Chapter 5 - Huguenots


1)           THOMAS BELLOTT b.1640


THOMAS BELLOTT was born in 1640 in St. Martin, Puy-de-Drome, Auvergne, France. 150km west of Lyon. He married JUDITH LE SAUVAGE. She was born in St. Martin Le Bolbec, ( Nr La Havre) Normandy, France.








  Thomas Bellott and Judith Le Sauvage had the following children:

1)     THOMAS BELLOTT was born in 1670 in Seine, Maritime, Normandy, France. He married MARIE GUELLE. She was born in 1670 in Mazange, 41131, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France.


  
2)     SUZANNE BELLOTT was born in 1661 in Seine Maritine, Normandy, France. She married Jacque Quesnel in 1691. Around the same time it appears that her brother Thomas married Marie Guelle. Records of the Threadneedle St Church, most important of London’s numerous Huguenot Churches (there were 9 of these in 1700), show that Thomas and Marie acted as godparents to Suzanne’s son Jacques, while Suzanne returned the favour by agreeing to be godmother to Thomas and Marie’s children Jean (1699) and Jeremye (1706). At Jean’s baptism,

3)     MARIA BELLOTT was born on 17 May 1716 in Eletot, 76540, Seine-Maritine, Haute Normandie, France.

2)           THOMAS BELLOTT b. 1670

 THOMAS BELLOTT was born in 1670 in Seine, Maritime, Normandy, France. He died in 1705 in London. He married MARIE GUELLE. She was born in 1670 in Mazange, 41131, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France.

By 1692, they were living in London and in 1699 Thomas is described as a ouvrier en soye…dans Phenix St, paroisse Stepney. A silk worker, in Phoenix St, Parish of Stepney.




  Thomas Bellott and Marie Guelle had the following children:

1)     SUSAN BELLOTT was born in Spitalfields.
2)     JEAN (John) BELLOTT was born on 1 Jan 1692 in London. He died on 01 Jan 1699 in London.
3)     MARY BELLOTT was born about 1698. She died on 01 Jan 1708.
Bourgogne, France.
4)     JEREMYNE BELLOTT was born in 1706 in Spitalfieds. He died on 1 Jan 1790 in Spitalfields.
5)     JOHN BELLOTT was born on 20 Aug 1708.

3)           JOHN BELLOTT b. 20 Aug 1708.


John was baptised 14 Nov 1708 in Chapel of the French Hospital, Spitalfields 
   


He married (1) MARY MOLLEE in 1730 in Christchurch Spitalfields. She was born on 28 Nov 1708 and baptised at the French church in Threadneedle street, 12 Dec 1708.  She died on 8 Sep 1752 in Spitalfields. Mary was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Molle.



Pierre was born on 20 Feb 1685 in Belbec. Seine-Maritine, Haute Normandie. Marie was born on 4 Sep 1675 in Courtisol, San Martin.

John / Jean Bellot is listed in the National Huguenot society’s list of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors.

The best-known London French Church was “L’Eglise Protestant” in Threadneedle St in the City of London. The church was run by elders who made sure the religious and the secular sides tied up so, if you arrived at the church in Threadneedle St, They would send you over to Spitalfields and find you work. 
  


  
At the birth of their son, James, John and Marie were living in New Inn Yard, Shoreditch. (See William Wastell)

John Bellott and Mary Mollee had the following children:

1)     JAMES BELLOTT was born on 21 Oct 1730 in New Inn Yard, Shoreditch. He married Sarah Edwards on 10 May 1762 in Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, Spitalfields, London, England (Signed by Jean Peter Bellot). She died about 1804.
2)     MARY BELLOTT was born on 21 Oct 1732 in New Inn Yard.
3)     ELIZABETH BELLOTT was born on 12 Nov 1734 in Spitalfields.
4)     HELENE BELLOTT was born on 27 Dec 1739 in Spitalfields.
5)     JOHN BELLOTT was born on 20 Aug 1749 in St Leonards Shoreditch. He died in Sep 1838 in Shoreditch.

John Bellot married (2) SUSANNAH (NAMERRE) LEMERY on 16 Oct 1752 in St. Brides, Fleet St. Clandestine Marriage. She was born in 1737.


   


  

  
The marriage took place according to the Fleet Prison Rules. At the Time, the Fleet prison was the go-to location for a quickie, no questions marriage. It would have been the equivalent of eloping to Gretna Green or Las Vegas. A “Clandestine Marriage” required no Banns, no Licence and no witnesses. It was also cheaper than getting married in a church. A secret marriage prevented and objections, say, from parents?

The marriage didn’t necessary need to take place within the walls of the Fleet prison.  The “Liberties of the Fleet” meant that inmates could bribe the Warders to let them live outside in the near environs of prison and just check in daily. This meant that Clergymen, often confined to the Fleet as debtors, could pop out and earn some money by conducting Clandestine Marriages in local taverns and coffee houses.

“The trade was taken up by clerical prisoners living within the Rules of the Fleet, who, having neither cash, character, nor liberty to lose, became the ready instruments of vice, greed, extravagance, and libertinism.”
  


  
John Bellott and Susannah (Namerre) LeMery had the following children:

6)     PETER BELLOTT was born 2 August 1753.
7)     NATHANIEL BELLOTT was born on 03 Mar 1755
8)     SUSANNE BELLOTT was born on 18 Dec 1755.
9)     LYDIA SUSANNA BELLOTT was born on 01 Apr 1759
10) JEAN BELLOTT was born on 07 Jan 1760.
11) CHARLES BELLOTT was born on 17 Oct 1762.
12) JACOB BELLOTT was born on 09 Jun 1763.
13) MARY BELLOTT was born on 29 Dec 1766.
14) MARY BELLOTT was born in 1767.
15) ANN BELLOTT was born on 14 Dec 1768.
16)  WILLIAM BELLOTT was born on 03 Sep 1770.
17)  JAMES BELLOTT was born on 13 Aug 1772.
18) ELIZABETH BELLOTT was born in 1784.

Throughout his life, John lived in New Inn Yard, Spitalfields. His occupation is given as that of a weaver. (See William Wastell)

Their move from the Threadneedle St French church to the Anglican Christchurch, and the Anglicisation of Jean to John indicate the gradual assimilation of the Huguenots into the English speaking community. John and Mary’s son John Bellette was baptised in 1731 at St Leonard’s, Shoreditch, while their daughters Marie and Elizabeth were baptised at Threadneedle St. Likewise, John and Susannah’s children, eg Sarah was baptised at the French Huguenot church in Threadneedle Street, but the others was baptised and St. Leonards.

At the time John and Mary were establishing their family, social change was underway again in Spitalfields. A decline in the Irish linen industry had caused many Irish weavers to switch to silk weaving, and there was an influx of cheap Irish labour into the area, which threatened to undermine the profitability of the local industry.

In addition to the industrial tension, religious friction was virtually inevitable between the Protestant Huguenots and Catholic Irish. A further threat came from the importation of French silk during a lull in the long history of wars between England and France, followed by a rise in popularity of Indian cotton, and the importation of printed calicos.

As the master weavers’ profits dwindled, their labourers suffered the consequences, with a deterioration in pay and working conditions. It was a struggle to keep wages above subsistence level. This went against the grain for the Huguenots, who had been taught to regard prosperity as a sign of God’s grace to those who followed their strict Calvinist principles of hard work, thrift and self discipline (the famous Protestant work ethic).

4)           JOHN BELLOTT b. 20 Aug 1749

 John Bellott was born 8-Aug 1749 in New Inn Yard, Shoreditch and baptised 20 August 1749 in St Leonards Shoreditch. He died in Sep 1838 in Shoreditch. 
  

He married Elizabeth Low  23Jul 1774 in St. Matthews, Bethnal Green.
His occupation at the baptism of his daughter Sarah is given as a (silk) weaver.
-John Bellott and Elizabeth Low had the following children:

1)     Jane bellott was born in 1777.
2)     SARAH BELLOTT.
3)   ELIZABETH BELOTT was born on 17 Mar 1784 in St Botolph. She died in 1875. She married Benjamin Dodge, son of Charles Dodge and Sarah in 1805 in St Dunstan, Stepney, London, England.

5)           ELIZABETH BELOTT

 ELIZABETH BELOTT baptised. 17 Mar 1784 in St Botolph.  
  


She died in 1875. She married Benjamin Dodge, son of Charles Dodge and Sarah in 1805 in St Dunstan, Stepney. 



  
“A man came yesterday from Bethnal Green with an account of that district. They are all weavers, forming a sort of separate community; there they are born, there they live and labour, and there they die. They neither migrate nor change their occupation; they can do nothing else. They have increased in a ratio at variance with any principles of population, having nearly tripled in twenty years, from 22,000 to 62,000. They are for the most part out of employment, and can get none. 1,100 are crammed into the poor house, five or six in a bed; 6,000 receive parochial relief. The parish is in debt; every day adds to the number of paupers and diminishes that of ratepayers. These are principally small shopkeepers, who are beggared by the rates. The district is in a complete state of insolvency and hopeless poverty, yet they multiply, and while the people look squalid and dejected, as if borne down by their wretchedness and destitution, the children thrive and are healthy. Government is ready to interpose with assistance, but what can Government do? We asked the man who came what could be done for them. He said ‘employment’, and employment is impossible. 1832.

Benjamin Dodge and Elizabeth Belott had the following children:

1)     ELIZABETH DODGE  b. 27 Jan 1806 in Shoreditch, Middlesex, England (Threa....dean street, Spittlefields). She died in 1888 in Mile End Old Town. She married James Wastell, son of William Wastell and Lydia Ayres on 3 Jul 1826 in St George the Martyr Southwark, London, England. He was born 15 Mar 1805 in New Inn Yard, (See John Bellott) Spitalfields. He died in 1852.

2)     BENJAMIN DODGE  b. 12 Mar 1812. He married ELIZABETH NOQUET. She  b. 11 Oct 1818 in Montague Street.  Following the marriage Benjamin changed his name it is assumed for business reasons to Noquet as a French name would be better for business. Office listed Noquet, Benjamin & Co Dyers and Scourers at 6 Maude Place Jubilee Street Mile End and



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