| 1827 - 266 pages
...minister of the French church at that place, having fled from France on account of'his being a protestant, at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes....the age of five years he is said to have understood the'wfeek, lliatin, German, and French languages. His lather, surprised and delighted with his uncommon... | |
| William Maziere Brady - 1863 - 578 pages
...an eminent French family, who immigrated to Ireland from Mentz, in the department of the Moselle, in the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was ordained Priest at Cork, on 21st Sept., 1684. From 1686 to 1693 he was V. Ballymodan, and from 1688... | |
| William Maziere Brady - 1864 - 578 pages
...an eminent French family, who immigrated to Ireland from Mentz, iu the department of Ihe Moselle, in the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was ordained Priest at Cork, on 21st Sept., 1684. From 1686 to 1693 he was V. Bally modan, and from 1688... | |
| Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers - 1901 - 348 pages
...on the Tweed. On my mother's side we are descended from M. le Fevre, one of the refugees from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; he was a London merchant, and took the name of Smith.8 His great-grandson was made a baronet in 1805 as Sir... | |
| Harry Bache Smith - 1914 - 510 pages
...ninetyeight. The Mr. Vaillant referred to was a descendant of a French Huguenot who took refuge in England at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was a bookseller and published some of Garrick's plays. STEELE, RICHARD. THE LUCUBRATIONS OF ISAAC BICKERSTAFF,... | |
| Jean-Baptiste Barrès - 1925 - 326 pages
...of a large and pleasant family, was descended from a French family expatriated for religious motives at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was a Frenchman at heart and proposed to leave the country if it again became German. On the 28th December... | |
| N.E.S. Griffiths - 2005 - 668 pages
...who was expected to keep the accounts for the garrison. Winniett may have been a Huguenot, born about the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was certainly bilingual. Having come to the region as part of Walton's New Hampshire Regiment in 1 7 10,... | |
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