was twice married; 1st (soon after his becoming a Rector), to Marianne de Gastine, daughter of a French refugee officer, a major in the Dutch service at the time; 2nd, in 1740, to a widow lady, Mrs. Mary Smith, heiress of Giles Cutting, Esq.; her married life was also brief, but she left her wealth to her widowed husband, who survived her for nearly thirty years, or until 22nd May 1781, when he died at Norwich, in his seventy-seventh year. His only surviving child and heir was the son of his first wife.
Anthony Aufrère, Esq. of Hoveton, who was born February 1730, and died at Hoveton, 11th September 1814, in his eighty-fifth year, is remarkable as the father of fifteen children—seven sons and eight daughters. He entered the married state on the 19th February 1756. His widow, Anna, daughter of John Norris, Esq. of Witton and Witchingham, Fellow (1728) of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, by Anna, daughter of Thomas Carthew of Benacre, in Suffolk, Esq., died at Hoveton 11th September 1814, in her eighty-second year. I cannot follow the fortunes of their large family, having space to mention only Lieutenant Charles Gastine Aufrère, R.N., who perished, in his twenty-ninth year, on the 9th October 1799, on board H.M.’s frigate, Lutine, off the coast of Holland; Rev. Philip Duval Aufrère (born 1776, died 1848), Rector of Bawdeswell, Norfolk; Rev. George John Aufrère (died 30th January 1853, aged eighty-three), Rector of Ridlington and East Ruston, Norfolk; and the eldest son, Anthony.
Anthony Aufrère, Esq. of Foulsham, Norfolk (born 1757, died, at Pisa, 1833), married in 1791, Marianne, daughter of General James Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Count of the German Empire (she died on 14th September 1850). This Mr. Aufrère edited “The Lockhart Papers,” which were published in two quarto volumes in 1817. He had made his debut in the literary world in 1795 as the translator of “Salis’s Travels in various Provinces of Naples;” he also (in 1795) translated from the German, and published, “A Warning to Britons against French Perfidy.” He left one son and one daughter.
George Anthony Aufrère, Esq. of Foulslam Old Hall, and of Bowness, the last of the family, was born 18th June 1794, and married, on the 3rd September 1828, Caroline, second daughter of John Michael Wehrtmann, Esq., of Hamburg and of Osterrade in the Duchy of Holstein. The heirs of Mr. Aufrère’s deceased sister, Louisa Anna Matilda, wife of George Barclay, Esq., of New York, are the children of her only child, Antonia Matilda, wife of R. Rives, barrister of New York, formerly an attaché to the American Embassy in London, the eldest son being George Lockhart Rives, born ist May 1849. [Mrs. Barclay died at New York, 13th February 1868, and her husband in 1869.] Mr. Aufrère died at his residence, Burnside, on 6th May 1881, aged eighty-six, and left no heirs.
Bosanquet.—This ancient and steadfast Huguenot family has taken very deep root in English soil. Pierre Bosanquet was the father of Fulcrand (or Foulcrand) Bosanquet who flourished in 1583, and whose son and grandson bore the name of Pierre. The latter married Gallarde de Barbut. His son David left written a memorandum concerning his flight from France, of which the following is a translation:— “I, a son of the Sieur Pierre Bosanquet by Gallarde de Barbut, was born at Lunel, Monday, 31st October 1661; presented for holy baptism by M. David Barbut, my uncle, and by Marguerite de Barbut, my aunt, in the stead and place of Marguerite Bosanquet, my eldest sister, baptized on 6th November 1661, by M. Thomas, one of the pasteurs of that church. On Saturday, 29th September 1685 (n.s.), in order to escape the persecution, I departed from Lyons, where I was living, and I arrived at Geneva the 29th September (o.s.), whence I departed the 18th November following, taking Germany and Holland in my way. I arrived on Sunday, the 21st February following, at London, where I was married in the Parish Church of St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, by the parish minister, the blind Dr. Richard Lucas, on Thursday, 15th September 1698, to Elizabeth (born 25th September 1676), daughter of the late Claude Hays and of Eleanor Hays (Cognard).” In the same church the venerated couple was buried, with this epitaph:—
“M.S. Davidis Bosanquet Luneliæ in Galliâ Narbonensi prid. kal. Nov. a.d. 1661 nati, qui post Edicti Namnetici abrogationem ex patriâ ergo profugiens in Angliam se recepit, atque huic civitati adscriptus in omnes fermè orbis terrarum partes mercaturam feliciter fecit, in matrimoniam duxit Elizabetham, Claudii Hayes civis Londinensis filiam, pulchris quæ fœminam ornant, virtutibus amabilem, ex quâ sex filios et tres filias unà cum charissimâ conjuge superstites sibi relinquens decessit prid. kal. Jul. a.d. 1732,—cujus desiderium moestissima conjux haud amplius ferens heu nimium cito subsecuta est prid. kal. Oct. a.d. 1737 ætatis suæ 62. David Bosanquet, filius natu maximus utriusque memoriæ hoc monumentum tristis posuit.”
