Above Image: from the chapter Family History and Childhood: "A Dentist at Large" by Roy Hanan.
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Roy Hanan believes there was a family of Hanan among the Huguenots
The name Huguenots was given to Calvinist French Protestants by their French Catholic opponents in the sixteenth century, it was considered a derogatory term. French Protestantism is believed to have emerged from "biblical humanism, reforming Gallicanism, inflected Lutheranism, and religious heterodoxy". This new protestant religion brought persecution from French Catholics and France became an unsafe place for Protestants to live and worship. Many French Protestants sought safety in other European cities such as Strasbourg, Basel, Geneva, and also in Britain and Ireland.
It was a brutal time to be a Protestant. Catholics and Protestants began a long and nasty civil war, fuelled by aristocratic hatred. Althouth the Huguenots were not driven from France; the need to worship and freely celebrate their faith meant many of the Huguenots left France for good. They were considered religious refugees. 170 000 left in just a few months following the Edict of Nantes in Ocotober 1685.
It was a brutal time to be a Protestant. Catholics and Protestants began a long and nasty civil war, fuelled by aristocratic hatred. Althouth the Huguenots were not driven from France; the need to worship and freely celebrate their faith meant many of the Huguenots left France for good. They were considered religious refugees. 170 000 left in just a few months following the Edict of Nantes in Ocotober 1685.
The Name Hanan is found in the history of financial documents of the Huguenots in Germany "The foundation was assisted by a gift of a hundred florins from Hanan; Leclercq, Hanau, as well as by contributions from other quarters".
The map below shows the route the family Hanan could have taken to England and Ireland upon leaving France.