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McGoohan Mar 2021 11:06am, 29 Mar 2021 49,059 posts	0 McGoohan My wife has Huguenots in her family tree. I shall delight in telling her she's part-Farage.
Ocelot Spleens Mar 2021 11:27am, 29 Mar 2021 30,630 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I just googled the percentage of the uk population that may have a hugenose in their family tree and it 1 in 6.....
macca 53 Mar 2021 5:21pm, 29 Mar 2021 28,750 posts	0 macca 53 Lots of Huguenots came here through the 15-17 centuries
rf_fozzy Mar 2021 6:04pm, 29 Mar 2021 13,809 posts	0 rf_fozzy Presumably there were complaints about Britain being "too full" back then too from the same sorts. /s
57.5 Degrees of Pain Mar 2021 6:10pm, 29 Mar 2021 6,910 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain But in those days French Protestants were still preferable to English Catholics...
BanjoBax Mar 2021 7:08pm, 29 Mar 2021 5,039 posts	0 BanjoBax Bloody Huguenots, coming over here doubting transubstantiation
Lizzie Whizz Mar 2021 7:45pm, 29 Mar 2021 24,731 posts	0 Lizzie Whizz Luvkily they had fen-draining talents, so made East Anglia habitable.
NDWDave Mar 2021 7:46pm, 29 Mar 2021 14,544 posts	0 NDWDave A vanilla soy latte is a type of 3 bean soup
Lizzie Whizz Mar 2021 7:47pm, 29 Mar 2021 24,732 posts	0 Lizzie Whizz *luckily Or was that another religiously persecuted lot? [also having Huguenot ancestry]
Lizzie Whizz Mar 2021 7:47pm, 29 Mar 2021 24,733 posts	0 Lizzie Whizz Lol Dave