David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ De Croissy with Sir William Douglas’s petition for leave for his wife and child to go into England with him. But this he told me plainly the king had refused; for although the husband, being not naturalized, might go if he pleased, yet the wife and child were subjects of France, and should not have that permission. ”

“ The party reached Calais, and the family crossed to England. The two elder boys were Isaac and Lawrence; and they, with Stephen and Francis, were educated in England. Isaac left two married daughers. Lawrence, after a chequered life in America as a slave, and then as a proprietor, was a London physician, and had a daughter, Bridget, who married her cousin Isaac, son of Francis. Francis, “the wounded Huguenot boy,” married Esther Heusse, a refugee from Quilleboeuf, and had eight children ”

“ She died at the age of seventy five, having dispensed her bounties for nearly thirty years, and left £5000 to the British and Foreign Bible Society, besides large legacies to the Church [of England] Missionary Society, the London City Mission, the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East, the Christian College at Beyrout,” &c, &c.
13. May we allude to the fact, that there is noble Huguenot blood in our Royal Family? — Alexandre d’Esmiers, Marquis d’Olbreuse, a Huguenot nobleman of Poitou, was an exile in Holland. ”

“ Mary Roussel the intrepid refugee was never married; a husband worthy of her would have been a prodigy of worth. [The elder Rev J. P. Hewlett died in 1820, aged thirty-nine; a volume of excellent sermons by him was printed in 1821; among the subscribers are P. Levesque, Esq. (10 copies) , Mr. Barbet, Mrs. and Miss Beuzeville, Messrs J.C., H.N., and J.B. Byles and Miss Byles, James Guillemard, Esq., Mrs. Jolit, Mr. Samuel Jolit, Mrs. Saubergue.]
5. René de Saint-Leger, Sieur d’ Orignac, son of Le Sieur de Boisrond, was a Huguenot; the Revocation dispersed his family. ”

“ John and Isaac were sons of Pierre, and grandsons of Isaac of Rouen, who suffered deeply in the French persecutions, Pierre Lefevre having been kept in prison for thirty years, and thereafter put to death. Helena was married to Charles Shaw, Esq., M.P. for Reading, barrister-at-law, and he in honour of this good alliance assumed the additional surname of Lefevre or 1789; her father died in 1800; Mr. Shaw Lefevre died in 1823, and his sons have made the double surname eminent. The head of the family is the Right Hon. ”

“ The generous deeds of the Olbreuse Family illumine the pages of Jean Migault, filled with the Malheurs d’une Famille Protestante de Poitou.
↑ This group includes worthy female descendants of refugees. ↑ Mr. Skelton printed a sermon, from which I quote more than once, to incite our hospitality towards French Protestant refugees who arrived in 1751, exiles in the reign of Louis XV. The Rev. ”

“ Jane Guill was a daughter and co-heir of Monsieur George Guill, a French Protestant, proprietor of “noble estate in Tours in France.” Her family became refugees in Britain, and she was married, first, to Mr. ”