the wife of Jean Longuet. In those days the French Protestants circulated largely between France, Holland, and England. Jean Longuet, a Huguenot refugee, was in Holland before he came to London, and in Holland had married Marie Loffroy. This, which is a conjecture, receives countenance from the circumstance that there was in London in 1680 another refugee, Jaques Longuet, whose wife was a Dutch lady, née Anne Wasselaer. The children of Jean Longuet and Marie Loffroy were Benjamin (1678), Samuel (1679), Jean (1681), Joseph (1683), Thomas (1685), and Ollivier (1689). The last name suggests a relationship with another refugee, Oliver Longuet, who was naturalized at Westminster on 15th April 1687.
The Longuets were known and esteemed in London as successful merchants. The merchants’ loyal manifesto presented to George II., on 7th February 1744, was signed by Benjamin and Samuel. The last of the name I have met with is John Samuel Longuet. His widow, Elizabeth, proved his will at London on 12th September 1754. She had to appear by an agent before the Commissary of Edinburgh, and was confirmed as executrix in Scotland on 12th December, the Scotch property consisting of £1000 of the Edinburgh Royal Bank Stock, and additional paid-up calls of £150 — total, £1150 sterling, or 13,800 pounds Scots. Her husband was styled, “John Samuel Longuet, sometime merchant in London, thereafter late of Honiton, in the county of Devon, Esquire,” “who deceased at Honiton, on 29th July 1754.”
Returning to Benjamin Longuet, of Louth and Bath, I note that he had four daughters — Theresa, Mrs. Higgins; Eliza, wife of Admiral Hancock; Mary Caroline, wife of William Augustus Orlebar, sixth son (born 1794) of Richard Orlebar, Esq. of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire; and Maria, who was married, in 1804, to the eldest son, Richard Orlebar, Esq. (born 1775, died 1833). Her eldest son was Richard Longuet Orlebar, Esq., born 21st June 1806, died 1st March 1870; and her grandson is the present Orlebar of Hinwick House.
Marescaux.
This is an established French surname, but is never spelt correctly in the French Registers. I observed one near approach to accuracy — viz., Marescau; also an error of redundancy, Marescaulx. The first of the name in England was naturalized as Peter Morisco, of Lisle, on 1st November 1663; it usually was spelt Marisco, or Maresco. This immigrant became a wealthy man, and is chiefly known as the father of two heiresses, Mary, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Le Keux, and Jane, wife of Edmund Jones. The latter seems to have had a son, Edmund Jones, who died unmarried, and a daughter and heiress with a fortune of £20,000, who assumed the name of Marescaux (or Marescoe, as the Historical Register spells it), and gave her hand, in July 1735, to Richard Arnold, Esq., attorney. As instances of the occurrence of the surname we quote the following announcements:—
Birth. 6th January 1868. — At Kingston, Jamaica, the wife of Oscar Mariscaux, Esq., General Inspector of the Colonial Bank, of a daughter.
Marriage. 31st December 1868. — At St. Peter’s, Eaton Square, London, by the Rev. Edward Carr Glyn, Captain Sidney Carr Glyn, Rifle Brigade, son of George Carr Glyn, Esq., to Fanny, youngest daughter of Mons. Adolphe Marescaux, of St. Omer, France.
Marindin.
Marindin is a good old Huguenot surname. Pierre Marindin was a refugee from the St. Bartholomew Massacre, and adopted Switzerland as his country. His descendants are distinctly traced in “Burke’s Landed Gentry.” His great-great-grandson, Pierre Marindin, born 1701, was elected a town councillor of Vevay in 1742. Two of the councillor’s sons settled in England, of whom Jean Ferdinand Marindin was childless, but Jean Philippe Marindin (born in 1742) founded a flourishing English family. His grandson, Samuel Peter (born 1778, died 1839) was the father of Rev. Samuel Marindin (born 1807, died 1852), a Dorsetshire rector, but a Hampshire landed proprietor, known as Marindin of Chesterton, His surviving brother was Major Henry Richard Marindin of the 1st Royals (born 1812, died 1877). The reverend gentleman had six sons, one of whom is Major Francis Arthur Marindin, of the Royal Engineers, born 1st May 1838. The head of the family of that generation died in 1872, leaving a son and heir.
