Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section V
V. Porcher.
There was a refugee, André Porcher, in London at the Revocation era, and a relative (probably a brother), Jaques Porcher who, on 23d February 1690, was a witness in the City of London French Church, Threadneedle Street, to the baptism of Anne, daughter of André Porcher and Sara. A mother of a refugee is mentioned in the French Church Register of Thorp in Essex in 1689 named Marie Porcher, wife of Jean Rougereau of Marchenoir, near Blois. The only family whose pedigree I have seen claims descent (according to Burke’s Landed Gentry) from the old noblesse; their ancestors are said to have been Comtes de Richebourg and courtiers of high position in the olden time. Isaac Porcher de Richebourg, M.D. of the University of Paris, married Claude Cherigny, of the province of Touraine, and, after the Edict of Revocation, they fled to South Carolina under British rule. Their son was Joseph Porcher, father of Paul Porcher, who married Mary Du Pre; and his son, Josias Du Pre Porcher, removed from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1768, being brought to England by his uncle James Du Pre, who had been governor of Fort George, Madras. His son was Josias Du Pre Porcher, Esq., of Winslade House, Devonshire, M.P. for Old Sarum, who married Charlotte, daughter of Admiral Sir William Burnaby, Baronet, and sister of the wife of John Chamicr, Esq., and who died in 1820. His eldest surviving son, Rev. George Porcher, married, in 1818, Frances Amelia, daughter of John Chamier, Esq.; and his sons are George Du Pre Porcher, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Captain Edwin Augustus Porcher, R.N. The youngest son of Mr. Porcher, M.P., was Charles Porcher, Esq., of Clyffe (born 1800, died 1863), whose widow succeeded to his estate. A brother of Charles, namely Henry Porcher, Esq., was M.P. for Clitheroe.