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. The Huguenot family of Jarvey was settled at Torwood in Stirlingshire, and removed to the farm of Boghall, near Bathgate.

John Jarvey, farmer in Ballardie, married Mary Cleland.

Mary Jarvey = David Simpson.

Sir James Young Simpson, Bart., M.D. (born 1811, died 1870).

. A well-known member of this family was Rev. Nathaniel Morren, M.A., author of “Biblical Theology,” and Annals of the General Assembly from 1739 to 1766, 2 vols.

. — This name long survived in the French Protestant congregation in Edinburgh (see Weiss). It is probable that on the dispersion of the majority of the refugee families, some of this name settled in Berwickshire. The name still survives. Mr George Paulin, Rector of Irvine Academy, can trace his ancestry in the register of Ladykirk parish up to 1698. The first entry is the baptism of Janet, daughter of Thomas Palin, next of William, son of John Palin in New Ladykirk, both in 1698, and in 1699 I find Elizabeth, daughter of William Palin, in Upsatleington; the name is also spelt Paline, Palen, and Pauline.

. This and the former are believed to represent the name Roche.

. — See p. 226 of this volume.

. — Said to represent La Touche.

With regard to Ireland, some additional information occurs in Dr Purdon’s lecture on the Huguenots (Belfast, 1869):—

The Innishannon settlement was originated for the encouragement of the silk manufacture. Thirty families of silk-workers, along with their pastor, Mr Cortez, were settled there. All that now remains are the trunks of a few mulberry trees, that part of the place where they lived being called the Colony, also a book of the pastor’s sermons, and his watch, having a dial-plate in raised characters, so as to enable him to tell by touch the hour, when preaching and praying to his flock in France, assembled “in dens and caves of the earth.”

Belfast was the refuge of French Protestants connected with Schomberg’s army. It was known as a refuge before the Revocation era. Monsieur Le Burt had settled there in olden times — ancestor of the late highly respected Dr Byrt. The Le Burts had the armorial bearings of De Pénice, a general killed by their ancestor in single combat.

In Bandon there was Lieutenant-Colonel Chartres, descended from a Bourbon. His representative in Belfast has the Bourbon crest, but the name is now Charters. In Killeshandra there was Dr Lanauze, who was called “the good physician.” The Dundalk settlement was not begun till 1737 by M. de Joncourt; the settlers manufactured cambric, and a memento of their e.xistence is a locality called Cambric Hill. At Kilkenny, colonised with linen manufacturers in the Revocation times, a very small bleach-green is shown as their monument. At Tallow, near Cork, there is still a family named Arnauld.

The longevity of many of the refugees and their descendants (as my readers must have remarked) was remarkable. With regard to families originally planted in Barnstaple, Mr Burn mentions the surnames Servantes and Roche. With regard to the former, he says, two ladies of this family now (1846) reside in Exeter, the one is upwards of ninety, and the other upwards of eighty. Monnier Roche used to say, “my grandfather was drowned when he was one hundred and eleven, and if he had not been drowned, he might have been alive now.” In the Scots Magazine there are two announcements — 13th Dec. 1770, died at Rumsey, in