Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section VII

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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VII. Sigournay.

The surname of Sigournay has received celebrity through the poetry and other writings of Mrs. Lydia Sigournay (née Huntly), an American lady, who was born 1st September 1791, and died 10th June 1865. She mentions in her “Scenes in my Native Land” a place named Huguenot Fort, in the United States, to which Andrew Sigournay, a Huguenot refugee in England, came in 1713. It is singular that in the Naturalizations (see List iv.) this surname is deliberately placed under the letter C, and spelt Cigournai, among other Christian names there being two Andrews (father and son). The initial letter S is always employed in the French Church registers.