David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The refugee’s will requiring Pierre’s consent to marriages, contracted before the age of twenty-five by his nephews the testator’s sons, it is maintained that Pierre died before 1709, the year in which young Peter married with the consent of his mother only. It is certain that young Augustine never got his French estate; at his death in 1751 he left mourning rings “to his cousins Peter and Augustine Courtauld,” who are unknown to the registers in England, but were, of course, Pierre’s descendants, and probably denizens of France, conformists to Romanism. ”

“ George Courtauld, “after a life of most varied enterprise in America and in England, invested what property he finally found himself possessed of in the purchase of lands in the Western States, and died as he was about to introduce the growth and manufacture of silk into the State of Ohio. He was a man of great power of character, and of great philanthropy, and it is said of him that in all his path through life he left a track of light behind him.” ”

“ On 31st August 1749 he married a daughter of Peter Ogier, silkweaver, formerly of Poitou, by his wife, Catherine Rabaud, Louisa Perina Ogier, who, like her eight brothers and sisters, inherited £250 on her father’s death in 1740. After his father’s death Samuel Courtauld removed to the parish of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, and to the French Church of Threadncedle Street; he died in 1765. In his Will he describes himself as a jeweller. His eldest son, Augustine, died in infancy. ”