David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ In the reign of Louis XIV. the head of the family was Henri de La Trobe, Comte Boneval, whose wife’s maiden name was Adelaide Montmorencie. Their son, Jean Henri Boneval de La Trobe, became a refugee in Holland in 1685, and came to England with the Prince of Orange. This noble refugee is the ancestor of families in England, Holland, and America. His son, James La Trobe, married Miss Thornton, and had a son, Benjamin, born in Dublin in 1728. ”
