SECOND GENERATION

4. Peter Louis De REYNAUD ⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1632 in Paris, France. He was naturalized in Oct 1688 in London, , , England. He died on 12 Sep 1718 in Dublin, Cork, Ireland. He has Ancestral File number 1CL3-TWX. Pierre Reynaud, the third son of General Louis Reynaud, was born in 1632, and entered the military service of the Duc de Crequy who was appointed military Governor of Paris in 1676. He married Sarah Regnaut of Artois and fathered four children before he and his wife left France for England. Pierre (Peter) Reynaud probably went to England between 1685 and 1687 with his brothers Louis and Benjamin. His wife Sarah and their children probably joined him in the spring of 1688, having left France by the normal channels which required emigrants to abjure Protestantism and take mass as Catholics. Sherman Reno says that Sarah Regnaut had an older brother, Michel Regnaut, who apparently preceded Peter and Sarah to England. On August 19, 1688, Peter Reynaud and his family were granted a Letter of Denization (Huguenot Society of London Publications, Quarto Series, Vol. XVIII. "Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England and Ireland, 1603-1700", p. 210-214). See The Colonial Genealogist, Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1972, p. 226: "August 19, 1688. Denization to severall persons, Our will and pleasure is, that you prepare A Bill for our Royall Signature, to passe our Greate Seale, for the making of -- Peter Reynaud; Sarah, his wife; Peter; Lewis; Esther; and Marque-Frances, their children; being all alien borne free denizens of this our Kingdome of England. And that they and every one of them have and enjoy all rights, privileges and immunityes as other French made free denizens, do now enjoy. Provided that they live and continue with their familys within our Kingdome, or elsewhere within our Dominions. And the sayd Denization to be forthwith passed under the Great Seale, without any fees or charges whatsoever, to be payd by the sayd persons in the passing thereof. And for so doing, this shall be your warrant. Given at Windsor the 19th day of August, 1688. To our Attorney or Solicitor Generall. James II, Rex" (S.P. Dom. Car. 11, Entry Book 67, 1688 August 19, Patent Roll Oct. 10, 1688, P.R. 4, james II, part 10; Historical Mss., Commission Reports; Huguenot Society of London, Reports, Vol. 18; List of Naturalizations and Denizations in England and Ireland, 1600-1700.) By the Act of 1708, all prior prerogative denizations were converted into parliamentary naturalizations, retrospectively [Blackstone], and repeal of this Act in 1711 did not disturb the validity of these naturalizations which had already vested under the previous Act.
The passenger lists of the ships which brought French Huguenots to Manakin Town in Virginia in 1700 contain only one name under any variation of Reno: "Pierre Reynaud, landed at the James River on September 20, 1700, from the ship 'Peter & Anthony', Danial Pearrey, Capt.". It is known that Marque-Frances Reynaud married Capt. Peter de la Billiere on Feb. 21, 1708 at St. Bennet's Church in London, and moved to Ireland where the couple had six children (Registers of Ste. Mary's and St. Patrick's French churches in Dublin, Ireland; Wm. L. Reno). Esther Reynaud, another daughter of Peter Reynaud, appears to have married Captain Benjamin Malide and moved to Ireland, where a son David Samuel Malide was born on March 10, 1710 (Wm. L. Reno 1975). Peter Reynaud died in Dublin on September 11, 1718 at the age of 86, and was buried there (Huguenot Soc. of London Publ., Quarto Series, Vol. VII, Registers of the French Conformed Churches of St. Patrick and St. Mary, Dublin, p. 219). It thus appears that if he was the Pierre Reynaud listed on the ship Peter & Anthony, that he returned to Ireland before his death in 1718. Nothing is known about his son Lewis who is listed in the letter of Denization, and it is possible that the Pierre Reynaud that came to Manakin Town was from another family, and that this Pierre Reynaud and his family never went to the colonies.

He was married to Sarah REGNAUT OF ARTOIS (daughter of Jean REGNAUT and Ester Du Rez DU PONT) about 1670 in Place Les Clouseau, Blois, France. Sarah REGNAUT OF ARTOIS ⁽³⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born in 1648 in St. Tricat, Artois, France. She died on 16 Apr 1688. She has Ancestral File number GQMP-G8. Peter Louis De REYNAUD and Sarah REGNAUT OF ARTOIS had the following children:

13 i. Peter Lewis REYNAUD⁽³⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born about 1674 in Of, Valence, Dauphin, France. He has Ancestral File number GJP6-XD. Probably was the Peter Reynaud who took passage to the James River in the Colony of Virginia with other Huguenot settlers of Manakin Town on the ship Peter and Anthony which landed there on 20 September 1700. Large movement of abt. 500 French Huguenots from England to Virginia sent in four vessels to the James River at Manakin Town, 20 miles above the Falls of the James River and northwest of the present site of Richmond. An Act of Naturalization was issued in 1707 for "Peter Lewis Reynaud (Regneau), son of Peter Reynaud by Sarah, his wife, born at Paris in France" (Huguenot Society of London Publ., Quarto Series, Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England and Ireland, 1701-1800, p. 57, Naturalization Act of 1707; Wm. L. Reno 1975).

+14 ii. Eester REYNAUD.
+15 iii. Marque Francoise REYNAUD.
16 iv. Lewis REYNAUD⁽³⁾⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ was born between 1668 and 1687.