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The flight of Huguenot refugees from Tours, France drew off most of the workers of its great silk mills which they had built. [citation needed] Some of these immigrants moved to Norwich, which had accommodated an earlier settlement of Walloon weavers. The French added to the existing immigrant population, then comprising about a third of the ...
The members of the Protestant religion in France, the Huguenots, had been granted substantial religious, political and military freedom by Henry IV in his Edict of Nantes. Later, following renewed warfare, they were stripped of their political and military privileges by Louis XIII, but retained their religious freedoms.
Ligonier was a Huguenot refugee who fled his native Castres for England in 1697, following the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau, which stripped the rights of French Protestants to practice their religion. He joined the British Army in 1702 as a volunteer, and for the next six decades was dedicated to the British cause.
French Huguenot leaders petitioned the government for more assistance as another ship of refugees landed at the Virginia Colony. Gradually the pioneers adapted and moved out of the village to their farms in the area. By 1750, the village was again defunct. Over the decades, the French and their descendants intermarried with English settlers.
In 1621, after an arrival of refugees, Huguenot ministers were granted use of St Mary's Church for part of the day. [20] In the early-17th century, a census listed 78 French and 13 Walloon refugees including 2 ministers, 3 physicians, 8 merchants, 2 schoolmasters, 13 drapers, 8 weavers and woolcombers, and more, residing at Dover. [21]
Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), American Secretary of the Treasury, mother was a Huguenot refugee living in the West Indies. [ 394 ] Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891), politician, redesigned Paris (French Lutheran).
Himself a refugee in Holland, Gastigny wanted to provide for the Huguenot refugees in England. He was a member of the French Committee responsible for distributing the Royal Bounty to the refugees. In his will dated April 1708, he originally left £1,000 (equivalent to £202,945 in 2023) to benefit poor French Protestants – £500 for an ...
Soon after his birth, the family emigrated to the Virginia colony, [3] where hundreds of Huguenot refugees had settled above the falls of the James River during the early 1700s. Maury was tutored and attended The College of William and Mary. After ordination to the Anglican ministry on July 31, 1742, he was appointed usher of its grammar school.