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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.)  

This was a Huguenot family from Bolbec in Normandy. There was in 1711 Marie Guillemard, wife of Jaques Beuzeville of Bolbec, a refugee in England. The refugee family was founded by Jean Guillemard and Magdalene Leplay, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Isaac Leplay. He is said to have been brought to England as an infant, and in his Will, dated at his residence within the Liberty of the Tower of London, 14th April 1779, he leaves £100 towards the building of a Protestant Church of Bolbec, “if the Protestant subjects, residing in Bollebec in Upper Normandy, obtain leave to erect and build a church before or by the expiration of 1780.” His Will was proved on 11th March 1782, when his sons, John, Isaac, and James, were his executors. The latter died in 1826, aged seventy-eight.

The eldest son was Jean, or John Guillemard, of Spitalfields and Tottenham High Cross, silk-weaver, baptized in Threadneedle Street on 5th November 1729. died in February 1793. His wife was Francoise Pilon, daughter of Daniel Pilon and Jeanne Bourdon, his wife. Their son was an eminent man, John Guillemard, M.A. Oxon, F.R.S., baptized at St. Jean’s French Church, 4th September 1764 (born 31st August), died 22nd November 1844; he was (about 1800) a Commissioner for settling disputed points between Great Britain and America. The daughter of Jean and Francoise, Jeanne, baptized at St. Jean’s 21st September 1765, wife of John Griffin, deserves celebrity as the mother of Jane Griffin, Lady Franklin (born 1791, died 1875), widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer.

The second surviving son of the refugee was Isaac Guillemard, of Spitalfields and Waltham Cross, silk-weaver, baptized in Threadneedle Street, 22nd March 1744. (There was a second son, Peter, born 1731, died 1764, unmarried). Isaac married in 1770 Anne Le Maitre, only surviving child of Daniel Le Maitre and Magdalen Paroissien, and died on 22nd December 1816. He had two sons, Peter and Daniel. Peter (born 1771, died 1828) was the father of Rev. Henry Peter Guillemard, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath (who died without descendants in 1857, in his forty-fifth year). Daniel (born 1772, died 1822,) was the father of (1) Rev. James Guillemard, M.A. Oxon, and Fellow of St. John’s, Vicar of Kirtlington, born 1807, died 1858; (2) Isaac Guillemard, M.D., of Eltham, born 1812, died 1852; (3) Rev. William Henry Guillemard, D.D. Cantab., born 23rd November 1815, late Fellow of Pembroke College, who was from 1848 to 1869 Head-Master of the Royal School of Armagh, and is now Vicar of St. Mary-the-Less, Cambridge, Author of “Greek Testament, Hebraistic Edition, exhibiting and illustrating (1) The Hebraisms in the Sacred Text; (2) The influence of the Septuagint on its characters and construction; (3) The deviations in it from pure Greek style. St. Matthew.” (Cambridge, 1875).

See the Guillemard Pedigree by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.  

Among singularities of refugee experience, the refugee life of Monsieur Hubert and his daughter should be mentioned. This gentleman, a near relation of the noble