Contributor 0438 Jill Vincent jlv@alphalink.com.au
I am descended from James SMALLHORN who emigrated to Australia in the 1860s from the largely Huguenot town of Portarlington in Ireland. All SMALLHORN families in Australia, USA, Canada, although only very distantly related, have the same family story of three Huguenot brothers who went to Portarlington and that the name was anglicized from the French CHALHAUN (or something similar). The IGI records show SMALLHORNS in the Portarlington area in the late 17th century.