I’ve also heard I’m descended from one line of French Huguenots that escaped the “unpleasantness”, but haven’t been able to fully research the line.
I only knew because the name survived through many males down to my g-grandmother..
Plus we had my g-g-grandfather’s Bible with his history...
Plus the name is one of the most famous amongest the Loyalists...
and not because of Laura Ingersolll Secord...
(Laura was married to the brother of my Stephen..)
(I tossed that in because obscue people want to be related to her..LOL)
Anyhoo there were many Secords who were Loyalists...
James, John and Peter were 3 brothers and many of their sons were also...
(I know it sounds like the Mount of transfiguration...but that was their names..
Except James had been baptised Jacques as a baby...)
“The Secords of Canada”
and many Loyalists came from Huguenot families...
They are wrongly called “French Canadian”...
THe families did not start out that way...
They were born in the US...
They came originally from France helped mainly by England...
They swore alliegencew to the English Crown...
They taught their children and childrens children to be loyal to the country that saved them...
The US was English for about 100 years...
In my family the grandson and g-grandson of the originals and his sons became Loyalists...
If you have some Loyalist blood in your lines, that may be a Huguenot family...
However tens of thousands of Americans went north ...
Can you ask the person you heard it from for more info ???