ABSTRACT
Within the Huguenot community in each location they also had to deal with major changes in social interaction, brought about by the fracturing of geographical and social stability they had known in France. Emigrant communities were sometimes relatively homogeneous, composed predominantly of people from a particular region of France, but as the exodus grew greater, immigrant communities tended increasingly to bring together people from different regions and social backgrounds. It is in this mixing of people that Myriam Yardeni sees the first step towards eventual integration into the host community. This chapter seeks to examine this process at work in Dublin up to 1715, by using the surviving records of the conforming and nonconforming Huguenot churches to examine the presence of geographical and social networks within the Huguenot community. There was intermarriage with Huguenots from elsewhere in Ireland and from other countries of the Refuge, but relatively little intermarriage with persons who were not of French origin.
