The CULY/CULEY are from europe and are Haguenots or Walloons,this is a common coment.They drained the fens or fought with the king either William the Conqueror or William of Orange. But no trace have I found yet .I have CULYs in Cambridge in 1694 and Lincolnshire in1740 and CULLEY in Norwich in the 1550<s. I can not find the links to join them up, perhaps there are no links. I would be grateful of any help. thank you. lynda.

Hi Lynda, have you looked at what is on the IGI? I have just put in CULLEY and it brought up hundreds of entries including CULY. Whether or not it would help you connect up I do not know. Hope it does help. Carol in Australia.

At the risk of telling what you already know:- there is quite a lot of information about David Culy and others of his family in the booklet "Strangers in the Fens" by Trevor Bevis (1983). which is about the Walloon immigrants to the English Fens in 17th century. Culy founded a breakaway puritan sect in the area in 1687.

Bob Hairsine of Poole Dorset UK
researching HAIRSINE, HARESIGN, HERSIN in England and France.

Can anyone help with ROBERT CULY father of BENJAMIN CULY? Benjamin was bapt in 1801 at age 12 at Whaplode Lincs- parents Robert and Rebecca but I can find nothing on them probably born 1750-60 and married 1770-80. I believe Benjamin went to USA in 1800's. Many thanks David

hi. Very intrested that a Benjamin Culy was bapt. in Whaplode 1801at age 12.

I have a Robert Culy(wid) married to Rebecca Munday 1777 at Gedney Hill.with a child born abt 1809 and bapt. Sutton St James . Lin. But I think he may have died in 1835 at Tydd St Mary.

I have a list of at least 13 Benjamin Culys, and over 10 Roberts Culy.

I am looking at the LIN. Culys for the next couple of months in depth. Then moving on to the Cam Culys. they both join up somewhere in the 1740.
I am on the cam rootsweb site also.

the vast majority of the cambridgeshire and lincolnshire culys are descended from one couple namely john cuvelier the son of abraham and jane who married marie tegredin in 1660 the daughter of jean tegredin who died in 1655[ my 5x great grandfather]. they went on to produce several children including david culy who formed a religious sect at the end of the 17th. century. most of the culys settled in wisbech st. peter where they almost exclusively married culy cousins. if they didnt marry culys they married tegerdines. there is evidence that a few related cuveliers who had settled in vermuydens drainage colony in the isle of axholme in 1626 left to live in lincolnshire and derbyshire in the mid 17th. century. martin william tegerdine