May have died after 12/5/1709 but before 23/7/1709
From David Ballance . . . .
Samuel, "le jeunne," Heudebourck married Marie Ferre, in Canterbury, in 1667. They had numerous children who were born in Canterbury: Marie, 1668; Samuel, 1670; Susanne, 1672 ;Pierre, 1675; Ezechial, 1677; Ester, 1681; and Enoc, 1683.
An older Pierre, thought to have been a brother of the senior Samuel, brought his family from Amiens to live in London in 1680. They were subsequently joined by the Heudebourgs established in Canterbury.
After the death of his father-in-law in 1676, and of his parents, Samuel followed a common pattern among Canterbury Frenchmen by moving to London, where he brought certificates of church membership ("t moignages") to the French Church in Threadneedle Street on 14 May 1682. On 23 June 1684 he was admitted to the Weavers' Company as a Foreign Master, and doubtless took the prescribed oath:
"ESCOUTEZ A VOSTRE SERMENT
Vous prendrez serment que vous serez bon et loyal a nostre soveraigne Seigneur le Roy Charles et as ses heritiers et successeurs les Roys et Reynes de ceste Royaume. Et selon ceste ordre vous serrez obeissant au juste et bon gouvernement de la Compagnie des Tisserands de Londres de laquelle vous estez admis maistre estrangier: ou autrement vous payerez tels amendes, comme selon les Ordonnances de ladit Compagnie, soit declare et ordonne; vous maintiendrez au mieux de vostre pouvoir La Paix et tous les justes et legitimes priveleges d'icelle, et selon vostre cognoisance et pouvoir, faire et accomplir tels ordres actions et choses qui appartiennent a un homme admis en ladit Compagnie.
Ainsi Dieu vous soit en aide
VIVE LE ROY!"
Samuel died in Spitalfields between May and early July 1709. I have not found his burial record, but his Will was proved in the Commissary Court on 23 July. He had made a second marriage, for which I have not found an entry, to Dorcas, who herself re-married in 1710 William Earp, framework knitter. As she was residuary legatee, this cannot have been popular with the family. Among four of his children, including his eldest son Samuel, he left a total of 2.
In the luxury-loving London of the Stuart Restoration they made their living as weavers and merchants of silk cloth. With their Huguenot business and family connections they dwelt in Stepney parish, in an area of picturesque street names, such as, "Blacke Eagle Street," "Ramme Alley," and "Red Lyon Street." In this period they were members of the famous French Church in Threadneedle Street. |
