As we go back through the generations and approach Peter and his parents, we find references to Ireland in death certificates and wills. The report from the Huguenot Society mentioned Peter, his parents, and some earlier GAUBERTs (some of whom remain unconnected), and an Irish connection. The connections in chronological order are -

1. the record of L. GAUBERT (Huguenot Library Vol. VI ' Irish Pensioners of The Huguenot Regiments')

2. the record of a Sergeant Etienne GAUBERT (from the Huguenot Library Vol. VI 'Irish Pensioners of The Huguenot Regiments'). The extract below is from Vivien Costello's Researching Huguenot Settlers In Ireland


'Given Wexford's importance as a port (in the 1680s a third of Ireland's timber exports were shipped from Wexford) and from the evidence of the 1684 petition, we can assume that most of the Wexford Huguenot community were either merchants or involved in maritime pursuits. Apparently the settlement was still expanding in the 1690s, since the Marquis de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway wrote a letter of introduction for Thomas Knox in London to Sir Robert Southwell 2 June 1692:

The bearer of this Mr. Knox being in treaty with several French Protestant merchants and others about transporting themselves and families to the town of Wexford in Ireland to which place he is also going with them, I could not press upon this occasion than recommend him to your Lordship for encouragement of having quitted his employment in the Prince's service in so good and profitable an undertaking for his Majesty's Service. (296)

No further records had been discovered about the 1680s mariner settlers and their descendants, all of whom apparently moved on to the US and elsewhere. In the early eighteenth century a new influx of Huguenot settlers came to the town. There does not seem to be any continuity between the 1680s settlers and the later ones.

The post-1700 settlers can be found mostly through the Wexford Church of Ireland registers and the Registry of Deeds, Dublin. They included 1702/1714 military pensioner Estienne Gaubert who had been a sergeant in Lifford's infantry regiment and had served in Ireland and Flanders for 9 years. (297) He established himself as a merchant in Wexford, residing in the parish of Selskars, and died on 3 February 1750. (298)


*296 British Library Add. MS. 34,079 also National Library Microfilm P. 763.
*297 Shaw, "The Irish Pensioners of William II's Huguenot regiments," p. 317.
*298 Registry of Deeds, Dublin book 42, deed no. 26739, p. 389, dated 8 June 1723.


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Selskar Abbey, Wexford, the former French Church (the 'permanent parking' would have been on the other side of the railings)

(Agnew)


3. the naturalisation of L. GAUBERT on the 2nd. May 1699 at the General Assizes held at the King's Old Castle near Cork (Huguenot Society - 'Aliens in England and Ireland 1603 – 1700')

4. Lt. Louis GAUBERT


He was incorporated into the Duke of Schomberg's regiment of French Horse as a reformed officer to commence from July 1st 1689, at 3s 2d per day (PRO WO 25/3145, no page or folio number). The regiment served under William III in Ireland between 1689 - 1691. Louis was listed among the officers of the Earl of Galway's (previously Schomberg's) Huguenot Regiment Of Horse for a pension of 2s 6d per day (£45 12s. 6d per annum) on the Irish Civil Establishment commencing May 1st 1699 (PRO T14/8 folio 8V). He was likewise listed on an Irish Civil Establishment of August 1st 1701 (PRO SP? 63/362 folio 1168). Gaubert, of Galway's Horse, had two commissions, as cornet and reformed lieutenant, with a pension of 2s 6d per day. He had served for 12 years including time in Holland, Ireland and Flanders. He had £130 in money. He was able to serve. He was disbanded in March 1698/9

Abstract 1702 PRO T 37/7 page 2 - Lieutent Gaubert (in 1706 ?) was an officer of horse on the Irish Establishment in a condition to serve (British Library Add. 38,8481 folio 1708)

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This information clearly shows that he came to England or Ireland already a soldier rather than joining when some of the regiments were raised subsequently in England. See extract below from internet -

A Little Bit of Ireland

The Irish Pensioners of William III's Huguenot Regiments, 1702. From Huguenot Society of London Proceedings,  vol. 6, No. 3, Nov. 1899


1. Dering's Covering Report

2. The Abstract


ABSTRACT OF THE EXAMINATION OF THE FRENCH PENSIONERS NOW ON THE CIVIL LIST OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IRELAND GALLOWAY'S REGIMENT

(Note: Pt.=Piedmont; Ire.=Ireland; Fl.=Flanders; Bran.=Brandenburg; Holl.=Holland; Com.=Commission)

 66 Gaubert 2 Com., Corn. And R. Lt 2s. 6d. Per diem Holl., Ire., and Fl., 12 yrs 130l in mony able to serve March, 1698-9
385 Gaubert Sergt, certify'd   Ire. And Fl., 9 yrs 200l that he trades with able to serve March, 1698-9


5. Sergeant Estienne (Stephen) GAUBERT of Lord Lifford's (previously Du Cambon's) Huguenot Regiment of Foot. This regiment also fought for William III in Ireland between 1689 - 1691. Military service : 9 years in Ireland and Flanders ;  pension 6d. per day; wealth 200 livres that he trades with; health able to serve; disbanded March 1699. He is on the 1714 Pension List. The Irish MS 1702 Pension Lists records that Estienne GAUBERT died on 03.02.1750. HERE is a link to a Treasury Warrant record for Stephen.

6. From 1536-1810 Index Prerogative Wills of Ireland (Vicars), the Will of Lewis GAUBERT, gentleman, of Waterford which was made on the 23rd.September 1709. This refers to his wife Mary GAUBERT nee Bernegi(?), and a sister, Thomasse the widow of Arnal(?). It was proved on the 22nd. December 1709 (Betham Collection, Public Records Office, Dublin).


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7. The Will of Stephen GAUBERT, shopkeeper, of Wexford which was made on the 28th March 1738 and proved on the 29th. June 1764. It refers to his wife Joanna GAUBERT, brother Peter GAUBERT, nephew Stephen Andre GAUBERT son of Peter GAUBERT, sister Susanna GAUBERT **(married to a Labat), and a niece Jane GAUBERT, daughter of Peter GAUBERT.

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see plans below

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diagram of the 1764 Will of Stephen Gaubert

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** from http://www.fermanagh-gold.com/search from which you can view re the 1536-1810 Index Prerogative Wills of Ireland (Vicars).xls, there are the following records

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1728 Labat Andrew  
1763 Labat Susanna Dublin


8. The death of Jeanne GAUBER, nee Lavau, on 24.04.1780 aged 25 yrs at Dublin (Huguenot Society

9.  The Will of Edward GAUBERT
made in 1764 at Dublin. He bequeathed his estate to Sarah GAUBERT, Elizabeth GAUBERT, and a Mr. and Mrs. Partington of Dublin. This suggests a degree of permanence in Ireland by him. He died c. 10th. August 1791. His estate actually passed to his natural father David GAUBERT. The Will

re Partington - 'Skinners Row, Dublin -John Partington, goldsmith, at the sign of the Kings Head mentioned – maybe 1666?

from 'House and Shop Signs in Dublin in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'
Author(s): Henry F. Berry,
source: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Fifth Series, Vol. 40, No.2, [Fifth Series, Vol. 20] (Jun. 30, 1910), pp. 81-98
Published by: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25514060  


10. The death of Edward GAUBERT
on 10.08.1791 in Dublin. Obviously, by date of death, the same Edward as at para above.


11. The death of Alfred GAUBERT
on 25.01.1927 at Magerafelt Co. Londonderry  


12. French Huguenot surnames

The Parliament of Ireland in 1674 passed an Act granting letters of naturalization to Protestant refugees predominantly from France who were known as Huguenots. Colonies were established in Dublin, Kilkenny, Portarlington, Waterford, Cork and Lisburn, and they started the manufacture of silk, gloves, lace, cloth, and linen.

Examples of Huguenot surnames are:
Barre, Blacquiere, Boileau, Chaigneau, Du Bedat, Champion, Chenevix, Corcellis, Crommelin, Delacherois, Drelincourt, Dubourdieu, Du Cros, Fleury, Gaussen, Logier, Guerin, Hazard (Hassard), La Touche, Le Fevre, Lefroy, Lefanu, Maturin, Perrin, Saurin, Trench, Des Vignolles, Alee, Alancon, Alenet, Allaire, Arman, Armingaud, Aubert, Auduoin, Audoyer, Augier, Balaguner, Bally, Barbat, Barbault, Barnet, Barnier, Barré, Basal, Batier, Bazier, Beaulieu, Bereau, Beranger, Bernard, Bernatre, Bertrant, Boileau, Bonnin, Bourdage, Bourgeau, Bourgeois, Boureau, Brocas, Brocard, Brùguyere, Bruneau, Brunel, Buchese, Blanchard de Feyrae, D'Aubessargues, De Belrieu de Virazel, De Blosset de Loche, Bues, Buisson, Bulleau, Butaud, Canier, Carrier, Casal, Castex, Cavalier, Cayre, Chaigneau, Chapeau, Chaperon, Charles, Charretier, Charrurier, Chateau, Clausel, Coilhot, Coipel, Colbran, Constantin, Courré, Croulliane, Dabzac, Danboix, Daniell, Danjeau, Darassus, Dartis, Daudet, David, Daygue, De Blancons, De Belet, De Brasselay, De Gualy, De Laurier, De Laval, De Lescale, Delon, Desbrisay, Desouches, D'Olier, D'Ortous, Drope, Du Bedat, Dubout, Dutour, Dumaresq, Dumas, Du Moulin, Dupee, Duport, Dupuy, Duval, Engles, Erck, Fabré, Favre, Fauché, Farrange, Fontaine, Fournier, Gagnon, Galan, Ganbond, Gardie, Gau, Gaubert, Gerard, Giadelle, Gignoux, Girard, Gouriveau, Goyer, De Boullanse, De Champlorier, De Saint Mesmin, Gradel, Guibal, Guillen, Guion, Guizot, Hanzard, Hurard, Jervais, Jonglas, Joteau, La Bastide, La Bernard, La Coste, La Faye, Lafont, Lanchereau, Landré, Langlade, La Pierre, La Porte, La Roche, La Salle, Lasatte, Lasserre, Latrobe, Laudreau, Lauray, Laureus, Lautar, La Vallée, Lavau, Lebac, Le Bas, Le Blanc, Leger, Le Gout, Le Grand, Le Presleur, Lesperance, Leveraud, Lime, Lonchant, Loret, Luillet, Lunel, Maisouevre, Malet, Mangin, Marboeuf, Marlande, Martin, Martineau, Masse, Masseau, Maurice, Mauze, Mazel, Maziere, Mercier, Merle, Meteyres, Millier, Mimet, Mingaud, Miot, Mocler, Montgrand, Moreau, Mottett, Nicolas, Niyolas, Noyret, Olivier, Pechels, Peirol, Pellissier 




13. The Huguenots by Mona Germaine-Dillon (This article was originally published in Irish Family History, journal of the Irish Family History Society (volume Xlll 1997)


14. The Huguenots in Ireland, CEJ Caldicott, H. Goough, J.P. Pittion, 1987
Silver Sails & Silk Dr. Alicia St. Leger, 1991
Ireland's Debt to the Huguenots, S.J. Knox, 1959

To discover in the heart of our capital city, Merrion Row, Dublin, a graveyard with the inscription over the gateway 'Huguenot Cemetery - 1693' is certain to prompt the question 'Who were the Huguenots, and how did they come to be here?' It was the Duke of Ormond, James Butler, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the specific intention of improving skills and industries here, who invited the Huguenots to Ireland. WHO CAME? They came from every walk of life - for instance Henri Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, later created Lord Galway, came from the Court of Versailles where he was Director General. Other came from important posts in the French army and navy, and from every possible profession, trade and craft. In Dublin they settled in the Liberties bringing with them their skills and traditions. Silk was manufactured in Dublin and a determined effort was made in Innishannon to propagate mulberry trees and obtain silk from the silk worms fed their leaves - the climate, however, proved to be unsuitable. Huguenots were also engaged in exporting and importing, especially wines and brandy. They were also property developers, farmers, horticulturists, and growers of vegetables. They were also engaged as gold - and silversmiths, in sugar baking (about 30 sugar bakers in Dublin alone), glass blowing, boat building, fishing, sail making. Cork had the largest centre in these islands where the Besnard family had one thousand workers employed in sail making - needed at that time for battleships, sailing ships, clippers, fishing boats etc. By the end of the seventeenth century Dublin was becoming the major social and intellectual centre in the English-speaking world. Shipping and population statistics underline the unprecedented acceleration of Dublin's growth in the years between the Battle of the Boyne and the death of George l. Similarly the increase of the provision export trade was transforming Cork. There appears to be no evidence of overt hostility to the French arrivals, despite their alien language and customs. This may have been due to the relatively small size of their communities and the fact that they had to seek refuge from horrendous persecution and flee their country with nothing but what they stood up in - they had, of course their education and their skills.

15. PROTESTANT EXILES FROM FRANCE
OR, THE HUGUENOT REFUGEES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND BY REV. DAVID C. A. AGNEW - where Cornet Gaubert is recorded.


16. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/surname/hug2.html - Huguenot GAUBERT is one of the names included in 'HUGUENOT FAMILIES' by Pat Traynor. In it, is TABLE II, a list of foreign refugees who settled in Great Britain and Ireland. (1643-1714) taken from "Irish Pedigrees",vol.2, by John O'Hart. Pub 1892, Dublin.


17. Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1837 about John Gaubert (from Ancestry.com)



Name: John Gaubert
County: Queens
Parish: Durrow
Townland: Dunmore
Year: 1879

I don't yet know where John fits in to either the earlier Irish Gauberts or London Gauberts.



18. Gertrude Maud Gaubert (born 1864)
, daughter of Alfred Gaubert (1841 - 1927)
.

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1901 ireland census

1911 family return

1911 ireland census


19. The Betham Collection - after more than 50 years of waiting, the Gaubert records from the Betham Collection have become available on findmypast.co.uk. The abstracts and genealogical sketches were created by herald Sir William Betham. The notebooks are an excellent substitute for the records lost in the 1922 Public Record Office fire in Dublin.

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Betham 01 - Betham's Genealogical Abstracts Prerogative Wills.(Phillips Mss) G. 1700-1765 Betham 02 -
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Betham 03 - Betham 4a - Susanne Labat, widow of Dublin, dated January 24th 1763, proved the 13th of July 1763. Mentions nephew David Gaubert, cousins Jane Mary, Elizabeth daughter of ... (see below)
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Betham 4b (continuation of Betham 4a) - of Mr. Seigneson Augier Sobre - niece Elizabeth Ward nee Gaubert the wife of Edward Ward; nephews Stephen, David, John Peter Gaubert (if this is 'John Peter' rather than 'John" and 'Peter' then it is a different John Peter to the one who was a Baltic trader and who then went to Russia to start a papermill); niece Elizabeth Judith Gaubert spinster.
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Betham 05 - the burial of Jeanne Gaubert nee Lavau, died 24th April aged 25 years and interred on the 24th April 1780 and interred the following day, the 25th, on the Green in Dublin Betham 06 - Louis Gaubert, gentleman, of Waterford, Will made 23rd Sept 1709, married: spouse Mary Bernege; sister Thomas Gaubert wife of Arnal. Will proved 22nd Dec 1709.
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Betham 07a - Will dated 1764 of Stephen Gaubert, shopkeeper of Wexford; brother Peter Gaubert Betham 07b - continuation of Betham 07a - wife: Joanna Gaubert nee Conish, nephew Stephen Andre Gaubert the son of Peter Gaubert; sister Susanna Gaubert nee Labat; niece Jane Gaubert the daughter of Peter Gaubert; nephew William Fox; niece Mary Barnwell (?)