| Name |
Comment |
Location |
| Amyser |
Philip Amyser, of Litton was aged 63 and had been in England 40 years when he took out who took out patents of naturalization. |
Litton |
| Bazzelle |
No one of that name has been identified by Barrell, Busell and Boissel are possible variations. |
? |
| Beauregard |
Michel Rousell married Catherine Beauregard in Bath on January 1796 but she may have been a refugee from the French revolution. |
Bath |
| Boules |
Elner Boules was married to John Locston on 29th September 1634 and they had at least one son also called John baptised in West Pennard on 17th January 1640 or 1641. The author may be descended from this branch of the Loxton family. |
West Pennard |
| Bouling |
Thomas Morgan married A Boulting in Wookey on 25th February 1778. The witnesses were John Rousell and William Bouling. Such variation in spelling was common but Bouling has a French sound to it. |
Wookey |
| Chambre |
Elizabeth Sevier of Brockley married Henry Chambre of Bourten on 3rd of August 1738 |
Brockley |
| Chesle |
Chesle was a Huguenot name and the appointment of the family called Cheswell before the Rev Rebothier suggests that John Strachey had a ‘soft spot’ for Huguenots. |
Stowey |
| Cramphione |
A Mr Cramphione was listed as renting some of the land near to the Rosewells and the source of that name has not yet been identified either. |
CM |
| Dalimore |
The Dalimore family name is believed to have been originally De La Mare but this name is an example that ‘Frenchness’ is not evidence of a Huguenot past. There are records of a Norman French De La Mare family living in Gloucestershire in the 11th century. |
CM |
| Frapwell |
The Frapwell family has strong links to Somerset but does not sound like a typical Anglo-Saxon name particularly when the alternative Frapell spelling is used. |
CM |
| Golledge |
Golledge is a relatively common name locally which may have Huguenot connections because the spread of the family in Somerset is similar to the distribution of Seviers |
? |
| Gottreux |
Frederic Gottreux married Elizabeth Laura Moger in Bath in 1837 which may introduce a new Huguenot name to the list |
Bath |
| Lasper |
Lasbury may sound to be a quintessentially English name but the original spelling in c1719 was Laspor and the name Lasper persisted as a field name until 1839. |
East Harptree |
| Pages |
Collinson’s History of Somerset records a memorial to Solomon Pages ‘Gallius’ or Frenchman Rector of Farmborough. He was another exile from Catholic persecution on the continent born 1653 ad died in 1725. |
West Harptree |
| Rebotier |
Elias Rebotier was born in St John De Gardonnenque in the Cevennes district of Languedoc in the south of France. He was Rector of Chelwood, Dinder ad Winscombe amongst other places. |
Dinder |
| Rousell |
There was a Rousell family based in Crewkerne from about 1741 and this name may get confused with Rosewell. |
Crewkerne |
| Sevier |
The Sevier family held land in Chewton Mendip in the 18th century. Sevier which may have been Anglicised as Season. These two names are the least similar phonetically but other factors hint at some link between the Season family and Huguenots. |
CM |
| Thiery |
Lewis Thiery came to England in 1650 and his grandson of the same name held land in Chewton Mendip. |
CM |
| Wagner |
Marie Eugenie Wagner was baptised in Weston Super Mare in 1866. Her father’s name was Jean Francis Eugene Wagner. Other Wagners lived in Bath. |
Weston Super Mare |
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