Frances Prevost (2nd wife of Philip Barraud)

1/1/1700 - 1/1/1778

Philip married his 2nd wife, Frances Prevost (also a Huguenot) in 1723 and they had 7 children. There are three family trees on Ancestry.co.uk - who all suggest that William Prevost was the father of Frances Prevost. The fact that William Prevost mentions Frances as his sister in his will, rules out the suggestion that he was Frances's father as, if she was his daughter, she would definately have needed William Prevost's permission to marry in 1723 and she could only have been aged 16 when she married Phillip Barraud as William married in 1706. if Frances Prevost was considerably younger than William, she was probably born about 1700 and therefore must have been about 23 at the time of her marriage. Philip Barraud was aged 43 however when they were married. There is no indication of Frances’s age in her burial records although she died 6 years after making her will in 1772. Frances must have been a great deal younger than Philip Barraud as she survived him by more than 40 years. (see page 26) Suggested birth date 1700