Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Berchère and Boissier
Berchère and Boissier.
Jaques Louis Berchère, of Paris, and afterwards of Broad Street, London, merchant-jeweller and banker, as a widower, married in the French Church of St. Martin Orgars on 15th August 1700, Magdalen Regnier, widow. He died on 3rd May 1753, aged eighty-three, and was buried in the church of St. Helen’s, Bishopgate, beneath a black marble slab on which are engraved his wife’s arms. He had four daughters:— 1. Susanne, wife of Josiah Baril. 2. Magdalen, wife of John Louis Loubier. 3. Susanne Judith, wife of John Boissier. 4. Mary Magdalen, wife of James Massé. Boissier was a family of Anduze, refugees at Geneva. Jean Daniel Boissier was baptised at the Madeleine in Geneva on 4th July 1699; he settled in England, and purchased Lime Grove at Putney. He married at St. Peter-le-Poor on 15th April 1735, Susanne Judith Berchère. She was buried in Putney Churchyard on 4th September 1756, and he in the New Burial Ground, on 14th May 1770. His eldest son, James William, settled at Vienna, leaving a son, John William, who died in 1792 at the siege of Lille. But his second son remained in England, and founded a family, namely, John Louis Boissier, born 1742, died 1821, buried at Cheltenham, father of Rev. Peter Edward Boissier of Bath, born 1791, grandfather of Rev. Peter Henry Boissier, born 1822, died 1880, and great-grandfather of Rev. Frederick Scobell Boissier, M.A. Cantab., one of the Masters of all Saints’ School, Bloxham, born 1854. Among all these clergymen no religious author has been recorded. But the great-grandfather, John Louis Boissier, Esq., translated from the French, Bonnet’s “Philosophical and Critical Enquiries concerning Christianity;” the translation was printed in 1787.