Ravenel - Steven J. Coker
Subject: Ravenel
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: September 22, 1998

The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina 
By Arthur Henry Hirsch, Ph.D.
1928, Duke University Press
reprinted 1962 by Archon Books
(pp 236-237)

   The name Ravenel in South Carolina has had a continuous existence from 1686
to the present time. Though most of the French branch of the family were
Catholics, and some of those moving to England turned Anglican, the South
Carolina branch has remained until today among the staunchest adherents of the
Huguenot faith. This may explain why René Ravenel, in emigrating to America in
1685, did not apply for naturalization in England, for naturalization then
required allegiance to the Established Church. René Ravenel, the emigrant, after
arriving in Carolina, married Charlotte de St. Julien, in 1686. She was the
daughter of Pierre de St. Julien.[126]
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126 No record of an application by René Ravenel is found. Samuel Ravenel was
naturalized in 1685, Mary in 1694, and Daniel in 1698-9. The last named was born
in Vitré, in Bretagne, and was the son of Daniel Ravenel and Émee le Febvre. See
Pub. H. S. London, XVIII. 174, 237, 263; T. H. S. S. C., VI. 42.

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