However, Protestant and Evangelical Christian denominations have made inroads among Cajuns, but not without controversy — many Cajuns will shun family members if they convert to any form of Protestantism because of the extreme persecution the Cajuns were subjected to by Protestants during the Great Expulsion of 1755, and throughout their history for maintaining their Catholicism.

Amnestied in 1755, he returned to France, but soon sank into poverty, and had to work as a casual labourer to earn a pittance for his wife and family.

* Carter's Grove, 1755, James City County — home of the Burwell family

* Westover, c. 1755, Charles City County — family home of the Byrds ( William Byrd II )

He was born at Altona, Duchy of Holstein ( then a part of the Denmark – Norway kingdoms ), the son of Jacob Struve ( 1755 – 1841 ), and was the second of an entire family of astronomers through five generations.

The king and his family were buried in the main chapel, but their tombs and the chapel itself were destroyed in the 1755 earthquake.

During the 17th century a fine sacristy was built in baroque style and, after 1755, the main chapel was rebuilt in neoclassical and Rococo styles ( including the tombs of King Afonso IV and his family ).

Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside future opponent George Washington in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.

For instance, the Collins, Gibson, and Ridley ( Riddle ) families owned land adjacent to one another in Orange County, North Carolina, where they and the Bunch family were listed as " free Molatas ( mulattos )", taxable on tithes in 1755.

When hostilities broke out between the British and French colonies in North America, d ' Estaing considered joining the forces of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm that sailed in 1755, but his family dissuaded him from doing so.

The Béliveaus were expelled along with the Acadians in 1755 and the family settled in the Boston area before moving to Québec to the Trois Rivières area in the mid-19th century.

At the end of April 1755, they raided Gorham, killing two men and a family.

* George ( 1755 – 1765 ); died of illness at the age of 9, in Spa, Belgium while the family was travelling.

In 1755, when Sir Francis Dashwood acquired the ruins of the ancient abbey from the Duffield family, he and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich attended a service at St. Peter's parish church in Medmenham where Sandwich released a small monkey in the church.

The Cox family sued Penn for support in 1755, but after that time no further reference to Penn's first wife appears in the Penn family records.

Born to a poor family in a farm in Pombal, Ritápolis, near to São João del Rey, Minas Gerais, Tiradentes was adopted by his godfather and moved to Vila Rica ( now Ouro Preto ) after the deaths of his parents ( mother in 1755 ; father in 1757 ).

After his studies he went in 1755 as a tutor to Stockholm, where he spent a year and a half as tutor in the family of the minister of the German congregation, and during 1756 / 1757 in Uppsala, studying Old Norse and Gothic with the philologist Johan Ihre, then again in Stockholm as secretary of a German merchant.

Dmitry Bortniansky was born on 28 October 1751 in the city of Hlukhiv ( present-day Ukraine ), then a part of the autonomous Cossack Hetmanate within the Russian Empire ( as Glukhov ), into the family of Stefan Skurat ( or Shkurat ), a Lemko-Rusyn Orthodox religious refugee from the village of Bortne in the Malopolska region ( he was entered in the Cossack register of Glukhov in 1755 ).

The Salvador family was financially ruined by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and subsequent failure of the East India Company, retaining their land in South Carolina and little other wealth.

Stanisław Staszic was born into a burgher family in the town of Piła on 6 November 1755, the youngest of four siblings.

He went into the family tea and coffee merchant business that had been started by Mary Tuke in 1725, and she passed it on to him in 1755.

Kartli-Kakheti ’ s official delegation consisted of a Kartlian and a Kakhetian, both of high rank: Ioané ( Bagrationi )- batonishvili ( 1755 – 1800 ), the 18th Mukhranbatoni ( Prince of Mukhrani, referred to in the Russian version of the treaty as " Prince Ivan Konstantinovich Bagration "), Constable of the Left-Hand Army and son-in-law of the Georgian king, and Adjutant-General Garsevan Chavchavadze, Governor of Kazakhi ( aka Prince Garsevan Revazovich Chavchavadze, member of a Kakhetian princely family of the third rank, vassals of the Abashidze princes ).

After Biton ’ s death in 1755, one of the Coulibaly family slaves, Ngolo Diarra, obtained power to control the Bambara kingdom and established the Diarra dynasty.

Irish and Scots settlers moved into this area around 1755.

Then, in 1755, he moved to London, where he established an architectural practice.

In 1726 he moved to the Saxon town of Freiberg, and in September that year married Christiana Dorothea Richter ( 1695 – 1755 ), sister of publisher David Richter and daughter of a reputable merchant in the city, who was eleven years his elder.

He then moved to Wolverhampton in 1755 and married a local, Ann Bourne, in 1757 at St. Peter's Church at the age of 22.

From 1755 through 1795, almost 3, 000 of these settlers, soon known as Cajuns, moved to the areas south and west of New Orleans.

Between 1743 and 1755 120 families of smithes and metallurgic crafters moved from Thuringia and the Rhineland to Eberswalde.

On November 22, 1755, Stearns and his party moved further south to Sandy Creek, in Guilford County, North Carolina.

When his father moved to Bersham furnace near Wrexham in 1753 John remained at Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmorland where he married Ann Maudesley on 12 June 1755.

In February 1755 he left Tomkinson's practice and moved to London, where he was called to the Bar on 10 February 1756.

In 1755, John moved to Philadelphia and became a merchant.

He moved to France in 1753 before being appointed by King Louis XV as governor of New France in 1755.

He moved with his parents to Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1755, where he attended the common schools and worked on a farm.

The French in 1755 had the only large naval vessels on Lake Ontario, and moved freely about the lake, between Fort Niagara in the west and Fort Frontenac at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.

Staveley CE Primary School was founded in 1755 and moved to its present position at Brow Lane on Reston Scar in 1840.

In 1755 the company moved to the West Indies, and merged with the company of David Douglass.

While most people moved West after the war, Pew turned eastward and arrived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1755.

They then moved to Sporle, where on 12 June 1755 Catherine gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Susanna.

The infirmary occupied the site at Piccadilly from 1755 to 1910 ( when it moved to its current site on Oxford Road ); the lowered area ( as before 2000 ) of the gardens arose from the hospital's basement.

As a result of the 1755 Earthquake and tsunami, the King and his government moved to the zone of Alcântara, attracting with them the nobility, functionaries, municipal officials and those that lived alongside them, including artists, merchants and artisans.