Henri Raoul Antoine de BOURBEL 6th Marquis Montpinon [15568]

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THE NOBILITIES OF EUROPE
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DE BOURBEL. Raoul Antoine Henri (de Bourbel), 6th MARQUESS OP BOURBEL- MONTPINON (MARQUIS DE BOURBEL DE MONTPINON) [F.], Colonel of the " garde de la maison rouge du Roi " in 1791 [great-great-grandson and heir of Jacob (de Bourbel), 1st Marquess, who proved his noblesse before M. Barrin de la Galissonniere, Intendant de la generality de Rouen, 11 Jan. 1668], fled to England during the Revolution, and was naturalized for himself and his heirs as " Antoine Raoul Henry, Comte Bourbel, eldest son of Louis Antoine Raoul, Marquis de Bourbel-Montpincon, formerly of Dieppe in France, but now of Nassau Street in the parish of St. Anne, Soho, co. Midx." by royal letters patent 23 May 1797. He returned to France on the Restoration, and d. there 1825. He had m. at Lewes in Sussex, Mary Anne, da. of ( ) Spence, by whom he left an only surviving son, Harold Augustus, 7th Marquess, who entered the French Diplomatic Service and d. in America, having m. at the Chapel of the British Embassy in Paris and at the Madeleine 1828, Constance Bulkeley, who d. at Florence 9 Apr. 1838.
His children came to England in 1838, having been left under the guardianship of their mother's brother-in-law, ( ) Bulkeley of Linden Hill, and since then the family have remained in this country.

Raoul, the late Marquess, was a Major-General R.E., and his two brothers, Harold Henry and Augustus Alfred, had commissions in the 4th Dragoon Guards and 10th Hussars respectively.
Cecile Aurelie, eldest child of the 7th Marquess, was b. at Montpin?on 10 June 1828; m. at Knowle Hill Church, co. Berks, 25 Oct. 1850, Capt. Henry Creed, Bombay Horse Artillery, and had issue 4 sons and 6 das., of whom the eldest, Augusta Constance Alise, m. at Rajkot Church, Kattiawar, India, Henry Faure Southcote Aston, Barrister-at-Law, Judge of His Majesty's High Court, Bombay.
Ref: https://archive.org/stream/nobilitiesofeuro01ruviuoft/nobilitiesofeuro01ruviuoft_djvu.txt

Image Courtesy of J Quinlan. 2014

  Research Notes:

Birth & death dates from Noy Family Tree Ancestry - 2020

  Other Records

1. Antoine Raoul Henry Marquis DeBourbel: Will, 11 May 1826.
Probate Date: 14 Jun 1827

Henri married Mary Anne SPENCE [21635] [MRIN: 5531] on 2 Feb 1795 in St Anne Soho Westminster LND. (Mary Anne SPENCE [21635] was born on 6 May 1770 in Sth Malling SSX, baptised on 25 Dec 1770 in St Paul Shadwell MDX and died on 16 Oct 1821 in Kensington MDX.)