According to Agnew's Third Volume of the French Protestant Exiles from France (London: Reeves and Turner, 1874), the family Ferdant settled in UK and Ireland during the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1714). My 5XGreat-grandmother was a Marie Ferdant married in Guernsey, channel islands c.1740. Guernsey could easily have been a stopping-off place between France and England. Perhaps the family stayed? Does anyone know of any good resources where I can track the history of the family? I have so far come up completely blank. I know her father was born in France and his name was Jean. There seem to be Feuardents in Grosville, but that is as much as I know. Any help hugely appreciated!
Mandy Bennett

Hello Mandy -- you might try contacting one or all of the several organizations and websites for Channel Islands research. There has apparently been a lot of research done about Channel Island families. With luck, the family of your Marie FERDANT may be one of them.

Here are a couple of pages from the website of the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe mailing list which give a complete listing of links and resources for the Channel Islands --
http://www.island.net/~andreav/hugschi.htm and
http://www.island.net/~andreav/orgsaddschi.htm

Hope this helps. Good luck and regards, Andrea (admin for Huguenots-Walloons-Europe Message Board)

Hi Andrea

Thank you for the message. I started with Channel Islands research as I live in Guernsey - the Huguenot mailing list was my next stage along as Marie was definately born in France and there is no mention of her in any Guernsey archives that I can discover.

Regards

Mandy