to England.