Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-04-15
From the Richmond Standard
The Huguenots- Europe and America.

AS with the colonies already men ton
ed there was also In Virginia early in
stances of Huguenot settlement. Nota-
BILE among them was that of Edward
Jacqueline at Jamestown. He married
into the well known Cary family, and
had issue three sons and three daughters.
The former died before their father, and
of the latter the eldest married Smith,
the progenitor of the family of that name
near Winchester, to which belonged
John Smith, member of Congress. The
second daughter married Richard Am
bier, an emigrant from Yorkshire, Eng
land, the progenitor of the Amblers, Of
Virginia. Chief Justice Marshall mar
ried descendant. Mary Wills, the
daughter of General Jaclueline Amber,
Treasurer of Virginia. The eminent
lawyer, Daniel Call, married another
daughter. Through intermarriage the
family is connected with the Norton.
Baylor, Nicholas, Carter, and other
tinguished Moncure family is of Hugue-
not descent from Rev. john Moncure,
of Stafford county, one of whose daugh-
ters, Jean, was the wife of general James
Wood, afterwards Governor of Virginia.
The ancestor of the Micou family was
Paul Micou, who emigrated from Nantes
to point on the Rappahannock river,
to which he gave his name as landing.
place. He died May %, 1876, aged IS
years. One of his daughters married
the Rev. Mr.. Gisborne; another the
Rev. James Waddell, the celebrated
"blind preacher" another, Judith, mar.
ried Lunsford Lomax, whose son, Ma
jor Thomas Lomax, was the father Of
the late Judge John Tayloe L0max an
other daughter married Moore Faun-
tleroy. The descendants of Paul Micou
are numerous and of the highest respect
ability.
The Rev. Mr.. Latane, rector of South
Farnham parish, Essex county, and who
died in 1882, was the founder Of another
well-known family. Among his de.
scendants, also, are the Warnings and
Baylors, of Essex county.
The two brothers, Jean Antoine and
Antoine Charles Cazenove, were the
progenitors of the numerous family of
that name now scattered from Massachu.
setts to Florida.
Another most excellent family, the
Mau5y, is descended from John Mauzy,
who fed from France in 1856 and settled
in Fauquier county, Va. His descend
ants are now widely interspersed
through the South and West. A great
grandson, Richard Mauzy, is we'll
known as the able editor of the Staun-
ton Spectator.
The Venable family has been most
honorably represented in numberless
positions of trust, including the councils
of this and our sister States, kentucky
and North Carolina, and those of the
nation. The progsnitor was Abraham
Venables, who settled on James river in
that portion of the then Hanover coun-
ty which now forms Nluvanna county.
His son, Abraham, dropped the use of
tha final ''s'' in his name, adopting the
present spelling, Venable. He reared
eight children, Abraham, Nathaniel,
James, Charles, William, and Lewis,
and three daughters, who married sew
orally, Moorman, King, and Norton
Nathaniel married Elizabeth Woodson,
whose mother was Micheaux. Joseph
Venable, brother of the Virginia emil
grant, settled at Snow Hill, Maryland.
The Niche family also deserve mem
ton.
The Micheauxs of Virginia are all de-
scended from Abraham Micheaux and
Susannah Rochette, who In 1855 first
sought refuge in Holland, where they
remained some years. He made gauze
and she lace, for which there was ready
sale. The profit not only yielded sub.
sistence for their family but enabled
them to lay by for future need. They
emigrated to Virginia near the close of
the seventeenth century, landing first
in Stafford county on the banks of the
Potomac. From thence the family soon
removed to the Manakin-town, on
James river. They reared twelve chill
dren-five sons: Jacob, John, James,
Paul. and Abraham, who was killed by
the Indian when a young man-and
seven daughters, of whom Jane married
q Legrand, Eusannah a Quinn, Judith q