René Louis Ravenel

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• Ravenel Records... ; Rene Louis Ravenel, of Pooshee, born 1694;, married Susan de Chatagner, widow of Alexander Thesee de Chatagner, and daughter of Henri Le Noble and his wife Catherine Le Serrurier.

Biographical/Historical note: Berkeley County, S.C. family descended from Rene Louis Ravenel (b. 1694), a Huguenot emigre. His son, Henry Ravenel (1729-1785), was the owner of Hanover Plantation. Children of Henry Ravenel (1729-1785) included Henry Ravenel (1751-1823), Rene Ravenel (1762-1822), Paul de St. Julien Ravenel (1765- 1820), and Stephen Ravenel (1770-1818), who was South Carolina Secretary of State from 1795 to 1799. Henry Ravenel (1790-1867), a physician and plantation owner (Pooshee Plantation), was the son of Rene Ravenel (1762-1822), and his children included Henry William Ravenel (1814-1887) and Thomas Porcher Ravenel (1824- 1898). Thomas Porcher Ravenel, Jr. (1850-1936) was an attorney in practice in Savannah (Ga.); he married Emily Howard in 1887