General Chat

Joe thanks for your help, i am going to the LMA on 25th of this month so will have a look for the vitous, as for the courchas i have tham on census in 1851, head william says bith place unknown, cant find any info on them at all i only know he was a weaver which made me think of some hugenout connection, it was a long shot. Thanks again

Now I have seen that you have Benjamin and Harriet Isabella in your tree c.1790 Ihave made further searches for that period in France but cannot trace either name which are surely not very French. Turning to the IGI, as I guess you have, you will note that there weas a Benjamin who married an Elizabeth Seagreaf in 1792 - St Mary's Whitechapel. IGI does not appear to have more info than that but maybe it is worth your while going to the London Met Archives and searching for anything they may have for that period .... in Whitechapel ? Naturally these Vitou may not have had their origins in France ...... Belgium maybe ? COURCHA appears to prevail in the East End too.

The Courcha family I cannot trace in France - past or present, however there were Vitou. Not very strong in numbers but the main area since 1890 was in th Languedoc-Rousillon region in the South of France - Dept. No. 34. It is possible that there may have been an association of Vitou/Courcha due to the proximity of Dept. 34 to the Spain - sorry I dont know much about Spain. There were isolated pockets of Vitou in some other areas of France - maybe even just across the Channel but I must stress that these were few in number. Difficult to get any info without knowing where they were born - as with most Euro countries b.m.d Do you have any forenames and dates ? To give you further idea of numbers - in France period 1891-1915 there were only 24 Vitou births in the whole country; 1966 -1990 only 43 so you can see that it is not Strong. In the Nord Dept (border with Belgium) births were 4 in the first period and only 1 in recent times.

Gute Nachte Meine shatze, schlaf gut. Bob

Alors mes enfants! ca suffit! Try: Anglo-French Family History Society 31 Collingwood Walk Andover, Hampshire SP10 1PU Great Britain Aussi: The Huguenot Society, The Huguenot Library, University College, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT tel 020 7679 5199 bon chance!

Outre de au lit maintenant, reves plaisants a vous tous

not enough rum n coke yet, to get saucy with it........ Bob

Christine Have put translation under my previous post. Joy

reminds me of a spanish lesson...... a spanish tourist was in New York, and was impressed by the size of the buildings, and occasionally would ask a passerby ...' to june belonge date buldo?' the new yorker would reply, with a thick new york accent '' ah don' understand'' further along they came to the woolworth building, and again asked 'to june belonge date buldo?' and again would come the reply.....'' ah don' understand' At the end of the day the tourist said to his wife. this 'DON Ondestan' must be a very rich fellow.....to own all those buildings........

Christine Maintenant que certainement montrant au loin. (Now that's definitely showing off) Joy

christine...i think thats a whole other thread oppurtunity

déception lol

Muy bien! (very disappointed in you Bob........you could have come up with something saucier! lol)

non je regret me canna visite londres when ye said.....cos moi en vin

l'ecole

Bonjour Jill, êtes vous visiter Londres dans le 25th

Jeanette It's Spanish for School I think. Joy

escuela( if i recall correctly is school.....)

bonjour!!!1 je m'appelle jill.....ca va??

*rushes off to find out what escuela means* LOL