David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ In 1605 she came to England as Madame de Weez, with her son, Jan Le Thieullier (born 1591) , who now becomes [2] John Lethieullier. Madame died on 24th July 1631, in London. Mr. Lethieullier lived for some time at Great Ilford, in Essex, and married a very young lady of a refugee family, Jane, daughter of John De la Forterie and of Anne de Francqueville, by whom he had ten children. These were not all born in England, the civil wars having driven Mr. and Mrs. Lethieullier to Amsterdam. The family, however, returned and settled at Lewisham, he carrying on his business as a London merchant. ”

“ Sir John Lethieullier, the refugee’s eldest son, was born in 1633; he married in London, 18th May 1658, Ann, daughter of Sir William Hooker, knight and alderman. Pepys is not complimentary to Hooker, who (says the diarist) “keeps the poorest, mean, dirty table in a dirty house that ever I did see any Sheriff of London, and a plain, ordinary, silly man I think he is, but rich.” ”

“ He himself died on 27th August 1760, in his fifty-ninth year; as an eminent man he will appear again in another chapter. Dying childless, he was succeeded by his niece, Mary Lethieullier, above described. ”