I have an ancestor of this surname, who came to London in the 1700's, before 1750, I think. Family legend says that this ancestor, Stephen Pieronnet, was a Huguenot. However, there is also some suggestion that his son, James, was a Quaker. It is my understanding that Huguenots were not usually Quakers, but my understanding is very tenuous, at best.

Is anyone familar with the name of Peironnet as a Huguenot surname?

Santa T.

Hi Santa

Some references to the name Perronnet (and its various manifestations) in the records of the Hug Soc of GB.

Peironnet features 5 times in the Society's Quarto series, records of churches and the French Hospital, also a cross reference to Perronet.

Perronnet features 46 times in 6 of the publications that I have on my computer (see below)

Perronnet features 4 times in 2 of the publications, though cross referenced against Peirronet.

There is also a pedigree for the name Perronet in the Huguenot Library in London but the Library is closed for the forseeable future whilst the staffing levels/work of the Hug Soc are reviewed - hopefully to re-open at the end of the summer.

However, the author of the pedigree, Henry Wagner, also published some of his research in learned journals and I have a large collection of them, some of which are digitised, including one for the Perronet/Thompson family.

Perronet also features in two volumes of the Society's Proceedings though one of those is just contained in a list of Wagner's pedigrees.

Regards

Tony Fuller

Hi Tony --

How nice to see SOMETHING confirmed of the family tradition.

I would be interested in looking further into the sources you mention. Possibly some genealogical libraries in the U.S. have some of the documents you mention. Can you suggest other avenues for access to them?

I will be in the Canadian semi-wilds and out of touch with the Internet for the next week or so, but will respond to any further messages when I return.

thanks --

Santa T.

Hi Santa

When you get back email me privately with an idea of where you live and I'll send you details of the nearest research library in the USA which has our books.

Some of them are available through the LDS Family History Centres but by no means all of them and definately some that I have are not accessible through that source.

Regards

Tony Fuller

Hello -- you may be interested in the following webpage which contains info about some of the Huguenot Society of GB records and how/where to access them:
http://www.island.net/~andreav/quarto.htm .

Hope this is helpful to you. Regards, Andrea -- living in one of the semi-wild places of Canada <g> (admin for Huguenots-Walloons-Europe mailing list & message board)

Yes! My ancestor is Stephen Peironnet, and he is most definitely a Huguenot. I have his marriage information to an Esther Moreau here in London,but nothing before that. I hahve been meaning to get myself over to the Huguenot Society to check up on that. Apparently they have alot of info on the Moreaus but not the Peironnets.Since I am onsite I think I can find out at least where the family originated in France. What do you have?
My gggrandmother was his granddaughter,Sophia Peironnet, married to Sackville Hamilton Cox.I have not heard of a Quaker connection. Where did you get that? Justine Jones

How exciting to hear from you!

First, as to the Quaker connection -- it is really only a vague rumor, based on the fact that Stephen's son, James, emigrated in 1820 to "Friendsville" Pennsylvania, at that time a Quaker settlement. And also on the rumor that James' daughter, Susan, and her husband, Henry Miller Pierce (my direct ancestor) were said to run a stop on the underground railroad before the Civil War. I have not been able to verify that, and also have felt that it was unlikely that someone was both Quaker and Huguenot at this time. Also, Henry Miller Pierce was definitely a Presbyterian.

One of Henry Miller Pierce's grandsons, Henry Page Pierce, prepared a family history, largely based on oral tradition, as far as I can figure. He says: "The origin of the name 'Peironnet' is unknown to me, but it is certain that the family originated in Chateau d' Oex Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, about 20 miles from Montreux."

Sophia Peironnet Sackville-Cox was a sister of Susan Peironnet Pierce, my direct ancestor.

I'd be glad to exchange further information.

Santa Traugott

Wow! I just posted an hour ago and I already hear from you! That is great! So you are a cousin. I don't know what th erules are on this website, but I would be happy to write to you directly.I don't know how.

Also, I am new to all, this Huguenot stuff, but from what I heard from the society here in London they all came from a part of France. I have not heard about the possibility that they may have been from Switzerland, but I will surley ask. Actually, now I am motivated to make an appointment at the society to check it out!

As to the Friendsville information, for some reason I found this on an Austrailian site and just forgot about it as I knwew my famil.y had come to the USA.What I do know about the Peironnets is that they satred out in London, went to Bristol, adn then immigrated to County Cork ,Ireland. I know that Sophia and her sisters are listed as having been born there,but in the NY1870 census she states her place of birth as England. SO I went to Bristol to check it out but could find NO Peironnets there at that time!Confusion!

I will have to dig out my Peironnet info back at the flat. I got it from a Peironnet in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. He was most helpful , and then I never heard from him again despite many letters and emails!

Hope to hear from you soon! I am an American living in London so I am planning to visit the place where they were married and hopefuly the house where they lived. They settled in the Brick Lane area of east London where most all of the Huguenots settled after they were run out of France.They were silk merchants! Justine

Hi

There is also a published Wagner pedigree for this family - can't remember where it was published but I have a copy. They don't currently have it at the Hug Library in London as the volume has been missing for some time.

Be aware that if you visit the Hug Library the research files - not rhe Wagner files - may be out of bounds because of Freedom of Information concerns.

Regards

Tony Fuller
Editor, Huguenot Families

I visited the library in London and was unable to find anything but a transcript on the baptism of Esther Moreau and Stephen Peironnet's son Etiennne.Nothing else. I woudl, greatly appreciate you sending me a hard copy of the Wagner papers. How do we do this? Can you email me? Justine

PS Are you in London?Could we meet? Are we cousins?