Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Girardot
Girardot. — The family of Girardot (although as yet there is no pedigree) may be said to descend from Huguenot refugees, whose estates near Dijon were forfeited. In the registers I observe three branches with territorial titles of nobility, and in the magazines a fourth. Girardot Du Perron was naturalized in 1686 (see List xii.), and Anne Girardot Du Perron in 1696 (see List xxi.). In February 1690, in the parish Church of St. Mary Aldermary, London, James Girardot alias Du Perron marries Ann Girardot alias De Vermenoux. In December of the same year the same couple appears within Hungerford French Church, bringing their son, Jean Etienne, for baptism, the godmother being Madame Marie Girardot de Préfond. The Sieur Du Perron is styled Capitaine de chariott du Roi. Among the subscribers to “Laval’s History” there is “De Vermenoux, Esq.”; he lived at Hackney, and was evidently not so well known by his patronymic, Girardot, as by his distinctive title. There was a very influential gentleman of the family, styled De Tillieux. John Girardot de Tillieux, Esq., was made a Director of the South Sea Company in 1721, but seems to have got out of it in time, as his property was not confiscated by Parliament; he was an executor of Sir Denis Dutry’s Will in 1728. His property passed to an only child and heiress. I find the following notice:—
Married, 12th May 1747, Captain Hamilton, nearly related to the Duke, to Miss Girardot, only child of John Girardot of Tilleux, near Greenwich, Esq., with £30,000.
In my account of the family of André, I noted that the families of André and Girardot intermarried twice. Connected probably with these last-named Girardots was Charles Girardot, Esq., who married a Lincolnshire lady, daughter of William Dashwood, Esq.; his son was John Charles Girardot, Esq. of Allestree Hall, Derbyshire (died 1845), and by his wife, Lydia Marianne, daughter of Charles Vere Dashwood, Esq., he left three sons, Rev. John Chancourt Girardot, proprietor of Car-Colston Hall, Nottinghamshire (born 1798), Lieut.-Colonel Charles Andre Girardot, and Rev. William Lewis Girardot. I observe in the Army List Major-General George Charles Girardot, born 1841.