The Gourvenec family are of French origin, and came to the U.K. from Maritius in the 19th century, after the British Empire took over that island from Napoleon. They may have been of French Protestant ( Huguenot ) origin because today they are Baptists, and probably take it about as seriously as most of the people of the U.K. take the Church of England, which is to say, not at all. Eve shows no trace of ever having had any religious indoctrination as a child, but there were two curious incidents she related that indicate some residual religious belief in the family.
One was that while she was a teenager she had a relationship with a young man. Despite her older relatives having frequently forced her into having sex with strangers to entrap them into compromising situations for later blackmail, the older members of the family insisted on her undergoing a religious ceremony officiated by a clergyman to "bless" the relationship, even though she was too young for the relationship to be legal, even with parental consent and it was necessary to travel a long distance to find a cleric who would perform the ceremony for an underage girl. Eve thinks this is just an example of their being crazy.
The other incident was that when one of her stepbrothers shot and killed one of her uncles after a family meeting had decided he had to be eliminated, Eve, as the uncle lay dying, said to him, "You know you're going to Hell, don't you?" She told this story twice, exactly the same way both times, gleefully, with great satisfaction, as though she thought her hated uncle would have been greatly distressed in his dying moments to think of that fate awaiting him.
So, while she shows no signs of having had a religious upbringing, there could still be some traces of Calvinist religious belief current in the family.
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