Huguenot settlers in Ireland
The “Miscellaneous Papers” lately transferred from the Record Tower, Dublin Castle, to the Public Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, and which are comprehensibly indexed, afford much information respecting the Huguenots who settled in Ireland. Of those Papers:
No. 21, treats of the assistance to Huguenots for building churches for them in Dublin, Waterford, Portarlington, Kilkenny, etc.
No. 22, relates to charitable relief for individual Huguenots.
No. 23, French Protestant Pensioners.
The names Brock, Groot, Kettle, Kettel, Raymond, Rochett, Spiller, Stocker, Stoker, are said to be of Flemish origin. The following Flemish names have been anglicised, as under:
The Name | Became |
De Grote | Groot |
De la Pryme | Pryme, Prim, Prym |
Goupe | Guppy |
Haestricht | James |
Hoek | Leeke |
Thungut | Dogood, and Toogood |
The following French names also have been anglicised, as follows:
The Name | Became |
Batchelier | Bachelor |
Baudair | Baudry |
Beaufoy | Boffy |
Bois | Boys |
Bouchier | Butcher, Boxer |
Bourgeais | Burgess |
Boyer | Bower |
Brasseur | Brassy |
Breton | Britton |
Chapuis | Shoppee |
Condé | Cundy |
Coquerel | Cockerill |
D’Aeth | Death |
Dargent | Dargan |
Defoix, or DeFoy | De Foe, Defoe |
De la Tranche[7] | Trench |
De Leau | Dillon |
De Moulins | Mullins |
D’Orleans | Dorling, Darling |
De Proux | Diprose |
D’Espard | Despard, Dispard |
Despard | Despair |
De Vere | Weir |
Dieudonne | Dudney |
Drouet | Drought, Drewitt |
Dulau | Waters |
Du Quesne | Du Cane |
Gebon | Gibbon |
Guilbert | Gilbert |
Huyghens | Huggins, Higgins |
Jolifemme | Pretyman, Handsomebody |
Koch | Cox |
Lacroix | Cross |
Le Blanc | White |
Le Blount | Croke |
Le Cog | Laycock |
Le Fevre | Smith |
Le Jeune | Young |
Le Maitre | Masters |
Le Maur | Brown |
Le Monnier | Miller |
Le Noir | Black |
Lenoir | Lennard |
Le Roy | King |
Letellier | Taylour |
Levereau | Lever |
L’Oiseau | Bird |
Mahieu | Mayhew |
Merineau | Meryon |
Masurier | Measure |
Momerie | Mummery |
Olier | D’Olier |
Pain | Payne, Paine |
Paul | Paull |
Pelletier | Pelter |
Petit | Pettitt |
Philippot | Philpot |
Pigou | Pigot |
Planche | Plank |
Renalls | Reynolds |
Reveil | Revill |
Sauvage | Savage, Wild, Wilde |
Saveroy | Savery |
Say | Soy |
Scardeville | Sharwell |
Souverain | Suffren |
Taillebois | Talboys |
Tonnelier | Cooper |
Villebois | Williamis, Williams |
Notes
[7] La Tranche: Frederick de la Tranche took refuge in England, and settled in Northumberland, whence his descendants removed to Ireland, and there founded the Trench family, the head of which is the Earl of Clancarty. Lord Ashtown is the head of another branch of the family. The late Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Richard Chenevix Trench was doubly a Huguenot by his descent.—See Chenevix.