If my ancestors were exiles as French Aristocrats in the Revolution,How can I trace the records,please?

Question

If my ancestors were exiles as French Aristocrats in the Revolution,How can I trace the records,please?

Answer 1

It's possible that it could be traced through a Peerage record, like they had in England. Maybe you should contact the French Embassy here. They might be able to help you figure out where to start looking. Or you can go to your local library and the librarian might be able to point you in the right direction.

Answer 2

The lists of French aristocrats who were exiled do exist. They were people of exceptional means and usually ended up in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Russia or Spain. They had extensive ties throughout the European theatre and were able to relocate and continue their consumptive lives without interruption. Once you find the names of the people who you think were exiled, you start researching them. Their heritage will be well documented and very little about them would have been destroyed. You're looking for the town where they lived and then you go to the LDS records for that town and see what you can find. If they were high enough in the social ladder, you can probably find them in several published histories of a given region, as well.

Answer 3

You'd start with yourself and work back, one generation at a time. Sooner or later you'll dead end or come to people born in France. Then you'd look for them in history books, church records, county histories and so forth.

Answer 4

Bear in mind a lot of French Hugenoets came over to the UK and continued to work in the silk industry. Many settled in Spitalfields and Bethnal Green London.

There was a French church in London.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/5696.php

http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/public...