[Tennessee Nana]

My Huguenot ancestors, the Sicards, escaped from La Rochelle to Ehgland and to the US in the 1680s...

About the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes...

They smuggled out their precious Bible by baking it into a loaf of bread...

They lived in NYC and then founded New Rochelle, NY...

On the monument in Hudson Park of the 151 Huguenot names...

http://www.chadeayne.com/images/monument_names.jpg

Badeau, Du Bois, Mabille, Sicard,

are my direct ancestors..

Of the Walloons, Jesse De Forest is also my ancestor

His descendent, Simon De Forest, of Albany, NY, was a LOyalist killed in the American Revolution...

His daughter, Hannah (Ann) De Forest, born in Albany, NY married Stephen Secord (Sicard) born in New Rochelle, NY

Stephen’s mother was Madelaine Badeau, another Huguenot family..

My Huguenot forebears have been a source of inspiration and encouragement to me for most of my life..

[AUsome Joy]

Wow! I am impressed that you know for sure about the link to your Huguenot ancestors. I have heard that one of mine may have been from the Huguenots, but haven’t been able to link it.

[goosie]

I too am a Hutuenot and have a Huguenot cross which I find to be the most beautiful of all crosses.

[QBFimi]

Huguenot ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ve also heard I’m descended from one line of French Huguenots that escaped the “unpleasantness”, but haven’t been able to fully research the line.

[investigateworld]

Years ago, I was in a wee village in North Ireland. The place went back to the 1830 or so. I noted one of the village squares was named 'Charlemagne Square'. I asked why would a place in Ireland(the UK party) be named for the greatest Frenchman ever?

My driver replied, "Bunch of Huguenots, they brought the weaving industry and own all the banks. Don't drink and party a lot, bad bunch them".LOL