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“Huguenot heritage on the Island of Guernsey” (Huguenot Society)
5 January 2023
- Type
- Publication (blog post)
- Date
- 5 January 2023
- Source
- Blog of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Original document in English, not reproduced on this site (publisher’s rights): see its reference below.
Summary
A post on the traces left by Huguenot refugees on Guernsey: the welcome given to refugees in the Channel Islands, memorials of families of Huguenot origin in St Peter Port, and the 1822 inscription of the town market, which names the constable E. Guerin, presented as a descendant of Daniel Guerin, who left Clairac, in the Agenais, in 1686.
Why this document matters
It places the emigration of the Protestants of Clairac within the international Huguenot refuge and mentions a refugee who left Clairac in 1686. It does not say where Daniel Guerin took refuge: no route from Clairac to Guernsey is therefore drawn on the map “From Clairac to the world”. It does not mention Claude Martin.
Related people, families, places and themes
- People
- Daniel Guerin
- Families
- No link established
- Places
- Clairac, Guernsey
- Events
- No link established
- Organisations
- Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Themes
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- Huguenot refugees
- revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- Channel Islands
- Guernsey
- Protestant diaspora
Other related sources
No other related source for now.
Original source
Tony Wilson, “Huguenot heritage on the Island of Guernsey”, blog of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 5 January 2023, in English.
View the original on the publisher’s website
Description
- Title
- “Huguenot heritage on the Island of Guernsey” (Huguenot Society)
- Date
- 5 January 2023
- Period
- From the 16th century to the present day (Huguenot refuge)
- Author
- Tony Wilson
- Source
- Blog of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Provenance
- Printout of the web page, sent to the project in September 2026
- Place
- Guernsey, Clairac
- Family
- No associated family
- Type
- Publication (blog post)
- Language
- English
- Original file
- Not reproduced on this site (publisher’s rights)
- Transcription
- Not published on this site (publisher’s rights).
- Translation
- No translation published; the summary above was written in French for this site.
- Rights
- © Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland — post and photographs not reproduced on this site; original summary only.
Project inventory reference: document ingestion of 30/09/2026.
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