Huguenot Traces

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Location Item Huguenot Name Year Details Website
120 Bethnal Green RoadHistoric Pub - The Flower Pot1917An historic pub 'the Flower Pot' was situated at "the Corner of Cock-lane and Brick-lane, in the Road leading from Shoreditch to Bethnal-green" (now 120 Bethnal Green Road) and was present by 1800, when it hosted meetings of a local Huguenot society. It survived as a pub until 1917.
18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields, LondonDennis Severs House - A museum set out as a Huguenot house from 1724Dennis SeversDennis Severs’ House at 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields is more than just a time capsule. It is both a breathtaking and an intimate portrait of the lives of a family of Huguenot silk-weavers from 1724 to the dawn of the 20thC.
19 Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EHHuguenot HouseCurrently mixed use building, including a community since 1965. (Oscar Garry design.) Likely the only building in London named specifically after the Huguenots still standing. In one of the original areas of Huguenots in central London (Orange Street and Oxendon Street, near Soho).
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal GreenHuguenot Silk weaver's family homeCharlies KinglseyCharles Kingsley, author of 'The Water Babies' lodged next door during his social conditions research into the status of the poor.
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal GreenSilk weaver's patterns wovenBenjamin HaleBenjamin Hale's predecessors wove 'heavy patterned silk fabrics'. A pattern which survived into early 20th century was of a 'Paisley style' design in bright coloured hand-woven silk, also a web of silk ready for the loom in peach colour, and silk shears, worn and used
5 Fournier Street, E1Townhouse AntiquesAn 18th century silk merchant’s house
56-58 Artillery Lane, SpitalfieldsShop frontJourdain and Rybot1756home of silk merchants
Actively traded and in private collectionsSilvercraftSilvercraft by Daniel and Charles May, Huguenot family in Blackfriar's, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green mid1700s-1800s. Charles and Daniel both appear in Grimwade's Biographies and their work is actively traded and can be seen online. There is a private collection of Charles May's thimbles in Australia.
Addiscombe Military Academy SurreyJean LaporteDrawing Master at the Addiscombe Military Academy, Surrey
Alfold SurreyGrave at St Nicholas ChurchJean CarreWealden glassmakerMore Info...
Armagh near Mill Town and Coney IslandWinard BridgeJohn Rocque1760Winard Bridge appearing on John Rocque 1760 map of Armagh. London Museum and assorted Northern Ireland experts have all advised they simple have never heard of Winard Bridge and can offer no direction. I descend from Vennard family #12 that I can first confirm via records as living nearby and around that bridge
Banstead, SurreyBurialJames Hultain1753Haultain, James James appears to have carried on the family business Calico printer, proprietor of Haultain et Cie,. He died in 1753, and was buried at Banstead. His widow leased a large property, Durham House, overlooking Fair Green, in mid-18th century
Bateman’s Row, Brick Lane, Church Row, Club Row, Cock Lane, Dirty Lane, Elder St (Liberty of Norton Folgate), George St, Hare St, Hart’s Lane, Holywell Lane, New Gravel Lane, New Inn Yard, Sclater St, Swan Yard, Turville StWeavers' residencesChamberlain, Clasisse, Boisson familiesResidences of 18th and 19th century Huguenot weavers, including Chamberlain, Claisse and Boisson families. Sources: Parish records, census records, The London Times, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, poor law removal records
Beddington Park, Beddington, SurreyFrancis Carew's Elizabethan garden at BeddingtonFrench gardeners were employed by Francis Carew. Also interesting is that Francis Carew had the first orangery in BritainMore Info...
Bethnal GreenRenvoise family tomb Peter Renvoise. He was a sibling of Elizabeth Renvoize
Box Hill, nr Dorking, SurreyGrave stonePeter LabilliereDied 6 June 1800Buried head downMore Info...
Brighton and Hove MuseumCeramics from the Chelsea Porcelain FactoryNicholas SprimontThe factory was run by Flemish Huguenots
BristolHuguenot trail1680'sMemorials to Huguenots (who came to Bristol in 1680s) in Lord Mayor's Chapel & nearby nearby St Stephen's Church.
British MuseumClockAbel PanchaudThe British Museum has a trade card from Abel Panchaud showing two Chinese figures, one of whom is holding a watch. Abel's clocks are still in circulation today with a number of them being sold through specialist antique dealers
Bunhill Fields, LondonEarly nonconformist cemetery Burials of Huguenots were usually in Anglican churchyards thus they appear in parish registers, but some can be found in the early nonconformist cemetery at Bunhill Fields, London.
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