| Description | Jacques Chard, a man of around 70, requests to be admitted to the Hospital. His parents were Jeanne Dessoul and Jeremie Chard, who was a carpenter working on ships in Cork. Jeremie was baptised by Rev M Mattrosse but the church and registers were destroyed during a flood, in 1796. Jeanne Dessoul's father, Etienne Dessoul, was originally from La Rochelle and fled to Cork after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was an architect employed to survey the building of the French Church in French Church Lane. Jacques Chard is a painter and plumber but can no longer work due to ill health. Overleaf, a note in a different hand by Alexandre Sterky, Minister of the French Church of Les Grecs, recommends Jacques. The petition is also signed by J L Chirol, Minister; Ellis John Troughton; John (surname illegible); Gavin Fullerton; John Graham; Robert Pierson and Jacques Chard himself. |