Jean Ferret (abt. 1613 - 1674)

Born about 19 Dec 1613 in Canterbury, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Lodisoir) Ferret — married 21 Sep 1634 (to 1659) in Spitalfields, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 1 Jul 1674 at about age 60 in London, England

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Biography

Jean Ferret was born in England.

Jean Ferret was a Huguenot.

Jan was christened Dec 19 1613 in Canterbury, Kent, England, at Walloon or Stranger Church. His father was Pierre Ferret. ^[1]

Marriage: He married Catherine Lodisoir/Laudigoir, daughter of Pierre Lodisoir/Laudigoir, in 1634 in Spitalfields, Middlesex, England. They had twelve children together:

1. Pierre Ferret (1635-1675)
2. Charles Ferret/Ferry (1637-1699)
3. Catherine Ferret (1638-1702)
4. Marie Ferre/Ferret (1640-1680)
5. Marye Ferret (1641-?)
6. Clement Ferret (1641-?)
7. Elizabeth Ferret (1642-?)
8. Susanne Ferret (1643-1643)
9. Infant Boy Ferret (1644-1644)
10. Esther Ferret (1645-?)
11. Nicholas Ferret (1646-?)
12. Katherine Ferret (?-1642)

Jean and Catherine (Lodisoir) Ferret, French Huguenots, who had fled to England.

He passed away in 1674 in London, England.

Notations on Baptismal Record of his son, Charles Ferret/Ferry:…..”Among the entries of Baptism is that of a Charles Feret, baptized Apr 23, 1637 in the Walloon Church in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, England.

“1637 Avril 23 Charles, filz de Jean Ferret. Tem. Jaques Laudison, Marguerite Ferret, Marje Bara.”

The abbreviation "Tem.", used throughout the baptismal records, stands for "temoins", which translates as witnesses.”…... excerpted, “The Charles Ferry Family in America”, by Edward M. Ferry (1978), at pp. 8-45.

Notations on French Huguenots: "The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th century. Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans.

In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the dragonnades to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoked all Protestant rights in his Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685.

The Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.

Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s resulted in the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685). This ended legal recognition of Protestantism in France and the Huguenots were forced to either convert to Catholicism (possibly as Nicodemites) or flee as refugees; they were subject to violent dragonnades. Louis XIV claimed that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 900,000 or 800,000 adherents to just 1,000 or 1,500. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community.

Most French Huguenots were either unable or unwilling to emigrate to avoid forced conversion to Roman Catholicism. As a result, more than three-quarters of the Protestant population of 2 million converted, 1 million, and 500,000 fled in exodus. The bulk of Huguenot émigrés moved to Protestant states such as the Dutch Republic, England and Wales, Protestant-controlled Ireland, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Duchy of Prussia. Some fled as refugees to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa, the Dutch East Indies, the Caribbean colonies, and several of the Dutch and English colonies in North America. A few families went to Orthodox Russia and Catholic Quebec.

Of the refugees who arrived on the Kent coast, many gravitated towards Canterbury, then the county's Calvinist hub. Many Walloon and Huguenot families were granted asylum there. Edward VI granted them the whole of the western crypt of Canterbury Cathedral for worship.

Other evidence of the Walloons and Huguenots in Canterbury includes a block of houses in Turnagain Lane, where weavers' windows survive on the top floor, as many Huguenots worked as weavers. The Weavers, a half-timbered house by the river, was the site of a weaving school from the late 16th century to about 1830.

The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many of them had occupied important places in society. The kingdom did not fully recover for years. The French crown's refusal to allow non-Catholics to settle in New France may help to explain that colony's low population compared to that of the neighbouring British colonies, which opened settlement to religious dissenters. By the start of the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years' War, a sizeable population of Huguenot descent lived in the British colonies, and many participated in the British defeat of New France in 1759–1760."...excerpted, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-52T : 20 September 2020), Pierre Feret in entry for Jan Feret, 1613.

• "England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z21-61ZG : 12 May 2021), Jan Feret, 19 Dec 1613; [Father's Name Pierre Feret]

• Jean Feret in the England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936; Jean Feret [Jan Feret]; Gender: Male; Event Type: Baptism; Baptism Date: 19 Dec 1613; Baptism Place: Canterbury, Kent, England; Denomination: Walloon or French Protestant; Father: Pierre Feret (FHL Film Number: 0466705 IT 8, 20054)

• Legacy NFS Source: Jean Ferret - Individual or family possessions: birth: 19 December 1613; Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom; Individual or family possessions: birth: 19 December 1613; Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom; Individual or family possessions: death: 1 July 1674; London, City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-52R : 20 September 2020), Jan Feret, 19 Dec 1613.”; Walloon or Strangers Church, Canterbury, Kent, England; [Father's Name Pierre Feret]

• England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970; The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 4552

• Jean Ferret; in the England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936: “ Name: Jean Ferret; Event Type: Marriage; Birth Place: Cambray, Yorkshire, England [Canterbury Kent England]; Marriage Date: Sep 1634; Marriage Place: Vayer, Middlesex, England; Denomination: Walloon or French Protestant; Father: Pierre Ferret; Spouse: Catherine Lodisoir

• "England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZG4-X6QL : 23 May 2021), Jean Ferrett in entry for Pierre Ferrett, 6 Dec 1635.

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-JMK : 20 September 2020), Jean Ferrett in entry for Pierre Ferrett, 6 Dec 1635; Walloon or Strangers Church, Canterbury, Kent, England

• "England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZL1-H5DH : 20 May 2021), Jean Ferret in entry for Charles Ferret, 23 April 1637

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-1GB : 20 September 2020), Jean Ferret in entry for Charles Ferret, 1637; Walloon or Strangers Church, Canterbury, Kent, England

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-DCW : 20 September 2020), Jean Ferret in entry for Cateraine Ferret, 23 Sept 1638.

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LK-V2D : 19 March 2020), Jean Ferre in entry for Marie Ferre, 6 April 1640.

• "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWX3-6GS : 11 December 2014), Jean Forret in entry for Marye Forret, 04 Apr 1641, Baptism; citing p. 26, Spitalfields, London, record group RG4, Public Record Office, London.

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LK-FKM : 19 March 2020), Jean Ferret in entry for Marye Ferret, 1641.

• "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JCVG-JQ1 : 15 March 2020), John Ferrett in entry for Katherine Ferrett, 1642.

• "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X86-RP2T : 11 July 2022), John Ferrett in entry for Katherine Ferrett, 1642.

• "England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZLX-3P7D : 17 May 2021), Jean Ferret in entry for Susanne Ferret, 1643.

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JX-BPX : 20 September 2020), Jean Ferret in entry for Susanne Ferret, 12 Nov 1643.

• The Registers of French Church (Threadneedle Street) 1640 Baptémes:….Vol. XIII, Page 72; L'Eglise de Londres (Threadneedle Street):….”Baptêmes,1640; Ferre, Marie, fils de Jean F. et de Catherine Landigoir. Tem. Andre La Maire fils de Joachim, et Marie Bariselle, femme de a Jean Du Moulin. Avril 6”…….Translation: Church of London (Threadneedle Street) Baptisms; 1640, Ferre, Marie, daughter of Jean F. and of Catherine Landigoir. Witnesses: Andre La Maire daughter of Joachim, and Marie Bariselle, wife of Jean Du Moulin. April 6”…..excerpted

• England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970; The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 4622

• Pub of Huguenot Soc of London, vol 5 pt 3 pp 173, 178, 199, 730 vol 9 pp 32, vol 13 pp 79v, 72s, 90 2. Eng Pub A vol 1 pp 173, 178, 199 3. Hist of Springfield, N. E. Hist and Gen , vol 18, 1864 4. Fer, Fere, Fere't, Ferret, Ferry. Ferre Family genealogy, about 1660most of the family had dropped the "T" and were back to spelling theirname Fere. 5. sub by Ruth F. Mace, 8955 S. 1700 W., West Jordan, Utah

• “The Charles Ferry Family in America (Feret, Ferry, Ferre, Fere, Ferrey)- An Account of Some of the Descendants of Charles and Sarah (Harmon) Ferry of Springfield, Massachusetts”; Compiled and Edited by Edward M. Ferry, 1978;http://www.oocities.org/houghtonnance/CharlesFerrySarahHarmon.htm

• https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Huguenots/; The Huguenots – England’s First Refugees, by Jessica Brain

See Also: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LHFM-NST

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Ferret-6 created through the import of Putnam2-1_2010-01-02_2011-02-16_2011-10-11.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by John Putnam.