three articles of the thirty-sixth canon. [He was made vicar of the parish of St. Pierre du Bois.]
Same day. Rev. Pierre Garcelon, formerly priest in the diocese of Clermont.
6th May 1722. Thomas Dacher, native of St. Martin in Normandy, abjured in the church of St. Martin, Guernsey.
1st March 1724-5. Claude Coquerel, from France.
16th April 1725. Jacques Drouet, from Normandy.
18th December 1725. Jean Le Sevestre, native of Paris.
22d February 1725-6. Le Sieur Jean La Serre, native of Billmagne in Languedoc. [On the next day he married a Guernsey lady, and is still represented in the island.]
18th November 1726. Bernardin Rossignol, native of Quimper in Lower Brittany, formerly a priest of the Church of Rome, having abjured within the church of St. Pierre Port, was received into the communion of the Church of England on the 15th inst.
29th October 1727. Jean Ferdant, from Normandy.
Chapter XX.
GRAND GROUP OF FAMILIES FOUNDED BY THE REFUGEES.
Allix. — From Dean Allix (see chap, xvi.) two families have sprung. (1.) Allix of Willoughby Hall. The Dean’s only son on record was Charles Allix, Esq. of Swaffham, whose wife was Catherine, daughter of Thomas Greene, Bishop of Ely; and their eldest son was the first Allix of Willoughby Hall (Rev. Charles Wager Allix), who was succeeded, in 1795, by Charles Allix, J.P. and D.L. This Mr. Allix died in 1866, aged eighty-three, and the present head of his family is his son, Frederick William Allix of Willoughby Hall, Lincolnshire.
(2.) Allix of Swaffham. This family has kept alive its great ancestors’ many ties to the county of Cambridge. The founder was John Peter Allix, Esq., younger son of the first Charles; and his two sons, John-Peter and Charles, were successively chiefs of this branch. The latter was Colonel Allix, whose wife was his cousin, Mary Allix, and who, dying in 1862, aged seventy-five, was succeeded by the present Charles Peter Allix of Swaffham, his only child.
Aufrère. — This family descended from the Rev. Israel Antoine Aufrère (see chap, xvi.). The honourable and reverend gentleman was, in France, entitled to the territorial title of Le Marquis de Corville; but when he became a refugee, he relinquished it altogether. His spendthrift brother, Noel Daniel Aufrère, still kept his courtesy title of Chevalier de Corville; but he squandered his share of the paternal inheritance, and did not found an English family. By his wife, Sarah Amsincq, the reverend refugee had two sons and three daughters. His eldest daughter and child, Jeanne (born in 1701), was married to Rev. Dr. Regis; Magdalene (born 1703, died 1729) was the wife of Samuel Grove, Esq., barrister-at-law, appointed to Antigua; Marianne (born 1707) was married, about 1730, to Philip Du Val, one of the Court physicians. George René Aufrère, Esq., who was born in 1715, and died at Chelsea in January 1801, was the youngest child of the Rev. Israel Antoine Aufrère. He married, in 1746, a cousin of the Earl of Exeter, Miss Arabella Bate of Foston Hall, Derbyshire. He was M.P. for Stamford, and left an only child, Sophia (who died in 1786, before the elevation of her husband, Charles Anderson Pelham, Esq., to the peerage, with the title of Baron Yarborough).[1]
The Aufrère line was continued by Rev. Anthony Aufrère, the eldest son of the refugee, born 25th June 1704. He was a scholar of Westminster, and a gentleman-commoner of Oriel College, Oxford, where he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He was ordained a clergyman of the Church of England in 1728, and was presented to the Rectory of Heigham, near Norwich, by Archbishop Wake of Canterbury. He
- ↑ Lord Yarborough (who died in 1823) is the ancestor of the Earls of Yarborough. In 1808 he sold to Government the house at Chelsea, which, with a collection of pictures, &c, he had inherited from his father-in-law, George Aufrère, Esq. The house became a part of Chelsea Hospital. [The following notice appeared in the Scots Magazine:— Died, 1st September 1804, Mrs. Aufrère, mother-in-law of Lord Yarborough. By the death of this venerable old lady his lordship will come into possession of £50,000 ready money, and one of the finest collections of paintings in this country. The late Sir Joshua Reynolds frequently said that it contained a greater variety of pieces by first masters of the Italian, Dutch, French, and Flemish schools than any other private collection in England, and estimated it at £200,000 value. It is supposed that the deceased, in conformity with her promises frequently repeated, has besides left a legacy of £10,000 to each of his lordship’s six daughters. His lordship’s two sons, it is also supposed, will enjoy £20,000 each besides the Chelsea estate.
