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HUGUENOT LIBRARY - Huguenot Library Archive
- F - Family records

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	SubSeries
Reference Number	HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/AF
Title	Aufrère family
Date	1650-1760
Description	Many of Aufrère's papers are related to his business affairs and those of the refugee community. The papers also cover the history of his father, Antoine Aufrère, and his affairs in Amsterdam; the French Prophets; the will of the Rev Claude Groteste de la Mothe; and the affairs of Israel Antoine Aufrère's descendants.
Extent	6 volumes
AdminHistory	Israel Antoine Aufrère (1667-1758). Married to Sarah Amsincq at the age of 24 in The Hague; ordained in 1696; naturalized in England in 1700; Minister of the French Church of the Savoy, 1701-1727; Minister of the Chapel Royal, St James, 1727. Aufrère had a prominent position in the refugee community, particularly a trustee, advisor, agent, and executor, actively involved in the financial affairs of others.
CustodialHistory	Sold by Sotheby's in June 1908 as part of the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Acquisition	Purchased by the Browning Trust on behalf of the French Hospital from Sotheby's in 1908.
Arrangement	Chronological.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related Material	The Huguenot Library holds similar material related to Israel Antoine Aufrère (Ref: HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/ST).
FindingAids	Winifred Turner, ed., 'The Aufrère papers : calendar and selections', Huguenot Society Quarto Series, vol. XL (London, 1940).

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