Returning to Jean de Lillers le jeune (Mr. John De Lillers), I note that he was twice married, and had a daughter by each wife. By his first wife, Marie, daughter of Jean Lespin, he had a daughter, Marie, wife of Jaques De Neu, and mother of a numerous family. The second wife of John de Lillers, Anne, daughter of Elie Maurois, of Canterbury, had a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Guillaume Carbonnel.
Mrs. Carbonnel (as I shall have another opportunity to relate) had a numerous family; one of her sons was named De Lillers, and was intended probably to keep the ancient surname in remembrance. Through the mistakes of reporters and printers this memento of the old De Lillers family became scarcely recognizable. The Historical Register called him in 1722, Mr. Delliers Carbonel, and in 1723 Mr. Delithir Carbonnel; in 1724 and 1728, however, he is correctly entered as Mr. Delillers Carbonnel.
XI. Waldo.
Genealogists have succeeded in individualising the far-famed Peter Waldo, and have put on record that he died in Bohemia in 1179 — that he was unmarried — but that he had a married brother, Thomas Waldo,[1] whose children retired from their native town, Lyons, and settled in the Netherlands, where they were represented in the reign of our Queen Elizabeth. One of their name fled from Duke Alva’s persecutions in 1568, and founded families in England. Among them the tradition is that his name was Peter; at all events he was a Waldo, was twice married, and had eight children, of whom Lawrence and Robert left descendants. Robert Waldo founded a family at Deptford. The noteworthy persons of the Waldo stock descended from Lawrence Waldo, citizen and grocer, of the parish of Allhallows, Bread Street, London. The baptisms of his twelve children between the years 1583 and 1599 are recorded in the register of that parish church, where also we read: “Mr. Lawerence Waldoe of this parish, grocer, departed his life in this world the 26th day of July 1602, and was buried in the church chancel the 2d of August then following.” The above spelling of his name is unique; it is evident from other entries that the true spelling was Waldo.
His twelfth child was Daniel, baptized 19th June 1599, citizen and cloth-worker, who died in 1661. From this Daniel Waldo and Anne Claxton, his wife, the persons of whom I have to speak descended.
Mrs. Waldo’s father, Mr. Claxton, was a proprietor in Harrow-on-the-Hill, and thus the Waldo family took root in that classical region. Mr. and Mrs. Waldo’s eldest son was named Daniel, after his father, and we shall have occasion to mention his offspring. But as the second son attained the honour of knighthood, it will make this brief memoir more clear if we begin with him.
Sir Edward Waldo was born in the year 1632 and died in 1708 (new style); he had a splendid town mansion, which, on occasions of public pomp and civic pageantry, was the resort of members of the Royal family, and where he received the honour of knighthood from Charles II. on 29th October 1677. Sir Edward was married three times, and is represented in the female line through the descendants of his first wife (Elizabeth Potter, an heiress) by Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Esq., and Vincent Pollexfen Calmady, Esq. By his third wife he had one daughter, Grace, whose first husband was Sir Nicholas Wolstenholme, Bart, and who was married secondly to the eighth Lord Hunsdon (she died on 9th May 1729).
In Harrow Church a marble monument stands, with this inscription:—
Here lyeth ye body of
SR EDWARD WALDO, knight,
a kind and faithful husband, a tender and provident father,
a constant and hearty friend, a regular and sincere Christian,
eminently distinguished by an uninterrupt’d course of
charity and humility,
and not less so
by an inviolable fidelity in keeping sacred his word.
Universally esteem’d when alive
and lamented when dead.
To his pious Memory
Elizabeth, daughter of Sr. Rd. Shuckburgh,
of Shuckburgh in Warwickshire,
his third wife,
out of a dutiful affection erected this Marble Table.
He died the 4th of Feb. mdccvii — Aged lxxv.
- ↑ I am very much indebted to the privately printed pamphlets of Morris Charles Jones, Esq., and Coningsby Sibthorp, Esq.
