Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 14 - Section IV
Notes.
Louise Boileau, sister of a noble refugee, was born 7th November 1683, and was brought up in France. She became the wife of Noble Abel Ligonier, Seigneur de Moncuquet et de Castre, and died at Castre, 9th October 1748. (I copy this from an old Boileau pedigree; I follow its spelling of the Ligonier titles.)
Before going to Flanders in 1746, at the request of Dunk, Earl of Halifax, “Sir John Legonier” interceded with King George II. for the pardon of a military deserter who was under sentence of death. This man had been brought up in Northampton under the pastorate of Dr. Doddridge, on whose representation Lord Halifax had interested himself in the case, and had communicated with Ligonier. The Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D., was a grandson of a German refugee clergyman who fled from the Palatinate soon after the exiled royal family and old Schomberg. Doddridge had as a heirloom his grandfather’s German Bible (Luther’s version), printed at Strasburg in 1626, bound in black morocco in 2 vols. i2mo, the binding deeply indented with gilt ornaments. On the fly-leaf of the first volume the grandson made this memorandum:—
“These Bibles my honoured grandfather, Mr. John Bauman, brought with him from Germany, his native country, when he fled on foot from the persecution there on account of the Protestant religion. ‘For he had respect to the recompense of the reward’ (Heb. xi. 26). ‘The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver’ (Ps. cxix. 72). ‘Be ye followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises’ (Heb. vi. 12).”
For the following memoranda, I am indebted to Henry Wagner, Esq., F.S.A.:—
In February 1788 the Gentleman’s Magazine records the death, “in her 100th year, of Judith de Ligonier, born at Castres 2nd May 1688, cousin-german to General [John] Ligonier,” and adds, “there remains at Castres a nephew of the same general, and some grand-nephews of the eldest branch.”
Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Graham, “somewhile of Hockly Lodge, Co. Armagh, and of Dublin,” besides the two sons named above, had four daughters, of whom Penelope became, in 1775, the first wife of Henry Vernon, Esq., of Hilton Park, Staffordshire. Her son, General Vernon, assumed the name of Graham in 1800, but resumed that of Vernon, only in 1838.