Aieux Morris

Paroisse Saint-Sever à Rouen
Injumation Elizabeth Hilton

Inhumation de noble Dame elisabeth hilton, épouse de monsieur holker
Ce vingt-un de janvier mil sept cens Soixante Seize le corps de noble Dame elisabeth hilton, épouse de messire jean holker ecuier, chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de St louis, ancien Capitaine & inspecteur général des manufactures étrangères du royaume agée d'environ Cinquante ans, décédée d'hier, a été transporté [illisible] valentin, Curé de cette paroisse dans le monastère des dames gravelines où elle avait choisie sa sepulture, en présence de monsieur garvay, de messieurs guilbeaut, malleze sous signés

Signatures de Valentin
Mailleze
Guillibaud

Notes :
Religieuses Anglaises dites "Gravelines" (Ordre de Ste-Claire)
Couvent des Gravelines situé 24 rue de Joyeuse à Rouen

John Holker
Marriages:
Spouse: Hannah Hay Cooper
Marriage:
About 1780 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available. Ancestral File may list the same family and the submitter.

1773 28th. April Friday
John Holker, Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, and inspector-general of the woollen and cotton manufactures of France, died at Rouen, 28th April. He was born at Stretford, and baptised there 14th October, 1719. His parents were married at Manchester in 1715, and the name is found frequently at Monton. He was a “calendarer,” joined the rebels in 1745, and was taken prisoner at Carlisle. When in Newgate awaiting trial a fellow-prisoner found a means of escape from the same cell, but Holker was too bulky to pass through the “straightgate.” The generous comrade returned, and the two in company enlarged the hole and both escaped. Holker was concealed for six weeks by a woman who kept a green stall, but eventually escaped to France, where he entered the army, and retired on a pension of 600 francs in 1755. He had previously, in connection with partners, erected a velvet factory at Rouen, and in 1758 he retired with a fortune. He was inspector-general of foreign manufactures from 1755 until his death. In 1766 he established chemical works and introduced leaden chambers for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. He is said to have visited England secretly to induce English artisans to settle in France. He was nominated a Chevalier de St. Louis, 27th September, 1770. This remarkable life is given with the fullest detail in communications by Mr. J. G. Alger in the Palatine Note-book, vol. iv.,pp. 47, 111.(7)

JEAN HENRY HOLKER
Né en 1805
Décédé en 1844 , à l'âge de 39 ans

After Margaret’s sister Nancy (1777–1857) married her second husband, John Holker (d. 1820), in January 1815, they both sat for Stuart for companion portraits

[...] épouse de sieur Jean Baptiste Holker, planteur en Virginie Etats Unis d'Amérique

HON. JOHN HOLKER. "Of Scotch descent, was born in England in the year 1743. His father Jean Holker of France joined the army of the Pretender, fought at the battle of Culloden, 1746, was taken prisoner and condemned to be executed, but made his escape to France. His wife and child, John, then about two years old, followed him.
John Holker was sent to this country during the Revolutionary War about the year 1778 by the Government of Louis XVI, or rather by Beaumarchais, to inquire into the probability of the success of our armies against England.
On his favorable report the treaty was made between Louis and the United States. Mr. Holker was then made Consul General of France and agent of the Royal Marine. Mr. Holker brought letters to this country from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris and other members of Congress speaking in the highest terms of his segacity. " He married as his third wife Nancy Davis Stillman (nee Stackpole) of Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Holker then removed to Virginia and lived at "Springsberry," Clarke County, where he died in June, 1820. Being a Roman Catholic he was buried in holy ground in Winchester, but was reinterred at the Old Chapel in the Autumn of 1904.

Mariée le 10 octobre 1823, PARIS (75)