Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Birth30 Nov 1747
DeathMay 1837
FatherSimeon (i) Boileau (1717-1767)
MotherMagdalena Elizabeth Desbrisay (1720-1786)
Spouses
FatherRev. George Pollen
Marriage179015
ChildrenHenrietta Maria (1793-1837)
John Peter (iii) (1793-1793)
John Peter (iv) (1794-1869)
George Pollen (1798-1847)
Charles Lestock (1800-1889)
ChildrenHarriet
Notes for John Peter (i) Boileau
Of Madras C.S. and of Castelnau House. His son J.P. Boileau, created a baronet in 1869. Further details in [Lart, II, 15].
[BBB] calls his issue the second English branch and gives lots of details. This John Peter is called John Peter i by [BBB]. John Peter was the first to go out to India (in 1764) in the East India Company, thus beginning a long connection between the Boileau family and India.
[BBB]: “The year 1764 is a momentous one in the family's history, for in it began the association with India which was to continue for nearly two centuries, and to play a great part in the lives of many of the Boileaus and their kin. The event which occurred in that year was the arrival in the country of John Peter i, at the age of 16, as a Writer in the Honourable East India Company's Service. At that time the Company was still primarily a commercial concern and its administrative and military activities were secondary and incidental. John Peter went out under the patronage of Brigadier General Caillaud, a kinsman, Commander of the Army of the Madras Presidency. He was employed in various offices in the Presidency, and accompanied the army in administrative capacities in some of the local wars, which were not very serious.
At last, after nine years of service, he obtained the appointment he had long wanted, as member of the Company's council at Masulipatam, in the northern part of the Presidency. This proved, as he had hoped, very profitable. The Company's employees were able to engage in private trading ventures, shipping goods home at favourable rates to a ready market. There was also a great deal of graft, in the manner of the time. And so John Peter prospered, and was able to give a helping hand to his family, by bringing out the men to seek their fortunes, and the girls to look for wealthy husbands. In all he assisted in this way two of his brothers, three sisters, half a dozen nieces, besides helping in obtaining appointments for various other connections. Most of them did well, the young women making good marriages so that the Boileau colony and its offshoots, mostly in the Bengal Presidency, waxed large and flourished.”
[BBB]: John Peter i also acquired the estate of Tacolnestone Hall, about 10 miles from Norwich, and thus initiated the connection of the family with the county of Norfolk, which was to last until 1949. The importance of the property was enhanced when John Peter iv, in 1836, bought Ketteringham Hall adjacent to Tacolnestone. This was an imposing Tudor mansion, standing in a wooded park of 500 acres, with a small lake. Altogether, John Peter iv owned about 9000 acres.
Again from BBB:15
b in Dublin 30 Nov 1747. In Dec 1763 went to London to his uncle Charles Daniel, and under the auspices and patronage of of Brig-Gen John Caillaud, with whom there was a family connection and who was appt C-in-C Forces on the Coromandel Coast of India, sailed for Madras in March 1764. On arrival there, he was nominated a writer to the EIC Civil Service. He lived with his patron, Gen Caillaud, acting as his secretary, until the latter's departure for Europe in 1767. He then took his appointed course in the service, employed in various offices in the Madras Presidency. In 1768 he was Secretary to the Field Deputy with the army under comd of Gen Joseph Smith, and in 1770 was appt as asst at Masulipatam, the then seat of Govt. Visited by his brother Philip in 1771 on his way to take up a cadetship in the Madras Presidency. Appt in 1775 a member of Council to Ganjam in Orissa, 350 miles N of Masulipatam, and later Paymr to the Army there and in the field Returning from there he obtained a post he had long desired, that of a member of council at Masulipatam.
In May 1780, John Peter went to Madras to receive his sisters, Bonne and Harriot (sic) and his brother Thomas, whom he had invited to India at his own expense. Bonne immediately m Lestock Wilson, Ch Offr of the ship she had come out in, at John Peter's house; Thomas went on to his destination, in Calcutta; and Harriot went back to Masulipatam with her brother until July 1781 when he took her to Bengal to leave her with their cousins the Droz's. On his return he applied himself to his affairs to such good effect that after eight years on the Council he was able to retire, having received a gentlemanly competence to England, and left in 1786 after an absence of more than 22 years. He then travelled through Ireland, Scotland, France and Switzerland At Versailles in 1786 he attended the last Drawing Room held by Louis XVI and Antoinette; and in Paris met his cousin Henri- Camille Boileau, later visiting Italy and Germany.
25 Nov 1790 he m Henrietta, dau and co-heiress of Rev George Pollen, at St George's Hanover Sq. They had issue: Henrietta Maria, John Peter iii, John Peter iv, Georgiana Augusta, George Pollen and Charles Lestock i. By unknown mothers in India he had two natural daus, Frances Maria and Harriet. They lived in London from 1791 to 1797, when they moved to Alcester, Warwickshire for the sake of John Peter iv's health, and in 1804 after a year at Ealing he bought from a Mr Fitzgerald a house and property at Mortlake, Surrey, which he renamed Castelnau Palce, and resided there a numeber of years. He later bought Tacolnestone Hall, near Norwich, but d at Castelnau Place, 10th March, 1837. His wife had received a large accession of property when her father d, amd their s George Pollen succeeded his grandfather as Rector and Lord of the Manor of Little Bookham, Surrey.
John had not only helped Bonne, Harriott and Thomas out to India, but after his return he also sent out his sister Margaret and two of his sister Charlotte's daus, besides six other nieces, who all m well. He also was able to obtain appts for, and otherwise assist, several nephews, other nieces and cousins, to the EIC's svc, and many of these highly prospered He was a Director of the French Hospital, and a trustee of the French Church in London.
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Sidney Holdrege found out some fascinating details about John Peter, who wasn’t as nice as what he should have been, in that he had at least one illegitimate daughter, called Harriet, and almost certainly another called Frances. Harriet is mentioned in his will “I hereby give and bequeath to my reputed daughter Harriet Boileau now living with me the annual sum of one hundred and ten pounds during her natural life...”. Frances isn’t mentioned, but there’s little doubt. Frances married John James Babington in Dublin in July 1809, at the house of Charles Faucette (Faulkner’s Journal refers to her as the “elegant and amiable Miss Boileau”). Harriet’s will mentions a sister, Fanny, and Frances named her first daughter Harriet.
[BBB] calls his issue the second English branch and gives lots of details. This John Peter is called John Peter i by [BBB]. John Peter was the first to go out to India (in 1764) in the East India Company, thus beginning a long connection between the Boileau family and India.
[BBB]: “The year 1764 is a momentous one in the family's history, for in it began the association with India which was to continue for nearly two centuries, and to play a great part in the lives of many of the Boileaus and their kin. The event which occurred in that year was the arrival in the country of John Peter i, at the age of 16, as a Writer in the Honourable East India Company's Service. At that time the Company was still primarily a commercial concern and its administrative and military activities were secondary and incidental. John Peter went out under the patronage of Brigadier General Caillaud, a kinsman, Commander of the Army of the Madras Presidency. He was employed in various offices in the Presidency, and accompanied the army in administrative capacities in some of the local wars, which were not very serious.
At last, after nine years of service, he obtained the appointment he had long wanted, as member of the Company's council at Masulipatam, in the northern part of the Presidency. This proved, as he had hoped, very profitable. The Company's employees were able to engage in private trading ventures, shipping goods home at favourable rates to a ready market. There was also a great deal of graft, in the manner of the time. And so John Peter prospered, and was able to give a helping hand to his family, by bringing out the men to seek their fortunes, and the girls to look for wealthy husbands. In all he assisted in this way two of his brothers, three sisters, half a dozen nieces, besides helping in obtaining appointments for various other connections. Most of them did well, the young women making good marriages so that the Boileau colony and its offshoots, mostly in the Bengal Presidency, waxed large and flourished.”
[BBB]: John Peter i also acquired the estate of Tacolnestone Hall, about 10 miles from Norwich, and thus initiated the connection of the family with the county of Norfolk, which was to last until 1949. The importance of the property was enhanced when John Peter iv, in 1836, bought Ketteringham Hall adjacent to Tacolnestone. This was an imposing Tudor mansion, standing in a wooded park of 500 acres, with a small lake. Altogether, John Peter iv owned about 9000 acres.
Again from BBB:15
b in Dublin 30 Nov 1747. In Dec 1763 went to London to his uncle Charles Daniel, and under the auspices and patronage of of Brig-Gen John Caillaud, with whom there was a family connection and who was appt C-in-C Forces on the Coromandel Coast of India, sailed for Madras in March 1764. On arrival there, he was nominated a writer to the EIC Civil Service. He lived with his patron, Gen Caillaud, acting as his secretary, until the latter's departure for Europe in 1767. He then took his appointed course in the service, employed in various offices in the Madras Presidency. In 1768 he was Secretary to the Field Deputy with the army under comd of Gen Joseph Smith, and in 1770 was appt as asst at Masulipatam, the then seat of Govt. Visited by his brother Philip in 1771 on his way to take up a cadetship in the Madras Presidency. Appt in 1775 a member of Council to Ganjam in Orissa, 350 miles N of Masulipatam, and later Paymr to the Army there and in the field Returning from there he obtained a post he had long desired, that of a member of council at Masulipatam.
In May 1780, John Peter went to Madras to receive his sisters, Bonne and Harriot (sic) and his brother Thomas, whom he had invited to India at his own expense. Bonne immediately m Lestock Wilson, Ch Offr of the ship she had come out in, at John Peter's house; Thomas went on to his destination, in Calcutta; and Harriot went back to Masulipatam with her brother until July 1781 when he took her to Bengal to leave her with their cousins the Droz's. On his return he applied himself to his affairs to such good effect that after eight years on the Council he was able to retire, having received a gentlemanly competence to England, and left in 1786 after an absence of more than 22 years. He then travelled through Ireland, Scotland, France and Switzerland At Versailles in 1786 he attended the last Drawing Room held by Louis XVI and Antoinette; and in Paris met his cousin Henri- Camille Boileau, later visiting Italy and Germany.
25 Nov 1790 he m Henrietta, dau and co-heiress of Rev George Pollen, at St George's Hanover Sq. They had issue: Henrietta Maria, John Peter iii, John Peter iv, Georgiana Augusta, George Pollen and Charles Lestock i. By unknown mothers in India he had two natural daus, Frances Maria and Harriet. They lived in London from 1791 to 1797, when they moved to Alcester, Warwickshire for the sake of John Peter iv's health, and in 1804 after a year at Ealing he bought from a Mr Fitzgerald a house and property at Mortlake, Surrey, which he renamed Castelnau Palce, and resided there a numeber of years. He later bought Tacolnestone Hall, near Norwich, but d at Castelnau Place, 10th March, 1837. His wife had received a large accession of property when her father d, amd their s George Pollen succeeded his grandfather as Rector and Lord of the Manor of Little Bookham, Surrey.
John had not only helped Bonne, Harriott and Thomas out to India, but after his return he also sent out his sister Margaret and two of his sister Charlotte's daus, besides six other nieces, who all m well. He also was able to obtain appts for, and otherwise assist, several nephews, other nieces and cousins, to the EIC's svc, and many of these highly prospered He was a Director of the French Hospital, and a trustee of the French Church in London.
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Sidney Holdrege found out some fascinating details about John Peter, who wasn’t as nice as what he should have been, in that he had at least one illegitimate daughter, called Harriet, and almost certainly another called Frances. Harriet is mentioned in his will “I hereby give and bequeath to my reputed daughter Harriet Boileau now living with me the annual sum of one hundred and ten pounds during her natural life...”. Frances isn’t mentioned, but there’s little doubt. Frances married John James Babington in Dublin in July 1809, at the house of Charles Faucette (Faulkner’s Journal refers to her as the “elegant and amiable Miss Boileau”). Harriet’s will mentions a sister, Fanny, and Frances named her first daughter Harriet.
Notes for Henrietta (Spouse 1)
[Lart, II, 13]
[BBB]: She and her sisters were the eventual co-heiresses to their father's considerable fortune, totalling over £12000 a year. The couple lived for some years in Mayfair, and then in Warwickshire. Finally in 1804, he bought a house on the south bank of the Thames at Mortlake, which he named 'Castelnau Place'. This was his principal residence until his death in 1837, at the age of 91. It them passed to his daughter Henrietta Maria, and was later occupied successively by Sir Henry Willock, who had married the daughter of Henrietta ii and Samuel Davis, and by their son, husband of Mary Elisabeth i. The house was eventually demolished.
[BBB]: She and her sisters were the eventual co-heiresses to their father's considerable fortune, totalling over £12000 a year. The couple lived for some years in Mayfair, and then in Warwickshire. Finally in 1804, he bought a house on the south bank of the Thames at Mortlake, which he named 'Castelnau Place'. This was his principal residence until his death in 1837, at the age of 91. It them passed to his daughter Henrietta Maria, and was later occupied successively by Sir Henry Willock, who had married the daughter of Henrietta ii and Samuel Davis, and by their son, husband of Mary Elisabeth i. The house was eventually demolished.