Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Luard
Luard. — Robert Abraham Luard, of Caen in Normandy, was a Huguenot refugee in London. In the ancient province of Maine, and near to the town of Le Mans, there is a Chateau de Luart, and probably his family was originally cradled there. He married Miss Verbeck, and their son, Peter Abraham Luard (born 1703, died 1768), became a great Hamburgh merchant. The senior line of the family derives from his only son, by his first wife, Peter Robert Luard (born 1727, died 1802), who married Jane, daughter of Zachariah Bouryan, Esq.; his heir was Captain Peter John Luard, of Blyborough, who married Louisa, daughter of Charles Dalbiac, Esq., and dying in 1836 was succeeded by Charles Bouryan Luard (born 1785, died 1855), father of the present George Augustus Luard, Esq. of Blyborough Hall, Lincolnshire. His next brother, John Godfrey Luard (born 1829, died 1862), is represented by another John-Godfrey. Returning to Peter Abraham, we find that he had, by his second marriage, one son, William, whose second son, William, founded or resuscitated the family of Wright of Hatfield Priory, and the third son was the ancestor of Admiral William Garnham Luard, C.B., of the Lodge, Witham. Reverting to Captain Peter John Luard, we observe that he had eight sons, the seventh being Major Robert Luard of the Mote, Tonbridge.