{"id":9870,"date":"2026-09-29T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:20:34","slug":"huguenot-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/huguenot-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Huguenot History"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class = \"posts-by-tag-list\"><li class=\"posts-by-tag-item Huguenots LeBlond\" id=\"posts-by-tag-item-9870\"><a class = \"posts-by-tag-item-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/huguenot-history\/\">Huguenot History<\/a><\/li><li class=\"posts-by-tag-item Huguenots LeBlond\" id=\"posts-by-tag-item-9684\"><a class = \"posts-by-tag-item-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/the-le-blond-family-in-protestant-exiles-from-france-in-the-reign-of-louis-xiv\/\">The Le Blond Family in Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV<\/a><\/li><li class=\"posts-by-tag-item Churches &amp; Cemeteries Huguenots LeBlond\" id=\"posts-by-tag-item-5385\"><a class = \"posts-by-tag-item-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/leblonds-in-threadneedle-street-church-spitalfields-london\/\">LeBlonds in the Records of Threadneedle Street Church, Spitalfields, London<\/a><\/li><li class=\"posts-by-tag-item Huguenots LeBlond\" id=\"posts-by-tag-item-1505\"><a class = \"posts-by-tag-item-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/huguenot-timeline\/\">Huguenot Timeline<\/a><\/li><li class=\"posts-by-tag-item Churches &amp; Cemeteries Huguenots LeBlond\" id=\"posts-by-tag-item-1057\"><a class = \"posts-by-tag-item-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/register-of-members-of-the-french-protestant-church-at-threadneedle-street\/\">Register of Members of the French Protestant Church at Threadneedle Street<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h4>Huguenot Info<\/h4>\n<p>Read excerpt from Chaper IX, &#8220;The Refuge: England&#8221; from <em>The Huguenot Emigration to America<\/em> by Charles W. Baird, Volume II, page 83 and 213. Published in New York by Dodd, Mead &amp; Company, 1885. Winterthur catalog number E29 H89. 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The series was called The registers of the French Church, Threadneedle Street, London. The editors were Eglise de Threadneedle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Genealogy News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Genealogy News","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/category\/genealogy-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Huguenots in England: The Huguenot Church, Threadneedle Street; from The Graphic, 24 October 1885","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Huguenots-in-England-The-Huguenot-Church-Threadneedle-Street-from-The-Graphic-24-October-1885..jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9684,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/the-le-blond-family-in-protestant-exiles-from-france-in-the-reign-of-louis-xiv\/","url_meta":{"origin":9870,"position":2},"title":"The Le Blond Family in Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV","author":"Karen","date":"September 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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