Leonard HELM, JR.

Notes:

                   Elizabeth Calmes goes back 640 years to the Province of Languedoc, France.  The family was seated near the historic town of Carcassone for centuries, and was raised to the nobility about 1552.  The Calmes were French Huguenots, and records show many of them imprisoned, condemned to death, and even chained to the galleys because they would not abandon their faith.  In the late 1500's and early 1600's many of htem fled to Switzerland and England, and many more after 1785.  Marquis Calmes fled to London in 1687, and thereafter the title was kept as a given name in every generation.  His son, named Marquis Calmes, immigrated to Virginia in 1699 or 1700, settling in Stafford County.  There, in 1705, his son, also named Marquis Calmles, was born.  He married Winifred Harden (his mother had been a Widow Waller), and moved to Shenandoah Valley, in Frederick County, Va., where their daughter, Elizabeth Calmes, was born and married Leonard Helm Jr. it says Clark County for birth place in Ancestrial file