 The elder Boucherett's daughter, Mary, had married Michael Barne of Sotterley, Suffolk, an army officer and a member of parliament for Dunwich.The younger Boucherett was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1773, aged 18, but did not take a degree.He married, on 17 March 1789, Emelia Crockatt, daughter of Charles Crockatt, a merchant, of London and of Luxborough Hall, Essex, and his wife, Anna Muilman, who married, when widowed, the insurance broker and art connoisseur John Julius Angerstein.