[Magdalen] [SPAM?] Re: Les Huguenots.

[Arthur Laurent]

At one time the 5th most common surname in France.

Laurent is my dad's surname. The family MIGHT have been French, but rumor has it they had another surname (no records in Orleans Parish earlier than 19th Century), and someone had to change it to ease his flight from prosecution. Rumors that he murdered a plantation overseer over the favors of a young lady... But no documentation if that either, alas! 

Nonetheless, it's MY surname... I've done my share to sully it! HaHaHa

Arthur

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> On Jan 9, 2016, at 11:56 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
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> Surely "Laurent" is a French surname, non?
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> Molly
> 
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
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>> On Jan 9, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Arthur Laurent <ALaurent at npr.org> wrote:
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>> My grandmother's Huegenot progenitors (surnamed "Lucado" with many variant spellings) arrived in colonial Virginia in 1659. Their ship tried to land at Jamestown, but was refused. Yes, the Huegenot were Protestant, but apparently not the Right Form of Protestant; a bit too reformed to be welcomed by the C of E folks who ran colonial Virginia. The "Mary Ann" sailed up the river to Manikin(town), where the Huegenot could be among their own people, this more easily watched. Lucado descendants are scattered all through the titheable lists of tidewater Virginia. Their little church alternated French- and English-speaking clergy in the early days. 
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>> Nowadays, there aren't many Lucados in Piedmont or Tidewater Virginia; they all seem to have gone somewhere else. (Max Lucado, the author, is a 6th or 7th cousin of mine...)
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>> Arthur
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