1111 Jean Jaques Vully
Jean Jaques was born 17th July, 1766, in Geneva, the son of Marc Henri Vully and Anne Francoise nee Gundo.
Jean Jaques's birth was registered in Geneva on 24th July 1766. (From "A pedigree of de Candole", compiled by Mr. A. T. Butler, of the College of Arms in 1927).
He was "of Dunkirk and Paris".
He conducted a school for English pupils in Montmartre
When he came to England, he anglicised his name to "John James Vully"
In his marriage certificate he is described as “of Epping, Essex, Gentleman.” The Marriage Bond is dated 14th February, 1809. On the 18th of February 1809 in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, he married Mary Cruttwell. They had two children,
Louisa Mary, born 9 February 1811, died 1870. She was a gifted painter of minitures.
Henri Jean, born in Dunkirk on 30 December 1814.
Jean Jaques died in 1837 at age 70;
Mary Cruttwell
Mary was baptised in Westminster on 20th July 1778. She was the daughter of James Henry Cruttwell (1749–1810) and Mary nee Gomme (1750–1827).
Mary's father James Henry was one of ten sons of his parents. He appears in the list of Bankrupts, (vide Gents’ Mag. 1776). After that year very little is known of him. That he was alive and abroad in 1810 appears from the pleadings in a Chancery suit — Cruttwell versus Gomme and others — dated 16th November, 1810.
As for Mary's mother Mary - from "THE CHRONICLE OF CROTALL. CRHTHALL CRUTTALL. OR CRUTTWELE." by H.A. Cruttwell:-
Mary, widow of James Henry Cruttwell, died in 1827 ; her will dated 1st December, 1819, describes her as “of Stafford Place (Pimlico) late of Hammersmith.” By it she leaves her property to her two daughters, “ Mary, wife of John James Vully,” and “ Elizabeth, wife of John Samuel Agar.”
She had lived abroad in Dunkirk for some time, going there October 20th, 1815 — her daughter, Mrs. Vully, was living there till 1825.
The Chancery Suit “ Cruttwell v. Gomme ” was begun between 1794 and 1797 by Mary Cruttwell, wife of James Henry Cruttwell (who was then abroad) on behalf of herself and her three children (then under the age of 21 years) as plaintiffs, against her brother, John Gomme, and one William Roberts, the executors of the will of her father, James Gomme, builder, of Hammersmith, whose will was proved 19th October, 1793.
By that his Will James Gomme left to his daughter, Mary Cruttwell nee Gomme , “the beneficial use of the house in Angel Lane (Hammersmith) where she now lives,” and “ the *rental of a messuage near Hammersmith Bridge and a wharf there for her life, and, after her death, to her three children,” (James Henry, Mary and Elizabeth Cruttwell) : and also “ one fourth part of any rentals that might remain from his property after the executors had paid to his widow £200 per annum.”
* This amounted to some £140 per annum, and was awarded Mrs. Cruttwell by a decree of the Court, dated 13th May, 1801.
The executors did not carry out the provisions of the will : a case against them was begun in the Court of Chancery as above stated, and dragged along for over 20 years before being finally settled in Mrs. Cruttwell’s favour by a decree dated 16th July, 1820. That Mrs. Cruttwell occupied the house in Angel Lane at least until her daughters were both married, the younger in 1805, the elder in 1810, we know from Elizabeth Cruttwell’s letters ; but she got no money beyond the rentals before mentioned until 1820, when the Court awarded her £1,792 9s. 7½d. in cash, and £2,139 0s. 7d. in 3% consolidated annuities. The total costs of the suit amounted to £2,302 18s. 7d., which came out of the estate. She was also awarded possession of some copyhold property—this must be the “ copyhold property near Kew High Bridge ” which she mentions in her will and leaves to her two daughters “ Mary wife of John James Vully and Elizabeth wife of John Samuel Agar.” (Chancery Decrees and Orders, 1810-1820—there are 21 entries in the calendar of this suit in the ten years.) Her will was dated 1st December, 1819, and was proved in London in August, 1827.
Mary had a younger sister Elizabeth (who married portrait painter and engraver John Samuel Agar); Mary also had a younger brother James.
Mary died in Q2, 1854 in London.
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