I’ve extracted some of the LeBlond entries from the parish records of Tourny, France, from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in an effort to identify the family of my immigrant ancestor, Robert LeBlond. Although the records do not yet prove that Robert came from Tourny or identify his parents, they reveal several related LeBlond…
Denization records, Huguenot migration, and some intriguing connections among the Le Blonds, Doublets and Le Telliers While researching my Le Blond ancestors in Spitalfields, London, I came across a useful nineteenth-century work: the Rev. David C. A. Agnew’s Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants…
My line of LeBlonds were French Huguenots and left France in the late 1600’s to escape persecution for their religious beliefs. 1509 John Calvin (1509-1564) born. 1550 The Huguenot Threadneedle Street Church founded in the area of Spitalfields in London. 1562 Massacre at Vassy marks the beginning of the Wars of Religion and the persecution…
