Source: Printed
Title: Canterbury Marriage
Licences. Second Series 1619-1660. Edited by Joseph Meadows Cowper,
1894, Canterbury, 1640
Date: 13 January
1630
Place: Canterbury
De Le Pluke, Francis, of S. Alphage, Cant., silkweaver, ba., about 20, whose mother consents, as is testified by Peter du Boys, s. p., silkweaver, and Ellen Barnes of the city of London, spr., about 28, at her own govt. At S. Alphage, Cant. Jan. 13, 1640.
Francis de le Pluke was probably a Huguenot
(religious refugees from France). He was a silk weaver.
Huguenot silk weavers
came over in large numbers, and many lived in Canterbury where there was a sizeable
Huguenot settlement.