Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 7 - Section V
V. Collateral Descendants of the Hervarts.[1]
(i.) Vatas.
The brother of Baron D’Hervart was a refugee in Holland; he was styled Jean Henri Hervart Du Fort. While in France he was Sub-Comptroller of the National Finances. He died at the Hague, 18th February 1729. He had a son, Philibert Hervart, who was living at the Hague in 1720, and a daughter, Reigne Sabine, who married in Holland. Another daughter, Anne Mary Hervart, who died in 1773, was the wife of Peter Vatas, M.D., of Wardour Street, London. The doctor’s children were the Rev. Peter Vatas (died 1800), Major John Vatas (died 1795), Louise Frances (born 1718, died young), Antoinette Madeleine (born 1719, died 1778), Judith Susanne (died 1800), and Sabine (died 1811). Of these Sabine, or (in English) Sabina Vatas, was the last of her family, and proved the wills both of her brother Peter and of her sister Judith in 1800. The Rev. Peter Vatas was educated at Westminster, from whence he was elected to Oxford, where he became B.A. in 1741, and M.A. in 1743; he was a Senior Student (equivalent to a Fellow) of Christ Church; he was Perpetual Curate of Caversham, Oxfordshire, for fifty years (in 1780 he was presented to the living of Wanley in Essex) from the date of his graduation as B.A. I conjecture that he was born in 1719, and thus he died at the age of eighty-one, as stated in Alumni Westmonasterienses. Major Vatas was of the 10th Regiment of Foot.
(2). Cerjat.
Sabine Frances Hervart, the younger daughter of our refugee Baron, was married in 1725 at Moudon, in Switzerland, to Sigismund Cerjat, Seigneur dc Bressonay. Her son, John Francis Maximilian Cerjat, was born at Moudon in 1729; but coming to London he was naturalised by an Act of the twenty-seventh year of George II. (6th April 1754). On the 13th November of that year he married “an English lady of large fortune,” probably a descendant of a French Protestant refugee, Marguerite Madeleine de Stample, only child of Peter de Stample and Jeanne Foissin, his wife. Mr Cerjat lived for more than twenty years at Louth in Lincolnshire, but died at Lausanne, 17th June 1802. His sons were Captain John Cerjat of the 1st Dragoon Guards, who was born in London in 1755, and died in 1801; Lieut-Colonel Henry Andrew Cerjat of the Fnniskillen Dragoons, born in London in 1758, and died at Lausanne in 1835 in his seventy-seventh year; Lieut.-Colonel William Paul Cerjat of the Blues, born at Louth in 1764, died at Lausanne in 1814; Rowland Alexander Cerjat, a young officer in our royal navy, born in 1766, and was killed in Rodney’s action. 12th April 1782; Lieut-Colonel Charles Sigismund Cerjat of the 1st Royal Dragoons, born at Louth in 1772, died at Lausanne in 1848 in his seventy-sixth year. The latter officer was married and had an only child, Sabine Lizettc, wife of Sir Rowland Winn, fifth baronet of Nostell Priory, and mother of the sixth baronet, the last Sir Rowland Winn. She was also the mother of Esther, Mrs. Williamson, whose children assumed the name of Winn. Thus Sabine Lizette, Lady Winn, may be noted to have been the great-grandmother of Rowland Winn, M.P. for North Lincolnshire, proprietor both of Nostell in Yorkshire, and of Appleby Hall, near Lincoln, now Baron St. Oswald.
- ↑ For all the information in this section, as well as for much information regarding the Baron’s other descendants, I am indebted to my friend, Henry Wagner, F.S.A.