Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 10 - Section VII
VII. Emeris.
Members of the family of Emeris, being French Protestants, fled from the St. Bartholomew Massacre, and soon after 1572 acquired landed property at Southwood, in Norfolk, on which they resided till 1768, and which is still the inheritance of the head of the family. The Rev. John Emeris, of Southwood (Norfolk), and of Louth (Lincolnshire), M.A., Rector of Tetford, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (born at Southwood, 1735, died 1819), married, in 1768, Anne, daughter of William Smyth Hobman, great-niece and eventually co-heiress of David Aitkinson, Esq. By her Mr. Emeris inherited the estate of Fanthorpe in Lincolnshire. His son and heir was the Rev. John Emeris, B.D. (who died 13th April 1831), Rector of Strangton Parva, Bedfordshire, Perpetual Curate of Altringham and Cockerington, Lincolnshire. By his wife, Elizabeth (whom he married in 1815), daughter of Rev. John Grantham, of Ashby, M.A., he had two sons, of whom the eldest is another John Emeris, now of Southwood. The present Rev. John Emeris was born in 1816; he is MA. of University College, Oxford, and, having married in 1852 Anne Elizabeth, daughter of James Helps, Esq., is the father of the John Emeris of the rising generation. The other son of the late Rector of Strangton Parva is William Robert Emeris, Esq., of Louth (born in 1817), J.P., M.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford; he married, in 1850, Isabella Barbara, daughter of the Rev. Robert Gordon, grand-daughter of George Gordon, D.D., Dean of Lincoln. The family motto is “Emeritus.”