Person:Aaron LeStourgeon (1)

Aaron LeStourgeon, the oldest son of William and Mary Martha, was baptized at St. Brides, Fleet Street, London', 30 May 1742. One of the sponsors at his christening was his uncle, Aaron, the silversmith. See Section A. Aaron, the 2d, died 7 July 1820, aged 79, and was buried at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge. The widening of St. Mary's passage in 1845 took in that part of the churchyard where he was buried, so that the exact spot is not known.

Nothing is known of his childhood. Charles the younger wrote that Aaron was a clock maker and was ingenious at his trade. He also wrote that he remembered him in 1818, and describes him as being a small, thin man.

Aaron married Caroline Doux Saint in 1768 at St. George's, Hanover Square, London. She was born II September 1750, daughter of Peter James Doux Saint and Elizabeth Pain, his wife. She was baptized in her parents' home 7 October 1750, by Mr. Jean Blanc, pastor of Artillery French Church. Sponsors at the christening were her father and mother. She was a sister of Susannah Matilda Doux Saint, who married Aaron's brother Isaac.

Charles the younger wrote, " Caroline did not long survive the birth of her youngest child (Julia Louisa, 1785) and died at Wendover, Bucks, and was buried in the Doux Saint family vault in Christ Church, Spitalfields." However the records of that church do not record her burial there, and she was an executrix to the will of her sister, Elisabeth Doux Saint, spinster, of Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, proved in 1792.

Jane Harwood, wife of Aaron's son. Peter James, wrote that after the death of Caroline, Aaron went to France to live. While in France, he probably lived with his daughters, Caroline and Maria, who operated a school in Paris. Because of a lawsuit, he returned to London in 1809, and lodged with his son. Peter James, at No 8 Cross Street, London. In 1818 he went to Cambridge and lodged at the house of a Mrs. Preston, in the New-market Road, Barnwell, where he died in 1820. At that time his son, Charles the elder, was a surgeon on the staff of Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge.

1.   Percy Earl LeStourgeon, "The LeStourgeon Family: a Brief History", 1963.