Like most genealogy projects there is always lots 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. This was the lucky break which established the link with a place in France - before that we had no idea where our French ancestors had come from. 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 Guilain, 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. Further research in Caen, Normandy, France has revealed that another 6 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 surviving 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 occupations requiring the need for extreme skill in wielding and caring for sharp instruments. The research has traced the family back through Pierre Loriot, born c1701 in Caen , another surgeon, to his father Jerome, also recorded as Hierosme, born 1666 in Tournebu south of Caen and his father, Jean. There are many Loriot records in nearby Falaise and it seems likely that the family may have originated there. 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 in Upper King's Street, Bloomsbury in February 1800 and 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 the various parish records, civil registrations, wills and census information I have reconstructed Jerome's family, however additional information is coming to light all the time. 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. There were some other unrelated Loriot's in London at the same time and they are mentioned at the bottom of this table.
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 Feb 1800 and was already 42 years of age so a prior marriage to Margaret Harrison is highly likely.
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). His name "Loriot" is derived from the French word for the Oriole, his family's heraldic animal. (Ref Wikipedia)
Origins of the Surnames of our French ancestors
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