Stringham origins from French Huguenots

I always had assumed that the Stringhams were of English descent because we trace the Stringham line to a birth in England.  But the name comes from France, and the Tringhams were Huguenots.  More information can be found in this short history:

http://www.surnames.com/documented_websites/Yvonne/stringham_history.htm


I nearly identical history can be found on this website:

http://www.myplanet.net/cstringham/stringhamindex.html

Because the cursive is harder to read, I typed up the "Stringham Family Overview (1572-present)", which reads as follows:

Stringham Genealogy (1989 Brief form)

The De Tringham families we are told were among the thousands of Protestant families who fled France in 1572 following the Saint Bartholomew Massacre of French Huguenots on August 24^th, 1572.  These Stringham Families landed in the west coast of England and settled in the counties of Worchestershire and Herefordshire.  The names of some of their descendants we found recorded as Tringham in All Saints Church in Hereford during the years 1655 and 1675.  The first Tringham names to appear on the Bishop’s records are those of a Thomas and Pieter Tringham and Pieter’s wife Joan …..?  The occupation of these two men is listed as butchers.  It’s believed though never recorded, that Pieter and Joan were married in the late 1640’s and were the progenitors of most of the Stringhams in America.  Peter Stringham its believed was born somewhere between the year 1647 and 1652.  A daughter Elizabeth Tringham is recorded as Baptized on Sept. 5^th of 1662.  In 1663 the Council of Hereford received a petition for aid for this poor butcher and his family of 4 children.  In 1664 another child, William Tringham was born.  Pieter the butcher and father of this family died around 1667 although no record of death could be located by Mrs Elwood Stringham who have gathered a considerable amount of information to add to our own.  On Feb. 20^th, 1674 Pieter’s wife Joan died also.  Young William, now 10 years of age got a job with a button maker Thomas Parry.

Our Peter Stringham, finding himself without parents, joined a Quaker Friends group.  By May of 1677 he was with a group of 230 Quaker folk on the sailing ship Kent heading for a new life in America.  On May 17^th, 1685 his sister Elizabeth married a Hereford man by the name of Thomas Rowland.  On June 16^th, 1677 this sail ship Kent headed up the Delaware past what is now the City of Philadelphia and landed at a small dock at the mouth of Rancocas Creek on the north side of now named Delano NJ, a place my wife Vista and I had the privilege to visit a few years ago.  As Peter walked down the ship’s gang plank and into American soil the recorder asked for his name.  He replied, “It’s Tringham”.  The recorder misunderstood and wrote “Stringham”, which has remained so written for over 300 years.  Peter walked 5 miles north to the village of Beverly.  There he secured a job in the Halstead shop where they made rope and operated by Joseph Halstead an his brother Timothy.  A year later Joseph died leaving 5 children, Isabel, Abigail, Hannah, James, Samuel, and a widow, Susana (Harcutt) Halstead.  About 1679 our Peter married this widow Susana, but she died in 1682.

We were told the Halstead rope Co. had grown and remained in the Halstead family up until recent years and is now the Wall Rope Co.  Our Peter moved out to Long Island, first to the Village of Jamaica and later to the Hempstead area which was settled by the British in 1655.  Here he met and later married the daughter of a prominent Welsh Family.  Her name was Anne Owen.  They raised a family of 12 children.  Peter Stringham died at Hempstead on Aug. 6^th 1726.  We have a copy of his will.