Hats, Huguenots and High Street Fashion
Everyday Fashion in the 1920s Amy de la Haye
Huguenots in wandswortH
Kathy Chater
What is a Huguenot? • French Protestants who left France under Louis XIV, mainly after 1680 • Previous emigrants: – Walloons from Flanders (16th century) – Dutch from the Netherlands (16th century) – French fleeing Massacre of St Bartholomew (1572) during the Wars of Religion
Protestantism
• Jean Martin Calvin Luther
Protestantism in England • 1534 Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy • 1547 Accession of Edward VI • 1550 French and Dutch churches established in London, Canterbury Norwich and Southampton • 1553 Accession of Mary I • 1558 Accession of Elizabeth I
Early settlers c. 1631 Nicholas Tonnet (d. 1680) 1653 William Halen of Malines “Dutchman�
Dragonnades 1681
Escape Routes
Wandsworth 1790
Huguenots in Wandsworth
HATS • Chatting (originally Chatain/Chataigne/Chatelaine), Paulmier, Bordes, Ruffe, Hebert
Galero Caudebec
Textiles • Dyers: Plume (?), Barchard, Hebert, Laveaux • Feltmakers: Larcher, Manganelle • Silkweavers: de la Neufue Maison (Newhouse), Rousseau • Printers: Paulmier
Silk
CALICO
Shoemakers • Mon(n)ier family
Jane Mary de Ridder Apprentice Ann Carry 1730
Dennis Severs’ House 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields