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Chapter 4
Louis’s Marriage
Louis at the aged of twenty had become a very successful and prominent fish monger! He always dressed and behaved as a gentleman though.
The Count had to leave for Belgium and entrusted Louis to look after his sister Marie, who had just had her 4th birthday on September 15th 1815,
Pierre Simon and the Countess, his wife, returned to Belgium on the 16 September 1815 to sort out their business there.
At that point he had thought he would return very soon but events meant he did not come back for six years.
The Countess, Marie-Joséphine Detavaux de La Roche. died in April 1821 while in Belgium.
On his return The Count found that Richard Keening was Ill and bedridden with a degeneration of the bones in his legs and feet.
Celestine tells him that Louis has fallen in love and wishes to marry but there is a problem as the young lady involved (Isabelle Becket) is a descendent of Thomas a Beckett, her father being of the same name, Thomas Beckett. They lived in the next street with their back gardens facing.
Celestine told the Count how Thomas was against his daughter marrying a fishmonger, a trader.
Simon was enraged and said “they no not what he is, do they know who he is”
Celestine reminded him that even Louis did not know of his beginnings as he had never had cause to ask but the Count replied that he was a man now and he had a right to have the Royal pension in his own hand.
At this point Mr Thomas Beckett arrived at the door to confront the family. Simon led the man into the drawing room.
Marie Celestine introduced Count Pierre Simon De La Roche of Bruxielles to the enraged Mr Thomas Beckett and then excused her self that she had to attend her sick husband.
Thomas Beckett was carrying a reel of wire which he shows the Count and tells him it was the post pulley that had been attached between the two lovers bedroom and attached to it was a proposal of marriage.
He did not understand why a son of a Count was a fishmonger and the Count explained that he could not choose a life for his children that suited him, as each child chooses his own life.
He also said that Louis had chosen a good life and he was a kind and faithful man that he was a prince.
Simon saw Mr Becket out and reported the conversation to the waiting Marie Celestine and their daughter.
The Count knew the time had come to talk to his adopted son and explained that, according to his baptismal records of St Mary Moorfields, He was his father and his, late wife, his mother, but look into a mirror and there you will see the face of a Bourbon.
The Count passed over to Louis the Documents guaranteeing the payments of a pension on his behalf and his heirs in perpetuity.
From July 3 1821 it was to be paid to Louis personally out of the Royal treasury.
At dinner that night Louis announced that his wedding would take place on June the 12th following year 1822
While Simon was still in London the marriage took place at St Botolph’s Parish in Bishopsgate and afterwards at St Mary’s Moorfield’s catholic Church.
Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE (daughter of Pierre Simeon DE LA ROCHE and Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE) was born 15 Sep 1801 in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England and died 28 Nov 1883 in 9 St Thomas Rd., South Hackney, E London, England (Age 82). She married Henry Lewis KEENS ( an artist in London but was at the time a Wesleyans Preacher When they met)
They married on 16 Aug 1824 in Saint Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London, England.
Children of Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE and Henry Lewis KEENS are:
Henry Lewis KEENS, b. Abt. 1825, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
C J KEENS, b. Abt. 1828, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
+Mary Celestine KEENS, b. 24 Nov 1830, Whitechapel, London2298, d. date unknown.
Sebastian KEENS, b. 07 Oct 1842, Middlesex, London2299, d. date unknown.
Austin KEENS, b. Abt. 1834, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Andrew KEENS, b. Abt. 1836, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Christopher KEENS, b. Abt. 1838, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
John KEENS, b. Abt. 1839, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Ambrose M KEENS, b. Abt. 1842, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex2300, d. date unknown.
Peter C KEENS, b. Abt. 1845, Middlesex2300, d. date unknown.
Charles abdicated on 30 July 1830 at Rambouillet in favor of his grandson, the Comte de Chambord, and left for England. However, the liberal, bourgeois-controlled Chamber of Deputies refused to confirm the Comte de Chambord as Henri V. In a vote largely boycotted by conservative deputies, the body declared the French throne vacant, and elevated Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, to power.
After a sojourn in Britain, Charles later settled in Prague in the present-day Czech Republic. He died from cholera on November 6, 1836 in the palace of Count Michael Coronini Comberg zu Graffenberg at Gorizia, in present-day Italy, tended by his niece Marie-Thérèse. He is buried in the Church of Saint Mary of the Annunciation on Kostanjevica Hill, on what is now the Slovenian side of the border in Nova Gorica.
It was not until the dissolution of the kingdom in 1830 and the abdication of Charles X of France the same year that the Count could return back to London.
Belgium gained independence on November 10th 1830.
Richard Keening died in the November of that year and was laid to rest beside his only child.
On Christmas Eve of that year the archbishop called at Spanish Place to inform the family that the Count was to ill to travel home.
He had been wounded in October when the insurgent army bombarded Belgium but at the same time as Celestine was being informed Count Simon De La Roche passed away in his home land.
Louis La Roche 1796 – 1875 Isabella Beckett 1801 - 1872
Children are :-
Louis Thomas La Roche
1823
Augustine La Roche
1827 - 1874
Edmund La Roche
1828 - 1872
Isabella La Roche
1830 - 1876
Thomas La Roche
1831
Stephen La Roche
1834 - 1901
Celestin La Roche
1839 - 1848
Agnes La Roche
1842
Alfred La Roche my GG Grandfather
1843 – 1896
Fredrick La Roche 1845
Louis’s Marriage
Louis at the aged of twenty had become a very successful and prominent fish monger! He always dressed and behaved as a gentleman though.
The Count had to leave for Belgium and entrusted Louis to look after his sister Marie, who had just had her 4th birthday on September 15th 1815,
Pierre Simon and the Countess, his wife, returned to Belgium on the 16 September 1815 to sort out their business there.
At that point he had thought he would return very soon but events meant he did not come back for six years.
The Countess, Marie-Joséphine Detavaux de La Roche. died in April 1821 while in Belgium.
On his return The Count found that Richard Keening was Ill and bedridden with a degeneration of the bones in his legs and feet.
Celestine tells him that Louis has fallen in love and wishes to marry but there is a problem as the young lady involved (Isabelle Becket) is a descendent of Thomas a Beckett, her father being of the same name, Thomas Beckett. They lived in the next street with their back gardens facing.
Celestine told the Count how Thomas was against his daughter marrying a fishmonger, a trader.
Simon was enraged and said “they no not what he is, do they know who he is”
Celestine reminded him that even Louis did not know of his beginnings as he had never had cause to ask but the Count replied that he was a man now and he had a right to have the Royal pension in his own hand.
At this point Mr Thomas Beckett arrived at the door to confront the family. Simon led the man into the drawing room.
Marie Celestine introduced Count Pierre Simon De La Roche of Bruxielles to the enraged Mr Thomas Beckett and then excused her self that she had to attend her sick husband.
Thomas Beckett was carrying a reel of wire which he shows the Count and tells him it was the post pulley that had been attached between the two lovers bedroom and attached to it was a proposal of marriage.
He did not understand why a son of a Count was a fishmonger and the Count explained that he could not choose a life for his children that suited him, as each child chooses his own life.
He also said that Louis had chosen a good life and he was a kind and faithful man that he was a prince.
Simon saw Mr Becket out and reported the conversation to the waiting Marie Celestine and their daughter.
The Count knew the time had come to talk to his adopted son and explained that, according to his baptismal records of St Mary Moorfields, He was his father and his, late wife, his mother, but look into a mirror and there you will see the face of a Bourbon.
The Count passed over to Louis the Documents guaranteeing the payments of a pension on his behalf and his heirs in perpetuity.
From July 3 1821 it was to be paid to Louis personally out of the Royal treasury.
At dinner that night Louis announced that his wedding would take place on June the 12th following year 1822
While Simon was still in London the marriage took place at St Botolph’s Parish in Bishopsgate and afterwards at St Mary’s Moorfield’s catholic Church.
Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE (daughter of Pierre Simeon DE LA ROCHE and Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE) was born 15 Sep 1801 in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England and died 28 Nov 1883 in 9 St Thomas Rd., South Hackney, E London, England (Age 82). She married Henry Lewis KEENS ( an artist in London but was at the time a Wesleyans Preacher When they met)
They married on 16 Aug 1824 in Saint Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London, England.
Children of Marie Celestine DE LA ROCHE and Henry Lewis KEENS are:
Henry Lewis KEENS, b. Abt. 1825, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
C J KEENS, b. Abt. 1828, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
+Mary Celestine KEENS, b. 24 Nov 1830, Whitechapel, London2298, d. date unknown.
Sebastian KEENS, b. 07 Oct 1842, Middlesex, London2299, d. date unknown.
Austin KEENS, b. Abt. 1834, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Andrew KEENS, b. Abt. 1836, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Christopher KEENS, b. Abt. 1838, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
John KEENS, b. Abt. 1839, Middlesex, London, d. date unknown.
Ambrose M KEENS, b. Abt. 1842, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex2300, d. date unknown.
Peter C KEENS, b. Abt. 1845, Middlesex2300, d. date unknown.
Charles abdicated on 30 July 1830 at Rambouillet in favor of his grandson, the Comte de Chambord, and left for England. However, the liberal, bourgeois-controlled Chamber of Deputies refused to confirm the Comte de Chambord as Henri V. In a vote largely boycotted by conservative deputies, the body declared the French throne vacant, and elevated Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, to power.
After a sojourn in Britain, Charles later settled in Prague in the present-day Czech Republic. He died from cholera on November 6, 1836 in the palace of Count Michael Coronini Comberg zu Graffenberg at Gorizia, in present-day Italy, tended by his niece Marie-Thérèse. He is buried in the Church of Saint Mary of the Annunciation on Kostanjevica Hill, on what is now the Slovenian side of the border in Nova Gorica.
It was not until the dissolution of the kingdom in 1830 and the abdication of Charles X of France the same year that the Count could return back to London.
Belgium gained independence on November 10th 1830.
Richard Keening died in the November of that year and was laid to rest beside his only child.
On Christmas Eve of that year the archbishop called at Spanish Place to inform the family that the Count was to ill to travel home.
He had been wounded in October when the insurgent army bombarded Belgium but at the same time as Celestine was being informed Count Simon De La Roche passed away in his home land.
Louis La Roche 1796 – 1875 Isabella Beckett 1801 - 1872
Children are :-
Louis Thomas La Roche
1823
Augustine La Roche
1827 - 1874
Edmund La Roche
1828 - 1872
Isabella La Roche
1830 - 1876
Thomas La Roche
1831
Stephen La Roche
1834 - 1901
Celestin La Roche
1839 - 1848
Agnes La Roche
1842
Alfred La Roche my GG Grandfather
1843 – 1896
Fredrick La Roche 1845