Like most genealogy projects there is always something more to find out about a family and I would be delighted to to hear from anybody who has additional information about the Loriot family in France, UK, Australia, and USA . I am also researching the families who are connected along the way, follow this link for our family names. Please email me here , then edit the email address replacing (AT) with "@" symbol and (DOT) with a fullstop. (This reduces the chances of spammers "harvesting" my email address, thanks) Discovering the Family In 1802 Jerome Loriot wrote his last will and testament in London and in January 1805 it was proved. His will names his immediate Loriot family and is a wonderful framework for connecting most of the Loriot records from around that time. Jerome seems to have been a childless "Gentleman" with financial interests in a number of properties in London. He lived at No. 5 Great Maddox Street, Hanover Square, London and a notice in the London Times dated 20th April 1805 advertises the executors' sale of his leasehold property at No. 10 Conduit Street, Hanover Square. A mention in a nephew's will shows that Jerome had also owned a property at No. 24 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, St Marylebone. In his will he bequeathed a fifth share of his assets to each of his 3 brothers living in London and the children of a deceased sister and brother in Caen, Normandy, France. His will names his siblings, brothers August(e) - a stationer in New Bond Street, Baptist(e) - a perfumer of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, Edward - of Arlington Street, Piccadilly, sister Constance and brother Guillain, both deceased of Caen. His brother, August, and John Vaux, gentleman, of Bennett Street near Great George Street, Westminster are named as executors of the will. However, research in Caen, Normandy, France has revealed that another 7 siblings were baptised there between 1752 and 1769. Their parents were Jean-Jacques Thomas LORIOT and Marie-Therese LE BACHELET who were married in St Pierre, Caen in 1750. Evidently only 5 of the siblings went on to have children of their own and that is why they are the beneficiaries of the will. Jean-Jacques was a surgeon, wigmaker, dentist and barber - an extraordinary combination in our modern eyes but at that time all sharing the need for extreme skill in wielding and caring for sharp instruments. The research in Caen has traced the family back to Pierre Loriot, born 1701, who was also a surgeon, and almost certainly to Jerome, born c1675. There are various newspaper reports and directory entries about the family in London. On the 19th October 1795 the London Times reports the following:- "Thursday night the shop of Mr. Loriot, in Bond Street, was broke open, and robbed of several articles of plate, together with Bank notes and cash to the amount of 350 Pounds." Holden's London & Country Directory 1811 Vol 1 Page 290 lists Auguste Loriot as "stationer, perfumer, & toyman, 65, New Bond-st." The same directory lists Mr. Edward Loriot as living at 44 South-st, Grosvenor-squ. and Mr. John Loriot at 87 East-st, Manchester-squ. Auguste also appears in Wakefield's, Bailey's, UBD and Holden's directories between 1785 and 1817 and is recorded as being a Warrant Holder to the Prince & Princess of Wales between 1802 and 1811. His brother John Baptiste Toussaint is recorded as being a hairdresser and perfumer at 6 Orange Street, Bloomsbury in Holden's 1805 directory. (Orange Street and Hart Street, mentioned in the will, led into one another) Gathering together various parish records, wills and census information I have linked up Jerome's family. However there are a few loose ends which cannot be explained at this stage and there are also details of some other Loriot's in London who are included at the bottom of this table. Exact dates and sources of information can be seen on the family tree at the link http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=crossland.
Children of Jean-Jacques Thomas LORIOT & Marie-Therese LE BACHELET,
who were born in Caen, France and baptised at either St. Pierre or Notre
Dame du Rue Froide.
*NOTE: I have no proof that the John Baptiste who married Susannah c1793 (and had children John Baptiste & Susannah Adelaide) IS John Baptiste Toussaint however the chances of there being 2 in London around the same time is remote. He was definitely in London by 1802 and was already 45 years of age so a marriage prior to Margaret Harrison is highly likely. If my assumption is correct, the child John Baptiste must have died before the 2nd one was born in 1809.
Loriot Trivia The word "loriot" is the French word for the oriole, a migratory songbird - see painting at Top of Page. In 1745, a French artist named Antoine-Joseph Loriot wanted a new type of art medium since the ones he used smeared too easily. Loriot set to work to invent something better. For years, he experimented with waxes and colored powders. He discovered that beeswax worked very well, so he formed little "colored sticks of hardened wax." The problem was, beeswax was hard to come by, and it was very expensive. Nonetheless, Loriot liked the little coloring sticks and made them for his artist friends to try. Unfortunately, the little coloring sticks did not catch on. He tried other kinds of waxes, but they melted too easily. Loriot knew his idea was a good one, even though the sticks weren't successful during his lifetime.(Ref Crayola Crayon History, Mary Bellis, 2002) Antoine-Joseph Loriot, was a noted
French inventor (Anderson 1994). He was said to have found the best way
of fixing pastels with equal quantities of Loriot was an American sailing ship involved in exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. This brig took a member of a United States presidential expedition to survey land and the inhabitants of the area in the 1830s.(Ref Wikipedia) Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow (short: Vicco von Bülow, born November 12, 1923 in Brandenburg an der Havel), more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, is a German humorist, graphic artist and director, actor and writer. He is most famous for his cartoons, the sketches from his 1976 television series Loriot, alongside Evelyn Hamann, and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa ante portas (1991). The name "Loriot" is derived from the French word for the Oriole, his family's heraldic animal. (Ref Wikipedia)
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