Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....La Roche, Issac unknown - 1822
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   THE LA ROCHE FAMILY HISTORY. In the year 1733 two brothers landed in America
from the shores of England. Their names were John La Roche and Isaac La Roche.
John La Roche was appointed by King James to assist in planning and laying off
the present city of Savannah, and one of the sixteen tithings of the city
according to the original plan was named in compliment to him by Gen. Oglethorpe
La Roche Tithing. Some few years later on John La Roche returned to England and
took up his abode in the royal family as privy counsellor to the king. Isaac La
Roche decided to adopt America as his home and married Elizabeth Drummond, a
lady of beauty and rare mental culture who had immigrated to America from
Scotland a few years previous to her marriage. Elizabeth and her brother, Dr.
Archibald Drummond, were the only surviving members of the Drummond family who
had left their highland home for the New World.

   Shortly after the marriage of Elizabeth her brother, Dr. Archibald Drummond,
went to the West Indies and finally settled at or near Kingston, Jamaica, where
he accumulated a large fortune. He never married and at his death bequeathed his
large property by will to his sister, Elizabeth La Roche. The latter entrusted
the recovery of this legacy to General Flournoy, of Augusta, Georgia, who from
some cause failed to press the suit to a successful termination.

   To Isaac La Roche and his wife, Elizabeth, were born one son, who was also
named Isaac, and two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth; after the birth of the
third child their father died and their mother married again. Isaac on reaching
the years of manhood married Eliza Oliver, who was the daughter of John Oliver
of Augusta, Georgia. Her father was a graduate of Oxford College, England, and
after coming over and settling in America he uniformed and equipped a military
company at his own expense, to serve in defense of their country against the
British. He was quite wealthy and while a resident of Augusta, Georgia, was a
co-partner with General Fash in a large mercantile business in Charleston, South
Carolina. From this late marriage were born the following children: Sarah E. La
Roche, James A. La Roche, Oliver A. La Roche, Isaac D. La Roche, Adrian V. La
Roche, Lawrence and John La Roche. Soon after the birth of John, the father died
and their mother married Doctor Beaudry, to whom one child, a girl, was born.
Isaac La Roche, the father of the children named above, three of whom are yet
living, died about the year 1822. One of his sisters married a Mr. Votee, this
one was Sarah; Elizabeth married a Mr. Craft.

   James Oliver, grandfather of the children of Isaac La Roche and Elizabeth La
Roche, nee Oliver, married Sarah McKay, who being left an orphan in early
childhood, was reared by her uncle, Randolph Spalding, near St. Mary's, Georgia.

   The brothers and sisters of Isaac La Roche were: Alice, deceased, was the
wife of Edgar Williams; Ruth, deceased, was the wife of R. R. Richards; Amy,
wife of Wm. E. Dunwody; Nellie, wife of Prof. Felix Lising; Ida, wife of L. L.
Hunt; Isaac, mentioned below; Robert D.; Walter P.; Eva, wife of Gilbert W. Allen.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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