 1670 - 1765 (89 years)
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| Name |
Jean Henri Latrobe [1, 2] |
| Title |
Count |
| Born |
26 Sep 1670 |
Villemur, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France  [3] |
| Christened |
12 Oct 1670 |
Verlhac, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Emigration |
Aft 1685 [4] |
| left France for Holland after revocation of the Edict of Nantes |
| _MILT |
Bef 1690 |
| joined Army of the Prince of Orange, Holland |
| _MILT |
1690 |
| fought under William III at Battle of Boyne, Ireland |
| Occupation |
Between 1715 and 1730 |
| Linen Manufacturer, Waterford, Ireland |
| Residence |
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland [4] |
| Christening |
Protestant |
| Burial |
Between 1760 and 1765 |
St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Died |
Between 1760 and 1765 |
| Buried |
Between 1760 and 1765 |
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Person ID |
I6547 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Father |
Michel Latrobe, b. 26 Apr 1640, Villenouvelle de Fossat lez Montauban, France , d. Between 1697 and 1718, Varennes, Meuse, Lorraine, France (Age 56 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Maffré (Marthe) Ramond, b. Abt 1645, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France , d. Bef 1734, Varennes, Meuse, Lorraine, France (Age ~ 88 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage Contract |
29 Jul 1663 [5] |
| signed before Me. Custos, notary of Villemur |
| Married |
14 Sep 1663 |
Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France [6, 7] |
| Notes |
- The "cartel pour espouses" (i.e. the official request for marriage, in old French) took place on 14 Sept 1663.
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| Family ID |
F601 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Griffiths, b. Abt 1680 |
| Married |
Between 1696 and 1700 |
Ireland |
| Children |
| + | 1. Thomas Latrobe, b. 1701, Waterford, Ireland , d. 1754, Waterford, Ireland (Age 53 years) [natural] |
| + | 2. James Latrobe, b. 1702, Waterford, Ireland , d. 13 Mar 1752, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (Age 50 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Henry Latrobe, b. 19 Mar 1711, Waterford, Ireland , d. 27 Sep 1781, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (Age 70 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Family ID |
F560 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Born - 26 Sep 1670 - Villemur, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
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 | Christened - 12 Oct 1670 - Verlhac, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
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 | Married - Between 1696 and 1700 - Ireland |
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 | Residence - - Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
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 | Burial - Between 1760 and 1765 - St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Buried - Between 1760 and 1765 - Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Notes |
- Presently, he is referred to as John Bonneval de La Trobe and/or John the Refugee. According to John Henry de La Trobe, he signed his name "Bonneval de Latrobe", but no one knows why as there is no connection between the Latrobe and Bonneval families.
He is listed as James de La Trobe in Talbot Hamlin's book Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Jean "John" Latrobe is the ancestor of the English, American, Australian and German branches of the Latrobe family.
He is also listed as Jean Henri Latrobe, the elder son of Michel Henri Latrobe in the Papers of Robert Penel.
He is the nearest common ancestor to all non-French Latrobe descendants living today.
In his "Livre de Famille" written in 1830, Jean-Joachim Latrobe only shows the meager knowledge he had received by word of mouth about the oldest brother of his grandfather which was as follows:
"Jean, the oldest son (of Michel Latrobe and Maffré Raimond), born at Villemur on September 26th, 1670, christened on the following October 12th by Mr. Resseguerie, Protestant minister, preacher of the Reformed Church of Verhlac; godfather, Jean Barthe, inhabitant of Montauban; godmother, Jeanne de Raimond, wife of François Pécholier, inhabitant of Villemur (from him has descended the Pécholier family of Caussade)."
"There is no other information about this Jean, except that he was dismissed on November 28th, 1688, from the 'Compagnie du Chevalier de Cominges', where he had served during two months only."
"A tradition of my family bears that this Jean received a beautiful education; that he left his mother already widow with a view to go to America; that he embarked in Bordeaux together with Pécholier, his first cousin, son of an Alexis Raimond's daughter; and that one has got no news about him since that time."
In a footnote, Jean-Joachim adds: "In all likelihood, from this Jean has descended the Latrobe family of England. N. B. Michel Latrobe bought from Anne Delhoste of Montauban the house and farm of Varennes on July 3rd, 1675. In the garden of this house is the grave of my ancestors, who all have been Protestant."
Jean-Joachim is totally right to express his information with great cautiousness. We know today that a part of it is wrong. For instance we know that Michel Latrobe was still alive in 1698, ten years after Jean left.
We have investigated about the 'Compagnie du Chevalier de Cominges' in order to know the reason why Jean was dismissed so quickly.
First of all we have found the draft of a letter written in 1677 (see #418 by a minister of the King, most probably Louvois, to the 'Commandant du Régiment de Cominge' which confirms that a unit of troops with this name existed at that time. Moreover Cominge (which later on was written Cominges, then Comminges) is the name of a Pyrenean county, 90 miles south-west from Montauban, that belonged to the royal domain since mid 1400's. The name given to this Régiment could be related either to the place of origin of its troops, or to its owner (since a Chevalier de Cominge, aide-de-camp of Louis XIV, also existed at that time), or to both. Anyhow, the reference to Cominges transmitted by word of mouth down to Jean-Joachim is most probably right.
But Jean-Joachim talks of 'Compagnie' instead of 'Régiment'. It seems that corresponds to a certain measure taken by the King in the frame of his policy aiming at the conversion of Huguenots, as explained in #435. At that time, the young gentlemen 16 to 20 years old enlisted in the 'Régiments' could be dispatched to certain 'Compagnies de Cadets' in order to be educated so as to become officers. Louis XIV decided to attract the Huguenot young gentlemen in these 'Compagnies de Cadets' in offering to them a pension in addition to the education as officer against their abjuring.
We may imagine that Jean Latrobe had a vocation for soldiering, as he showed later on when fighting within the army of William of Orange. Therefore it seems that he wanted to initiate a military career, and for that purpose he joined the 'Régiment de Cominge' in September 1688 with a view to be enlisted in a 'Compagnie de Cadets' so as to be educated as an officer. But there, according to the royal policy, he was subjected to a strong pressure for abjuring. He refused. So that after less than two months he was considered as an inflexible Protestant and therefore dismissed from "Régiment de Cominge". From that moment, it had become dangerous for him to stay in France. Since his grandnephew, Jean-Joachim Latrobe, has known, by word of mouth, his intention to leave to America (which he finally did not), we should imagine that after being dismissed he went to Varennes to kiss his parents before quickly leaving for Bordeaux tor board a ship toward exile. The cause of his death was a fall in the garden. He was buried in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin (Huguenot cemetery).
He was christened by M. Resseguerie, Protestant minister, pastor of the Reformed Church of Verhlac. His godfather was his paternal uncle, Jean Barthe, husband of his father's sister, Thézare, living in Montauban, and his godmother was Jeanne Raimond, presumably his maternal aunt, wife of François Pécholier, Villemur inhabitant. There are some descendants of the Pécholier family living in the vicinity of Caussade which is 22 km to the northeast of Montauban.
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| Sources |
- [S141] The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1795-1798, Maryland Historical Society, (Name: Yale University Press;), BHL Va Journals, Vol 1, pg lxvii.
- [S20] Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot Hamlin, (Name: Oxford University Press; Location: New York; Date: 1955;), Page 4.
- [S105] Papers of Robert Penel, #401 (1670).
- [S20] Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot Hamlin, (Name: Oxford University Press; Location: New York; Date: 1955;), 4.
- [S95] Michel de Lafon-Boutary, #378 (1663).
- [S95] Michel de Lafon-Boutary, #379 (1663).
- [S105] Papers of Robert Penel, #380 (1663), #454 (1696).
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