where all the said sheets are fastened together, and my hand at the bottom of each of the said preceding sheeets, and my hand and seal to this last sheet, this 2nd day of November, the 10th year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 1769.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator, Philip Delahaize, as and for his last Will and Testament, in our presence, who in his presence, and at his request, and in the presence of each other, subscribed our names witnesses thereto; the words fifty guineas in the first sheet, the words give unto the said Peter Romilly the further sum of £1000. Item, I do for her life in the second sheet, the word out in the third, and the words a diamond mourning ring of the value of 20 guineas in the fourth sheet being first interlined, and the word each in such fourth sheet first struck out, and the word such in the first sheet, and the word arise in the second sheet, and the words or names Mr. William John in the fourth sheet being first wrote on erasures.
Before I signed the within Will I read the same and which is according to my direction, as witness my hand this 2 November 1769.
Proved at London, 29 November 1769, by Peter Romilly, Walter Dench, and Fenwick Lyddal, the executors named in the will.
Aimé Garnault, senior, a refugee of good family, from Picardy, had two brothers, John, and Michael of Enfield (died 1745). Aimé’s children (those with whom we are concerned) were:—
| Aimé Garnault, jun., of Bull’s Cross, Enfield, married Sarah Arnold, |
Daniel Garnault married Mary Sleet, |
Margaret Garnault, wife of Peter Romilly, | |||||
| Francisca, wife of Peter Ouvry. | Elizabeth wife of Isaac Vautier. |
Thomas. | (Sir) Samuel. | ||||
Thomas Romilly had six sons and three daughters; his fifth son, Rev. Joseph Romilly, late Registrar of Cambridge University, was accustomed, when he rode past the late Mr. Delahaize’s house at Tottenham High Cross, to take off his hat out of respect to the memory of the bountiful and judicious benefactor of his kindred.
James Ouvri, or Ouvry,[1] was naturalized 24th March 1685; he settled at Spitalfields, and prospered; he was admitted a member of the Weavers' Company in 1711, as was his son in 1738. Peter Ouvry, only son of John, married Francisca Garnault, daughter of Aimé Garnault, jun., and niece of Mrs. P. Romilly; he was Treasurer of the New River Company; his eldest son was Peter Aimé Ouvry, Esq., who married Sarah Amelia Delamain; his heir is the Rev. Peter Thomas Ouvry, M.A., Vicar of Wing and Rector of Grove, in Buckinghamshire, whose eldest son is Arthur Garnault Ouvry. The brothers of the Rev. P.T. Ouvry are Colonel Henry Aimé Ouvry, C.B., the late Frederic Ouvry, Esq., President of the Society of Antiquaries, and the late Rev. John North Ouvry North, M.A. The daughters are the late Francisca Ingram Ouvry, and Sarah Mary, widow of Francis Sibson, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. Miss Ouvry was the author of three historical tales, founded on Huguenot annals. The first two are a pair, viz., “Arnold Delahaize, or the Huguenot Pastor” (1863); and “Henri de Rohan, or the Huguenot Refugee” (1865); the former is dedicated “To my nieces and nephews, and also to the other youthful descendants of The Huguenot Refugees, who, though scattered throughout the nations, are all united by the common possession of a glorious heritage, which will prove to them an eternal nobility, if they claim and act up to their birthright.” The third tale, which was published in 1873, is entitled, “Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon.” To the tale is prefixed this inscription:— “To the memory of Louis de Marolles and Isaac Le Fevre, true comrades in the noble band of French martyrs who died for their faith in the reign of Louis XIV., this book is dedicated, as a chaplet twined by unskilled but reverent hands, and laid on their nameless graves.”
The Vautier refugee embraced poverty in England rather than apostasy in France, and brought no pedigree papers with him. But he is the fountain of the tradition in England that he sprang from the French noblesse, and the French genealogical writers have a tradition that a cadet of the family, being a Huguenot, fled to England. The Vautiers in old France were a noble and influential family, Princes
- ↑ The surname Ouvry occurs in the registers under the various spellings of Oufrey, Oufry, Ovré, Ouvres, Overy. On 5th June 1708, the Duke of Marlborough writes to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in favour of Major Ovray, who, having served the crown for thirty-six years, was about to retire from the army, in order to settle in Ireland, and “always behaved himself, as his officers inform me, with honour and reputation.” The purport of the Duke’s request to the Earl is, “Bestow upon him some mark of your favour and goodness. Enable him to support himself and his family with comfort, aud in a manner some way suitable to the character he has borne.”
