Famous Huguenots - The Huguenots of Spitalfields

ALLIX, Pierre

Pierre Allix (1641-1717)

Pierre Allix was a renowned theological writer, an advocate of religious toleration and the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England. He was born at Alencon and came to England in 1685.

Allix studied at the Huguenot Academy at Saumur and then became minister of the church at Charenton, near Paris. He fled to England in 1685, took Anglican orders and was licenced by James II to set up a church in Jewin Street without Aldersgate using the Anglican ritual in French language. He dedicated one of his books to King James, in gratitude for the treatment he and his fellow refugees had received.

Louis XIV was troubled by his flight, and in 1686 he dispatched a special envoy offering Allix a pension of 4,000 livres if he would convert to Catholicism and return to France, which he of course refused.

Allix was a gifted linguist, distinguished in the study of Hebrew and Syriac, fluent in English and also spoke Latin. In 1686 the diarist John Evelyn writes, " I waited on the Archbishop at Lambeth, where I dined, and met the famous preacher and writer, Monsieur Allix, doubtless a most excellent and learned person ; the Archbishop and he spoke Latin together, and that very readily."

Allix was the author of many theological books and was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, later became canon and treasurer to the Cathedral of Salisbury.

Allix made a very important discovery, that the ‘Codex Ephraemi Syri’ was a palimpsest. The Codex was a fifth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible written on parchment. The original script was removed by washing and the parchment was re-used and overwritten in the twelfth century. Allix was the first person to notice that the original writing which was just visible was Biblical, and many years later when advanced technology became available it was deciphered and translated.

Sources:

Peter ALLIX (1641-1717). Brief Life and Works:. Martyn Thompson

Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity: edited by Daniel Gurtner, Juan Hernández, Jr., Paul Foster

The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context: edited by David J.B. Trim

Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland"

John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: John Marshall

BASIRE, Isaac

BAUDOUIN, Christopher

Christopher Baudouin (1662-1724)

Christopher Baudouin was a renowned silk pattern designer. He used flowers, leaves and natural forms, beloved by the Huguenots, in his designs. James Leman, the silk designer and Master Weaver who was his protégé, wove Christopher's patterns into silk for Matthew Vernon, a Silk Mercer by Royal Appointment. Anna Maria Garthwaite, one of the most famous textile designers of the period, collected some of his designs. The V&A has a collection of some of his hand drawn patterns.

Christopher Baudouin was born in Tours in 1662, where he was baptised in the Protestant Temple. Since King Louis XI set up the silk industry there in 1466, Tours was one of the most important silk weaving areas in France. Over half the population of the town was involved in silk manufacture. Christopher's uncle and godfather, Claude Baudouin, was a Master Silk Weaver in the town. The Huguenots who left Tours and settled in Spitalfields brought their skills to an already established silk industry.

The first record of Christopher Baudouin in England is of his marriage in 1683 when he married Françoise Prevost, at St James' Church, Duke's Place, Aldgate, in the City of London, which was notorious for clandestine marriages, without licence or banns. The young couple were reprimanded for this which is noted in the records of the French Huguenot church in Threadneedle Street. Christopher and Françoise had seven children, five of whom survived infancy. On the baptism record of his son, Gabriel Salomon, in 1700, Christopher's occupation is given as “pattern drawer".

Christopher Baudouin was granted denization in 1699/1700. The act of denization granted certain rights to immigrants residing in England. In 1709, Christopher, Françoise and their two daughters, Françoise and Margueritte, became naturalized subjects. In 1714 he signed a petition from “the gentlemen and principal inhabitants of the Hamlet of Spitalfields”, where he lived in Paternoster Row. This was for creating a new parish of Spitalfields, separate from Stepney, with a new church, Christ Church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

He died in 1724, aged 62, and was buried at St Dunstan’s, Stepney on 14 September.

Sources:

The Early Silk Weavers of London and Spitalfields (1520-1720) by Richard Edmunds

Huguenot Heritage by Robin Gwynn

Spitalfields by Dan Cruickshank

V&A https://www.vam.ac.uk/

https://daysontheclaise.blogspot.com/

BECKETT, Samuel

BOUCHERETT, Jessie

BOUCICAULT, Dion

BOYER, Abel

BRIOT, Nicholas

Nicholas Briot (1579-1646) was a celebrated coin engraver and medal maker.

He was born in Damblain, Lorraine, France in about 1579. He came from a Huguenot family who were involved in coin production. His father, Didier, uncle, François and brother, Isaac were all coin engravers in France. His first wife, Pauline Nisse, died in 1608. They had one son, Philippe. In 1611 Nicholas married his second wife Esther Petau. They had two children: Jacques, born in 1612 and Esther, born in 1614.

From 1605-1625 Nicholas was the Engraver General of the coins of France and he was also the Chief engraver of the Paris Mint from 1606-1625. In 1610 he created medals to commemorate the coronation of the 9 year old French king, Louis XIII.

From 1616-1625 Nicholas tried to introduce a mechanical method of coin making to France, which he had learned in Germany. This was not popular with the coin makers, as they resisted all use of machinery and continued making coins by hand, striking them with a hammer, which produced less perfect looking coins. Eventually, unable to convince them to adopt his methods and to flee his creditors, Nicholas left France to live in England in 1625.

In England Nicholas joined the court of King Charles I. He worked at the Royal Mint at the Tower of London, where he lived. Coin making was kept separate from the other activities at the Tower, and the staff lived and worked together. The Mint was a dangerous place, with fumes from the deadly chemicals and the poisonous gases from the large furnaces used to melt down the precious metals. Before the screw-operated coin press was introduced by Nicholas Briot, making coins by hand was a very precise operation and many accidents occurred when the coin makers lost a finger. After mechanisation coin making became much safer.

In 1626 Nicholas created a gold Medal for the coronation of Charles I on 2 February. On 16 Dec 1628 Nicholas Briot was granted full denizen by Charles I. The act of denization granted certain rights to immigrants residing in England. In 1633 he was appointed Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint in London.

From 1635 he became Mint Master of the Scottish Mint in Edinburgh and stayed in Scotland. His daughter, Esther, married Sir John Falconer, who held joint office with her father as Master of the Mint in Scotland in 1637/8.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in August 1642, King Charles I and his court moved from London to the safety of York, and then after 6 months moved to Oxford. Nicholas Briot went with the king, setting up a travelling mint, taking his tools so he could carry on minting coins. “Briot was recalled to England by the King; and at the time of the Rebellion he took possession of the punches, roller instruments, and coining apparatus at the tower by order of His Majesty, and had them removed, trussed up in saddles, at the hazard of his life, for the purpose of continuing the coining operations in the cause of the King.“ (Samuel Smiles)

Nicholas remained in the service of the King as his Engraver until the time of his death in December 1646. There is a record of his burial at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 25 December 1646. At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, many years after Nicholas’s death, his widow, Esther, recovered the sum of £3,000 in arrears, which had been due to her husband.

Sources

Dictionary of National Biography volumes 1-22 for Nicholas Briot

The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches & Industries by Samuel Smiles (1881)

artlorrain.com/famille-briot

https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london

www.britishmuseum.org

CARRE, Jean

CASTAING, John

CAZENOVE, Philip

CHAMBERLEN, Family

The Chamberlen family (1569-1792) migrated to England in the mid-16th century to escape the religious persecution in Catholic France. Many of the family were surgeons, physicians, accoucheurs (midwives) and apothecaries and through marriage were closely related to the De Laune family, who were similar Huguenot refugees.

Peter Chamberlen was born in 1572 in Paris, son of William Chamberlen and Genevieve Vingnon. Once in England and at the age of 25 he married Sarah de Laune, herself the daughter of a family who counted clergymen, physicians and apothecaries among their number. They went on to have ten children - Anne Chamberlen, Peter Chamberlen and 8 others. Son Peter was born on the 8 May 1601 in the Parish of St. Anne, Blackfriars, London and was brought up surrounded by medical practice and religious study. It was not surprising that after completing his early schooling at Merchant Taylor’s School, Chamberlen proceeded to Emmanuel College Cambridge, a well-known Puritan institution, followed by medical training at two of Europe’s most renowned universities, Heidelberg and Padua, and was then incorporated at Oxford and Cambridge. Thus, at 18 years-of-age, Peter Chamberlen was prepared for the commencement of his medical career. He is credited with the invention of the obstetric forceps. These were kept as a lucrative secret, as was the custom of the time and he became known as the ‘woman’s doctor’.
He married Jane Middleton, his first wife, who was the eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Middleton a prominent citizen and royal goldsmith who had King James I as a partner in a business venture. Chamberlen’s plan was to utilise every opportunity, including the minting of coins for personal advantage but also to assist the poor. Peter and Jane Chamberlen were well placed in London society and their privileged upbringing had a profound impact on his success and that of his immediate family. His career developed rapidly and he was eventually elected as a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1628. Although Peter Chamberlen held a prominent position at Court as a physician, his work was often among the poor where he was able to observe their plight.

He was much in demand by the aristocracy because of his success with difficult midwifery cases. In 1634 he attempted to form an association of midwives in the City of London. He claimed that it was his purpose to slow the infant mortality rate by educating the midwives, but the midwives themselves considered it an attempt to control their activities for his own financial advantage, and enlisted the help of the College of Physicians to stop his training programme. He was again in conflict with the College of Physicians in 1648 over a plan to introduce public baths to foster health and stem disease throughout the Kingdom.

Aged 47 he allied himself with the Anabaptists and was baptised as an adult, appreciating their attempts to address the social problems of the time. He became involved with the radical ‘Fifth Monarchy’ movement, making his religious inclinations and political leanings apparent. His reputation as a political agitator can be clearly seen in his alliance with James Harrington, a political theorist who promoted a republican system of government during the interregnum. During this period between Kings, Peter Chamberlen was a leader of an Anabaptist church.

Soon after his uncle (known as Peter Chamberlen the Elder) died in 1631 he was appointed as Physician Extraordinary to the King (a position with no paid salary). He was the physician midwife at the birth of Charles II.
Although many people branded him as crazy because of his many tracts on religious and political themes, the authorities considered him a dedicated and skilled interventionist in childbirth.

Tomb of Dr Peter Chamberlen at St Margaret’s Church, Woodham, Mortimer, Essex

Peter Chamberlen and his wife produced three surviving sons. Hugh, the eldest, Paul the second born and John the fourth son. Of the three, Hugh Chamberlen, born c.1630 was undoubtedly the most celebrated in history. His career was colourful. It is not known where he completed his medical training although it is very likely it was in France. Hugh inherited many of his father’s entrepreneurial skills and became a renowned physician and accoucheur and, like his father, took an active interest in politics and social issues, succeeding his father as Court Physician.
Dr Peter Chamberlen was genuine in his attempts to stem infant mortality, but because of his uncompromising approach and foreign heritage he failed to gather the necessary support from among his peers. However, he assisted the development of obstetrics in England by agitating for reform and providing printed materials to be used by midwives. He died aged 81-82 in his house – the Hall at Woodham Mortimer, Essex and is buried in the nearby St Margaret’s Churchyard where there is a rather interesting inscribed tomb.

In 1843 four pairs of forceps were discovered hidden beneath a trapdoor in an attic room of the Hall. It is likely these had been secreted there by Peter's widow.Peter's tomb was restored by the Royal College of Surgeons and the forceps are now in the museum of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The tomb is ornate but gruesomely decorated and on one side are details of his life and on the other are verses which he composed especially for this purpose. It stands between the church and the gate leading to his former home. Peter's surviving son, (by his second wife) Hope Chamberlen inherited the Hall, but sold it.

References:
The minutes of the Lothbury Square Church
The records of the Royal College of Physicians.
A thesis by Desmond Potts of the University of Newcastle, Australia
The Journal of Medical Biography
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CHARDIN, John

Sir John Chardin (1643-1713)

Sir John Chardin was a French-born jeweller and traveller to the Middle East and India, who later fled to England to avoid Huguenot persecution and became court jeweller to King Charles II. He is best known for his scholarly account of his travels in Persia (present day Iran).

Jean-Baptiste Chardin was born in Paris in 1643, the son of a wealthy Protestant merchant and jeweller. After receiving an excellent education he was apprenticed into his father’s business. As European jewellery was highly prized in India, Jean’s father decided to seek business opportunities there and in 1664 sent his son, together with a merchant from Lyon, overland to the East Indies. By 1666 they reached Persia.

In Persia Jean won the confidence of the Shah, Abbas II, who appointed him as a royal merchant and also commissioned some jewellery of his own design. Jean continued on to India but within a year he came back to Persia, later returning to Paris in 1670.

Having made the jewellery commissioned by the Shah (even though he probably knew that the Shah had by then died), his passion for Persia soon called him back and he set out in 1671. His journey was harrowing and most of his goods were stolen en route but he eventually arrived in mid 1673. He remained in Persia for four years, amassing a considerable fortune, finally returning to Europe by sea in 1677.

Back in France, Jean set about writing a major account of his travels in Persia and the East Indies. He continued his business interests, which included a visit to London, until 1681 when growing anti-Huguenot persecution persuaded him to move to England permanently.

Changing his name to John Chardin, his jewellery business flourished in England, and having been well received at court, he was appointed court jeweller. He was knighted by King Charles II in late 1681, on the same day that he married Esther, the daughter of another Protestant refugee in London. In 1682 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.

After two years spent in Holland as King Charles’ agent to the East India Company, he retired back to England where he pursued his oriental studies and preparing his travel account for publication in 1686. He died at Chiswick in London at the end of 1713. A monument to him was placed in Westminster Abbey and a portrait of Sir John by an unknown artist hangs in the National Gallery, showing him pointing to Persia on a map of the Middle East.

Sources: Britannica, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Westminster Abbey, National Portrait Gallery

CLEMENCEAU, Georges

COURTAULD, Samuel

CRAWFORD, Joan

CROCKETT, Davy

CROZIER, Clementine

De la Condamine/Ozanne families,

from 1308: France/Guernsey/Leith/Glasgow/London

Mentioned in the Duc d’Anjou’s battle dispatches in 1368 – 60 years after Richard Ossane (now Ozanne) featured in litigation in Guernsey’s Catel parish – militarist Gerault de la Condamine was successful in conflict in Rocamadour, Quercy.

The electoral ward known in the 21st century as La Condamine forms the frontage of Monaco harbour – largely a fairground/swimming pool now, through which F1’s grand-prix take place: at its north, La Condamine accommodates the church celebrating Ste Devote.

Andre de la Condamine was born in 1560, in Sevres, he commanded loyalist troops in 1621 in Nimes.

Andre’s son Jean de la Condamine was born in 1582; his grandson **Gabriel was born in 1606. Gabriel’s brother Antoine had a great-grandson, Charles Marie de la Condamine (d 1774), a mathematician and physician who travelled to England/London and who, despite near-calamitous setbacks, managed - almost single-handedly - to ‘measure the Earth’ by triangulation, in Ecuador.

Guernsey-born de la Condamines were descended from **Gabriel de la Condamine, via Georges and his elder son, “Guernsey” Andre (b 1665). [The family can now only be found in France.]

Andre became a Huguenot and turned his back on affluence: he fled with his fervently Huguenot wife Jeanne (b 1668), reaching Guernsey, penniless, in 1714.

“Guernsey” Andre and Jeanne had 7 children: of these, 3 of them made their way to London.

“Guernsey” Jean-Jacques de la Condamine (1711-1764): in 1760, “Guernsey” Andre’s son Jean-Jacques de la Condamine married Jersey-born Marie Neel. They had 2 children in Guernsey: Mary (b 1761, who married Guernseyman George Bell) and Jean “John” (b 1763); the latter became Guernsey Militia’s Colonel and King Comptroller.

In 1788 Jean “John” married Guernsey-born Elisabeth (nee de Coutart); they had 9 children. In 1790 “John” owned a business, Condamine & Co; but his tobacco and wine warehouse in St Peter Port’s Smith Street - where a tobacconist’s shop was in situ in the early 1990s - was destroyed by fire.

Their son Robert Coutart de la Condamine was born in 1800 (d1870) - photo herewith, spoiled by a child’s scrawl. He left Guernsey for Leith/Edinburgh, where he met and married Bethia McFarquhar, b1810.

They had 7 children (including a son ***Robert) and lived at 39 Drummond Place.

They owned or leased wine and tobacco warehouse(s) in Duke Street, Leith – and, possibly, in Shore Place (see photo).

These buildings are within 1 mile of where, in 2020, London-born Lucy de la Condamine Ozanne and her Glaswegian husband David Bell live, with their Edinburgh-born son: Freddie Stuart Ozanne Bell.

***Robert and Alice de la Condamine’s 4 Bedford/London-born children were a) Gertrude; b) Stella (paternal grandmother to 2 Londoners: James “Jack” de la Condamine Ozanne, b1951, and his sister Mary); Stella was born in London also, in 1871; she married Guernseyman Robert Ozanne: see photo of her, with violin); c) Katherine; d) Robert “Robin” de la Condamine, b 1877, a Wildean actor who adopted the stage-name Farquharson; his central London career was celebrated in autobiographies by Gielgud and Acton.

“Robin’s” nephew was Guernseyman/Londoner John Gabriel Ozanne, d1993: see Bletchley Park Trust’s 1941/2 photo. JGO married Londoner Sheila (nee Easson, a Glaswegian family). Their 2 children were: former Spitalfields freelance and part-time City worker James “Jack” Ozanne (born in London N8) and Mary, 1957-2016.

De LAUNE, Gideon

Gideon De Laune (1565-1658)

Born in Nimes, France in 1565, Gideon was the first son of William De Laune who was born in Normandy around 1530 and Katherine des Loges. William spent eight years studying medicine in Paris and Montpellier under the leading professors of physic at the time. Not only was Montpellier’s medical school regarded as one of Europe’s best, the city was a major centre of the French Reformed Church. After completing his studies there, William became an ordained minister of the Reformed Church in 1558

in addition to his practice of physic. His wife Katherine was the daughter of another Reformed Church minister in nearby Uzes. When his father-in-law died, William took on the financial burden of two families and was forced to move back to Normandy to concentrate on his physic work. Gideon was aged seven when, after the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the family fled France landing with many others at Rye, East Sussex.

Rye was the largest port in Sussex in the late 16th century and a major destination for those fleeing religious persecution. By 1582 more than half the population, some 1500 people, were Huguenots, but thousands more had passed through the town in the preceding decades, most moving on quickly to other places such as London, Canterbury, Southampton and Norwich. The numbers were so great at times they put such a strain on the town's resources that appeals for provisions were sent to the Queen.

By 1575 William had moved the family to London, to live in the precinct of St Anne’s Blackfriars, within the Liberty of Blackfriars, an area noted for its mixed population that included aristocratic Englishmen, highly skilled foreign artisans and a large sub-community of French protestants drawn to the area both by the freedoms it offered its inhabitants and its record of freedom from anti-alien violence. Blackfriars' Liberties, inherited from the old Dominican friary, included freedom from arrest by City of London officials within the precinct, exemption from City taxes, freedom to practice crafts and trades without Guild memberships, freedom from searches except by Liberty constables and freedom from serving in City offices. Whilst rejecting the City's interference or involvement in their affairs, the Liberty remained subject to the authority of the Crown, Parliament, and the Bishops of London. From its beginning the parish was a Puritan stronghold.

William leased a messuage (a combination of dwelling house, outbuildings and adjacent land) for his growing family. Gideon chose not to follow his father into medicine, but turned to apothecary instead although there is no record of him serving an apprenticeship to an English apothecary and it is thought that he learnt his skills from his father and other friends. As they became more assimilated into their life in England, the De Laune family attended and served both the French and English church.

About 1589, Gideon married Judith Chamberlen, cousin of Peter Chamberlen who invented obstetric forceps and daughter of Henry Chamberlen, gent. Gideon and Judith went on to have many children (17) including Abraham De Laune, Peter De Laune, Isaac de Laune, Gideon junior and William De Laune although many of his children were stillborn or died in infancy.

Gideon De Laune continued to prosper, becoming apothecary to Ann of Denmark, Queen of James I and practising from a shop at Blackfriars, making his name and fortune from the manufacture of De Laune’s Pills, a nostrum recommended for scurvy, dropsy, jaundice, venereal disease, worms, etc.

Gideon’s younger brother, Paul De Laune who was a native of London was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and after further study became a member of the College of Physicians in 1615. He went on to become the physician-general to the fleet under Oliver Cromwell, sailing to Hispaniola and Jamaica. Sadly, nothing further is known of his history or fate and it is thought that he died at sea in December 1654.

Due to the success of his apothecary business Gideon was able to purchase several properties – an estate in Roxton, Bedfordshire, a manor house in Sharsted, Kent and a mansion in Blackfriars, plus extensive properties in Virginia and Bermuda.

In 1617, Gideon helped lead a breakaway group from the Grocers’ Company to raise the status of apothecaries in general practice and the King decided to incorporate the Society of Apothecaries and 114 apothecaries, including Gideon, were nominated as members. Gideon served as junior warden in 1624, senior warden in 1627 and was master in1637. He became a great benefactor to the public and was much involved in the foundation of the Apothecaries’ Hall in Blackfriars where a white marble statue of him can be seen to this day. There is also in the Hall a portrait of him in oil, supposed to have been painted by Cornelius Jansen. There has been a series of lectures since 1960 in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy named the ‘Gideon De Laune Lecture’ in honour of the part that Gideon played in forming the independent City Livery Company.

Gideon lived piously to the age of 89 years and was buried under the stone in the porch of St Anne’s Church, Blackfriars, even leaving £1000 in his will to cover the cost. He bequeathed his estate with his only two surviving children Abraham and Ann and his grandchildren and Sharsted House passed down the family until in in 1966 the Court came into the possession of Canon Wade and his son Anthony Wade whose family included Virginia Wade, Wimbledon tennis champion in 1977. As of 2007, the house remains in the hands of the Wade and Shepley families who have undertaken extensive restoration of the house and gardens.

Sharsted House Kent - Gideon De Laune — Sharsted House, Kent – once home of Gideon De Laune, Apothecary

Like many other Huguenot refugees, Gideon De Laune left an indelible mark on the lives of his adopted English country.

References:
National Dict of Biography
Acknowledgements F.N.L. Poynter's Gideon DeLaune and his Family Circle has been the main point of reference for any study of Gideon DeLaune's life since it was published after he had delivered the Gideon DeLaune Lecture at Apothecaries' Hall on 23 April 1964.
Ancestry.com
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DE MORGAN, William Frend

DOLLOND, John

Duthoit, Peter

Peter Duthoit Senior 1693-1764 and Peter Duthoit Junior 1719-1777

3 Wilkes Street (formally Wood Street)

The Du Thoits were a silk weaving family originating from near Lille, some of whom in the middle 16th century settled in Canterbury and set up as weavers whilst others made their way to Brick Lane and Wood Street (now Wilkes St) in Spitalfields.

Peter Du Thoit senior was baptised in the hospital chapel of the French Protestant Church, Threadneedle Street in 1693. His parents were Jaques Duthoit and Elizabeth Boubay who had both been born in Canterbury, but later moved to London. Peter followed in the family business of silk weaving and became a member of the City Livery Weaver’s Company from 1716. He had a business in Brick Lane but later moved to No 3 Wood Street – a more highly-rated location.

In 1715 Peter senior married Jane Messman, the daughter of another wealthy weaver who had helped bring the manufacture of the fashionable ‘lustring’ and ‘alamode’ silk fabrics to England. ‘Lustring silk’, now probably better known as ‘shot silk’ was a glossy fabric and ‘alamode’ silk was a thin, looser-weave fabric and usually black. It was used mainly for mourning shawls and scarves, and for the linings of expensive garments. Neither of these ‘black silks’ had been made in England before as the method was a well-kept secret and up to this time the fabric had been imported from France.

Peter and Jane went on to have numerous children. Their eldest son (also called Peter) was born in 1719. After an education at the Merchant Taylors School Peter junior went into partnership with his father and is noted in 1763 as a ‘weaver of black silk’ so he obviously had continued this side of the business. Peter junior married Mary Hawkins and they had three daughters. He retired back to Canterbury and died in 1777 where he is buried at St Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury. The Duthoit family remained in the weaving business until the late 19th century.

Sources

Britishistory.ac.uk/surveyLondon
Ancestry.com
Google searches
Familysearch.org

FABERGE, Gustav

FOURDRINIER, Paul

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