Last week, the Huguenots came from far and wide to converge at Townhouse, 5 Fournier St, to see the completed Huguenot Map of Spitalfields drawn by Adam Dant.
Brainchild of Fiona Atkins, proprietor of Townhouse, the project has seen more than three hundred and fifty descendants of Huguenots in Spitalfields submit the addresses of their refugee ancestors to compose a street map with all the names in place. The unveiling was undertaken by Clifford Atkins & Stanley Rondeau whose Huguenot forebears lived in Spitalfields and likely knew each other three hundred years ago.
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Gathering of just a few of the current descendants of the Huguenots of Spitalfields featured on the map
Stanley Rondeau points out his ancestor Jean Rondeau, who came to Spitalfields in 1685, to Adam Dant
Photographs copyright © Jeremy Freedman
Copies of the limited edition of The Huguenot Map are available from Townhouse
Click for details of the HUGUENOT SUMMER festival which continues until September
You can view The Huguenot Map at Townhouse for the next few weeks
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