I have been given this info from the society but what do I do now?
I am trying to link my family to Huguenots....obviously...
The Huguenot Society publishes volumes in what we call The Quarto Series, and annual editions of its Proceedings. The former are mainly transcriptions of Huguenot church registers and lists of Huguenot names extracted from other sources. Proceedings contain articles on a wide range of Huguenot topics and people.

These are the references to Paradine :


1 Quarto Series vol 12. The Dutch church in Colchester.
From the register of the Colchester Grammar School, the transcriber extracted names of pupils probably of Dutch descent. Among them he found:
12 Sept 1710, William Paradine, a free scholar and son of William and Sarah. He had been baptised at St James the Greater in Colchester 14 Feb 1700.

2 Quarto Series vol 33, extracts from the records of the Weavers’ Company (in Guildhall Library in London) page 16:
Josias Christian, a Frenchman, admitted 12 Dec 1664. There is then a reference to a Mrs Mary Parradine’s pensioners. Who this lady was, I’ve no idea.

3 Quarto Series vol 13, baptisms register of Threadneedle Street Church in London (the largest Huguenot congregation in the British Isles):
23 June 1678 was baptised James, son of James Paradie and Anne Miohe his wife. Godfather was Andrien (could be Andrew or Adrien), godmother, Dorotez Vanderliegue. Paradie could a misspelling of Paradine.

4 Proceedings vol 2. The index we currently have only gives the name and the volume in which a reference occurs, so it is of little use unless of a well known Huguenot family.

I have been told the following:

"There is no short cut to discovering whether one’s ancestors were Huguenots; it is a patient search back through the standard records to about 1800. Most Huguenot records finish before or about that date. Beware that spelling of names can change over time."

Why back to 1800...this is the bit I find confusing. Anyone???

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