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THE BARRAUDS. 



William Barraud. (Born 1810. Died 1850.) 

 Henry Barraud. (Born 181 1. Died 1874.) 



ABOUT the year 1650, half a century after the 

 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Gabriel 

 Barraud and Madeleine his wife came from 

 Normandy to London. What Gabriel Barraud'.s 

 calling was does not appear, nor does it greatly 

 concern us, it being with his descendants that we 

 have to do. One of these, Paul Philip Barraud, 

 about the middle of the eighteenth century, 

 established himself in Wine Office Court, Fleet 

 Street, as a watch and chronometer maker; and 

 afterwards moving to 41, Cornhill, achieved fame 

 in his own particular line. Paul Philip's son, 

 William Francis, who held an appointment in the 

 Long Room at the Custom House, married and 

 had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. 

 The two elder sons, William and Henry, became 

 the artists whose works now claim our attention. 



William Barraud, the elder of these two, 

 was born in iSio. From school he was sent direct 

 to an office in the Customs, where his father's 



