My French Huguenot (Protestant) ancestors and others baked their French language Bibles into loaves of bread and fled with them into England or Ireland or Holland or Germany after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes..
I had several families who went to England where there were 30 French Churches in London, and from there the sympathetic English government sent them on to NYC in the 1680s or so..
My families that fled to England were the Sicard, Parcot, Jandron/Gendron to London, the Badeau and Fume to Bristol...there may have been others also..
All these family names are mentioned on a monument as founders of New Rochelle, NY ...and Reformed French Church founders and members...
Their children married in England and came to the states...
Pierre Parcot became known as an “Ancien of the Temple” in Soho. The French Protestant churches were called “temples” in France and also in England. His son also Pierre married a Jandron/Gendron daughter, Francoise, in probably that same French Church in Soho, London.
From the Badeau and Fume families who fled together to Bristol, England, a son, Eli Badeau married a daughter, Claude Fume in the French Church in Bristol
Ambroise Sicard had escaped into England from France with 5 of his children and they were all sent on to NYC...there is no record of what happened to his wife...
Other of my French families fled to Holland and came here from there..their names were changed to the Dutch variation...
I also had an English family the Workmans who fled into Holland and changed their name to Woertman...
A favorite hymn that Huguenots would sing every night before bed was Psalm 68...
There are such interesting people on FR..me I think all my ancestors were horse thieves :)
Wow, what a legacy you have! It is so wonderful what God can do with people who are open to his leading.