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Huguenot Marlands

posted by Neil Marland, 07.09.2008, 22:31

» » » » Hello Cathy and anyone else interested.
» » » »
» » » » I was in Dublin last week and walked past a Huguenot Cemetery. On
» » the
» » » » memorial plaque was a list of names of those buried there including
» » » » Marlande.
» » » » Does anybody know whether there is a connection? Maybe the
» original
» » » » Marlands of Rochdale were Norman and left behind French relatives.
» » » Hence
» » » » Maurice Marland the resistance hero.
» » » »
» » » » Look forward to any replies.
» » » »
» » » » Jean
» » »
» » »
» » » Hello Jean
» » »
» » » I don't know if there is a connection but seems there may be a trend
» » » appearing (see my post of 20/10/07).
» » »
» » » If you search on Roger de Poitevin (an Anglo Norman), that will give
» you
» » a
» » » big clue as to how much French influence there was in the Rochdale
» » area.
» » » The Poitevin is a marshland area in Brittany, just north of La
» Rochelle
» » » (which uncannily sounds like Rochdale)and South of the French place
» » called
» » » Marland.
» » »
» » » Roger (the 3rd son of the Earl of Montgomery)married a French lady
» from
» » » Poitiers, I think, and his / ancestors (can't remember which)were
» good
» » » mates with William The Conqueror. Roger seems to have done well out
» of
» » this
» » » by receiving vast large land tracts in Lancashire (including
» Rochdale)
» » »
» » » Like I said, I don't know but there could be a bigger picture.
» »
» »
» » Also, it looks to me that while Roger de Poitevin was the overlord of
» » Rochdale area that the river and tributaries were given French names
» i.e
» » Norden Brook, Sudden Brook and the Roch - Norden and Sudden villages
» are
» » tightly squeezed between / around Marland village and Rochdale.
»
»
» If you search on the Kings and Dukes of Brittany family tree, the name
» Alan seems very popular. My guess is that Alan came from the marshlands of
» Brittany and left his influence in Rochdale.
»
» I now await to be shot down in flames


Head up - no resistance so far. Today, I searched on the city of Vannes again and can't believe I missed the River Marle flows through it. This is a few miles north of la Grand Briere (where Marland is).This is important because Alan I was the Count of Vannes and duke of Brittany from 876 until his death in his death in 907.

Complete thread:

• Huguenot Marlands - Jean, 29.08.2008, 17:30
  • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 30.08.2008, 16:07
    • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 30.08.2008, 22:09
      • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 31.08.2008, 08:50
        • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 07.09.2008, 22:31
          • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 07.09.2008, 22:45
            • Huguenot Marlands - Neil Marland, 15.10.2008, 23:12
              • Huguenot Marlands - Brian Marland, 11.04.2009, 13:38