Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Balicourt, Long, and Watkins

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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Balicourt, Long, and Watkins.

The Rev. Henry George Watkins, M.A., Vicar of Potter’s Bar, has in his possession a brass seal with arms, and around it is inscribed Sebast. Balicourt, 1684. He has also a portrait of M. Sebastian Balicourt, pasteur of Metz, born at Verdun in 1660. That intrepid minister preached in defiance of the Revocation Edict, but being pursued he concealed himself in the house of a friendly grocer, a New Catholic, who packed him up in a barrel with care, addressed to Berlin. He arrived safely, and ministered to the French refugees till his death on 4th February 1731. His son, Simon Balicourt, ultimately settled in England, and died in Wood Street, London, 1st December 1757.

Simon Balicourt, merchant, died 1st Dec. 1757.

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Sarah, died 10th April 1752.

Sarah Balicourt, born in London in 1738, died 14th Sept. 1811.

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John Wilkinson Long, of Christ’s Hospital, London.

Marie Caroline Balicourt, born 1745, died 1784, unmarried.

John Long, born 1767, died 1821, Author of “Some Account of the Reformed Church of France,” printed in 1819.

Sarah Long, born 1769, married 1800, died 1848.

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Rev. Henry George Watkins, M.A. Oxon., born 5th Feb. 1765, died 9th January 1850, Rector of St. Swithin’s, London.

Rev. Henry George Watkins, M.A. Oxon., Vicar of Potter’s Bar, Middlesex, b. 8th June 1808.

Rev. Henry George Watkins, M.A. Oxon., b. 1st June 1849.

(See Pedigree by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.)