Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Pratviel
Pratviel.
I meet with this surname among the burials at St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London. David Pratviel, described as a lodger, was laid in “the new vault” in that church on 12th February 1747 (n.s.). The name occurs in connection with James Auriol, merchant, who removed from London to Lisbon to join the mercantile house of Pratviel. In reprinting the following note, I leave the date of 1755 as I find it, as it may allude to another David:— The Pratviels were French Protestant exiles, said to have taken refuge on an island in the Mediterranean, but residing in Lisbon in 1727, the first year of the publication of the Factory Register. David Pratviel in his Will, dated at Lisbon in 1742, and proved in London in 1759, names as his executor, “my cousin and partner Mr. Peter Auriol, merchant, at present in London.” Sarah Pratviel (daughter of David, who visited London in 1755) was married to Sir Charles Asgill, Bart., and was the mother of General Sir Charles Asgill, Bart., at whose death, in 1823, that baronetcy expired. Her daughter, Amelia, was the wife of Robert Colvile, Esq. (died in 1796), whose eldest son, Sir Charles Henry Colville (died in 1833), who married Hariot Anne, daughter of Thomas Porter Bonnel, Esq., and was the father of Charles Robert Colvile, Esq. of Lullington, late M.P. for South Derbyshire.