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HUGUENOT & PROTESTANT REFORMED CHRONOLOGY
Date -Event
1440-1455 Guttenberg's invention
of moveable type enabled printing and distribution of Bible and other information to the masses, which enabled works of Martin
Luther and other reformers to be circulated throughout Europe.
ca. 1500 Erasmus (1467-1563)
begins to write and preach to reform the church.
1512 Jacques le Fevre (Jacobus
Faber) writes Aaneti Pauli Epistolas
1515 Accession of Francis I of
France.
1516 Concordat of Bologna..
1521 Martin Luther proclaims
documents of Reformation..
1523 First French translation
of the Bible..
After 1525 John Calvin led Protestant
Reformation in France and Switzerland..
1526 Tyndale's English version
of the New Testament printed in Antwerp..
1529 Louis de Berquin burnt at
the stake..
1534 Protestant placard campaign
in Paris. Calvin settles in Basle, Switzerland.
1535 Edict banning all heretics
in France. First refugees leave France. Publication of Tyndale and Coverdale Bible in English in Hamburg.
1538 Foundation of the French
Protestant church at Strasbourg.
1539 Bernard Palissy settles
at Saintes.
1540 First substantial Huguenot
settlements in Kent and Suxxes, England.French trading station established at Sheepshead Bay, NY. (Called Angouleine).
1541 French forts established
near Quebec.
1545 Jean de Maynier, baron d'Oppede,
ordrs massacre of Waldensians at Merindol and Cabrieres.Protestants massacreed in 22 French towns and 14 members of Protestant
church at Mejux burned at stake over religion.
1547 Death of Henry VIII of England;
accesion of Edward VI. Death of Francis I of France; accesion of Henry II.
Protestantism established officially in England. Increased immigration of Huguenots to Kent,
especially Canterbury. Chambre Ardente established in Paris.
1548 Large groups of French Huguenots
began escaping to Channel Islands.First Huguenot congregation estalised at Canterbury by Jan Utehove and Francois de la Riviere
of Orleans.
1550 Temple of Jesus licensed,
earliest foreign Protestant Church in London.Church of St. Anthony's Hospital in Threeadneedle Street, London, given to French
Huguenots.
June 27, 1551 Edict of Chateaubriand
placed severe restrictions on Protestants, including loss of one-third of property to informers and confiscation of all property
of those who left France. "Heretical" books were forbidden or censored.
1553 Death of Edward VI; accesion
of Mary I of England.Dispersion of London Protestants; persecution of English Portestants begins.
1555 French Admiral Gaspard de
Coligny, Huguenot leader, envisions French Portestant colony in Brazil. King Henry II consented and colony was wiped out in
1557 by Portuguese. First Huguenot consistory in Paris.
Sept., 1555 First Protestant
Church in Paris, France, organized in a home. Date sometimes given as 1556.
1556 Philip II succeeds to throne
of Spain.
1558 Deant of Mary I of England;
accession of Elizabeth I.
1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis.First
national synod of the Reformed Churches of France in Paris at which 15 Protestant churches are represented.Death of Henry
II; accession of Francis II of France.
1560 Conspiracy of Amboise to
kill the king of France fails.Edict of Romorantin lays interdict on Protestantism. Meeting of States General at Orleans.Death
of Francis II; accession of Charles IX of France.
July, 1561 Royal edict authorizes
imprisonment and confiscation of property upon all who attend any "heretical" (non-Roman Catholic) public or private worship
service.Beginning of new influx of refugees to Kent from Low Countries, Picardy, Artois and Flanders. Coiloque of Poissy attempts
to bring about a modus vevendi between Catholics and Protestants in France.
Jan., 1562 Royal edict of Saint-Germain
recognizes new religion as legal and offers some protection.Massacre of Vassy.First battle of civil war in France at Dreux.Siege
of Rouen.
Feb. 18, 1562 French colonists,
mostly Protestants, set sail to start colony in Florida.
Mar. 1562 Masacree of Protestants at Vassy starts first Civil War in France over religion. Forces of Duke of
Guise attachedd a Protestant assembly in one of the towns of Champagne and killed some 50 to 60 worshipers. First battle of
civil war at Dreux.
1563 Assassination of Francis,
duke of Guise.Pacification of Amboise.
1564 French settlement at Fort
Caroline, Florida, founded.Treaty of Troyes.
Sept., 1565 Spanish forces captured
Fort Caroline and slaughtered all inhabitants.
1567 Seige of Saint-Denis.Death
of Montmorency.
1567-1568 Huguenot thread and
lace makers established in Maidstone, England. Others escaped to Cranfield in Bedfordshire and others to the shires of Oxford,
Northampton and Cambridge. Huguenots established glassworks in London during this period.
1568 Treaty of Longjumeau. Fort
Caroline recaptured by French.
1569 Battle of Jarnac. Death
of Conde.Battle of Montcontour. Peace of St. Germain.
1570 Henry of Navarre affianced
to Marguerite de Valois.
1572 Anglo-French Treaty of Blois.
Death of Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre.Marriage of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois.
Aug. 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris and elsewhere in France in which thousands of Huguenots
were lulled into a sense of false safety by King Charles IX and Queen Mother Catherine and slaughtered. Duc de Guise (Henri
I de Lorraine) personally killed Admiral Gaspard de Coligny.Slaughter continues until October.Civil War Begins.
1573 Duke of Anjou elected king
of Poland.Edict of Boulonge.1574 Death of Charles IX; accession of Henry III of France.Huguenot settlement at Winchester,
England, moved to Canterbury.Truce with Huguenots in France.
1575 Confederation of Milhaud.
1576 Formation of the Holy League.Peace
of Monsieur and defeat of Henry III. War renewed.
1577 Peace of Bergerac.
1579 Peace of Fleix. Ordonnance
of Blois.
1584 Death of duke of Anjou;
Henry of Navarre becomes heir to the throne of France.Duke of Guise proclaims Cardinal de Bourbon heir apparent.Treaty of
Joinville.
1585 Henry III forced to surrender
to the League and the Guises.Treaty of Nemours.Outbreak of the War of the Three Henrys.
1586 Truce of Saint-Brice.
1587 Execution of Mary, queen
of Scots.Battle of Coutras.Battle of Auneau.
1588 Day of the Barricades.Spanish
Armada.Edict of Union. Duke of Guise and cardinal of Guise assassinated at Blois.
1589 Henry III assassinated;
accession of Henry of Navarre as Henry IV of France.Death of Catherine de Medici. Battle of Arques. Death of Cardinal de Bourbon
(Charles X).
1590 Battle of Ivy. Seige of
Paris.
1592 Battle of Aumale.
1593 States General meet in Paris
to elect king.Henry IV converted to Catholicism.
1594 Henry IV crowned at Cartres.
Henry IV enters Paris.
1595 Defeat of Spanish at Fontaine-Francaise.
1596 Conference of Notables at
Rouen.
1597 Spanish capture Amiens.
French recapture Amiens.
1598 Peace of Vervins.Death of
Philip II of Spain.
Apr. 13, 1598 Edict of Nantes
proclaimed returning civil and religious freedom to Protestants. So strong were Protestants in LaRochelle that Roman Catholic
mass had not been said in 40 years. Huguenots, for a time, became a strong political power in France.End of Franco-Spanish
War.Sable Island colony of Nova Scotia founded.
1599 Pierre Charivia was commissioned
by King Henry IV to colonize North America and established trading posts on St. Lawrence River in Canada.
1600 Tadoussac on the St. Lawrence
founded.Spanish defeated at Nieuport.
1603 Pierre du Gua, sieur de
Monts, a Huguenot, was granted royal permission to possess and settle North America from the 40th to 46th degree North Latitude
for 10 years. (Acadia, later Nova Scotia).Death of Elizabeth I of England and acession of James I.1605--1613 Several
French refugee merchants had settled in Dublin and Waterford in Ireland.
1607 Jamestown, VA, English colony
established.
Summer, 1607 Trade priviliges
for de Monts withdrawn by king and Port Royal abandoned.
Summer, 1608 Samuel de Champlain
landed at what is now Quebec City and established trading post. Religious liberty was unrestricted and trade prospered..
1609 Group of Flemish Huguenots
settled in Canongate, Scotland. Disrupted succession to the duchy of Cleves..
By 1609 French Huguenots established
manufacture of cloth in north and west of England in Worcester, Evesham, Droitwich, Kiddeminster, Stroud and Glastonbury and
in east at Colchester, Hereford and Stamford. Colchester had 1,300 Walloon citizens by 1609. In the north of England, Huguenot
establishments made coatings at Manchester, Bolton and Halifax and cloth caps and woollen stockings at Kendal..
May 14, 1610 King Henry IV of
France killed by assassin; accession of Louis XIII. Duke de Rohan becomes leader of the Huguenots. Alliance with Evangelical
Union of Swabisch. De Monts surrendered his colonization rights in North America which were purchased by Antoinette de Pons,
a lady of honor to the queen and an intense devotee of Church of Rome and supporter of Society of Jesus (Jesuits)..
1613 By this time Jesuits controlled
religion in Acadia and restricted Protestants.
1614 Jean Dankerts (Jean Verassen)
was first white man born on Manhattan island.
1616 Treaty of Loudon.
1618 Cardinal Richelieu publishes
"Principal Points of Faith of the Catholic Church."
1619 Sir William Sandys reports
on "our Frenchmen" in the Virginia colony.Huguenot Church of Bearn rejects Decree of Restitution.La Rochelle supports Bearnaise
resistance to Louis XIII.
1620 Sieges of Montauban and
Montpellier.Death of duke of Luynes.Defection of Sully, La Force and Chatillion to the Catholics.
1621 Jesse de Forest's request
to settle in English colonies turned down by Sir Dudley Carleton. Instead they were directed to NY.
Sept., 1621 English under King
James I, laid claim to much of Canada east of St. Croix River and south of St. Lawrence, including much of Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1621 to 1627 Religious toleration
still existed in Quebec and area and Huguenot merchants prospered.
1622 Archbishoip Laud attempts
to compel refugees to conform to Angelican liturgy.Siege of Montpellier abandoned and peace signed.
March, 1623 Sailing ship New
Nederlandt sailed with 30 families from Texel River, Holland, for New Amsterdam.
Four Huguenot families left New Amsterdam and settled near "Trenton Falls" on the Delaware
River in Delaware, but returned to New Amsterdam because of Indian attacks. Other later early settlements were destroyed by
Indians.
1624 Richelieu given seat on
Royal Council and appointed chief minister to Louis XIII.
1625 Huguenot settlers established
along the James River in VA.
1625-1686 Huguenots sought refuge
in French colonies in Lesser Antilles of Caribbean -- St. Christopher, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
1626 Jesuits joined Franciscans
in Quebec and religious turmoil began as privileges were withdrawn for Huguenots. Trade declined. Cardinal Richelieu was rising
to power in France as he moved to reduce the political power of Huguenots.Siege of La Rochelle begins.
Manhattan Island bought from Indians by Peter Minuet, a Huguenot.Permanent settlement established
at Salem, MA, included Huguenots.
1627 King Charles I of England
declared himself a friend of French Huguenots
1628 English fleet sent to relieve
Huguenots at La Rochelle, which had been under blockade by French troops under Louis XIII. Relief failed and La Rochelle fell
to French troops on Oct. 8, 1628.Acadia (Nova Scotia) fell to English.
By 1628 There were 300 inhabitants
of New Amsterdam, mostly Huguenots.First Huguenot Church established on Manhattan Island.
1629 Huguenots in England ask
for permission from King Charles I to settle in Carolinas and set sail in 1630, but were landed in VA.Massachusetts Bay Company
charter granted.Jan. 1629
Some 50 settlers left England to establish, Charlestown, MA.
· Sir Robert Heath's Carolina charter granted.
· Baltimore decides to settle on the Chesapeake.
· Peace of Alais ends civil war in France and Huguenots cease to exist as a political force.
June 27, 1629 French King Charles
I, granted to Baron de Sauce permission to establish a colony on the lower James River in VA..
July 20, 1629 Quebec surrendered
to English forces after the English war with France was officially over..
Sept. 24, 1630
First ship of de Sauce's French emigrants arrived at Southampton Hundred on the James River,
but the colony did not prosper and they believed to have dispersed..
1632 English returned Quebec
to France with Emery de Caen, son of Gullaume, sieur de la Mothe, as governor.Lord Baltimore's Maryland charter granted.Louis
XIII bans all Huguenots from Canada.
23 May, 1633 Champlain again
appointed governor of French Canada and returned Jesuits to religious power. From this time, Canada was formally closed to
Protestant colonists. While some Huguenot traders were allowed to remain, permanent residency was granted to none but Frenchmen
of the Roman Catholic faith, marking the beginning of a steady decline of the economy with some Huguenots escaping to Nova
Scotia and the British colonies. Huguenot merchants in France continued to trade with those remaining in Quebec.
1633 Archbishop Laud appointed
to head commission for regulating colonies.
By 1634 Some 20 villages established
in Boston, MA, area, including Charlestown, Newton, Watertown, Roxbury and Dorchester.
1642 Death of Richelieu.
1643 Death of Louis XIII; accession
of Louis XIV. Louis XIV guarantees Edict of Nantes.Mazarin prevents clamour for revocation.
1647 Dutch establish refreshment
station at Table Bay.
1648 Outbreak of Fronde in France.Treaty
of Westphalia.
1650 Jan van Riebeck established
permanent settlement at Table Bay.
Feb. 25, 1651 Acadia (Nova Scotia)
again surrendered to English.
1654 Beginning of Huguenot emigration
on a large scale to North America.
1658 New Harlem founded.
1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees
1659 & 1671 Virginia passed
acts allowing for naturalization of non-British in the colony.
1660 Restoration of Charles II
to English throne.
1661 Death of Cardinal Mazarin.
Beginning of serious persecution of Huguenots and infringement of Edict of Nantes.
From 1661 Series of proclamations
seriously restricted terms of Edict of Nantes. Protestant schools and churches were abolished and "dragonnardes" began, billeting
French troops in Huguenot homes to spy upon the inhabitants. Escaping Huguenots were welcomed in many countries of Europe
-- England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden. At one time, more French resided in Berlin than Germans..
1662 Jean Touton's colony in
Massachusetts founded..
1663 Carolinas Grant from King
Charles II of England to eight proprietors..
6 Sept., 1664 New Netherland
became an English colony and name changed to New York.
1665 First Dutch church registers
in South Africa..
1670 Three ships arrived in Carolinas
carrying settlers from London, mostly Huguenots..
1677 Huguenots purchased land
on which New Platz, NY, established..
1678 Peace of Nijmegen. Attacks on Huguenots across France..
Apr. 30, 1680 Ship "Richmond"
arrives from England at Charles Town, SC, with 75 French Protestants.
1681 William Penn Jr. receives
grant of Pennsylvania from England's King Charles II.Collections made in England for needy French refugees.1682 Pierre
Daile sent to minister to American Huguenots.
Oct., 1682 Penn made Philadelphia
the capital of the Province of Pennsylvania.
1683 Dragonnardes organized to
harass Huguenots in France.
Apr. 18, 1685
Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Cassel was the first of the German princes to offer asylum to the
Huguenots from France.
Oct., 1685 Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes by King Louis XIV. Many more Canadian Huguenots escaped to New England, from where they continued to trade
with Canada.After Revocation, some 80,000 French manufacturers and workmen fled to the British Isles, bring such industries
as paper making, silk makers, tanners, furniture making, silver smithing. England became an exporter, rather than an importer
of such items as velvets, satins, silks, taffetas, laces, gloves, buttons, serge cloth, beaver and felt hats, linen, ironware,
cutlery, feathers, fans, girdles, pins, needles, combs, soap, vinegar and many more items manufacturered by the new Huguenot
citizens. But life in another country was not without its problems, not only of language but also when the hard-working, frugal
Huguenots came into competition with the citizens. Oct, 1686 Group of French Huguenots established Frenchtown, RI,
10 miles inland from Narragansett Bay. By 1691, their neighbors had driven all but two families from the town.
1687 Huguenot Relief Committee
in London aided 600 Huguenots in their move to VA.
1687 Huguenots granted permission
for Huguenot church in Boston on Nov. 24, 1687. Was completed in 1716. It later became an Anglican Church and later a Roman
Catholic Church and the site now is occupied by a Boston bank.1687 Huguenots had built their church in Charlestown,
SC.
1690 French Huguenots from VA
established permanent settlement on the Pamlico River in NC.
1692 William Penn Jr. was given
land by the Duke of York which became Delaware1700Some 700 emigrants led by Marquis de la Muce landed in Virginia and
started Manakintown settlement. First ship to land was the "Mary Ann," which cleared from London on April 19, 1700, and arrived
at Hampton, VA, on July 23. The "Peter and Anthony" landed Oct. 6, 1700; and the fourth was the "Nassau" or "Nasseau," which
landed March 5, 1701. Little is known of the third ship.1704 French Huguenots founded town of Bath, NC, on Pamlico
River.By 1707 400 refugee Huguenot families had settled in Scotland. Helped establish the Scottish weaving trade.
On October 17, 1685, the King revoked the Edict of Nantes
as now unnecessary in a France almost entirely Catholic. All Huguenot worship and schooling were henceforth forbidden. All
Huguenot conventicles were to be destroyed or transformed into Catholic churches. Huguenot clergymen were ordered to leave
France within fourteen days, but emigration of other Huguenots was prohibited on pain of condemnation to the galleys for life.
Half the goods of lay emigrants was pledged to informers. All children born in France were to be baptized by priests, and
were to be brought up in the Catholic faith. A final clause promised that the few remaining Huguenots would be allowed to
dwell peacefully in certain towns. This article was carried out in Paris and its suburbs; Huguenot tradesmen there were protected
and reassured by the lieutenant of police; there were no dragonnades in or near Paris; the dancing could go on at Versailles,
and the King could sleep with a good conscience. But in many provinces, under Louvois' urging, the dragonnades continued,
and obdurate Huguenots were subjected to pillage and torture. Says the leading French authority on the Revocation of the Edict
of Nantes.
Of the 1,500,000 Huguenots who had been living in France
in 1660, some 400,000, in the decade before and after the Revocation, escaped across guarded borders at the risk of their
lives. A thousand tales of heroism survived for a century from those desperate years. Protestant countries welcomed the fugitives.
Geneva, a city of sixteen thousand souls, found room for four thousand Huguenots. Charles II and James II, despite their Catholicism,
offered Huguenots material aid, and eased their absorption into English economic and political life. The Elector of Brandenburg
game them so friendly a reception that by 1697 over a fifth of Berlin's population was French. Holland opened its doors, built
a thousand homes to house the newcomers, lent them money to set up business, and guaranteed them all the rights of citizenship;
Dutch Catholics joined Protestants and Jews in raising funds for Huguenot relief. The grateful refugees not only enriched
industry and trade in the United Provinces, they enlisted in Dutch and English armies fighting France. Some of them accompanied
or followed William III to England to help him against James II; the French Calvinist Marshal Schomberg, who had won victories
for Louis XIV, led an English army against the French, and died in defeating them in the battle of the Boyne (1690). Everywhere
in these hospitable lands the Huguenots brought their skills and crafts, commerce and finance; all Protestant Europe profited
from the victory of Catholicism in France. An entire quarter of London was occupied by French silk workers. Huguenot exiles
in England became interpreters of English thought to France, and prepared the conquest of the French mind by Bacon, Newton,
and Locke.
johnf14246@aol.com trying to get history on french Fache family...we moved to England at least William was there in the 1840's can you help
me Faché, W. 1994. short break holidays. In Tourism: The state of the art. A. V.
Seaton, ed. pp. 459-467. Chichester, England: Wiley.
Michiel DeMOTT #334 born abt 1630 a Huguenot Family" by
Estella De Mott De Motte ancestors were followers of John Calvin -- the branch which in 1560- became known as Huguenots. The
Huguenots were said to be the direct offspring of the Bible. Their forefathers,
the Walloons, descendants of the ancient Belgae, a Germanic people of Celtic origin who had been conquered by the Romans,
living in the upper valleys fo the Alps between France and Italy. It is surmised that St. Paul, the Apostle, journeyed from
Rome to Spain by way of these Alpine passes and had given them their first Christian instructions.Here they lived unnoticed
and unmolested, practicing their simple Christian faith, for twelve centuries. In 1170, Pierre Waldo, a rich merchant living
in Lyons, adopted their faith and originated a relgious sect that came to be known as the Waldens or Walloons. The message
of his doctrine attacted a very large following of the better class of people. He contended that the church of Rome was Anti-Christ
in its teachings, and also caused excessive taxation of the poor. He taught and
practiced the simple faith of Jesus, which he made very convincing by distributing his wealth among the needy. Ten years later
(1180) Pierre Waldo was executed by the Archbishop of Lyons. thus began the religious persecutions in France that did not
end until the Edict fo Toleration grandted October 18, 1787. The Huguenots were not the poor uneducated people. They were
the princes, noblemen, learned scholars, members fo the professisons, skilled artisans, and others who could no longer tolerate
the oppression and licentiousness of the ruling kings and priests. These religious refugees and their offspring planted the
germ of freedon, reform, and prosperity throughout many nations. It is said, "They carried with them the intellectual seed
that enriched the world
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12th of October, 1532. Two years earlier the Augsburg Confession had been given to the world, marking the culmination of the
German Reformation. A year before, Zwingle had died on the field of Cappel. In France, the Reformation was beginning to be
illustrated by the heroic deaths of its children. Calvin had not taken his prominent place at Geneva, but he was already enrolled
under the Protestant banner. The princes of the Schmalkald League were standing at bay in the presence of Charles V. It was
a critical yet glorious era in the annals of Protestantism which saw this assembly convened. It met at the town of Chamforans,
in the heart of the Valley of Angrogna. There are few grander or stronger positions in all that valley than the site occupied
by this little town. The approach to it was defended by the heights of Roccomaneot and La Serre, and by defiles which now
contract, now widen, but are everywhere overhung by great rocks and mighty chestnut-trees, behind and above which rise the
taller peaks, some of them snow-clad. A little beyond La Serre is the plateau on which the town stood, overlooking the grassy
bosom of the valley, which is watered by the crystal torrent, dotted by numerous chalets, and runs on for about two miles,
till shut in by the steep, naked precipices of the Barricade, which, stretching from side to side of Angrogna, leaves only
the long, dark chasm we have already described, as the pathway to the Pra del Tor, whose majestic mountains here rise on the
sight and suggest to the traveler the idea that he is drawing nigh some city of celestial magnificence. The town of Chamforans
does not now exist; its only representative at this day is a solitary farmhouse. The synod sat for six consecutive
days. All the points raised in the communications received from the Protestant Churches were freely ventilated by the assembled
barbes and elders. Their findings were embodied in a "Short Confession of Faith," which Monastier says "may be considered
as a supplement to the ancient Confession of Faith of the year 1120, which it does not contradict in any point." [3] It consists of seventeen articles, [4] the chief of which are the Moral inability of man; election
to eternal life; the will of God, as made known in the Bible, the only rule of duty; and the doctrine of two Sacraments only,
baptism and the Lord's Supper. The lamp which had been on the point of expiring began, after this synod, to burn with
its former brightness. The ancient spirit of the Waldenses revived. They no longer practiced those dissimulations and cowardly
concealments to which they had had recourse to avoid persecution. They no longer feared to confess their faith. Henceforward
they were never seen at mass, or in the Popish churches. They refused to recognize the priests of Rome as ministers of Christ,
and under no circumstances would they receive any spiritual benefit or service at their hands. Another sign of the
new life that now animated the Vaudois was their setting about the work of rebuilding their churches. For fifty years previous
public worship may be said to have ceased in their Valleys. Their churches had been razed by the persecutor, and the Vaudois
feared to rebuild them lest they should draw down upon themselves a new storm of violence and blood. A cave would serve at
times as a place of meeting. In more peaceful years the house of their barbe, or of some of their chief men, would be converted
into a church; and when the weather was fine, they would assemble on the mountain-side, under the great boughs of their ancestral
trees. But their old sanctuaries they dared not raise from the ruins into which the persecutor had cast them. They might say
with the ancient Jews, "The holy and beautiful house in which our fathers praised thee is burned with fire, and all our pleasant
things are laid waste." But now, strengthened by the fellowship and counsels of their Protestant brethren, churches arose,
and the worship of God was reinstituted. Hard by the place where the synod met, at Lorenzo namely, was the first of these
post-Reformation churches set up; others speedily followed in the other valleys; pastors were multiplied; crowds flocked to
their preaching, and not a few came from the plains of Piedmont, and from remote parts of their valleys, to drink of these
living waters again flowing in their land. Yet another token did this old Church give of the vigorous life that was now
flowing in her veins. This was a translation of the Scriptures into the French tongue. At the synod, the resolution was taken
to translate and print both the Old and New Testaments, and, as this was to be done at the sole charge of the Vaudois, it
was considered as them gift to the Churches of the Reformation. A most appropriate and noble gift! That Book which the Waldenses
had received from the primitive Church–which their fathers had preserved with their blood–which their barbes had
laboriously transcribed and circulated–they now put into the hands of the Reformers, constituting them along with themselves
the custodians of this the ark of the world's hopes. Robert Olivetan, a near relative of Calvin, was asked to undertake the
translation, and he executed it–with the help of his great kinsman, it is believed. It was printed in folio, in black
letter, at Neuchatel, in the year 1535, by Pierre de Wingle, commonly called Picard. The entire expense was defrayed by the
Waldenses, who collected for this object 1,500 crowns of gold, a large sum for so poor a people. Thus did the Waldensian Church
emphatically proclaim, at the commencement of this new era in her existence, that the Word of God was her one sole foundation. As
has been already mentioned, a commission to attend the synod had been given by the Churches of French Switzerland to Farel
and Saunter. Its fulfillment necessarily involved great toil and peril. One crosses the Alps at this day so easily, that it
is difficult to conceive the toil and danger that attended the journey then. The deputies could not take the ordinary tracks
across the mountains for fear of pursuit; they were compelled to travel by unfrequented paths. The way often led by the edge
of precipices and abysses, up steep and dangerous ascents, and across fields of frozen snow, for were their pursuers the only
dangers they had to fear; they were exposed to death from the blinding drifts and tempests of the hills. Nevertheless, they
arrived in safety in the Valleys, and added by their presence and their counsels to the dignity of this the first great ecclesiastical
assembly of modern times. Of this we have a somewhat remarkable proof. Three years thereafter, a Vaudois, Jean Peyrel, of
Angrogna, being cast into prison, deposed on his trial that "he had kept guard for the ministers who taught the good law,
who were assembled in the town of Chamforans, in the center of Angrogna; and that amongst others present there was one called
Farel, who had a red beard, and a beautiful white horse; and two others accompanied him, one of whom had a horse, almost black,
and the other was very tall, and rather lame."
CHAPTER 5 Back to Top
PERSECUTIONS AND MARTYRDOMS.
A Peace of Twenty-eight Years-Flourishing State–Bersour–A Martyr–
Martyrdom of Pastor Gonin–Martyrdoms of a Student and a Monk– Trial and Burning of a Colporteur–A List of
Horrible Deaths–The Valleys under the Sway of France–Restored to Savoy–Emmanuel Philibert–Persecution
Renewed–Carignano–Persecution Approaches the Mountains–Deputation to the Duke–The Old Paths–
Remonstrance to the Duke–to the Duchess–to the Council.
THE Church of the Alps had peace for twenty-eight years. This was a time of great spiritual prosperity. Sanctuaries arose
in all her Valleys; her pastors and teachers were found too few, and men of learning and zeal, some of them from foreign lands,
pressed into her service. Individuals and families in the cities on the plain of Piedmont embraced her faith; and the crowds
that attended her worship were continually growing.[1] In short, this venerable Church had a second youth. Her lamp,
retrimmed, burned with a brightness that justified her time-honored motto, "A light shining in darkness." The darkness was
not now so deep as it had been; the hours of night were drawing to a close. Nor was the Vaudois community the only light that
now shone in Christendom. It was one of a constellation of lights, whose brilliance was beginning to irradiate the skies of
the Church with an effulgence which no former age had known.
The exemption from persecution, which the Waldenses enjoyed
during this period, was not absolute, but comparative. The lukewarm are seldom molested; and the quickened zeal of the Vaudois
brought with it a revival of the persecutor's malignity, though it did not find vent in violences so dreadful as the tempests
that had lately smitten them. Only two years after the synod–that is, in 1534–wholesale destruction fell upon
the Vaudois Churches of Provence; but the sad story of their extinction will more appropriately be told elsewhere. In the
valleys of Piedmont events were from time to time occurring that showed that the inquisitor's vengeance had been scotched,
not killed. While the Vaudois as a race were prosperous, their churches mutliplying, and their faith extending it geographical
area from one area to another, individual Vaudois were being at times seized, and put to death, at the stake, on the rack,
or by the cord.
Three years after, the persecution broke out anew, and raged for a short time. Charles III. of Savoy,
a prince of mild manners, but under the rule of the priests, being solicited by the Archbishop of Turin and the inquistior
of the same city, gave his consent to "hunting down" the heretics of the Valleys [2]. The commission was given to a nobleman of the name of Bersour, whose residence was at
Pinerolo, near the entrance of the Valley of Perosa.
Bersour, a man of savage disposition, collected a troop of 500
horse and foot, and attacked the Valley of Angrogna. He was repulsed, but the storm which had rolled away from the mountains
fell upon the plains. Turning to the Vaudois who resided around his own residence, he seized a great number of persons, whom
he threw into prisons and convents of Pinerolo and the Inquisition of Turin. Many of them suffered in the flames. One of these
martyrs, Catalan Girard, quaintly taught the spectators a parabolic lesson, standing at the pile. From amid the flames he
asked for two stones, which were instantly brough him. The crowd looked on in silence, curious to know what he meant to do
with them. Rubbing them against each other, he said, "You think to extinguish our poor Churches by your persecutions. You
can no more do so than I with my feeble hands can crush these stones."[3]
Heavier tempests seemed about to descend, when suddenly
the sky cleared above the confessors of the Alps. It was a change in the politics of Europe in this instance, as in many others,
that stayed the arm of persecution. Francis I of France demanded of Charles, Duke of Savoy, permission to march an army through
his dominions. The object of the French king was the recovery of the Duchy of Milan, a long-contested prize between himself
and Charles V. The Duke of Savoy refused the request of his brother monarch; but reflecting that the passes of the Alps were
in the hands of the men whom he was persecuting, and that should he continue his oppressions, the Vaudois might open the gates
of his kingdom to the enemy, he sent orders to Bersour to stop the persecution in the Valleys.
In 1536, the Waldensian
Church had to mourn the loss of one of the more distinguished of her pastors. Martin Gonin, of Angrogna – a man of public
spirit and rare gifts–who had gone to Geneva on ecclesiastical affairs, was returning through Dauphine, when he was
apprehended on suspicion of being a spy. He cleared himself on that charge, but the gaoler searching his person, and discovering
certain papers upon him, he was convicted of what the Parliament of Grenoble accounted a much greater crime–heresy.
Condemned to die, he was led forth at night, and drowned in the river Isere. He would have suffered at the stake had not his
persecutors feared the effect of his dying words upon the spectators.[4]
There were others, also called to ascend the martyr-pile,
whose names we must not pass over in silence. Two pastors returning from Geneva to their flocks in the Valleys, in company
of three French Protestants, were seized at the Col de Tamiers, in Savoy, and carried to Chambery. There all five were tried,
condemned, and burned. The fate of Nicolas Sartoire is yet more touching. He was a student of theology at Geneva, and held
one of those bursaries which the Lords of Bern had allotted for the training of young men as pastors in the Churches of the
Valleys. He set out to spend his holiday with his family in Piedmont. We know how Vaudois heart yearns for its native mountains;
nor would the conting of the youth awaken less lively anticipations on the part of his friends. The paternal threshold, alas!
he was never to cross; his native Valleys he was to tread no more. Travelling by the pass of St. Bernard, and the grand Valley
of Aosta, he had just passed the Italian frontier, when he was apprehended on the suspicion of heresy. It was the month of
May, when all was life and beauty in the vales and mountains around him; he himself was in the spring-time of existence; it
was hard to lay down life at such a moment; but the great captain from whose feet he had just come, had taught him that the
first duty of a soldier of Christ is obedience. He confessed his Lord, nor could promises or threats–and both were tried–make
him waver. He continued steadfast unto the end, and on the 4th of May, 1557, he was brought forth from his dungeon at Aosta,
and burned alive.[5]
The martyr who died thus heroically at Aosta was a youth,
the one we are now to contemplate was a man of fifty. Geofroi Varaile was a native of the town of Busco, in Piedmont. His
father had been a captain in that army of murderers who, in 1488, ravaged the Valleys of Lucerna and Angrogna.
The
son in 1520 became a monk, and possessing the gift of a rare eloquence, he was sent on a preaching tour, in company with another
cowled ecclesiastic, yet more famous, Bernardo Ochino of Sienna, the founder of the order of the Capuchins. The arguments
of the men he was sent to convert staggered Varaile. He fled to Geneva, and in the city of the Reformers he was taught more
fully the "way of life." Ordained as a pastor, he returned to the Valleys, where "like another Paul," says Leger, "he preached
the faith he once destroyed." After a ministry of some months, he set out to pay a visit of a few days to his native town
of Busco. He was apprehended by the monks who were lying in wait for him. He was condemned to death by the Inquisition of
Turin. His execution took place in the castle-piazza of the same city, March 29th, 1558. He walked to the place where he was
to die with a firm step and a serene countenance; he addressed the vast multitude around his pile in a way that drew tears
from many eyes; after this, he began to sing with a loud voice, and so continued till he sank amid the flames.[6]
Two years before this, the
same piazza, the castle-yard at Turin, had witnessed a similar spectacle. Barthelemy Hector was a bookseller in Poictiers.
A man of warm but well-tempered zeal, he traveled as far as the Valleys, diffusing that knowledge that maketh wise, unto salvation.
In the assemblage oI white peaks that look down on the Pra del Tor is one named La Vechera, so called because the cows love
the rich grass that clothes its sides in summer-time. Barthelemy Hector would take his seat on the slopes of the mountain,
and gathering the herdsmen and agriculturists of the Pra round him, would induce them to buy his books, by reading passages
to them. Portions of the Scriptures also would he recite to the grandames and maidens as they watched their goats, or plied
the distaff. His steps were tracked by the inquisitor, even amid these wild solitudes. He was dragged to Turin, to answer
for the crime of selling Genevese books. His defense before his judges discovered an admirable courage and wisdom.
"You
have been caught in the act," said his judge, "of selling books that contain heresy. What say you?"
"If the Bible is
heresy to you, it is truth to me," replied the prisoner.
"But you use the Bible to deter men from going to mass," urged
the judge.
"If the Bible deters men from going to mass," responded Barthelemy, "it is a proof that God disapproves
of it, and that the mass is idolatry."
The judge, deeming it expedient to make short shrift with such a heretic, exclaimed,
"Retract."
"I have spoken only truth," said the bookseller, "can I change truth as I would a garment?"
His judges
kept him some months in prison, in the hope that his recantation would save them the necessity of burning him. This unwillingness
to have resort to the last penalty was owing to no feeling of pity for the prisoner, but entirely to the conviction that these
repeated executions were endangering the cause of their Church. "The smoke of these martyr-piles," as was said with reference
to the death of Patrick Hamilton, "was infecting those on whom it blew." But the constancy of Barthelemy compelled his persecutors
to disregard these prudential considerations. At last, despairing of his abjuration, they brought him forth and consigned
him to the flames. His behavior at the stake "drew rivers of tears," says Leger, "from the eyes of many in the Popish crowd
around his stake, while others vented reproaches and invectives against the cruelty of the monks and the inquisitors."[7]
These are only a few of the many martyrs by whom, even
during this period of comparative peace and prosperity, the Church of the Valleys was called to testify against Rome. Some
of these martyrs perished by cruel, barbarous, and most horrible methods. To recite all these cases would be beyond our purpose,
and to depict the revolting and infamous details would be to narrate what no reader could peruse. We shall only quote part
of the brief summary of Muston. "There is no town in Piedmont," says he, "under a Vandois pastor, where some of our brethren
have not been put to death..Hugo Chiamps of Finestrelle had his entrails torn from his living body, at Turin. Peter Geymarali
of Bobbio, in like manner, had his entrails taken out at Luzerna, and a fierce cat thrust in their place to torture him further;
Maria Romano was buried alive at Rocco-patia; Magdalen Foulano underwent the same fate at San Giovanni; Susan Michelini was
bound hand and foot, and left to perish of cold and hunger at Saracena. Bartholomew Fache, gashed with sabres, had the wounds filled up with quicklime, and perished thus in agony at Fenile;
Daniel Michelini had his tongue torn out at Bobbio for having praised God. James Baridari perished covered with sulphurous
matches, which had been forced into his flesh under the nails, between the fingers, in the nostrils, in the lips, and over
all his body, and then lighted. Daniel Revelli had his mouth filled with gunpowder, which, being lighted, blew his head to
pieces. Maria Monnen, taken at Liousa, had the flesh cut from her cheek and chin bones, so that her jaw was left bare, and
she was thus left to perish. Paul Garnier was slowly sliced to pieces at Rora. Thomas Margueti was mutilated in an indescribable
manner at Miraboco, and Susan Jaquin cut in bits at La Torre. Sara Rostagnol was slit open from the legs to the bosom, and
so left to perish on the road between Eyral and Luzerna.
Anne Charbonnier was impaled and carried thus on a pike, as
a standard, from San Giovanni to La Torre. Daniel Rambaud, at Paesano, had his nails torn off, then his fingers chopped off,
then his feet and his hands, then his arms and his legs, with each successive refusal on his part to abjure the Gospel."[8] Thus the roll of martyrs runs on, and with each new sufferer
comes a new, a more excruciating and more horrible mode of torture and death.
We have already mentioned the demand
which the King of France made upon the Duke of Savoy, Charles III, that he would permit him to march an army through his territories.
The reply was a refusal; but Francis I must needs have a road into Italy. Accordingly he seized upon Piedmont, and held possession
of it, together with the Waldensian Valleys, for twenty-three years. The Waldenses had found the sway of Francis I more tolerant
than that of their own princes; for though Francis hated Lutheranism, the necessities of his policy often compelled him to
court the Lutherans, and so it came to pass that while he was burning heretics at Paris he spared them in the Valleys. But
the general peace of Chateau Cambresis, April 3rd, 1559, restored Piedmont, with the exception of Turin, to its former rulers
of the House of Savoy.[9] Charles III had been succeeded in 1553 by Emmanuel Philibert.
Philibert was a prince of superior talents and humane disposition, and the Vaudois cherished the hope that under him they
would be permitted to live in peace, and to worship as their fathers had done. What strengthened these just expectations was
the fact that Philibert had married a sister of the King of France, Henry II, who had been carefully instructed in the Protestant
faith by her illustrious relations, Margaret, Queen of Navarre, and Renee of France, daughter of Louis XII. But, alas! the
treaty that restored Emmanuel Philibert to the throne of his ancestors, contained a clause binding the contracting parties
to extinguish heresy. This was to send him back to his subjects with a dagger in his hand.
Whatever the king might
incline–and we dare say, strengthened by the counsels of his Protestant queen, he intended dealing humanely by his faithful
subjects the Vaudois–his intentions were overborne by men of stronger wills and more determined resolves. The inquisitors
of his kingdom, the nuncio of the Pope, and the ambassadors of Spain and France, united in urging upon him the purgation of
his dominions, in terms of the agreement in the treaty of peace. The unhappy monarch, unable to resist these powerful solicitations,
issued on the 15th February, 1560, an edict forbidding his subjects to hear the Protestant preachers in the Valley of Lucerna,
or anywhere else, under pain of a fine of 100 dollars of gold for the first offense, and of the galleys for life for the second.
This edict had reference mainly to the Protestants on the plain of Piedmont, who resorted in crowds to hear sermon in the
Valleys. There followed, however, in a short time a yet severer edict, commanding attendance at mass under pain of death.
To carry out this cruel decree a commission was given to a prince of the blood, Philip of Savoy, Count de Raconis, and with
him was associated George Costa, Count de la Trinita, and Thomas Jacomel, the Inquisitor-General, a man as cruel in disposition
as he was licentious in manners. To these was added a certain Councillor Corbis, but he was not of the stuff which the business
required, and so, after witnessing a few initial scenes of barbarity and horror, he resigned his commission.[10]
The first burst of the tempest fell on Carignano. This
town reposes sweetly on one of the spurs of the Apennines, about twenty miles to the south-west of Turin. It contained many
Protestants, some of whom were of good position. The wealthiest were selected and dragged to the burning-pile, in order to
strike terror into the rest. The blow had not fallen in vain; the professors of the Protestant creed in Carignano were scattered;
some fled to Turin, then under the domination of France, some to other places, and some, alas! frightened by the tempest in
front, turned back and sought refuge in the darkness behind them. They had desired the "better country," but could not enter
in at the cost of exile and death.
Having done its work in Carignano, this desolating tempest held its way across the
plain of Piedmont, towards those great mountains which were the ancient fortress of the truth, marking its track through the
villages and country communes in terror, in pillage and blood. It moved like one of those thunder-clouds which the traveler
on the Alps may often descry beneath him, traversing the same plain, and shooting its lightnings earthwards as it advances.
Wherever it was known that there was a Vaudois congregation, thither did the cloud turn. And now we behold it at the foot
of the Waldensian Alpsmat the entrance of the Valleys, within whose mighty natural bulwarks crowds of fugitives from the towns
and villages on the plain have already found asylum.
Rumors of the confiscations, arrests, cruel tortures, and horrible
deaths which had befallen the Churches at the foot of their mountains, had preceded the appearance of the crusaders at the
entrance of the Valleys. The same devastation which had befallen the flourishing Churches on the plain of Piedmont, seemed
to impend over the Churches in the bosom of the Alps. At this juncture the pastors and leading laymen assembled to deliberate
on the steps to be taken. Having fasted and humbled themselves before God, they sought by earnest prayer the direction of
his Holy Spirit.[11] They resolved to approach the throne of their prince, and by
humble remonstrance and petition, set forth the state of their affairs and the justice of their cause. Their first claim was
to be heard before being condemned– a right denied to no one accused, however criminal. They next solemnly disclaimed
the main offense laid to their charge, that of departing from the true faith, and of adopting doctrines unknown to the Scriptures,
and the early ages of the Church. Their faith was that which Christ himself had taught; which the apostles, following their
Great Master, had preached; which the Fathers had vindicated with their pens, and the martyrs with their blood, and which
the first four Councils had ratified, and proclaimed to be the faith of the Christian world. From the "old paths," the Bible
and all antiquity being witnesses, they had never turned aside; from father to son they had continued these 1,500 years to
walk therein. Their mountains shielded no novelties; they had bowed the knee to no strange gods, and, if they were heretics,
so too were the first four Councils; and so too were the apostles themselves. If they erred, it was in the company of the
confessors and martyrs of the early ages. They were willing any moment to appeal their cause to a General Council, provided
that Council were willing to decide the question by the only infallible standard they knew, the Word of God. If on this evidence
they should be convicted of even one heresy, most willingly would they surrender it. On this, the main point of their indictment,
what more could they promise? Show us, they said, what the errors are which you ask us to renounce under the penalty of death,
and you shall not need to ask a second time.[12]
Noble Army the Bible of the Hugenots, the standard French text for hundreds of years. ... Bartholemew
Fache was gashed with sabres and had the wounds filled with ...
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It was during this 16th century period of persecution that Bartholemew Hector, a Bible seller from Poictiers,
came into the Waldensian Valleys to spread the news of God's gracious salvation as revealed in His precious Word. He would
read passages from the Bible, and many of the peasants gladly heard him and bought copies of God's Word.Bartholemew was arrested and accused by the Roman priests, "You have been caught in the act of selling
books that contain heresy. What do you say?""If the Bible is heresy to you, it is truth
to me," replied Hector."But you use the Bible to deter people from going to Mass.""If the Bible deters men from going to Mass," Hector replied, "it is a proof that God disproves of
it, and that the Mass is idolatry."Rather than getting into a long discussion with Bartholemew,
the judge simply ordered him to retract."I have only spoken the truth," replied the bookseller.
"Can I change truth as I would change a garment?"His judges kept him in prison for several
months, hoping he would recant, as many times public executions were a detriment to their cause. As was said in the burning
of Patrick Hamilton, "The smoke of these martyr-piles was infecting those on whom it blew." Bartholemew's constancy, however,
left them no choice but to consign him to the flames.In many of the martyrdoms suffered
in certain areas of Europe, there was one predominant way of putting men and women to death. For the English Reformers, it
was generally the stake, while many of the Anabaptist brethren suffered "the third baptism" - drowning.In the Waldensian Valleys, however, the persecutors used a fiendish variety of tortures and deaths. They included
having one's entrails torn from his living body (Hugo Chiamps), and in one case after the entrails were torn out, a fierce
cat was thrust into the still living body for further torment (Peter Geymarali). Susan Michelini was bound hand and foot and
left to perish of cold and hunger; Bartholemew Fache was gashed
with sabres and had the wounds filled with quicklime and thus perished in agony;
UPDATE: Family Tree Maker Online Genealogy library; the book The Huguenot Emigration to America page
35, Notes from the Walloon Records of Leyden, has DE LA MOT. Jean de la Mote and Marie
Fache, his wife, presented their son Jean for baptism, November 10, 1622
Jacket" an extreme clipper in the ice off Cape Horn on her passage August 1854. Port Lyttelton by William Fox and Mary Townsend
From the Illustrated London News 1863
Christchurch 1883
I found
only one reference to the Vaudois Christian martyr,
Bartholomew Fache, in James A. Wylie's "The History of Protestantism."
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/History.Protestant.v2.b16.html.
The sum of all that Wylie wrote of Bartholomew Fache's martyrdom at the hands of his Roman inquisitors: "Bartholomew
Fache, gashed with
sabres, had the wounds filled up with quicklime, and perished thus in
agony at Fenile."
My greatgrandfather
played for you guys back in the1890s can you tell me anything about him ...I'm doing a family history thanks mike milne
Rosemary.Shivnan@natlib.govt.nz
'New Zealand
obituaries', v 34, pp 137, 138
· New Zealand free lance, 19 December 1903, p 4d
In attempting to ascertain an arrival
date for the family in New
Zealand, I tried to check for the earliest evidence of George Fache (Snr.)
residing in
the country. A check of V Maxwell's Settlers to Otago pre
1861 was unsuccessful. There appears to be conflicting references
to his
tenure as proprietor of the Dunstan times. According to the Cyclopedia
of New Zealand (Christchurch,
1902), v 4, p 721, the Dunstan times was
founded by G Fache in 1862. However, D R Harvey's Union list of
newspapers
preserved in libraries, newspaper offices, local authority offices
and museums in New Zealand
(Wellington, 1987) lists the publishing
dates of
the Dunstan news and Wakatip advertiser as 30 December 1862
-ca.1864 and the Dunstan times as February? 1864-24 May 1948.
Also enclosed
is a photocopy of pages 199-200 from G H Scholefield's Newspapers in New
Zealand
(Wellington, 1958) referring to these two newspapers. These
references suggest he arrived some time before 1862 or 1864. The Otago
Settlers Museum, PO Box 566, Dunedin holds indexes
to Otago arrivals from
1848-1863 and may be able to help you further.
It is possible that George Fache's death
certificate may note how many
years he had resided in New Zealand.
The Registrar General's Births,
deaths and marriages indexes (Lower Hutt, 1986), includes a death
registered at Wakatipu
for a George Fache in 1915 (folio no. 2457). You may
wish to apply for this certificate via the Births, deaths and marriages
website www.bdm.govt.nz .
There are several references to members of the Fache family in M J
Kelly's Births,
marriages, deaths from the Dunstan times 1866-1900
(Auckland,
1991). These can be photocopied for you at a cost of fifty cents per
page.
Staff in the Manuscripts and Archives
Section report that TAPUHI, the
online database of the Library's unpublished collections, has been
checked on your
behalf. TAPUHI can be accessed at
http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz. One folder containing material relating
to George Fache has been located among the Royal Forest and Bird
Protection Society
of New Zealand Records (MS-Group-0206). The folder, Visit
to Australia
- Mr Fache (MS-Papers-0444-684), contains material relating
to a visit to Australia
by Mr Fache in 1946-1947 when he was a
vice-president of the Forest and Bird Society.
This material deals with
Australia's
regulations regarding the control of wildlife and does not contain
biographical material about Mr Fache. Access to this
collection is
restricted and requires the permission of the General Manager of the Royal
Forest and Bird Protection Society.
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Fache's I have found
Awesome work...thanks so much... I have been researching for about 1 year, hours daily with such little
results...even NZ gov people tell me no such fellow... I'm jumping with joy over your news...anything you can provide is awesome...I
have a website... fachefiles.tripod.com if you are interested. Today I found...
Francis Hunt Born: c 1819 England Death: 3rd September 1862 Balmain, Sydney, NSW
Australia Aged 43 years Occupation:
clerk Cause of Death: Intrasusepticema? of the tonsils Informant: Edward Hunt, Uncle - BalmainBuried: Camperdown, Cemetery
Undertaker: Charles KinselaTime in the colony: 15 years; arrival c1847
Henrietta Hunt,Baptized 27th October 1811 Saint Marys,
Lambeth, London, England
Married: 7th March 1835 Old Church, Saint Pancras London, EnglandDied
before April 1863
Married:
Charles James Fache
possibly brother of my great-great-great-grandfather William (mike)
7th March
1835 Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England
Joan Stevens
<joanss@xtra.co.nz> wroteThe occupations of George Fache given in postal
directories 1869-1900 for Clyde are listed as Dunstan Times Newspaper proprietor, Insurance Agent, Captain of the Fire Brigade,
Sec. Dunstan Hospital Board, auctioneer and Sharebroker. Obviously a talented man. He died in Queenstown but we do not have
Queenstown burial registers here. If you order his death certificate from
Identity Services Dept of Internal Affairs Wellington it should also give number
of years in NZ . From this you could get year of arrival and then possibly the ship he came on.
There is no obituary for George in the Dunstan Times but if one has been written it is most likely
in the Wakatipu Mail (Queenstown paper) or in the Otago Daily Times. I did find this entry in The Dunstan Times
of 23 May 1873
Fache On the 5th Feb at Pelham Place Brompton London W. Mr William Fache
the respected father of William and George Fache of this town...... my great-great-great-grandfather
William (mike)
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The station closed from 4 May 1926 due to the General Strike, and did not reopen until 4 October of that year with services only calling there on weekdays initially. Sunday services were finally restored on 2 January 1927; however as before, it was little used. When a new entrance was built onto Knightsbridge nearby, it sounded the death-knell for Brompton Road which finally closed on 30 July 1934.
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from the Wakatipu Mail Tues July
27 1915
A very familiar and much respected figure on
the Otago goldfields, in the person of Mr Geo Fache, passed away on Sunday evening last at Kawarau Falls Station where he
had been residing with his daughter Mrs J P McBride. Deceased gentleman had been ailing for 6 months past and his extreme
age told against his infirmities. Though he received all the care that it was possible to give, deceased endured much
suffering, and death came as a happy release. The late Mr Fache was born in the West End of London. He came out to the
Dominion nearly 55 years ago and was attracted to the Gabriels Gully and Dunstan gold rushes. At Clyde Mr Fache founded
the Dunstan Times in 1862 which he ably conducted until 1895. He also carried on an auctioneering and commission agency
as well as the paper. After relinquishing the Times the deceased retained the latter business. He eventually sold
up and commenced along the same lines at Wellington. After 3 years he went back to Clyde and again re-opened on a moderate
scale. It is now a year or so that the deceased retired into private life, living amongst the members of his family.
The late Mr Fache identified himself with the township of Clyde assisting materially to furthur any object which went
for advancement. He moreover proved himself a popular townsman. Deceased was a widower and leaves a family of
3 sons and 4 daughters. The sons are Mr Geo Fache Commissioner of Pensions Wellington, Mr Sydney Fache Officer
in National Mortgage and Agency Co, Palmerston South, and Mr Bert Fache who is a member of one of the NZ Expeditionary
Forces. The daughters are Mrs Charles of Mataura, Mrs J F McBride Kawarau Falls Station Frankton, Mrs A Mitchell
Lammerburn Clutha, and Miss Fache post mistress at Waipiata Central Otago. Very general sympathy is expressed for the family
in their bereavement. The remains will be interred in the Frankton Cemetery.
From our genealogy marriage
records Ethel May Fache aged 31 m. McBride 1912
Eve Gertrude Fache m. Charles 1907
Iris Isobel Fache aged 30 m. Mitchell 1915
George Fache m. Lizzie Cox 24 Oct 1868
From local death registration records
2 May 1872 William Michael Fache inflammation of the bowels aged 6 weeks b. NZ Informant W Fache
3 Aug 1881 William Fache printer of Clyde. Stricture of the urethra aged 52 b. Eng. Informant G Fache
4 Jan 1891 Elizabeth Cecilia Fache dau. of Geo Fache of Clyde Tuberculous meningitis aged 14
Informant G Fache
11 Aug 1914 Mrs Fache wife of G C Fache at Ophir of childbirth. Resident of Ida Valley born NZ
Hope this is useful for the family tree
Regards Joan Stevens
Dear Mike Milne,Your email
of 11 April 2005 asked about putting the Dunstan Times
(1864-1948) on our Papers Past site. Unfortunately there are no plans
to do this at the present. We hold a portion of the Times on microfilm
- 1890-1939 to be precise. I'm not sure if that's the period you are
interested in. If it is you could interloan the microfilm through
international interlibrary loan. Alternatively you could email us with
details on your gg grandfather that you would like researched.
Yours sincerely,Nigel Murphy
Librarian New Zealand & Pacific Published Collections
ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
New Zealand ph: 04 4743000
19 May 2005
Dear Mr Milne
FACHE FAMILY
Your email dated 11 May 2005 requested information on the above family,
in particular the arrival of George Fache to New Zealand.
On receipt of a postal address I can mail you the following photocopies
referring to George Cox Fache 'New Zealand obituaries', v 34, pp 137, 138 New Zealand free lance, 19 December
1903, p 4d
In attempting to ascertain an arrival date for the family in New
Zealand, I tried to check for the earliest evidence of George Fache (Snr.)
residing in the country. A check of V Maxwell's Settlers to Otago pre
1861 was unsuccessful. There appears to be conflicting references to his
tenure as proprietor of the Dunstan times. According to the Cyclopedia
of New Zealand (Christchurch, 1902), v 4, p 721, the Dunstan times was
founded by G Fache in 1862. However, D R Harvey's Union list of
newspapers preserved in libraries, newspaper offices, local authority offices
and museums in New Zealand (Wellington, 1987) lists the publishing
dates of the Dunstan news and Wakatip advertiser as 30 December 1862
-ca.1864 and the Dunstan times as February? 1864-24 May 1948. | Artist unknown [Gold-min| Contents | Shows Clutha River at left, apparently with flying fox suspended over it. In centre foreground is a line of washing
out to dry, and at right two simple huts. In background beneath a cliff face is a settlement of possibly 30 or 40 huts. In
left distance a range of high hills extends to top of picture.
| | Other Titles | Hartley & Riley 1862 Gold strike on the banks of the
Molyneux River (now the Clutha River) - between Clyde and Cromwell
| | General Notes | Has been attributed to William Mathew Hodgkins.
While
exact location remains to be identified, the scene may be a rare view of the Dunstan (Clyde) diggings. Appears to show a gold
mining settlement in Central Otago, an area of interest to William Mathew Hodgkins. The publication "Dunstan Goldfields centennial
review" includes a photograph of the official opening of the Hartley and Riley Memorial cairn, taken from a similar viewpoint.
| | Names | Sisarich, Warren
fl 1980s-1990s; as the donor/lender/vendor
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833?-1898; as an attributed artist
Hodgkins family;
as the previous owner
Hartley, Horatio, 1826-1903 ; as a related subject
Reilly, Christopher fl 1862; as a related subject
| | Subjects | Gold mines and
mining - Otago Region
Laundry
Flying foxes
Rivers - Otago Region
Dwellings - Otago Region
| | Places | Dunstan
|
ing village in Central Otago, probably
Hartley & Riley's Dunstan diggings on the Clutha. 1862?] |
Also enclosed
is a photocopy of pages 199-200 from G H Scholefield's Newspapers in New
Zealand (Wellington, 1958) referring to these two newspapers. These
references suggest he arrived some time before 1862 or 1864. The Otago
Settlers Museum, PO Box 566, Dunedin holds indexes to Otago arrivals from
1848-1863 and may be able to help you further.
It is possible that George Fache's death certificate may note how many
years he had resided in New Zealand. The Registrar General's Births,
deaths and marriages indexes (Lower Hutt, 1986), includes a death
registered at Wakatipu for a George Fache in 1915 (folio no. 2457). You may
wish to apply for this certificate via the Births, deaths and marriages
website www.bdm.govt.nz .
There are several references to members of the Fache family in M J
Kelly's Births, marriages, deaths from the Dunstan times 1866-1900
(Auckland, 1991).
Staff in the Manuscripts and Archives Section report that TAPUHI, the
online database of the Library's unpublished collections, has been
checked on your behalf. TAPUHI can be accessed at
http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz. One folder containing material
relating
to George Fache has been located among the Royal Forest and Bird
Protection Society of New Zealand Records (MS-Group-0206). The folder, Visit
to Australia - Mr Fache (MS-Papers-0444-684), contains material relating
to a visit to Australia by Mr Fache in 1946-1947 when he was a
vice-president of the Forest and Bird Society. This material deals with
Australia's regulations regarding the control of wildlife and does not contain
biographical material about Mr Fache. Access to this collection is
restricted and requires the permission of the General Manager of the Royal
Forest and Bird Protection Society.
Staff in Turnbull Library Pictures have checked files for photographs
of George Fache and of Dunstan or Clyde. There are no photographs of
George Fache, but there are two of Ada Howard Fache who may be a family
member. There is also a selection of photocopies of Clyde that may be of
interest to you.
no mention of my great-great grandfathers paper "the dunstan
times"
founded in 1862 in clyde...i am researching my family history
anything you could share would be awesome.... ps could you
please
include his paper in your siteYou should find the reference
to Bartholomew Fache towards the middle of Chapter 5 "Persecutions and Martyrdoms."Tom Stewart"Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son
of Man" (Luke 21:36).dear brother tom thanks for the quick reply but do you know which chapter this quote is at...I know its
in book 16 but chapter or verse I don't.....mike <tom@whatsaiththescripture.com> wrote:Mike,I found only one reference to the Vaudois Christian
martyr,
>Bartholomew Fache, in James A. Wylie's "The History of Protestantism."
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/History.Protestant.v2.b16.html.
The sum of all that Wylie wrote of Bartholomew Fache's martyrdom
at
>the hands of his Roman inquisitors: "Bartholomew Fache, gashed with
>sabres, had the wounds filled up with
quicklime, and perished thus in
>agony at Fenile."The God, Who willingly sacrificed His Only Begotten Son for us, must
have been desirious of making another powerful statement to the world of the Truth of His Gospel to allow Bartholomew the
necessity of such an intense death. "But He giveth more Grace" (James 4:6).
I hope this helps.Tom Stewart"Precious in the
sight of the LORD is the death of His Saints" (Psalm 116:15). I cannot access info on my family (Fache) in book 16 0f Wylie's
writings. I am at library and only get 1 hour,which is not enough time to find info...
Sent: Wednesday, April 06,
2005 2:44 AM
Subject: Williams Family
Fâche, Angélique {I24508}
, (Cousseau-Bourradier) , (Valade-Dupin) , (Cadieux-Fourreau) , (Suret-LeConfesseur) , (Fâche-Granserre)
Fâche, Catherine {I29331} , (Cousseau-Bourradier) , (Valade-Dupin) , (Cadieux-Fourreau) , (Suret-LeConfesseur) , (Fâche-Granserre)
Fâche, Jean {I20758} , (Fâche)
Fâche, Jeanne {I34172} , (Cousseau-Bourradier) , (Valade-Dupin) , (Cadieux-Fourreau) , (Suret-LeConfesseur) , (Fâche-Granserre)
Fâche, Maurice {I28046} , (Cousseau-Bourradier) , (Valade-Dupin) , (Cadieux-Fourreau) , (Suret-LeConfesseur) , (Fâche-Granserre)
Fâche, Nicolas {I20754} (b. 1642
- d. 3 DEC 1714) , (Fâche-Granserre)
Fâche, Robert {I14839} (b. 29
OCT 1670 - d. Bef 1741) , (Suret-LeConfesseur) , (Fâche-Granserre)
read your family tree which intersects my family, Fache I
had a great great great grandfather William Fache in London in 1873.http://www3.sympatico.ca/ouipie/BDG/geneal.htm
Granserre, Marie {I20759}   Gender: Female
Family:
Marriage:Abt 1640
Spouse: Fâche, Jean {I20758}
Gender: Male
Children:
Father: Suret, Jean {I20756}
Mother: LeConfesseur, Denise {I20757}
Family:
Marriage:7 OCT 1669 Québec,Québec
Spouse: Fâche, Nicolas {I20754}
b. 1642 St-Eloi de Mesnelies,év. Amiens,Picardie Historically, France was born here when Clovis made Soissons the first capital of the Franks, in 486, and later Hugues Capet, elected king of France at Senlis, was crowned at Noyon in 987. This proud past made Picardy
the first French region, not only for historical buildings and monuments but, also, the premier region for its Gothic cathedrals.
Amiens has been specially honoured, by UNESCO, for its architectural heritage.
From an area 30 kms North of Paris, close to the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, the southerm boundaries stretch eastwards
towards Champagne and the Belgian border. Westwards, it extends to the English Channel. This ancient and hospitable region will not disappoint the visitor, with its choice of 4,000 hectares
of lakeland, 1,200 kms of rivers, 70 kms of dunes, cliffs and luminous beaches,
coastal marshes, forests and the bays at the river mouths of the Somme and the Authie
d. 3 DEC 1714 Charlesbourg,QC
Gender: Male
Parents:
Father: Fâche, Jean {I20758}
Mother: Granserre, Marie {I20759}
Children:
Father: Cadieux, Jean {I20744}
Mother: Valade, Marie {I20874}
Family:
Marriage:1 DEC 1696 Montréal Québec,QC
Spouse: Fâche, Robert {I14839}
b. 29 OCT 1670 Charlesbourg,QC
d. Bef 1741
Gender: Male
Parents:
Father: Fâche, Nicolas {I20754}
Mother: Suret, Catherine {I20755}
Children:
My greatgrandfather played for you guys back in the1890s can you
tell me anything about him ...I'm doing a family history thanks mike milne
'New Zealand obituaries', v 34, pp 137, 138
· New Zealand free
lance, 19 December 1903, p 4d
In attempting to ascertain an arrival date for the family in New
Zealand, I tried
to check for the earliest evidence of George Fache (Snr.)
residing in the country. A check of V Maxwell's Settlers to
Otago pre
1861 was unsuccessful. There appears to be conflicting references to his
tenure as proprietor of the Dunstan
times. According to the Cyclopedia
of New Zealand (Christchurch, 1902), v 4, p 721, the Dunstan times was
founded
by G Fache in 1862. However, D R Harvey's Union list of
newspapers preserved in libraries, newspaper offices, local authority
offices
and museums in New Zealand (Wellington, 1987) lists the publishing
dates of the Dunstan news and Wakatip
advertiser as 30 December 1862
-ca.1864 and the Dunstan times as February? 1864-24 May 1948. Also enclosed
is a photocopy
of pages 199-200 from G H Scholefield's Newspapers in New
Zealand (Wellington, 1958) referring to these two newspapers.
These
references suggest he arrived some time before 1862 or 1864. The Otago
Settlers Museum, PO Box 566, Dunedin
holds indexes to Otago arrivals from
1848-1863 and may be able to help you further.
It is possible that George
Fache's death certificate may note how many
years he had resided in New Zealand. The Registrar General's Births,
deaths
and marriages indexes (Lower Hutt, 1986), includes a death
registered at Wakatipu for a George Fache in 1915 (folio no.
2457). You may
wish to apply for this certificate via the Births, deaths and marriages
website www.bdm.govt.nz .
There
are several references to members of the Fache family in M J
Kelly's Births, marriages, deaths from the Dunstan times
1866-1900
(Auckland, 1991). These can be photocopied for you at a cost of fifty cents per
page.
Staff in the
Manuscripts and Archives Section report that TAPUHI, the
online database of the Library's unpublished collections, has
been
checked on your behalf. TAPUHI can be accessed at
http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz. One folder containing material relating
to George Fache has been
located among the Royal Forest and Bird
Protection Society of New Zealand Records (MS-Group-0206). The folder, Visit
to
Australia - Mr Fache (MS-Papers-0444-684), contains material relating
to a visit to Australia by Mr Fache in 1946-1947
when he was a
vice-president of the Forest and Bird Society. This material deals with
Australia's regulations regarding
the control of wildlife and does not contain
biographical material about Mr Fache. Access to this collection is
restricted
and requires the permission of the General Manager of the Royal
Forest and Bird Protection Society.
Staff in Turnbull
Library Pictures have checked files for photographs
of George Fache and of Dunstan or Clyde. There are no photographs
of
George Fache, but there are two of Ada Howard Fache who may be a family
member. There is also a selection of photocopies
of Clyde that may be of
interest to you.
>>> mike milne <spacermike00@yahoo.ca> 11/05/05 07:52:00 >>>
Thanks for your email, I have
been researching my family Fache who
settled in Clyde NZ before 1870...this is what I have found of my great
grandfather
"Fache, George Cox OBE > Retired public servant; Care >of
the Wellesley Club, Wellington. >Born in Clyde Otago
N.Z. on
>April8/1870, son of George Fache, proprietor >"Dunstan Times". Married
>Grace daughter of Alfred Clark.
One son, two daughters. Educated Clyde
>and OBHS. First XV(rugby) and first XI >(cricket) 1886-7. Wellington
>rugby
football representative 1890. Rugby >referee 1892-1904. NZ
>selector 1896-1905. Member of WRFU, NZ Rowing >Association.
> Cadet
and
>clerk Government Insurance Department 1889-1902, chief >clerk Pensions
>Department 1902-1909,
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions >1909-1912,
>Commissioner 1912-1929. Secretary and member War Pensions >Board
>1915-1929.,died
in Gore in Oct1948. I have been searching for info for
over 100 hours, also he won an O.B.E.. I would like to find the
the
boat they came to N.!
Z on.
There are other sides to this search.. I am searching with limited
results. Can
you please advise me?....thanks, mike....ps. I know my
search will be long, for our history involves the Fache Hugenots
fleeing
persecution in France to England in the 1600's.
I was hoping information you may hold could be forwarded
to myself.
Ship name/date from England, old photos,copies of Dunstan Times
articles, or anything would be invaluableto
me.
sincerely.
Mike Milne
Nigel Murphy <nigel.murphy@natlib.govt.nz> wrote:
Dear Mike Milne,
Your email of 11 April 2005 asked
about putting the Dunstan Times
(1864-1948) on our Papers Past site. Unfortunately there are no plans
to do this at
the present. We hold a portion of the Times on microfilm
- 1890-1939 to be precise.
Dear Mike,
Best regards,
Guy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005
8:55 PM
Subject: Fache history
Je suis englais, et maintenant je demure au Ont. Can.. Mon famille,
Fache arrive en Londres avant 1830 et en +- 1840 ils alle a Nouvelle Zealand (George Fache) . Avez vous un idee pour
mon recherche de l'information avant 1840. J'avais un website https://fachefiles.tripod.com/.
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Hi Mike
Have
been somewhat slow in getting back to you, the price of working for my self, plenty of work too little time. We got
the photos of our trip through the South Isalnd and have just the one photo of OB School. This taken outside of the
Shackleton quarters on the outside edge of a brick circle which has the names of various sponsors to the school. Quite
a number I recognise, a few who are not with us any longer. At the centre of the paved area is a grassed area presumably
for assembly. The dinning hall and activities sheds have all been rebuilt and I didn't recognise the place. It
underwent a major rebuild in the eearly 80s. Behind the watch buildings is motel style accomodation, I think for the
various assistants and staff who work at the centre, I couldn't find anyone who could answer my questions. The whole
operations considerably larger than the fairly modest operation I remember. Will keep in touch with any other info that I come across from time to time. hope all is well with
you and yours
Regards
Don Abbott |
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Our newspaper
was started in 1862 by George Fache, an original settler in New Zealand.It was named the"Dunstan Times", as Clyde was previously named Dunstan. The shop was located on Sunderland Street, Clyde.
This journal was founded in 1862 by Mr. G. Fache, who conducted it till 1895. The premises were on freehold land,
and consisted of a wooden building, which contained a Wharfedale printing press and a complete jobbing plant. The paper was
a weekly publication of eight pages of seven columns, and had a wide circulation throughout Central Otago.
 I have been wading (drowning) through miles of NZ history to find info photos of my family "Fache" who became influential
from the 1860's in Dunstan and then spread out. I have had little success. Can you share anything from your findings. mike
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The Da Vinci Code is a novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003 by Random House ... while I have no time to investigate 'everything' I feel this novel is potentially
dangerous to weak believers in 2005, I note that a fictional character keeps popping
up everywhere I turn.....Bezu Fache – a captain in the DPJF, the French
criminal investigation police. Tough, canny, persistent, he is in charge of the investigation of Saunière's murder. From the
message left by the dying curator, he is convinced the murderer is Robert Langdon, whom he summons to the Louvre in order to extract a confession. He is thwarted in his early attempt by Sophie Neveu, who knows Langdon
to be innocent and surreptitiously notifies Langdon that he is in fact the prime suspect. He pursues Langdon doggedly throughout
the book in the belief that letting him get away would be career suicide. "Bezu" is not a common French personal name, but
"le Bezu" is the name of a castle in Rennes-le-Chateau with Cathar associations. When we first encounter Fache, he is compared to an ox; note that "Bezu" is an anagram
(and the spoonerism) of zebu ("zébu" in French), a type of ox. On a related note, "fâché" is French for "angry", but "Fache" is also
a reasonably common French surname.
Here I might add an entry whenever I make an update to my web site. Where appropriate, I'll include a link to the change.
For example:
11/1/01 - Added new photos to Vacation Album page.
On this page I'll include a list of links to other web sites that I enjoy. I may also include an explanation of what
I like about the site.
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/10/11/32438.htmlCarla Fache and Fabia Nitti"
2004-10-09 until 2004-11-08 Fache Arts Gallery Miami, FL, USA United States of America
 – Fache Arts Gallery. Located at 2300 North Miami Avenue, Fache Arts will feature local and
Latin American art. Two abstract artists, Carla Fache and Fabia Nitti, will be featured at the gallery’s opening. Amy
Alonso has many years of experience and success in the art world. She has represented Carla Fache for four years. Amy launched
Art Fusion Gallery in October of 2003 in the Design District with great success she venture, along with artist Carla Fache,
opened Fache Arts Gallery.
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You should find the reference to Bartholomew Fache towards the middle
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