who was married, and died 10th December 1759, aged forty-one, leaving an only child, Mary. Smart Lethieullier, Esq., of Aldersbrooke, was born 3d November 1701; he married on 5th February 1726 (new style), Margaret, only daughter of William Sloper of Woodhays, in the county of Bucks, Esq., but she died without issue on 19th June 1753, aged forty-five. He himself died on 27th August 1760, in his fifty-ninth year; as an eminent man he will appear again in another chapter. Dying childless, he was succeeded by his niece, Mary Lethieullier, above described. She is described as “a young lady of immense fortune” by the Gentleman’s Magazine, on the occasion of her marriage to Edward Hulse, Esq., who became in 1800 Sir Edward Hulse, third baronet; she is the ancestress of the succeeding baronets, now of Breamore House, Hants.
(2.) Sir Christopher Lethieullier, the refugee’s second son, was born on 21st July 1639, and married, in the parish church of St. Pancras (Rev. Thomas Watson, parson of Walbrooke, officiating), on 20th August 1661, Jeanne, aliàs Jane, daughter of Peter Du Cane, aliàs Du Quesne, of London, merchant. The young couple, according to an old family memorandum, “lived at Peter Du Quesne’s house until March 1663 (n.s.), then at their father Lethieullier’s until the sicknesse year, June 1665, then at Sheen and so continued at the house in Austin-Fryers until the fourth year after the fire.” The bridegroom was a Turkey merchant and an alderman, and did not receive the honour of knighthood until 29th October 1689, when he was Sheriff of London and Middlesex, along with Sir John Houblon, who was knighted at the same time.[1] For a very short period was he Sir Christopher Lethieullier, for he died on 13th July 1690, having nearly completed his sixty-first year. His widow, who was born 24th August 1644, survived till 3d August 1718, dying in her seventy-fourth year at London. Sir Christopher had five children, Christopher, Benjamin, Jane, wife of Thomas Burrow (she died in 1734), Anne, wife of Sir Gerard Conyers (Lord Mayor of London in 1722), and Mary (who died 7th May 1744, aged seventy). Mr. Benjamin Lethieullier, the youngest child and second son, was baptized in Threadneedle Street on 29th February 1688 (n.s.); he lived for a time at Sheen, married, and had a son, Christopher, who was represented by a daughter unmarried. Sir Christopher’s elder son, Christopher Lethieullier, Esq., of Belmont, Middlesex, was born in 1675, married, on 16th December 1712, “by special license, at 7 p.m., at Sir Gabriel Robert’s house,” Mary Woolfe; I quote from the register of the parish of Hackney. Sir Edmund Du Cane informs me that the bride was a widow lady, Mrs. Iremonger, and eldest daughter of Sir James Woolfe. Mr. Lethieullier was a Director of the Bank of England in 1717 and subsequent years, the last being 1728. The date of his death was 21st November 1736; the Historical Register says he died at Bath, and styles him “Christopher Lethieullier, Esq., late Bank-Director.” His sons, Benjamin and Christopher, predeceased him. His daughter, Mary, was married on 24th December 1746, to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bart, F.R.S., and died on 27th August 1788, leaving an only son, Henry, who succeeded his father as Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, Bart., of Up Park.
V. De La Forterye.
In my Chapter I. I mentioned the first De la Forterye, a native of Lille, refugee in Canterbury in 1567, and his son, Nicolas,[2] merchant in London. I also noted a refugee in London, who was a native or had been an inhabitant of Thiel until 1567, when he arrived among us, namely, Nicolas Furtrye, with a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Samuel. From the Christian names of the two families I conclude that they were nearly related; but I believe that the English refugee family sprang from the Canterbury refugee John, and from his son Nicolas, and from his grandsons (sons of Nicolas) John, Samuel, and Peter, who anglicised their surname into Fortrye.
(1.) John Fortyre married, first, Anne, daughter of Jean de Francqueville and Anne Le Maire, and secondly, Marie Biscop. In 1633 we find mention of his three sons, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and three daughters, Mary, Sarah, and Jane. In that year, Abraham, merchant of Aldgate Ward, was the head of a family, his wife’s maiden name being Jane Vandeput, and had a daughter, Jane, and two sons, John (aged about three years), and Abraham (aged about eight months); but after 1633 this family disappear from view, and we have no record of the marriages or deaths
- ↑ Narcissus Luttrell writes in September 1689. “Mr. Hubland and Mr. Lethulier, who on Midsummer-day last were chosen sherifs, and afterwards, to be excused, paid their fines to the court of aldermen, have their money returned to them, and have signed bonds to hold (the Common Hall at their last meeting declaring against fines, except with their consent).”
- ↑ Nicolas was supposed to have been born in 1567, and to have married Margaret, daughter of William Thieffries, of London.
