About 15 years ago I received a call from someone in town who was researching the LaRoche Family name, he was a Glover, a prominent family name in Marietta -- as in John Heyward Glover, who had been a South Carolina rice planter before moving to Marietta in search of a healthier climate, became its first Mayor (Glover Machine works, etc.). This caller's maternal great-grandmother (Eliza) was the daughter of my great-grandfather (Oliver Augustus LaRoche). Through her death notice in a Marietta paper he had obtained, I first found out the maiden name of these siblings' mother (which had eluded me for a dozen years). This was long before the days when the Internet could help you find such things. It turns out that there is a LaRoche / Dunwody-Dunwoody connection to the Glovers, as well as, indirectly to the Brumbys (Brumby Rocker Company).
William Elliot Dunwody, Senior was the brother to Major Charles Archibald Alexander Dunwody. Aimee LaRoche was the daughter of Isaac Drayton LaRoche, the brother of my great-grandfather, Oliver -- Aimee married William Elliot, Junior in Macon Georgia. Their daughter was named Aimee LaRoche Dunwody (b 1878)--(by the way Aimée is French for loved one, as the LaRoche name was of Huguenot origin -- more about that below). She is buried in the Saint James Episcopal Church cemetery in Marietta (1947). Aimee L. Dunwoody married John Wilder Glover {President of the Glover Mfg. Co. -- steam locomotives} and they had two children, Aimee Dunwoody Glover and Jame Bolan Glover, who worked for his father. {http://home.inu.net/sadie/brumby2.htm} John Wilder's mother (Ann Eliza) and Aunt (Sarah Eloise) were daughters of Richard Trapier Brumby (R T Brumby & Son, Druggists, Marietta, GA), one time lawyer, teacher and secessionist.
Interesting side notes: The Glover family originated as South Carolina immigrants, moved north after the Revolutionary War, then migrated to Marietta. The Bolan side of this family were from South Carolina. The Trapier part of the Brumby Heritage is a SC Huguenot family. My wife's Great grandfather was Paul Trapier Keith, Rector of St. Michaels in Charleston before the War Between the States. His son was one of the cadets that fired upon Ft. Sumter in April 1861. There is also, I believe, an 18th century Russell connection to my mother's side of the family, but I have not been able to find it.
The LaRoche Heritage, by the time of Aimee LaRoche's birth, was far more rooted in Scottish and English culture than French. Aimee's forebears were founding members of the Oglethorpe Colony (1732) and the Highlanders, who arrived soon after at New Inverness [Darien} along the Georgia Coast. Indeed, the family had changed its name to LaRoche (from De la Croix) while in service to the English Crown (reign of William and Mary and Queen Anne). Oglethorpe's Grandmother was a la Roche of old English (Norman) stock -- there was a LaRoche with William at Hastings in 1066. Thus, the name change was either to honor Oglethorpe's family or because (and I think this more likely) someone married into the family and the La Roche name had more provenance behind it in the eyes of the English aristocracy. This de-la-Croix family also was of a Huguenot origin (Béarn, Bordeaux, possibly Dax and elsewhere).
Another Connection: The West Family -- And the Wests can trace their lineage back to Adam through English King Henry II (HENRI Plantagenêt, born March 5, 1133, in Le Mans, Maine Province (Sarthe), France).