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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => London and Middlesex => England => London & Middlesex Lookup Requests => Topic started by: stephan69100 on Sunday 13 September 15 19:41 BST (UK)
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I'm looking for some information about the French family HAUTOT. They arrived in London around 1750. I've just found their parish records in Normandy in the village of Notre-Dame-du-Bec. The father, John HAUTOT died in this village in 1761 after the mother, called Suzanne DUMONT, went to London with a part of her children (probably because some of them married in London before the dad's death). My ancestor was one of the children, Catherine HAUTOT, who married Louis BANTIGNY on June, 10th, 1764 at the Christchurch of Spitalfields (London).
To confirm the arrival date in London, it would be helpful to know when they joined the French huguenot community of London.
Stephan of Villeurbanne
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This society might be able to help you:
http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/
Nanny Jan
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The family don't appear as far as I could see in the Huguenot Society publication Le livre de Tresmoignanges de L'Eglise de Threadneedle Street 1669-1789 when I had a quick look at my CD copy. There is a Catherine Hantot who joined on 26 March 1758 but it doesn't say where her Tresmoignanges was from or where she was from. It could be a mispelling or it could be another person entirely.
Its possible they attended one of the other churches whose Tresmoignanges records don't survive, although the 1760s is pretty late for Huguenot migration so its possible they never joined the church and started attending one of the parish churches instead. Have you any evidence they did actually attend any of the French Protestant churches in London? If they only married/baptised their children in the parish churches, its unlikely they may ever have attended one of them.
One of my Huguenot ancestors did join the Threadneedle Street French Church in the 1740s but by the 1760s was using Christ Church Spitalfields and Bethnal Green St Matthew, as baptisms/marriages/burials happen there.
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Thanks for reply. Catherine HANTOT could be Louis BANTIGNY's wife (married at Christchurch of Spitalfields on June 10th 1764). Sometimes her name is read "HANTOT", sometimes "HAUTOT", writing of letters "n" and "u" being very close.
If we know the names of the parents or/and name of witnesses, we possibly may connect Catherine HAUTOT with the HAUTOT family of Notre-Dame-du-Bec in Normandy.
Note that Catherine HAUTOT of Notre-Dame-du-Bec had brother, Jean Francois, and sisters Marie Anne and Suzanne, and we can find some marriages in London with the same surnames.
Stephan
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Some additional information about my previous message regarding brothers and sisters of Catherine HAUTOT of Normandy and possible corresponding marriages or funerals in London.
1/ Marie Anne HAUTOT baptized at Notre-Dame-du-Bec on 14th December 1727 and Maryanne HAUTOT who married Philip RECHTER on 26th July 1755 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London.
2/ Pierre HAUTOT baptized at Notre-Dame-du-Bec on 29th July 1729 and Peter HAUTOT who was buried at Spitalfields on 18th October 1761.
3/ Suzanne HAUTOT born and baptized at Notre-Dame-du-Bec on 16th February 1736 and Susanna HAUTOT who married John COURCHE on 2nd February 1758 at Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London.
4/ Catherine HAUTOT born on 5th October 1738 and baptized the day after at Notre-Dame-du-Bec and Catharine HAUTOT (or HANTOT) who married Lewis BANTIGNY on 10th June 1764 at Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London.
5/ Jean Francois Amand HAUTOT born and baptized on 6th February 1748 at Notre-Dame-du-Bec and John Francis Amand HAUTOT who married Mary Ann Elizabeth COTRELL on 28th April 1774 at Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, London.
Without parents names and/or witnesses names, it is just possible to make some assumption. Is there anybody able to raise the doubt ?
Stephan
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Hi Stephan,
I am descended from Jean Francois Amand Hautot. I live in Australia so I have relied on research done by others however I have found out our family were definitely Huguenot. The four sons were sent to England to avoid persecution and their mother was imprisoned for many years because it was illegal at the time. She migrated to England after being released and died a few months later. Also last year I found the story becomes even stranger , a few generations earlier we have an ancestor, farm labourer, marrying the niece of a duchess. How I wish there was a diary or two around!
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Dear J. HAUTOT,
I am descended from Catherine HAUTOT who married Louis BANTIGNY on 10 June 1764 in London. I made the assumption that Catherine was the sister of Jean Francois Amand HAUTOT, based upon several elements, for example :
1/ the composition of the family of Jean HAUTOT and Adrianne Susanne DUMONT married on October 21st 1726 in Notre-Dame-du-Bec in Normandy, the DUMONT family was Huguenot;
2/ On January 28th 1768 in London, Jean Francois Amand HAUTOT was the godfather of my ancestor Marie BANTIGNY, one of the daughters of Catherine HAUTOT and Louis BANTIGNY.
All of my genealogical resarches are available on the website Geneanet, where I mentioned all my sources. You may easily access to these data through a free registration.
If you have a different possible origin for Jean Francois Amand HAUTOT, i am interested in it.
Thank you for your message and have a good New Year,
Stephen
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Hello (cousin) Stephan, I have used a number of other sources. I am not sure how to send attachments but I am on Facebook,
Jenny
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Hello Jenny. I have just sent an invitation on Facebook.
I am still interested in the story of a labourer meeting a duchess. Which information at your disposal could you supply?
Have a good time in Melbourne,
Your cousin Stéphan
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Hi Stephan,
I am also descended from Jean Francois Amand Hautot. I live in Hitchin, UK.
I've just started researching. So probably don't have as much background as you.
My family tree it goes from Jean Francois Amand Hautot to Samuel Hautot (4 Mar 1808-6 Jan 1851) to Samuel Hautot (7 Oct 1830 - 21 Jul 1894) to William Mortimer Hautot (17 Nov 1867 - 18 Mar 1916 - in Flanders in WW1) to Albert George Hautot (21 Apr 1902 - 23 Dec 1976), my Grandfather where the Hautot line stopped with no male children.
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I am not descended from Jean François Amand Hautot but from his sister Catherine who married Louis Bantigny.
They were coming from Notre-Dame-du-Bec in Normandy and arrived in London after their father Jean died. At their arrival your ancestor was about 14 years old.
You can find my family tree on internet site geneanet.org where the access is free if you register.
I will send you more details in a few days, presently I am on trip in France.
I was very happy for this contact by another HAUTOT family member. Do not hesitate to renew contact for further information from my part and your part.
Nice Christmas.
Stephane DESREUMAUX
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Sorry Dave,
I did a mistake by writing that the emigration of some children of HAUTOT family happened after thé death of their father. In consulting my family tree, I have noticed that the first mariage in London was few years before the death of the father.
So your ancestor arrived in England when he was less than 10 years.
Stephan
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Hi (cousin) Dave, I am descended from J F Amand Hautot. The wife of a distant cousin has done a fair bit of the family tree from their arrival in London but I am not sure where it has ended up. My grandfather emigrated to Australia before the First World War.
Jenny