Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - De Gastine

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2915631Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - De GastineDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew

De Gastine.

De Gastine was a territorial title, the family surname being Hullin. Matthew Hullin, Sieur de Gastine, was a refugee in England; a brother, also a refugee, was the Sieur d’Orval, and styled in England Anthony Hullin D’Orval, Esq. On the 20th December 1714, Matthew Hullen de Gastine, Esq., of Sunbury (Middlesex), died; he had married, first, Mary Huguetan, and, secondly, Mary Anna Le Cordier. His only son, James Mark Hullin (born 1701), was the issue of the first marriage; he inherited £3666, 7s. 9d. The only daughter, named Susanna, was his child by his second wife.

One of the clan, Major De Gastine, was a refugee in Holland, and his daughter, Marianne, was married in 1728 to Rev. Anthony Aufrere. (All the above particulars are from the Aufrère MSS)

Mr Anthoine Hullin D’Orval married, in 1703, in London, Mile. Susanne Gouyquet de St. Eloy. The bride was the sister or daughter of Isaac Gouyquet, Seigneur de St. Eloy, who first appears in Guernsey on 2nd January 1689 (n.s.), being described as of the diocese of St. Brieux in Brittany. Afterwards he was naturalised in London by Act of Parliament, in 1699, as the son of Isaac and Jone, born at Pluvigner. His Will was proved at London, 1st June 1728. Peter and Charles St. Eloy, Notaries-Public, and translators of French Wills, were his sons. (Wagner’s MSS.)