For those of you with Huguenot ties or those who are just avid history buffs, the reissue of George Elmore Reaman’s THE TRAIL OF THE HUGUENOTS will be of interest. First published in 1963 after exhaustive research, this volume remains one of the definitive records of this historical movement.

The Huguenots, French Protestants in the days when is was criminal to be Protestant, staged a great exodus from France at the end of the seventeenth century. It is estimated that as many as two million Huguenots fled France for the United States, Canada, South Africa and other parts of Europe.

This work examines the persecution of this group and traces their migrations and the vast contributions they made to their new homes – a task vastly complicated because they did not resettle in large groups but rather were assimilated into these new regions in smaller family groups.

But contribute they did! Did you know that our own beloved George Washington’s first American forbearer was his great great grandfather, Huguenot Nicholas Martiau, the first patentee of Yorktown?

The largest section of this work, comprising well over half the book, is devoted to the Huguenot direct descendants in the United States and Canada and contains an Appendix with names of hundreds of immigrants with the dates and places of their arrival.

A list of English surnames of French derivation (with additions and corrections) and an index of names and places other than those mentioned in the genealogies and appendices complete the volume.

The 318 page volume (#4810) is available from Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md. 21202 or by phone at 1-800-296-6687 for $25 plus $3.50 shipping and handling for the first book, $1.25 for each additional book. Visa /Mastercard also accepted.

For those of you with computers, check out Huguenot Resources at Olive Tree Genealogy (www.rootsweb.com/~ote/hugres.htm) for lists of books and societies for researching French Protestants who fled to Switzerland, Germany, England, and the Americas.

DOES ANYONE KNOW……

Etoile Callaway Ward (3267 Magevney, Memphis, Tenn., 38128, email-etoileward@hotmail.com) needs help with several Mississippi families!

Does anyone know the parents or siblings of WILLIAM D. CALLAWAY who was born in Mississippi in 1850 and married AMANDA FIELDS in Noxubee County about 1872. Their children were Florence Ione (who married John Eugene PUCKETT in Noxubee County in 1897), Mamie, Alice, and W.T. William married Eliza CAPERTON in 1882 in Noxubee County and had three more children.

Ward also seeks information on the descendants of M.L. CALLAWAY who was born in 1815 in South Carolina. He moved to Noxubee County before 1860 with his wife Malinda (born 1820 in Alabama) and their sons (P., C.B., and M.L.) and daughters (Nancy and P.). They were accompanied by M.L.’s brother WILLIAM (born in South Carolina in 1813) and his wife Nancy (born 1815 in Tennessee) and their sons (C.C., C.E, and William) and daughters (M.E. and Nancy). Both men were probably Methodist ministers and lived in the area of Electric Mills. Can any reader help?

Betty Dewees Stewart (151 Seargent Prentiss, Natchez, Ms 39120, email-Bdsmom@juno.com) is searching for information on the families of ROBERT MONTGOMERY and his wife, Katie CHANDLER Montgomery. Katie Chandler’s mother is believed to Mahala Ann MEEKER who was born in 1818 in Cato, Mississippi and buried in 1898 in Braxton, Simpson County, Mississippi. Her father is listed on her death certificate as William S. Chandler, born in Mississippi. Does anyone know where he is buried? His brother, John Kinnon Chandler (1836-1907) is buried in the cemetery at Braxton, Simpson County, Mississippi. His sister, Arnecy Chandler (1848-1909) is also buried there. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated.

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Family Trees is a weekly column written by Nancianne Parkes Suber of Natchez.