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The Harache family is a family of goldsmiths of Huguenot extraction, many of whom came to London from France towards the end of the 17th century to avoid persecution. They were responsible for some of England’s most important silver of the time. The family was active in the production of silver plate in London for about a hundred years. ==Nicolas Harache== The revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1598) in October 1685 by Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased the hostility of Protestant nations bordering France. It appears that the first member of the Harache family to respond to the persecution of Protestants in France and to make the journey to London was Nicolas, who came with his wife Marie Mascrier and their daughter Marie somewhen between August 1667 and November 1668. Their son Thomas was born in London in 1668 and his name appears in the baptismal list for Threadneedle Street church dated 29 November.〔Huguenot Society Quarto Series 13 p189〕 No record has so far been discovered, either in Rouen or in London, that Nicolas was a master goldsmith. There is no record of his work or where he and his family lived, although the church at which his son was baptised indicates that he had taken up residence in the general area later occupied by the members of the family who followed him to England. There appear to be no burial records at this early date but it must be assumed that Nicolas died in late 1776 or early 1777, because in the latter year Marie returned to Rouen, where she remarried on 28 October 1677.〔Societe du Protestantisme Francais〕 Her new husband was Jean Lefebvre who appears not to be directly related to the Lefebvre family, some of whose members later were apprenticed to Peter Harache. Eleven years later, in 1688, Marie made the return trip to London, bringing her husband and family with her; the records of Threadneedle Street church show that on 20 May 1688 ‘Marie Masserier wife of Jean Lefévre of Rouen, Jean Lefévre of Rouen, Thomas Harache of Rouen and Marie Harache of Rouen’ all ‘presented themselves to make reconnaissance’ at ‘The French church of London’. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harache family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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