The Cosserats: Huguenot Refugees – by Lynda Pidgeon
Friday, 20 June 2025
- Time
- 18:00 - 13:00
- Venue
- St Nicholas Priory, Exeter, EX4 3BL
- Price
- 15
St Nicholas Priory's History Group presents "The Cosserats: Huguenot Refugees" a fundraising talk including refreshments
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St Nicholas Priory's History Group presents "The Cosserats: Huguenot Refugees"
Following religious persecution in France many Huguenot Protestants fled to surrounding Protestant Countries. Many found their way to Devon, particularly Exeter, where immigrants could obtain work in the textile industry. In the late 17th and 18th centuries the immigrant Huguenot’s in the city used St Olave’s church as their place of worship.
One of these immigrants was called Cosserat, he lived in the priory in the late eighteenth-century. The National Archive holds a number of wills for members of the Cosserat family which were proved during the years 1750 to 1825. These wills, along with other surviving documents have been used to try and trace the family who first arrived as refugees at the end of the seventeenth century, and to trace their lives, their friends and their associates.
Tickets - £15. This is a fundraising talk, and ticket price includes complimentary drinks and refreshments.
Doors open at 6pm for 6:30 start.
Following religious persecution in France many Huguenot Protestants fled to surrounding Protestant Countries. Many found their way to Devon, particularly Exeter, where immigrants could obtain work in the textile industry. In the late 17th and 18th centuries the immigrant Huguenot’s in the city used St Olave’s church as their place of worship.
One of these immigrants was called Cosserat, he lived in the priory in the late eighteenth-century. The National Archive holds a number of wills for members of the Cosserat family which were proved during the years 1750 to 1825. These wills, along with other surviving documents have been used to try and trace the family who first arrived as refugees at the end of the seventeenth century, and to trace their lives, their friends and their associates.
Tickets - £15. This is a fundraising talk, and ticket price includes complimentary drinks and refreshments.
Doors open at 6pm for 6:30 start.
Venue
St Nicholas Priory
St Nicholas Priory
Exeter
EX4 3BL
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