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From Clairac to the world

People from Clairac in Ireland

Claude Martin counts 11 people from Clairac “in Ireland” in his list, and records 15 in the registers of Dublin. The printed registers of the French churches of Dublin, published by the Huguenot Society, confirm marriages, baptisms and “recognitions” of people from Clairac. [L] [G]

Claude Martin’s figures

In his list of emigrants [L]
11 “in Ireland”
In his register extracts (G02, table of places, p. 7) [G]
15 people ; Dublin 15 times

The two counts are not to be added together. The list places each emigrant under one destination; the extracts count the people Claude Martin found in registers, town by town, and the same person may appear in both. The figures are the ones he wrote.

The transcription has 16 lines classed under this country; a line is not always one person, and the differences from Claude Martin’s count are noted on the page of the list, not corrected.

The town figures in his table do not always match the lines of his extracts: the differences are documented with the transcription, never corrected. [G]

The list of emigrants Claude Martin’s extracts (G02)

The families traced

Three leading families: the Pineaus, two brothers, “fugitives from Clairac”, merchants in Dublin; the Couderes, two sisters from Clairac married in Dublin in 1701 and 1702; Jean Carmentrand, “native of Clerac”, received into the Reformed church in 1727.

Records that place at least one confirmed or probable fact in this country. The badge gives the status of the whole record: a record classed as a hypothesis may contain a fact confirmed here.

20 lab records: 18 confirmed, 1 probable, 1 hypotheses (status of the whole record).

All related records

All the lab records

Map

Ireland on the map

The “From Clairac to the world” map, centred on Ireland: the same points, the same entries. Open a point to read the entry for the place.

Hover over, tap or select a point on the map with the keyboard to open the place’s record. On a small screen, swipe the map sideways to see all of it.

From Clairac to the world: Ireland Map of present-day Ireland, with its outline in colour. The lines come from Clairac, outside the frame to the south-east: to Dublin and Ireland, destinations in Claude Martin’s list. A diamond marks Portarlington, a place in his register extracts. Dotted, with a “?”, the Labat lead, an unproven hypothesis. Ireland (16)Dublin (2) Portarlington La RochelleNantesLabat The lines start from Clairac, outside the frame, to the south-east.
Clairac Destinations recorded by Claude Martin in his list of emigrants, with the number of lines naming them [L] Places from which descendants came, according to the exhibition panel [A] Dutilh family: departures (dotted lines) and Nérac [D] [E] [H] Places named in the registers recorded by Claude Martin, grouped by region (hollow diamond: mostly a stopover) [G] Findings of the lab, confirmed or probable: a section in the record of places already on the map, squares for new places. Studies by Claude Martin: Louisiana (departures from La Rochelle, Nantes and Clairac), Cobham, in England, the glassworks of the Couserans, and the glassmakers’ diaspora from the Ariège (Gabre, Montauban), distinct from the Clairac list Hypothesis Unproven leads, dotted: Pegues (South Carolina), Labat (Ireland), and Peiret, from Gabre to New York (glassmakers’ diaspora from the Ariège) Route of Paul Brochequin, a tailor from Clairac (1688-1705), stage by stage, in dashes Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). The lines link each place to Clairac; they do not represent routes, except those of Paul Brochequin and of Pierre Peiret, which starts in Gabre. Countries and regions named without a city: marker at the approximate centre. Off the map: 89 “not followed” lines, 2 with no destination and 1 “Indes Or.”. Lab: the number of families and of facts is given for each place; the exact number of people cannot be measured reliably. The list of emigrants names only European destinations; the “Studies by Claude Martin” and “Hypotheses” layers concern his work and unproven leads, not his list.

Outline of the country: present-day borders (Natural Earth, public domain), as a reference; at the time of the Refuge, the states and their borders were different.

Text version: the places on this map and their sources

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The routes

Who left with whom? The page “The networks of departure” links the Clairac families through marriages, godparents, witnesses and convoys. Network for this country: Dublin (16 links).

Portarlington and the Labat lead

Hypothesis Claude Martin notes a Marie de Labat, from Clairac, who took refuge with her brother in Ireland, probably in Portarlington. That the André Labat of Portarlington was the ancestor of the Labatt brewers of Canada is only a hypothesis, without proof (the lab record).

Archives and registers in the country

  • Irish Huguenot Archive (RCB Library, Dublin) — the Huguenot archives of Ireland, deposited at the library of the Church of Ireland (Representative Church Body Library) in Dublin, presented by the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society.
  • The National Archives of Ireland — the Irish national archives, with a genealogy advisory service and an online catalogue.
  • Huguenot Society, Quarto Series — the published registers of the French churches of Dublin (vols VII and XIV) and Portarlington (vol. XIX), where the lab read the marriages and “recognitions” of people from Clairac.

Huguenot societies

Websites checked on 8 November 2026. Those without a link did not respond or could not be found: they are marked “to be checked”.

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Are you a descendant?

Does your family descend from Huguenots who came from Clairac (Lot-et-Garonne, France)? Letters, family papers, photographs or memories of a visit to Clairac can enrich these pages. Nothing is published without your consent.

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Search for your surname in Claude Martin’s extracts and the lab records, in all its spellings (Brochequin, Brousseguin, Boursequin…).

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Did you know?

  • Naturalised on the same day

    In Dublin the merchants Pierre Pineau and Pierre Denis, naturalised on the same day in 1699, acted as witnesses and godparents at one another’s weddings and baptisms (the networks of departure).

  • “Several times at mass”

    On 24 September 1727 Jean Carmentrand, “native of Clerac in Guienne”, who had been “several times at mass”, was received into the Reformed church of Peter Street in Dublin (the lab record).

  • Married within the Clairac circle

    On 6 August 1701, in the French church of St. Patrick, Jeanne Coudere, from Clairac, married Pierre Jougla, also from Clairac (the lab record).

Further reading

On this site: the full map, the list of emigrants, Claude Martin’s extracts, the lab and the Refuge in figures.

From Clairac to the world The emigrants of Clairac Claude Martin’s record extracts The Refuge in figures The networks of departure Protestantism in Clairac

The other countries of refuge

Germany Netherlands England Switzerland America

Sources

  • [L] Claude Martin, “Emigrés de CLAIRAC en Agenois Province de Guyenne”, typed list, 3 pages, date unknown — facsimile and transcription
  • [G] Claude Martin, typed records of registers: G02: refugees from Clairac in Germany, England, America, Holland, Switzerland and Ireland; G03: refugees from Clairac given relief in Frankfurt (registers of the French Reformed Church); G04: people from Clairac who took refuge in Dublin after the Revocation; G05: Frankfurt registers and deeds of the notaries of Clairac; G15: Huguenots in England and Ireland, from the publications of the Huguenot Society of London. Claude Martin’s archives (records and original documents: Claude Martin’s record extracts)