Looking for confermation that the surname
RATAT later changed to
RATA was indeed
Huguenot.
Acording to one of my relatives (Charles
RATA b. 1865) it started back in 1640 with
Denis RATAT in
Normandy, France. The family supposedly fled France after the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. This would indicate that
Denis became a
Huguenot in 1640 and the family fled France due to persecution abt 1685.
TIA
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