Descendants

This book is one of a series of Genealogy Reference Books each dedicated to a single progenitor arriving in America in the 1600s. The format for the Reference Books is a Descendant Register Report with an alphabetical Index of Names followed by a standard indented Descendant Report.



The progenitor of the Fuqua Family in America was Guillaume Fouquet born on 20 August 1662 in Came, Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. Guillaume and his wife Jane Eyre, had 7 children all born in America between 1688 and 1696. Guillaume was from a family of French Huguenots who practiced Puritan-Protestant dissent as followers of the teachings of John Calvin. These teachings were in direct theological conflict with both the Catholic Church and the King of France, the prevailing theology of the time.



The Fuqua Paternal Line migration is mapped from the beginnings in the Rift Valley of Africa 140,000 years ago. The DNA based map depicts the migration path of the Fuqua ancestors indicating arrival about 3,000 ago into Southwestern Europe from the Middle East by way of the Mediterranean Coastline. The Fuqua ancestral paternal line has been DNA tested and belongs to Y-DNA haplogroup J-Z1043 or in shorthand notation, M241.