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Family of Peter Romilly and Margaret Garnault

Husband: Peter Romilly

  • Name:

  • Peter Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Stephen (Etienne) Romilly (1678-1733)

  • Mother:

  • Judith de Monsallier (1681-1758)

  • Birth:

  • 1712

  • London

  • Baptism:

  • 15 Feb 1711/12 (age 0)

  • St Martin Orgar, London (Pierre Romilly)

  • Occupation (1):

  •  

  • Watchmaker & jeweller, Frith Street, Soho

  • Occupation (2):

  • 3 Oct 1770 (age 57-58)

  • Elected as a Director of the French Hospital

  • Death:

  • 29 Aug 1784 (age 71-72)

  • Paddington, Middlesex

Wife: Margaret Garnault

  • Name:

  • Margaret Garnault

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Aymé Garnault (1670-1738)

  • Mother:

  • Margaret Benoist (1690-bef1741)

  • Birth:

  • 1714

  • London

  • Baptism:

  • 17 Mar 1714/15 (age 0-1)

  • Saint Michael Bassishaw, London

  • Will:

  • 3 Nov 1762 (age 47-48)

  • Mentioned in will of brother, Peter Garnault

  • Death:

  • 30 Apr 1796 (age 81-82)

  • Paddington, Middlesex

Child 1: Michael Peter Romilly

  • Name:

  • Michael Peter Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1744

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 16 Aug 1744 (age 0)

  • Westminster, Middlesex (Michel Pierre Romilly)

  • Death:

  • 1744 (age 0)

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Burial:

  • 30 Dec 1744

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

Child 2: Margaret Romilly

  • Name:

  • Margaret Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 1745

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 30 Oct 1745 (age 0)

  • Westminster, Middlesex (Marguerite Romilly)

Child 3: Sarah Romilly

  • Name:

  • Sarah Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 1746

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 5 Jan 1747 (age 0-1)

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Death:

  • 1747 (age 0-1)

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Burial:

  • 17 Sep 1747

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

Child 4: Anne Romilly

  • Name:

  • Anne Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 5 Feb 1747

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 11 Feb 1747 (age 0)

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

  • Death:

  • 1749 (age 1-2)

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Burial:

  • 15 Jan 1748/49

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

Child 5: Mary Romilly

  • Name:

  • Mary Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 17 Jan 1749

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 7 Feb 1749 (age 0)

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

Child 6: Judith Romilly

  • Name:

  • Judith Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 23 Feb 1752

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 17 Mar 1752 (age 0)

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

Child 7: Thomas Peter Romilly

Child 8: Catherine Romilly

  • Name:

  • Catherine Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • John Roget (1751-1783)

  • Children:

  • Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869)

  • Birth:

  • 1755

  • Westminster, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 14 Feb 1755 (age 0)

  • St Anne Soho, Westminster, Middlesex

  • Death:

  • 6 Aug 1835 (age 79-80)

  • Ilfracombe, Devon

Child 9: Samuel Romilly

  • Name:

  • Samuel Romilly

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Anne Garbett (1773-1818)

  • Note 1:

  • Sir Samuel Romilly was an English legal reformer whose chief efforts were devoted to lessening the severity of English criminal law. His attacks on the laws authorizing capital punishment for a host of minor felonies and misdemeanours, such as begging by soldiers and sailors without a permit, were partly successful during his lifetime and contributed to reforms carried out after his death.

    Called to the bar in 1783, Romilly became known as the outstanding chancery lawyer in England and served as chancellor of Durham from 1805 to 1815. In 1806 he was appointed solicitor general, entered the House of Commons, and was knighted. Influenced by the libertarianism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he supported the French Revolution in its early stages, though conservative reaction in England to that revolution’s excesses subsequently hindered his work. His program for the mitigation of punishment in criminal law was based in part on the criminology of Cesare Beccaria and the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Distressed by the death of his wife, Romilly committed suicide in 1818. His Memoirs appeared in 1840.

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

  • Note 2:

  • Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), was the youngest son of Peter Romilly, a Huguenot, and Margaret, daughter of Aime Garnault, a French emigre. Romilly, who was successively the Member of Parliament for Queensborough, Horsham, Wareham, Arundel and Westminster, was an influential law-reformer and philanthopist, whose political theories were inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He campaigned vigorously to reduce the number of cases for which the dealth penalty was applicable and favoured the emancipation of catholics and slaves. Romilly had six sons and one daughter by his wife, Anne, of which the second, John, was created Baron Romilly.

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  • Birth:

  • 1 Mar 1757

  • Frith Street, Soho, London

  • Baptism:

  • c. Mar 1757 (age 0)

  • Saint Anne Soho, Westminster

  • Death:

  • 2 Nov 1818 (age 61)

  • Russell Square, London

  • Burial:

  • 11 Nov 1818

  • St Michael, Knill, Herefordshire (aged 62)

Note on Child 9: Samuel Romilly (1)

Sir Samuel Romilly was an English legal reformer whose chief efforts were devoted to lessening the severity of English criminal law. His attacks on the laws authorizing capital punishment for a host of minor felonies and misdemeanours, such as begging by soldiers and sailors without a permit, were partly successful during his lifetime and contributed to reforms carried out after his death.

Called to the bar in 1783, Romilly became known as the outstanding chancery lawyer in England and served as chancellor of Durham from 1805 to 1815. In 1806 he was appointed solicitor general, entered the House of Commons, and was knighted. Influenced by the libertarianism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he supported the French Revolution in its early stages, though conservative reaction in England to that revolution’s excesses subsequently hindered his work. His program for the mitigation of punishment in criminal law was based in part on the criminology of Cesare Beccaria and the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Distressed by the death of his wife, Romilly committed suicide in 1818. His Memoirs appeared in 1840.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Note on Child 9: Samuel Romilly (2)

Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), was the youngest son of Peter Romilly, a Huguenot, and Margaret, daughter of Aime Garnault, a French emigre. Romilly, who was successively the Member of Parliament for Queensborough, Horsham, Wareham, Arundel and Westminster, was an influential law-reformer and philanthopist, whose political theories were inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He campaigned vigorously to reduce the number of cases for which the dealth penalty was applicable and favoured the emancipation of catholics and slaves. Romilly had six sons and one daughter by his wife, Anne, of which the second, John, was created Baron Romilly.

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