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Filling the Gaps – Extending facts about my Huguenot ancestors into fiction

Posted: November 24, 2023

By Henry Irving

Rosemary Hayes, Writer @HayesRosemary Like many people (possibly as many as one in six in England), I have Huguenot ancestry. No-one knows the exact genesis of the word Huguenot but it is thought to have originated in Germany and later become a term of insult by French Catholics towards French Protestants. In time, it was … Continued

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