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Later Le Sage descendants in Spitalfields married with the Levesques, weavers originally from Bolbec, and with the Le Maréchals of Caen. (One branch of this Le Sage family later emigrated to Australia whilst another branch went to the Philadelphia-New Jersey area in the United States.) [206] [207]
Other descendants of Huguenots included Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king; Reverend John Gano, a Revolutionary War chaplain and spiritual advisor to George Washington; Francis Marion; and a number of other ...
While white inhabitants were largely Anglican, many Huguenots were established there after 1700. [7] The Goose Creek men became leaders of the early Indian trade, and by the 1690s many held important offices in the colonial government. At first the Goose Creek men dealt mainly in Indian slaves, while later the deerskin trade dominated. [8]
An updated version of the Pienaar genealogy was compiled by Christo Viljoen, whose mother was née Pienaar, as the "Pienaar Familieregister" and published by the Huguenot Society of South Africa. [3] Some of the descendants of the Pienaar progenitors include: Antoinette Pienaar, South African actress and writer; Ben Pienaar, British rugby player
Abraham Salle, Justice of the Peace of Chesterfield County, and his cousin Jacob Salle, a yeoman, were descendants of immigrants Abraham and Olive Salle. [10] Abraham Salle was a Sheriff in Chesterfield County from 1768 to 1769. [11] Salle's descendants have moved west to Kentucky and other states. The surnames are spelled Sallee, Salle, and ...
A notable example of this is the emigration of Huguenots from La Motte-d'Aigues in Provence, France. After this large scale emigration, individual Huguenot immigrant families arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as late as the first quarter of the 18th century, and the state-subsidised emigration of Huguenots was stopped in 1706.
The next installment in Disney’s Descendants saga includes a royal reunion 26 years in the making. The Disney+ film, which is now titled Descendants: The Rise of Red, has cast Paolo Montalban as ...
Emblem of The Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America is a New York City–based genealogical organization. On April 12, 1883, the Society was inaugurated by a group of descendants of Huguenots who had fled persecution in France and who (or whose descendants) settled in what is now the United States of America.