St Margaret's Westminster, and John of St George Hanover Square. In the following year 1727, "Mr Schimacker" first appears in the Westminster Rate Books with address Old Palace Yard in the parish of St Margaret's Westminster. Around 1729 Henry Scheemakers went into partnership with the English sculptor Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet on a monument to Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (c. 1728; Edenham, Lincolnshire), in which the life-size figure of the Duke clad in Roman armour is flanked by Corinthian columns. He also collaborated with the Flemish sculptor Laurent Delvaux, his brother's business partner, before Delvaux left for Italy in 1728 . Marriage and Children In the meantime Henry had married Catherine Hennekin at the St James' Royal Catholic Chapel in 1727. Catherine was the daughter of Flemish-born Michiel Hennekin or Michael Hennekin, who had been apprenticed to the great sculptor Jan Claudius de Cock in 1697; Catherine’s brother Simon was a London carver and gilder, as was her nephew George Michael Hennekin. Henry and Catherine Scheemaker's son Michael, named after her father, and daughter Catherine both died young and were buried at St Margaret's Westminster in 1731 and 1734 respectively, but the couple had four surviving children who were named as Henry's heirs in Paris after he died there in July 1748 : Peter, Thomas-Henry, Marie-Louise, Geneviève-Catherine. Paris Before moving to Paris, Henry Scheemakers held an auction in July 1733 of some of his stock, but the family was still in London in September 1734 when his daughter Catherine was buried at St Margaret's Westminster. Despite being resident and working in Paris for almost 15 years, very few of Henry Scheemakers' works in France have been identified with any confidence. The only known items recorded were sculptures of a river and naiads at the Château de Dampierre. Henry Scheemakers, variously entered in French records as Henri Scheckmackers, Scheekmackers, Shkemacker, and Schektmackers, died on 18 July 1748 on rue Meslé (now Meslay) in Paris, age approximately 65 years old, at 2 am after about two weeks' illness. As Henry's children were underage, their mother Catherine Hennekin was appointed their main guardian. The inventory taken of his business stock after death includes "60 figures de terre cuite de differentes grandeurs... et differents sujets, une armoire remplie d'outils, deux selles à modeller, un escabel, une table" in a back room on the ground floor, and in the "atelier