Back in 1979-1981, there was one of the descendenta (I think) who lived in the Northern Virginia area.  I cannot come up with his name, but he was a also a minister I believe in the French Hugenot Church.  He went to the 1981 Yorktown celebration and lent a decided air of realism.  In fact, I played serpent horn in the Musick of Turkey Run Farm at the time, and he officiated at an impromptu memorial service in the cemetery of the Nelson House where we played some 18th century hymns.  I think I also recall at the time that the Huguenots held a regular service at which he officiated at St. Johns Episcopal Church on Lafayette park in DC.  Maybe somebody can fill in the blanks for me.

Randy Cabell

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Subject: Re: 'Disappearance" of early 17th-century Virginia surnames


>I did a paper a number of years ago on the Huguenots of Midlothian.
> When they arrived in early 1700 they had their own church and deeds and
> wills filed at the Chesterfield County Courthouse were in French. Over
> the next few decades they took English husbands and wives, their kids
> had English Godparents and their names became increasingly Anglicized.
> Today some of their ancestors still live in the area. but Fleurnoir has
> become Flornoys, etc.
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Anita Wills wrote:
> 
>> This thread is very informative, and I am getting quite a few sources.
>> This is why Virginia History is my favorite site.
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