Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 13 - Section XIII

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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Note as to the Wandsworth Huguenot Cemetery
(known as Mount Nod).

The Wandsworth and Battersea District Times has printed much useful information. There is a French epitaph to a refugee lady:—

Ici repose Dame Isabeau Bories de Montauban en Guienne,
espouse de Jean de Comarque, escuyer.
Decedée le vi. Aoust mdccxxxi., la lxiu. année de son age.

All the other epitaphs and registrations are in English, such as:—

Here lyeth y^e body of Lewis de la Porte de Crauant, French Gent., deceased y^e 5th day of February 1709, in y^e 54th yeare of his age.

The following memoranda are suggested by the register:—

Peter Delaporte, Esq., bought the mansion and park of Esher in or about 1718; he became a Director of the South Sea Company, and surrendered all his property by order of Parliament; he was found to be worth £17,151, 5s. 6d., and the House of Commons virtually acquitted him of fraud by returning to him £10,000.

In 1755, July 17th, Miss Jeanne Susanne de Rodon Trollett was married at Wandsworth to Lawrence Desborough; the lady’s noble names suggest the nobility of Anthony Trollet, Esq., who was buried there in 1751, aged 70.

Elizabeth, y^e wife of Mr. Molinier, was buried in 1736; and Benjamin, infant son of Mr. Benjamin Caron, of St. James, Westminster, in 1737.