Two sons of Jean Arabin, an innkeeper in the small town of Corps - Laurent (known as "Captain Arabin") and Salomon (known as "Captain Roure") - distinguished themselves fighting on the Protestant side in the 16th-century wars of religion in Provence.
Bartholomew (or Barthélemy) d'Arabin de Barcelles (d. 20/1/1712 or 1713) fled to Switzerland and then the Netherlands after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685.
Barthélemy enrolled in the Duke of Schomberg's cavalry regiment and came to England with King William III in 1688.
In 1699 his regiment was disbanded and on 15 July 1699, at St Andrew's Church, Dublin, he married Jeanne Renée de St-Julien, a daughter of Pierre St-Julien de Malacare, another Huguenot refugee and former Lord of Malacaré, near Bordeaux, and Vitré in Brittany.
[3] The surname "Arabin" was borrowed by Anthony Trollope for one of the main characters in his novel Barchester Towers, the Rev.