David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The gallant refugee died in Dublin on 7th March 1733 (n.s.) , aged sixty. His will was proved on 22d May; in it he resigned to his brother Maurice all right to his French title and estate; he left £5 to the French Conformist Church in Dublin, and £5 to the Children’s Society at Nismes. He had married in Holland in 1704, Marie Magdelaine, daughter of Daniel Collot d’Escury, late Major-en-second of Galway’s Horse, and had ten children. The headship of the family was descended on an eldest son, Daniel Philip Boileau, with whom it rested till 1772, when he died without heirs. ”

“ His wife, after suffering imprisonment in convents, had, in February 1690, found her way to Geneva; at the date of her husband’s death she had been for five years with her children in Brandenburg. In 1698 she returned to Geneva, where she died on 4th January 1700. The fourth son, Maurice, remained in France, and, according to French law, was the fifth Seigneur de Castelnau. ”

“ His eldest son, Jean Boileau, second Seigneur de Castelnau, married — 1st, on 15th July 1571, Honorade, daughter of Robert Blanc, Sieur de la Rouviere; and 2dly, on 15th October 1576, Rose, daughter of Nicolas de Calviere, Sieur de Saint-Colme. In 1600 he was deputed by the inhabitants of Nismes to represent them at an assembly at Montpellier for maturing the inauguration of the observance of the Edict of Nantes. In 1605 he was first Consul of Nismes, and Syndic of the Diocese; he died on 10th May 1618. The third Seigneur was his eldest son Nicolas, born 21st December 1578 ”