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From Clairac to the world

People from Clairac in the Netherlands

Claude Martin writes “Holland”: the United Provinces. He places 35 people from Clairac there in his list, and his extracts find them in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht or Cadzand. Dutch registers, well indexed online, have allowed the lab to confirm more families than anywhere else. [L] [G]

Claude Martin’s figures

In his list of emigrants [L]
35 “in Holland”
In his register extracts (G02, table of places, p. 7) [G]
34 people ; Amsterdam 9 times, Tournai 1 times (handwritten addition), Rotterdam 18 times (handwritten addition), “hollande”, with no town 6 times (handwritten addition)

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 35 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 Balgueries, merchants from Clairac in Amsterdam, married in 1708 and 1711; the Dutilhs, among them Pierre, “van Clairac”, married in Amsterdam in 1698; the Coignons, burghers of Rotterdam in 1728, married in the Walloon church.

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.

35 lab records: 28 confirmed, 4 probable, 3 hypotheses (status of the whole record).

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All the lab records

Map

The Netherlands on the map

The “From Clairac to the world” map, centred on the Netherlands: 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: the Netherlands Map of the present-day Netherlands, with its outline in colour. The lines come from Clairac, outside the frame to the south-west: to Rotterdam and Holland, destinations in Claude Martin’s list, and to Amsterdam, where the Dutilh family went. Diamonds mark Utrecht, Cadzand and Tournai, places in his register extracts; squares mark Leiden, Delft, Breda and Groningen, finds of the lab. In plum dashes, the route of Paul Brochequin as far as Rotterdam. Rotterdam (1)Holland (35)Amsterdam Netherlands and Flanders Other Dutch towns La RochelleNantesLabatPaul Brochequin The lines start from Clairac, outside the frame, to the south-west.
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: Amsterdam (8 links) and Rotterdam (16 links).

Paul Brochequin, a tailor from Clairac, passed through this country: follow his journey stage by stage, from Clairac to Rotterdam.

“Holland” and the Netherlands

Claude Martin’s “Holland” means the United Provinces. In the table of his extracts he adds Tournai by hand, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now in Belgium. The registers of the Walloon churches of Rotterdam and Amsterdam have provided a large share of the lab’s confirmations. [G]

Archives and registers in the country

  • Stadsarchief Amsterdam — the archives of the city of Amsterdam: notices of marriage (ondertrouw), baptisms of the Walloon church, notarial deeds; this is where the lab read the marriages of the Balgueries and the Dutilhs.
  • Stadsarchief Rotterdam — the archives of the city of Rotterdam: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, including those of the Walloon church, where many people from Clairac married.
  • Open Archieven — a genealogical search engine covering the indexed registers of many Dutch archives, Walloon registers included.
  • Bibliothèque wallonne — owned by the Walloon churches and deposited at Leiden University Library; its card index of baptisms, marriages and deaths in the French-speaking churches can also be consulted on FamilySearch.

Huguenot societies

  • Waalse Kerken in Nederland — the French-speaking Walloon churches, which still hold services in French.
  • Nederlandse Hugenoten Stichting — the Dutch Huguenot foundation: no official website found when we checked. To be checked

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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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?

  • Clairac people among themselves

    In Rotterdam, people from Clairac were still marrying one another in 1747, 1754 and 1760: the ties lasted more than half a century (the networks of departure).

  • One of Claude’s notes checked

    Claude Martin noted “Balguerie Pierre, married in Amsterdam 1708”: the notice of marriage of 20 January 1708 does exist, and calls Pierre “van Clerac” (the lab record).

  • As far as Suriname

    Three Labadies, “natives of Clairac”, married in Paramaribo, in Suriname, a Dutch colony, in 1703, 1717 and 1726 (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 England Ireland 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)