Post by Cornish Terrier on May 16, 2010 11:21:03 GMT -5
Re: New Board
« Reply #14 on May 15, 2010, 23:25 »
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Hello,Mary:
ROUFFIGNAC.
An interesting but probably useless piece of info.: William R.1729-1791, wife Elizabeth. Pic available. His daughter Elizabeth 1775,Paul.Cornwall, married a Batten. 3 children.
My source is a researcher in the States by the name of Richards.There are a number of ROUFFIGNACs in his Tree. I could put you in touch with him....
David
« Reply #14 on May 15, 2010, 23:25 »
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Hello,Mary:
ROUFFIGNAC.
An interesting but probably useless piece of info.: William R.1729-1791, wife Elizabeth. Pic available. His daughter Elizabeth 1775,Paul.Cornwall, married a Batten. 3 children.
My source is a researcher in the States by the name of Richards.There are a number of ROUFFIGNACs in his Tree. I could put you in touch with him....
David
Re: New Board
« Reply #15 Yesterday at 5:19 »
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Hello David,
Many thanks for replying. Your information is far from useless. William de Rouffignac (1729-1791) and his wife Elizabeth (nee Miscally) were my 5xgreat-grandparents. Luckily, I do have a photo of a portrait of William done in his days as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy. Through my mother I am descended through two of his children - Francis (1763-1832) who married Margaret James and also through his daughter Elizabeth (1776-1857), who you mention, and who married Philip Batten. Francis had a daughter Elizabeth James Rouffignac whose daughter Catherine Johns married her second cousin John Batten, grandson of Philip Batten and his wife Elizabeth Batten nee Rouffignac. Through my maternal grandmother (who used to speak of her grandparents being second cousins and both descended from the Rouffignac family), I have always known of my line of descent. But it was only when several years ago I got in touch with a researcher myself that I found out all the family history going back to 17th century France.
William's paternal grandfather Jacob de Rouffignac (born at La Rochefoucauld near Angouleme, France in 1640) was a Huguenot Pasteur at Puycasquier near Mauvezin, France (now in the Departement of Gers in the Midi-Pyrenees) who had to flee to London with his family following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and the persecution of the Huguenots. William's father Dr. Guy de Rouffignac was a JP and physician in Croydon, Surrey before becoming a Lecturer or Reader in Anatomy at Surgeons' Hall, London. There is much written on this family in books and documents held by the Huguenot Society, and I have been able to get copies of extracts from books, as well as copies of documents and wills. I also have a copy of Jacob de Rouffignac's coat of arms.
William de Roufignac's mother was Alice Kerrill, daughter of Thomas Kerrill of Hadlow, Kent. Alice's sister, Elizabeth Kerrill, married Jeffery Amherst of Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent, a Bencher at Grays Inn, who was one of William's godfathers. Elizabeth and Jeffery's son was Field Marshal Sir Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Holmesdale, who was Commander in Chief of the British Forces, Crown Governor of Virginia and Governor General of British North America. The family names Kerrill and Amherst feature regularly amongst the Newlyn descendants of William de Rouffignac.
I have more details on my genealogy pages:
familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/o/Mary-E-Chown/index.html
Once again, many thanks for your input,
Regards,
Mary
« Reply #15 Yesterday at 5:19 »
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Hello David,
Many thanks for replying. Your information is far from useless. William de Rouffignac (1729-1791) and his wife Elizabeth (nee Miscally) were my 5xgreat-grandparents. Luckily, I do have a photo of a portrait of William done in his days as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy. Through my mother I am descended through two of his children - Francis (1763-1832) who married Margaret James and also through his daughter Elizabeth (1776-1857), who you mention, and who married Philip Batten. Francis had a daughter Elizabeth James Rouffignac whose daughter Catherine Johns married her second cousin John Batten, grandson of Philip Batten and his wife Elizabeth Batten nee Rouffignac. Through my maternal grandmother (who used to speak of her grandparents being second cousins and both descended from the Rouffignac family), I have always known of my line of descent. But it was only when several years ago I got in touch with a researcher myself that I found out all the family history going back to 17th century France.
William's paternal grandfather Jacob de Rouffignac (born at La Rochefoucauld near Angouleme, France in 1640) was a Huguenot Pasteur at Puycasquier near Mauvezin, France (now in the Departement of Gers in the Midi-Pyrenees) who had to flee to London with his family following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and the persecution of the Huguenots. William's father Dr. Guy de Rouffignac was a JP and physician in Croydon, Surrey before becoming a Lecturer or Reader in Anatomy at Surgeons' Hall, London. There is much written on this family in books and documents held by the Huguenot Society, and I have been able to get copies of extracts from books, as well as copies of documents and wills. I also have a copy of Jacob de Rouffignac's coat of arms.
William de Roufignac's mother was Alice Kerrill, daughter of Thomas Kerrill of Hadlow, Kent. Alice's sister, Elizabeth Kerrill, married Jeffery Amherst of Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent, a Bencher at Grays Inn, who was one of William's godfathers. Elizabeth and Jeffery's son was Field Marshal Sir Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Holmesdale, who was Commander in Chief of the British Forces, Crown Governor of Virginia and Governor General of British North America. The family names Kerrill and Amherst feature regularly amongst the Newlyn descendants of William de Rouffignac.
I have more details on my genealogy pages:
familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/o/Mary-E-Chown/index.html
Once again, many thanks for your input,
Regards,
Mary
