| These early Huguenot ancestors migrated from Switzerland and France to South Carolina. They had the following children, all born in Berkeley, SC: Pierre, Jacques, Susanne, Catherine (m Henry LeNoble), Demaris (m Pierre de St. Julien) and Marianne (m Isaac Mazyck). Susanne was born in 1654 and died in 1703. She married Jean Francois Gignilliat, the son of Abraham Gignilliat and Marie DeVille, who were French Huguenot refugees living in Switzerland. Jean Francois was born 17 May 1657 in Vevey, Switzerland and died in South Carolina 3 Sep 1699 at the age of 42. They had 7 children. Their son John (who had a twin brother, James) married Mary Magdalen DuPre, daughter of Cornelius DuPre and Jean Brabant. Mary Magdalen and John had two children who were my ancestors. They were Martha and James, born before Mary died in 1739 at the age of 28. James married Charlotte Pepper (see following). When Martha was 17, she married Samuel Porcher, son of Isaac Porcher and Rachel DuPre. They had a son, Peter. Martha died that same year, possibly in childbirth. Peter Porcher, born in 1753, married Elizabeth Yonge Wilkenson, daughter of Francis Yonge and Sara Clifford. Elizabeth, a widow, had been married less than a year to ? Wilkenson. She and Peter had a son, Francis Yonge Porcher, in 1789. Francis married first Sarah Julia Pelot and after her death, he married Susan Elizabeth Postell. He was 60 and Susan was 24. They had 3 children who lived to adulthood, Julia, Laura and Edward. Laura married Thomas Henry Allen and had a son, Laurance Porcher Allen. Laurance married Margaret Whitlock in Brevard Co. FL and they had 2 children. A daughter, Emily and a son, Laurance Daniel Allen. Laurance Daniel married Georgia Hoyle Drysdale and only child was Dorothy Eleanor Allen, my Mom. |
