Comments on: The Huguenots of Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Forecast https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1925442 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:32:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1925442 Hi Bernice (November 26, 2016)

I’m a bit late to the party, but I too am descended from Robert Forquaist / Martine Ollivier. There’s some information here:

https://gw.geneanet.org/damarisk?lang=en&n=forquest&oc=1&p=robert+forecast

which may be of interest.

]]> By: Lucinda Potter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1896801 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:33:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1896801 Message for Lesley keeper

According to records of other Ancestry members our common ancestors are William Agombar and Margaret Sherry. My Ancestry user name is Lucinda1818 and I manage the Moodie Family tree. My maiden name is Agombar.

]]> By: Marie Kershaw https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1889045 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:18:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1889045 I’m an Australian of Huguenot descent.
My Gr.gr.grandfather Joseph Garnault Vautier had 7 trips between England & UK before settling down with wife Amy Byron Cooke.
Were the Cookes Huguenot -Amy Byron Cookes father—-William Robert Smith Cookes details avoid me.His family originally came from Bristol.
Has any one info of William Robert Smith Cooke.

]]> By: Richard Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1837594 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:21:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1837594 I’m descended from Pierre Doneau or Dono and Rachel Pannevel/Panvel. Booth street 1701 . For any descends out there …….I have new information regarding Rachel’s origins in France. Please get in touch.

]]> By: Dawn Hutson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1779224 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:13:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1779224 I am presently searching the Guildersleeve family who were weaver and whilst they were not hugenoets I have traced a Guildersleeve married a Grimault and that is definitely Hugenoet and have traced that line back to France. Really fascinating

]]> By: Leigh Jiggins https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1705825 Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:54:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1705825 What a wonderful website this is. I have been lots of research on my family history. My 8 x great Grandfather and grandmother were Simon Camroux and Anne Claire La Place who came from France, their son Jean Simon Camroux (my x 7th great grandfather was the first branch of the family to come to London I believe and were shown in the registers of the French Church on Threadneedle Street between 1748-1755. There is a wonderful family history on this website. https://gw.geneanet.org/mcamroux?lang=en&m=NOTES anyone with links to this line will find this very interesting I’m sure.

]]> By: Rita Sullivan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1700241 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:42:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1700241 I have just found and read Elaine Paytons story (2013) from Australian where she wrote of her quest to find out more about her English forefathers who lived in the East end of London in the 1800’s
I too am a descendant of said family and I do know that one member went to Australia either in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s.
Harriet Payton married George Alexander Plunkett in 1842;in Spitafield and they had a son named Joseph in 1851..he was my great grandfather.
George Alexander was a silk weaver and when English weaving came to an end he either purchased/ managed a tobacconist and sweet shop near the London hospital.
He died when he was about 45 and his wife died in 1885.
Joseph was born in at 110 Brick Lane and married Letitia Battersby in 1873.
They had 12 children 6 boys and 6girls. Early in their marriage they moved to south London where Joseph began his business in the scullery of the house.
He eventually owned a large and successful printing business in Kennington South London and after his death in 1931 three of his sons became the owners of the business,they passed it on to the two sons of Joseph’s daughter Ann and my cousin Len Plunkett became the Managing Director.
The business was finally sold in the 1980’s
And so it goes on I still have cousins and their sons named Plunkett and at this moment in time I am 93 years old and my sister is 84.
We are both widows and she moved toFrance in 2015 and I joined her in 2018.
I hope Elaine or her son reads this as it may help them with their search

]]> By: Christopher Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1668736 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:03:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1668736 Message for Denise Golding. I have traced my ancestors back to both the Raby and Cecil families of weavers from Spitalfields. My connection comes down the maternal line through Barlows and the Camplings, Fornece Campling being the grandmother I never met.
Chris Smith, Suffolk.

]]> By: Gary Allison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1637597 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:35:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1637597 Hi. Looking for any info re William Field b.William
Country England
Last name Field
Father’s first name(s) Jeremiah
Sex Male
Father’s last name Field
Birth year 1711
Father’s name note A Cooper
Baptism year 1711
Mother’s first name(s) Elizabeth
Baptism date 27 Jan 1711
Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975
Residence St. Dunstan in the West, London, England
Category Life Events (BDMs)
Place St Dunstan in the West
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
County London
Collections from England, Great Britain
He m. William Field Widower M. Ann Wright Widow 3/8/1750 Marriage
3 Aug 1750
Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Regards,

Gary.
Australia.

]]> By: Lorraine Smedley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/14/the-huguenots-of-spitalfields/#comment-1592807 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:31:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=85912#comment-1592807 I have been researching the Lambert family for quite some time and have discovered that my ancestor Jean Lambert from St Martin de Re married Marie LeFevre and they had their 1st child John in 1666. They were Huguenot weavers and they sent their children to school in England to escape the persecution. After completing his education in England in 1684 John returned to France but then came back to England in 1685 with the Huguenot refugees at the time and became a very wealthy merchant.
I would love to hear of any other families researching the Lambert family from this era.
Lorraine

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