Some account of the sufferings of Monsieur de Pechels may be found in Benoist’s “Histoire de l’Edit de Nantes,” Livre xxiii., p. 854, and Michelet’s “Histoire de France,” Tome xiii., p. 313 (this volume may be had separately, entitled “Louis XIV. et Revocation de l’Edit de Nantes, par J. Michelet”). M. Raoul de Cazenove wrote “Memoires de Samuel De Pechels: Montauban, 1685, Dublin, 1692.” Published at Toulouse in 1878.
Chapter XXVII.
GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS.
Addée.
Some notes on this family are in the new edition of La France Protestante, which has as yet proceeded over only the threshold of the alphabet. The first date is October 1627 — the time of the death of Emmanuel Addée, Sieur du Petit-Val; his widow, née Marie Berger (daughter of the Councillor Pierre Berger), died aged seventy, and was buried at Charenton on 30th August 1648. They had two sons, Louis and Samuel; the former was styled Le Sieur de Grand-Champ, and was the father of Anne Addée, baptized 2nd May 1649, who was married in 1769 to Lieut.-Colonel Isaac de Monceau de Melonière (as already stated); she had a sister, Susanna, baptized 3rd July 1660, who died a refugee in England in 1688.
There was also a Frederic Addée, of Metz, gentleman, born 1679, who came to London, received £22 from the Royal Bounty in 1721, and settled in Ireland. I find in the register of Hungerford French Church, London, the marriage, on 31st December 1695, of Daniel Addée, Esq., Captain in Miremont’s Dragoons; he became a Colonel in our army. Perhaps he is the same man as Daniel, born in Lorraine, son of Hillaire Addée, and naturalized by Act of Parliament in 1713.
I may here inform genealogists that in the Gleanings from Registers in my Historical Introduction, there is a great deal of material capable of being worked up, as to 1685 and nearly half a century thereafter. I noted, as far as visible, every military officer (one naval officer), every minister, and every medical man. As to other registers (i.e. not French), I noted some interesting entries which I cannot guarantee to belong to French refugee biography, although perhaps throwing some light upon it.
Allais.
There was proved at London, in 1717, the Will of Nicolas Allais, of the city of Rohan [Rouen] in Normandy, who, in order to leave all his property to his wife, names each of his sons and other relatives, assigning to each the legacy of one shilling, and to all others, who pretend to have a claim on his remembrance, one shilling each. His wife’s name was Mary Saint-Fresne; his sons, Nicholas, Peter, and Michael; and his relatives bore the surnames of Allais, Moustier, and Plastrier.
Aubertin.
The Aubertin family descend from refugees from Metz, who went to Neufchatel.
| Paul Aubertin (born 1650) | = | Judith Figuier (living in 1718). | ||
| a son, | ||||
Peter Aubertin, of London, merchant, |
= | Ann (born 1730, died 1825). | ||
| Rev. Peter Aubertin, vicar of Chipstead (born 1780, died 1861). — Camden Society Volume. | ||||
Balicourt, Long, and Watkins.
The Rev. Henry George Watkins, M.A., Vicar of Potter’s Bar, has in his possession a brass seal with arms, and around it is inscribed Sebast. Balicourt, 1684. He
