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Claude Martin’s archives
Claude Martin’s record extracts
Long before the Internet, Claude Martin typed out, name after name, the people of Clairac he found in the Frankfurt registers, the deeds of the Clairac notaries and the publications of the Huguenot Society of London. Here are these documents, presented one by one.
These documents are part of Claude Martin’s archives; the rights belong to his family (Florence Lung, his niece and sole heir). Several of his lists were circulated in 2019 to institutions and Huguenot societies, with Florence Lung’s consent. Each record says who did what.
How to read these records
The dates given are often those of the digital copies (2017-2019), never those when Claude Martin typed his lists, which remain unknown.
The note “Transcription faite par Claude Martin, historien de Clairac (France) 1927-2018” (transcription made by Claude Martin, historian of Clairac) was added to several documents when they were digitised in 2019.
Names are written as Claude Martin typed them; variants of the same name are not merged.
The original documents can be consulted (“View the original document” button). Their transcriptions, made by the project, feed the map From Clairac to the world.
Contents
The documents
Documents from Claude Martin’s archives (codes G01 to G18 in the project’s inventory). Categories: A = Claude Martin’s research; B = later copies and fair copies; C = pages added during the 2019 circulation; D = a document that cites him.
His typed record extracts and a published article.
G02 Refugees from Clairac in Germany, England, America, Holland, Switzerland and Ireland
One line per person: their name, the place where Claude Martin found them and the year, sometimes a status (“marié”, married; “naturalisé”, naturalised; “bourgeois de Rotterdam”, citizen of Rotterdam; “abjuration”). The people of Clairac are arranged by country: Germany, England, America (a single name: Louis Latané, minister in Virginia in 1701), Holland, Switzerland, Ireland. The last page is a “Table des noms de lieux cités” (index of place names cited), with handwritten additions.
Why this document is interesting. It is the list richest in places and dates: it says where and when the refugees are attested, which the alphabetical list of emigrants does not. Its index counts people by country of residence, then the mentions of each place: its figures cannot be compared with the summary of 261 people.
Written title
“Réfugiés de Clairac, en Allemagne” (page 1); each page has its own section title
Author
Claude Martin (attributed from the file title and the typing; unsigned)
G03 Refugees from Clairac given relief in Frankfurt
Here Claude Martin copies out, register after register, the people of Clairac given relief by the French Church of Frankfurt: name, trade (dyer, button-maker, glover, officer…), witnesses, sometimes the town they left for. The file title speaks of “ticked” names: no tick has been found on the document.
Why this document is interesting. It is the most precise record extract in the collection: each name refers to a register and a page, which makes it possible to find the original in Frankfurt.
Written title
Heading “Archiv. del Franzosisch Reformessen / Frankfurt / Am Main”, with no title of its own
Author
Claude Martin (note “Transcription faite par Claude Martin” added during the 2019 digitisation)
Date
Undated; digital compilation of 8 November 2019
Pages
4 typed pages, numbered by hand
Sources cited
Relief registers of the French Reformed Church of Frankfurt am Main: Volume 107 (1685-1687), registers 108, 110, 112, 114, 115, 117 and 119 (up to 1727), with the register page
Themes
relief for refugees; trades; witnesses; departures to other places of refuge
Places
Frankfurt; stages and departures: Lausanne, Bern, Kassel, Holland…
Transcription
Made by the project: 81 lines, with the register and page (not published as such); its lines feed the map From Clairac to the world
G05 Frankfurt registers and deeds of the Clairac notaries
A working document: Claude Martin first records all the refugees from the region given relief in Frankfurt, then the deeds of the Clairac notaries that mention absentees or “fugitifs” (fugitives). The people of Clairac are underlined and numbered in the margin, from one end of the document to the other. It seems incomplete: some numbers are missing and a deed breaks off at the bottom of a page (hypothesis).
Why this document is interesting. It shows Claude Martin cross-checking two sources that have nothing in common: the relief registers of a German church and the minutes of the notaries who stayed in Clairac, where departures surface in the course of a will or a marriage.
Written title
“Archives municipales de Frankfurt-Main… Tome 107” (page 1); “Archives des Notaires de Clairac (Etude Me Roubet Not. a Clairac)” (page 4)
Author
Claude Martin (attributed from the file title; unsigned)
Date
Undated; digital compilation of 8 November 2019
Pages
8 typed pages, faint copy, hard to read in places
Sources cited
Archives of the French Reformed Church of Frankfurt (“B. 156”, Volume 107 and register 108); minutes of the Clairac notaries Gadiot, Thoré and Fréron (office of Maître Roubet, then the departmental archives of Lot-et-Garonne)
Themes
relief for refugees; “fugitifs hors du royaume” (fugitives outside the kingdom); wills; marriages; receipts
Places
Frankfurt; places of origin: Clairac, Tonneins, Nérac, Castelmoron, Sainte-Foy, Eymet, Monflanquin, Lacépède…; departures to Holland, Brandenburg, Switzerland
Transcription
Made by the project: 313 lines for Frankfurt and 29 notarial deeds (1690-1711), not published as such; the Frankfurt lines feed the map From Clairac to the world
G04 People of Clairac who took refuge in Dublin after the Revocation
A short written essay, followed by an annotated list of refugees in Dublin: family ties, trades, extracts from letters. Claude Martin puts forward two figures: a Protestant community of “plus de 4.000 âmes” (more than 4,000 souls) in Clairac at the time of the Revocation and “un dénombrement non achevé” (an unfinished count) according to which “10 % de la population a émigré” (10% of the population emigrated).
Why this document is interesting. It is one of the few written texts in the collection: Claude Martin does not merely record names, he tells the story of a community. His two figures are his own estimate and should be read as such.
Written title
“Gens de Clairac réfugiés à Dublin après la Révocation”
Author
Claude Martin (file title and note added during the 2019 digitisation); handwritten corrections by an unidentified hand
Date
Undated; copy digitised on 6 April 2018
Pages
3 typed pages
Sources cited
No precise reference; the text names wills (1692, 1705), letters (1729, 1752) and a Clairac notarial deed
Themes
Dublin community; families; wine trade; pastors
Places
Dublin, Portarlington, Rotterdam, Clairac
Transcription
Made by the project: the essay paragraph by paragraph and 17 lines of refugees (not published as such); its lines feed the map From Clairac to the world
Claude Martin went through the volumes published by the Huguenot Society of London looking for people from Clairac (“Clérac”): marriages, baptisms, acknowledgements, naturalisations, with the volume and page. Two deeds date from 1608 and 1612, long before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Why this document is interesting. It shows how Claude Martin worked without the Internet, from sources printed in England: each mention can be checked in the volume cited.
Written title
“Quelques des huguenots du Lot-et-Garonne qui se sont réfugiés en Angleterre et Irlande nommés dans les Publications of the Huguenot Society of London. — A. Des personnes de Clérac”
Author
Claude Martin (note added during the 2019 digitisation)
Date
Undated; copy digitised on 24 October 2019
Pages
3 typed pages, very faint copy
Sources cited
Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, volumes 7 to 45, with the page or the number of the entry (references not checked to date)
Themes
marriages; baptisms; naturalisations; French churches of London and Dublin
Places
London (Threadneedle Street, Savoy, Leicester Fields), Dublin, Cadzand
Transcription
Made by the project: 61 entries, from 1608 to 1742 (not published as such); its lines feed the map From Clairac to the world
G06 Refugees from Clairac (second version of the list)
The same alphabetical list as “The emigrants of Clairac”, in the same order, but typed and laid out differently, in several columns, with the same summary. It has one line fewer and gives destinations at country level (“Allemagne”, Germany, where the other version writes “Frankfurt”).
Why this document is interesting. Two versions of the same work show that it was revised: seven destinations differ from one version to the other. We do not know which is the more recent.
Written title
“Réfugiés de Clairac (en Agenois ou Guyenne)”
Author
Claude Martin (note added during the 2019 digitisation)
Date
Undated; copy digitised on 1 August 2017
Pages
3 typed pages
Sources cited
No reference written on the document
Themes
emigrants of Clairac; destinations; summary
Places
Destinations at country level: Germany, Holland, England, Ireland, Switzerland, East Indies
Transcription
Made by the project (273 lines) and compared line by line with the list published on this site (not published as such)
G14 Huguenots in England and Ireland from Lot-et-Garonne, outside Clairac
The counterpart of the previous list: refugees from Lot-et-Garonne who did not come from Clairac. Claude Martin explains his approach and, for one volume, draws up a table of places of origin and family names.
Why this document is interesting. It shows that Claude Martin did not stop at Clairac: his searches served the whole region. These data are kept separate from the emigrants of Clairac.
Written title
“Quelques des huguenots de l’Angleterre et l’Irlande qui sont venus du Lot-et-Garonne mais non pas de Clairac”
Author
Claude Martin (attributed from the file title; unsigned)
Date
Undated; copy digitised on 24 October 2019
Pages
4 typed pages
Sources cited
Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, volumes 4 to 35 (references “volume: page”, not checked to date)
Themes
regional refuge; churches of London, Dublin, Portarlington, Southampton
G01 Refugees from the Lower Dordogne after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (article, 1966)
An article published by Claude Martin in a scholarly journal. It follows the refugees from the Dordogne valley given relief in Frankfurt, year by year, with their trades, then their later destinations. Clairac is not its subject.
Why this document is interesting. It is his method shaped for publication: the Frankfurt relief registers, searched and put to use. Together with the sheet of notes G18, it shows the step from notes to article.
Written title
“Réfugiés de la Basse-Dordogne après la révocation de l’édit de Nantes”
Author
Claude Martin (signed article)
Date
1966: Revue historique de Bordeaux et du département de la Gironde, April-September 1966, pp. 91-102; copy digitised on 19 February 2018
Pages
Cover and 12 printed pages
Sources cited
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Frankfurt (registers 107 to 118); parish registers of the French Reformed Church of Hanau
Themes
refugees from Périgord and the Bordeaux region; trades; dispersal; pastors
A sheet of notes: refugees from Bergerac, from 1691 to 1717, with dates and destinations. The same names, in the same order, appear in the 1966 article; many are preceded by a dash.
Why this document is interesting. It shows Claude Martin’s workshop: most of the lines marked with a dash went into the article, but only the sheet gives the destinations.
Written title
“Réfugiés de Bergerac”
Author
Claude Martin (note “Transcription faite par Claude Martin” embedded in the image)
Date
Undated; image of 3 May 2019
Pages
1 typed sheet
Sources cited
No reference written on the sheet
Themes
working notes; refugees from Périgord; destinations
Places
Bergerac; places of refuge: Holland, Berlin, Brandenburg, Erlangen, Württemberg, Kassel, Ireland, England
Transcription
Made by the project: 55 lines, compared with the 1966 article (not published)
Made from his work, after his death: never cited on their own.
G08 2019 fair copy of extracts from the Frankfurt registers
An alphabetical list that merges extracts from G05 and G03, plus five notarial deeds. Some first names and spellings are changed, and suggestions in brackets (“Demichel ?”) have been added, by whom is unknown.
Why this document is interesting. It bears witness to the 2019 circulation, but it is not a Claude Martin document: it is never cited on its own, always together with the typescripts it comes from.
Written title
Note “Transcription faite par Claude Martin (historien de Clairac 1927-2018)”, dated “8/11/19”
Author
Typed up in 2019, after Claude Martin’s death, from his work; typist not identified
Date
8 November 2019
Pages
4 pages (word processing)
Sources cited
Those of G03 and G05 (Frankfurt, Clairac notaries)
G17 Photograph of page 8 of the Frankfurt registers and notaries
The same page as page 8 of G05: the same image, simply recompressed. The numbers 91 to 101 in the margin continue the numbering of the people of Clairac in G05.
Why this document is interesting. It helps to understand the marginal numbering of G05: these numbers count the people of Clairac recorded; they are not register pages.
Written title
None (file name: “Registre Francfort 008”)
Author
Text by Claude Martin; numbers in the margin by an unidentified hand
Date
Image of 27 August 2018
Pages
1 image
Sources cited
Minutes of the Clairac notary Fréron, 1690-1692
Themes
wills; “hors du royaume” (outside the kingdom); “fugitif” (fugitive)
2019 layouts: these are not Claude Martin documents.
G12, G13 Title page “French Protestants (Huguenots) in Clairac 1600s – 1700s”
The page that opened the file circulated in 2019: “Lists of refugees from Clairac and the surrounding Lot-et-Garonne area of France — Produced by: Claude Martin (1927-2018), Historian of Clairac, France — Lists reproduced in 2019 with the kind permission of Florence Lung, Claude Martin’s niece and heiress”.
Why this document is interesting. It dates and explains the 2019 circulation of Claude Martin’s lists, with the agreement of his niece and heiress, Florence Lung.
Written title
“French Protestants (Huguenots) in Clairac 1600s – 1700s”
Author
2019 layout, made when the lists were circulated; this is not a document by Claude Martin
Date
November 2019
Pages
1 page (two files: word processing and PDF, G12 and G13)
G09, G10, G11 Page “Lists of Clairacais may also be found in the following references”
A references page placed at the end of the 2019 file. It also cites a “rôle des nouveaux convertis” (roll of new converts) of 1699 counting 3,274 Protestants in Clairac: the converts who stayed, not the emigrants.
Why this document is interesting. It is the most complete list of Claude Martin’s publications brought together to date; each reference must be checked before being cited.
Written title
“Lists of Clairacais may also be found in the following references”
Author
2019 layout; this is not a Claude Martin document
Date
November 2019 (G09 and G10: same text; G11: earlier version)
Pages
1 page
Sources cited
4 references for other lists of Clairacais, 6 other publications by Claude Martin and 3 books on Clairac
Themes
bibliography; 2019 circulation
Places
Clairac; Agenais; Périgord; Louisiana
Transcription
References checked one by one and included on the page his publications, with their level of verification
G16 “De Clairac au Clérac, pour une histoire du tabac à Clairac” (2017)
A recent article that draws on research by Claude Martin: the enlistment for Louisiana, in 1718, of two coopers, Jacques and Pierre Bernège, and of Jacques Pégus.
Why this document is interesting. It shows that his work continues to be used by other researchers. Only the reference is given here: the extracts passed on are not reproduced.
Written title
Article in La Mémoire du fleuve, no. 61, December 2017 (bulletin on the history of Tonneins)
Author
Author of the article not identified; extract copied when the file was put together
Date
December 2017
Pages
Extracts only
Sources cited
Deed of the notary Gadiot of 26 August 1718 (“Enrôlement pour la Louisiane”, enlistment for Louisiana), presented by Claude Martin at the Nantes congress of 1972
Themes
tobacco; Louisiana; publications citing Claude Martin
