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The BulteelsThe Story of a Huguenot FamilyWhile based on years of sound genealogical research, this is a lively family history which puts flesh on the skeleton of the family tree. Enlivened by family letters and legends, it is unusually well illustrated, with pictures of Bulteels and their homes, from Jean-Baptiste Bulteel, Seigneur of Reningelst in the 17th century, and his château, to a family of Bulteel brothers and sisters in England in 1990.
Why I wrote The BulteelsI wrote The Bulteels because my mother was a Bulteel and I had grown up with stories of the family told me by my grandfather Hillersdon Bulteel as well as my grandmother. Many of these later proved apocryphal, some tantalisingly incomplete. When I met a distant cousin who was researching the family history I got drawn in and my book owes much to his initial research. From the Dust CoverThe Bulteels were among the earliest of the immigrants known as Huguenots. French-speaking Protestants, they arrived in London in the 16th century from a Flanders newly conquered by Catholic Spain. This first full account of the family traces them from the earliest reference to the name, in 1205, to the end of the 20th century. |
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This definitive work will be warmly welcomed worldwide by Bulteels and their connections and, indeed, by the entire Huguenot community. |
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Josse Bulteel (1589-1672). Voogd of Ypres (leper). After an engraving by L. Vorsterman Jnr of the inauguration of Charles II |
From their early battles with Elizabethan discrimination against ‘straungers’, through their complete absorption into English society, helped by hard work and good marriages, this entertaining narrative introduces the family black sheep, the emigrants who moved on from Britain, two ladies-in-waiting to two English queens, a famous Grand National winner and their service in wars from 15th-century Flanders through the Civil War, when they backed the King, to the Second World War.
While based on years of sound genealogical research, this is a lively family history which puts firm flesh on the skeleton of the Bulteel pedigree. Enlivened by family letters and legends, it is well illustrated, with pictures of Bulteels and their homes, from Jean-Baptiste Bulteel, Seigneur of Reningelst in the 17th century and his château, to a family of Bulteel brothers and sisters in 1990.