THE CAVALIER FAMILY
I have had considerable help from other members of the Cavalier family in producing the details which follow, my own research produced only a small part until this help was forthcoming
I would like to publicly thank them for that help without which I may well have given up on all the research that has followed. I know that there exists details of this branch of the family tree back to the 1500's and that there is evidence of a family - one of many families of Cavaliers - that lived in le Gruchet, Normandy - Now France, Seine Maritime. Details of this line of ancestors will be given on this site to which you may well connect with your own branch of the family. But let us start with Jacques Cavalier b. Bolbec 1646 who married Marie le Duc from Valqueville , she was born 1640 and they married in Lintot in 1669 They had many children one of whom, Antoine born 167 in Rauville (Rouen) Normandy married Marie d'Ancre and they had a son James CAVALEAR,(sic) who married Marie Chevalier b. 21st February 1725 daughter of Joseph Chevalier of Normandie. (I have given certain names in Bold Type below as they are my direct line backward to 1560) Her name was later anglicised to Mary Knight, (recorded at St. Dunstan's Church, Spitalfields, London). She passed away at a great age, for those times, in the French Huguenot Protestant Hospital in London. Yes we are descended from Huguenots that fled from France in advance of the Camisars who were pursueing them because of religious persecution.
CHILDREN:
Mary Knightb: 25.3.1733 m: William Lockwood
Anthony Knightb:1739/40 m: Sarah Barrett
Richard Knight b:5.10.1746 m: Sarah Dupere
William b:5.11.1749 m: Mary Dupere (later shown as Dupree)
William was baptised 4.12.1749 recorded at St. Dunstan's
He married Mary Dupere daughter of Nathaniel Dupere and Elizabeth Jeffries on 21st May 1769 recorded also at St. Dunstan's
>Between the years 1776 and 1778 he was employed , as a Sergeant Marksman in the Yellow trained bands of the City of London. - (A little way, up Bishopsgate in London, not far from Liverpool Street Station, is the original Site of Spitalfields - read all about it on other pages of this site - Just past "Dirty Dicks" Tavern, turn right up Artillery Street which leads to the heart of the Spital Fields and the Artillery ranges of Henry VIII. At one time, this was the official place for Archery practice and later, gunnery practice).
THIS WAS A FAMILY OF SILK WEAVERS WHO BECAME DAIRYMEN. See the More Cavaliers page about how they lived their lives.
THEIR CHILDREN:
William baptised 3.2.1771 St. Dunstan's
Joseph b:24.7.1774 St. Dunstan's
Elizabeth baptised 1.10.1775 St. Dunstan's
James baptised 1.10.1780 St. Dunstan's
Mary Ann baptised 21.1.1786 St. Dunstan's
Joseph John Thomas baptised 16.11.1788 St.Dunstan's
George Augustus Frederick: b 7.9.1791 baptised 25.9.1791 St. Dunstan's m: Ann Loman 23.7.1809 St. Dunstan's Ann b: 1793 and died 14.3.1870
Lived at 80 Anthony Street Buried:StPaul and St. John in the East.
CHILDREN:
George Augustus Frederick b:5.8.1810 at 9 Sidney Street Stepney m: Charlotte Leicester.
William Henry b: 6.2.1813 .
Henry Joseph baptised 24.6.1821 St. Marys Whitechapel
Mary Ann b:1.10.1822 BAPTISED 21.10.1822 St. Leonards Shoreditch
Elizabeth Sarah b:12.3.1824 baptised 6.6.1824 St. Matthews Bethnal Green
Henry b: 12.3.1825 Bethnal Green m: Diana
Edward Cavalier (Daryman) b: 2.12.1819 St. Mathews Bethnal Green m: Elizabeth Harriett Ornsby 5.8.1845 Rotherhithe ( My Great Grandparents (Maternal))
shown as cow keepers (In fact they had quite a large dairy herd)
CHILDREN:
Edward Charles b: abt 1844 baptised 24.3.1844 St. Peters' Stpney D:28.4.1885 at 231 Oxford St. Mile End Edward was a dairyman.
Emma b: 1847 Stepney
Jessie b: abt. 1849 Stepney baptised 1849 St. Georges in the East m: William Twydell Sept 1870 in London at least one son Thomas Joseph b: Mile End 1871 who was living in a house with his Grandfather in 1901
Priscille (also shown as Pricilla) b: Jan 1851 St. George in the East
Edwin b: abt. 1853 Stepney baptised St. Georges in the East m: Mediem (possibly Midiam or Miriam) Delves who was his full cousin.
Alfred b: 1854 Stepney 19.4.1854 St. Georges in the East D: abt. 1898 m: Emma Hughes
George b: 1857 Died in London Hospital 15.9.1860 aged 3 after being knocked down by a horse and cart.
Arthur b: 8.11.1859 baptised 6.1.1860 Christ Church St. George in the East and m: Jane Elizabeth Mitchell 26.9.1887 at St. Stephens Walworth, Surrey
Mary Ann b: abt. 1862, Stepney baptised 1862 St. Georges in the East.m: John Nicholls
Clara Cavalier born 14.4.1864 in London (m): Ernest Edward Nicholass (My grandfather) 14.4.1884 in Leytonstone she died about September 1907 in West Ham London. She lived with her father Edward and his second wife Sarah (Lucas ) in 1881. Naturally, my father and his siblings were born of the union of Ernest and Clara and their details are on the Home Page.
This page is for the Cavalier Family as far as I can connect it with my Grandmother Clara Cavalier who married my Grandfather Ernest Edward Nicholass. There is another web site dedicated to the Cavaliers
http://www.cavalier-family.com
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