David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The La Hordes suffered as much, many being imprisoned and stripped of their property. Jean La Borde escaped out of prison in an almost miraculous manner, and after great privations, contrived to let his parents know where he was, hiding in fields, afraid to enter his own home, where there was plenty of food, and he starving. ”

“ I find a Lieutenant, Peter Foubert, quartered at Tilbury Fort on 22nd October 1762. (The surname is in the Portarlington register.)
6. Captain Louis Geneste Pelras de Cajare fought at the Boyne in Cambon’s regiment. His surname was Geneste. On retiring from the service he lived at Lisburn till his death, except during the interval between 1724 to 1731, when he resided in the Isle of Man, where his son, Louis Geneste, afterwards settled. The son of the latter visited Beargues in France, the estate belonging to his ancestors, and found Genestes in possession of one half of it in 1792. ”

“ He had hardly found a home in Portarlington, when in 1698 he married Marie, daughter of Caesar de Choisy, a refugee from Poitou, by his deceased wife, Marie Gilbert de Chef-boutonne. Their children were Abel, Alexandre, Jean, Jacques, Angelique, and Marie. The second son, born in 1701, was Alexander Pelissier, merchant, of Dame Street, Dublin.
8. Peter Petit, Esq. was Quartermaster-General of the Light Horse of France. He married Madame du Quesne, née Susanne Monnier, who had a son to her first husband, named Abraham Du Quesne, “Captain of one of the King of France his ships.” ”

“ Louis Hirzel, Comte D’Olon, an old French refugee officer, attended the Earl of Galway as aide-de-camp and secretary at the battle of Almanza. He became Lieutenant-Governor of the island of Jersey. The noble family of Hirzel, to which he belonged, was of St. Gratien, near Amiens in Picardy. His daughter and heiress, became the second wife of Thomas Le Marchant, Esq. of Le Marchant Mann, Guernsey. She had no children; but her step-son, John Le Marchant, a retired officer of the British army (who died in Bath in 1794) , married her relative and heiress, Maria Hirzel, of St. ”

“ He re-appears in 1736, as Brigadier Charles Dubourgay, serving in Scotland under General Wade, having been promoted to that rank on 11th March 1727, according to Beatson’s Political Index.
20. Many gentlemen served as privates in our Huguenot refugee regiments. In Schomberg’s (afterwards Galway’s) cavalry regiment, some of these were honoured with employment as non-commissioned officers, and, according to French nomenclature, were called brigadiers, [1] being next in rank to quartermasters (Mareschaux-des-logis) . ”