married Marthe Marie Goutelles. Leaving Norwich he became pasteur of the French Church in Canterbury, besides holding the living of the united parishes of St. Sampson and the Vale in Guernsey; he died in 1789. His son was Rev. Daniel Francis Durand, rector of St. Peter Port and Dean of Guernsey, born 1745, died 1832. (See the Guernsey Magazine for 1873.)
Espinasse.
John Espinasse was naturalised at Westminster on 21st March 1688 (n.s.), see List xv.
Another refugee, Paul de l’Espinasse, who settled in Dublin in 1689, had a son John Espinasse, Sheriff of the city of Dublin in 1745, unmarried.
Jean l’Espinasse de Fonvive was elected a Director of the French Hospital of London in 1721.
The following is the skeleton of a refugee pedigree:—
| Guillaume de l’Espinasse, a gentleman of Languedoc, refugee in Dublin. | = | m. 1st, Mary Gunning (no issue), m. 2d, Isabella, daughter of Isaac Ward, Barrister-at-law. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaac Espinasse of Kill. | |||||||||||||||||
| Richard, of Kill Abbey. | Isaac, of Hextable House, Kent, Bencher of Gray’s Inn. | Henry William, Lieut.-Colonel. | William, of Dublin, m. 1799. | = | Susanna Magdaline, daughter of Lt.-Col. Henry Mangin. | Robert, of Gray’s Inn. | = | Emily, daughter of Hon. George William Potre. | |||||||||
| James Espinasse, Barrister-at-law. | |||||||||||||||||
Henry de la Lande l’Espinasse, a refugee officer in Dublin, made his Will on 6th April 1726, mentioning a brother, Espinasse, at Cork (who had a son), two sisters, (1) Pauline d’Espinasse, called Du Cambon, and (2) Isabel d’Espinasse, called De Campdemere; also a nephew, Henry Rigaut. The Will was proved on 13th January 1729 (n.s.), the executors being William Duponcet and John James de Montledier.
Gaches.
Refugees of this surname settled in England, presumably of the same family as Raimond Gaches, pasteur of Charenton, in 1660. Among those naturalised at Westminster on 21st November 1682, there was Raymond Gaches, not described as a cleric (see List vii.). But two clerics were naturalised on 10th October 1688, namely, Henry and John-James (see List xvi.). The latter became a gentleman of the chapel royal (aliàs a royal chaplain) in the same year. In the old Cheque-book of the Chapel-Royal he is entered, apparently, as the successor of Mr Du Charol, aliàs Sharoll:—
“1688. Mr John James Gaches [was] sworn Gentleman of his Maties. Chappell Royal ordinary, Nov. 8, 1688.”
The entry of his death has not been preserved. Probably we should recognise a descendant of the refugees in Rev. Daniel Gaches, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vicar of Wotton (or Wootton Wawen), and Justice of the Peace [Irenarcha] for Warwickshire, born 10th March 1733, died 10th September 1805, in whose memory Dr Samuel Parr wrote the following eptitaph:—
Danieli Gaches, A.M.,
Collegii Regalis apud Cantabrigienses quondam socio,
Ecclesiae hujusce ann : circiter xxxviii. ministro
Irenarchae de Comitatu Varvicensi optimè merito,
si quidem sequi et boni peritissimus fuit et
ad nodos legum solvendos quam maximè expeditus.
Viro
non solùm doctrinâ liberaliter sed ingenio etiam, instituto,
quod acutum ad excogitandum et ad memoriam firmum et diuturnumerat,
egregiè praedito.
Qui vixit ann : lxxii. mens : vi.
Decessit iv. id. septembr. Anno sacro m.dccc.v.
Maria Gaches conjux ejus superstes
H.M.P.S.P.C.
