This site has been set up in order that all the descendants of the Gaucheron Huguenot  refugees who arrived in London can explore their heritage and share their research.

It is a working document and in no ways a definitive tree. My hope is that it will  provide a place for interested parties to share their ideas and research.

If you have anything to add , however small, please contact me. All your photos,  stories and anecdotes will help to put flesh on the dry bones!!

My tree owes much to my first cousin Wendy Bennett who has been active in researching  the Gaucheron for many years. I need to credit also Pieter Bismeijer who has  recently made contact with Alain Barrier, a french descendant, who has generously  shared his research of the family in France.
 Alain has now sent me, direct, copies of baptism, marriage and death records, as well  as providing translations. I am deeply grateful to him.

Many others have also generously shared their trees with me and the info that they  shared has been incorporated. 
 I am afraid that I was not thorough in recording my sources early on, and if you find  info here which was supplied by you and not credited to you, I apologise!... Please  let me know and I will rectify the situation forthwith!

I cannot guarantee it is error free. If you spot any errors please let me know so I  can make corrections.

Earliest record of Gaucheron's in the UK include...

Glynda Easterbrook writes:-'The first Louis Gaucheron appears to have arrived in London at the  end of 1681 (témoignage 27 December 1681). Aged 30, he is recorded as having come from  Châteaudun, Beauce, Eure-et-Loir. He appears to  have  been  the  first  member  of  the   Gaucheron  family  to  arrive  in England,  to  be  followed  by  other  family  members  a   few  years  later. Between 1681 and 1682 he  received a  total of  £5.12s.6d charity (19 grants   in  all)  from  the  French  Huguenot  Church  in  Threadneedle Street. The  date  of  Louis'   arrival  is  interesting.  In  the  introduction  to Publications  of  the  Huguenot  Society   of  London  (now  known  as  the ‘Quarto Series’) Volume 21, it is noted that the records of  the témoign-ages of the Threadneedle Street church list 578 entries in 1685 (the year of   revocation),  but  in 1681, the  heaviest  year,  there  were  912  entries representing  1,111   individuals.9  It  is  also  noted  that  this  can perhaps be explained by understanding what  was happening in France in 1681. The  dragonnades  (the  billeting  of  troops  in  Protestant   homes)  began  in March, followed in June by a decree by which children of Protestants were  allowed to be converted at the age of seven, and if they became so  converted  and  left  their   homes,  and  conversion  implied  this,  their parents were bound nevertheless to support  them.'

Mar 10 1684 Isaac Pinot, upon report from Louis Gaucheron, foreign weaver, that he  served at (blank) in France, is admitted a foreign journeyman - 1/s 10d (Extract from  the court Books of the Weavers company 1610-1730)....

Having reveiwed all the information from France and re examined the Huguenot records here, I  now believe that most Gaucheron descendants here originate from the nephews of the above Louis.  The situation in France having worsened they came to join Louis born 1651, who was already  settled here with his wife. 
 The two small boys Louis b c1681 and Pierre b 1684 in Bazoches en Dunois, Eure et Loir, France, who arrived in London c1685 with their father Pierre (born 18 Sep 1655   Chateaudun,
 Beauce, Eure-et-Loir, France) and mother Aimee nee Fricheteau, and Grandfather Charles  Gaucheron (b
 Apr 1629 in Auvilliers, France) with his second wife Marguerite Mesmin. Both Charles and Pierre  were
 tailors and the Huguenot records state they received help in London in 1686.

The early Gaucherons lived in the hamlet Auvilliers near Ozoir le Breuil which is a little  south of
 Bazoches en Dunois and south-east of Chateaudun. (in the department of Eure et Loir, Normandy) (see
 map below).

As so many Gaucheron descendents also descend from John Kemp, and I am frequently asked about  his
 origins I have now added his pedigree. New details have recently been added.

I realise the need to respect the privacy of living Gaucheron descendants, and so  have privatised this info. It is held secure on the database and will not be shared  without your consent.

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