• Name: Holcroft, Sophia (Cole)
• Gender: Female
• Birth Date:
• Death Date: 8  January  1850

Holcroft's daughter by his second marriage. Coded as part of the plural Miss Holcroft's Godwin records in the 1790s. She marries William Cole in 1794 and is entered as S Cole or Mrs Cole, or as part of Coles. After Cole's death she maries Georges Nicholas Mergez, a Napoleonic General, and appears in the diary as Mme Mergez. Mergez (as Merget) appears in the diary in 1792-3, in association with Holcroft on several occasions.

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• Name: Mergez, Georges Nicholas
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 4  January  1772
• Death Date: 25  November  1846
• Occupation: General

A General in the Naploeonic Army who married Hocroft's daughter by his second marriage Sophie Cole (nee Holcroft). He was created a Baron in 1809. The couple lived abroad for much of the time. Mergez, who was Danton's cousin, was in London in 1792-3 with Recordain (possibly recorded at Recordat by Godwin - see Hampson p. 79), another relation of Danton's. He appears as Merget in Godwin's diary in these earlier years.

• Norman Hampson, Danton, London, 1978

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