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"EFOEE proceeding to the more local part of my subject, it will not bo irrelevant briefly
to sketch, the rise and progress of Heraldry generally ; to take a view of it in its
fabulous as well as in its historic phase; and also to suggest the influence it maj' be
said to have had upon the morals, manners, and habits of oiu* forefathers.
From the Jewish era to our o^vti times, Genealogy* has excited attention and careful research,
and the flj'st Pedigrees ever penned are to be found in the sacred pages of the Bible. Length
of descent and purity of ancestry are coveted by all ; and no more general instance of the
involuntary deference that is paid to its claims exists, than in the plea of the poor and needy man,
when he says : " I am jioor, it is true, but then I come of a good faiuilijy His condition, under
these circumstances, even in this practical day, is seen in a new light; his claim to consideration is
allowed; and in the sympathy that is excited for the decline of his race is merged the unmerited
contempt poverty has ever met with.
I think every one will admit, who has paid the slightest attention to the subject, that
Heraldry is capable of exciting as much or more enthusiasm in its devotees than any other science;
so that when we find that History in all countries has had its fabulous jn-eface, it is not
surprising that Heraldry possesses one also, and that the zeal which some of its earlier
commentators have exhibited has led them very far beyond the bounds, not only of truth, but of
possibility. The fii-st Heralds were men accustomed rather to the brand than to the quill; in short,
to use plain English, they were old retainers of noble families, to whom was committed the task
of lauding and chronicling the noble deeds and ancient descent of theii- masters' houses, f This
to them was a labour of love, and not being bothered by troublesome critics in these "good old
times," they drew pretty fi-eely upon their imagiuations— imaginations which, as I shall shoAv,
were in a high state of fertility. This, however, was not the whole extent of the evil; for the
next generation of Heralds, who called to their aid much erudition and considerable ingenuity,
instead of superseding these transparent fictions, sought only to give theni plausibility and
consistence, by perverting and adapting to their purpose quotations from almost every author
since the Deluge.
* Heraldry and Genealogy may, in a broad sense, be used indiscriminately, for after all, as a science, they are one,
and therefore synonymous : Heraldry being the coloured frontispiece to Genealogy, and deriving almost all its value
from its eldtr sister.
t They were all very much upon a par with Cuptain Walter Scott, who, some two centuries ago, wrote (}) The
True History of Several Honourable Families of the llight Honourable Name of Scott, and who describes himself as "an
old souldier and no schoUer, and one that can just write nane but just the letters of his name."
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2 INTRODUCTION.
TLey, iudeed, were scarcely conteut to begin with Adam, for the reader will find, on
reference to the "Boke of S. Alban," * an account of the orders of angels, and how they were
ensigned ! These of course arc not described with great prolixitj^, but the coat armour of our
first parents, and those of the Patriarchs, are given with much minuteness, and with the utmost
confidence. Pedigrees, too, under their revisal, went up to Adam with a glibuess that
is wonderful, one of Avhicli, as an instance, I give, fi'om Sylvanus Morgan's " Sphere of
Gentrie," published in IGGl, and noticed by Moule. It is that of O'Mora or More, and
commences thus : f — " God the Father, Sou, and Holy Ghost, who Avas from all eternity, did, in
the beginning of time, of nothing create red earth, and of red earth formed Adam, and out of a
rib out of the side of Adam, fashioned Eve. After which creation, plasmation, and formation,
succeeded generation. I. Adam, siu-namcd the Protoplast, lived 930 years, and from his wife
Eve begat sons and daughters, &c." The Genealogy is traced regularly through the Patriarchs
to Noah, and from Noah to Nilus, and through the kings of Scythia to Milesius, who conquered
Spain, and afterwards Ireland, from whom it is continued to Cu Chogry O'Mora, King of Liex,
whose daughter Cacht married Dermot Nagal McMorrough, King of Leinster (who first invited
the English to the invasion of Ireland, under Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, temp. Henry II.),
and theuce to Anthony O'More, Dynast or Sovereign of Liex, whose daughter Ellen married,
circa 1450, Sir Oliver Grace, &c. &c. "If any family," facetiously says a critic in the Literary
Gazette,'^ "can show any higher pedigree than this, we will allow them to print and promulgate
the same for the amazement of planet-struck mushrooms, Avho have prided themselves on springing
up from the hot-bed of the Conquest, instead of being floated in and watered by the Deluge."
Those who have a taste for the marvellous will find among these old authors many other
quite as choice selections, Avhich possess every element of interest to the lover of ingenious fiction.
Christ and the Apostles, of course, were not omitted among the "Gentrie;" aud Dame Julia
Berners shall speak for herself, in a passage which is very interesting, if only to show how curious
were the then ideas on this topic. She is describing " A Gentylman Spirituall."
" Ther is a gentylman a churl Tone a prelle to be made and that is a spirituall gentylman to God and not of blodc. Butt if
a gcntlemannys fone be made prelle he is a gcntvlman both spirituall and temperall. Cril'te was a gentilman of his moder be
halue and bare cotarmure of aunccturis. The iiij Euangelift berith wittenefe of Crillis workys in the gofpell with all thapollilles.
They were Jewys and ofgentylmen come by the right line of that worthy conqueroure Judas Machabeus bot by fucceffion of
time the kynrade fell to poucrty after the deftruction of Judas Machabeus and then they fell to laboris and ware called no
gentilmen, and the iiij doctoris of holi church Scvnt Jerome Ambrofe Augyftyn and Gregori war Gentilmen of blode and
cotarmures."
Arms were also given to the pagan gods, to the heroes of classic antiquity, to Scythians
* The Eolve of S. Albau. Tliis book claims the third place, in point of antiij^uity, in Monle's celebrated Bibliotheca
Heraldica. It %vas written by Juliana Barnes or Berners, daughter of Sir James Berners, of Berner's Boding, Esses.
and sister of Bicliard, Lord Berners. She was Prioress of Sopewcll Nunnery, a cell to and ^ery near the Abbey of
S. Alban's, Hertfordshire. It was printed in 1486, and consists of four separate treatises, but there is great doubt if the
whole work can safely be attributed to its reputed antboress.
f Slater also, in liis Genethliacon sive Stemma Regis Jacobi, &c., 1030, deduces the king's descent from Adam.
J Literary Oozette, Oct. 5, 1822. Moule, in one of bis MS. notes to his own copy of this work, thinks it was
written by William Jerdau, so many years editor of that journal.
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and Teutons of eminence, to our Saxon forefathers, and, in fine, to almost every name of note
down to the period when Ileraklry really did begin, llaiij, although denouncing its absurdity,
urge that much temptation Avas given to these enthusiastic writers by passages, not only in the
Bible,* but in classical authors, tending to prove the existence of badges or marks of personal dis-
tinction, expressed on the defensive attire, arms, and banners of the ancients ; but they overlook
the obvious fact that, until these distinctions become hereditary, they did not commence to be
Heraldic; as little would the reckless assertion of a family bearing "Vert, roundle or," be justified
by the said family's representative arraying himself in a bottle-green coat Avith gilt buttons. An
unvarnished collection of such badges, distinctively worn by the warriors and chieftains of past
ages, as corroborated by contemporary writers, would be very interesting, but I should deny its
connection, in any wan, "^^^^^ t^^ science in question, for whereas the very " head and fi-ont" of
the value of coat-armour consists in its identification with departed aucesti-al greatness, badges
were valueless except in connection with their wearer, ^l^sop entered into this feeling while
writing the fable of the Ass with the Lion's Skin. The present system, unfortunately, sometimes
admits the adaptation of the exterior of the lion to the useful long-eared quadruped in a way
that would have been impossible then.
To arrive at the conclusion, therefore, that Ilereditary Coat-armoiu- was nothing more than
an invention produced by parent necessity, to perpetuate the doughty prowess of the Crusaders,
is, I think, simply stating the truth ; and fiu'ther, that any attempt, however zealous and
determined, to claim for it a higher origin, must inevitably be futile. From the first Crusade,
the soldiers of which started in the spring of 1096, to the ninth, circa 1209, all who returned
from the Holy Land bore about with them the distinguishing badges under which they had
fought and suffered, much as the soldiers of to-day proudly display the many-clasped Peninsular
or Crimean medal ; then it was, doubtless, that the idea arose that these marks, made hereditary,
* Vide Gen. xlix.; Exodus sxviij. 2; xxix. 14, 30; lumbers ij. 1, 2; Kings xxj. 8; Xehcmiali ix. 38; Esther iij.
12; viij. 8; Psalm xx. 5; Ix. 4; Isaiah xiij. 2; Jeremiah sxij. 10; Daniel vj. 17. Also Lydgate's Story of Thebes, p. 2;
Orlando Furioso, Canto x., St. 70 ; and Potter's JJschylus and Euripedes, &c. &c. &c.
4 INTRODUCTION.
would, as it were, form a stenography of family history. This is supported by the fact that the
principal object only in the shield was then deemed of consequence ; marks of cadency were
greater than now, and tincture altered at will. Thus the arms of Sire Tomas Mallet and Sire
Eobert Malct, described in the Eoll of Knights, tmp. Edward II., diifered considerably, although
the bearers were of the same family; the former bearing "de goules a une fesse d'ermyne
a vj fermails de or,'' the latter " de sable a une cheveron et iij fermails de argent," which
obviously show that the buckles were the distinguishing feature, and the accessories treated as
of no moment ; in this the infant science differed from present usage, but proves the assertion
stated above. In some cases the arms of relatives were even entirely dificrent, although the
instance quoted is the rule.
Many authors, although ignoring the classical existence of Heraldry, Avould claim for it
an antiquity prior to the Conquest, or, as M. de Courcelles* dates it, soon after a.d. 938, "for
about that period," he states, "Armorial Bearings were known as a system in the North," biit quotes
no authority for his somewhat bold assertion. The question arises as to where the North may
be ; certain it is that in the north of France, at the period of the Conquest, nothing was known
of the science, for the celebrated Bayeux tapestry, undoubtedly executed very shortly after this
event, proves neither Saxons nor Normans to have had on their shields any devices that can be
tortured into the slightest resemblance to modern bearings, except some few delineations of the
cross, evidently in iron or brass bands, which served the utilitarian purpose of binding and
strengthening the shield. Tlie far-famed tiles at Caen, to which a more detailed reference is
made in connection with the Mallet family, would, if they deserved the reputation of being placed
there temp. William I., as sometimes asserted, be unanswerable, but they bear no less than three
distinct proofs of the contrary, among the arms they portray. One contains three lions passant
guardant. Now if these are intended for those of England, they were not adopted until the reign
of Henry II., who, upon his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaiue, joined the single lion of that
province with the two of Normandy, which have remained as the arms of this kingdom to this
day. Anotlier bears semce of fleur-de-lis, of which no examples are found prior to 1120 ;
while a third expresses a quartered coat, a custom the origin of which the first known instance
places in the reign of Edward I., whose queen, Eleanor, bore quarterly Castile and Leon.-f
That much quoted but apocryphal document, the Battel Abbey Eoll.J has been so tampered
* Fide Le Dictionnaire TJniversel de la Noblesse de France, par M. de Courcelles.
f Vide Hfunikor s llemarks on the Tiles at Caen, Montagu's Heraldry, &c.
\ This was formerly suspended in the Abbey of Battel in Sussex (erected on the battle-field of Hastings), with the
foUowiug superscription : —
• "Dicitur a bello, helium locus hie quia hello,
Angligena; victi, sunt hie in morte relicti:
ilartyris in Christi festo ceoidere calixti :
Scxagenus erat sextus niillesimus annus
Cum pereunt Augli, stellii monstrante cometa."
llolingshed (p. "i) and Stowc (p. 10.")) have each given lists, but they differ so much from each other, aud from the
Xorman accounts, printed by S. Allais, that but little credit can be paid to them unless corroborated elsewhere.
Honest Maitre Wace's list is perhaps the most correct and authentic of all.
INTRODUCTION.
with by the monks, that its historic authority is much diluted with fable ; * aud then if it were
originally a genuine list of the companions of the Conqueror, what authority have we that any
description of coat-armour accompanied the text ? And, notwithstanding much learning has
been brought to bear upon the point that royal and other seals of arms exist from a.d. 600 or
700 to 1100, I think them all open to the objection previously stated, that although borne on
shields as now, they were then merely personal, not hereditary badges. Dallaway,t who writes at
much length on the subject, with most other authors, alloAvs to the Germans this invention, but
none furnish satisfactory evidence in favour of the supposition ; for although the Germans have
complicated, and the French elaborated the science, yet I imagine the Anglo-Normans can give
proofs of as early if not of a more ancient usage of armorial bearings than either.
Once fairly in existence, the science rapidly developed itself. The warlike Edward III.,
and his successor, Eichard II., although utterly different in general character, gave every
incentive to its increase, as an adjunct to tlie growing beauties of architecture and clothing.
Under the former monarch the English Knighthood became the fii'st and proudest of the world,
and, aided by their invincible courage, he reaped from France a harvest of wealth, then new to
this kingdom ; this added to the thii-st for armorial distinctions, for in the human breast the next
desire after the acquirement of riches is to add honours to their enjoyment. In this reign
commerce became remarkable for the consequence of its votaries ; and, as they were forbidden,
under severe penalties, to bear arms, in their ambition to imitate the custom they invented those
curious and arbitrary signs or monograms called ^iHertbiUlts' l^livrhs, rendered famous, and
brought under our more immediate notice, by those used by the eminent early printers. In the
reign of the latter king, ostentation rather than chivalry was the object studied by the
encouragement of Heraldry, yet this did not prevent its rules being stringently carried out —
and carried out they were about this period to that extent, that in the subsequent reign, an
individual, confessedly of gentle birth, denies his right to arms, " because neither he nor his
ancestors had ever been engaged in war," J showing that, with the exception of the clergy, they
were at that time deemed an honour due only to the soldier.
The science had deservedly obtained such consideration that, in the reign of Eichard III.,
heralds ceased to be mere private retainers, and were incorporated as a collegiate body by that
monarch, who amongst his many bad had several A'ery redeeming qualities ; but, like those of
most of our monarchs, his character, tinctiu'ed by the feelings of his biographers, gives posterity
but little clue to its right appreciation. The College of Arms thus constituted was then situated
in the Parish of All Saints, London, at a house called Pulteney's Inn, or Cold Harbore, a
mansion formei'ly belonging to Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter.
It continued to progress in sj^lendour and development to the time of Henry VIII., whose
vain and lavish humour made him pay the utmost deference to the gorgeous attributes of
* Although the revenue of the monks of this establishment amoimted to what would bo £10,000 per annum in our
day, yet many of the old writers accuse them of adding to this favoured list many a name whose only title to appear
there consisted in a timely present to the Abbey by its ambitious owner.
f Dallaway's Inquiry into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry, -ito, London, 1793.
I Vide Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry.
6 INTEODTJCTION.
Heraldry. The happy results of his self-will and caprices, which have gained him a notoriety
and respect which he never deserved, caused him to abolish the regular clergy of the day, and
at one blow, Nebuchadnezzar-like, to change the religion of a nation, and also to cut off many
of the ancient nobility, whom he supplanted by creatures of his own, taken indiscriminately from
all stations — their one indispensable and common merit being that they must have given proofs
of skill and bravery in statecraft or war. Of this class Sir Hugh Yaughan, some time Governor
of Jersey, was a foir example ; of whom all, from Wolsey to Vaughau, Avere endowed witli armo-
rial insignia. Tilts and tournaments were the order of the day, which the king, with his stalwart
person and courage, individually patronized ; and the merchants made another stride toAvards
that "merchant-princedom" they subsequently have so amply enjoyed, and as a body they had the
honour of couuting, among the descendants of one of themselves, the second of Henry's queens.*
Then it may be said that Heraldry had arrived at its zenith of glory ; of which the famous Field
of the CHoth of Gold formed the culminating point. It pervaded alike the solemn precincts of
the church and cathedi-al, in the stained glass of their windows, and the encaustic tiles of their
pavements ; the palace and the castle, in the keystones of their arches, the vanes of their roofs,
and, in short, wherever such decoration could find a place ; the surcoat and shield of the knight
and the housings of his steed ; the elegant dresses of the ladies ; the liveries. of the serving-men ;
and, by the elegance and purity of its adornment, influenced and nurtiu-ed the progress of taste,
while the study of its principles formed the chief acquirement in which it behoved all of gentle
birth to be well grounded. In this reign, although some attribute the disuse of the custom to
that of Elizabeth, bishops, abbots, and priors ceased to confer knighthood upon the parochial
clergy — Sir being generally affixed to their names ; but although in England numbers
of instances occur to prove that many of these ecclesiastics actually were knighted in due
form, yet we may imagine with reason that they frequently adopted the title as a right;
for in Jersey, priests, in Eoman Catholic days, were invariably styled Sire, although no evidence
is given that they ever received the honour of formal knighthood. f Subsequently the title
of Esquire was given to rectors and vicars, but this, with much good taste, has long been
disused.
Heraldic bearings, which at first were of a very simple character, became more florid both in
themselves and their accessories as architecture advanced from its first principles : a bend, a fesse,
an animal, or some such simple charge, forms a great criterion as to the probable era of its
being adopted, while too great an elaboration in charging the shield is justly looked upon as
a modern vitiation. It was due to the vagaries of heralds in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries to invent a species of language of arms, which they termed Armilogia ; J and in
which the tinctm-es and charges are supposed to represent virtues and failings, to accord Avith
* Vide Noble's College of Arms.
f Vide also an observation of Durcll, ia bis notes to Falle's Jersey, on the subject, in which he admits himself at a
loss how to account for the practice. Fuller, in his Church History, hazards the opinion that such priests that had the
addition of Sir appended to their names were men who had not graduated at the universities — being in orders, but not
in degrees; whilst others entitled masters had commenced in the Arts.
I This, with several absurdities of a like character, has been ably and liumurously discussed by Mr. Lower, in
his Curiosities of Heraldry, to which work reference has already been made.
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INTRODUCTION. 7
the spii'it of the bearer:* this was too absurd even for tlie credulous sph-it of those tunes,
and therefore was never iu much vogue, so that any meaning they ever did possess (if indeed
they had any save that given to them by the imagination of their chi'oniclcrs), has long since
been lost. Perhaps the only exception to this is in what are called Pimning Arms (arma can-
tantia). Of these many different varieties are enumerated hj heralds ; and the French, with
their usual love of system, di\dde them into five classes : 1. Are those in which the first letter
or syllable of the name is expressed in the arms.f 2. Those that allude directly or remotely by
animate or inanimate figiu'es to the proper name.J 3. Those that iu a very remote manner
signify the cognomen of their wearer.§ 4. Those that do not immediately refer to the name,
but represent something in connection with it.[j And 5. Those arms that allude to the wearer's
name in a foreign language or obsolete dialect.^ And appertaining very closely to these are
Allusive or Historical Arms, which refer variously to the illustrious actions, negotiations,
embassies, discoveries, inventions, soubriquets, honourable offices and employments, orthodoxy,
piety, and memorable events in the lives of their first wearers. The former have been much
decried by not only English but foreign writers, as mere modern inventions, tending to under-
mine the true devices of Heraldry. But this is a false idea, for examples of armes jmrlantcs may
be noticed among the earliest kuown examples, which a reference to the ancient Rolls of Arms
will prove, where they occur in connectiou with the noblest founders of our old houses : as a
familiar instance of which, it is an all but imiversally admitted fact, that the fleurs-de-lis, the
former bearings of France, were adopted from the word Loys, the old French for Louis.
Indeed, armcs parlavtcs may be considered as forming the connecting link between personal
badges and hereditary bearings. This emblematic figuring is not confined to the shield, but
also occurs in the crest and motto. For examples of each in the following pages, see the arms
of Cabot, La Cloche, and Poingdestre, and the crest of Robin.
The crest was introduced some time after armorial bearings became usual, and at one time
the right of bearing a crest indicated even a higher rank than that of bearing arms themselves.
This was natural, as the custom undoubtedly arose from the immemorial practice of chieftains
to wear on theii" helmets plumes of feathers, both for distinction in the melee and to keep their
followers from straying.
After the crest came the motto ; this was religious, allusive, punning, or defiant, according
to fancy. Mottoes, down to the middle of the sixteenth century, were not confined to per-
sonal usage, but ornamented buildings and apartments, by expressing their piu-pose, in a Latin
* Eveu so late as tlie beginning of this century an attempt was made thus to read the arms of a feudal family in
Jersey. The idea, however well-meant, was simply ridiculous, and, fortunately for the writer, his MS. was not printed,
and therefore is not generally kuown.
f Altheim (.Austria), Gules, on a fesse argent, a gothic A sable. Gottingen (German town), Gules, a gothic G
argent.
J D' Andre, or, a S. Andrew's cross gules. Cockburn, argent, a mascle azure, between three cocJcs gules.
§ Baudry, Gules, a baldric argent. Fontenay-le-Comte (French Town), azure, a Fountain argent.
II Le Roy, azure, a sceptre or, in pale. Soldati, azure, a lance or, in pale.
^ Arundel, sable, six swallows {hirondelle, Fr.) argent, 3, 2, 1. De la Chastre, azure, three camp tents {castrtim,
Lat.) or.
8 INTRODUCTION.
or other legeud, over the door. Thus may be read over the postern of the seigneurial house of
Tourville, " Sileto et Spera." The motto of the family of Fortescue, placed beneath its arms,
over the grand entrance of the castle, is " Forte scutum salus diicum." And over the principal
door of the hospitable mansion of Earl Cowper is the comfortable assurance, " Tnum est."* In
France, to this day, crests and mottoes are in very much less general vogue than in England.
Badges, properly so called, in contradistinction to crests, with which they are sometimes
confounded, deserve a notice here. They were cognizances adopted by royal and noble houses,
chiefly on account of remarkable family events, and worn as a distinguishing feature by the
retainers and men-at-arms of the chief, either on the arm or cap, the minstrel or bard having
them suspended to his neck by a silver chain. The history of the origin and circumstances
connected with badges would hi itself form a volume, abounding in most stii-ring and romantic
incident. Who does not call to mind the White Hart of Eichard II., fondly borne in honoiu' of
his mother, Joan Holaud, the renowned and beauteous Maid of Kent ; and the badge of the
Princes of Wales, the three ostrich feathers? Nearly allied to these arc the cognizances known
as Wake's and Harrington's Knot; the Pelham Buckle ; and, as a variation, may be noticed the
rebus adopted and worn by Prior Bolton, of the Priory of S. Bartholomew, London, as a badge,
being a bolt (arrow) inserted in a tun, and which exists to this day in the familiar inn-sign of
the Bolt and Tun. Such political influence and party feeling were excited by their display, and
speculation on theii* influence, that even as late as the reign of Elizabeth an act was passed by
which severe penalties Avere laid on "all phantasticall prophecies upon, or by, the occasion of
badges, cognizances, or like things." Their last remains may still be seen on the arms of the ser-
vitors of some of the London trade companies, and on those of the minor oflicials of borough towns.
Notwithstanding the unparalleled glories of Heraldry under Henxy YIIL, they did not
undergo any material change for the worse through several reigns ; and Cromwell, despite the
puritanical pretences by which he succeeded in clutching at, and holding, more than sovereign
power, was, like all parvenus^ desirous of surrounding his new-born dignities with all the eclat
possible. His patents to his peers of Parliament were decorated in the margin by his own por-
trait, arrayed in regal robes, and surmounted by his paternal escutcheon with many quarterings ;f
and his receptions of foreign ambassadors were accompanied with every possible mark of splen-
dour. A curious entry of the items of his funeral pageant is extant, which consisted largely of
heraldic insignia, and so great was its magnificence that its whole expense amounted to £28,000.
Gradually, however, and by almost imperceptible degrees, from this date Heraldry declined
from its high estate ; the rules and regulations of the heralds were disobeyed and evaded ; visi-
tations ceased ; and the dark ages of the science commenced, which are thus deplored by Sir
William Segar, Garter, in his envoy to Guillim's Display of Heraldi-ie,J in the following
graphic but quaint lines : —
" Beesy//C/f tht' Flowers, others ent their Hony,
Poor digge the Mines, Rich Men hiive the Mony,
Sheep //eare the Fleece, others weare the Wooll,
And fome plant Vines, and some the Grapes do pull ;
Sic vos non vobis, may to us be laid."
* r»V7e the Hunchback of Notre Dame, by V. Hugo. f Dallaway. | Edition 16G0.
rNTROBUCTION.
" We i/azort Armes, and fome ejleetn them not.
We write of Honour, others do it blot.
We uphold Honour, other i pluck it down.
Burying them/elves in bafe Oblivion :
Such are the effeSls of our defective Age."
" Peet'ijh Precisenesse, loves no Heraldry,
Crosses in Arms, they hold Idolatry :
All Funeral's pompe, and Honour but a vaunt.
Made Honour onley by the Honorant ;
Shortly no difference 'twixt the Lord and Page."
" Honours Recufants do fo multiply.
As Armes, the Enfigns of Nobility,
Must be laid down ; they are too glorious.
Plain, idlejkewes, and fuperftitious ;
Plebeian bafeneffe doth them fo e/ieem."
" Degrees in bloud, the fteps of pride and fcorne.
All Adam's Children, none are Gentle born ;
Degrees of fate, titles of Ceremony : «
Brethren in Chrift, greateneffe is Tyranny :
O impure Purity that fo doth deem /"
Now of late this, to a certain extent, influenced by the many learned and interesting
publications that have emanated from the press, has changed for the better, and the literary
world, or I might with more justice say, the world generally, has acknowledged the inti'insic
value of the science, and evinced a desire for its cultivation ; and it is to be hoped that in like
manner as Eeligion and the Arts gained new vigour after their revival from the toi-por into
which they had fallen during the middle ages, so in Heraldry — that its last state may be far
more perfect and complete than its fii-st.
But the reason why? "What has posterity done for me, that I should do anything for
posterity?" cried the indignant Irishman. "What has Heraldry done for society that we
should wish to promote its interest ? " exclaim my readers. — " Heraldry," says Victor Hugo, " to
those who can decipher it is an algebra — a language. The entire history of the middle ages is
written in Heraldry, as the history of the first half in the imagery of the Eoman Churches."
And its value to the historian,* genealogist, architect, painter, novelist, poet, the ends of
justice,f and far stronger than these to Self, has been so fi-equently and so eloquently discussed
and proved by ingenious and learned authors, that should I dilate on this part of my subject, I
should be, I fear, guilty of repeating what has been better said before ; therefore to the curious
reader I strongly recommend the perusal of some of those authors who have devoted so much
* Sir F. Palgrave, the talented compiler of the Parliamentary Writs, observes "that Heraldly frequently affords
the best and sometimes the only mode of identifying individuals."
f "I know three families," says Ralph Bigland, late Garter, "who have acquired estates by virtue of preserving
the arms and escutcheons of their ancestors."
10 INTRODUCTION.
time and atteution to their subject,* contenting myself with preferring an argument in its favour
which, if not possessing the merit of originality, is one I have never heard used, and is one
which must apply itself to the consideration of all.
When civilization in Europe succeeded the semi-barbarism that before had reigned
supreme, the feudal system was undoubtedly looked upon as the most accurate balance of power
between the various sorts and conditions of men that Imman wisdom could possibly devise : and
indeed, surveying it in its proper light, that of contrast to the state of things it superseded, it
will be found that the many privileges conceded by might to right ; the chivalrous respect to
Woman (the base of all moral in our character) ; and the thousand and one ameliorations of the
former state of society, were all OAving to the working of this much-abused system : and to vilify
it because it does not meet the requu-ements and exigencies of this present, would be to blame
the modest rushlight for not bursting into the refulgent brightness of the gas-jet. f The middle
class proved the death of feudalism. Now, as then, the highest class eiijoijcd, the lowest endured
life ; but when a body arose from the middle classes who were competent and willing to wage
warfare with their hereditary rulers in the arena of ambition and learning, and were met of
course with jealousy and clujue, the old state of things could not bear the innovation; convulsed to
its centre, it fell, because its founders had not foreseen, and consequently had not provided against,
its particular antagonist— a contingency that occurs to mar the working of more systems than the
feudal. Indeed it may be said that Heraldry bore a part in bringing about this result, for
thi-ough its portal alone could the wealthy or talented plebeian enter the then sacred precincts
of aristocracy.
And more — for all the higher attributes that render the character of the media3val knight
and gentleman so pleasant to look back upon ; for all his pacific, and most of his warlike vii'tues,
(except of course, the inherent one of bravery) have we not to thank the science that formed his
order; which provided him with his rules of life ; and which, by its semi-religious and wholly moral
character, supported him in carrying out his vows. A science, indeed, which, tempering the bull-
dog ferocity of warfare while giving greater prominence to the intellectual qualities, has contri-
buted, long after its ostensible influence has vanished, a noble share towards paving the way for
our present high state of moral and literary culture — a consideration which raises Heraldry fi-om
the rank of an obsolete and fantastic study to class as one of the great benefactors of the world !
* Vide Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry ; Nares' Heraldic Anomalies; De la Motte's Historical and Allusive Arms, &c.
f The celebrated William Godwin, writing to Shelley the poet, says: "Almost every institution or form of society
is good in its place and in the period of time to which it belongs. How many beautiful and admirable effects grew
out of Popery and the monastic institutions, in the period when they were in their genuine health and vigour ! To them
we owe almost all our logic and our literature. What excellent effects do we reap, even at this day, from the feudal system
and from chivalry!"
MPLE evidence remains to prove that from tlie earliest ages Jersey was inhabited ;
indeed the large mimber of Druidic remains once existing in the island would
suggest that its Celtic or Frank population must have been much larger than its
Norman.* But my subject has nothing in common with its pagan historj' ; it
refers to a subsequent era, when it was not merely a Neustrian colony, but an integral portion
of the duchy itself; when the name of a Jerseymau was not, being merged in the more com-
prehensive one of a Norman ; and when the insular possessions of the feudal Seigneur may have
served him as a pleasant retreat from the cares of statecraft and war, to be given in time as
a patrimony to the younger branch of a noble house.
This identity Jersey has preserved almost intact until the commencement of the present
century. Laws, habits, and customs have been handed down with astonishing fidelity. The
" Claraciu' de Ilaro," the legacy of EoUo's stern justice, although disregarded and ignored in its
fii'st home, is here as potent as ever ; and honest Master Wace still speaks in the fondly che-
rished language [patois, as a critic would say) of his countrymen. j* The character, too, of its
people preserves much of the high repute of their ancestors. Great and proverbial powers of
memory, much and genuine hospitality, an innate and Hibernianesque wit, with which is curiously
blended the phlegm and frugality of the caunie Scot, and a native bravery, that needs no other
eulogy than it has already gained in the annals of the islimd, may fairly be numbered as Jersey
chai'acteristics. Yet there is a reverse to every pictiu-e, and were I to say that with so much
good were blended no faults, the most careless reader would pay but little heed to the rest of my
assertions. Those, then, that most forcibly strike the attention of a stranger are a parsimony
unfitting the present age, and an incurable mania for petty political intrigue ; although even to
these, Jerseymen possess such bright and so many exceptions, that it may be confidently pre-
dicted that both are on the wane. And it is scarcely flattery to add that in a great measure
their national faults are those of circumstance and place — their ^artues are all their own.
Until comparatively a recent period, little or no alien blood flowed in the veins of the
Jersey folk, and in them continued the main features of theii* nationality, while on the one hand
persecution and tyranny have so far debased the modern inhabitant of Normandy as to leave in him
but few traces of his heroic ancestry ; and, on the other, the sturdy Saxon admixture has much
altered, admitting it to have improved, the Englishman of to-day. The Jersiais are fully aware
of the degeneracy of their continental neighbours ; for when one of the lower classes would express
the nc plus ultra of contempt for an antagonist, he sums it up in the significant phrase — " Tu es
un Normand ! " " The force of" malice " can no further go." J
* Vide a clever work on the Druidio remains of Jersey, bv J. P. Aliicr, Esq.
f "On retrouve a Jersey un echantillon des vieux Normands; on croit entendre parlcr Guillcaumc le Biitard. ou
I'auteurdu Eoman de Ecu." — Chatcaulriand. \ Vide Durell's note on this subject, p. 278.
c2
12 INTRODrC'TIOX.
But despicable as may be the modern parody of a Norman, bistory shows that as a nation,
they regenerated the workl. They made their appearance in Western Europe just at a period
when both Saxons and Franks were fast becoming disorganized, on the one hand by coarse
luxury and dissipation, and on the other by the despotism of Charlemagne, whose ceaseless wars
had decimated his people, and whose lust of government had wi'ested from them every vestige of
representative power. Hardy and abstemious, clever, brave, and warlike, the Normans earned
for themselves a home on the fair borders of France, where they flourished while all around them
was misery and wretchedness. Then it was that Jersey was part and parcel of their domain ; the
Jcrseyman was in his duchy and in his island at one and the same time, and in default of
knowing the pre-Normau history of the Channel Archipelago, there is no reason to doubt that
its inhabitants were not as purely Teutonic as the rest of theii- compatriots.
The two points in which Mr. Warburton* compares the English to their Neustrian fore-
fathers, are their love of genealogies and their skill in horsemansliip. In the former and more
important feature the Jerseyman certainly participates ; for, indeed, what Jersey fiunily of any
consequence is there which cannot exhibit its pedigree, generally noted with more minuteness
than those existing in the English Heralds' Visitations ; and if subject, like all else sublunary, to
occasional error, they have, in many instances, been strikingly corroborated by contemporary
documents of value. , • ■ ■ .,■ .
Mr. Warburton, with his usual elegance and felicity of expression, dilates upon this subject
with so much warmth, that I am sure my readers will, in the interest of tlic subject, pardon me
for quoting him at some length. "A desire," he says, "of pi-eserving an authentic history of
his descent characterized the Norwegian noble from very early times. We are told that those
songs with which the uorthern bards regaled the heroes at their 'feasts of shells' were but
versified chronicles of each ancestral line, symphonied by their stirring deeds, f No parchment
told his lineage to the warrior of those days, but the heroic names were branded each night
upon his swelling heart, by the burning numbers of his bard. Thus did the Norman chronicle
his ancestry in those unlettered times. Afterwards, when the oak fire was extinguished, and
the ' night came' no more ' with songs' — when we reach the age of records, we find this love of
lineage availing itself of the new method of commemoration. Tliis strong ancestral spirit may
be traced partly to the profound sentiment of perpetuity which formed the principal and noblest
element of his character, and partly to the nature of the property to which he was linked by the
immemorial custom of the Teuton race. The means, too" (that of personal merit), "by which
the fief was originally acquired, served to give an interest and value to the Norman genealogy
which we shall vainly seek in that of other nations, save the Hebrews, among whom genealogies
connected witli those stupendous promises on which the hope of the world hung, were naturally
kept Avitli a trembling and awfrd regard. Eut it is not as a mere pedigree of names that the
Norman regards the records of his line. They are, as it wore, solemn documents constituting
him as the trustee of a stainless name, and their silent characters seem to express a hope tliat
he will take care to transmit it unsullied on. Moreover he views the long line upwards to the
chief wlio trod the Neustrian soil, as forming with himself but one family, whose co-existence,
* Vide Hollo nnd liis llacc, by Acton "Warburton. f Tbc Gaels, or lliglibindors, bad a very similar custoir.
INTRODUCTION. 13
thougli forbidden here by the laws which regulate the succession of human generation, is sure
to be brought about hereafter, wjien existence shall lose its progressive character, and there will
be space enough for all at once."
Amid the numberless works on Ileraldry and Genealogy, Jersey has yet, strange to say,
been unrepresented, although the fact of the ancient descent of its inhabitants has been noticed
by almost all who have written of this " peculiar people." Falle says, " In this island are many
very ancient families, not only among the qualified gentry, but even among those of a middle class
and degree ;" and a more modern writer,* in giving short sketches of the families of the higher
official personages, arrives at the same conclusion. This, however, will seem the less wonderful,
when it is considered that the proper history of Jersey has yet to be written. Indeed, until
1694, f 110 liistorij of it had ever been in print, and then it was written by an absentee, and con-
fessedly from the labours of another; and was at that time summed up in a 12mo volume of
216 pages. Although several have been written since that period, chiefly on Fallc's design, yet
none have possessed that degree of minuteness the subject demands. To doit full justice would,
it is true, be a work of much difficulty, requiring a large outlay of time and money ; for while
the State Paper, Eecord, and other offices in London deserve a minute and careful research, the
various depositories of deeds in Normandy and those of the Eoyal Court of JerseyJ arc equally
important ; and lastly, but not least in point of either consequence or difficulty of access, are the
private chronicles, which, before the introduction of printing, were the only means of trans-
mitting to posterity the history of the narrator's own times. These are guarded with a tenacity
and exclusiveness difficult to be understood by strangers, which renders access to them extremely
precarious, if not actually impracticable. § But still, the want of a connected account of Jersey
families is cin-ious, as their national taste leads them to be amateur genealogists, one and all ;
and the interest is increased, in the present instance, by the fact that a great proportion of
its inhabitants arc allied by the ties of marriage, and amongst their members are to be found
a very largo number who have distinguished themselves in almost every branch of theu-
country's service. It cannot be denied that an undertaking of this kind, commenced a century
ago, or even earlier, would have been accomplished with more ease, and completed with more
exactitude ; indeed, were it much longer delayed, who can tell but that it would be but to
chronicle a people then no more ? For the gradual absorption of native into alien families, and
the extinction of many an honoured name, now all but forgotten, is gradually lessening their
number ; and it may be, ere many generations are passed, that this last and purest remnant of
the ancient Normans will have merged into that oUa podrida of nations known as an Englishman,
and his name be given to a casual dweller in his former island home.
* Vick La Ville dc S. Hclicr, ^jar M. De la Croix.
f An Account of the Isle of Jersey, &c., by Philip Falle, M.A. London: Printed for John Newton, at the Three
Pigeons, ovcr-against the Inner Temple Gate, in Fleet Street. 1694. A copy of this extremely rare and curions
edition ia in the valuable library of Durell Lerrier, Esq., and another in the Bib. Eeg. British iluseum.
J Tlie public documents of Jersej' have much need of collation and transcription, as well as to be of more easy access
to non-official readers.
§ All connected with Jersey are aware of the light thrown on insular history by the resuscitation of the Chevalier
MSS., and certain data lead me to imagine that there are extant at this moment several of the same kind, equally
important to the antiquarian and historiuu-
14 INTRODUCTION.
Besides the pure Normans, there are, however, some families from other parts of France,
and also from England ; for political or religious eflfcrvescences in either country rendered those
on the losing side anxious to seek a safe and quiet retreat ; and Jersey was thus particularly
eligible for French refugees, as here they were ever hospitably received, and had the benefit of
being understood, without the inconvenience of learning a new language. These principal eras
were the Massacre of S. Bartholomew and the Kevocation of the Edict of Nantes. The persecu-
tions then so rife caused the representatives of many noble fixmilies to seek an asylum in this
favoured isle ; but leaving, as one of their descendants feelingly observed, " with only their Bibles
in their hands," they naturally, after one or two generations, forgot the oral traditions of their
descent, and date only, with few exceptions, fi-om their arrival here.
Although Guernsey with Jersey partakes equally of these chief characteristics, it appears
that the latter island, in a question of precedence, asserted its priority, as appears from the fol-
lowing curious document, never, I believe, before printed.*
"TOUCHANT LA PRESEANCE D'HONNEUR CHALENGEE PAR GUERNESE. EN 1624.
" II a efte toujours donne a Icrfc, comme il apert par beaucoup tant ancies que modernes records, prefls a eftre produits,
dedans refqucis IcrJ'e eil le premier nomme, et la raifon eft aparcnte.
" Prcmu-rcmcnt, en refpect que lerj'e eft d'une plus large cftendue que Guernefe d'une tierce partie. Seco>'.de??ient, pource
qu'elle eft plus peuplee d'une moitie que Gucrneje, Scrcq, et Atirigiiy. Tiercement, pource que les reuenues deubs a fa Ma^
en lerfe font beaucoup plus grands que dans tout le refte des Illes. Ouartement, pource qu'il y a eu des perfonnes de lerfe
qui ont efte Gouvcrncurs et Baillifs de Guernefe, mais jamais nuUe personnc dc Guernefe n'a efte Gouverneur, Lieutenant, ou
Builly dsjerfe.
"1303: Edw. II. Ottho efloit du Prk'e Coufell. Sedition Populaire.
" Ottho de Geardijfeon eftant Seigneur des Illes enuoya un M'''' Gerard\ pour eftre son Lieutenant Gouverneur en Guernefe
et centre luy les habitants fe leverent et affiegerent le Chafleau, le prindrent prilbnier, et un fut appointe Bailly de leurs :
pour laquelle fedition populaire, ils furent taxes a milles livres fterlings, toutc I'aqucile procedeure aparoift en Foffice des Records
de fa Afrf'^' au Banc du Roy a Weftmefter.
" Anno Edzv. III. 1338. Guernefe fut prins par les Francois {vide Froifirt et Mon/lrelet).
"L'iflc et chafteau de Guernefe furent prins par les Francois et aulTi gardes durant Fefpafle de trois ans; dans lequel temps
I'Amiral de France, nomme Bahuchet, fill beaucoup d'aterrages et entrees en jerfe, bruflant et gaftant leurs bleads eftant
sur bout raaifons, granges, et tout ce qu'ils trouvoient, et de la donnerent beaucoup d'aflauts au Chafleau de sa Ma^' apelle
Mont Orgucil que les Habitants vaillement garderent, et d'effendirent fous Drouet de Barentin, S'' de Roffel, lors Lieutenant
Gouverneur, qui eftant occis en un aflaut, les habitants dtjcrfc en c'efte d'eftrefle choifirent Renaud de Carteret en fa place.
" Anjto 1 5 Edzv. III. Guernefe reconvert par la valeur et aide des hom?ne% de lerfe. X
* The original is in the possession of Miss Ann Gallichan, of S. Martin.
f The chronicler here is correct, Gerard Dormer having been appointed Lieut. Governor to Grandison. G. Rot.
ParLi. 419. a.
J In a copy of this MS., in the possession of Edgar MacCulloch, Esq., of Guernsey, occurs here the following
interpolation, evidently written, by its allusions to Charles IL, at a much later date, and possibly added by one of the
Andros family, sometime Seigneurs of Saumarcz, in Guernsey, since they were perhaps the only staunchly loyal family
of that island during the Great llebellion, or, as is more likely, by one of the descendants of those Guernseymen who
unsucccssfidly opposed the French in their native island ( J'iile Le Coma and Guille), and of whose deeds this offers
corroborative testimony : —
" L'Honorable Jean de la Marche dvi bas, Commandant-en-Chef de la paroisse de S. Martin, voyant I'isle dc
Guernsey revolte centre son Roi, et servant de preference sous les drapeaux Fran(;ais ; cc vaillant homme, dis-je, emu
par un esprit vraiment loyal, et seoonde par I'honorable Messire Pierre de Sausmarez, James Guille, Jean de Bhinche-
lande, Pierre Bonamy, Thomas Vauriouf, et Thomas Etibaut, qui allerent partout chercher du secours, et tachant de
detruire tous les factieux, et animes d'un desir d'assister ;\ lour bienfaiteur pour reprendrc la Chateau Cornet, assistes
par les braves habitants dc la petite Cesaree; la paroisse de S. Martin leva et envoya, 87 hommes qui se joignirent,
aux dites honorablcs pcrsonucs sous le commandcment du dit noble Jean de la Marche du bas : ce nombrc etait autant
INTRODTJCTIOX. 15
" Par la valeur et grande aide des hommes Ae. jerje, qui outre la vcrtu dc leurs perfonnes, contribuerent six mille quatre
cent marcs pour recouvrer Pljle et Chaftea^i Cornet de Guernefc, les Fnincaii furciit totallement chafle hors de Guernefe, dans
lequel lervice beaucoup fignales et hommes de qualite de jerfi y perdirent leurs \ies. Nommcment le S''^ de Vincheles, de
Mautravers, des Augres, de Garis, de la Hougue, Lempriere,* et beaucoup d'autres commandateurs nommes pour leur fervices
efpecial, outre le vulgaire.
" Guernefe et Sercq : la Phmtation par les Hommes de lers'e. Premierement,
"II plaife a c'eft honorable eftat d'apointer un temps que les hommes Aejer/e puiflcnt parler par leur conftil et produire
leurs preuues. II fera fait paroeftre que toutes les chefues families de Guernefe ont iflu deyV;y?qui premierement le peuplerent,
comme I'lfle de Sercq semblablement.
" Les nomps de diverses families et personnes de bon rang en lers'e.
" Les families de Matravers,^ Barentins, et Cattrets ont efte eminents en c'eft eftat et de longue continuance. Thomas
que la paroisse de S. Martin put en fournir dans ce temps la. Ayant ete attaques au Mont Madan (dit les Huhis)
ils firent retraite et s'cmbarquerent ;i la petite Porte (qui porte ce nom a cause de cette aventure) sur de frilcs barques,
parmi les Roohers, et arriverent enfin a Jersey, et se joignirent sous le commandemcnt de Messii-e Ilenaud de Carteret,
Grand Gouverneur des Isles, et se battirent vaillamment sous les drapeaux de Sa Majeste, apres avoir echappes a la
furcur d'une mer orageuse. S. Martin I'tait la seule paroisse de cette Isle de Guernesey, qui se garda sous
I'obeissance du Eoi, pour lesquels bons services, il plut a Sa Majeste Charles II., lour accorder les revers et paremens
bleus, puis apres leur fut accorde ;i leur rt'quete le galon d'argent comrae le plus noble. Cost alors que plusieurs
habitants de S. Martin donnerent leurs services pour leurs vies au susdit Ilenaud de Carteret, Gouverneur-cn-Chef,
et con(;urent un tel mepris pour leurs pays qu'ils habiterent Jersey. Lisez pour ccla le discours que Charles II. donna
au Parlement a son retour, et I'estime et I'eloge qu'il fait de ces heros."
* The correctness of this list is questionable. No Maltravers is known to have perished, and De Garis is, it
appears, solely a Guernsey name, although a fief De Garis is numbered among the many minor ones of this island.
t Matravers — Mautravers — Maltravers. The zeal of the writer here claims for this family a nationality it did
not possess. The following is a brief sketch of their history. The first of whom record is left is Hugh Maltravers,
who was witness to a charter of Henry I. to the monks of Montacute, in co. Somerset. In 5 Stephen, WiUiam
Maltravers gave a thousand marks of silver and one hundred pounds for the widow of Hugh de la Val, and lands of the
same Hugh, during the term of fifteen years, and then to have the benefit of her dowry and mai-riagc. After him were
John and "Walter (who died without heirs male), then John Maltravers, who took part wdth the rebellious Barons
against John ; — returning however to his obedience in 1 Henry III., he was of the retinue of Earl William Mareschall ;
and in June, 26 Henry III., had summons to fit himself with horse and arms to attend the King into France. He
died in 24 Edward I., being then seised of the manors of Henneford, co. Somerset ; of Woodchester, co. Gloucester ;
of Luchet and Wychampton, co. Dorset, and certain lands in Chelrey, co. Berks ; leaving John his son and heir. This
John was, in 34 Edward I., made a knight, attended the King into Scotland, and obtained in the same year a charter
or free-warren in all his demesne lands at Lychet- Maltravers, co. Dorset. He was, \ipon the deposal of Edward II.,
when he was styled John Maltravers the elder, appointed one of the principal persons to whom the custody of the King
was committed, in which charge, tradition says, he was characterized by his severity to the fallen monarch. At the
death of the King he fled to Cicrmany ; but, in 19 Edward III., upon the arrival of the King at the port of Swync, in
Flanders, he came voluntarily to him, and was, by the judgment of the Parliament, 25 Edward III., fuUy pardoned,
and had summons to sit in that convention. His son, John Maltravers the younger, received the honour of knighthood, in
34 Edward I. In 2 Edward III., he was constituted Governor of Carekcnny Castle. In the following year he
obtained a grant of aU the castles, manors, and lands of John Giffard, of Bummesfield, which devolved to the King by
escheat ; and the same year he was made Constable of Corfe Castle. Shortly after, however, for some oftence, aU his
lands were seized by the King; for, in 5 Edward III., Agnes, his wife, by the King's especial favour, obtained livery
of those lands wherewith she had been endowed by John de Argentine and John de Nerford, her former husbands. He
soon retui-ned to favour again, for he served the King in France, and was, for his services there, made Governor of
Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney. While in this oflioe he founded, according to Dugdale and others, an hospital, at
Bowes, in Guernsey, for poor men and women : this, however, is an error, for by the patent, Edward III., p. 2, m. 18,
it appears that Peter de S. Peter founded, de novo, that hospital under the auspices of the Governor. He died,
16 February, 38 Edward III., leaving Alianore, wife of John, second son of PJchard, Earl of Arundel, and Joane, wife
of Sir John de Kaynes, Knt., his grand-daughters and heirs, they being childi-en of John, his son, who died ritd pafris,
and who was, in 23 Edward III. (the year of his death), constituted Governor of the Norman Isles, twelve years before
his father's succession to that dignity. Arms : Sable, a fret or, with a file of three points ermine. — Vide Dugdale's and
Banke's Baronage, Hutchin's Dorset, &c.
16 INTRODUCTION.
dc Soullcmont eftant Secraitdire pour la langue latine a IS.S. ct CU-rcq du Parlemrnt en la maifon dc Haut, ct alors Hclier dt
Carteret, etoit fupervifeur de la Chambre.
" Item, les Barcntins et Carterets ont ete eminents et Gotiverneurs dans les ditcs Ifles, et de temps en temps divers
hommes dsjer/i- ont efte et a prefent font Lieutentints-Gouz'erneiirs et Bui/lis dans les deus ifles."*
The islands are guileless of Heralds ; f grants and confirmations are for the most part
unknown among them, and for the sources of then- arms, it will be found that immemorial
prescription, as those of De Carteret and Dc Barentine ; of retaining the original arms of
their- ancestors, as Lcrrier and Pellier ; of plagiarism, as Ecraon, bearing those of Eaymond ;| and
some instances of assumption at will — have all had their share in illustrating the following
pages. Yet some attention was paid to the science, as an examination of the old private seals
will show, in which marks of cadency and quarterings are exhibited. The right of bearing
arms also was sometimes disputed, which is proved by the following summons sent by the
Seigneur of Samares to Pierre de la Eocque in 15G7.
., J _g^ -| Prevoft de S' helier femones ou faite femondrc, a Mercredy dixicme jo'' du mois de Decembre, Mille V
lo" lo''™ j foixante & fcpt, fi compreor a S' helier aux pleiz de catel, tenus a la cohue de fes Majestes la Roine, Pierrcj
de la Rocque contre honnefte gentfhome Henry Dumarefq, S'' du Fief, S™, et appartenances de Saumarefq : Et led' de
la Rocque, ufurpate'' et cntreprene'' de porter et avoir en pourtraict en sa maison et aultres lieux les ppres Armeuries
dud' S'' dc Saumarefq ; et led' Dumarefq S' come d' eft, adjoinct avecq I'advocat de notrc Souveraine Dame la Roine,
stipulant I'office de Procurcur en cefte Isle de Jerfey, et a refpondre audit advocat ct adjoinct a to'"^ les cacs qu'ils luy fairont a
demander et selon que le'' conscill le'" donnera : Item, Semones ou faits femondre audit jour et lieu le Sgeant on Pvolt dud'
Pierre de la Rocque a venir recorder led' adjournement fait entre lefd'' parties." La bille fignee de P. E. le Saulte''
" Memorand"^ Des raifons q. Pierres de la Rocque, gent., replique a la bille d'ajoncti" q. henry Dumarefq S'' dc Saumarefq
lui a envoiee, instance du Procureur du Roy po'' le fait des Trefles§ en le""^ armoiries," &c.
" Prem' led' de la Rocque d' qu'en 1367 le Manier de Rossel et de Saumarets &c: furent vendus p. Phle de Barentin
Esc"^: a Raoul Lempre et a Guille Pain, et qu'il y avoit toujo" eu du depuis proces fuivis p. les herit""^ succefs''^ de Barentin,
po 'en avoir la Retraitte jufqu' en I'annee 1462 au temps que le Comte de Maulevrier eftoit Seig*' des Isles ; &c"- "
" Nota. de laifser courir la deff'^": de Henry dumarefq po'' la clame"" de mes Amies."
" Si on eft cotraindl de refpondre, de demander son declinatoire qui eft le Roy des heraults et dc dire au Baillil qu'il ne lui
apptient de juger d'armes."
" Vbi noti7. Oue les armes des anciens S'''de Saumarefq n'apptient point a Henry Dumarefq ilTu de Guille dc Pain, Breton,
lequci achcpta le fief de Saumarets fans achepter les armes, ne qu'il lui cusscnt efte concedes p. le Prince ny confernies p. I« Roy
des heraults, aufly aifavoir f'il a paie le tresienie et qu'il n'aptient point a ung eftranger de doner armes d'une extraftion noble,
et que armes ont efte donees prmierem' p: Alexandre le grand p. le confeil d'Aristote le Philosophe po'' doner courage et noble
vouloir a (es vaillants homes, 8''^ , et gentilfhomes Src"- " \
■*■ There are many discrepancies in this document, but EaUe thought it 'worthy of credence, and it supplies names
and dates that otherwise would have been wanting.
\ This assertion must be taken in its heraldic sense only, for, as a King's messenger, the name of Mont-Orgueil
Herald frcc^uently occurs in the records of the College of Arms. One of this name attended at the coronation of Henry
VII. ; another at his funeral. Mont-Orgueil attended among other heralds at the famous meeting between Henry VIII.
of England, and Francis I., of France, in 1520. This herald, Randolph Jackson, Esq., was made a herald in ordinary
in the 7 Henry VIII., having the same fees and privileges as the other heralds. He 'wore the King's coat at the
creation of Henry Fitzroy, King Henrj''s illegitimate son, to the earldom of Nottingham. Some years afterwards,
Jackson, surrendering his patent, was created Chester Herald, when this former office ceased. John Gibbon, Blue-
Mantle poursuivant, temp. Charles II., a member of the same family as the great historian, lived for some time in Jersey.
Viie Noble's Coll. Arms.
\ Some authorities are inclined to attribute this rather to a corruption of name, which is not unlikely. One
common in the Island, that of Huelin, is strikingly like a perversion of the Welsh Llewellyn, especially 'when the
aspirated character of the Cambrian double ll's is taken into consideration.
§ Trefoils. Alluding to those borne in the arms. See arms of Dumaresq. \ Tide Porny's Heraldry, p. 3.
INTRODUCTIOX.
17
I regret I could not obtain the settlement of the question, but as the arms of De la Eocque
are represented as being a fesse between the three trefoils, it is possible that the difference was
adopted in compliance with the terms of this remonstrance.
The Jersey families generally placed theii- arms on the keystone of the arch leading to
their dwellings, or over the door itself ; another mode may be observed of a shield with initials,
accompanied with arbitrary marks, of which instances are given.
'SXSSm:^
mm
^?<t!'!l51S
Whether the line, the triangle, and the diamond depicted above, and copied from existing
examples, represented severally a fesse, a chevi-on, or a lozenge, and that this formed the
bearings of the family, as is sometimes supposed, cannot with certainty be decided. The
humbler classes contented themselves with theii- initials and those of theii- wives, on a stone
sometimes forming a gatepost, or at others embedded in the wall of the house, connected by the
loving symbol of two conjoined hearts.*
iir.'x;^^^:;:>y[ixi^^^^^
tgi!ii^lp.^-g;©'
>.>"":;('3^;'MI;,^.
"T"
''||l■^l;:!::lMl,l'""'':^^i!'^'''|ll'j||^''l'':'l!iU'^'^v;'^:::?:v..^"'lV-;.,llll^.^''r^
The former, however, are not very plentiful, and it is supposed that when the majority of the
houses were rebuilt, about two hundred years ago, armorial ensigns were omitted in the new
buildings ; nor are they much more frequent on the public edifices, excepting the bearings of a
few official personages.
Over the door of the keep in Mount Orgueil Castle are the Eoyal arms, bearing the initials
IVyi'™«li|l(ii:iiilllv!||ll!»'ll!jtl!'ri))|f"''''i"|'|
"■■'-I
* When a bactelor built a house, he left on this stone a blank space on the sinister side, to be filled up upon his
assumption of the shackles of matrimony.
18
IXTRODUCTIOX.
E. E.,* between tlie arms of Poulett on one side, and Poulett impaling Norrcys on the other.
On the wall of the keep arc the arms of Henry Cornish, •)■ Lieutenant-Governor, nnder the Duke of
Somerset, in 1537, and several stones with the cross of
S. George sculptured in bold relief. This old and once-
powerful stronghold, rendered famous by the prowess of
the islanders, has been shorn of most of its beauty, and
is now gradually crumbling into decay. Over the pre-
sent keep soared an upper tower to the height of sixty-
four feet, J which greatly added to its imposing appear-
ance; and its former outworks extended on the S., close
to the beach, where the village and pier of Gorey now
stand, and on the W., half across the plateau, which
divides the eminence on which the fortress is erected
from the opposite hill : the present gateway, too, was
defended by a portcullis and a covered way of some
considerable length :§ this was its ai^pearance in 1G80.
The old Coiu't House, or Cohue, was at one time decorated with several coats of arms, but
the plain facade of the present one is relieved only by an indifferent moulding of the Eoyal arms,
which are much excelled in point of taste and consequence by those surmounting the doors of
those tradesmen patronised by her Majesty in her auspicious visit to the island in 1846.
Ornamenting the walls of Elizabeth Castle are the Eoyal arms ; those of Sii' John Lanier,
* It will be noticed that the ensigns of England are here supported with the lion and a dragon, which last was
first borne by Henry VII. as the bearing of Cadwallader, the last king of the Britons, from whom he boasted his de-
scent. James J. was the first monarch who bore the lion and unicorn as supporters.
f Arms — Sable, a chevron, embattled, or, between three roses argent.
X !?ee Dumaresq'sMS. This tower was demolished by General Don, an ex-Licutcnant- Governor, from motives of safety.
§ A splendidly executed MS. of the Defences of Jersc}- was presented to the King by Colonel Leggc, afterwards
Lord Dartmouth, and shows artistic talent of no mean order. It is preserved among the MSS. in Bib. I'cg., British
Museum. Vif/c, also. The Landing Places of Jersey, in the llarleian MSS.
INTEODTJCTIOX. 1 9
Lieutenant-Governor in 1679 ;* those of Thomas, Lord Jermyn, Governor in 1684 ;"f and those of
Colonel Thomas Collier, Lieutenant-Governor in 1703, who died in 1715, and was buried in
the church of S. Ilelier. J The flagon of the communion plate of the chapel here, bears the arms
of Capel Earl of Essex,§ and the chalice and paten the arms and crest of Lord Jermyn, j| which
plate was probably the gift of those noblemen. It is to be regretted that the defence of the
castle required the destruction of the ruins of the old chapel of that garrison, which formed the
only vestige of the once magnificent abbey of S. Helier. In an old drawing^ made before its
demolition, it forms a very pretty and prominent object ; evidently there was much more elabo-
ration bestowed upon it than upon any other ecclesiastical building in the island.
On a small islet in close proximity to the larger one on which the castle is erected, stands
one of the most antique and most interesting buildings in Jersey — the hermitage of S. Helier ;
which, although possessing no heraldic remains, deserves a notice here. All who have told its
history, loosely state that it was undoubtedly the original dwelling of that holy recluse, and point
to a rude recess on the N". side of the erection as the place of his martyrdom. Turning for a
moment to the date in which he flourished, the most fervid admirer of this time-worn structui-e,
will shrink from assigning to it so great an age. Poingdestre** imagines this to be circa a.d.
857 ; but is mistaken, for it is a received axiom that when the saint lived, the inundation that
separated those rocks ft-om the main land had not taken place, and this event the Abbe Manet has
fixed at about a.d. 700. In the account given of the life of S. Ilelier, in "Les Yies des Saints,"
his death is said to have occurred circa 550, which is possibly correct.tt To his monkish devo-
tees, therefore, we must attribute the erection of this dwelling, which, with the chapel at
S. Brelade, forms the only perfect specimen now extant of the many sacred edifices that existed
prior to the erection of the parish churches. The interior of the hermitage has vestiges left of
the paintings in distemper that once decorated it, and by the east door is still the recess for the
bcnitier. In Sir Thomas Morgan's time it was fortified, and used as a guardhouse, and had a
* Arms — Azure, a saltire lozengy, between four eagles, displayed, or.
f Arms — Sable, a crescent in base, and a mullet in chief, argent. The family of Jermyn was possessed of the
manor of Rushbrooke, Suffolk. Henry Jermyn, second son of Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, was one of the most
prominent Royalists of his day, and was, in 19 Charles I., for his services created Lord Jermyn, Baron S. Edmundsbury, in
Suffolk, and subsequently Earl S. Albans, with limitation of the barony, in default of male issue, to Thomas, his elder
brother, and his heirs male. Dying in 1683, unmarried, his title of S. Albans became extinct, but that of Jermj-n
descended to his nephew Thomas, son and heir of Thomas, his elder brother. Thomas, second Lord Jermyn, was
Governor of Jersey in 1684, and died in ] 703, without male issue, when the title became extinct.
J Arms — Sable, a cross patee fitclu'e, or. Crest — A cross as in the arms.
§ Arms — Gules, a lion rampant between three crosses crosslet fitchee, or.
II Crest — A talbot passant, gorged with a coronet. ^ MS. of Colonel Legge, Brit. ilus.
** Poigndestre's ilS., folio 416.
If A MS. history of the diocese of Coutances informs us that the saint was not a recluse, as is generally supposed,
but that he foimded a monastery here:— De fon temps (S. Lo) arriva le martyre de S. Helier; c'cftoit un Difciple de S.
Marcou, lequel s'eftant par sa permifsion retire dans I'ifle de Gerfay y avoit batit un monaftere et y eftoit pur. de plufieurs
Religieux, mais une troupe de pirats infideles y eftant abordez, voulurent obliger ces bon religieux de renoncer a I. CH. E, qui
refufant conftament, ils le firent mourir cruellement, avec la plus part de fes religieux. Le martyrloge en faidt mention en
ces termes. Conftantia hi Normannia 5^'". hclerii a Vandalia in Gerzeio infulie occiji." Harl. MSS. 4599.
d2
20 INTRODUCTION.
Union Jack floating from its summit ; * all the walls that then surrounded it are gone, but the
remains of an oratory or perhaps a niche for a statue, still exist at the foot of the steps leading to it.
Every one admits the light thrown on family history by cenotaphic and monumental
remains, but of these but few of consequence are left to Jersey ; whether they shared the
miitilatiou that overtook every thing else that the misguided fury of the Puritans thought
idolatrous, and were used like the few incised monuments that are still to be found, built into
the walls of the chiu-ches and houses, is a question of but little moment ; but I imagine that
many such did exist, fi-om the number of the earlier ones now extant, as may be seen in the
buttresses of several churches, the keep of Mont Orgueil Castle, and other places. -l" Varieties of
the same character of slabs had frequently armorial devices painted on them, especially when
accompanied with shields and inscriptions. Their present remains prove that the island was
well represented by such monuments up to the thii'teenth and fourteenth centuries, and it may
well be supposed that those of later date were destroyed, :J: as there appears to have been no period
of retrogression either in useful or ornamental work in the Channel lslands.§ By far the earliest,
and perhaps the only example of sculptured arms that can claim a very high antiquity, is that on
one of the S. buttresses of the parish church of S. Martin. The stone, although it has lost
all sharpness of outline, has sufficiently resisted the ravages of time as to render the device easily
legible. On a shield, supported by two angels, is a lion rampant, above which is the crest, a
flag on a staff; this last is the only argument against its excessive age, but the state of the stone
speaks equally on the other hand by its decay, for the durability of the insular granite is
proverbial. Although the arms evidently belong to Ingclramus de Furneto, the predecessor of
the Do Barentiues, as Seignem- de Eozel, temp. John, yet I am unable to furnish positive proof of
the fact ; this accomplished, would go very far to prove the early xrse of bearing crests.||
* Vide Landing Places of Jersey. MS. Harl., Brit. Mus.
f Fide examples given in The Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle Ages. By the Rev. E. L. Cutts, B.A.
London, 1849.
\ Dr. Heylin, Jersey's first tourist, infers this, for it was his original plan to write an antiquarian history of the
island; but he says biiat he found " the churches naked of all monuments, and not so much as the blazon of an armes
permitted in a window, for fear, as I conjecture, of idolatry." P. '280.
§ Instances have occurred where monuments have disappeared from the churchyards : a tomb of the Mauger family,
with arms and inscription, has done so within the last twenty years, from the churchyard of S. Laurence parish.
II Pices, in his " History of Jersey," explains these arms in a very curious way. I quote him on the subject,
premising that the italics are mine : " On a buttress," (of S. Martin's Church) " is an ancient piece of sculpture,
respecting which nothing beyond conjecture can be obtained. It seems to comprise iiro Lni/s supporting a kind of shield,
in which is a figure apparently rising info the air ; it therefore is probably a monumental tablet, thuiujh supposed to be an
armorial bearing belonging to the ancient possessors of (he fief of Rosel. The sculptured tablet appears to be coeval
with the buttress on which it is engraved (Jrigiuully none but the nobility possessed the right of wearing
arms; and as all the baronial privileges were tenaciously kept from infraction, it is not likely that the seigneur of a fief,
in an inconsiderable island, should possess what was esteemed to be so great an honour. Even supposing the engraving
in question to be arms respecting tlio fief, yet we believe that such bearings, termed ' arms of succession,' did not appear
much before the fourteenth ccntuiy. It must be admitted, however, that the tablet is placed on the buttress of an aisle
that has been added to tlic original one ; it may therefore not be so ancient hy some centuries." Mr. Plees' knowledge
of lieraldry, either in connection with the island or as a science, was ovidentlj- small ; the former would have told lum
that the DeCarterets and Do Barentines (who were, in fact, hamnes ininores) bore arms f, oni their earliest known usage ;
the latter, that arms of succession, which are those borne by possessors of manors, &c., are always used like arms of
ofiice, impaled with the paternal coat.
INTRODUCTION. 21
The island has but little to boast of in the architecture of its churches, for none of them are
at all remarkable for beauty of design or decoration ; and although ample proof exists to show
that they have not escaped the mutilations consequent upon the Eeformation, and which the
strong Calvinistic spirit the inhabitants evinced led them to execute with a will ; yet it is clear
they never did present the imposing appearance to be found in so many parish churches in
England and France. This may have happened from the circumstance that the diocesan took
the lion's share of tithes and endowments, or from the superior attractions offered by the shrines
at the Abbey of S. Ilelier, and those at the other religious houses, of which Jersey then had so
many, in gifts to which the donations of the faithful wei'e concentrated. Had these structures
remained to the present day, there is no doubt but that they would have furnished most
interesting details ; the tombs of the Seigneurs and the architecture of those sacred fanes would
supply many gaps in the history of the mediasval progress of the island.
The churches, all said to have been built between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries,
appear to have been of the usual crucial form ; most have had additional aisles added, running
parallel to the main one, of which the names of three of their builders have reached us ;* for in
those days of simple faith the people thought, poor ignorant souls, that to beautify God's house
and benefit the poor, was doing Him far more service than the clashing of creeds and bigoted
hatred that characterize the rcligiosi of this wiser age.
These additions, which the piety of their erectors suggested, and the increase of population
rendered necessary, have effectually destroj-cd all symmetry of form and style ; for the connecting
arches of the new portions differ entirely from those of the old, and the later windows are much
more floriated. The arches of the old buildings are the plain simple pointed, f the doors having
tlie semicircular Norman arch, with single moulding and plain soffit; occasionally in the
alterations, however, the skene arch awkwardly springs from the elevated quarter of its
predecessor. Eight of the churches have pointed steeples, which appear to be even of later date
than the additions just referred to ; two have but low pack-saddle roofed belfries, scarcely rising
above the high pitch of the roof of the aisles ; and the remaining two possess what I imagine to
have been the original design of the builders, viz., a square, massive tower, harmonizing well
with the character of the edifices, Avhose chief merit is their substantiality.
Tiu'uing from an architectural to a more general description of them, there is but little
worthy of note. In S. Laurence Church, some part of the floor is devoid of stone or boards,
and remains in its original state of mother earth, grown green by age and damp. By the side
of a small door at the E. end is a piece of marble, embedded in the wall, bearing the charitable
inscription, " Ayez Souvenance des Pauvres," and beside it hangs a massive lantern-like box to
receive the fruits of the remembrance.^ On the N. side of this church is a ciirious small
* Members of the families of Amy, Guerdain, and Hamptonne, have severally made additions to the churches of
Grouville, S. Trinity, and S. Laurence.
f Of the pointed arch, there are three varieties — the equilateral, formed on an equilateral triangle ; the lancet,
formed on an acute-angled triangle ; and the drop arch, formed on an obtuse -angled triangle. Those referred to in the
text vary bet^veen the two first.
X John, Earl of ilortain, afterwards King of England, by his charter, dated at Tinchebrai, 8 Feb. 9 Eic. I. (1198),
gave to the Abbey of S. Nicholas of Blanchelande, and the brethren there serving God, in pure and perpetual alms, this
22 INTRODUCTION.
circular turret, enclosing a newel staircase : these were at one time common in dwelling-houses
of the hotter kind ; one still exists with the tower at Longucville Manor ; and the stair only, of
extraordinary size and strength, in one of the out-buildings of the manor-house of Les Pres,
Grouvillo. Like most of the other churches, this has preserved some remnants of stained glass
in the windoAV-heads.
S. Ouen's Church,* although the parochial church of the De Cartcrets, has little to
recommend it to the notice of the heraldic antiquarian ; here, however, is the only attempt at an
armorial design, in stained glass of ancient date, to be found among the churches. It represents
the arms of Dc Carteret, but the tinctures are incorrect. On some elaborately carved seats are
painted the arms of various families of the parish, which, being coloured to fancy, aptly show the
effect of rustic skill. In one of the aisles is a marble tomb, to the memory of Elizabeth,
daughter of ex-Lieutenant-Governor Wilson.
The spire of S. Martin's Church was formerly used as the rector's Colomhier, or dove-cote,
once a feudal perquisite in the island ; however, one of the rectors incurred the displeasiu'e of
the then Seigneur of Eozel, and the doves, consequently, left their ecclesiastical eyrie, and
" their place knew them no more for ever." The holes for their egress, and some perches,
remain to this day as evidences of the fact. Here also is the curious tablet referred to above.
S. Saviour's Church is the largest and most compact of all : an instance is showm here of
the studied demolition of architectural ornaments that disgraced the period of the Eeformation ;
the crest of the roof being formerly decorated with crosses, of which the arms were then hacked
off, giving them the appearance of round knobs. Among the many epitaphs which crowd the
church, is one to the memory of Daniel Dolbcl, with a curious medallion of the accident by
which he was killed, that of falling from his horse. And on the wall dividing the old from the
new cemetery, are tablets in memory of members of several distinguished French emigrant
families, victims of the French Eevolution. Another tablet, with arms, records the death of Sir
Edward Gibbs, a late Lieutenant-Governor.
Grouville Church, although small, is remarkably pretty in situation and form. The stained
glass of the central E. wmdow bears the letters HP., having been the gift of Hugh Hoopee,
brother to the celebrated Bishop of Gloucester, f who, settling in the island, founded a family of
high respectability in this pai'ish.
Church of S. Laurence, in insula, as it had belonged to his right and presentation, entirely and fully, with all its
appurtenances, which Geoffrey, the priest and dean, had held, " ita quod in pdicta abbatia quamdiu visero memoria mea
habeatur, et post dccessum meum solcmpne et perpetuum anniversarium pro me celebretui', et ejdem loci conventus in
die obitus mei in victualibus celcbriter procuretur." PI. de quo War., p. 831.
* S. Audoen or Ouen, was born at Sancy, near Soissons, and descended from a good family there. He received
his education in the Abbey of S. Medard in Soissons, whence he was removed to the Court of Clothaire II., where he
was preferred to several considerable employments; and when Dagobert ascended the throne, was appointed his
resendary and chancellor. In the year 646 he was consecrated Archbishop of Kouen, and died at Clichy, 24 August,
689. ( Fide Ducarel's Norman Antiquities.) It would seem that St. Ouen had eai'ly been the patron saint of the De
Carteret family.
f John Hooper also held the see ofWorcester, in commendam, in 1552, was deprived of it by Queen Mary in 1553,
and condemned to the stake in 1555 ; on the 9th of February of which year he was burnt at Gloucester. Arms. — Or,
on a fesse dancette, between three flames of fire, gules, proceeding from clouds argent, a lamb couchant between two
estoiles of the last. MS. Roll of Parliament, 7 Edward VI.
INTKODUCTIOK.
23
S. Peter's Churcli offers an agreeable feature in having stained glass memorial wdndows —
two in the S. aisle, to George William Le Feuvee, Esq., who died in 1842, and to Jane
Le Brocq, his wife, who died in 1854 ; and two small medallion ones in the chancel record the
death of Georgina A. Alexandre, the wife of F. Browning, Esq. The general effect of this
church is much enhanced by the pillars being freed from the plaster and whitewash that wi'ap
up those of the others as with a shroud. At the present restoration of Ely Cathecbal, upon
removing the several coats of distemper with which the cleanliness of the age had clothed the
columns of the nave, they were foimd to be of Purbeck marble — rather a sharp commentary
upon the good taste of our fathers. These three last churches, A\-ith that of S. John, have been
restored in a manner which much redounds to the credit of their several rectors ; but the others
are, for the most part, in a deplorable state of neglect, and, as flir as the perishable materials of
the interior are concerned, of decay. They generally boast of no altars; a domestic-looking
table with flaps supplies the omission, placed generally in front of the pulpit, or anywhere else
" out of the way," the E. windows being invariably blocked up with cumbrous, heavy, and
square pews, which here may be seen in all their glory.*
On the bell of the church of S. Trinity are depicted the arms of Dumaresq of Les Augres,
Lempriere, Do Carteret of Trinity, and another shield on which appear thi-ee leopards' heads,
jessant-de-lis, the owner of which is not known, but is variously supposed to be either the family
of Cabot or Kichardson.
When the churches were sacrilegiously sacked of their fui'uiture and ornaments, in the reign
of Hem-y VIII. , the bells even did not escape, but were with the rest shipped off to S. Malo, to
be sold. The vessel, however, never reached its destination, but foundered when but a little
* The inhabitants here, as in England, fondly cling to the unscriptural notion of possessing the churches as private
property, forgetting that they belong to Him to whose worship they are dedicated, and that their purpose is entirely
perverted by being parcelled into a number of petty freeholds. In England, spite of the rancorous opposition and even
persecution with which the dissemination of this fact has been met, the people at large are beginning to think more
justly on this point; and it is to be hoped that the subject, once brought fairly before their notice, will tend to ren-
der churches available alike for rich and poor, and through this means correct much of that practical infidelity and
non-attendance at public worship that now characterize our poorer classes generally.
24 INTEODTJCTIOX.
way from the shore ; the circumstance gives Falle an opportunity of pointing the obvious moral.*
The parishes not being sufficiently rich to purchase new peals, single ones were obtained by
subscription among the parishioners, and were cast in the island. Tradition says that of
S. Saviour's was cast in the S. porch. The other bells I examined only bore on them dates and
the names of the churchwardens ; but not having seen all, it is just possible that some others
may have been ornamented with arms in the same way.
The rest of the churches^ contain nothing worthy of further remark than what applies to
most of them, and is a peculiarly insular custom — that of having the arms of the principal families
placed above their respective pews, carved in relief in oak ; and the fact of these edifices being
almost imperishable, from the strength of their material ; for as no wood is used in then- erection,
they can safely defy everything but forcible destruction. The roofs, though, in some cases have
needed repair, and their picturesque red tiles have, with bad taste, been replaced with slates ; —
their earliest roofing was, I imagine, of rubble, like that of the Hermitage of S. Helier. In a
very humble and unornamental way, the massive principles that characterize this early style are
here as apparent as in the most magnificent specimens left in France and England.
Nor were the private dwellings less strong in their proportions ; the immense stones used
in their construction, and the heavy piles of chimneys, must strike the most careless tourist, in
the farmhouses that dot the country. The usual method of construction was in the form of a
quadrangle, enclosing a large coiu'tyard, three sides of which formed out-offices, and the fourth,
the dwelling. The wall facing tlie road was pierced by two archways, the large, for vehicular,
and the small for pedestrian, traffic, both seciux-d by massive doors. In the middle of the
seventeenth century, the houses throughout tlie island seem to have been rebuilt, as the dates
on them testify.^ It was my privilege to inspect one of these that had undergone no change
from the time of its erection, the present owners having reversed the original order, by living in
what were originally the out-buildings, and leaving the house itself intact and uninhabited. It
was the manor house of the fief de Ponterrin,§ once the property of the Le Hardy family. On
the ground-floor the interior party walls were far thicker than the outer ones of modern and
degenerate buildings ; the room doors were arched, and the rooms themselves garnished by fire-
places extending the whole length of the room, speaking volumes for the comfort of the " ingle-
nook," surmounted with such large and solid mantel-pieces of one stone, as would give the
builders credit for Titanic or Druidic strength. Xor was this substantiality confined to the
* Tliis, howevfi-, is not an original tradition, for it is related that the Lord Deputy of Ireland, in 1538, Leonard de
Grey, " without anie warrant from the king or counccll, prophaned the church of S. Patrike in Doune [Downpatrick,
CO. Down], turning it into a stable, after plucked it doune, and stript the notable ring [peal] of bels that did hang in the
steeple, meaning to have sent them to England, had not God, of his justice, prevented this iniquitio by sinking the
vessell and passengers wherein the said belles should liavo been conveid." — Vide Hall's Ireland, vol. iii. p. 10.
f In that of S. Helier is the only specimen of a monumental brass extant in the island. It records the death of
Jacob North, Esq., of Allercourt, co. Somerset.
\ Possibly the mad freaks enacted during the Eebellion may account for this wholesale demolition, and the
consequent rebuilding that followed.
§ Erom the proceeding upon a writ of quo tcarranf. in 2 Edward II. (1309), we learn tliat the MiU of Pountterryn
had been in the enjoyment of the Abbesses of Caen time immemorial. — Stapleton's Rolls of the Norman Exchequer.
IXTRODl'CTION. 25
basement ; above, still were stone walls and arched doors, -witli chamfered archivolts and jambs,
the floors being of solid oak. Scattered about were fragments of carved panelling, which at one
time lined the rooms, with several specimens of the once indispensable coffer, or chest,
ornamented with tracery, but descended from their former usage to the office of holding fodder
for cattle. Verily, ye mcdifeval Jerseymen, your houses were your castles in no figurative point
of view ! For it would have required all the appliances of modern warfare effectually to have
battered them about your ears ! *
Jersey offers another peculiarity well worthy the notice of the antiquarian. Mr. Lower,
whose researches entitle his opinions to much consideration, says that in England, among the
middle and lower classes, hereditary surnames can scarcely be said to have been in use before the
era of the Eeformation, when the introduction of parish registers naturally acted as instruments
for settling them.t And so late as the seventeenth century, another author remarks,:j: that
many families in Yorkshire, even of the more opulent sort, had not stationary names. Those very
excellent authorities, the Extcntes, prove that this was not the case in Jersey, for in that of 1331,
names are quoted which are still common in the island ; and but few of these are territorial,
most being arbitrary and personal. And in very many instances their representatives still live,
after the lapse of five centuries, unchanged in parish or in circumstance. This is particularly
the case with the small freeholders of the island, who, not having mixed prominently in political
or social struggles, have escaped the vicissitudes common to the great in all countries and in all
times. For, it must not be supposed Jersey has escaped the immutable law — that of the decay
and extinction of those, whose fortune it has been to stand foremost in their country's history,
and which is so strikingly exemplified in the chronicles of England, '\\hcre one may read that
the great-great-grandson of Margaret Plautagenet followed, in 1637, the humble craft of a
cobbler, at Newport, in Shropshire. And at this day, among the lineal descendants of Edmund
of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, sixth son of Edward I., King of England, and entitled to quarter the
Roijal Arms, are Joseph Smart, of Hales Owen, a butcher, and George Wilmot, a toll-gate
keeper, at Cooper's Bank, near Dudley. §
In concluding this necessarily brief and cursory sketch of the most notable facts concerning
the subject of my work, it must not be supposed that I have, by any means, exhausted the
peculiar features of this isle of long lineages ; on the contrary, the jurist, the historian, and the
ethnologist, will find it possesses ample and novel claims upon their attention, fully entitling it
and its inhabitants still to be termed a distinct and interesting place and people.
* Poingdestre, in his MS , says : " The houses in Jersey are not soe slightly built, as they are generally throughout
England, being built of stone, very substantially ; " and gives as a reason " that in England, tenures are temporary,
either for lives or yeares, but in Jersey they are for ever " {djin d' heritage) ; " soe as the people being perfect owners
of their lands, it is noe wonder, if they applye all their studyes to build, plant, and augment thereon more than if they
had them but for a time." Eo. 15.
t English Surnames, by M. A. Lower, Esq.
I The History of the CoUege of Arms, by the Rev. Maik JJ'oble.
§ Vide Burke's Anecdotes of the Aristocracy.
iHIS family has tindoiibtedly an English origin, but has been established in Jersey
from a very remote period.
Dm-ing the middle ages several of its members were ecclesiastics ; one of whom,
then Eector of Grouville, retiu-ning from a voyage to France, was in imminent danger
of being drowned, and, in compliance with the custom of the day, vowed an addition to his
parish chui'ch, should Providence permit him to land in safety. This vow he lived to fulfil,
and erected in pursuance of it the N. chapel or aisle of that edifice, dedicated to S. Margaret.
Eaulin Amy, another priest of the same family, is better known by his will, still in
existence, and c|uoted in one or more of the Histories of Jersey,
In a curious roll of the militia, compiled in 1617, Francis Amy is mentioned as Captain of
the Train-Band of the parish of Grouville.
The eldest branch, that of Upper Castillon, is represented by Edwaed Gibbs Poingdestre,
Esq., of Grainville House. A junior branch is represented by Philip Amy, Esq., of S. Martin.
Arms : Or, on a chief embattled, sable, three mullets argent.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a peacock's head, proper, holding a sprig, vert.
Motto : Hostis honori invidia.
^tJrtigrrr of Slmij.
Thomas Amy and Cardine, his wife, liviug 14iO.
Richard Amy, of Castillou.=
-dau. of Laurence Anquetil.
Richard Amy, of
Upper CastUlou.
Clement Amy.
T
Francis Amy.
John, Ob. 1639.
Raiiliu, of Lower Castillon.
Drouet Amy. Andrea.
Guillemette. dim. of Ph. Godel.
John Auniunt.*
I
Anthony.
Sire John Amy,
Presbyter.
Philip Amy, of
"Upper Castillon,
Ob. 1G4C.
Sire Rauliii Amy, Rector of
Grouville, founded amass,
to be celebrated every Wed-
nesday in Ills parish church,
in perpetuity, for the soul
of his father, Anthony Amy.
I
Denys.=
Collette.
Catherine.
Philip Jutize. Heury Mallet.
Francis Amy.
Perntdle, dau.
of Toussaiut
De Rue.
I
— De La Hue.
John KicoUe.
Rudolph.
James.
Raulin Amy,
to whom his
\nicle Raulin
left ten crowns
and his valise.
I I I I I
Francis, to Catherine,
whom his and three
uncle Raulin other sisters,
left ten crowns to whom
and a tunic, their uncle
Raulin left
each a cow and
twelve Iambs.
Kicholas,
James Amy, an
Acolyte, to
whom Helier
De La Rocque
and Guillemette,
widow of Drouet
Amy, gave fifteen
livres Touniois
for liis reception
intu holy orders.
* Arms of Aumont of Normandy— Ai-geut, a chevi'on between seven martlets, gules: four in chief and three in base.
AX AEMORIAX OF JEESEr.
Philip Ann*.
Philip Ainj.
T
Jane, onlv dau.
And heir.
JohnPoiDgdessre. Esq^
of Grain'olle House.
Kargaret
John AmT.
Fnnds Amy, who,
by his tenore of
Lower Castflion,
was charged with
the repairs of the
lodge of MoBi-
OrgneifCastle, and w^
Conszable azid
CsriaiD of Groorille.
Esther, dau.
ofiDciiacl
Lempnere,
Seig. of
Dielaiaeiu.
Ph. De B:ie.
I
Sire James Aidt,
lo 'S'hom his uncle
RaTiIiii lef: by win,
da:^ 1515. forty
crowns for hi^
education.
I I I
DrooeL
FranosL
Edward.
I
John Amy-
Jane, dao. of
John Anhm.
U.I '
Eslier.
Ferrer e.
Marr, ciZL
of EicLarf
Da Parc^3.
Joshn
I
Philip^Aaj.
T
PhUip Amy and
Sns&n, his vife.
T
Pbilip Amy, of Bonlirot.
^T
I I
John.
John.
MarjGan^n.
Philip
Amr.
Franos.
J«ne.
Suali.
Elizabeth
VaUat.
Jcbii Amv,
b. l»i.'
I I
Jane.
John.
Elizac-eih
I
Philip Amv,
ifsiy. Frencii Amv,
01" the Pisd du
Pfa-Amj. Ciji:; !L.
Philip AmT.
b.i-;i;.' 7T~TrrT— ^
Jane.
Ma.-v.
J.-hua,
b. i!>:4.
Francis Amj,
of BooliTotT
Elizabeth
Martin giv.
JohiL b. 1646.
Eliziteth CoUas,
of 5. Saviour.
MaiT.
Cement
Fane.
Bach£L
I I I
JaneL
Elizabesii.
Mary.
1. Elizabe;h = Philip Aicy. = 2. Mary
Mourani, — ■■ ■ Mallet.
OMp. 3. Esther Carrel,* oj^.
I
John Amy.
Mary Payn.
T
John Amv,
Mary.
Francis Amy,
Constable of GrooviDe,
m-ins.
Phiiip'.
Esther.
Elizii-ciiAi-ihiiLe.
. Hoiman.
T
Jane, dan. of
Charies Le Hardv.
John Amr.
Elizabeth Amy.
Francis Amy, Con-
stable of GronTiHe,
b.int
Maiy.
John Payn. Elias NicoIIe.
I
Phibp Amy. Esq.
Jane, dan. of Ph.
Lal)er,£sq,
ofl^aigaerilie.
Flufip A -my J
olISM-
Anne.
Pe^er Carey
Le PeUy.Esq.,
Uia Saz. of
Saii
I { I I I I I
Juhn ^Vinter, oo.
E-ther. -■>■.
Anuionj,
Perchari.
John Amy.
m-inr.
Esther, dan. of
Thos. LeBrewn,
of Trinity.
T
Miry.
Francis
FanreL
1 1 1
Augustus.
Geori^e^
Chajles,o&.
at Boston,
U.S.
Jcfcl Amv,
Capt. P,..JJL,
m.1749.
JlarrFane,
0. a.p.
PhiBn.
Mary
EcimeriL
I'll
Chazles.
JoshoB.
Fraocis.
Jisiiaa Le Bouttllier-
Philip = Margaret Mary, only daa. and
Amy. I heir of John Mtirean. lineal
I = --■ -■-■ -" vj '" reaa,
- and
1 - i of
Bev
I I
Mary.
FlJTahfth.
PMBp AmT, Zsa_
m. ISSb.
Kacbel Mary, only
dan. and^Lcir of
Ph. Le Gros, Esq,
Capt.RJ.M.
r
John.
E^zabeSfa Baeh^ 0&.
Fredeiie.
Lois^a Ibrgares, c&.
Alfred Charles.
AnnaManau
PhiHpLeG
Jural E.C,
M :ream Amy, Esq.
■ena-e'de^dan,
: -\n5 God&ay, Esq.,
Grein£rE.cr
God&ay Amy,
Hary L-jnisa.
Adelnia Godfiray.
Moreao.
Henry.
Elatmora Emeline.
' Asms 07 CaSRSX of N^r^isiacay— Ermne, thras lozenges cazreazix', azare. + Asjks of Moay.iu of Pottoa — Gol^a sward in pale, argsit, garnished or, p^int in bttse.
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AN AKMOEIAL CF JERSEY.
^nk]), oi iHaitlanti.
HIS family, originally of Guernsey,* has been located in Jersey for some generations,
and is represented by Philip Nicolle Anley, Esq., wbo also represents the family
of Nicolle, of Longueville, and is connected with that branch of the family of
Lempricve of which Captain James Lempriere, E.N., was so distinguished an orna-
ment, in the reign of Queen Aune.f
Arms : Vert, three escallops, or.
Crest : A dexter arm, hand gloved, holding a hawk's lure ppr.
^ctJigrrr of iBtiroUc of Eongucbillc.
John Nicoll, Master-Warder of Mont Orgueil Castle, settled in Jersey, and purchased the
Manor of Longueville from E. De Carteret, and became Bailly of Jersey in 1494.
2. Peter,
settled in England.
3. Hosea Nicolle,
succeeded his father at Longueville.
I .
1 . Henry Nicolle,
settled in England.
John Nicolle, Attorney-General of Jersey.
Collette Nicolle.
1
1. Hostes Nicolle,
Bailly of Jersey, 1653.
Elizabeth, dau. of
Edmund Perrin,
Seig. of Rozel.
T
Hugh Nicolle.
2.
r
John
1
2. Thomas.
1
M. NicoUe.
1. Clement Messervy.
NicoUe,
e age of 108.
icolle.
Thomas Herault.
2. Benjamin La Cloche.
Elias
lived to th
T
JohnN
1
John Herault,
Baillj- of Jersey,
1615.
1
EUas.
T
1
1. John Nicolle.
Edmund, of England.
Elias.
John Nicolh
m.
1
Elizabeth.
1
Edmund.
Jane Le Geyt.
I
Anne Le Bretc
I
Daniel Janvrin.
* A family of this name had, however, existed in Jersey from a very early date, and held land in the parish of S.
VeXex —Vide ExtenU, 1331.
I /'/(/(' Lenqiiicre.
AN AKMOEIAL OF JERSKY.
29
A
1
B
1
1 1
Elizabeth.
Philip Nicolle, Esq.
Elizabeth, dau. of Capt.
James Lempriore, E.N.
T
Elias Nicolle.
1
Ann.
Elizabeth Jauvrin.
John D'Auvergne.
1
Elizabeth.
Philip Nicolle, Esq.
Jane Dumaresq.
T
Jane.
1
Mary D.
1
Philip Nicolle, Esq.,
Lt.-Col. H.M. 17th
Kegt., o.s.p.
1
2. James,
o.s.p.
Jane.
P. B. Aiiley, Esq.
lilip Nicolle Anley, Esq.,
Capt. H. M. Service.
Thomas Bandinel.
13 Children, of whom 4 sons and 1 daughter survire.
It is not known from which brancli of the various English families of NichoU or Nicoll the
Jersey branch descends, although the ancient arms assimilate somewhat closely to those of
NichoU, of Walden, co. Essex, whose pedigree commences with John Nichole, 31 Edward I.*
By a seal of Hostes Nicolle, Bailly of Jersey, it appears he bore, — 1st., ermine, a pheon,
possibly for Nicolle ; 2nd, ermine, a chevron, with a label of three points, for ; 3rd, a
chevron between three birds, for ; and 4th, three fusils, evidently intended for De
Carteeet.
By his quartering the arms of De Carteret, it may be surmised that the family estate was
acquired by marriage, instead of by pui'chase, as stated above, but this, in absence of positive
proof, is merely conjectural. t
* Ancient asms of Nicholl, of Essex — Argent, a pheon sable, on a canton, a bird of the field, beaked, or. — Vide
Berry's Peds., Essex, pp. 46 — 7.
f Or, as a friend suggests, John Nicoll, who became tenant to the property of Eenaud De Carteret, whose
succession was repudiated by the children of De Carteret, may have quartered the De Carteret arms from an idea,
once prevalent in the island, that possession of an estate gave a right to bear the arms of its ancient owners.
30- AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
^tiquftil, of ^. €kmfut.
HIS name, of great antiquity in Jersey, is of ISTorman origin, in which province
the parent stock still exists. It is mentioned by Wace,* who states that one of
that name was killed by "William Longue-espee.
" A jugleors oi en m' efFance chanter
Ke Willame jadis fift Ofmont cflbrher,
Et al Conte Riouf li dous oilz crever,
Et Ariquetil le pros fift par engein tuer,
E Baute d'Efpaigne o un efcuier gardcr." — Roman dc Rou.
In the Extentf of 1331, Peter, AUiou, and Colin Anquetil are mentioned as holding lands
in the island.
This family was one of those which offered such generous hospitality to Charles II. during
his residence in Jersey, and at its residence he was lodged and entertained for some days. So
pleased was the monarch with the cordial and respectful attentions of his host, that he offered
him a baronetcy, which was, on financial grounds, modestly declined. In remembrance of this
courtesy, however, the king was pleased to command that a wreath of oak should for the futm-e
be borne encircling the family arms.
* Maitro Wace, whom Jersey has the honour to numher among her sons, was born there in the twelfth century,
and in these oft-quoted lines, gives a resume of his early days : —
" Ic di et dirai ke je fuis,
Vaice de 1' ifle de Gerfui
.. . Ki eft en mer vers 1' Occident
Al ficu de la Normandie apent.
En I' ifle de Gerlui fui nez
A Caem fui petit portez
Illoques fui a lettres mis.
Puis fui longues en France apres."
From what is gleaned from his works, it appears that he was a priest, and was presented by Henry II. with a pre-
bend's stall in the cathedral of Bayeux. However, even his Christian name is disputed, for Kobert, which is given him
generally, has no sufficient warrant, although it occurs with that of Wace, in the charters of the abbey of Plessis
Grimoult ; but Eichard Wace, who appears in the chartulary of the abbey of S. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, has been supposed
by the Abbe de la Hue to have a more probable claim to identification with the poet. He possessed considerable
powers of observation and description, combined with a fidelity that is rare among more modern poets, who, in writing
historically, often consider that the "rhyme" makes up for the want of "reason." Among some other works of an
ephemeral character, which have not reached us, he wrote, and is chiefly known by " Le Brut d'Angleterre," so called
from Brutus, or Brute, the first king of the Britons. "The history of the irruption of the Danes into England and the
northern provinces of France." The famous "Roman de Rou," his most celebrated and best-written work, which is a
chronicle of the Norman invasion. The " Romance of William Longespee," son of RoUo : this, although generally con-
sidered as a separate work, is looked upon by some, and probably is, a continuation of the last. The " Romance of Duke
Richard I., son of William Longespee." " A Continuation of the History of the Dukes of Normandy." " The Origin
of the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin." " The Life of S. Nicholas." "The Romance du Chevallier au Lion."
The authorship, however, of this last is disputed. The whole of these are in verse, and do high honour to their author,
filling up, as they do, what would otherwise be a vacuum in Norman history. The family, variously named Viace,
Vaicce, Wace, and Wassc, existed in the island for some centuries after the poet's era. In 1-154, one Guillemin
Vasse, of S. Clement, sold some lands that he held to the Anquetil family.
AN AEilOIUAL OF JERSEY.
31
The family of Anketel, of England, is undoubtedly derived from the same source, and had
settled there in very early times. In the reign of Edward I., Fitzamcline Anschetil represented
the borough of Shaftesbury in Parliament.* It continued for centuries in the S. of England,
and intermarried with the Filliols, Penruddocks, Pheli^is, and other families of distinction.
Like their Jersey cousins, the Anketels were eminent for theii' loyalty during the EebeUion.
Colonel Anketel held Corfe Castle, ex imrtc regis ; of the surrender of -which a curious narrative
is given in Hutchin's " History of Dorset." The English family has, however, long been ex-
tinct, but is represented by the descendants of Matthew Anketel, Esq., who settled in the north
of Ireland, in 1036. f
A marble tablet in S. Helier's church records the death, in 1842, of Brigadier- General
Anquetil, of the Bengal Ai'my, with a eulogium on his services, by the Governor-General of India.
Arms : Or, three leaves, vert, the shield surroimded with two branches of oak, ppr.
^fiigrrr of EmiuctU.
JojiDAx Anquetil, living 1433.
I
Guillemin Anquetil = .... d. of Thomas Guilem.
Lorans Anquetil, living 1468.
Richard Amy = .... a dau.
of Upper Castillon.
Guillemin, living 1474.
Colin Anquetil.
Sire Thomas Anquetil,
bequeathed his pro-
perty to his nephew
Thomas, 7 Sept. 1548.
Thomas Ficquet = IsabeUe.
Lorans Anquetil
: Catherine, dau. and
eventual heiress of
Peter De Carteret,
Jurat and Lieut. -
BaiUy of Jersey.
Andre.
Thomas Anquetil, Constable
of S. Clement, 1587.
Holier Anquetil = Michelle Poingdestre, m. 1581.
John Anquetil = Mary Godfray.
Martha, b. 1624.
John Anquetil, = Mary, dau. of Philip,
had the honour of enter-
taining King Charles
II., and was offered a
baronetcy by that
monarch.
and aunt of the Rev.
Philip, Falle, the His-
torian of Jersey.
Marv.
John, son of Kicholas
Richardson.
Elizabeth, b. 1627.
* See Burke's Landed Gentry.
f Arms of Anketel : Or, a cross raguled, vert. Ckest : An oak tree, ppr. Motto : Yade ad formicam.
32
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
A
Thomas Anquetil = Elizabeth, dau. of Philip De Carteret,
m. 1681. Bailly of Jersey, and relict of Benja-
min Dumaresq, Jurat E. C.
Helier Anquetil, Lieut. R.J.M.
b. 1682, o.s.p.
George,
b. 1712.
Mary.
George Labey,*
Capt. R.J.M.
Mary = George Messervy,
I Capt. R.J.M.
Elizabeth
Le Geyt
Jfary,
b. 1708.
Thomas Messervy. =
Rachel, dau of rhili]) Falle,
of S. Peter, and of Elizabeth,
his wife, eo-heiress of John
Hamptonne Jurat R. C.
Amice,
b. 1710.
Philip.
I
Susan.
John Tocque.
(This branch is represented
by Hugh Godfray, Esq., of
Woodlands)
Deborah Messervj-.
2. John Filleul.
3. John Dutot.
1. Philip, eldest
son of John Ahicr,
Lieut. Jl.J.M.
I
Elizabeth.
John Dean.
(This branch is repre-
sented b_v Moses Gihaut,
Esq., of Mainland.)
Mary Ahier, only dau. and heir.
Philip Collas, Esq., C qit It J.M.
of the Maison de fci. Martin
^ntfion]), or ^ntftoine.
JljlIIIS family descends from William Anthony, a native of Cologne, on tlie Ehine,
^*' whose son, Diricke Anthony, Avas citizen and goldsmith of London, and chief
engraver of the Mint and Seals in the reigns of Edward VI., jMary, and Elizabeth.
It afterwards settled in Li.sl)on, and subsequently was established in Jersey, about
the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth.
Thomas Anthoine, Esq., possessed at one time part of the paternal property of Falle, the
insular historian, as his descendant maternally.f
* AuMS OF Labet : Argent, a S. Andrew's cross, vert.
f The name of Falle seems, like those of Ahicr, Pipon, Poingdestrc, Renouf, and others, to be peculiar to this
island. It is a family, as Mr. Falle himself informs us, that belonged to that happy class of substantial freeholders who,
not sufficiently elevated to excite envy, enjoyed enough of the necessaries and even comforts of life, to preserve unsullied
their integrity from the temptations of avarice and ambition. Mr. Falle quotes in his History of Jersey, from the Extcnte
of 1331, four individuals of this name, who held lands at that period in the parish of S. Saviour, where the family was
settled down to the time of the historian. The Rev. Philip p^alle was the son of Mr. Thomas Falle, of S. Saviour, and
was born in Jersey in 1656. In 1669 he was a commoner in Exeter College, but translated himself, out of friendship
for Dr. Narcissus Marsh, to S. Alban's Hall, where he took the degi-ce of M.A. On taking orders, he returned to Jersey,
and became rector of the parish of S. Trinity, and afterwards succeeded the Rev. Thomas Poingdestre in S. Saviour's
parish. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" — that tide in Mr. Falle's life
was this : the French having been thought to have obtained a temporary superiority at sea, the Channel Islands were
considered in danger, and were by no means prepared for a sudden attack. In this emergency the States resolved to
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 33
The family is now represented by Thomas and Nicholas Anthoine, Esqrs., of S. Saviour.
Arms : Argent, a leopard's head cabossed, gules, between two flaunches, sable, each charged
with a plate.*
send a deputation to England to solicit aid, of which Mr. Falle was a member, and is supposed to have drawn up
the address to the King which was voted on the occasion, and which loyally stated that the Jerseymen, " although
their tongues were French, their hearts and swords were truly English." Mr. Falle, and Nicholas Durell, Esq., Soli-
citor-General of the island, who was with him in the deputation, were admitted to a private conference of the sovereign,
to whom they were introduced by Lord Jormyn, at that time Governor of Jersey. They were most graciously received,
and commanded by the King to assui-e their countrymen of his special care and protection. On this occasion Mr. Falle was
appointed chaplain in ordinary to the King, and shortly afterwards was preferred to the rectory of Shenley, co. Herts.
The history of Jersey never having been written — since the desultory remarks of Dr. Heylin can scarcely be deemed
one — it struck Mr. Falle that his undertaking such a labour would be specially opportune at this juncture ; and having
access to some family MSS., among which were those of S. Ouen's, of Poingdestre, and of Dumaresq, he compiled the
history known by his name, of which three editions have appeared ; and an altered version of it, appended to Warner's
History of Hampshii-e. He was perhaps the only pluralist Jersey has ever had, and employed a curate at S. Saviour's
during his residence in England. He greatly benefited the island by the gift of his books, as the nucleus of a public
library at S. Helier, which was subsequently added to by Dr. Daniel Dumaresq. His writings, besides the History of
Jersey, were but sermons. One, preached at Whitehall, December 30, 1694, " Of the Impunity of Bad Men in the
World." Another, " On the Descent of the Paraclete," London, 1695. One on the occasion of " The Tiiennial Visita-
tion of the Bishop of Lincoki at Hertford;" and a sermon preached at S. Alban's, " Against Rudeness and Ill-manners
upon account of Difference in Religion. London, 1715." He also was engaged by Bishop Gibson to revise, in his edition
of that work, the article relating to the Channel Islands in Camden's " Britannia."— F/(/e Caesarea, DureU's Falle, &c.
His portrait adorns the public libraiy he founded, and another exists at the house on his patrimonial estate at
8. Saviour's.
In 1689 he was preferred to a stall in the cathedral of Durham, which he held during the remainder of his life.
He died in May, 1742, at the age of 86, and was buried at Shenley, where the following inscription exists to his
memory : —
PHILIPPUS FALLE, A.M., ex
insula antiquitus C^SAREA modo
lERSY dicta oriundus, hujus Ecclesiae
ultra quadraginta annos Rector
Domus Parochi (sive Presbyterialis)
Collapsoe magno sumptu Instaurator
Canonious Dunelmensis, &c. Gloriosum
Domini nostri Iesu Cheisti adventum
Prffistolaus placid e sub infra posito
Lapide requiescit. Obijt anno salutis
MDCCXLii fetalis lxxxvi.
His niece, Mish-ess Rachel Aubin, is also interred in the same church.
Lieutennn -Colonel Philip Falle (or Fall, as he usually wrote his name), of the same family as the historian, was
Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey in 1 787, and bore— argent, on a chevron between three martlets, sable, as many fleur-de-
lis of the field. Ceesi : A talbot, ppr.
One of the several branches of the family is represented by the Rev. Edwaed Faile, Rector of S. Brelade.
* To these arms is added a crest, viz.— A goat's head, argent.
DtrC-
K^^J^Si:^--
3d AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Bailfjacftc.
HIS family is of liigli antiquity in [Normandy, where its members were Seigneurs
of Eauville, Biesville, Longueval, la Corderie, &c. The Norman stem is traced fi'om
Eaoul de Baillehache, living near Caen in 1305, where the name is and has
been variously spelt, Ballehache, de Bellehache, de Bailhache, de Baillhache, de
Balliehache, and de Baillehache.*
The Jersey family had been long settled in the parish of S. Laurence, where it had held offices
of trust, and whence branches afterwards migrated to the parishes of S. Ouen and S. Ilelier.
Its members were merchants of celebrity before and during the reign of Charles I. and II.
Clement Bailhache, Esq., of this family, who died in 1819, was a Jurat of the Eoyal Court. It
is now represented by Henry Bailhache, Esq., Adjutant of the S. Helier's Battalion, E.J.M.
Arms — Azure, a Uon rampant, or ; in chief a crescent between two mullets of the last.
Crest — A ship, ppr.
Motto — Vive memor lethi fugit horse.
33annnc.
HIS family, whose name has been spelt at various times Bolen, Baleyne, Baleue,
BaUaine, and Balleine, settled in Jersey at a very early period, probably from France.
In 1331, Ehilip Balein was a member of the jury empanelled to ascertain the
Eing's dues in the parish of S. John. Among the more distiiiguished members of
this family was the late Eev. George Balleine, of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was inducted
in 1812 to the living of S. Ouen, from which he exchanged in 1815, with the Eev. Francis
Eicard, to that of S. Peter, where he remained until 1829, when he was preferred to the rectory
of S. Martin. He died in 1856, and left issue, the Eev. John James Balleine, M.A., of Pem-
broke College, Cambridge, Chaplain and Naval Instructor of H.M.S. Tribune, and the Eev. Le
Couteur Balleine, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, the present Eector of S. Mary.
Arms : Argent, a lion rampant sable, armed and laugued gules.
13rtrigvff of ISallriur.
John De La Ballisixe, of the paiish of S. I'eter, fiom wliom descended
Thomas Balleine.
James Bulleine=Douce+ Le Brocq.
George Balleiue=EUzabtth Bdlcine.
* Akms ok Caii.uache of Normandy — Gules, a saltire between four martlets, argent. D'Hvzier, Armorial Ghurnl.
t The feminine Christian name of Douce now, and for an elongated period, common in Jersey, is corrupted from
Dowse, the maiden name of the wife of Sir Philip De Carteret. ( Vide De Carteret I'edigree.)
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
35
I
Elise.
Philip Le
Brocq, of
S. Peter,
Esq.
A
I
James.
I
James Balleine.
June De La PerreUe.
E1i?.alieth.
JoimDe Jersey
Le Montais.
Elizabeth, dau. of =
Amice Le Couteur,
of the Island of
Sark, Esq., and of
De Carteret,
his wife.
I
I
George Balleine, Esq.
Jane, dau. of Wm.
Edwards, Esq.,
M.E.C.S.
El
iza-Jane Balleine.
O.S.JI.
Carterette.
Kev. Edward
Falle, M.A.,
Rector of S.
Brelade.
llev. George Balleine, :
Hector successively of
Ouon, S. Peter,
and
iHoC.
S. Martin, d.
Mai7 Ann, dau. of
Jolin Le Poitevin-
dit-Le Roiix, of the
I>.laud of Guernsey,
P'.sq., and of Eliza-
beth Le Mottee, his
wife.
Joshua.
o.s.p.
Eev. John James
Balleine, jr.A.,
Chaplain R.N.
Louisa, dau. of
Col. Vigoureux.
and widow of
John Isaac, Esq.
Florence Mary Balleine, b. 1856.
I
Rev. Le Coutcur
Balleine, M.A.,
Rector of S.
Mary.
Mary Ann.
Charles C.
Ick, Esq.,
R.N.
l-'rancis.
o.s.p.
iJantiincI.
HE earliest undoubtedly historical record of this ancient and noble family dates from
the year 1040 (twenty-six years before the Norman conquest), when its then
representative, Bandinello Bajjdinelli, held the rank of Count, and " Console di
giustizia " at Sienna. Tradition, however, as handed down to the present Italian
members of the family, traces its descent two centuries higher, when it is said that a
distinguished warrior of noble birth, Band-Scinel by name, a native of Aix-in-Provence,
was left in charge of Sienna by the Emperor Charlemagne, on returning from his Italian
expedition.
But from the year 1040, the descent of the Bandinelli in the direct male line is clearly
traced by official and legal documents. Bandinello Bandinelli, above mentioned, had three sons,
the founders of three Siennese families of considerable distinction. Eanuccio Bandinelli (whose
wife, Muratori designates as " Tedda e primaria vice-comitum nobiUtate Pisana ") had two sons,
of whom the elder was the ancestor of Count Gixilo, of whom presently, and the younger,
EoLANDO, became the celebrated Pope Alexander III., the same who compelled Henry II. of
England to walk barefoot to the tomb of Thomas a Becket ; and, after a long and severe contest,
Avhieh ended in the liberation of Italy from the German yoke, obliged the renowoied Frederic Bar-
barossa to kiss his toe.* It is related that when the Emperor endeavoui-ed to excuse the act, on the
* Samuel Kogers, who paid much attention to the Italian legends during his travels in that country, makes the
Emperor perform even a more humiliating service. Says he —
" In that temple-porch
[The hrass is gone, the porphyiy remains]
Did Bakbaeossa fling his mantle off.
And, kneeling, on his neck receive the foot
Of the proud pontiff." — Italy, p. 63.
A magnilicent painting of the Pope giving his benediction to the Emperor at Venice exists in the Church of the Madeleine,
Paris.
36 AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
plea that it was to S. I'ctcr that he offered the humiliating homage, Alexander haughtily replied
'■'■ ctPctro ct niihi'''' — both to Peter aud to me. In oue of the chambers of the palace of the
Venetian Doges was a series of handsome frescoes describing the eventful history of Alexander's
contest with his great enemy. It is not to be wondered at if the present rulers of Venice have
(as is supposed) allowed the obnoxious delineations to fall into a melancholy state of non-
preservation. It may be observed here, that Alexander is said to have instituted, or, as others
think, given ecclesiastical sanction to, the annual ceremony by which the Doge of Venice was
married to the Adriatic. Alexander's stirrup was also held on one occasion by his ally and
adherent, Louis VII. of France. On the memory of this great man the present Dean of Dui'ham
has passed the following well-merited eulogium : — " Among the very few characters which throw
an honourable lustre upon the dark procession of pontifical names, we may confidently record
that of Alexander III., not only from the splendour of his talents, his constancy, and his success,
but from a still nobler claim which he possesses on om- admiration. He was the zealous champion
of intellectual advancement, and the determined foe of ignorance. The system of his internal ad-
ministration was regulated by this principle, and he carried it to the most generous extent. He
made inquiries in foreign coimtries, and especially in France, for persons eminent for learning,
that he might promote them, without regard to birth or influence, to the highest ecclesiastical
dignities. He caused large numbers of the Italian clergy, to whom their own country did not
supply sufficient means of insti'uction, to proceed to Paris for their more liberal education ; and,
having learned that in some places the cathedral chapters exacted fees from young proficients
before they licensed them to lecture publicly, Alexander removed the abuse, and abolished every
restriction which had been arbitrarily imposed on the free advance of learning. At the same
time he was not so blinded by this zeal as to consider the mere exercise of the imderstanding a
sufficient guarantee for moral improvement. But observing, on the contrary, with great appre-
hension, the progress of the scholastic system of theology, and the numberless vain disputations
to which it gave rise, he assembled a verj' large council of men of letters, for the purpose of con-
demning that system, and discouraging its prevalence in Paris." The noblest, however, of his
mau}^ noble acts, was the publication of a bull against slavery, in which he declared that institu-
tion to be contrary to the laws of God and the rights of man, inconsistent Avith Christianity, and
incompatible with salvation.*
Amongst the many distinguished heroes of the flxmily, a pre-eminence is generally accorded
to Count GiULO, grandson of the elder brother of Rolando (Alexander III.), and representative of
Eanuccio, and consequently of Baudinello Bandinelli. He led nine hundred lances to the Holy
War, and performed such signal service to S. Louis, in his Egyptian expedition, that this
monarch bestowed on him as an augmentation to the simple golden shield borne by Bandinello
Bandinelli and his descendants, the peculiar and characteristic bearing from which he obtained
* The Picdmontese city of Alessandria, concerning whicli so much interest prevails at present, was built bjf the in-
habitants of Milan, Plaoentia, and Cremona, originally as a bulwark of Italian independence against the Gcniian
Emperor, and was named Alessandria in honour of Alexander III. It was commenced on the 1st of May, 1 1 69, linished
the following year, and besieged, without success, by the whole force of the invader, for the space of four months in
1174. Alexander III. also laid the foundation-stone of the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, in 1163.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 37
the surname of " Cavaleante,^^ viz.: — on an escutcheon azui-e, a knight on horseback, with his
spear in rest, argent.
The family of the Baudiuelli, in that and the succeeding centuries, distinguished itself, as
the Bishoj) of S. Malo expresses it, ^'dans Pepce, Feglise, ct. Petat," producing six cardinals and
other ecclesiastics of note, besides many laymen who obtained reno\\Ti in politics, diplomacy,
and arms.
It was, however, in the sixteenth century that the head of this house achieved a greater
triumph than any which had been accomplished by his predecessors, by sacrificing all the worldly
advantages of his exalted position for conscience' sake. This high-minded nobleman took up his
residence at Geneva, where he was, however, greatly distressed at the excesses of the Swiss
Eeformers, and endeavoured, though fi'uitlessly, to oppose the prevailing current of opinion.
His only son, David, in the course of his travels, came to England, where, at the house of
her grandfather. Sir Nicholas Stalling, (who was gentleman-usher in daily waiting to Queen
Elizabeth and James I.) he made the acquaintance of his futm-e wife, Elizabeth Stalling.* The
tomb of Sir Nicholas Stalling (or, as the name is sometimes spelt, Stallinge and Stallenge) still
exists in the parish church of Iveun, co. Somerset. On the second of August, 1G02, he was
naturalized as a British subject, his letters of naturalization being signed by Sir Walter Ealeigh,
then Governor of Jersey, where he, as well as many other continental Eeformers, had taken up
his residence.
David Baxdinel, Bandinell, or Bandinelli, having settled in Jersey, where he purchased
some property at S. Martin's, partly, as appears, if not wholly, by the sale of his family jewels,
became successively rector of the parishes of S. Brelade, S. Mary, and S. Martin, and Dean of
the Island ; where his character stood very high for his numerous charities, his great benevo-
lence, his extreme courtesy, and his brilliant and varied talents. He was on terms of intimate
friendship with Archbishop Abbott (who filled the see of Canterbmy from 1611 to 1633), and
was held in high estimation by his successor, Laud.
His eldest son, James, entered at Broadgate Hall, Oxford, March 12, 1618-19, and after-
wards at Christ Church, in the same university. He took orders in the English church, and
became rector of the parish of S. Mai-y, Jersey. He mai'ried Margaret Dumaresq, by whom he
had an only son, David.
At the conclusion of the struggle that broke out in Jersey, shortly after the commencement
of the Great Eebellion, the dean aud his son James, who had rendered themselves peculiarly
obnoxious to the De Carteret family, were imprisoned in Mont-Orgueil Castle ; in a vain attempt
to escape from which, February 10, 1644, they were so much injured, that the father, who
was immediately recaptured, died in twenty-four hours, and the son, who a few days afterwards
met his parent's funeral as he was led back a prisoner, died before the end of a twelvemonth.
David, the Dean's namesake and grandson, married in 1657 Eachel Messervy, the heii-ess
of Bagot. "On lira," says the parisli register, "les canons, tant en la dite paroisse de S.
* Arms of Stalling — Gules, three escallops in bend, argent : on a chief of the second a martlet, sable. Csest— A
martlet, sable.
38 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Sauveur, qu'a cellc cle S. Martin, avec plusieiirs mousquetaires." Falle, in a note to liis
"History of Jersey," when speaking of Dean Bandinel, says, "This reverend person has left a
worthy posterity among ns. His grandson, of the same name with him, David Bandinel, Esq.,
Seigneur de Bagot, was a man in whom the island might justly glory ; a man of most singular
prudence and addi-ess in all affairs and concernments of life. Many years he sat upon the bench
of justice, with great honour to himself and no less benefit to the public, through those moderate
and healing counsels which he always pursued, and which he had a peculiar art and faculty of
insinuating into others. Indeed the peace of the country seems to have died and expii-ed with
him. lie was my guardian in my nonage, and I had so many obligations to him otherwise, that
'tis the least thing I can do, upon this occasion of mentioning his ancestors, to consecrate these
few lines to his memory."
The eldest son of this David, George Bandinel, was Seigneur of Melcsches* as well as
Bagot. He married firstly Elizabeth Poingdestre, by whom he had a son David, whose male
lino became extinct in the eighteenth century; and secondly Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress
of Francis De Carteret, Esq., and grand-daughter of Sir Philip Do Carteret, for many years the
bitter antagonist of Dean Bandinel and his son. From George, the only male issue of this
marriage, the present family descends.
His grandson, named George after his three immediate ancestors, had a large family, none
of whom left any issue. During the first French Revolution, he gave a home to a French priest,
Monsieur do Grimouville, who after his death repaid his hospitality by kindness and attention
to his surviving daughters. On the restoration of the Bourbons, M. de Grimouville was pre-
ferred to the see of S. Male. During his residence in Jersey, he took a great interest in the
genealogies of the families of the island.
The Eev. James Bandinel, brother of the last-named George, second son of their father, by
his second wife, Elizabeth Lempriero, was, as a young man, secretary to the last Jacobite club
at Oxford ; he was also, when at Spa, accredited emissary to Prince Charles Edward. He
obtained great distinction at the University, both as a scholar and a divine ; became public
orator, and was selected to preach the tii-st Bampton Lecture. Ilis known attachment to the
house of Stuart alone prevented him from attaining the highest ecclesiastical dignity. This
attachment would appear to have been hereditary in the family, who still possess two miniatures
of Charles I., which tradition states to have been given to its representative by Charles II. The
Eev. James Bandinel was presented to the vicarage of Netherbury, Dorset, by Dr. Dumaresq,
prebendary of Salisbury. He was a man of deep learning, sincere piety, refined mamiers, and
great kindness of heart. His memory was long cherished at Nctherbury, with a respect and
devotion which had not died out in fifty years after his death.
His eldest son, the Rev. Bdlkeley Bandinel, D.D., librarian to the University of Oxford,
is the present reiJresentative of the family, being the dii'cct heir male of David Bandinel, first
Protestant dean of Jersey ; and through him of Bandinello Bandinelli, and, if tradition is to be
* George Bandinel, Esq., purchased of Lord Carteret, in 1095, the large properties and manors of Melesches,
Grainville, Handois, S. Germain, and Garis; the first of which is held by knight's banneret tenure.
A>" ARMORIAL or JERSEY. 39
credited, of the still more ancient Band-Scinel. He man-ied Mary, eldest daughter of John
Phillips, Esq., of C'ulham, co. Berks. Dr. Bandinel was proctor for the University of Oxford in
1815, and has edited several works for the University Press; among others, Dugdale's " Monas-
ticon Auglicauum," and Clarendon's '" History of the EebeUion."
James Bandinel, Esq., second son of the Eev. James Bandinel, -was for many yeai-s head of
the department, in the Foreign Office, for the suppression of the slave trade. His talents were
of a high order ; his public services were felt, and admitted to be of no common kind ; and his
indefatigable labours in searching out and relieving the sick and poor were such as, unfortunately
for the world, are rarely to be met with. He was the author of a valuable work entitled '• Some
Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa, as connected with Eui'ope and America, fi-om the
Introduction of the Trade into Modern Eui'ope, down to the Present Time, especially with
reference to the Eiforts made by the British Government for its Extinction." He maixied, in
1813, Marian Eli^a, eldest daughter of the Eev. Eobert Hunter, D.D., Sector of Omford Fitz-
paine, co. Dorset, who came of a very old Scotch family, the founder of which is said to have
fought under Kenneth MacAlpine, in the field which decided the dominion of Scotland.
The only issue of this marriage, the Eev. James Baxdixel,* M.A., of Witney, co. Oxford,
was born in 1814, and man-ied, in 1845, his fii-st cousin, JuUa, youngest daughter of the late
Rev. Thomas Le Mesurier, Eector of Haughton-le-Shorne, co. Dui'ham, and foiu'th son of John
Le Mesurier, Esq., Hereditary Governor of the Island of Aldemey, hj whom he has issue three
childi'en siu:vi\"ing.
To this family, also, the famous sculptor, Baccio Bandinelli, the rival of jNIichael Angelo
Buonarotti, claimed to belong, and his claim was admitted. Some of his frescoes, from the choir
of the cathedral at Florence, are represented by casts in the Mediaeval Court of the Crystal
Palace at Sydenham. His arms were — Ai'gent, a cross fleiu'-de-lize or, in the dexter and sinister
chiefs, and sinister base, a fleur-de-lis or ; in the dexter base a torteau.
There were apparently other branches of this house formerly in different parts of France, as
De BandineUy in Languedoc, De Bandinel of Figarct, in Provence, and another family in !N^or-
mandy. One branch of the family in Florence bore, sable, thi'ee bars or. It is not known to
which branch belonged Magister Byndno de Bandinelli, instituted to the incumbency of Levo-
rustoke, co. Worcester, 9 Kal. Jan. 1314.
Arms : Or, in the dexter chief, a round shield, azui-e, charged with a knight, in full career,
spear in rest, argent ; the shield sui-mounted with the coronet of an Italian count, or.
Crest : A helmet close, crested with a plume of feathers, ppr.
* Author of Luffra; or, the Convent of Algarve, &c. &c.
40
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
13rtiigrrc of Bantiiiirl.
The Very Rev. David Bandinel, = Elizabeth, granddaughter and heiress of
settled in Jersey, and became
Dean of that island 1020.
Sir Nicholas Stallenge, Kt.
Rev. James Bandinel.
Margaret Dumai'esq.
David.
Jane, dau. of
Nicholas Gervaise.
I
Esther.
Clement Galhchau,
o.s.p.
Anne,
ra. I(i37.
Clement
Dumaresq,
Capt., R.J.M.
Esther.
Thomas
Le Breton.
I
Thomas,
Constable of
S. Martin.
Collette,dau. of
James Lempriere.
Daniel,
d. I(ii7.
Rev. John
Bandinel.
David Bandinel = Rachel, eldest dau. Elizabeth.
Jurat, R.C., in
1683, m. 1C37.
and heiress of
Philip Messer%'y,
Seig. of Bagot.
Thomas Bandinel, b. 1640.
Judith, dau. of Thos. Lempriere.
Clement
Lempriere.
MM
James,
Clement,
David,
John,
o.s.p.
Philip = Mary,
Nicolle. eventual
heiress
of this
branch.
Thomas Bandinel,
o.s.p.
1. Esther Hilgrove.
2. Jane, dau. of VAv/. Marett.
James,
o.s.p.
I
Ehzabeth.
Philip Fauvel.
T
Issue o.s.p.
Elizabeth,
ob.juv.
1. Elizabeth = George Bandinel, Esq.,
Poingdestre.
Seig. of Melesches,
Vicomte of Jersey.
"2. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis
De Carteret, Esq., and co-
heiress of the .Seigneur of
S. Ouen.
I
Margaret, b. 1650.
Thomas DureU.
David, b. 16G.5.
Mary Le Manquais.
1. Anne Corbet
David Bandinel,
Esq., Vicomte
of Jersey, Seig.
of Melesches.
3. Mary
Le Feuvre.
Darid, b. 1723.
I
Rachel.
George Le
Fevre, of
Guernsey.
1. Elizabeth
Ahier.
I
Esq
Elizabeth Bandinel.
Thomas Le Vavasseur-
dit-Durell.
George Bandinel, = 2. Elizabeth,
~ dau. of James
Lempriere.
Philip Bandinel, Esq.,
Seig. of Melesches.
Susan Horman.
I
I
John, d. 1720-1.
David, b. 1706.
Philip Bandinel, Esq.
N. M auger.
Elizabeth.
Charles D'Auvergne,
Esq.
Rachel.
John
Dumaresq.
I
Esther.
1. — Watts.
2. — Nugent.
Philip Bandinel, Esq.
o.8.p.
Elizabeth Dumaresq.
I
Charles.
I
Elizabeth.
James Corbet,
Seig. of Rozel.
Chas, Hilgrove.
George Bandinel, Esq.
Douce Dumaresq.
Rev. James Bandinel, D.D.
Margaret Dumaresq.
Anne-Elizabeth.
John Lempriere.
Thomas,
Francis.
I I I
George,
James,
Francis,
o.s.p.
I I
Douce-Anne, d. 1829.
Elizabeth, d. 1844.
Thomas
Bandinel.
Jane Nicolle,
o.s.p.
Margaret.
Rev. Thomas
Le Mesurier,
of Guernsey.
Henrietta-Anne.
Rev. Bulkeley
Bandinel, D.D.
Mary, dau. of
John I'hillips, Esq.
Mary-Anne.
AN ARMORIAL OP JERSEY. 4l
A
I
James Bandinel, Esq., m. 1813
Marian-Eliza, dau. of the Rev, R. Hunter, D.D.
Julia, youngest dau. of the ^= Rev. James Bandinel, M..\., of Wadliam College,
Rev. Thomas Le Mesurier. I Oxon., b, 1M14, m. 1H45.
I I I I I I
James-Julius-Fredk. Bandinel, Thomas-Ranulph, RichardBulkeley, DavidGuido, Robert-Alexander, Margaret-Anne,
b. J845. b. 1W7. b. 184!). b. and d. 1851. b. IsS'i, d. 1853. b. 1856.
iUT little is known respecting the origin or descent of this family, although at one time
it must have been of consideration in the island, as the names of many of its members
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries swell the roll of the insular clergy. Among
them are those of Sire Eichard, and Sire Augustin Baudains ; while John BaudajTis
is mentioned as being one of the four sworn men of S. Clement's i^irish appointed in the Visita-
tion of the State of the Fortifications of Jersey, in 24 Henry VIII.
The family possessed the fief of Guille Payn,* from whom it was alienated by marriage in
the sixteenth century, and was enjoyed respectively by those of Sarre and Payn, in the possession
of which latter it now remains. In its grounds stood a chapel, one of the preciu'sors of the parish
churches, known as the chapel of Augustin Baudains. This has long been demolished, but
some of its antique carved ornaments are in existence, being built into the walls of the house
that stands near its site, and a massive stone cross now in the possession of F. Gme. Collas,
Esq., formerly surmounted the gable of its chancel.
The munificence of one of its members has kept the memory of his family eternally enshi'ined
in the grateful remembrance of its countrymen. This was Lorans or Laurence BAUDArNs, by
some supposed (and correctly) to have been in orders, but by others to have filled the office of
schoolmaster of the parish of S. Martin. He was a man of substance, and possessed property
not only in his native parish of S. Martin, but also in several others ; and his piety is proved by
his will, wherein, among other bequests, he leaves money to repair a chapel in the church of
S. Martin, the name of which does not appear (" Chapelle tombee et en mal ordre ") ; and his
Bible, together with a silver cup and saucer, to the church of S. Martin. But the gift by wliich
he is best known, is the one he made of thirty-two quarters of wheat-rents, f with a water-mill
and its appurtenances (called Denmark-mill, situated in the parish of S. Lam-ence), the proceeds
of which were for ever to be applied towards the assistance of young Jerseymen, whose means
* There is also a minor fief, named the fief es Baudains, situated in the parish of S. Clement, which undouhtedly
received its name from this family, and which appears to be of considerable antiquity, as it is mentioaed in a deed as
early as 1292, quoted by Durell in his notes to Falle's History of Jersey.
f The insular mode of computing property. AU land in Jersey, instead of being said to be worth so much money,
is valued at so many quarters of wheat ; by which valuation it is bought, sold, and mortgaged.
42 AN ARMOEIAL OP JERSEY.
are otherwise insufficient, in obtaining a ixniversity education, to fit them for the service of the
Church in Jersey. Many of the most eminent insular ecclesiastics have owed to this foundation
the education which rendered their names famous, amongst whom may be mentioned the Doctors
Lemprierc and Valj^y, some of -whom, on accepting preferment in England, are said to have
refunded, with a justice that redounds to their credit, the suras which they had received from this
beneficent and pious bequest. Tliis, however, was only a part of the original plan of the donor,
which had for its primary object the foundation of a college, which would provide for the youth
of the island the curriculum of a mathematical and classical education ; this idea, unfortunately,
the bounty was not sufficient to cai'ry out. For the proper distribution of " Baudaiu's gift,"
thirteen governors or trustees were appointed by patent, the 13th September, 1610. These
governors, whose number is kept intact, by filling up death vacancies, were, and are, chosen
from the most influential and talented of the Jersey gentry.
Baudains left collateral, although no direct descendants, whose families are stiU in existence.
Curiously, his wife survived his death but by a day : —
" He first deceased ; she for a few hours tried
To live without him — liked it not, and died !"
They were buried in the same grave, in the churchyard of S. Martin, 28 June, 1611. "With
unpardonable neglect, the directors of the proceeds of Baudaiu's liberality have hitherto omitted
to erect a memorial to perpetuate by a monumental inscription the sense of gratitude that should
be felt towards this good and philanthropic individual, whose efforts for the future welfare of his
countrymen have been without parallel in the history of Jersey.
His house, situated in that part of the parish of S. Martin, known as La Villc Brcc, still
exists, and now belongs to Mr. John Messervy.
Arms:* (on the seal of "Baudaiu's gift") Azure, a sun, in its sijlendour, or, impaling on
the dexter side the arms of the island.
Legend : " Gouv. du don de Baudains, 1611."
Bntram, of Craffort).
HE name of Bertram is of very early occurrence in the annals of the island. In the
Extcntc of 1331 Pdchard Bertram is mentioned as paying six sols for a bovivee of land
in the parish of S. Martin, which has for several centuries been the place of settle-
ment of this family. Their estate of Grafford, Crafford, or Crayford, as it is variously
spelt in the several E.vtentes, was formerly possessed by a family of Crauford, of English extrac-
tion, and which at a remote period appears to have been of much consideration and importance.
* These are not intended to represent the bearings of his family, but were adopted, by a loose analogical reasoning,
as being those of the family of Baldwin. However, no family of that name in England has this cognizance, which
appertains to the families of S. Clere and Aldliam.
AN AKMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
43
In 1447, Williani Bertram was warden or governor of the Norman Isles, and may have
been like William de S. John, Drogo De Barentine, and Thomas Hamptonne, a native of Jersey.
This family is rein-escuted by Geoege Bertram, Esq., of S. Martin; and Francis Bertram,
Esa., of Beaulieu.
Arms : Azure, an eagle, displayed, or.
Crest : A demi-lion argent.
IJftiifjrrr of Brrtram, of ffirafFortJ.
Abraham Bertkaji, b. circa lObO.
T
a. Alartha NicoUe = Abraham Bertram = 1. Elizabelh, dau. of Thomas Le Febvie
relict of George CoUas. b. 1015. I and Jane Le Bastard, m. 1051, d. 1672.
I
Edward.
Abraham Bertram, m. 1071, d. 171)1).
1 1
Jane. m. lO^i, Elizabeth,
Tbos. Jlesservy, b. 1661, d. 1
of Gorey.
750.
Elizabeth,
Collette, dau. of George CoUas, d. 1735.
7
ob.juv.
1
Thomas, b. 10M3, d. 1091. Abraham Bertram
b. 1080, m. 1700, d. 17
1
Philip, b. 101)1,
31. Jane Ealle.
1
George,
b. 1094.
1 1
Sarah
JIartba
Jaue, dau. of Nicholas C
of Triaity.=
^abot, 1
1
Jane Bertram,
b. 173i).
1 1
George.
Sarah
1 1
Abraham Berlram, Philip, b. 1711.
b. 17(17, d. 1751, Susan Sohier
1 1 1 Philip Aubin
Thomas,
George,
Jane.
■^11.
oh. juv.
Sarah, dau
Carteret,
de Bas.^
of l-'.Jvvard De ==
of Vincheles |
Philip Bertram, b. 1741, d. 1
Susan Marett.
T
1 1
Abraham Bertram,
b. 1738, ob.j>io.
Abraham, b. 1740,
d. 1752.
George, Sarah, b. 174.3,
b. 17 U), d. 1786, Peter Duheaume
Esther, dau. of Edward of S. Peter, m. 1701
Viberl ^
1
Philip BerU-am
Charles,
Jane,
ob. juv.
Rachel Du Parcq, o.s.p
'i. Jane, dau. of John — George Bertram, Esq., = 1. Elizabeth, dau.
Cabot. i Constable of S. Mnrtin, of John Nicolle,
I Jurat R. C, b. 1773, Capt. E.J.M.
I d. J842.
Charles.
.\nn,
ob.jin-.
Peter, died
a prisoner
of war in
France.
I
Charles.
I I
Nancy.
George,
ob.juv.
I
Elizal)eth
EUas Falle.
I
Esther
Joshua Falle.
Jane
Mary
George Bertram, Esq.,
of S. aiartiu, R.J.II. John Godfray, PiiTGaudin, Esq.
Esq., Lt.-Col. Capt. R.J.M.
E.J.M.
Anne l)elaval.
7
I I
George-John.
Eleonore,
ob. juv.
I I
George-Clement, b. 1841.
Anne-Elizabetb, b. 1843.
Mary Jane, b. 1848.
Francis-George,
o.s.p.
Jane
Jolin Le
Maistre.
Esther
Phihp l^ayn,
Capt. R.J.M.
Francis Bertram, Esq.,
of Beaulieu.
Maiy Mauger.
Mary
Hugh De
Carteret, Esq.
William Charles Bertram, Esq.
Heurietta, dau. of John Godfray, Esq.
I
I
Mjry
Charles Jones,
M.R.C.S.E.
I
Francis- Godtray.
Emily-.4nn.
AUce.
44
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Bertram, of (Sroubidc.
HE family of Bertram, of Grouville, has long been settled in ttat parish, and although,
from the want of requisite documents, no connection can be established between it
and the foregoing, there is but little doubt but that both proceed from one common
soui'ce.
It has possessed, from the reign of Elizabeth, the residence now tenanted by its representa-
tive, which is little altered in appearance from that period.
Charles Bertram, Esq., Jurat of the Eoyal Coiu-t, is the present head of this family.
Arms : Or, an orle, azure.
Crest : A demi-lion, gules, holding between the paws a shield of the arms.
^rtigrcf of iSmram, of <groulnnc.
John Bertram.
John.
Servais Bertram
m. WV-i.
Rachel Payo.
Susan,
b. 1B22.
Philip,
b. 16-23,
Susan Le Febvre.
John Bertram = Margaret Amy.
\
Jane.
Baruaby
Alexandre.
I
Elias Bertram,
b. 167M,
(1. 1090.
Margaret Payn.
Philip, = Elizabeth Payn.
b. 1708.
Jane.
Rachel.
Elias Bertram, = Susanna
b. 1C98; d. 172a. Esthur. Philip Cook. Frances.
II II
Francis. Charles Bertram. George, John,
Rector of settled in
Elizabetli Bouton, Elizabeth Durell. S. Martin America.
o.s.p. = and S. Brelade,
I Vice-Dean
I of Jersey.
Philip Bertram,
Capt. R.J.M.,
b. 1737; d. 1757.
= Anne
Du
Parcq.
Elizabeth.
Thomas Laboy.
Mary.
.1 I
Rear-Admiral Elizabeth, Mary liemon,
Charles Bertram, b. 177.S o.s.p.
Elias Bertram, Esq., == Anne Mourant.
Constable of Urouville,
Major, R.J.M. ;
b. 1759; d. 1817.
Edward
Marett, Susan Remon,
C0I.R..I.M. o.s.p.
Jane.
Mary.
I
Richard.
Ill II
Rachel, Elias Bertram, ^^ Jane Renault. Susan,
b. 1050. b. 1013. b. 1039.
Servais, Philip,
b. 1041. b. 1C48.
Jane,
b. 1071.
John.
I I 1
Francis.
George.
Charles.
Margaret.
Philip,
b. 1761.
J)t Btmli
t %mWf'^ilU.
AN AEMOEIAL OP JEESEY.
45
Mary.
Anne.
... Le Marquand. Francis Nicolle.
1 ~"
Elias Peter
Bertram,
b. 1829.
Elias, :
b. 1798.
Elizabeth Parrot.
Virginia,
b. 1834.
Francis-Perrot.
Elizabeth Anne.
Susan Jane.
Francis Bertram, Esq., merchant
and banker.
Sophia Do La Perelle.
I
Wilham,
b. 1824.
Ehz. Alock.
I I
Charles John.
Charles John.
I
Sophia.
Clement
Nicolle,
R.J.M.
Charles Bertram,
Esq., Jurat, E.C.
Frances Dalton.
I I I
Elizabeth.
Frances.
Elias.
Elizabeth.
Nicholas
Richardson.
Jane.
Thomas Gray.
Frances Anno.
I I
Elizabeth.
I
Lt.-Col. DLson, E.A. Elias
Francis-
Elias Bertram,
Esq.
Anne Sorel.
Henry- Charles- Julius-
Charles Pelgue, Eichard.
Bertram, Esq., Major,
b. 1823. 41st Ecgt. Dixon,
erai-
Clara Eliza De La Taste. grated to
= Austi'alia.
Harry Charles,
b. 1858.
Lucy.
Clara-
Lucy.
Charles
Edward,
b. 1851,
d. 1801.
NC^^IflS^^O^--
Bisson, of ^. Hauitnrr.
HE family of Bisson, formerly of Normandy,* held, from the most remote period, lands
and honom-s in the island ; for, in the archives at S. Lo, in Normandy, a deed shows
that Geoffeoy du Buisson gave the patronage of the Chiu-ch of S. Martin de Groville,
or Grouville, to the Abbey of S. Trinity de Lessay, on the viii. calends August, 1149 ;
and another deed, dated the Saturday before the feast of S. Holier, 1319, states that SiE Yon de
Bysson, Kt., with the consent of John, his son, recognized the right of the monks of S. Trinity
de Lessay to the patronage of the aforesaid cliurch. These extracts are ciuious, for they show
that before the present structure existed, which was consecrated in 1322, a former church was
dedicated to the same patron saint.
The family formerly was located at S. Brelade, and is now represented by Edwaed
Leonaed Bisson, Esq., of S. Laurence.
In 1600, EiCHAED Bisson owed suit of court, with 60 sous, 1 denier of relief, for the fief
of Luce De Carteret.
Edwaed Bisson, Esq., son of Leonard, Seigneur of the fief of Luce De Carteret, became in
1602 possessed of extensive property in the parish of S. Laurence, which devolved upon him
from the Hamptonne familj', upon which the family has since resided. He married Elizabeth,
* Arms of Bisson, of Kormandj', Honorary Seigneurs of S. Aiibin-sur-Gaillon, Seigneurs-Hants-Justiciers of
Grammont, and Seigneurs of Eotoire, De La Kocque, De Vigny, D'Angreville, &c. — Argent a chevron between three
lozenges gules ; a chief checque argent and sable.
Arms of Du Buisson, of Auvergne and Languedoc — Or, a bush (buisson) vert.
46 AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
second daughter of Nicholas Lempriere, by Elizabeth, daughter of Clement Dumaresq,
Seigneur of Samares.
Ben.jamix Bisson, Esq., son of Edward, was elected a Jurat of the Eoyal Court in 1632,
and a Parliamentarian Commissioner in 1648. He married Rachel, daughter of Elias Dumaresq,
Seigneur of Vincheles-de-Bas, by his wife Sarah De Carteret.
Benjamin Bisson, Esq., son of Benjamin, married in 1704, Judith Madeleine, daughter of
Jean de Beaudenis, Seignem- de Morte-Terre, in Normandy.
The Eev. Edward Bisson, son of Benjamin, was born in 1708 ; he was rector successively
of S. Clement's in 1746, of S. La^vrence in 1748, and of S. Brelade in 1782. He married
Sarah, daughter of Amice De Carteret, Seigneur of Vincheles-de-Bas, by his wife Anne,
daughter of the Yery Eev. Clement Le Couteur, Dean of Jersey. He died in 1783.
The Eev. Amice Bisson, son of Edward, was born in 1746. He was for many years
Chaplain to H.M. 95th Regiment, Eector of S. Brelade, and iinally of S. Laurence. He
married, in 1782, Jane, daughter of Elias Le Maistre, by his wife Jane Dumaresq, Lady of S.
Ouen, who was the only surviving child of John, eldest son of Elias Dumaresq, who was the
eldest son of Elias Dumaresq, Seigneur des Augres, and of Frances De Carteret, his wife ; she
being the eldest daughter of Francis, son of Sir Philip De Carteret, Kt., Seigneur of S. Ouen,
Lieutenant-Governor and Bailly of Jersey. The Eev. Amice Bisson died in 1812, and was
buried at S. Laurence, where a mural tablet records his memory.
Edward Leonard Bisson, Esq., son of Amice, was elected Jurat of the Royal Com-t in
1832, Lieutenant-Bailly in 1839, and Judge-Delegate of the Island, on the death of Sir
Thomas Le Breton, Kt., Bailly, in 1857. He is the last of this ancient family, and is no less
distinguished by his high judicial ability than by his private virtues. Mr. Bisson is also the
heir-at-law to the Seigneurie of S. Ouen, in case of failure of issue of the descendants of the late
Philip Le Maistre, Esq.
Arms. (As borne by Edward Leonard Bisson, Esq.) — Or, on a mount vert, a holly-bush
ppr; a bordure sable, entoyre of eight mullets of six points, pierced, of the first;* quartering —
Gules, three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for ditference, for Lempriere ; and argent, a
saltire, indented, gules, between four lions' heads, cabossed, sable, langued gules, for
Beaudenis.
Crest — A blackbird, ppr.
Motto — Florescit vulncre A'irtus.
* These arms, with tlie exception of the field, which was argent instead of or, were borne b}- Colin Hastain,
Bailly of Jersey from 1315 to 1339. By some he is thought to be identical with that Colin Buisson, who, by the
Extente of 1331, held lands in the parish of S. Brelade, having, according to local usage, adopted the name of his
estate, the fief es Hastains. The name of lloger Hastein occurs in a confirmation of lands to the monks of S. Mary
of Bellosanne, by King John, in the 1st of his reign, a.d. 1200. Vide Eot. Chart. 1. Johan.
(L'lMiiavi'i Cfonav^ Il^t^iiim 0;!?i]utiT,
£)■ whom this TlaU is 2^sented to the Wot^.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
47
Bichard,
Seig. of Luce
De Carteret.
o.s.p.
^ttiiQttt of ISisson.
Leonaed Bisson.
1. Frances, dan. of Laurens Hamptonne.
2. Catherine Queree, relict of Julian Lo Couteur.
Edward Bisson, living 1600,
Seig. of Luce De Carteret.
Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Nicholas
Lempriere, Jurat R.C.
Benjamin Bisson, Jurat B.C.,
Seig. of Luce De Carteret.
Rachel, dau. of Elias Dumaresq,
Seig. of Vinchcles-de-Bas.
Leonard.
Elizabeth, dau. of
Richard Pipon, of La Moye.
T
Lucasse Bisson.
Philip Le Couteur.
Edward Bisson, Esq.
Jurat, R.C, Seig. of
Luce De Carteret,
o.s.p. 1682.
Abi'aham, Seig. of
Luce De Carteret.
Catherine Estliur,
m. 1678.
Benjamin, ni. 1704.
Judith Magdaleinc de
Bcaudenis, represen-
tative of her family.
Sarah
Rev. John De
La Place, Rector
of S. Mary.
Rachel
Matthew Le Geyt.
Amice, b. 1683.
Catherine, b. 1685.
Sarah, b. 1680.
Abraham Bisson,
Seig. of Luce De
Carteret.b. 1719,
d. 1761, s.p.
Abraham Bisson, Seig.
of Luce De Carteret,
b. 1687, d. 1730.
Susan, d. of Amice De
Carteret, m. 1711.
Susan, b. 1712,
Lady of Luce
De Carteret.
John Helier
Dumaresq, of
S. Mary.
Sarah, b. 1714.
Rev. Richard Le
Feuvre, Rector of
S. Peter.
Benjamin Bisson, Esq.,
b. 1705, d. 1782.
Rev. Edward Bisson,
Rector of S. Laurence.
Sarah, d. of Amice De Carteret,
Seig. of Vincheles de Bas.
Rev. Edward Bisson,
b. 1743, of Pembroke
Coll. Oxon.,d.at^Yol-
verhampton, 1766.
I
Edward Tjconard Bisson,
Esq., Jurat R.C, and
Lieut.-Bailly of .Jersey.
Rev. Amice Bisson,
Rector of S. Brelade
and S. Laurence.
Jane, d. of Elias
lie Maistre, Seig.
of Qnettivel.
T
Sarah
John Le
Geyt, Esq.
Amice-Edward.
Deborah Ann,
b. 1785, d. 1849.
Jane Susan.
Mary Magdelen,
d. 1858.
— i=e^^a&i^<H —
48 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
ALTHOUGH this family has long been extinct, it at one time enjoyed a high position
in the island. In the Ejienfe of 1331, Gtjille or William Bras-de-Fer is mentioned
as holding the Fief des Augres,* in S. Trinity parish, in right of his wife ; this fief
owed the same homage to the crown as that of Eozel.f
This Guille Bras-de-Fer is the Seigneur des Augres mentioned by the chronicler as having
been slain in the retaking of Guernsey from the French in 1338. Thomas Bras-de-Fer, a
son or grandson of the above, was Bailly of Jersey in 1378, and another member of the same
family, Geoffrt Beas-de-Fer, filled the same office in 1396. J The family is represented by the
heirs of Guille Payn and Raoul Lempriere, the purchasers of the Barentine property, who married
the two daughters and co-heiresses of Geoflfry Bras-de-Fer.
Arms : .... an eagle displayed
UE family of Boudier is of remote antiquity in its native province of Normandy, where
it had extensive landed possessions at S. Malo, Coutances, and Villemer ; its various
members having been Seigneurs of SouUe, S. Giles, la Bissonaire, and of other
fiefs in the neighbourhood. It was intimately coimected with the Norman families
of Lenuicr, Durand, Dupre, and Le Fevre. One member of this familj^, Peter Francis Boudier,
was Grand Prior of the Abbey of S. Denis, and Superior-General of the Order of the Benedictines:
a letter from Pope Clement XIV., addressed to this eminent ecclesiastic, is still extant in the family.
Various confirmations of arms have been made to the family; the earliest in 1396, and the
latest in 1609. From this family was lineally descended, through Estienne Boudier, who settled
in Jersey in the eighteenth century, the late Ecv. John Boudier, who was educated in France,
then at Bury S. Edmunds, and afterwards at Pembroke College, Oxford ; he was successively
rector of S. Ouen, Jersey, and of Grendon, Northamptonshire. His son, the Eev. John Boudier,
M.A., vicar of S. Mary, Warwick, rector of Farrington, Gloucestershire, and honorary canon of
Worcester, is the present representative of the family.
Arms : Or, on a pale azure, a crescent argent, between two mullets of the first.
Crest : a crescent, argent.
Motto : Dieu et la religion.
* A curious rent is due to the heir of the fief of Diehiment, by the possessor of that of les Augres. On the occasion
of the marriage of the eldest son of the former, the latter presents him with a fat white lamb.
t Vidi' Lempriere.
X A house in the parish of Trinity, belonging to the heirs of the late Philip Le Maistre, Esq., is still known as the
ilaison de Bras-de-Fer, which tradition asserts to have been the property of Sire William de Bras-de-Fer, a priest in
the reign of Henry IIL
AN AJUMORIAX OF JERSEY.
49
^ctiigrce of ISoutJier.
John Boudier :
James Boudier, living 1478. =: Guillemine Acher.
I
John.
William Boudier, living 1525.
Peter Boudier, lieir of his brother.
WiUiam Boudier, Seig. de la Buissonaire.
I I I
John Boudier, ennobled 1585. Noble homme Peter Boudier, David Boudier, = Jane Dupre.
= d'Aignaux. Seig. du Bosc.
I .
I
John Boudier.
James Boudier.
Anthony. James Boudier.
Philip Boudier.
Ann Payn, m. 1721 = Estienne Boudier, settled in Jersey, d. 1746.
Francis. Madeleine Ahier, m. 1748 ^ John Boudier, b. 1721, d. 1796. ^ Elizabeth Falle. Anne.
John Boudier,
o.s.p.
Maiy.
Anne.
Esther.
Philip.
I
Elizabeth.
Rev. John Boudier,
Eeetor of S. Ouen.
Ph. Thaeker. John Anne Le Philip
Coutanohe. Gresley. Hubert.
I
Edward.
Anne
Joshua. Francis.
Estienne.
Esther Le Nicholas.
Elizabeth, only dau. of Mallet. Gallais.
John Keysting, Esq., =
of Wellingbro'. |
I I
Esther. Nancy.
Elizabeth.
Jane Coutanche.
John. Joshua Boudier.
J. Chevalier. S. Pike. J. Aubin. Edward Mourant.
Edward Mourant, Esq.
Matilda, dau. of Nicholas
Le Quesne, Esq.
I I I I I I I Anne Bishop.
Rev. John Boudier, M.A. Catherine. 3 sons, =
Elizabeth. 1 dau., 1
Marianne, dau. of o.s.p. Anna Esther
George Rooke, Esq. Boudier.
I I I I f
Ellen, dau. of the late Sir = 4. Rev. Albert Boudier. 3. Rev. George John 2. Edward, Major I.John, Mary Harriet.
James Bruce, Bai-t.. of Boudier, Fellow of H.E.I.C.S. o.s.p.
Downhill, co. Londondeny. King's CoU., Cambs. Rev. John Wise.
'^=^0>^JCfV>'=^-J
50 A\ ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
HE eldest branch of this family, which formerly held much landed property in the
parish of S. Trinity, emigrated to America, in the person of George Cabot, so early
as 1680, and is now represented there by Henry Lee, Esq., of Boston, U.S. The
Hon. George Cabot, one of the descendants of the first colonist of this name, was a
man of influence and position in Boston in the first quarter of the present century.
By some it is imagined that this is a branch of the celebrated family of Chabot, which
figures conspicuously in the mediteval history of France, where its members held many high
ofiices of state ; * but by others, that it is identical with the family of Cabot, of Normandy.
Family tradition gives to this house the honour of numbering among its members the celebrated
circumnavigator Sebastian Cabot, who was the son of John, of that name, and born in the city
of Bristol. A mourning ring now in the possession of Mr. Lee, bearing the name of that early
explorer, offers some ground for this supposition.
Arms : (as borne by the Cabots of America.) Or, three chabots, haurient, gules.f
Crest : An escallop, or.ij:
€l)atcaul)nantr,
OUNTS CHATEAUBEIAND. This family derives its origin from, and is a branch
of the ducal flxmily of Britany ; and the barony which bears its name was, before
the annexation of that province to the oi'own of France, one of the most considerable
dignities of the duchy.
Although not a native family, its members have been settled in Jersey for thi-ee genera-
tions; and while belonging to one of the most illustrious French houses, the late Count
Frederick de Chateaubriand was proud of having been born in an English dependency, and took
the most lively interest in all connected with the island, his native place, and so endeared to him
by early associations.
At the close of the last century, the family of Chateaubriand was divided into two branches,
of which the first was represented by Count Eene de Chateaubriand, father of the famous poet,
whose visits to, and residence in, Jersey are frequently alluded to in his " Memou'es d'Outre-
Tombe," and other works.
The second branch had for its chief the brother of Count Eene, Peter de Chateaubriand,
* Philip Cliabot, Count of Newblaneh, and Lord Admiral of France, was elected a Knight of the Garter at Calais,
where a chapter was held during a second interview between Henry VIII. and Francis I., in 1532. — Vide Moule's
Heraldry of Fish ; Anstis' Order of the Garter, §-c. A Francis Cabot, in 1 74 1, possessed the manor of Hougham, or North
Court, CO. Kent. As this is perhaps a solitary instance of the name occurring among English landed proprietors, it is
not unlikely that he was of the Jersey family. — Vide Halstcd's Kent, vol. iv., p. 45.
f The tinctures are varied by the many branches of the family, but all continue the characteristic charge of the
Chabots — aiifflicc, miller's thumbs, or chubs— a small fish very common in the shallow water around the Norman coast
and Channel Islands. One branch of the family bears for motto — Semper cor caput cabot.
\ Arms of Cabot of Normandy ^Argent, three leopards' heads, sable.
7
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 51
who was the father of Ai-mancI de Chateaubriand, the first of the name established in Jersey.
After having bravely fought for the Koyal cause, during the whole of the campaign of 1792, he
was entrusted with the honourable yet perilous mission of conducting, between Jersey and
France, the correspondence and communications of the EoyaUsts. This delicate task he pursued
with success for the long period of fifteen years — from 1795 until 1810, when, being cast upon
the coast of Normandy by stress of weather, he was arrested, canned to Paris, and condemned to
death by the government of the day.
The Count Armand de Chateaubriand was one of the numberless exiles of good family expa-
triated by the French Eevolution. Although Germany and England received by far the greater
number, yet as many as four thousand sought refuge in Jersey, among whom were ecclesiastics
of all grades, from the bishop to the priest, and nobles of the highest rank, accompanied by their
servants and dependants. As most of these were well provided with money, which they spent
liberally, and brought with them habits and manners of the most courtly order, Jersey has to
thank them, in more senses than one, for the benefits that their misfortunes were the means of
showering on the island.
Count Armand married Jane Le Brun, (a native of Jersey), by whom he had Jane, born in
Jersey, died 1820 ; and
Frederick, Count de Chateaubriand, born in Jersey, married the grand-daughter of Count
Castaldi, ex-ambassador of the Eepublic of Genoa to the English court, and subsequently a
naturalised subject of the British crown, by whom ho had five children —
Henry, the present Count de Chateaubriand; Louisa; Mary; Theresa; and Blanche.
Arms: Gules, semee of fleui-s-de-lis, or.*
Motto : Je seme I'or,
hollas, of tfje iilaison tre ^. iHartin.
NE of the most ancient houses of Britany is that of CoUas, Seigneurs de I'Espine. At
the disastrous battle of S. Aubin-du-Cormier,t Gratian CoUas, of this family, being
grievously wounded, was one among the many Bretons whose only safety lay in fiight.
He found, however, time and opportunity to carry with him his wife, and also some of
* The arms of this family were originally — Azure, three pine-cones, or ; but Godefroi de Chateaubiiand having
greatly distinguished himself at the disastrous battle of ilassoura, in 1250, Louis IX. granted him, as a reward for his
valour, the arms mentioned above, and the motto — Mon sang teint les bannieres de France. The family has continued
to bear these ai'ms, impaled on the dexter side, with its original ones.
f The battle of S. Aubin-du-Cormier had for its origin the quarrels that ensued upon the death of Louis XI. of
France. His son, Charles VIII., was but thirteen years of age, and was weak, iU-formed, and sickly. The testamentary
disposition of Louis had entrusted the care of the prince to his daughter Anne, wife of the Seigneur de Beaujeu, a brother
of the House of Bourbon. Her authority, however, was questioned, and her power usurped by the Duke of Orleans, as
First Prince of the Blood, and his pretensions were supported by the principal nobles. Unable to agree, for the first time
for many years in the history of France, a real Assembly of the States was convoked at Tom-s, at which all classes were
fairly represented. The Orleans faction had previously tried every means in order to sway the opinions of the people in
their favour. Oliver the barber, one of the most hated of Louis' myrmidons, was hanged; the taxes were reduced, and
the odious Swiss mercenaries, to the number of 6,000, were disbanded.
Notwithstanding this, the disorders of the reign of Charles VI. and their consequences, had disgusted the nation
with the rule of rinces of the blood ; the States, therefore, confirmed the care of the King's person, with all the
52 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
his wealth, and, crossing over to the opposite coast of Jersey, took refuge in the parish of S. Martio.
There, ou the 15th September, 1490, he purchased, conjointly with Appaulina, his wife, the Maison
de S. Martin. As a striking instance of the integrity and simple faith of the islanders at that time,
it may be mentioned that the contract referred to above was merely read at the foot of the high
cross in the parish churchyard, which rendered the purchase valid. However, twenty years
afterwards, it was deemed right to register the sale in the form of a deed, sealed with the broad
seal of the island, and countersealed by Nicholas de Hamptonne, then Lieut. Bailly ; which
deed is still extant in the family.
From this spot the family has never removed, and the house, although rebuilt, occupies the
site of its veteran predecessor. It is connected by marriage with some of the best insular
houses, and is now represented by F. Gme. Collas, Esq.
Arms : Argent, a double-headed eagle, displayed, with wings inverted, sable, armed gules.*
Quartering, — Or, on a mound in base vert, a holly-bush ppr.; a bordure, sable, eutoyre of eight
mullets of six points, pierced of the first, for BissoN : gules, thi-ee mullets, or, for Hamptontste i
or, three cherries, gules, stalked vert, for Messervy : or, three leaves, vert, for Anquetil : and
gules, foul- fusils conjoined in fesse, ai-gent, a mullet for difference, for De Carteret.
Crest : A plain cross, or.
Motto : Crux, spes unica,
influence accruing, to the Dame de Beaujeu. This of course hugely dissatisfied the Orleans party, -who actually ques-
tioned the authority of the States ; and the Duke, assisted by Dunois, son of the famous Bastard of Orleans, made every
effort, first by intrigue, and then by force, to retain his authority. He was, however, closely pressed by the Duke de la
TremoiUe at the head of a superior force, and was obliged to make submission, and Dunois upon this was banished to Italy.
A peace, however, could not permanently exist under these circumstances. A plot was hatched to carry off the
King, which failed, and Orleans was forced to retire to Britany, where he became a suitor for the hand of Anne, eldest
daughter and heiress of Francis, the reigning duke. At first the nobles and people were jealous of the Duke of Orleans,
and took part with the Dame de Beaujeu against both ; but she, too ambitious, showing a disposition to conquer the
duchy, and to garrison and appropriate its towns, they abandoned her, and returned to their allegiance to the duke.
The war nevertheless continued, and the troops of both sides met at S. Aubin, where a battle ensued.
The French were commanded by La Tremoillc, and the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Orleans led on the
Bretons. With the latter were three hundred English, and many of the Bretons, the more to intimidate their adver-
saries, adopted for the nonce the British garb. In this battle the Bretons fully sustained their high character as foot
soldiers, but the French gendarmerie, having beaten the cavalry opposed to them, took the Bretons in flank and rear,
and entirely routed them. The Prince of Orange and the Duke of Orleans were both taken prisoners. Led to the
victorious La Tremoille, they were startled to perceive a confessor enter the tent towards evening. He observed and
enjoyed their inconcealable discomfiture, when, smiling, he remarked that it was but the inferior rebels who had to clear
their consciences and prepare for death. Then it was that the neighbouring coast of Jersey afforded many a brave com-
batant the asylum denied him at home.
Without entering at length into the events that followed this decisive battle, suffice it to say, that the Duke of
Britany survived this defeat but a short time. His daughter Anne, who was betrothed and even married by proxy to
Maximilian, king of the Eomans, was finally espoused by Charles VIII., who on his part broke off negotiations
respecting Margaret, daughter of Maximilian ; she undergoing the mortification of being sent home, after having been
brought up as the future queen of France; being, as she herself plaintively expressed it, " a widow, ere she was a wife."
The cause of the struggle was ended by this event, and Charles setting at liberty his former rival, the Duke of Orleans,
the latter became his faithful friend, and even seconded the King's views in espousing Anne of Britany.
* The family in France for some centuries has borne the eagle crowned, probably as an augmentation; but the
original arms are those borne by the Jersey branch, as is proved by the signet ring of Sire Gulielmus Collas, son
of Arnulpho dicto Colas, mentioned by De Magny as being present at the Crusade of 1249, who flourished in the
thirteenth centuiy, which is now in the possession of the representative of the family.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
55
H'^llaitt,
HIS family is a braiicli of the Norman one of that name settled for so long a period
near Cerisy, whence its then representative retired to Jersey, in consequence of his
religious opinions, circa 1680.
It is now represented by Alphoxsus Frank D'Allain, Esq., of S. Laui-ence.
Arjis : Ai'gent, thi-ee martlets gules ; on a chief azure, three estoiles or.
H'^ubercjne,
HE family of D'Auvergne* may fairly claim, by the deeds of its members, and by its
vast territorial possessions, to rank among the noblest and most distinguished of the
French nobility, while its antiquity is carried back, by authentic documents, as far
as about the year 800.
It appears, bj^ researches entered into at the command of Godfi'oy, last reigning Duke of
Bouillon, that a cadet of the house of Auvergne had emigrated after the crusade against the
Albigenses, in the early part of the thirteenth centiu-y, and was traced to England, where he
continued, imder the auspices of Guilleaume (or Peter) des Eoches, who became, by the favour
of the Prince (afterwards King Hemy III.), Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of
England.!
This cadet was called Eobert, and surnamed De Clermont, but at his emigration had taken
his family name of Auvergne, having married, contrary to his father's consent, (who was Eobert,
fourth Count of Auvergne,) % a lady named Boutet, of an ancient patrician house of Aquitaine,
* The prefixes du, de la, le, and la, used before proper names, and originally indicative of their territorial deriva-
tion, are invariably used in France with small letters, but in Jersey custom has caused them to be printed and written
with capitals, a mode followed in the present work.
t Arms of Peter de Eupibus, or Des Koches : — Gules, three roaches naiant, in pale. — Vide the Boke of S.
Alban's.
X The following pedigree, extracted from Baluze's Histoire Genealogique de la Maison D'Auvergne, will show the
connection of the Jersey branch with the parent stem : —
Bernard, Count d' Auvergne and de Bourges (circa 800), Marquis de Nevers.
Acfred I., Count de Bourges and de Circasonne=Adelinde.
Bernard I., Count d'Auvergne=Blitsende.
56 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
and in whose family GuUleaume des Eoclies had been brought up. By this man-iage Kobert
d'Auvergne had a son, whom he called Thiebault, after his maternal great uncle, Thiebault,
Count of Champagne ; and this Thiebault obtained, through the influence of the Chancellor des
Eoches, a grant of lands in the island of Jersey, about the year 1232, on which he settled, and
became the stock from which the Jersey family of that name lineally descend. The grant in
question was, from its fii'st grantee, called La Thiebault, and tradition has handed down the
name to a portion of it (in the parish of S. Ouen) to this day ; although, as appears from the
records of sales preserved in the Eoyal Court of the island, it was alienated towards the close of
the seventeenth century by a member of the family, after having been in its possession
upwards of four hundi-ed years.*
At this period one branch of the family settled in S. Ilelier, while another remained in its
ancestral parish of S. Ouen, in Jersey.
A
Eustorge, Viscount d'Auvergne=:Aseiiclane.
Eobert I., Viscount d'Auvergne=Adalgarde.
Eobert II., Viscount d'Auvergne=Ingelberge.
Guilleaume IV., Viscount d'Auvergne (succeeded Gyon, his brother)=Humberge.
Eobert I., Count d'Auverffne=Ermengarde d' Aries.
Guilleaume V., Count d'Auvergne=PhilIipie de Giraudan.
Eobert II., Count d'Auvergne=Judith de Melgueil.
Guilleaume VI., Count d'Auvergne=Jeanne.
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I I
Eobert III., Count d'Auvergne. Guilleaume VIII., Count d'Auvergne=Anne de Nevers.
T : -■ :
Guilleaume VII., Count d'Auvergne.
Eobert IV., Count d'Auvergne =Mahault de Bourgoyne.
II II I
— Boutet=5. Eobert de Clermont. 2. Guy, Count 1. Guilleaume, 3. Eobert, Archbishop 4. Marie.
d'Auvergne. o.s.p. of Lyons.
Thiebault d'Auvergne, settled in Jersey.
* It is but fair to observe that Baluzo, in his genealogical history of the family, docs not place implicit faith in the
statement that the Jersey family thus descends from its French namesake ; but the researches of the ducal antiquarians
quite satisfied the last reigning duke that his Jersey cousins were of the same stock as himself, and thus justilicd his acts
iu their favour.
AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 57
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, his Serene Highness Godfroy de la Tour
d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, having lost his second son — the eldest being so afflicted as to
preclude the hope of a lineal succession — was without prospect of an ultimate heir. He was
therefore induced to seek among his relatives for some one whom he might select as a successor
to his titles and immense wealth ; and accordingly caused researches to be made in the different
archives of the provinces with which the history of his house was connected, and directed the
Abbe Coyer, who had been his private tutor, to examine, with the assistance of some learned
Benedictine monks, the different depots in the province whence the family di-ew its origin, and
of which its heads had been feudal sovereigns before the union of the great fiefs to the crown of
France, under Philip Augustus.
This search elicited the facts narrated above ; when about that period Lieutenant Philip
d'Auvergne, of the British Eoyal Navy, and a member of the Jersey family of that name which
had settled in England, being a prisoner of war in Trance, was introduced to the Duke of
Bouillon by the French Minister of Marine. Struck with the similarity of name, his Serene
Highness invited his ncAvly-found friend to his seat at Navarre, in Normandy, where he received
him with much cordiality, and hinted to Lieutenant D'Auvergne at the inquiries he had insti-
tuted, and which he gave fresh orders should be continued with renewed diligence. Lieutenant
D'Auvergne was, soon after his return to England, professionally employed until the Peace,
when he again met with the Duke in London, who was still engaged in prosecuting his inqumes
with regard to the stray branch of his family.
In 1786, the Ihike's learned commissioners having completed, to his satisfaction, their
research, which had occupied them ten years, Letters-Patent, under his personal signature,,
sealed with the great seal of the Sovereignty of Bouillon, acknowledging the descent of Charles
D'Auvergne, Esq., and Major-General D'Auvergne his younger brother, — father, and uncle of
Captain D'Auvergne (who had been promoted in the interim), " from the ancient Counts of
Auvergne, their and the Duke's common ancestors, also confirming to them theu- common
armorial bearings, and acknowledging them as cousins," were transmitted by the Duke to these
two near relatives of the Captain, and which formal documents were, by his Majesty's most
gracious licence, of the 1st January, 1787, duly recorded and exemplified in the College of
Arms, and also announced in the London Gazette. The Duke, moreover, by a formal act of
adoption, with the full consent of his eldest son, Leopold, the States of Bouillon, and his
Britannic Majesty, adopted Captain Philip D'Auvergne as his son,* and as heir-apparent in
the event of failiu-e of issue male of Prince Leopold.f Captain D'Auvergne, thus raised by
good fortune fi-om the rank of a private individual to be the prospective successor to one of the
largest dependencies of France, continued in the British Navy, and was successively promoted
in 1805, to the rank of Eeaa-- Admiral of the Blue ; in 1810, to be Vice-Admii-al ; and in 1813,
* The Act of Licence to Philip D'Auvergne, Esq., to accept and enjoy the nomination and succession to the
Sovereignty of Bouillon, was addressed, by his Majesty George III., to the Hereditary Marshal of England, the Duke
of Norfolk, and duly entered in the College of Arms. And the Act of the States of Bouillon, acknowledging and
consenting to the above nomination and succession, was duly promulgated previously throughout the duchy.
t As a testimonial of this Act, the Duke presented Captain D'Auvergne with an original bronze of Turenne, on the
plinth of which was engraved —
I
58 AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
to be Vice-Admii-al of the TVliite, and was stationed in the Channel Islands in command of tlie
" Nonsuch " and a flotilla of gunboats, for their defence, and to communicate with the Eoyalists
of France on the ojiposite coast.
Godfroy, Duke of Bouillon, died in 1793, and was succeeded by his son, Prince Leopold,
who himself dying without issue, in 1802, during the short interval of peace. Prince Philip
D'Auvergne repaired to Paris to claim the succession,* but was arrested, thi-owu into prison,
and his papers seized by the Consular Government. He was, however, released iti a few days,
but ordered immediately to quit France. After the Bourbon restoration, the Prince was, for a
short time, put into nominal possession of his duchy ; but, by an Act of the Congress of
Vienna, upon " considerations of general policy," he was finally dispossessed of the Dukedom,
which reverted to a member of the Eohan family, also descended fi-om the ancient Dukes of
Bouillon. lie did not long survive these reverses, which were as sudden and unlooked-for as
his previous elevation, but died in London, in 1816, and was buried at S. Margaret's church,
Westminster. Leaving no descendants, lineal or collateral, the representation of the family
devolved upon his kinsman, Philip D'Auvergne, Esgu, of Leoville, in the parish of S. Ouen,
Jersey.
His Highness, during his official residence in Jersey, purchased a spot of ground con-
taining the most interesting relic of mediajval antiquity of which Jersey had to boast, being the
remains of the Chapel of Our Lady de la Hougue 'Bie, or la Hougue Hambie, situated in Grouville
parish. This chapel had been built at a very remote period, on one of the tumuli, of which the
island at one time possessed so many, and was restored by Kichard Mabon, Dean of Jersey,
in the sixteenth century. It is traditionally said to have been erected in memory of a member
of the once jjowerful family of Paynel, of Hambye, by his widow. The circumstances connected
with this event, and which are generally allowed to be founded on historical facts, form
one of the most pathetic and touching of Jersey's heroic legends. The Prince D'Auvergne,
however, with questionable taste, incorporated this interesting structure with a tower, which he
built on its site, and which is generally called, from its first owner. Prince's Tower.
Among the members of the Jersey branch worthy of note is the Eev. Edward D'Auvergne,
J\I.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, born about 16G0, Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties
William and Mary, and known by his 'm-itings, princii)ally on military topics.
Owing to the scarcity of ecclesiastic and other documents, materials for a connected
TURENNE.
Donnu a PuiurrE D'Attvergne, C.D.V.A.S.D.L.G.B.,
pur GoBEFEor Due de Bouillon,
Chef de la Maison, en temoignage de sa tendre amitie
pour son fils adoptiii
MDCCLXXXIV.
He also presented him with a magnificent MS. Bible, superbly illuminated by the Benedictine monks in the
twelfth century, and which had been given by King John of France, in 13G1, to his son, the Duke of Berri, Count of
Boulogne and Auvergnc, and by his (the King's) mother entailed in perpetuity upon the family, and in which the Duke
wrote an autograph donation in French and English. This Bible was purloined in England, and was, a few years since,
advertised for sale in London.
* The seal of Philip D'Auvergne, which was engraved at this period, is still preserved. The legend runs thus :
Sig. Phil. D. G. Dux Bouillon, 1802.
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69
pedigree of the family do not exist ; the following short ones, however, will show the connection
of this family with several others of both Jersey and Guernsey.
Arms — Or, a gonfalon, of three pendants, gules, fringed vert.
Crest — A tower argent, ma9onne sable.
Motto — Nous ne changeons jamais.*
^ctiifjrce of IB'Eubfvgnc.
BRANCH OF S. HELIER.
D'AuvERGNE, sold the estate of La Thiebault towards the close of the XVII century.
T
Charles D'Auvergne, Esq. = Elizabeth, dau. of James Corbet, Esq.
!
1. Elizabeth le Geyt. = Charles D'Auvergne, Esq. = 2. Elizabeth, dau. Lieut. -General James
b. 1724. of Philip Bandinel, D'Auvergne, attache
Esq. of the court of George
III.
I 1
Elizabeth, Vice-Admiral Prince Philip
d. 1840. D'Auvergne, F.R.S, Knight
of S. John of Jerusalem,
Knight of S. Joachim, d.
1816.
Corbet James D'Auvergne, = Victoria Stuart, who claimed
Esq., Captain, E.N., and to be the dau. of Prince
Edward.
I
Anne.
Keeper of Game in Jersey,
by Letters- Patent.
o.s.p.
Charles Edward, the young
Pretender, by the Princess
Louisa Masimiliana of Stol-
berg.
Mary-Esther 1. Lieut. Lem-
Fiott. priere, R.N.
o.s.p. 2. Captain Le
Gros, R.N.
^ftjigrcc of H'^lubcrgne.
BRANCH OF S. OUEN.
John D'Auvergne, Esq., Constable of S. Ouen in 1645, = Douce de Vic.
d. 1662. I
John D'Auvergne, Esq., Constable of S. Ouen, drowned with his wife in 1681, = Rachel Le Montais.
Rachel.
Francis Ricard, Esq.
Philip D'Auvergne, Constable of S. Ouen, ^ Mary Sallenouve.
m. 1686.
I
A
* The late Admiral Philip D'Auvei-gne, Duke of Bouillon, bore quartered with the arms of Auvergne, those of
Be la Tour—svL., azure, seme of fleurs-de-lis or; over all, a tower argent, magonne sable, with the same crest and motto.
60
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Edward D'Anvergne, Esq., = Esther, dan. of Philip Le Ge3't, Esq.,
m. 1729.
Lieut. Bailly of Jersey.
I
Philip D'Auvergne, Esq., = Jane, dan. of Edward Eicard, Esq.,
m. 175S. I King's Keceiver.
Charles = Mary Oliver Griit, Francis.
of Guernsey. o.s.p.
Edward, Jane.
Midshipman,
K N., perished Aaron De Ste.
in the " E,oyal Croix, Esq.,
■George." Jurat R.C.
Charles D'Au-
vergne, Esq.
Ann.
Collins
I
Edward,
Surr(eon,
Jane.
Matilda.
I
Elizabeth.
I
I
Ann.
Elizabeth.
Stade. Philip Durell,
of Sans Souci.
Mary.
Esther.
Ward. GriU, Esq
Amelia. Philip D'Anvergne, = I.Rachel, dan. of
Esq., Chas.Payn,Esq.,
Bonamy Francis de Jurat R.C.
Colliugs, Ste. Croix, o.s p.
Esq. Esq. = 2. Jane, dau. of
1 Amice Gabourel.
Henrietta, dan. of Charles
Fixott, M.D.
Philip D'Auvergne, Esq.,
Deputy for S. Ouen.
Rachel.
John De Ste.
Croix, Esq.
Henry-Philip
Francis-Owen.
Edward-Fixott.
Charles-Adolplius, oh.
Henrietta.
Laura-Jane.
-0^»51C5^
T wliat precise time this family quitted Norraaudy, where it had attained to
distinction from the earliest historic period of that duchy, is not certain. It appears
that previous to its emigration it was settled near, and took its name from, the
village of Barentin, near Eouen. The first mention made of the name in England,
is in the person of Alexander de Barentin, who is stated by Brayley, in his " History of
Surrey," to have been baker to Hemy II., circa 1160, and to whom the King gave much land
in Caveham or Cobham.
Shortly before the year 1220, Drew, Dru, Drocus, Drogo, or Deouet De Barentine,
obtained, through cii'cumstanccs iipon which history tln'ows no light, the important Seigneurie
of Eozel ; and, in 1367, his descendants were possessed of extensive and valuable estates in
Jersey, consisting of the manors and lordships of Eozel, Samares, Longueville, Dielament, and les
Augres. Upon the authority of notes appended to the record of a lawsuit, that attended the
eventual transfer of this property, it has generally been alleged that these largo possessions were
bestowed, as a free gift, by the King upon this eminent person — part or all of it having
escheated to the Crown, by the adherence of Engelramus de Foiu-net, Seigneur of Eozel, to the
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French monarch, at the period of the revolt of the Normans.* But, as this same De Fournet
appears in a Liberate Eoll of 10 Henry III., as having been at that period in the King's
service,! it may, with greater probability, be surmised that part, if not all, of the property, was
acquired by purchase. Owing to his influential pos ti' n. Drew de Barentine was constituted
Warden or Governor of the Norman Isles in 1220. Although their names have not reached us,
it appears probable he, at some period, governed by deputies, for in 1223 he is mentioned as
having been in the King's service in Wales,:]: and in 1225-6 he served among the English
knights in Gascony.§ In 1230 he held, with Jane his wife, the manor of Cheveres, n Norfolk,
in which year he was granted a weekly market, and a fair yearly, with free warren on his
demesne lands there. In 1239, being very aged, he appears as being accredited ambassador to
Kome.|| He was succeeded in his English and Jersey estates by his son,
William De Barentine, who died young, and who founded a chapel and hospital for lepers
at Cheveres, and gave considerable lands and part of his lordship to endow them.^ His son.
Drew De Barentine, was Governor of the Scilly Isles in 35 Henry III.,** 1251, and
shortly afterwards held the same dignity in the Norman islands ; vested with which, he was
slain in 1253, in a gallant defence of the Castle of Mount Orgueil from an attack made on it by
the French.ft Dying without issue, his estates were inherited by his nephew William, of whom
presently. He appears to have had other relatives, not mentioned in the pedigree, among
whom were Henry, who is mentioned with Eleanor his wife, of the county of Essex, in 1271 ;
Stephen, with Matilda his wife, also of the county of Essex, in 1248 ; XX ^^^ Drew, who was
Seneschal of Gascony in 12G0, and in 1264 was Constable of Windsor Castle,§§ and who, by an
Issue Eoll of 61 Henry III., is paid for " going as the Queen's Messenger beyond the seas, 30
marks for his expenses ; " and in the same year is paid " <£10 for palfreys, sumpter-horses, and
harness for his two nephews, whom the King, in Gascony, decorated with the belt of a knight."
This Drew also appears identified with that Drogo de Barentyn, who held lands in Essex,
* Vide also the Abbreviatio Placitorum, 16 Edward II., Eot. 89. It appears that Silvester de Fournet, the
brother of Engelramus, had held the lordship of Rozel previously. " Tempore Johan. Reg. Angl. et Due. Norman.,
post defectione Normanniae ab eius ditiono qui Elgeramus de fumeto ad regem Erancie defecit, propterea confiscavit
maneriu. de Eos. in Insula de Jerseye : et tunc p. regem Henriu. Tertiu. datum fuit isto Droco Barentine, praedictu
man. de llosel." (Pedegradus Barentinorum in custodia Durelli Lerrier, Arm.) Arms of De Fournet, of Normandy —
Barry of eight, or and azure. The arms of the Jersey branch were undoubtedly those figured on a buttress in S.
Martin's Church {vide Introduction).
t " Henry, by the Grace of God, &o. Pay from our Treasury to Engeram de Fumet, 4 marks, of our gift, for his
expenses. Also pay to Philip de Cartret, 3 marks of oui- gift ; and to William dc Salmelcs (Samares), 3 mai-ks of our
gift. Witness ourself at Westminster, 19 May, 10th year of our reign, &c."
X Eot. Lit. Claus. p. 561. § Idem. Vol." II., pp. 34, 129. 1| Eymer's Fojdcra. Tom I., p. 238.
f Fide Blomfield's Norfolli. Vol. II., p. 401. ** Vide Heath's History of the Scilly Isles.
ft A MS. in the possession of Durell Len-ier, Esq., states that John de Barentine, and not Drew, was the chieftain
killed upon this occasion. An old pedigree, however, that seems to have been drawn up to show the descent of the
family estates, and its ultimate heirs, shortly after their removal from Jersey, ignores John altogether ; and from this
circumstance, and from the fact of De Carteret having been chosen as the successor of the slain warrior, owing to his
military skill and popular repute, it would appear that Drew De Barentine, who was Seigneur of Eozel as weU as
Governor of the island, was more likely to have led his countrymen to battle than his reputed brother John, who
possesses no identity whatever.
++ F(V?e Eot. Fin. in Turr. Lond. §§ Firfe Eymer's Foedera. Tom. I., pp. 401, 441.
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Hertfordshire, and Oxfordshire, and who, on account of them, was summoned to perform
military service in the years 1296-7.*
William De Barentine, who succeeded his uncle Drew in his possessions in Jersey, had
three sons : Philip, of whom presently ; Thomas, who will be referred to in connection with
the English branch of the family ; Drew ; and one daughter, Mabel, who was the wife of Eaulin
Payn, Jurat of the Eoyal Court of Jersey.
Philip De Barentine, who succeeded his father as Seigneur of Eozel, &c., was accused by
his relatives of being tainted with leprosy, and who made this a pretext for endeavouring to
deprive him of his property. This allegation may have been true, as his ancestor, William, who
founded a hospital for lepers, may have done so from the fact that this disease was hereditary in
the family. Philip, however, to disappoint his descendants, made a hasty sale of his lands to
Eaoul Lempriere and GuiUe Payn in 1.36 7-8. ^ He had two sons, Philip and Gilbert, who, to
revenge a scandalous imputation, cast by one Jolin De S. Martin, on the character of their mother,
entrapped, and, at her instigation, mui-dered him, with circumstances of singular barbarity, on a
road leading from S. Martin to S. Trinity. On the site of this outrage was erected a stone cross,
which was called John's Cross, the socket of which still exists by the road-side, and the spot is
vernacularly termed " La Croix au Maitre." The cross itself, with part of the shaft, was pre-
served near one of the neighbouring houses, until within a few years ago. The inhabitants who
dwell in the vicinity of this spot, although ignorant of the circumstances of the tragedy, relate
the reminiscences of their Catholic forefathers respecting the annual masses said at the cross, and
point out the route of the priestly procession. The mui-derers, upon the completion of their
design, fled to France ; Gilbert, the younger, was pursued, apprehended, and hanged at Caen ;
but Philij), more fortunate, settled peaceably at Eouen, and there founded a family which still
exists in that neighbourhood.^ From this period the name has been extinct in the island.
* 1296. Drew de Barentyn was enrolled, pursuant to the ordinance for the defence of the sea-coast, as a knight
having lands within the county of Essex, but non-resident in that county.
1296. Drogo de Barentyn summoned to perform military service in person against the Scots. Muster at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, March 1.
1296. Erogo de Barentyn summoned from the counties of Essex and Hertford to perform military service in
person against the Scots. Muster at Berwick-on-Tweed, on the Nativity of S. John Baptist, June 24.
1297. Drogo de Barentyn returned as holding land or rents in Oxfordshire to the amount of £20 yearly value,
and upwards, and as such summoned under the general writ to perform military service in person, with horses, arms,
&c., in parts beyond the seas. Muster at London, on the Sunday next after the Octaves of S. John Baptist. Vide
the Parliamentary Writs.
f "Martis xjj Octob. an. miiijlxij in assis Insul. Jersay p. Willm. de S"'" Martino, & s. ptionar. adversus Dom. de
Rosello, ppositu. fuit qd. Phlus. de Barentino erat suspectus de morbo lepra?, et q. eius consauguinci velle illu. prevare
patrimonio, ipse propterea vendidit Rosdum & Samarez et alia heridit. GuLUo. Payn, & Radulpho Lempriere, q. sues
hffirides successione privaret, factum quid eo anno 1368." " Nota. Qd. Lempre. & Payn erant Britones et alienigen,
& post venditionem banc coaoti sunt pacissi cum Regia Mat. tunc Rico II., et solvcrunt pro licen. septuagentas libras
sterling." " Nota. Quod asserat venditionem fuisse facta precio octengenta lib. sterling, et quia dicit alienigen. p. licen.
custodiendi solverit Dno. Rcgi. Sept. libr. St." — Ex. MSSto.
X " Contigit quodam die ut uxor Philippi Barentini dicerit ad filios. 0 filii ! Johauctus de S'" Martino vocavit me
adulteram, si filii estis ulcissimini injuriam matris; vellem hujus modi defamatorum linguas heremento substractas;
fiHi commoti, insidias Icevarunt, puerum opposuerunt, q. fistula advenientcm indicaret, advenit, rapiunt linguam, per
mentum substrahant pugiobus interunt ubi jam est cru.x quae vocantur Joluinati, duobus fores stadiis a Templo Martini
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63
The possession of the estates thus sold to Guille Payn and Eaoul Lempriore was disputed
by Sire Peter Payn, Eector of S. Brelade, and nephew of Philip De Barentine the elder, and
afterwards by some members of the Lovell family, who (by marriage) were the eventual heirs of
this Philip De Barentine. Both of these claims, however, appear to have been compromised, as
the descendants of the original purchasers finally remained in peaceful possession of the
property.*
Eeturning to Thomas De Barentine, son of "William, it will be observed he settled and died
in England, and his grandson. Drew De Bauentine, or Barentyn was Lord Mayor of London in
22 Richard II., 1398 ; and also in 10 Henry IV., 1408. He was a goldsmith, and " builded a
parte of Gouldsmithes' Hall, and gave them landes : he was buried in S. John Zacharias, at the
end of Foster Lane, over against the Gouldsmithes' Hall, from which he made a gallery over the
lane to his owne house." t He was also Court jeweller, and among the Issue Eolls of the 17
Eichard 11. occurs one in which he is paid £26 13s. 4d. for a cup sent to the Queen of Sweden
and Denmark, and another of the 9 Henry IV., in which he is paid ,£550 "for a collar of gold
garnished with precious stones, for the King's use." His epitaph, in the church of S. John
Zachary, ran thus: — "Hie jacet Drugo Brantine, civis and aurifaber, and quondam Maior
veteris, qua ita ad Templum Trinitatis quse ibi extructa est, in memoriam ejus facinoris, et vocatur crux Johaoati.
Filii autem in Normanium fugerunt. Alter tamen eorum Lndicio ooireptus et condemnatus, suspenditur Cadomi. Alter
haud procul Rhotomago mansit, et ibi habitavit in pace, sobolemque procreavit in hunc usij. diem propogat." — Ex.
MSSto.
* Lettre paflee par jugement en forme d'Indentoire, par devant Richard de S. Martin, Bailly du Roy, en I'an mille
ccclxvij, le jour de Samedy prochain apres la fefte de la Tiphanie, entre William Haftorp Ecr, d'une part, et Raoul Lem-
priere, et Guille Payn, conjointement d'autre part. Ledit William Haftorp recognu et confefla avoir vendu, cede et delaifle
de luy, et de fes liers, audit Lempriere et Payn conjointement, et leurs hers, tons les heritages anciennement lefquels peuvent et
doivent pouroyent et devroyent efchoir a Janequin Louvel et a Jes freres et soeurs & a tous autres qui pouroyent et devroyent
eftre hers de Gilbert et Philippe de Barentin, a la caule defdits Louveaux, a heritage en I'ifle de Jerfey. Aflavoir Magniers, terres,
froments, franchises, droits de patronage, moulins, homages, deniers, services, viviers, verp, garenne, camparts, chapons, gue-
lines, oeufs, avoines, et tous autres heritages audit Hastorp appartenant de la delaiflance a heritage dudit Louvel freres et
soeurs, et hers desdit Gilbert et Philippe de Barentine sy comme plus amplement et pleinement appert par une Charte Extente
de la Chancellerie notre Sire le Roy d'Angleterre sceUes en laces de soye&en verde cire & parchemins Scellees du sceel Janequin
Level fils de Jean Lovel, de Herdington, neveu aifne de Philippe de Barentin et dudit Gilbert, Le tout avcc le prix et cours
de paym'. sous le scell de la Baillie de ladite Isle centre cachete des armoiries dudit S. IVIartin bailly, et avcc les cachets dudit
Lempriere et Payn, en lambeaux de parchemin de cire verte.
i:j/£j
The seal without a legend is the signet of Guille Payn. The device seems, like that of Lempriere, to be intended for a
crest, and strongly and strangely resembles that of the Paynes of Dorsetshire and Leicestershire : — out of a ducal coronet
or, a woman's head couped below the shoulders ppr., vested ermine, her hair dishevelled of the first, on her head a
chapeau, azure. t '^i^e Harl. MSS., 1349.
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London. Qui obiit 15 die Mensis Martii, An. Dom. 1415. Cujus Anima; pr^picietur Deus."
That of his wife: — "Hie jacet Christiana, iix. diet. Drugonis : qua obiit 11 die Mensis Martii,
An. Dom. 1427. Cjus, &c."
From this eminent citizen descended the Barentynes of Plympton, whose pedigree is recorded
in the Visitation of Sussex of 1G63. This family seems now to be quite extinct, for although
the name occurs occasionally for some years after the last member mentioned in the pedigree, yet
it is believed that for the last hundred years no one in England has borne this time-honoured
patronymic.
It is more than probable that from some of its earlier members is derived the ancient family
of Barrington, of the counties of Essex and Ilertfordshu-e : for, notwithstanding Le Neve in his
pedigree of that family aifects to deduce its descent from one Barentona, a Saxon worthy, yet no
extraneous authority certifies the fact, and the name itself is opposed to the genius of the Saxon
tongue. Sir Jonah Barrington, a member of a branch of the family settled in Ireland, details in
his memoirs, his researches into the genealogical history of his house, and arrives at the conclu-
sion that his name was derived from a Norman, and not from a Saxon, soiu'ce, and indicates
the Jersey family of De Barentine as its root. That Barrington is corrupted from Barentine is
far from unlikely ; the less so, because the pre-Norman history of the former family appears
altogether fabulous, and the spelling of the latter name in the "Testa de Neville" and other
contemporary documents strengthens this supposition ; for by the vague and indefinite rules
that then guided orthography, proper names were spelt almost at will. In the work just quoted,
members of the same family appear as Barenten, Barentyn, Baruntun, and Barenton.
Arms — Sable, three eagles displayed argent, beaked and membcred or.*
Crest (borne by Barentyne, of Plympton) — A demi-eagle, argent.
* These bearings were diversified by their several wearers, as appears from the various records of early arms. In
the Eoll of the Arms of Knights of the reign of Henry III., Dru Barentine bore sahle iij egles de or ; in that of the
reign of Edward II., another Drew bore sable, d vj egles de argent ; and Drew Barentyn, Lord Mayor of London, bore
sable, three eagles displayed argent, with an anniilet for difference. Finally, Barantine, of Essex, bears, according to
Burke, in his " General Armory," argent, three chevrons, gules, the identical arms of Barrington, of Essex and Ireland.
Other variations of arms also occur in the same work, common to both spellings of the name.
(MTC/Q^!
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65
^3ftiigrcc of 3Bt iSarcntine.
Drew De Baeentine, Seig. of Eozel, and Warden of the Norman Islands, 1220.
"William De Barentine.
Drew De Barentine, Warden of the Norman Islands, o.s.j}. Jordan — his widow married the Seig. of S. Ouen.
William De Barentine, Seig. of Eozel, heir to his uncle. Other sons.
.. I . .
Philip De Barentine, Seig. of Eozel, sold his estates in
Jersey, 1367-8.
Gilbert, Philip De Barentine, settled at
hung at Caen. Eouen.
Drew. Thomas De Barentine,
settled in England.
Eeginald De Barentine.
Mabel
Eaulin PajTi.
Drew Barentine,
Lord Mayor of London.
Sire Peter
Payn.
Jordan.
Eeginald or Eeynold Barentine, = Elizabeth, dau. of
I Sir. — Popham.
Jane (or Eleanor) dau. of = Sir William Barentyne, Kt. ^ . . . . widow of ... . Grey.*
Sir Eoger Lewknor, Kt.
Sir Drew Barent5Tie, Kt.j
of Plympton, SufF.
Mary.
Hannah.
Anne.
Edward.
IBt (tavUvtt of S. ^ucn.
DEQUATELY to chronicle or minutely to describe the distinguished deeds of this
race of heroes, which has contributed in almost every age to exalt the national
character and compass the internal prosj^erity of its native island, woiild occupy a
volume ; a brief sketch only of its members and their most conspicuous actions
must, therefore, in a work like the present, suffice.
This ancient Norman and noble feudal house, which possessed the attributes of haute noblesse
and chevalcric, and whose name has been variously written at different periods — Carteray,
Charteray, Carteres, Cartred, Katereck, Ivarteret, Quarteret, and Carteret — carries back its
* In Dagenham Church is a monument to Anne Barentine, wyf to Syr William Barentyne, who dyed 27 Decern.,
1522. — Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments.
66 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
authentic history by regal and other records to a period anterior to the Conquest, when it held a
high position among the powerful vassals of Normandy, and in which duchy it possessed, fi-om
the most remote times, the Seigneuries of Carteret and Angeville, with others of less importance.
In the reign of John the fear of losing the Channel Islands, which had been so recently
severed from the Duchy of Normandy, attained to such magnitude, that those feudal lords who
held possessions there and in Jersey were ordered, under the penalty of the escheat of their
insular lands, to abandon those in France and to pay homage to the English king ; and among
those who postponed all views of interest to those of duty and honour, and remained immoveably
fixed in their allegiance to England, the Seigneur of Carteret and S. Ouen was prominently and
illustriously conspicuous. His Norman lands and lordships, far excelling his estates in Jersey,
were forfeited, while the Seigneurs De Paynell,* De Commendes, D'Anneville, De Fournet,
D'Orglandes, and others who were bidden to repair' to Jersey, disobeyed the injunction, and
became vassals of France.
Before entering upon the lineage of the family, necessarily compressed into a naiTow
compass, it may be well to observe that, whether for the greatness and importance of the public
benefits conferred on its native island by this energetic and loyal race, either in war, whilst
defending it against the frequent and well-sustained attacks of the French, or in peace, in the
vigorous and fearless support and administration of its laws and civil institutions, as its chief
rulers, and for many generations its hereditary Baillies, it stood pre-eminently distinguished
among its coimtrymen during several centuries for the exhibition of those great qualities which
added lustre to its exalted rank; and finally, in reward of its unswerving fidelity and great
services to the English crown, raised it, in its second branch in 1681, to the dignity of the
peerage, and to offices of the highest public trust and honoiu' in the mother country, whilst one
of its distinguished later members was created a Knight of the Garter.
TJirce times has the island of Jersey been rescued by the valour and sagacity of members of
this family from the dominion of the French, events of imequalled importance in its history, and
which will be duly noticed in their proper order.
The name is derived from the lordship of Carteret, situated on the opposite coast of
Normandy, between Cherbourg and Coutances. The priory of L'Ecq, in the parish of S. Ouen,
was founded by one of its early Seigneurs ; and the family possessed the patronage of the
Priory de I'Islet, in the parish of S. Helier, and of that of S. Michael, in the parisli of S. Brelade.
Their own parish was, and continues to be, divided into six cucillettcs, or " gatherings," whilst
the remaining eleven are portioned out in vinijlaiiu's, or districts of twenty houses ;t which
difference is accounted for by the surmise that, at a remote period, the parish of S. Ouen was
* The Jersey commentator here anticipates; for, by a Eot. Chart. 14 John, it appears that the King confirms to
Thomas Paynell all the land held by Thomas De Hommct, and to his heirs for ever, on performing the service of one
knight. And a Hot. Chart, of the same year, states, " Enjugorus De Bohun became security to the King for the
aforesaid Thomas, that he would neither depart from his service nor ask any other lands to be given him in exchange
for those he held in Normandy, until the King, by the grace of God, recovered that duchy." A subsequent E.ctentc,
nevertheless, shows that his property was eventually confiscated, but it was probably long after this period. Vide p. 71.
f Divisions which, like the hundreds of English counties, have now lost their numerical significance.
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entirely possessed by this family, who divided it in this manner to facilitate the collection of its
rents and dues.
The lordship or Seignem-ie of S. Ouen takes precedence, as first, among the five fiefs
haubcrt* of the island, and thence is styled the Grand Fief Hauhert. It is held in caj)ite, and
owes suite de cour, as it is termed in Norman feudal phraseology — that is, the declaration of
homage to the sovereign, made in a formal manner tri-annually before the civil tribunal of the
island, in common with several other fiefs ;-|- knight's service; and the sum of nine livres of France
as relief, whenever the cause for its payment occurs. In war time, its Seigneur owed anciently
military service to the King at the castle of Mont-Orgueil, with men-at-arms and horses at his
own cost — '■'■ lui tiers, Vcspace de deux parts de quarante jours ;^^ and being of garde noble, this
Seigneui-ie fell into the King's charge and custody during the minority of its heir ; and at the
death or sudden removal from the island of the Captain or Governor of Jersey, the Seigneurs of
S. Ouen, by their tenure, replaced him in that iniportant command until a successor was
named by the King. J
The first of this family of whom connected record is given is Gtjy De Carteret or Carterai,§
who was Lord of the Barony of Carteret, in Normandy, cirea a.d. 1000, and who, from his skill
in the chase, was surnamed L'Oiseleur, or the Fowler. He had two sons, William and Godfrey.
William De Carteret succeeded his father in 1004, and took upon him sovereign
authority in the Barony of Carteret; this appears in the "Annals of Normandy," and also in
the " Histoire des Croisades," written by Louis de Couis. The family is also mentioned
honoumbly in the chartularies of the Cathedi'al of Coutances, and those of the abbeys of
Fontenelle and Bee, in one of which former, William De Carteret is mentioned as co-Lord with
the King of France of the Barony of Carteret, in Normandy.|| He died without issue, and was
succeeded by his brother,
Godfrey De Carteret, Lord of the Barony of Carteret, who founded the Abbey of
Fontenelle, on his retm-n from a pilgrimage to a shrine, the name of which does not appear.
He had four sons, of whom
Onfrey, Onfeoi, or Humphrey De Carteret, Lord of the Barony of Carteret, and his
younger brother Maujeir, or ]\Iauger, accompanied Duke William to England, and fought at
Hastings, where they are mentioned by Wace, in his " Eoman de Eou," in the list of the
Norman Barons and Knights —
" E de Bohun, lo vieil Onfrei,
De Cartrai, Onfrei e Maugier,
Ki etoit novel chevalier."
* The five fiefs haubert of Jersey are those of S. Ouen, Rozel, Samares, Melesches, and Trinity. The seigneurs of these
fiefs, before the establishment of the Eoyal Court, were the dispensers of justice, and from their decisions there was no
appeal. With regard to the term haubert, Gough, in his Sepulchral Monuments, says, " Baronies, in some customaries,
are called fiefs de haubert, because held by the service of wearing or furnishing a hauberk, helmet, shield, and complete
armour of a knight." Vide alio Le Grand, Fabliaux, pp. 17, 19. Besides these five fiefs haubert, there are in the
island one hundred and sixteen _^(!/i suhalterncs.
\ Vide a list of those who owed this homage in Les Chroniques de Jersey, ch. iii. p. 10.
\ Vide the vai'ious Extcntes. § Vide A History of the noble House of Carteret, by Arthur Collins, Esq.
II F/de Collins.
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Onfrey, in his old age, piously bestowed much, of his wealth on the Abbey of Fontenelle. He
was succeeded by his son,
Sir Eeginald, or Eenaud, De Carteret, Knight, Lord of the Barony of Carteret, in
Normandy and S. Ouen, in Jersey, who, according to a MS. roll, formerly preserved in the
Cathedi'al of Bayeux, was present, among other knights, under Robert Courte-heuse, and
Godfrey De Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine, at the taking of Jerusalem.* In 1125, he gave to the
Abbey of Mont S. Michael, in Normandy, the Church of S. Germain of Cartrait, with aU its
appurtenances, and also the land belonging thereto, in Jersey, being the King's Almoyne : he
further gave tithe of his household goods — " decima bonorum domus mee." He married
Lucia, who sm-vived him, by whom he had issue, Philip, Humphrey, and Geoffrey.
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Lord of Carteret and S. Ouen. In 1135, he con-
firmed his father's gifts to the Abbey of S. Michael, which, until then, he had repudiated,
adding thereto the tithes of his mills, and also two pieces of land adjoining his manor in Jersey.j"
In 1156 he gave to the same abbey — the Abbat, Eobert de Thorigny (better known as Eobert
de Monte) being his kinsman — the Church of S. Ouen, with the Chapel of S. Mary, both in
Jersey. J About the year 1130, in pursuance of a vow made at sea, when in danger of
shipwi'eck, he erected and endowed the parish church of S. Philip de Torteval, in Guernsey.§
He married Nicholaa, by whom he had issue —
* Du Moulin, in his list of the knights, gives also theii- arms. Those of Sii- Reginald were " De Gueule, a une
fesse fusUee d' argent, accompagnee d'un lambel d'azur." Sir Eeginald, with other Norman gentlemen, was in the train
of the Comte d'Eu.
■f This charter, now in the archives at S. Lo, is written on the same parchment as that of his father, and is
witnessed, and both confirmed, by Algar, Bishop of Coutances, whose seal is appended.
I Char. Abbey S. Micliael, fo. cix, now in the City Library at Avranches. En File de Jersey un seigneur,
appele Rainald de Carteret, donna aux religieus du Mont Saint Michel I'Eglise et les dimes de St. Germain-de- Carteret,
avec la terra de I'avimone du roi a St. Germain, dans I'ile de Jersey, eum terra de elemosina regisque est sancti Germani in
Oerseio. Philippe, fils de Rainald, vint au Mont St. Michel pour prier, avec sa mere Lucie, ses freres Hunfred et Geofiroy,
et quelques uns de ses hommes. II confirma les biens donnes precedemment, et deux places dans Jersey dans un lieu
convenable, hors de sa cour, confirmavit diws plateas terre in Gerseio extra curiam siiam loco congriw. . . . L'abbe
Bernard donna a la mere de ce seigneur un bysantin d'or, et a Geoffrey un epervier ; Hunfred rc^ut des bottes pour
monter a cheval ; c'etait en presence de Algare, eveque de Coutances, I'an 1135. Quelques annees plus tard, I'an 1156,
ce meme Philippe de Carteret donna a l'abbe Robert du Mont, qui etait son parent, I'eglise de Saint Ouen, dans I'ile de
Jersey, la chapelle de Sainte Marie, dans la meme ile, et Alain de Vincels [Vincheles] lui fit aussi don de sa chajjelle,
Philippus Chartrai dedit Rolerto abbati de Monte cognafo suo ecclesiam sancti audoeni in Gersoi et eappellam Sancte Marie
in eadem parrochia et Alanus de Vinceleis capellam suam. — Vide Annales du Pays d' Avranches, par I'Abbe Desroches.
§ The following account of the solemnity is exti'acted from a document entitled " Dedicace et Consecration des Eglises
Paroissialles de Guernesey :" — " Le 14th jour du mois du Novembre, I'an de notre salut par Jesus Christ, notre Sauveur,
1 130. Comparut tres-puissant Frere George Belicq de I'isle de Guernesey, dite Sainte, a cette fin, de dedier une certaine
Eglise Paroissiale, en la Paroisse de Torteval, dument fondee par un Gentilhomme Noble ordinaire, le tout par forme,
voeu, et promesse a Dicu, le priant de mettre a Port, de salut et de sauvete, etant sur mer, et sur les ondes, et I'ame
dicelui assaillie de grandes tempetes de vents, & orages impetueux; ainsi Dieu I'ayant exauce, il arriva sauvement
environ le minuit, un Samedi, le 14 Septembre, I'an 1129, au Port Roquaine, au Quest de ladite Isle Sainte; I'avant
dit Noble Gentilhomme nomme Philippe Do Carteret, dc I'isle de Jersey, seul & vrai fondateur dudit Temple, parquoi
D'Islarion Careye, Gouverneur de ladite paroisse, Pierre Bouquan, Guillcaume Gallieno, George Brehault, Jean Ilamel,
Girard Do Beaucamp, Giret De Beauvoir, Thomas Le Clcrq, Jean Brouard, Helier AUes, Michel Dru, Michel Hailla,
Pierre Monnier etant assembles, le susdit Frere Belicq, comme autorise de Monscigneur L'Evesque de Coutances, fil
prosterner tout le peuple TortevaUois, entrer a genoux, les mains jointes, disant — ' Temple Paroissal, Dieu le benisse
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Sir Eeginald De Carteret, Knight, Lord of Cartaret and of S. Ouen, who is styled Baron
de Carteret in Normandy in 1156 * had issue two sons, Keginald and Richard.t
Sir Eeginald De Carteret, Knight, Lord of Carteret and S. Ouen. On the 8 July, 1203, on
the occasion of the invasion of Normandy by the French, King John ordered Peter de Preaus,
then Warder or Governor of the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, to cause to be levied by the
hands of Eegin. de Cartray, on the inhabitants of those islands a reasonable aid for the main-
tenance of the knights and men-at-arms engaged in their defence.| On the final conquest of
Normandy, Eeginald De Carteret continued faithful to the English crown, whereby he lost his
estate and lordship of Carteret, with others he possessed in that duchy, which escheated to the
French king.§ In 1207-8, the King having demanded hostages for their fidelity, from the
principal men of the island, Eeginald De Chartray gave his son Philip, who was committed to
the custody of his uncle Eichard, then Constable of Castle. || This son was, however, not in
his imcle's charge long, for in 1212 he was transferred from the custody of Stephen De Turn-
ham to that of Philip d'Albini, or d'Aubigne, Warden of the Islands.^! Shortly afterwards an
attack on the islands by Eustace le Moine, probably in the interest of the revolted barons, being
defeated by the valour of the islanders, the King, being fully satisfied Avith that proof of their
fidelity, forthwith ordered their hostages to be returned to them.** This Sii' Eeginald gave to
the Abbey of S. Holier one acre and half a vergee of land, as appears fi'om dociunents relating to
the abbey now in the archives of S. Lo. He had one son.
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, who accompanied Henry III. in his
expedition to Britany in 1230-1. The following year he was, in consequence of the good
service he had there and then rendered, constituted, in conjunction with Amcry or Arnold do S.
Armand, Warden of the Norman Isles, by Letters Patent, dated at Eeading, 25 October, 1232. f-f
He continued to deserve so well of his country, that Hem-y III. granted him two permits, to
endeavour to reclaim his lands and lordships in Normandy, which, however, did not procui-e the
et garde de tout mal et peril a jamais, et en son Saint Nom, je te benis et dedies et consacres pour son Saint service; et
porteras le nom de Saint Philippe, qui baptisa I'Enuque aux fleuve, priant Dieu que sa sainte parole y soit dument
declaree, et les Saints Sacrements fidelement administres, au grand salut et profit des corps et des ames, priant un
chacun de voir que tu sois entretenue, maintenue, et augmentee sur tes pilotis, et graduellement prions le Grand Gou-
verneur des Cieux et de la Terre, que tous ceux et celles qui seront enterres en toi, et en ton C'imetiere, ayant cette
grace d'avoir part en la bienKeureuse Eesurrection de ton vrai fils, Jesus Christ, notre Sauveur et Eedempteur, en la
grande et derniere journee et consommation du monde, pour resusciter a la vie eternelle !' Et tout lo peuple disant
' AMEN.' " A very eminent insular antiquarian, however, gives it as his opinion that this dooument, containing
descriptions of the ceremonies incidental to the consecration of the Guernsey churches, although of great antiquitj-, is
proved by internal evidence to contain several errors, and thinks that in this instance it is more probable that Sir Philip
added a chapel to the original church, which he dedicated to his patron saint ; as in authentic and very ajicicnt docu-
ments, still preserved in Guernsey, this church is called " Nostra Dame de Torteval."
* 3 Henry II. f Rot. CI. 9 John, m. 7. \ Pat. 5 John, m. 8.
§ Registrum Eegis Philippi de feodis. || Hot. Clans, is. John, m. 7, Ti. p. 10-i b.
^ Rot. Pat. xiv. John, m. 4. p. 95. ** Rot. Pat. xvi John, m. 11, p. 122 b.
ft Rex commisit Arnaldo de Sancto .4mendo, et Philippe de Carteres, Insulas de Jeresey, Gemesey, Aureney, et
Sarcq, custodiendas quamdiu Regi placuerit. Et mandatum est probis hominibus de eisdem Insulis, quod eis sunt de
omnibus, &c. Intendentes et respondentes sunt predietum est anno xvj Henrici iij.
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re-establishment of liis honoiirs in that duchy.* By a charter, without date, he gave to the
Chapel of S. Mary de la Wie, and to the monks of S. Michael, " ibidem Deo servientibus,"
twenty-nine perches of land, adjoining the manor of la Wic. In 1252, xxx-vj. Henry III., he
and Jourdan De La Hogue were commanded by the King personally to survey the castles in the
islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and to take an account of the state of their armaments, when
Drogo De Barentine, Bailly (Warden ?) of the said islands, was discharged from that office. He
married, and had issue — Philip, of whom presently ; and John, who was knighted, and was
Bailly of Jersey, and who, in a letter addressed by the Dean of Jersey to the official of the see
of Coutances, and dated 1st September, 1291, was stated, conjointly with Colin de Vinchelays
and Php. Fondans, to have caused certain tithes in the parish of S. Ouen to be arrested by
Peter de Arenis, Bailly of Jersey. He also Avas, with Nicholas Chcignye and John de Ditton or
Dutton, named by the King's Justices to inquire into the rights of the Abbey of S. Michael to
the Priory and Manor of S. Clement.f His son,
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of St. Ouen, of which manor he was styled
Lord, in viij. Edward !.,% 1270, married Margaret, the niece and heiress of Philip D'Albini,§
Bailly of Jersey, by whom he had
Sir- Reginald De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, who, before the death of his
father, as appears by an inquisition held ij. Edward I., 1274, was, in right of his mother.
* Eex licentiara dedit Philippo de Charteray, quod accedat ad Eegem Francie, pro terril sua, quara dicit esse jus
suum in Norraanniil, perquiranda si possit. Ita quod postquam terram illam, reeupcraverit, det illara duabus filiabus
suis quas liabet, ad illas maritandas ; et postea revertita ad insulas Regis, ibidem moraturus sieut aiitea moratus est. In
cujus et teste Eege apud Merewell xxx. die Maii.
Eex omnibus ad quos presentes litterae pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod conccssimus et licentiam dedimus Philippo
de Cartrcd, quod accedat ad Eegem Francie, ad impetrandam si potuisset, quod idem Eex reddat ci terras suas in Nor-
mannia in quibus idem Philippus dicet se jus habere. Ita quod post(|uam recuperaverit, dat eas filiabus suis (]uas habet,
et postea rcvcrtitur ad Insulas Eegni nostri. In cujus rei testimonium, et teste Eege apud Westmonasterium vj. die
Junii XIX. Hen. iij.
X Eiley, Plao. Pari. p. 286. + T'ide Collins' Carteret Family.
§ Philip D'Albini, or D'Aubini, as this branch of the fomily is generally termed, was the son of Ealph, a younger
brother of William de Albini, the first of that name of Belvoir. He was in the 18 John (1217) made Governor of the
Isle of Jersey. (Eot. Pat. 18 Job. m. 4.) This same Philip, in his day, was a most celebrated character, renowned alike
in learning and arms. He was in chief command at the battle of Lincoln, when the rebellious barons of Henry III.
were signally defeated : and, in the naval encounter with the French, which followed this engagement, his baud of
arehers did great and signal execution upon the enemy. Matthew Paris designates him as " Iteffin Anglorum Magister et
eruditor fdelissi//ms." Py a Eot. Pat. 2 Henry III., m. 8, (1218) having the guvernracnt of the isles of Guernsey,
Jersey, Aurreny, and Serk, ho received a precept from the King to see " that the same rates and prices of commodities
should be then and there observed as had formerly, in the reigns of Henry II., Eichard I., and John." By reason of his
personal attendance upon the King (Pat. 3 Henry III., m. 8) (1219) and his ser\-ices otherwise, he had licence to depute
Philip de Albini, his nephew, (son of his brother Ealph) to be his Lieutenant in the isles of Gersey and Garnsey. (Pat.
5 Henry III.) (1221). This last named Philip bore, according to a Eoll of Arms, femp. Edw. III., and exemplified bv
Erummond in his Noble British Families, — Gules, a fcsso, embattled, argent. Curiously enough, his brother Elias,
(whom Dugdale makes the heir of Philip) bore arms identical with those of De Carteret. Philip, the elder, was again in
16 Henry III., (1232) formally made Governor of Gersey and Garnsey, by Patent, 16 Henry III., m. 1. By a Eot.
Claus. I.j Jolian. it appears that an Oliver d'.llbini was also in the King's service, in Jer.sey, but in what capacity it
is not stated, nor what relationship he bore to Philip of that name.
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Margaret, possessed of lands and tenements in tlie parishes of S. Peter and S. John to the yearly
value of £20. In 1270, John, Bishop of Coutanees, desires the Dean of Jersey to admonish
Eeginald de Carteret and his tenants, and even to compel them by censure, to permit the Abbess
of Caen and her nuns to enjoy their goods and revenues in the Island.* He was eminently
conspicuous for his services both by sea and land, and, in xxv. Edward I., was granted by that
monarch, a prize of certain wines taken from the enemy. In the xxxij. of the same reign he
was appointed, with Henry de Guldeford and John de Button, a Judge Itinerant, and three
years later, the King grants to his beloved and faithful Eeginald De Carteret, those lands and
tenements forfeited in the island of Jersey by Thomas Payncll, and which he held by the death
of Eobert de Melesches, and the which Otho de Grandisou-f holds by grant of the King foi- life,
to have and to hold to the said Eeginald for his life freely, and to his heirs for ever after his
decease, paying yearly sixty livres Tournois, and a pound of cummin-seed. Witness, the King,
at Lavertost (Lanercost ?), Dee. 4, 1307. Sir Eeginald died before ij. Edward II., and left
three sons — Philip, of whom presently, Geoflh'oy, and John. J
* D'Anisy, Archives du Calvados. Vol. ii. p. 199.
f The family of Grandison derived its name from the Castle of Grandison, now called Graunson, near Lausanne,
•which formed part of the ancient kingdom of Burgundy, and subsequently of the duchy of Savoy. Peter, Sire De
Grandson, who died before 1262, had several sons, the eldest was ancestor of the subsequent Lords of Grandison, several
of whom were ambassadors of the kings of England to foreign sovereigns in the XIV. and XV. centuries. Otho De
Grandison appears to have accompanied Eleanor, Queen of Henry III., to England, and became an English subject. He
was Governor of the Channel Islands iv. Edward I. He had two sons, Otho and William, the former of whom was a
Peer of Parliament, and also Governor of the Channel Islands, which office he held until his death in i. Edward III. ; he
was the constant friend and companion of Edward I. His brother. Sir William, Lord Grandison, among other sons, had
John, Bishop of Exeter ; and Sir Otho, who had one son, Sir Thomas, Lord Grandison, heir to his uncle John, who>
according to a chartulary in the Abbey Ste. Trinite, at Caen, was also Governor of the Channel Islands, i and in which
Jehan De Seulbeno or Semblencjay, is named as his Lieutenant. This Thomas, Lord Grandison, dying without issue
before xlix. Edward III., the barony fell into abeyance, until claimed by Sir Henry Paston Bedingfield, Bart., of
Oxborough Hall, co. Norfolk, descended from Mabella, daughter of William, Lord Grandison, and who, by a recent
decision of the Committee of Privileges, has made good the claim. Interesting accounts of the ancient family of
Bedingfield, are given by Blomcfield, and other county historians, and a history of its magnificent baxonial residence
appears in the papers of the Norfolk Archseological Society, vol. iv. p. 271.
Arms of Bedingfield — Ermine, an eagle, displayed, gules. Crest — A demi-eagle, wings expanded, gules. Motto —
Despicio terrena et solem contemplor.
Arms of Grandison — Paly of six, argent and vert (some say azure), over all a bend, gules. Sir William De
Grandison, who was present at the famous siege of Carleverock, bore, paly, argent and azure, on a bend gules, three
eagles displayed, or. (MSS. Cott. Cidig. A. xviii.) A deed signed by Sir Otho, the elder, is preserved in the archives
at S. Lo, and has his seal appended to it.
J About this period several collateral members of the family are mentioned in legal and other documents, but with-
out sufiicient identification to warrant their being joined to the pedigree. One settled in Guernsey, and there founded
the fief de Carteret. Several of its members were ecclesiastics, and some appear to have settled in England, despite som^
discrepancies of spelling that occur in their names. Of whom, RegLnaldus or Eenaud le Cartere, is mentioned in the
Parliamentary writs, as obtaining a pardon as an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, and for his participation in the death
of Gavaston, and in the disturbances occasioned thereby: tested 16th Oct. vij. Edw. II. And also William de Charte-
ray, of co. Lincoln, who is fined 100 shillings for the same offence. A John Cartere is mentioned in the Calend. Post.
Mortem, Edw. III., as holding land in Northumberland. It is far from unlikely that settlers in England of this name,
have had it in some instances corrupted into Cartwright.
1 The will of this Sir Otho, which is very curious, is printed in Nicolas' Testamenta Vetusta. Vide Extraits des
chartes dans les Archives de Calvados, vol. ii. p. 178.
il AN AKMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
Collins, in his histoiy of the family, with whom are also other authorities, makes this Sir
John the eldest son of Reginald, but without sufficient proof. It is more probable that he was
the youngest, and collateral heir of his brother Geoffroy, who was a monk in the Benedictine
Abbey of S. Michael ; held for some time the office of Dean of Jersey ; possessed, as appears by
the Extente of 1331, the fief of Melesches from his father; and in 1364, was constituted Prior
of the Vale in Guernsey.* At his death, liis brother. Sir John, inherited Melesches, and during
the reign of Edward II., was frequently commissioned as one of the Justices of Assize. In 1309
he, by his attorney, the aforesaid Geoffroy, ■!■ appeared before the Justices of Assize in Jersey, as
respondent in appeal made by John De Ditton or Button, Lieutenant of Sir Otho De Grandison.
That he was not a successor of his father, as Seigneur of S. Ouen, is proved by the following extract
from a document in the Archives of S. Lo, where, among the jurats present at the hearing of a
cause, on the 10th October, 1318, before Henry De S. Martin, Bailly of Jersey, were, " Sire Johan
De Quartyt. chr., le Segnor De Saint Ouayn, Maistre Gyeffrey De Quartyt, le piour. de I'Islet,
e autres sages." Sir John De Carteret married Lucia de Vincheles, and left, among others, an
elder son, also named John, one of whose descendants, another John, in 1446, on the Monday
next before the feast of the conversion of S. Paul, conveyed the fief of Melesches to Sire William
Le Hardy, as appears by a contract passed before the Eoyal Court of Jersey of that date.
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, eldest son of Sir Eeginald,J
succeeded his father ; and in 2 Edward II., at the assizes held in Jersey by Fressingfield et soc,
was sued to show quo warranto he exercised certain feudal rights in his manor of S. Ouen ;
likewise jointly with his brother Geoffroy for certain property they claimed as belonging to their
manor of Melesclies.§ He died in or before 2 Edward III., for in that year the King signified to
the Governor of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey that, whereas Eeginald, son and heii" of Sir
Philijj De Carteret, deceased, cannot leave the island of Jersey to go to England personally to
do homage to the King for the lands and tenements there belonging to his late father, by reason
of his being Governor of the King's castles there, and for certain other causes ; therefore the
King, of his special favour, respites his homage for one year, provided he performs the accus-
tomed services. 1 1
Sir Eeginald De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, complied with the injunction
above stated, and did homage, in person, to the King at Amiens on the 8 June, 3 Edward III.,
who thereupon sent letters to John des Eoches, Governor of the Islands, stating he had taken
homage of Sir Eeginald De Carteret, son and heu- of Sir Philip, deceased, of all the lauds and
* ArohiFes at S. Lo. j At this period priests commonly combined legal witli sacerdotal functions.
\ That Sir Philip, and not Sir John, was the elder, is also proved by the following document, where, in March,
1290, Sir Eeginald De Carteret, with the consent of his eldest son Philip, appeared in the King's Court before the Bailly
of .lersoy, and abandoning the claim which he had there preferred for the right of presentation to the Church of S. Ouen,
further ratified and confirmed all the preceding grants made by himself and his ancestors to the Abbey of Mount S.
Michael. In the record of this transaction, now in the archives of S. Lo, five preceding charters are transcribed, and the
whole attested by the seals of the Bailly of Jersey and of Sir Reginald, the latter of which is still perfect, and haam—ihree
fusils in fesse, surmounted with a label of four points, with the legend llAotNARD Caktraio.
§ Plae. quo Wo. in insul. Geres. 2 Edw. II. || Dated at Woodstock, 8 June, 2 Edward III.
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tenements which the said Phihp held In rajnte of the King at the time of his death.
During the Hfetime of this Sir Philip, the French made several most destructive descents
upon the island, " burning and destroying houses and crops, and attacking the Castle of
Mont Orgueil, then held by the Governor of Jersey, Drew De Barentine;" who, in its
defence, was unfortunately slain. Upon this untoward event, Sir Reginald was, by the
inhabitants, unanimously elected his successor; and, after performing prodigies of valour,
he finally forced the enemy to retire. Not content with this, he joined the English fleet
under Reynold de Cobham and Geoffroy d'Harcourt,* and mainly contributed, by his
complement of men, to the recovery of the island of Guernsey, of which the French had
succeeded in gaining possession, t By some he is thought to have been that Seigneur of
VincheMs who is mentioned as having been slain on this occasion ; but as John De Carteret,
the husband of Lucia de Vincheles, had conveyed the fief of Vinchel^s de Haut in 1324 to
Nicholas Cheignye, a local JTistice of assize, it is more likely that the Seigneur thus
distinguished belonged to the family of its new possessor. Sir Reginald married Genette de
Guerpil, and, dying the second week in Lent, 1349, left issue Phihp and Reginald, of whom
presently, and William, who died xxiij Edward III., 1350. +
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, died without issue in 1351-2,
and was succeeded by his brothei'.
Sib REGiNAiiD De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, and who also was Captain
of the King's Castles in Jersey. He was destined to give a brilliant proof of his eminent
capacity for command, and to him belongs the signal distinction of ha-sotig repulsed the
* Geoftroy d'Harcourt was a renegade Norman, wlio had expatriated himself on account, as appears by the
G-randes Chroniques de S. Denis, of a quan-el with the Marshal de Briquehec respecting a marriage which had been
broken off. The disputants fought witli uncertain success, and the French King ordered the affair to be finally
discussed in his Parliament; but Harcourt, instead of appearing, besieged a castle belonging to the Bishop of Bayeux,
brother to the Marshal. At the same time he entered into negociations with the enemies of his country, and by
his hatred to the French monarch gained the favour of the English King. Geoffroy, says Froissart, was brother to
the Earl of Harcourt, and was Seigneur of S. Sauveur-le-Yicomte, and of many other towns in Normandy. He did
homage, as may be seen in Bi/mer''s Fcedera, to Edward III., as King of France, 13 June, 134.5, when Edward
engaged that, if he could not recover for him his estates in Normandy, he would give him iheir equivalent in
England. He was killed about Martinmas, 1356, at the battle of Coutantin (?). The town of S. Sauveur-le-Vicomte,
and all his other lands, from the time of his death, remained attached to the English, for Geoffroy had sold his
estates, retaining in them a life interest, to the King of England, to the prejudice of his nephew Louis, whom he
disinherited for not joining his party. His estates were given by the King to Sir John Chandos, and were at that
time said to be worth 1,600 francs yearly.
t Dvmcan, in his history of that island, with whom also are most local antiquaries, denies that the French ever
held permanent possession of Guernsey, or that Jerseymen rescued it from their power. Jersey historians, however,
are equally positive in the affirmative. It needs more documentary evidence than has come to light, at present,
effectually to clear up the doubt.
J This William possessed a " Maner' in la paroisse de Sanct' Martin' valens per ann' £30 ; tentum in la
paroisse de Sanct' Maine," and a " maner' in la paroisse de GrunvUle vocat' le Hommete." Calend. Inquis.
post mort. xxiij Edw. III.
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C* AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
celebrated Bertrand Du Guesclin, confessedly the greatest soldier of Lis age.* Du GiiescUn,
whose renrontren with the English had generally been crowned with success, crossed
suddenly from Britany to Jersey in 1374, with an army of ten thousand men, including
the Duke de Boui'bon and the elite of the chivalry of France. f Sir Reginald, however,
having secured the Castle of Mont Orgueil, defended it with such distinguished skill and
valour, that the French general, after many fruitless assaults, finally withdrew his
discomfited forces, decimated by sword and disease. For this gallant achievement, De
Carteret and his seven sous were knighted in one day by Edward III. He died iv
Richard II., 1381, and was succeeded by his son.
Sir Reginald De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Longueville, who was
BaiUy of Jersey, as appears by RoUs of the Royal Court, in 1446. He was succeeded
by his son,
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, who at the time of his father's
death was a minor in ward of the King. His guardianship was granted to Roger de
Walden, Rector of Drayton, co. Leicester, " he paying into the Exchequer ten pounds per
annum, for which the said Roger gave security." This Sir Philip inherited all the military
talents of his ancestors, and was the principal instrument in again preventing his native
island fi-om falling into the hands of the French. About the year 1460 the Castle of Mont
Orgueil, then the chief stronghold of Jersey, was seized by the Seigneur de Surdeval, a
relative and lieutenant of the celebrated Peter de Breze, Count de Maule\Tier, + who is said
by the S. Ouen chronicler to have shortly afterwards joined his successful emissary, and
to have held, during the lengthened space of six years, the six eastern parishes of the
island for the King of France. The others were, despite the alternate assaults and
cajoleries of the French leader, firmly retained, during this eventful period, by the inhalDitants,
* Bertrand Du Guesclin, Constable of France. One of the most celebrated and chivalrous warriors of the xiv
century. He was born about ISli, at the castle of Motte-Broon, near Rennes, of a noble and very ancient Breton
house. After a life of successes, to which his reverse in Jersey formed almost the solitary exception, he died at the
castle of liendan, 13 July. 1380. He was bm-ied at S. Denis, in the burial-place of the Kings of France, a privilege
until then without a precedent. Arms : Argent, an eagle, displayed, sable, armed gules ; over all, a bend of the last.
t T7(7e Histoire de Bertrand du Guesclin, p. 24<2. D'Argentre, Histoire de Bretagne, p. 597.
X The estate and Seigneurie of Breze, from Avhich the family took its name, is situated in the province of
.\.njou. The Pere Anselme speaks of Geoifroy, Seignem- de Breze and de la Varenne, so early as 12S8, and of John,
Seignem- de Breze, Knight, who died in 1293. The first connected ancestor of the family mentioned is John de
Breze, Seigneur de la Varenne, who died in 1351. His descendant in the fifth degree, Peter, is the Count de
Maulevrier mentioned above. He was the second of that name, Seigneur de la Varenne and Brissac, and Count de
Maulevrier. He was besides Grand-Senesehal of Anjou, Poitou, and Normandy, and was constituted Captain or
Governor of Angers by oath, taken before the Bishop of that town, 18 November, 1437. He accompanied the King
of Prance when he went to the relief of S. Maixent in ItlO, and was granted, in consideration of his services there,
the estates of Nogeut-le-Roy, Anet, Breval, and Mont Chauvet, confiscated from the King of Navarre. He acquired
the following year those of Montfort, Aillac, Chains, and others, from the Sire de Pons. He was present at the
Siege of Mans in 1447 ; accompanied the King during his conquests in Normandy, and shared the honours of the
victories at Couches, Pont-de-l'Arche, Vermeuil, Pont-Auderaer, Mantes, and Vernon ; was at the taking of Rouen, of
AN ABMORIAL OF JERSEY. 75
headed by De Carteret. This was not accomplished without serious personal risk; for
whilst fishing in his Mere of S. Ouen, situated on the low gi'ound near the sea, he was
surpinsed and nearly cut off by a considerable body of French men-at-arms. The enemy
suddenly appearing almost at his side, escape seemed impossible ; but the undaunted Sir
Philip, throwing himself on a favourite horse which always accompanied him, dashed off
in the direction of a deep and precipitous road, leading from the Manor of S. Ouen to the
shore. His pursuers, who held this approach, deemed his capture certain, — when De
Carteret, urging the gallant animal to its topmost speed, crossed the upland, and leaped
fi'om one bank of the road to another, notwithstanding they bordered a chasm twenty-two
feet wide and eighteen deep. By this daring feat he gained so far on the enemy as to
be able to reach his home in safety. His noble steed, however, had saved its master's life
by its own ; for, exhausted by its unparalleled efforts, it reeled and feU dead as it gained the
portal of the Manor House. The ancient road, where this eventful and romantic episode
was performed, is termed " Le Val de la Charriere," and is apparently unchanged in its
most minute features ; and the horse — that staunch retainer — lives eternally, on canvass, in
the house whose master he had served so well. Sir Philip, in liis energetic love for his
country, was uneasy imder a passive resistance. He therefore incited Richard Harleston,*"
who was then off Guernsey with an English fleet, to co-operate -with him against the French ;
which he became Captam, and was made Governor of the Pays de Caux, after the reduction of tlie town of Caen ; he
was also present at the battle of Fonnigny in 1450, " when he covered himself with glory." In August, 1457, he
invaded England with 4,000 men-at-arms, and took the town of Sandwich, and, on his return, assisted at the trial of
the Duke D'Alen^on, at Vendome. He obtained from the King of France, in January, 1460, a sum to assist him in
fortifying the town of Nogent. However, on the death of Charles VII., he appears, from some unexplained cause, to
have fallen into disgrace, for Louis XI. caused him to be imprisoned in the Castle of Loches ; but to gain his liberty
he ofTered to serve in Sicily with the Duke D'Anjou. In 1460-1 he sent his son-in-law, the Seigneur de Surdeval, to
seize upon Jersey, aided by the connivance of the Governor, John Nanfan. He afterwards is said to have followed
him thither, but this rests on the authority of Jersey historians, his French biographers making no mention of the
fact. He was killed in battle in 1465. The family is extinct. Arms of Breze, Count do Maulevrier : Argent, an
inescutcheon azure : on an orle, or, eight crosslets of the second. Vide De la Chesnaj''s Noblesse de France, &c.
* The family of Harleston is one of great antiquity in the county of Norfolk. It took its name from a manor
in that county, named Herolfs stone, or Herolveston. so called fi'om Hcrolf, one of the Danes who came with
Sweyne, or Swain, King of Denmark, into Norfolk, circa 1010. (V/iIp Blonificld's Norfolk.) The family claims for
its immediate ancestor Eichard de Herolveston, who settled there circa 1109, from whom descended the famous
Sir John de Herolvestone, so often mentioned for his valiant prowess in martial exploits by our old
English chroniclers, (ride Froissart, fo. 136-8-9, a 213 b; a 247 b; Holingshed, fo. 413-21-2-4-36, 1136; and
Stow, fo. 293, 666.) Ivo de Harleston, who died 1403, was the son of John Harleston, Lord of the Manor of
Wantons, co. Essex, from whose son John, settled at Shrinipling, co. Norfolk, descended Kichard Harleston, Joint-
Governor of Jersey. {Vide Morant's Essex, Vol. II., p. 349). Another Eichard Harleston is stated by Manning to
have been instituted to the Eectory of Compton, co. Surrey, 31 July, 1448. The chronicler of S. Ouen dubs
Harleston a Knight, but perhaps without sufficient authority. It does not appear that he was a Knight upon his
institution to the Government of Jersey, as by a record in the MSS. Harl., 433, art. 794, Eichard Harleston, and
William Hareby, Sqiii/res, are named as Joint-Captaynes of the island. In Guillim's Heraldry, Edition 1660, are
exemplified the arms of Eobert Harleston, Secretary to the Master of the Eolls, which are the same as those borne
by most branches of the family, viz., argent, a fesse, cotised, sable. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet a stag's head,
ermine, attired, or, bearing a hawthorn bush, with berries, ppr. Motto : Concilii nutrix taeiturnitas.
76 AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
and, besieging the Castle of Mont Orgueil both by sea and land, they at length forced the
enemy, after a stubborn resistance, to capitulate. For this eminent service Harleston was,
^vith William Hareby, created joint-Captain, or Governor of Jersey ; but, strange to say, no
adequate recompense was bestowed upon the originator of the enterprise. Sir Phihp
married the sole daughter and heiress of Sir William NcAvton, Knight, of the coimty of
Gloucester, by whom he had issue Philip (who died vita patrls, and who, marrying Perrine,
daughter of Penna de Caux, of the Pays of Caux in Normandy, left a son Philip, his heir) ;
John ; and three other sons.
Philip De Caktebet, Seigneur of S. Ouen, succeeded his grandfather, and was for
eighteen years a ward of the Crown, as a minor. An ancient MS. records that, on his
coming of age, alder trees grew in the hall of the manor, owing to the neglect and
covetousness of his guardians. He married Margaret, only daughter and heiress of the
above-mentioned Richard Harleston, Yice-Admiral in the English sei'vice, by whom he had
twenty sons, who were j^resented to the King on one day, and a daughter — Mabel, mfe of
Drouet Lempriere, Seigneur of Trinity. Margaret De Carteret was fated to become the
heroine of a tragedy the details of which surpass the boldest imaginings of fiction. Her
husband was in imminent danger of falling a victim to a foul and deeply-laid plot, devised
against his life and honour by Matthew Baker, sometime Governor of Jersey, in the reign
of Henry VII. The Seigneur of S. Ouen had incurred the resentment of the Governor by
his bold and manful remonstrances touching the great abuse of power exercised by this
tyrannical official, and the heavy and exorbitant taxes which he cruelly and unjustly levied
on the inhabitants. In concert with a creature of his own, whom the Seigneur had saved
from the gallows. Baker caused a forged letter, "\vi-itten by his criminal underling in the
name of De Carteret, and purporting to be an offer to betray the island to France, to be
presented to him as he journeyed, attended with his suite, from the Castle of Mont Orgueil
to S. Helier. Fired with assumed indignation, Baker hurried to the Court-House, and
immediately laid this impudent forgery before the Bailly, who, himself to gratify a mean
enmity against this noble and loyal islander, caused him to be incarcerated in a damp and
solitary cell, and so scantily supplied with food as to subdue his energy and bodily vigour.
The base associate of Baker, on the other hand, maintained his accusation, and, as an easy
means of depriving his adversary (purposely starved) of life, demanded trial by combat.
This challenge S. Ouen refused to accept, by reason of the low birth and criminal disrepute of
his cowardly antagonist. He was, however, at length compelled to submit to this degrading con-
dition, and lists for this unequal comhat a Vouirance were prepared on Grouville Common,
which was appointed to take place on the eve of the feast of S. Laurence. But before the
last act of this wicked plot coidd be enacted, Margaret De Carteret had determined to make
one grand effort for her husband's dehverance. So, secretly leaving the island, in the depth
of winter, and but four days after her confinement, in an open boat, she directed her
solitary attendant to steer in the direction of Guernsey; for Baker, the better to develope
his plans, had strictly forbidden any vessel to leave the island, except by his express
AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 77
permission. Arrived at Guernsey, she took refuge at tlie house of WiUiam De Beauvoir,
one of the Jurats of that island, who, being a man of courage and decision, and a firm friend
of the house of S. Ouen, himself conducted her in his own ship to Poole, whence she rode
in all haste to Salisbury, where Henry VII. at that time Avas holding his court. And as if
by the manifest interposition of Providence to bring to nought these nefarious designs, she
left the presence-chamber in possession of a warrant, issued by the Sovereign himself imder
the Great Seal, restoring her husband to his liberty and honours, as Baker entered it to
attempt to justify his villany. And, the lists being examined on her return to Jersey,
which took place on the eve before the day of combat, the purpose of the confederates was
fully brought to light by the discovery of numerous and deep pits studding the arena, which,
known and avoided by his adversary, would have rendered the death of the Seigneur of
S. Ouen all but certain. For his share in this disgraceful transaction. Baker was deprived
of his post ; and effectually to check the abuse of power by, and pliant subserviency to,
future Governors, the Baillies and Deans of the island, from this period, ceased to be
nominated by them, and since have held their respective oflBces directly from the Crown.
Among other sons, this Seigneur of S. Ouen left Philip and Edward, of whom presently ;
Richard, to whom Catherine de Vincheles bequeathed her property, and who thus founded
the branch of De Carteret of Vincheles ; and Helier, Bailly of Jersey in 1515, who enacted
a most prominent part in securing the j^olitical and social liberties of his countrymen.
Baker had been succeeded as Governor of the island by Sir Hugh Vaughan,* a m.an of low
birth, but of extraordinary courage and martial skill, who, at his first induction into
oSice, had gained the affections of the inhabitants, and become the bosom friend of the
family of S. Ouen. After a certain period, however, his conduct grew so reprehensible, that
the foUoAving outrage fanned the resentment of those he had injured to a flame. Sir Hugh
* But little is known of Sir HuejIi Vaughan, save that he was Gentleman-Usher to Henry VIII. The
Chronicler of S. Ouen, who describes his character at some length, and relates some of his exploits, is curiously
corroborated in his account of a combat which took place between Vaughan and a Sir James Parkar, on account of a
dispute concerning their armorial ensigns, by Stow. He relates, that " in the month of May, 1492, was holden a
great and valiant justing within the King's manor of Sheen, now called Richmond ; the which endured hj the sjiace
of a month, sometime within the said space, and sometime without, uppon the greene witliout the gate of the said
maner. In the which space a combat was holden and done betwixt Sir James Parkar, Kt., and Hugh Vaughan,
gentleman-usher, uppon coutroversie for the arms that Garter gave to the sayde Hugh Vaughan ; but he was alloweil
by the King to bear them, and Sir James was slaine at the first com-se." He is described as Sir Hugh Vaughan, Kt.,
of Littleton, co. Middlesex, and bore arms, — quarterly, first and fourth, azure a fesse or, between tliree horses' heads
erased of the last, within a bordvu-e gobonated argent and vert ; second and third, per pale, azure and purpura, three
whales' heads, erased, or, ingulphant of spears argent (which the Jersey chronicler observes were adopted from his
having bravely swum to the rescue of a drowning comrade at sea). Crest, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human head,
gules. Supporters : Two griffins, per fesse gules and azure, platee and fretty of the first. A docquet of the grants of
a Guydon and Banner to him, the one before and the other after his Knighthood, exists at the College of Arms.
(Vide Bentley's Excerpta Hii=torica.) On his standard, borne in the field, which was striped gold and green, was a
griffin passant, double-queued, gules, fretty, or, charged on the neck, head, and wings with plates, holding in the
dexter fore-claw a sword, argent, with three whales' heads, erect and erased, each ingulphant of a spear, argent.
Towards the extremity of the flag were two similar whales' heads. (Vide Moule's Heraldiy of Fish.)
78 AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY,
had coveted possession of one of the finest estates in the island, — that of the Manor of
Trinity ; * and to procure its confiscation from a member of the family of
Lempriere, determined that a false charge should be brought against its late
owner, Thomas De S. Martin, as having been a traitor to England. As wickedness seldom
lacks an instrument, the Governor found a ready one in the person of Raulin Le Marquand,
then Attorney-General of the island, who undertook to conduct the case. The alleged
proofs were so flimsy that the Bailly, Helier De Carteret, was about to pronounce judgment
against the Governor, when Sir Hugh, finding the case about to be decided against him,
rose, and, after using most violent and threatening language to the Jm-ats, clapped his hand
to his sword, exclaiming that if the Bailly did not deliver judgment in his favour, he would
run him through. The intrepid magistrate rose instantly and ordered the doors of the
Coui't-House to be thrown open (for at that time justice was administered privately), when
the populace, crowding in, were awe-stricken to see the brave and unscrupulous Governor
in the grasp of their Bailly, who, with his dagger at the throat of Vaughan, delivered a just
sentence, and condemned Le Marquand, as having failed to prove his allegation. Subse-
quently, however, Sir Hugh, by his influence Avith Cardinal Wolsey, caused Helier De
Carteret to be involved in a long and expensive law-suit in London, touching questions
arising fi^om this quarrel. He received, however, tardy justice from the Cardinal, through
the intercession of the Duke of Norfolk, Lord High Treasurer, and Sir William Compton,
whose friendshiiD he had secured ; in connection, too, with the favourable effect De
Carteret's firmness and courage had produced upon the Minister, when pleading before him
in the Star-Chamber. The King, to whom he was presented, and whose taste for field-
sports made him appreciate several ingenious inventions that Helier De Carteret had made
in weapons of the chase, treated him as a friend, and conferred on him, as a special mark
of favour, the fief of S. Germain with its dependencies. f After having placed several of his
Ijrothers advantageously in ^Dositions of trust at Court, he returned to Jersey, where he
narrowly escaped being murdered by one Jasper Peun, a creature of Sir Hugh Vaughan,
who had usurped the office of Bailly during his absence. He was among the most
prominent Reformers of Jersey, and to him are his countrymen indebted for the exemption
of being obliged to plead before the ordinary Courts of Law in England. From a dread
of the extension of the plague, which devastated the island in 1623, he is said, in com-
pliance with a then prevalent, but erroneous, idea that paper and parchment were easy
means of convejdng infection, to have caused the Records of the Baillywick to be burnt ; a
circumstance that may account for the scarcity of mediaeval documents in the island,
and which often forms an insuperable bar to the progress of the local histoi-ian and
genealogist. He died in 1560, leaving an only daughter and heiress, Margaret, who was
* Vide Lineage of De S. Martin.
t An account of the revenues of the Manor of S. Jermai/ne in the Island of Jersey exists in the Biu-ghley
papers. Vide Bib. Lansdowne, cv. 15.
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the wife, successively, of Clement Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samares, and of her cousin,
Helier De Carteret, Seigneur S. Ouen.*
Edward De Carteret, Seigneur of S. Ouen, second son of the preceding PhiHp,
succeeded his father, his elder brother having died young. He was constituted Carv^er to
Prince Arthur, the eldest son of Henry VII. He was twice married. The name of his
first wife has not reached us ; his second was Mary, only daughter and heiress of Simon
Sarre, a wealthy landholder of the parish of S. John. He died in 1531, and was succeeded by
his son, in early infancy,
Helier De Carteret, Seigneur of S. Ouen, who until his majority was a ward of the
Crown, under the guardianship of his uncle, Helier, Bailly of Jersey. It was during the
lifetime of this Seigneur that the French, flattering themselves with hopes of success, by
reason of the minority of Edward VI., seized the island of Serk. They formed a scheme,
by making a settlement on it, to harass, and finally to capture the remainder of the Channel
Archipelago. Whereupon, making a descent upon Guernsey, and being repulsed, they
afterwards landed in Bouley Bay, in Jersey, but were so fiercely attacked by the islanders,
led on by De Carteret, that they returned to their ships, after suffering a loss of nearly one
thousand men. Wlien they arrived at S. Malo, in Britany, to refit, no fewer than three-
score dead bodies of gentlemen were taken on shore to be buried ; and the King of
* The following instructions to this eminent islander from Edward VI., upon the installation of Sir Hugh
Poulett as Governor of Jersey, will be read with interest, as showing the state of the English language at this
epoch, and giving the formula of the oath taken then by the Governors of the Island : —
" Super Gubernatione Infulanam de Jerfey et Guerfey."
" Edward the Sixth, by the Grace of God, &c., to our truftie and well-belovyd Helier De Carteret, Efquier,
Bailif of the Ifle of Jerfey, Clement Lamprier, John De Carteret, and Nicholas Lamprier, Gentilmen, Greetyng,"
" Wheare we have heretofor geven and graunted to our trtiftie and well-belovid Sir Hugh Poulet, Knight, the
office of Governour and Capytayne of our Ifle of Jerfey, and of our Caftell of Guerfey, otherwife called Mountorguiil,
and have nomynated, appoynted, and made our fayd Servant oiu Keper, Governour, and Capitayne of the faid Ifle
and Caftell, as by Our Letters Patents, dated xx day of March, in the fourth year of our Reign, made to hym
of the fame, playnely doth appear."
" Know ye that We,
" For certeyn Caufes and Confiderations, Us and our CounfeU movyng, having fpeciall Tiiift and afsured Con-
fidens in your approved Fidelities, Wifdoms, Dexterities, and Circumfpedions,"
" Have appointed and auiftorifed, and by thefe Prefents do appoint and auftorife you four, thre, or two of you,
willing and commanding you four, thre, or two of you, that ye, by auftority hereof, do repare aflbne as ye con-
veniently may, uppon the fight hereof, to our faid Caftill of Mountorguiil, and there make, or caufe to be made, an
Invytoi-y, by Indenture betwene you four, thre, oi' two of you, on our Behalf, on th' one Partie, and our faid fei-vant,
Governour, and Capitayn on th' other Partie, as well of all fuch Ordenaunce, Artlllerie, Municions, and all other
Habillyments of Warre, together with all requiiites of our Store whatfoever, being left there unto the Charge and
Cuftodie of the faid Governour and Capytayne by Heniy Cornidie, Gentilman, late Deputie of the faid Ifle, under
our right traftie and riglit entirely belovyd Uncle, Edward, Duke of Somerfctt, there being Capytayn and Governour
of the fame, as alfo of ail fuch Ordenaunce, Artilleiy, and Mynicions, as hath ben fent at any tyme or tymes
heretofore to the faid Castell, and provided there by us for the Fyrniture of the fame, fythens the said xx day of March,
in the said fourtli year of our Reign, wherein We will and command you diligentlie to execute this our Pleafoure
and Commandment accordinglie.'
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France was so affected by the disaster, that he forbade any mention to be made, not
only of this event, but of the entire expedition.* Shortly afterwards, the enemy
being finally expelled from Serk, Queen Elizabeth, in 15G5, " confeiTed on Helier
De Carteret, and his heirs for ever, in reward of the many services received by herself and
her royal ancestors fi'om this family, the aforesaid island of Serk, to be held in capite, as a
fief haubert, on the payment of an annual rent of fifty shillings." And the island was by
him, the first united Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Serk, colonized, its waste lands reclaimed,
and its defences made available. He married his cousin, Margaret, sole daughter and heiress
of Helier De Carteret, and widow of Clement Dumaresq, by whom he had issue two sons,
Philip, of whom presently ; William ; and Amias or Amice, Seigneur of Handois, in the
parish of S. Laurence, Avho, by marriage with Catherine, only daughter and heiress of
Gilles Lempriere, Seigneur of S. Trinity, founded the branch of De Caeteeet of S. Teinitt.
SiE Philip De Caeteeet, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Serk, was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth, and married, in 1580, Rachel, daughter and co-heiress of George Poulett,
Bailly of Jersey, and niece of Sir Amias Poulett, Governor of Jersey, the ancestor of the
present Earl of that name.t An ancient MS. in the possession of a younger branch of
the family states him to have held a command in the army sent by BUzabeth in aid of
Henry of Navarre, and there to have lost an arm. By his wife he had issue Phihp, of
whom presently ; Elias, father of Sir George Carteret, the founder of the Baeonial Beanch
OP De Carteeet ; Gideon, who was Vicomte or High Sheriff of Jersey ; and six daughters.
" FurtheiTnoie our Will, Pleafour, and Commandment ys that you, the faid Helier De Carteret, Clement Lampiier,
John De Carteret, and Nicholas Lamprier, four, or three, or two of you, (hall gyve a corporal Othe to our fayd
Servaunt, Capytayne, and Governour in maner and forme following."
" Ye fhal be trewe and ioiall to the Kyng of England, our Sovereigne Lord, and to his Heyris, Kyngs of
England ; ye Ihall with all your Powre, Mynde, and Industrie well, furely, and loiually kepe and defende, and caufe
to be kept and defended by your Deputie, Servants, and Souldiers, and all others as much as in you lye, the fayde
Ifle and Castell, and femblablie all the Rights, Dignities and Honours, Laws, Customes, Ufaiges, Franchefies, Privi-
ligies, and Libeities thereunto of good Ryghte appertenyng, together with the comenweale of the fame, ye fliall entierly
maynteyn, defend, obfei-ve, kepe, and accomplifhe : So Helpe ye God and thies Hollie Evangelits."
" In witnes whereof &c.
"Teste Rege apud Wcstmonasteriura tertio Die Mali. 5 Edw. vL, 1551. Per ipsum Regcm."
— Rymer's Fcedera, Tom. xv., p. 261.
* Tide Holingshed, p. 1055.
t This family enjoyed much consideration in Jersey, and possessed, by turns, its chief Governmental, Judicial,
and Ecclesiastical offices. Sir Amias, the most distinguished of the family, succeeded his father. Sir Hugh, in the
government of the island in 1571. In 1576, he was Ambassador to the French King, and subsequently held several
important employments, especially the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots, which trust he entii-ely discharged to the
satisfaction of his royal mistress : and in xxix Eliz., being one of the Privy Council, was in commission for her trial.
The year after, on the eve of the feast of S. George, he w.as, at Greenwich, sworn Chancellor of the Order of the
Garter, and constituted Custos Rotidorum of the county of Somerset. Sir Amias died in 15SS, and was buried in
the old Church of S. Martin-in-the-Fields, where a magniticent monument was erected to his memory. His portrait
occurs in Harding's Biographical Mirror. Some branches of the family appear to have settled in F^rance ; for
Dubuisson chronicles the arras of a house of this name in Picardy, which are identical with those of the Enghsh
family. A suburb of Dieppe is named Paulet. As Edmonston and others, in their Pedigrees of the family, have
made certain errors and omissions, one is subjoined, so far as it is connected with Jersey, compiled from authentic records.
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Sir Philip Db Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Serk, was born in
Feljruary 1583-4, and was educated at Oxford. Possessed of considerable abilities and of
courtly manners, his mental qualifications, joined to his social position, made him the most
eminent Jerseyman of his day. On attaining his majority he was elected a Jm^at of the
Royal Court, and subsequently was appointed Bailly, to which office was added that of
the Lieutenant- Governorship of the island. His letters, many of which are still extant,
prove that he was a man of no common order, and that from reading and experience he was
intimately acquainted with the constitution and local customs of Jersey. It was Sir
Philip's lot to live during the dark and troublous period of the Rebellion ; yet even
under these adverse circumstances his judicious rule and concihatory spirit would
undoubtedly have spared his native island the horrors of the contest that afterwards
ravaged it, and which Chevalier in his MS. so minutely describes, had it not been for the
cabals of a factious few, headed chiefly by foreign and renegade priests, who, wilfiUly
misinterpreting the policy of Sir Philip, sought to make England's great struggle a vehicle
for the advancement of their own private ends. In spite, however, of this faction, the
majority of the islanders remained staunchly loyal. Therefore it was more from the
temporarily successful efforts of those who in their enmity to De Carteret became traitors
to the Crown (for the grievances that animated the Republicans in England had no
existence here) that De Carteret was at length compelled to retire into, and to hold for
the King, the Castle of Elizabeth, whilst his wife, with her eldest son, defended that of
Mont-Orgueil. After undergoing the severities of a siege, and witnessing the daily
1. Margaret, d. of Jolm Poulet, Esq.
o. s. p.
iUrtiigrfc of ^oulrtt.
Sir Amias Poulett, of Hinton, or Henton, = "2. Lora, d. of Sir Wm. Kellaway.
S. Georare. I
2. Sire John Poulett, the last
Roman Catholic Deaa of Jersey,
ob. 1675.
3. Henry.
1. Sir Hugh Poulett, Governor of Jersey. Elizabeth.
PhUippa, d. & h. of Sir Lewis Pollard.
I
1. Sir Amias Poulett, Governor of Jersey.
Jane.
I I
2. Nicholas. 3. George Poulett, BaiUy of Jersey.
Margaret, d. & h. of Anthony Hervey, Esq.
1. Elizabeth Poulett.
2. Elizabeth Perrin.
3. Lucretia Dabucy.
Sir Anthony Poulett, Governor of Jersey.
Catherine, sole d. & b. of Henry, Lord Norreys.
Dorothy.
Hugh Perrin,
the younger,
of Rozel.
I
Philip De = Rachel, eld.
Carteret, d. & co-h., bur.
Seig.ofS. at St. Ouen 28
Ouen. Feb. IfJSU— 1.
The Rev. John
Durell, Rector
of that parish,
preached the
fimeral sermon.
Akms of Poulett. — Sable, three swords in pile, points in base, argent, pomels and hilts, or. Crest : An arm, embowed,
in armour, holding in the hand a sword, all ppr. Motto : Gardez la foy.
M
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decrease of his adherents from the casualties incidental to war and famine ; after
experiencing the fruitlessness of his overtures to those in Parliamentary authority, which
were met by insulting accusations of his being " a traitor to his country and a rebel
subject ; " with a frame enfeebled by age, and his tenderest feelings haiTowed by the death
of one of his sons in the Castle, it is scarcely surprising that exhausted nature should
leave him on a dying bed. Yet here, despite the respect generally felt, in all ages, for
a brave enemy, party-spirit still rankled deeply. He was denied the last services of the
Church, which his fi'iend, the Reverend Stephen La Cloche, would fain have administered
to him ; nor were the applications of his mother, his wife, and his daughters to bid him
farewell, more successful. At last, however, the fond pertinacity of Lady De Carteret
prevailed, and a few hours before his death she was permitted to enter Elizabeth Castle.
He could not speak to her, but, waving a mute though expressive adieu, expired, on the
23rd August, 1643, this firmest and most faithful partizan of the then failing fortunes of the
Stuarts. Brave old Knight ! Your glory and heroism can never fade while Jersey has a
name, and the glow of your devoted patriotism, mellowed by time, still seems to light up the
scene of your struggle and death ! In after years, ample justice was done to his memory by
Charles II., who, in presenting a mace to the dignitaries of the island, inseparably coupled
the gift with the name of Sir Philip and his distinguished nephew ;* and the Royal Court,
as the exponents of the feeling of the people of Jersey, caused a well-merited eulogium of
his services to be inserted in their Records.! Sir Philip married Ann, daughter of Sir
Francis Dowse, of Browton and Nether-Wallop, co. Hants, J by whom he had issue, among
other children, Philip, of whom presently ; Francis, who was Attorney-General of Jersey,
and whose heirs, eventually representing this elder branch, transmitted that honor
* " Tali haud omnes dignatur. Honore."
" Carolus Secundus, Magnae Britannis, Franciae, et HiberniK Rex fereniffimus, affectum Regium erga Insulam de
Jersey (in qua bis habuit leceptum, dum ceteris ditionibus excluderetur), hocce Monumento vere Regio posteris con-
fecratum voluit. Juilitque ut deinceps Balivis prxferatui', in perpetuara Memoriam Fidei, turn Augustifimo Parenti Carolo
Primo, turn fuse Majestati, fsvientibus Bellis Civilibus, fei-vatse a Viris ClarilTimis Philippo et Geoigio de Carteret,
Equitibus Auratis, hujus Infulas Baliv. et Reg, Prxfect.
t Chacun fait quelle est la reputation de feu Mefllre Philippe de Carteret le pere, Chevalier, en fon vivant Seigneur
de S. Ouen, &c. II poffeda les premieres places, ct au Gouvernenient et en I'administration de la justice, et s'en acquitta
toujours avec tant d'honneur et d'integrite, qu'il ne fe rendit pas moins confiderable par fon propre merite, qu'il I'etait
par I'importance de ces charges. Sa vie fut prefque toute entiere une continuelle fonction publique, car meme d^s avant
qu'il fut majeur il fe vit dignement appele par la voye des fuffrages pour prendre, en ce lieu, le rang de fes ancetres.
II fut done aime du Prince et du Peuple, et Ton peut dire enfin que fa mort fiat le comble de fa gloire, puifque ce
fut en la defence des Chateaux et des Foiterefles du Pays, oil il donna, jufqu'au deinier foupir, d'aflurees preuves de fa
valeur et de fon zele pour la gloire de Dieu, pour le fei"vice du Roi, et pour le bien de fa Patrie. Mais le feul titre
de la Maffe, que fa Majeste a depuis peu donnee a Meffieurs les Baillis de I'ile, pourroit fiire connaitre quel a ete cet
illustre defiint, et combien de refpect on doit avoir pour fa memoire. II femble luperflu de coucher fur ce jiapier, ce
qu'on peut voir grave fi magnifiquement fur cette Made en lettres d'or. Peut il estie encore besoin de louer un homme,
a qui le Roi a dej'a fait un monument et un eloge ? — Vide the Records of the Royal Court of Jersey, November 24, IGGS.
J The following Pedigree of tlie family of Dowse is corrected from that given by Berry in liis Pedigrees of
Hampshire by reference to the Heralds' Visitations of that county of 15GG and IG'Si : —
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83
successively to the families of Dumaresq, Le Maistre, and Mallet ; and Edward, wlio was
knighted at the Restoration, was in the household of the Duke of York, and to whom the
Perquages, or Sanctuary-Roads of Jersey, were granted by Patent 30th May, 1G63.* Sir
Philip was succeeded by his eldest son.
Sir Philip De Carteret, Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, of Serk, and of Rozel, who was
one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, and was Bailly of Jersey. He had, with his
mother, shared in the defence of the Castle of Mont-Orgueil against the Parliamentarians,
and at her death, in 1644, succeeded to the chief command of that fortress, which he held
for the King until the 27th October, 1651, when it capitulated to the superior forces imder
Colonel Haines and Admiral Blake. Sir Philip was knighted by Charles II., then Prince of
Wales, at a grand review held in S. Aubin's Bay, 29th April, 1645, a ceremony thus quaintly
described by Chevalier, who has minutely chronicled the stirring events of the Rebellion : —
" On the day fixed, the whole of the troops were concentrated in the appointed spot,
between the Boulevard de S. Laurens and the Douet de S. Croix in S. Aubin's Bay. One
regiment was commanded by the Seigneur of Trinity, the second by Colonel John
Dumaresq, while the third, that of S. Ouen, awaited its hereditary chieftain, the young
Seig-neur of S. Ouen, who also by feudal right was to take the command of the whole
iirtigrrc of ©oVosic.
Nicliolas Dowse, of Hunsborne, co. Hants = Alice, d. of . . . Ingpen, of Gallaker, co. Hants.
I ^ ' 'I
2. Eicharcl, of Moore Court, co. Southampton = Alice, d. of George Tutt, co. Southampton. 1. William Dowse.
I
2. John, of Moore Court = Alice, d. of William Taylor, of Beaulieu.
1. Thomas Dowse,
o. s. p.
1. Richard Dowse, of Moore Court = Elizabeth, d. of Lord Thos. Paulett, of 2. Thomas, of Browton, co. Hants.
Melplash, CO. Dorset, 2nd son of Wil-
ham. Marquess of Winchester. Blanche, d. of . . . . Covert, of co.
Sussex.
George.
Paulett. Seven children.
Elizabeth, d. & h. of ^ Sir Francis Dowse, of
Hamden Pawlett.
Elizabeth.
Browton and Nether-
Wallop, CO. Hants.
1. Hamden Dowse. Thomas. Sir Philip de Carteret, Seig. of S. Ouen. = Anne.
AhMS of Dowse : Or, a chevron, cheeky, argent and sable, between three greyhounds courant, of the last.
Ceest : An heraldic tiger's head, per pale, argent and or, horned and tufted, sable.
* A cm-ious incident in the life of this Sir Edward is recorded by a local writer, who says, " Or de ce qui a ete
fait de memoire en cette ile de Jerfey, c'est que quand le Roy Jacques II. fe maria avec la PrincelTe Marie de Modenes,
il donna son habit de noces, favoir fa cafaque, veste, et culotte, et pour fon cheval, la felle et la bride, a Meffire Edouard de
Carteret, Chevalier, petit fils de la maifon de S. Ouen, et frere de celui a qui le Roy Charles II. avoit choifi une femme au
chateau Elizabetli : et ledit Edouard de Carteret, Chevalier, poitoit ledit habit du Roy Jacques, quand il y avoit de Revues
generales et aux jours folonels, en memoire de fa Majeste."
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forces, so soon as released from his attendance on his Eoyal Guest, then refreshing himself
at the Castle of Mont-Orgueil. About two of the clock in the afternoon His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by a numerous cavalcade, arrived, and proceeded
to review the troops drawn up in battle array. The young Seigneur of S. Ouen, in the
meantime, took his station in the right wing of the line, and when His Royal Highness
rode up to the head of the Brigade, he approached at a given signal, dropped on one knee,
and presented the hilt of his drawn sword. The Prince, alighting, asked his name, to
which he replied ' Philip De Carteret,' whereupon His Royal Highness took the proffered
sword, and, waving it gracefully over the kneeling officer, touched him lightly on the
shoulder with the naked blade, and exclaimed, ' Arise, Sir Philip De Carteret ! ' And thus
it was that the young Seigneur came to be knighted right triumphantly at the head of his
troops, amid the shouts of the soldiery and of innumerable spectators. For no less than
two-thirds, at least, of the islanders were present to view this gladsome sight." Sir
Philip married in 1649 Ann, daughter of Abraham Dumaresq, Seigneur des Augres ; and
Pirouet, another chronicler, thus records the interest that the Prince took in all that
concerned his loyal and affectionate host: — "Vers I'an 1649, le Roy Charles II. fut
curieux de revoir Jersey, et y fit avoir des Montres Generales, comme aussi un Grand Festin
au Chateau Elizabeth, et y convia toutes les nobles demoiselles de Jersey, avec plusieurs
gentilshommes, et le Roy y fit le choix d'une femme pour le Seigneur de S. Ouen, nommee
Ann Dumaresq de la Maison des Augres. Ce qiii fut un gTand avantage pour la Maison
de S. Ouen." Sir Philip died in 1662, and was succeeded by his son.
Sir Philip De Carteret, Baronet, Seignem' of S. Ouen, of Serk, and of Rozel, who
was Bailly of Jersey, and was named Philip, in anticipation, by the King at his father's
marriage. He was created a baronet in 1670, by the style and title of " Sir Philip De
Carteret, of S. Ouen, in the island of Jersey." He rebuilt the Manor House, Avhich is
the one now in existence; and, says the same chronicler, "II devint un homme fort sage
et prudent, beau de visage, and qui se conduisait avec honneur, civilite, et justice, et qui se
faisoit bien aimer de tout le monde. II etoit riche en biens et honneurs, et il avoit un
grand revenu en I'lle de Jersey, et 6toit Seigneur de Sercq et Bailly de Jersey ; enfin
I'abondance de ses biens etoit si grande et son honneur si notable, qu'il gardoit un carosse
a six chevaux pour se promener, soit a Jersey, ou en Angleterre, la oil il alloit, son carosse
le suivoit." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward De Carteret, and died in 1693,
and was succeeded by his only child.
Sir Charles De Carteret, Baronet, Seigneur of S. Ouen and Bailly of Jersey, who
died immarried in 1715, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In him the title and male
elder branch became extinct, after an uninterrupted succession of upwards of seven
himdred years. By his will, dated two years before his death, he bequeathed the whole of
his property, both in England and Jersey, to John, Lord Carteret, first Earl of Granville —
his kinsman, though not his heir ; his eventual co-heiresses being Frances De Carteret, who
married Elias Dumaresq, Esq., Seigneur des Augres : Anne De CiUiTERET, who married
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James Corbet, Esq. ; Elizabeth De Carteret, wlio married George Bandinel, Esq. ; and
De La Riviere De Carteret, wlio married Daniel Messervy, Esq. These ladies were
daughters of Francis De Carteret, above mentioned, fifth son of that Sir Philip De Carteret,
Knight, Seigneur of S. Ouen, who died in Elizabeth Castle, Avhilst gallantly defending
it against the Parliamentarians. By the peculiar operation of the laws of Jersey, wliich
does not permit inherited real property to be bequeathed to any save its lineal
successor, Sir Charles' will was null and void, so far as regarded the Manor and Seigneurie
of S. Ouen ; but, for family reasons, the aforesaid co-heiresses, with the consent of their
husbands, permitted the bequest to be carried out, with this proviso, covenanted between
them and John, Lord Carteret, the legatee ; namely, that should he or his descendants die
without male heirs, they, or their descendants, should inherit the lands and honor of
S. Ouen.
To resume, however, the line of the Seigneurs of S. Ouen. Sir Charles De Carteret,
Bart., was succeeded by that distinguished and illustrious nobleman,
John, Lord Carteret, first Earl of Granville, Seigneur of S. Ouen and Bailly of
Jersey, who died in 1763, and was succeeded by his son,
Robert, Lord Carteret, second Earl of Granville, Seigneur of S. Ouen and Bailly
of Jersey, whose life, with that of his father, is more fully noticed in the Baronial branch. He
dying in 1776, unmarried, the Jersey property reverted to its legal heirs, the descendants
of the four ladies above named. He was therefore succeeded by
Jane-Anne Le Maistre, Lady of S. Ouen, vfite of Elias Le Maistre, Esq., Seigneur of
Quetivel in the parish of S. Martin, and eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Dumaresq,
Esq. ; she being the great-granddaughter of the eldest co-heiress, daughter of Francis
De Carteret, Esq., and thus hereditarily Lady of the Grand Fief Hauhert of S. Ouen.
She died in 1806, and was succeeded by her eldest surviving son,
Charles Le Maistre, Esq., Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Quetivel. He was elected a
Jurat of the Royal Com-t in 1810, and on that occasion took precedence of all the other
Judges, in virtue of a privilege accorded from time immemorial to the Seigneurs of S.
Ouen, and confirmed by various Orders in Council, ti'inji. Charles II. He died without
issue in 1845, and was succeeded by his only brother,
Philip Le Maistre, Esq., Seigneur of S. Ouen and of Quetivel, who married Rachel,
daughter of Philip D'Auvergne, Esq., of the parish of S. Ouen, and had issue two daughters,
Jane-Anne and Mary; the elder of whom married John Mallet, Esq., H.E.I. C.S., eldest
son of the late Rev. John Mallet, Rector of Grouville. This Seigneur of S. Ouen died in
1848, but, his eldest daughter having died vita patris, he was succeeded by his grandson,
John-Paignton Mallet, Esq., Seigneur of S. Ouen, Lieut, in H. M. 47th Regiment,
who died in 1856, and was succeeded by his only brother,
Edward-Charles Mallet-De-Carteret, Esq., the present and twenty-seventh Seigneiu'
of S. Ouen, sometime Lieutenant in H. M. 88th Regiment, and at present of H. M. 25th
Regiment. He has served in the Crimean campaign, and subsequently in India, where
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he took part in the assault and capture of Calpee, with the forces under Sir Hugh Rose.
This gentleman was authorised by Sign-Manual, of the date otli April, 1859, to assume
the name and arms of De Carteret, in addition to his paternal patronymic, as the direct
descendant in the eldest line, and representative of the family of De Carteret of S. Ouen;
He is also the heir-apparent to the representation of the eldest existing branch of the
fomily of Mallet of Grou\aUe, thus uniting in his person two families whose names and
arms are among the noblest and earhest in the rolls of Norman chivahy.*
'""^^PWCS^I^?^'"^'^'^^i^^^^^^^!
MANOR HOUSE OF S. OUEN.
The Manor House, which presents to the antiquary one of the most prominent objects
of interest in the Island, is beautifully situated iB the parish which bears its name,
embosomed in trees on all sides except the S., where the land slopes to the sea. The
structure, which is of immense strength, is fronted by a spacious promenade, in front of
which is a dry moat, flanked on the eastern side by the justing ground, now an orchard,
around which still exists an artificial embankment, forming a kind of amphitheatre made
for the convenience of the spectators of the martial exhibitions. Another field, still named
les listet<, exists to the N. of the House, where possibly combats on foot took place, and
from which were lately removed the stone sockets used in erecting the barricades. In this
* "Lieut. Mallet-De-Carteret sorved with the SStli Regiment in tlie Indian Campaign of 1857-S, and was
present at the repulse of the Gwalior Contingent at Boojureepore, 4th February ; and at tlie taking of Calpee on the
22nd and 23rd May, 1858, by Sir Hugh Rose (medal and clasp)."— Hart's Army List, April, ISGO.
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field is a well, formerly connected -watli the house by means of leaden pipes, to provide
against scarcity of Avater in the event of a siege. The walls of the manorial Chapel,
dedicated to S. Anne, are still standing to the right of the grand entrance, which is under
a noble archway, in granite, adorned with the arms of De Carteret, Poulett, and Dowse.
The estate was at one time by far the largest in Jersey. During the minority of
Philip De Carteret, under James I., it was estimated to be worth about what would now
be £5,000 a-year ; and during the reigns of Charles I. and II. it was much increased.
But owing to the divisions consequent upon the extinction of the male elder branch, which
ultimately caused the partition of its land, although the title remained intact mth the
descendants of the eldest co-heiress, its present value is not nearly so large.
Arms (as borne by the Seigneur of S. Ouen). Quarterly, 1 and 4. Gules, four fusils
conjoined in fesse, argent, for De Carteret; 2 and 3. Gules, three round buckles, or, a
crescent in chief, argent, for difference, for Mallet : quartering, — Argent, a chevron gules ;
on a chief, aziu'e, three estoiles, or ; in base a thistle slipped, ppr., for Le Maistre : Gules,
three escallops, or ; a mullet for difference, for Dumaresq : Gules, four fusils conjoined in
fesse, argent, for De Carteret : Gules, a chevron between three towers triple towered, or,
for S. Ouex :* Gules, foiu* fusils, conjoined in fesse, argent, for D'Albixi :t Sable, two
shin-bones in saltire, argent, the dexter surmounted of the sinister, for Newton : Azure,
three lions, rampant, or ; a bordure sable, for De Caux : Argent, a saltire, gules,
between four fleurs-de-lis, azure, for Harleston : Gules, two bars, ermine ; in chief,
three martlets, or, for Sarre : Gules, four fusils conjoined in fesse, argent ; in base, an
annulet, or, for difference, for De Carteret : Sable three swords, in pile ; argent, points
downward, hilts and pomels, or, for Poulett : Argent, two -^Anngs, conjoined, ermine,
for Raynez : Azure, six mascles, argent, three and three, for Credie : Party per fesse, gules
and azure, three crescents, argent, for Aumeral : Barry of eight, argent and gides, over
all a bend, sable, for Bourton : Ai'gent, a chevron, gules, between three garbs, vert, for
Bosco : Azure, on a chief, argent, a demi-lion couped, gides, for Deniband : Argent,
three chevrons, sable, for Archdeacon : Gules, a cross, fleury, or, charged with seven
roundles, sable, for Latimer : Gules, a wyvern with T\dngs erect, argent, for Le Brent : Gules,
three lions passant, in pale, argent ; over all, a label of three points, sable, for Giffahd :
Argent, a fesse between three cinquefoils, gides, for Poutkell : and argent, a fesse between
three wolves' heads erased, sable, for Seale.J
* These arms are found quartered with those of De Carteret from a very early period. The D'Avranches
MS. (referred to hereafter) states them to be borne for S. Ouen. Another ancient authority describes the
cognizance of " De Cai-teret, Seigneur de Sarque." WTiether they formed the device of the honor of S.
Ouen, or of tlie island of Serk, which is doubtfid, or were borne in right of an alliance, as is more probable,
is an open question.
t A deed extant in the Ai-chives of S. Lo, bearing the seal of Philip D'Albini, halUms in insuU.i, shews
these to have been the bearings of this branch of the family.
J A valuable and curious MS. in the possession of Madame D'Avranches gives the following cognizances
borne by the various branches of De Carteret : — De Caetehet or Vischeles. Sable, four fusils, argent, within
88
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Crests. 1. On a mo\ind vert, a squirrel, sejant, cracking a mit, ppr., for De Carteret.
2. Out of a ducal coronet, a cock, statant, gules, for Mallet. 3. A dexter arm, in
armoiu', embowed, grasping a Avreatli of laurel, all ppr., for Le Maistke.
Mottoes. Loyal Devoir. (Above tlie arms.) Eu Dieu affie.
Supporters. Two winged deer, gules, langued, azure.
GATEWAY AT S. OUEN's MANOE UOUSE.
Mt ©artcrtt of l^indjcUs.
ERY few memorials are left us of tlie early possessors of tbis fief. Wbetber
tbe possession of Vincbeles was, witb tbe rest of tbe parisb of S. Ouen, vested
in tbe De Carteret family, or wbetber its earliest owners were a distinct race
and gave tbeir name to tbe fief, as is sometimes supposed, cannot Avatb certainty-
be decided. It is, bowever, an acknowledged supposition tbat tbe separate estates of
Vincbeles de Haut and Vincbeles de Bas were originally one, altbougb tbe date of
tbeir partition is unknown.
Tbe first mention of tbe name occurs so early as 1156, wben Alain de Vin-
cbeles is recorded as giving tbe advowson of bis cbapel in Jersey to tbe Abbe
Robert du Mont.* Cobn de Vincbeles is named in a deed bearing date 1291,
a bordure of tho first, saltii-ed, or, between four fleurs-de-lis of the last. De Caeteeet op Teinity. Sable,
four fusils, argent, within a bordure, azure, charged with nine billets, or. Tue junior bkanches of S. Ouen.
De Carteret and S. Ouen quarterly, a crescent for difference. De Cakteeet of La Hague. Gules, four fusils,
argent, a double crescent in chief for ditiference, within a bordure, argent, charged with eight trefoils, sable.
Berry, in his Encyclopajdia Heraldica, gives as variations of arms borne by various members of this
family. 1. Argent, three mural crowns, gules. Crest. A reindeer's head cabossed. 2. Gules, three clarions, or.
According to the same authority Captain I'hilip Cartaret, R.N., of Guernsey, in 181-i, bore De Carteret
and De S. Martin quarterly. Crest. A squirrel sejant, gules, cracking a uut, ppr., on a sprig of laurel springing
up before him, vert. With the motto and supporters.
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conjointly with Sir John Do Carteret, the brother of Sir Philip, who married Margaret
D'Albini. Some time prior to the year 1324, it would appear that the estate had devolved
upon an heiress, Lucia de VincheMs,* who married another Sir John De Carteret,
grand-nephew of the preceding. Sir John, in xvii. Edward II., sold the fief
to Nicholas Cheyney or Cheignye, a local Judge of Assize.f In 1363, the estate
appears again to have become the property of a lady, Eleanor, or Aliennor, de
Cheyney, whose husband, Geoffroy Valix, "Walsh, or Wallis, conveyed it to Jacquet
Hascoul.J From this period to 1504, when Catherine de Vinchelcs, the daughter,
as appears by her deed of gift, of John de Vincheles, presented VincheMs de Haut
to Richard De Carteret, documentary evidence is altogether wanting. In default of which it
may be suggested that Cathei'ine may have been a descendant of its last known purchaser —
Jacquet Hascoul, The Chronicler of S. Ouen considers her to have been a daughter of
Geoffroy Wallis, § but as this is not reconcileable with the foregoing, it may not be
unreasonable to suppose that she was the wife, in second marriage, of Wallis, she having
been, previously, the widow of Philipot de la Hougue. |1
The original family of Vincheles existed apparently in junior lirauches, after the
extinction of the elder line, for the Ext cute of 1331 shews that Philip and James de
* The arms of Lueia de Vinehelais, as recorded in the De Carteret Pedigree in the College of Arms, are argent,
three billets engrailed, gules.
t Eo qd. man'ium de Wincheleys tenebatur de dno' Eege p. .Toh'em de Carteret, et Luciam ux'ejus, qui illud
alienaverunt Nicho' de Cheny', &c., &c. {Vide Ahbreviatio Placitorum, 18 Ed. II., p. 349.) Philip de Chenny, in the
same year, by the same documents, appears as claiming free warren and other privileges in the jiarislies of S. Saviour,
S. John, and S. Ouen.
J " A tous ceux qui. Sec. . . . Raoul Lempriere, Baillif. . . . Sachent tous que I'an de Grace
mil ccclxiij. . . . furent presens a S. Helier Jaquet Hascoul d'une partie, ct Giefroy Valix par la raison dc Aliennor
DE Cheyne, fa femme, d'autic Lequel Giefroy, par la reson de laditte feme, de sa pure volonte . . . afin et a
heritage, pas la cause de laditte Aliennor, le Magney de Wincheles scant en la paroisse de S. Ocn, Sec.
Signe par
GuiLLE Ernaud I
_, „ , ,, , , Jurets."
Guille Faien (Payn) )
— MS. in the possession of Madame de Vincheles de Bas.
§ This name, with variations in spelling, occurs not unfrequently in Jersey about this period. As is seen
above, another Geoftroy Valis or Wallis was the husband of Aliennor de Cheynej', and in 1-410, Eaulin Walich
was a Jurat of the Eoyal Court. The last-named Geotfroy died seised of the fiefs of Handones (Handois),
Pynell, Morvylle, Grenevile, &c., as appears by an Inquis. post mort. of xiii. Henry VII. He fought at Barnet,
under the Earl of Warwick, and was killed tliere. These lands at his death were appropriated by Eichard
Harleston, until by a patent, ^e)«^. Henr3'- VII., it was declared that he had not been attainted, and that his
inheritance was to be restored to his kinsman, John Sautleroy, who, after two years' enjoyment of them, sold
them to Lord Willoughby de Broke. Matthew Baker, the then Governor of Jersey, however, sequestrated
the estates, when a long litigation ensued, until, by the death of the former, they reverted to the King (Henry
VIII.), who presented them to Heher De Carteret, Bailly, for life. (Ex. MSSto. DureUi LerrierArm.) Although
no documents are now extant in the family, as I am informed by the present Baron, to prove that Eobert,
first Lord Willoughby de Broke, did possess these lands, yet the insular historian is supported in his assertion
by the fact that his Lordship was a firm partizan of Henry VII., when Earl of Eichmond, and fought under
him at Bosworth, and undoubtedly accompanied him to Jersej', when he fled from England, en route for France.
11 MS. of the Seigneur d'Avranches.
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AN ARMORIAL OP JERSEY.
Vinclieles were living at that period in the island. An Inquis. post mort. of xiv. Edward III.,
1341, states Philip de Wincheleis and Gwyllemota his wife to have been resident in
Guernsey, though holding lands in Jersey. And an ancient MS. at Vinclieles de Bas states
William de Vincheles to have been Bailly of Jersey in 1347.
From an early period the estate of Vincheles de Bas formed a separate and distinct fief
from that of Vincheles de Haut, and was possessed successively by the families of Le
Febvre,* De Beauvoir, and Dumaresq,t until Amias De Carteret, a cadet of the House
of Vincheles de Haut, by his marriage with his heiress in 1 663-4, brought both fiefs into the
possession of the same family.
That of Vincheles de Haut was sold circa 1826, by John De Carteret, Esq., to a
member of the Le Cornu family ; and that of Vincheles de Bas is now possessed by Maeie-
AxN, only daughter of the late Colonel John-Daniel De Carteret, and wadow of the late
* This family of Le Febvre is of Guernsey origin, and must not be confounded with that of Le Feuvre,
a purely Jersey family. The former, the name of which was in Guernsey spelt Le Feyvre, was there numerous
in its members and influential in its position. John Le Febvre, of S. John La Hougue Boete, descended
from a branch settled at S. Martin, and was collaterally descended from Michael Le Febvre, noticed below.
The family is extinct in both islands.
^rtilgrrc of He jFrblirc of l^inrf)fUis Xit Bas.
Michael Le Feyvre, Jurat R.C. of Guernsey, bought of CoUas de Saumarez half the fief S. Helene, in that island,
in 1303.
Nicholas Le Feyvre, possessor of half the lief S. Helene,
hi 144,2.
Michael Le Feyvre, or Le Febvre, Seig. of Vincheles
de Bas, probably ca. uxor., and Jurat R.C.
of Jersey, in 1430.
1. Jeanette Le Febvre.
John De Bagot, Seig. of Gorge.
Jeanette De Bagot, only d. & h.
Thomas Dumaresq.
2. Peronelle.
Nicholas Morin,
Bailly of Jereey, 1460,
who sold, ca. uxor.,
half of the fief S. Helene
to John Perrin.
3. Margaret.
John De Beauvoir.
Guille De Beauvoir.
Seig. of Vincheles de Bas,
from 1479 to 1486.
.John Dumaresq, Seig. Helen Morin. Other daughters.
of Vincheles, in right of
liis grandmother. {Vide John Poingdestre.
Fed. Dumaresq of Samares.)
Guille de Beauvoir obtained Vincheles de Bas in 1479, through Margaret Le Febvre, his mother, youngest
daughter of Michael Le Febvre. But upon the majority of John Dumaresq, the grandson of the eldest co-heiress,
in 1485, a r\6'N partage was effected, and he became, as was his right. Seigneur of the fief of his great grandfather,
t Donation of CATirEEiNE De Vincheles to Kiciiaed De Caeteret.
" A tous cheulx a qui ces pntes. has. verront ou orront. GuiUe Harcby Bailly de nostre Sire le Roy d'Angleterre
en I'isle de G'sey., salut en Dieu. Sachent tos. que I'an de grace mill cccciiijxx et quatre, le ix jour du mois de Decembre
furcst pns. en droit a St, Ouen par devant nous, chest assavoir Phot, de la Hougue et Katherine fa fame, fille ct
y/T ii/// /// ////x /'/u/i /K /j/>.\/ ///>// /////> llirA\
AN AEMOEIAL OF JEftSEY, 91
Edward Tuohy, Esq., wlio is Dame-Chatelaine of Vincheles, and tlie only existing member
of tins branch of the earliest offshoot of the House of S. Ouen.
The Manor Houses of both these fiefs are modern structures, the ancient buildings
ha\dng been demolished some years since.* The only relics of antiquity now remaining are
to be found in the small arched gateway of Vincheles de Bas, over which, in bold relief, are
carved the arms and supporters of Dumaresq ; and the antique stile near it, surmounted
with the shaft of a cross, which led to the chapel of S. George, now demolished, the site of
which was, not long ago, determined by the discovery of several interesting sepulchral
remains, disinterred by the workmen at the erection of the present residence of Vincheles
de Bas.
droicte heriti^re de John, de Vinchelles son psire, et de Peronnelle sa m^re, fille de John Lempriere, I'aquelle Katheiine
au rothorite de fon mary, de fa pure et agreable volontey, fans contiainte de nulluy, mene de fon franc courage et
fervante amour, donna, ceda, et resigna et delessa par chettes pntes. donne, resigne et dclefTe en pur don, charite, et
osmosne, afin et a p.petuite de heritage de elle et de fes hers, en cas que ladite Katherine naira hers de fa chair, a Richard
de Carteret, son filleul en fiUeulage, fils de Honorable Homme PhiHppe de Carteret, Seignour dudit St. Ouen, y es fiens
hers, to\is et telles heritages entierement come laditte Katherine est vestue et ceszie pour le pnt. a cause de fondit
pere et m^re, et que en temps advenii- luy pourrest escher et succeder, exceptc vi qrtiers. de fiomant de rente, desquels
vi qrtiers. laditte Katherine peult et pourra faire tout a fon vouloir et fon plaisir, et du surplus comme dit est, ledit
Richard Dc Caiteret et fes hers, en temps advenir, jouiront et expleteront a heritage, comme de leur propre rente se
laditte Katherine na hers de se chaii'e come, dit est. Chest assavoir, meisons, formants, terres, deniers, poullailes, redcb-
vranches, casaulitez, libertes, dygnitees quelconques a laditte Katherine appartenans fans rien en reserver, retenir, ne
excepter feulements lesdit vi qrtiers. comme devant est dit. Et jurerent ledits maries que james encontre les choses
susdittes nyront ne feront aller par eux ne par aultres en aucune maniere en temps advenir en peine de parjures. Et
en especial ladite Katherine jura p. fon ferment que pour faire le don deffus dit n'avoit este battue, fercie, menachie^
ne molestee en aucune maniere, mes le fesoit de fon pur gre et assent, et que jamais du contraire nyra par voye
de mariage, encombre ne aultrement, en peine de parjure. Et nous avandit Bally les y condempnames en tesmoing
de ce, nous avons scelle ces Itres, du fceill de notre Baillie. Pnts a ce. Clement Le Hardy, John Poingdestre, et
John Mychiell, Jurets du Roy."
This grant caused much litigation between Richard De Carteret and the heirs of Catherine. These were
John, son of Thomas Dumaresq and Jeanette de Bagot ; John, son of Jacquet Dumaresq ; John Dupont ;
Philippot and Peter Horman ; with John and Guille Godfroy ; some, if not all of whom, derived their title
from a common ancestor, Michael Le Febvre, who had (probably by marriage) become possessed of a shai-e
of the Vincheles property, circa 1430. The suit lasted for a number of years, until De Carteret, by certain
concessions made to John Dumaresq, the eldest of the co-heirs, "par ainiable composition faicte eutre eux en
presence de gens de bien, leurs parens et amys," obtained peaceable possession of the property devised him
by his godmother, 2nd June, 1523. Both parties, however, claimed the title of Seigneur de Vincheles, until
Sir John Peyton, then Governor of the Island, by his friendly advice, induced the possessors of the property
to execute deeds before the Royal Court in the years 1603 and 1005, agreeing that De Carteret should bear
the title of Seigueiu- of Haut Vincheles, and Dumaresq be styled Seigneur of Bas Vincheles ; that both fiefs
were to be for ever after held in capite direct from the Sovereign, and not from each other ; that, at the same
time, the boundaries of the estates were to be accurately defined, to prevent a recurrence of the feuds so
long existing between the two families
* Before the demolition of the Manor House of Vincheles de Haut. there existed above the smaller entrance
gate, a stone bearing the following arms : — Quarterly, 1 and 4. — Four fusils conjoined in fesse. — 2 and 3, three water
bougets. Motto, " Pour bien faire parvenir." At the side, the initials I and E. with date 1674. The Pedigree
throws no light on the owner of the quartering.
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IBs: CTartrrrt of ^. Crlniti).
MIAS, or Amice, De Carteret, the second son of Helier De Carteret, Seigneur of
S. Ouen, founded this branch of the family by his marriage with Catherine, only
daughter and heiress of Gilles Lempriere, Seigneur of Trinity. He was educated
at Winchester College, and, subsequently, at Cambridge, and became, on his retm-n
to Jersey, one of its Jurats, Keeper of the Dean's seal, and, finally, Lieutenant-Bailly of the
island.* His judicial talents wei'e so highly esteemed that he ultimately attained the honor
of becoming Bailly and Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, in the enjoyment of which offices he
died, and was buried in the parish church of S. Peter's Port, in that island, in which a
monument exists to his memory. t Among other children he left issue,
Joshua De Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity, Captain of the Train-Band of the parish of
S. Lam'ence, who married Jane, daughter of Edward Herault, Esq., by whom, among other
children, he left issue Amice, of whom presently, and Edward, who was knighted, became
Gentleman-Usher of the Black Rod and Bailly of Jersey by patent 1663, and to whose
Amias De Carteret
left issue thi^ec chil-
dren, Amias, Mavy, and
Anne.
Amice, or Ajiias, De
Carteret was born in
1638, and died at S. Lo,
in Normandy, in 1664 ;
his heart was embalmed
and interred in the family
vault in the church of
S. Trinity. Leaving no
issue, the Seigneurie
and estates devolved on
his eldest sister,
Mary De Carteret,
Lady of Trinity, the wife
of Charles, son of Helier
De Carteret, Attorney-
General of Jersey, who
memory is erected in
Trinity Church by far
the most elaborate and
splendid altar-monu-
ment in Jersey.
Amice, or Amias, De
Carteret, Seigneur of
Trinity, married Mary,
eldest daughter and co-
heiress of ]\Ionsieur
Jean Girard or Gerar,
a wealthy jeweller of
Paris, who died there
in 1680, worth 300,000
livi-es. His property
was divided between
the heirs of his daugh-
ters, Mary, above men-
tioned, and Jane, the
wife of Abraham De
Carteret, Seigneur of S.
John la Hougue Boete.
left issue, among other
children,
TOMB OP SIE EDWAHD DE CAHTEEET IX S. TEINITY CHrECH.
* Vide Les Chroniques de Jersej'. Ex MSSto Edwardi (J. Le Couteur, Dom. Sti. Johannis.
t Vide Register of Burials, parish of S. Trinity.
0
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AN ARMOEiAL OF JEESEY.
Charles De Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity,* wlio married, in 1G83, Elizabeth,
daughter of the Very Rev. Clement Le Couteur, Dean of Jersey, who, among other issue,
left Charles, of whom presently, and Philip, the direct ancestor of the yomiger branches of
this house.
Charles De Carteret, SeigTieur of Trinity, married, in 1723, Frances-Mary S. Paul,t by
whom, among other children, he had issue, Francis, Seigneur of Trinity, who died s.j)., and
Eear-Admiral Philip De Caeteeet, R.N., Seigneur of Trinity, who is celebrated for a
voyage he made roimd the world, as Commodore, in the sloop " Swallow," in the years
1766-7-8; dui'ing which he discovered a cluster of islands in the South Seas, to which he
gave the general name of Queen Charlotte's Islands, four of which he distinguished by the
names of New Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk. He also discovered some other
islands, which are fully described in the accoimt of his voyage, written by himself, and
published in Dr, Hawksworth's Collection. Upon his return. Admiral De Carteret settled at
Southampton, where he died, and was buried in the catacombs of All Saints' Church, in that
town. He married Mary-Eachel, the daughter of a French Protestant physician, and sister
of Sir John Silvester, Bart., Recorder of the City of London, J by whom he had issue, Philip ;
Silvester-Samuel ; Elizabeth-Mary ; and Caroline.
Sir Philip De Carteeet-Silvester, Bart., Seigneur of Trinity, succeeded, by the term of
the Patent, his uncle, Sir John Silvester, Bart., in his title and name. He was brought up,
like his father, in the Navy, in which he attained Post-Rank, and commanded the fi-io-ate
which, in the pi'esence of Napoleon I., destroyed the flotilla of gun-ljoats at Cherbouro"
intended for the invasion of England. § Dying without issue, the Baronetcy became extinct,
but he was succeeded in the Seigneurie and estates by his sister,
* This Seigneur of Trinity, by Patent 1663, had precedence granted to him before the Seignem- of Samares, a
privilege which was some time afterwards revoked.
t Aem3 of S. Paul, argent, a saltire, dentelle, s-able.
t ^rtiigvrr of ^^ilbrsitrr.
Daniel Silvester, Advocate in the Parliament of Bordeaux. = Susanna Bernardino.
Francis-Jason Silvester, = Catherine Berbineau.
Esq., 1713.
1. Peter, M.D., Physician to William III.
Sir .John Silvester, M.D., Physician to =^ Catherine-Alctta Everardina, dau. of Col. d'Aulni.s,
the Army in the Low Countries. } of the Dutch Sei-vice.
Sir John Silvester, Bart., Recorder of
the City of London, o. s. p.
Arj[S. — Argent, a sea lion, ducally crowned, azure.
§ Vide James' Naval History of Groat Britain.
Eear-Admiral = Mary Kachel.
Philip De ;
Carteret, |
R.N., Seig. of 1
Trinity. |
Srimirnr nf S.€riiiitj«.
//r (i/w« ///.v /'/irff i\i /'risf-nterf ttf r/i/ [I'/rA-.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 99
Elizabeth-Mary De Carteret, Lady of Trinity, the mfe of Sir William Symonds,
Kuiglit, R.N., C.B., late Surveyor of the Navy. Upon her death, the Jersey estates,
of which she had had the usufruct, devolved upon her sister,
Caroline De Carteret, Lady of Trinity, the wife, in 1805, of Gabriel- Henry, Count de
S. George, of the ancient and noble family of that name. She dying in 1858 — her
younger son, Carteret-Wilhara-Henry S. George-De-Carteret, and the adopted lieii'
of his uncle, the last Seigneur of Trinity, having died vita matris — the Seigneurie and estates
in Jersey devolved upon her eldest son,
Alexander-Henry-Augustus-John, Count de S. George, the present Seigneur of Trinity,
of whose lineage the following condensed account is given : —
S, (f5cor(j;c»
HE family of S. George comes originally from La Marche de Limousin, in France ;
and if it has not attained a grand historical reputation, yet it has ever held a pro-
minent position among the most ancient and most distinguished of the French
nobility. It possessed, for several centuries, the barony of S. George, situated two
leagues from Limoges, and whence it appears primarily to have derived its patronymic*
The most ancient record discovered of the family is the inscription formerly existing
on the bell of the pai'ish church of S. George —
Jacobus a Sancto Georgio, miles, me dedit, anno incarnationis,
DCCCLXXXVIII.
This bell, after eight centuries, was re-cast in 1687, as is stated in the parochial registei-
of that period, in which this inscription was copied.
It woidd be difficult, if not altogether impossible, to give a connected pedigree
from a period so remote ; for at that date registers only existed on lands belonging
to ecclesiastics. The historian, in default of an unbroken list, can only be guided by
official deeds, in which the names of various members of the family appear, and it is
beyond doubt that, fi-om, and even before, the date just referred to, the family possessed
the Barony of S. George, as the patrimony of the eldest branch, until 1582.
A few of its more eminent earlier members are recorded below, as preserved in
authentic documents.
Baudoin de S. George was one of the knights who accompanied the Conqueror
to England, and, settling there, became the source of the families of S. George of
England and Ireland. t
Gaufridus de Sancto Georgio, mentioned in 1189 among those Barons who were
to furnish knights for the ward of the Glinteaib du Loir.X
* By a cm-ious coincidence the old legends, speaking of the Saint of that name, often characterize him as the
" Baron S. George, le bon Chevalier."
t Vide Stowe. Ducange, Coll. Hist. Eom., p. 1125. Noble's Coll. Arms, &c.
+ MS. Clerambault.
iOU AN ARMOItlAL OP JERSEY.
Victor de Sancto Georgio, Abbat, appears as witness in a cliarter granted by
Eicliard Coeur de Lion to WoUateran, Archbishop of "Rouen, in 1197.*
Several other knights, abbats, and canons of the same family figure in the charters
and documents of the centre of France, during the twelfth and tliirteenth centuries ;
among others —
MAi^FRED de S. George, one of the knights condemned to pay the fine of ten livres
toimiois for being found at the war made by the Bishop of Alby.f This fact proves that
Manfi'ed had fought for the Albigenses against Simon de Montfort and other cruel per-
secutors of the followers of the Gospel.
Peter de S. George, Miles, Baron de S. George, married in 1281 the sister of
Renaud d'Aubusson, and acted as witness to his will : the will, in dog-Latin, was sealed
by William d'Aulnisson, brother of the testator, and by his two brothers-in-law, Peter
de la Tour d'Auvergne and Peter de S. George, all knights : it contains, among others,
the following passage : — " Item lego terre saucte transmarine centum libras semel solvendas
pro nobis et pro legato predicto nostro, tradendas petro fratri nostro in primo generali
passagio, si idem petrus vidt transfretare, &c." Peter de S. George fulfilled the wishes
of the testator. The Knights of S. John of Jerusalem having seized the island of
Rhodes, under the Grand-Mastership of Foulques de Villaret, Othman, the Emperor of
the Tui'ks, attacked them there. Peter de S. George repaired to Rhodes, and was made
prisoner by the Turks, but afterwards released from captivity by Pope Clement V., his
near relative.
Oliver de S. George, Seigneur de S. George, grandson of Peter, was one of the
knights killed at the battle of Poictiers, 19th September, 1356. Olive de S. George,
daughter of Oliver, married in 1368 Peter de Nailhac, and was mother of Philibert de
Xailhac, Grand-Master of the Order of Rhodes in 1396.
Several other knights of the same name and family appear in documents of the
second half of the foiuieenth century, among whom is
Oliver de S. George, Knight, Seigneur of S. George, de la Bussiere, de Verac,
de Fraisse-en-Limousin, &c., who became the source of the various branches of the
family. He married in 1404 Catherine de Rochechouart, of the family of the Dukes of
Mortemart, from which period all the branches of his family have borne their arms
quartered with those of Rochechouart. By this marriage Ohver de S. George had
three sons and a daughter, which last, Agnes, married John d'Aubusson, Seigneur de
la Borne, and Chamberlain of Charles VIL, King of France. The sous were named
Guichard, William, and John.
Guichard de S. George, Baron de S. George, eldest son of the preceding Oliver,
married in 1442 Catherine d'Aubusson, and was the soiu-ce of the two elder branches
of the family. That of the Barons of S. George occupied a distinguished position
among the nobility of La Marche imtil 1582, when the name became extinct by the death
* Rot. Tur. Loud., vol. i., p. OH. t Hist, ilc Lauguedoc, vol. iii., p. o-ia.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 101
of Isabeau, only daiigliter of Gabriel, last Baron de S. George. The castle and barony
reverted to the sister of Gabriel, Magdalen de S. George, wife of Anthony de la Saigne,
Baron de la Boi^ne. Giiichard was also the source of the branch of the S. Georges
of Burgundy or S. Andre, who bore the title of Marquis, and possessed immense
estates in the provinces of Lyons, Bourbon, and others. Several members of this
family fdled important stations in France. Among whom was Claude de S. George,
Ecclesiastical Count of Lyons, Bishop of Clermont, afterwards Archbishop of Tom\s, and
finally Archbishop of Lyons. He was born in 1625, and died in 1714 ; his tomb may
yet be seen in the centre of the Cathedral of Lyons, in fi-ont of the steps of the choir.
This branch became extinct in 1704 by the marriage of Claude-Mary de S. George with
the Marqids de Vichy-Chameron.
William de S. George, Seigneur de Verac, younger brother of the preceding
Guichard, married Jane du Mesnil-Simon, and was the source of the present existing
branches of the family. By his wife he had issue,
Guichard de S. George, who married in 1490 Anne de Mortemer, Lady of Couh^
in Poitou : this lady brought her husband a large accession to his landed property,
which was already considerable fi'om the side of both father and mother. This branch
formed one of the most influential families of the nobility of Saintonge and Poitou-
Guichard had four sons and four daughters ; three of which latter married gentlemen
of the pro\4nce, and the fourth became a nun at Fontevi^ault. Of the four sons,
Gabriel de S. George, Knight, was the source of the branch of S. George de Verao.
PoNTUs de S. George became Abbat de Valence at S. Maixent.
Andeew de S. George, Knight, Seigneur de Bourleuf, whose descendants formed
the branches of S. George op Suaux, of Maesay, and of Dieac.
GuiCHAED de S. George was Abbat of Bonuevaux.
These four brothers were among the first disciples of Cahdn, and the influence of their
example greatly encouraged other persons of rank to decide in favour of the Reformation.
The Gallia Christiana in an article on Pontus de S. George contains the following : — " Hie,
abjurata fide catholica, Calvino in Ecclesias navi sute perversa dogmata preedicare permisit.
Monialem virginem et Priorissam Parthenonis de Bonneuil, ordinis Fontevraldensis, sibi
inatrimonio copulavit, nee ab ilia filios sumpsit. Arma in regem an-ipuit, et tandem anno
1573 occubuit." In the History of the Protestants of Poitou, by M. Licvre, Pastor at
Couhe ; in La ixdita Chronique Protedante de France, by M. Crottet, Pastor at Pons ; and in
the History of Saintonge, by President Massiou, as well as in other works on the History of
the Reformation in France, mention is made of the great influence that these four brothers
exercised over the political and religious events of Western France, and the active part
taken by Guichard de S. George, and his descendants (the Sires de V6rac), in the religious
wars of the period.
John de S. George, Seigneur de Fraisse, youngest brother of Guichard de S. George,
married in 1436 Margaret d'Aubusson, sister of his brother-in-law John D'Aubusson, and
102 AN ArvMORIAL OP JERSEY.
of his sister-in-law Catlierine, before mentioned. He was tlie source of tlie two youngest
branches of the family — that of Fraisse, and of Regnier-Perisse. The former settled in
Lusig'uan, where its descendants still exist, but the family was ruined by the Eevolution of
1789 ; to it belonged Sir Philip de S. George, who, having embraced the party of the
League, was condemned by the Parliament of Bordeaux, and decapitated in 1581. The
last representative of tlie branch of Regnier-Perisse died Ecclesiastical Count of Lyons
in 1822.
ISrnnrf) of ^. SrmQf of Vtvat.
Gabriel pe S. George, Marquis de Verac, eldest son of Guicliard de S. George, married
in 1527 Anne d'Oyron; he organised in 1568 the insurrection of the Protestants of
Languedoc and Dauphine; in 1569 he retook his castle of Couhe from the King's troops ;
and in 1570 he commanded the vanguai'd of the Reformers at the battle of Ai-nay le Due.
Joachim de S. George, his son, Marquis of Verac, was also a distinguished personage,
and a skilfid general ; he was employed in several negotiations and important missions
on behalf of the Reformers, both in France and abroad.
Olhtir pe S. George, his son. Marquis de Verac, married in 1601 Anne de Jousserant,
Lady of Tassay and Champagnd-le-Sec. Forced probably by the rigour of the times, and
by the heavy expenses incui'red by his grandfather and father in sustaining the war just
referred to, he sold, in 1626, the estate of Verac. One of his daughters, Madeleine,
married Claude de la None, Seigneur de Montreuil, son of the celebrated Bras de Per ;
another, Louisa, married Jacques de Caumont, whence descend the Dukes de la Force.
Oliver de S. George, his son, married in 1631 Margaret de la Muce-Ponthus, Lady de
Tregu in Britany (daughter of David de la Muce and of Margaret de la None, whose names
were veiy prominent among the firm supporters of the Reformed Church in Britany).
Oliver de S. George, their son. Knight, Seigneur of the Barony of Couhe, de Chateau-
Garnier, Champagne-le-Sec, Treg-u, &c., was at first as zealous in the cause of the reformed
religion as his forefathers. He married Margaret Le Coq-Madeleine. In 1666, Charles
Colbert de Croissy, in his Memoire corircrnaid VEtaf dn Poitoii, speaks of him thus : — " Le
Marquis de Verac, Chef de la maison de S. George, est un jeune Seigneur, riche de 30,000Z.
de rentes, il a, entr'autres, laterre de Couhe, pres de Poitiers, &c. II est de la religion P.R.,
et sa famille a toujours ete la support de cette religion en Poitou ; car son ayeul et ses oncles
ont produit plus de vingt mille Huguenots. II est encore considere comme un de piliers de
cette religion. Sa mere est do la maison Huguenote de la Muce-Ponthus." Benoit,
the historian of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, frequently mentions in his
memoirs the Marquis de Verac, sometimes as a Protestant zealot, at others as converted to
Catholicism, and even as a propagator of his newly adopted faith. In fine, after having, in
early life, defended with vigour the cause of liberty of conscience, he allowed himself to be
tempted by Court promises, by the bait of Royal favours, and by an inordinate desire
to preserve intact his large possessions. He therefore abandoned the evangelical faith,
caused his wife to bo confined in a convent to force her to abjure her religious ojiinions
AN AKMOKIAL OF JEESEY. 103
(wliicli attemjDt, however, was not cx'owned ^\'itli success), and brought up liis children in the
Roman CathoHc faith. As a recompense for his apostasy, the King raised to a Mar-
quisate, under the title of Couh6-Verac, the estate of Couhe, which was until then but a
barony, and Oliver became successively Lieutenant-Geueral of the King's armies, Lieutenant-
Greneral of Poitou, Commandant of the Province, Chevaher des Ordres du Roi, &c. From
this period his descendants continued to enjoy a large share of Royal favour and to occupy a
very distinguished position in France.
C^SAE DE S. Geoege, his SOU, Marquis de Couh6-Verac, and Seigneur of several other
places, was, after the death of his father, Lieutenant-General of Poitou, Lieutenant-
General of the King's armies, and Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, and married in 1706
Catherine Margaret Pioger, by whom he had several children. He died in 17-11. His son,
Feancis-Olivee de S. Geoege, Knight, Marquis de Vcrac, &c., was also Lieutenant-
General du Poitou after the death of his father. He married in 1741 Elizabeth Margaret
de Riancourt-Orival, and was of delicate health. He died in 1753, aged 41, leaving an
only son,
Cuaeles-Oliver de S. Geoege, Knight, Marquis de Yerac, Peer of France, &c., who was
born at Couhe in 1743. Although but ten years of age on the death of his father, Louis-
Fran9ois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, obtained from the King for him the Lieutenancy-
General of Poitou. He married in Paris, in 1760, Mary Charlotte Josephine Sabine,
Princess de Croy, daughter of L. F. J. de Croy, Due d'Havre, and of Mary Louisa Cun6-
gonde de Montmorency-Lusemboiirg. He filled various public offices under Louis XV. and
XVI., and was Ambassador to several of the foreign courts, and among others to that
of Russia, where he remained until the end of the last century. He Lived to an advanced
age, and left three sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest and youngest son died without
issue ; the second,
Aemand-Maximilian-Feancis-Joseph-Oliviee de S. Geoege, was born in 1768, and was
created IMarquis and Peer of France during the lifetime of his father, who was also a Peer.
Devoted to the house of Bourbon, he it was who planned that flight of the unhappy
Louis XVI. which ended so disastrously at Varennes. After his emigration he entered the
Austrian service. At the restoration of the Bourbons, he was constituted Marechal de Camp
and Governor of Versailles, and became distinguished in the Chamber of Peers in spite of
his well-known Legitimist principles, by his moderation and stern sense of justice. The
Marquis de Verac is now resident in Paris, and, although 90 years of age, is still in the
possession of aU his facidties. He married in 1810 Euphemia, Countess de NoaiUes,
grand-daughter of the Duke de Noailles, by whom he has three daughters. The eldest,
Mary, is married to the Count de Rouge ; the second, Martha, to the Marquis de Costa
de Beauregard in Savoy; and the youngest, Alix, to the Count Gaspard de Castries.*
* Since the above was written, an oLituary notice in the Aflienceum of August 28, 1858, has the following : —
" The death of the Marquis (Olivier de S. George) de Verac, at the age of 90, in his old Chateau du Tremblayi
cannot pass without a word on our part. When a boy, he filled the post of Private Secretary to the Baron
104 AX ARJIORIAL OF JEESEY.
ISranrijcs of .^, (Srorgr of ^unux, iBarsiaij, antr IBIrar.
Andrew de S. George, Seigneur cle Bourleuf, one of the four brothers Avho embraced
the tenets of the Eeformation at the commencement of the sixteenth century, married
in 1552 PauUne de Puyguyon-Surgeres, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.
Lewis de S. George, the eldest son, Seigneur de Boissec, had issue two daughters.
Isaac de S. George, the second son. Seigneur de Bourleuf, Boisaubin, and Loubigny,
married in 1790 Magdeleine de Joubert, Lady of Suaux, by whom he had issue two
sons, Philip and Lewis, of whom presently. He was assassinated before he had attained his
thirtieth year.
Philip de S. George, Knight, Seigneur de Suaux, w^as the source of the branch of
Suaux, which settled in Holland in consequence of the persecutions, and became extinct
there in its fourth generation in 1757.
Lewis de S. George, Knight, Seigneur de Loubigny, was boim in 1592. He was a man
distinguished by his courage and by his talents ; he was an officer of the body-guard of
Henry IV. at the period of the assassination of that monarch, when he immediately quitted
the service, and retired to his estates. He married, firstly, in 1624 Judith de la Roche-
foucault, Lady of Marsay, who died without issue, although, liy arrangement, the estate of
Marsay remained in her husband's family. He married, secondly, in 1629 Charlotte du
Bois, Lady of Dirac, and other places, by whom he had two sous, Lewis and Hector.
Lewis de S. George was the source of the branch of Marsay, the eldest existing branch
of the family.
Hector de S. George married in 1694 Mary de Brilhac, and was the source of the
1 (ranch of Dirac, which became extinct in the fourth generation, at the close of the last
century. Hector-Lewis de S. George, Knight, Seigneur de Dirac et de Genouille, and son
of the preceding Hector, was a man of profound learning, an author, and the historian of
his family.
ISranrf) of ^. Srorgr of ifftarsan.
Lewis de S. George, Knight, Seigneur de Marsay, Loubigny, and la Chambaudiere,
manned in 1676 Louisa, daughter of the Marquis de Lescours, Lady of the Barony of
Nieul. He lived in the dark and troublous times when Louis XIV. heaped persecution upon
persecution of all kinds upon his unhappy Protestant subjects. As long as possible
de Breteuil, then resident at Soleure. Baron and boy alone jiossessed the secret (out of Paris) of the intended
royal journey to Varennes. The gallant lad more than once put his lil'e in jeopardy by secret visits to the capital,
after the arrests of his unhappy Sovereigns, where he contrived to put himself in communication with the royal
prisoners. M. de Yei'ac retained in his possession several letters, and fragments of letters, written by Louis XVI. and
Marie Antoinette, and the hoped-for publication of these would tend, we are assured, to raise in general esteem the
King and Queen, to whom misfortime gave such terrible dignity."
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Lewis de S. George aflfbrded in liis castle at Marsay a refuge for tliose Protestant families
who had been dispossessed of tlieir homes by the King's dragoons. This castle, as well as
that of M. d'Olbreuse (whose sister had married the Duke of Bruuswick-Lanenbouro- and
Zell), and the one belonging to M. de I'Aleigne, afforded, by then' vast extent and their
means of defence, a shelter capable of admitting a large number of refugees, although this
last resource was soon denied the imhappy Protestants of the neighbourhood, for the Castle
of Marsay was besieged by the di\ag-oons, and its owner f reed to seek refuge in flight. In
October, 1685, he repaired to Paris, and lived there several years, until at last the increasing
rigour of the persecutions forced his wife, with five of her childi'en, to seek a refuge
in Holland, whence she went to Geneva, and finally to Zell, where she was received, with
other noble refugees, with great kindness by the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick. Her
husband, however, was detained at Pai'is by a serious affliction, where he was attended
by his eldest son, who added to his filial duties the care of the vital interests of the family.
The Seigneur de Marsay, after having undergone two painful operations, died in Paris,
in November, 1701. His eldest son,
Armand-Lewis de S. George, designated in oflBcial documents as the Count de Marsay,
succeeded his father in his titles and estates at the age of twenty-one, and, as in rejoining
his family abroad he rendered himself liable to the loss of both, he endeavoured to dispose
of at least part of his lands. He succeeded, in piu'suance of his wish, in selling the
Barony of Nicul, but only by making an enormous pecuniaiy sacrifice. The sole wish
of the Count de Marsay was to aid his familjr, and to reside with them Avhore he coidd enjoy
the blessings of hberty of conscience. He was so well and favourably known in France by
his learning, his character, and the amenity of his manners, that several propositions
of settling in life were made him ; among others, the Duke de Chfitillon pressed him to accept
the command of a company in his regiment of cavalry ; but all these offers were steadily
refused by him. At last, in 171G, he obtained from the Court of France permission to travel
in Germany, and, passing Geneva, joined his mother at Zell. There he married his cousin-
german Mademoiselle de Schiitz, daughter of the Baron de Schiltz, ex-State Minister of the
Elector of Hanover, and niece of the celebrated Baron de Bernstorff, Minister of George I.,
King of England. Althoiigh this marriage had been contracted in a foreign country, con-
trary to French decrees on this subject, the Baron de Bernstorff, then ah-powerfid with
George I., obtained from the French Government permission that his nephew might rettirn
to France, there enjoy or sell his property, and even, if he desired it, enter the service of his
Britannic Majesty. The Count de Marsay availed himself of these various permits. In
1717, having in the meantime revisited his estates, he received orders from the King
of England to repair to Geneva as his Resident Minister : some time afterwards he was
accredited in the same capacity to the Helvetian Body and the Grisons. Two years later he
was fortunate enough to be able to render a signal service to his sovereign, George I., by
arresting, at Geneva, the Earl of Mar, who was secretly returning fi-om Italy to put himself
at the head of a Jacobite party in Scotland. His Majesty was much pleased with this act of
106 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
zeal, and wrote a letter of tlianks to tlie Council of Geneva, and Lord Stanhope, then
Secretary of State, evinced in several letters to the Count the King's satisfaction. Lord
Mar was kept prisoner for a year, when, the Stuart faction having been totally dispersed, he
was released upon parole. In the same year, 1719, the Count de Marsay lost his wife, by
whom he had issue a son and a daughter, who both died young. At the period of these
losses, the Republic of Geneva presented to the Count the right of citizenship as a mark of
its esteem and affection. In 1724 he married, secondly, Henrietta de Mestral de Pampigny,
a member of one of the most distinguished famiUes of the Pays de Vaud, by whom he had
two sons. In 1740 he disposed of his estate of Marsay, as well as of some others, having,
in 1731, acquired from the femily of his second wife a seigneurial estate in the Pays de Vaud,
called Changins, near Nyon, where his descendants have ever since been located. He
died in December, 1762, in his eighty-third year. Armand-Lewis de S. George died
regretted by all who knew him for his open, benevolent, and generous character, his varied
accomplishments, and the purity and firmness of his pinnciples, which caused him to be
loved and respected by all. Although he had sold the estate of Marsay, he continued
to bear the title of Count de Marsay till his death, as did his eldest son ; however, the title
appertaining to the family, and not to the estate, his other descendants continued to bear the
title of Count simply prefixed to their paternal surname ; and this title has been confirmed
to them by the several sovereigns they have served since their exodus from France.
Gabriel-Lewis, Count de S. George, eldest son of Armand-Lewis de S. George, by his
second wife, was born at Geneva in 1727. After having travelled over Evirope, he attached
himself to the Court of William IV., Stadtholder of the United Provinces, as Gentleman of
the Bedchamber. He passed the greater part of his life in Holland, and was nominated
Chamberlain, and afterwards Marshal of the Court, an appointment which he occupied for
many years. He was designated in Dutch official documents as the Coimt de Marsay-
S. -George. He possessed Changins, and acquired in 1760 the Seigneurie of Duillier, con-
tiguous to it. The Revolution of the United Pro\ances in 1795 deprived him of his appoint-
ment, and the French Revolution and that of the Canton de Vaud caused the loss of a large
portion of his wealth. Attached to the anclen regime, he saw with dismay all those institu-
tions he had been accustomed to revere crumble around him, and his chagrin may be said to
have accelerated his end. He died at Changins, whither he had retired, in 1801-2. Dying
unmarried, he left his estates to his only brother,
Henry -Augustus, Count de S. George, born at Geneva in 1728, who also entered the
Dutch service soon after his brother. He was placed in the Horse-Guards, and rose by suc-
cessive promotions to be Colonel of Dragoons. In 1767, being on leave in Switzerland,
he married his cousin, Gabriella Beata de Mestral, and settled at Chardonnay, near
Aubonne, in the Pays de Vaud, which he had recently purchased. In 1769 he retm-ned to
Holland in order to resign his commission as Colonel. He was of extraordinary mental
powers, learned, and an amateur in music and painting. Although his suavity and his dis-
tinguished manners and exquisite politeness would have claimed the highest success in
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society, he mucli preferred living in the bosom of his family in the country, where he died in
1809. He had issue three sons,
AtvMAND de S. Geokge, born in 17G8, died unmarried in 1798.
Gaukiel-Henet de S. Geoege, born in 1770, of whom presently.
Alexander de S. Geoege, born in 1772, was an officer in the Swiss Guards in the
Dutch service ; he was mortally wounded in the attack on the French intrenched camp
before Landrecies, and died some days after at Quesnoy, in 1794.
Gabeiel-Henky, Count de S. Geoege, was placed by his uncle, the Count de Marsay,
as Ensign in the Dutch Guards in 1787. The follo^\4ng year he was appointed first Lieu-
tenant, and in 1791 Captain. With this rank he served in 1793 in the Flanders campaign,
diu-ing which he manifested a capacity for military tactics, for which he was highly compli-
mented by his superiors in command. In 1794 he was wounded in an affair near Menin,
which prevented him for some time from serving actively, and he was soon after named
Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Stadtholder. During his absence on leave, the French
army invaded Holland, in 1795, and the Stadtholder and his family being forced to retire, the
countiy fell under the domination of the French. The young Captain of the Guards, Hke
his imcle, the Marshal of the Court, lost his appointment by these circumstances. At this
era of revolutions Switzerland formed no exception to the general rule, and the Count de S.
George was appointed Captain of Grenadiers in the Vaudois Militia, but, the majority of
the Canton having declared in favoiu' of the Eevolution, the Count withdi'ew from any
further participation in public affairs. In August, 1798, he rejoined the Prince Frederick of
Orange, who was forming a corps in the North of Germany, but the project was abandoned
when the Count arrived in Brunswick. The hereditary Prince of Orange, who met him there,
wished him to accompany to Berlin, as Secretary of Legation, General Baron Stamford, who
was charged with a diplomatic mission to the Court of Prussia. After passing about a year
there he, in 1799, joined General Hotze, who was then raising in the North of Switzerland
a body of troops, destined to act in concert with an Austrian army in dehvering Switzerland
from the French. Hotze at first wished to attach the Count de S. George to his staff"
as aide-de-camp, Init, this plan presenting some difficulties, the General commended him
to Mr. Wickham, then Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the allied armies,
and to him the Count acted as Secretary of Legation for military affairs. He received at the
same time the rank of Captain of the Staff" in the English service. In 1800 he was
appointed Major, and in March, 1801, Lieutenant-Colonel. In this capacity he served
actively until the Peace of Amiens in 1802, and when the Staff of the Swiss troops in the
English service was disbanded, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and came to
England with Mr. Wickham. The Count on his arrival was sent for by the Dowager
Princess of Orange to Hampton Court, who proposed that he should become the governor of
her grandsons, the young Princes of Orange. However agreeable this proposition might have
been to his feehngs, the Count de S. George declined it solely on account of his parents, whose
only son he was. Therefore, after spending nearly a year in Scotland to study in Edinburgh,
108 AN ARMOKIAL OF JERSEY.
he returned in 1805 to settle in Switzerland near his father, after having married CaroHne,
daughter of Rear- Admiral Philip Carteret,* Seigneur of Trinity, in Jersey. After his retvu-n
to S^\^tzerhlnd the Count de S. George retired entirely from the public service. In 1823,
WilUam I., King of the Netherlands, nominated him ChamberUiin. He died in December,
1826, in his fifty-seventh year, at Edinburgh, loved and deeply respected by all who knew
liirn. His wife suiwived him more than thirty years, and died in February, 1858, at
S. Saphorin-sur-Morges. The Count de S. George had issue,
Alexander-Henry-Augustus-John de S. George, of whom presently.
Carteret- William-Henry de S. George, born in December, 1815.
Augusta-Henrietta, born in January, 1809, married in 1834 M. Albert Victor Rodolph
de Mestral, of S. Saphorin-sur-Morges, formerly an oflGicer in the Dutch service, by whom
she has issue six children.
Elizabeth-Henrietta, born in March, 1811, married in 1835 M. P. J. Elout de Soeter-
woude, a member of the States-General of Holland, and Coimcillor of the Court of Appeal.
She died -without issue in March, 1837.
In virtue of an Act of Parliament of the reign of Anne, f Henry-Augustus de S. George,
born in 1728 in the house of his father, the Britannic Minister in Switzei'land, was
considered as though born in England; an Act of the reign of George II. J extended
this privilege to his son; and another of the subsequent reign § confirmed it to another
generation, but there the naturalization ended, unless further renewed. Therefore it
was found expedient to cause the issue of Gabriel-Henry, Count de S. George, to be recog-
nized as natives by the States of Jersey ; and further, the eldest of them, Alexander,
was naturalized by Act of Parliament in July, 1839, without prejudice to his rights as
citizen of the Republic of Geneva and of the Canton de Vaud. Sir Philijj Carteret-
Sylvester, Bart., dying unmarried in August, 1828, named by his will Carteret-William
Henry de S. George, his heir, upon his taking the name and arms of the family of De
Carteret, and becoming an English subject. These conditions were complied with.
Carteret-William-Henry de S. George added to his family name that of De Carteret, and was
placed at Rugby School under Dr. Arnold, where he highly distinguished himself, and gained
several of the highest prizes. Too great an ardour in the pm-suit of learning, however,
injuring his health, he fell a victim to consumption, and died in Switzerland in his
eighteenth year.
Alexander-Henry-Augustus-John, Count de S. George and Seigneur of Trinity, was
born in July, 1807. He was brought up at the Academy of Geneva, and finished his studies
at the University of Leyden, in Holland, where he received the degree of Doctor in Roman
;md Modern Law. Deeply imbued with the hereditary attachment of his family
* In the Admiral's first commission the De was omitted hy mistalie, and tliis omission was continued in all the
Hubsequent ones.
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for Holland and the House of Orange, he saw with disgust Belgium revolt againt its proper
sovereign, and Holland abandoned by the Allies ; this led laim, much against his personal
tastes, to enrol liimself as a volunteer in the Dutch army, in which he served in 1830 and
1831, in the Belgian campaign, in a corps of Chasseiu's. Afterwards he was attached to the
Staff of the Prince of Orange, and remained in active service until 1833, when he
was recalled to Switzerland by private duties. He married in 1835 Elizabeth-Sophia,
daughter of the Rev. Henry Heigham, of Hunston Hall, co. Suffolk, who died in December,
1855, and by whom he had issue,
William Hemry Theodore De Carteret de S. George, born 1841.
Elizabeth Mary Henrietta, born 1837.
Merelina Mary Ann Augusta, born 1838.
By decision of the English Court of Chancery, and in consequence of the decease of his
brother, Carteret William Henry de S. George, Alexander Henry Augustus John, Count de
S. George, became Seigneur of Trinity, in the island of Jersey. By his will, Sir PhiUp Car-
teret Silvester had left the usufruct of the estate to his eldest sister, Lady Symonds,
and afterwards to his yoimgest sister Caroline, Countess de S. George.
Arms. Quarterly, 1 and 4. Argent, a S. George's cross, gules, for S. George : 2 and
3. Barry-nebul6 of six, argent and gules, for De Rochechouart. On an escutcheon of pre-
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tension, quarterly, 1. Argent, a sea-lion, naiant, azure, for Silvester; 2. Gules, foiir fusils,
in fesse, argent, a martlet for difference, for De Carteret ; 3. Gules, three eagles, displayed,
or ; a crescent for diiference, for Lempriere ; 4. Azure, nine billets, or, for De S. Martin.
Crest. Out of a count's coronet, a demi-tub, and issuant therefrom a mermaid.
Supporters. Two mermaids, jDpr.
Motto. Nititur per ardua virtus.
The Manor House of Trinity is a picturesque and solid mansion, originally erected in the
reign of Elizabeth, but which has received several subsequent additions ; it is surrounded by
its own well-timbered grovmds, and fronted by a lawn and a piece of water, which give it all
the air of an English country seat. It possesses a well-stocked Ubrary and the largest col-
lection of family and other portraits to be found in the island : among which is a large and
valuable portrait of Charles II., by Lely, a gift from that King ; and on the lawn still exists
stone table, connected by tradition with many a jovial feast given in honour of the " merrie
monarch" while a visitor in Jersey.
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Carteret with Catherine Lempriere, the fourth quarter of the shield is charged with three mallards, which quartering
is also represented at S. Ouen's Manor on a broken but highly elaborate tazza, ornamented with the arms of the
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BAEONIAL I3RANCH.
Blias De Caeteret, Esq., second son of Sir Philip De Carteret, Kt., and Rachel, his
wife, was Attorney- General of Jersey in 1614, and married in the island of Serk, in 1608,
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hugh Dumaresq, Esq. He was buried at S. Peter, in which
church exists a handsome mural monument to his memory. He had issue, among other
cliildren, GeorCxE, of whom presently, and Philii^ Bailly of Jersey, 1662.
Sir George Carteret, Bart., who eminently possessed the sagacity and decision of
character so prominently evinced by his ancestors, entered the navy at an early age, and
at the period of the accession of Charles I. had acquired no mean reputation in that service,
which gained him the special favour and patronage of the Duke of Buckingham. In 16-39
he was appointed Comptroller of the Navy ; and, at the commencement of the Civil War,
the Parliament, which had conferred the command of the Fleet on the Earl of Warwick, also
jiromoted Captain Carteret, and named him its Vice-Admiral. But his loyalty, and fore-
sight into the troublous period then imminently looming in the perspective, led him to refer
this nomination to the King's pleasure, who commanded him unconditionally to decline it.
The King's error in this matter is greatly deprecated by Burnet, and other writers of the
time, who urge, and with great reason, that, liad the appointment been accepted by Carteret,
there is little doubt but that the Fleet, influenced by his steady loyalty and his capacity
for command, would have remained faithful to the Crown. He simultaneously gave up his
office of Comptroller, retired to Jersey, and conspicuously tended to keep tlie feelings of the
major portion of his countrymen steadily loyal : soon after, however, he crossed to Cornwall,
and there raised a troop of horse for the King. While here, he experienced a want of
ammunition, and went to France to procure this, and other necessary supplies ; and so
successful was he in his negotiations, that the Cornish troops were ever after kept in full
supply of the munitions of war. The King gratefully recorded this opportune service by
conferring knighthood upon him at Oxford, which dignity was speedily followed by his
advancement to the rank of Baronet. Upon the death of his gallant uncle and father-in-
law. Sir Phili}) De Carteret, Sir George assumed the chief command in Jersey, and continued
with such unequalled skill and success the defence of Elizabeth Castle, that this fortress was
one of the last, in the United Kingdom, to lower the Royal banner to the rebels. Upon its
surrender, at the express command of his Pi'ince, his intrepidity was so far recognised by the
Parliamentarians as to a'ain for Sir George, and his o-allant though diminished band of
patriots, the hardly-gained privilege of marching out with the honours of war ; the posses-
sion of their arms and colours ; and a full and entire immunity from mulcts, fines, and
Parliamentary sequestrations. By his prudence and bravery he also saved his native island
from French occupation ; for it is said that the dread of his patriotism and honesty of pur-
pose alone had deterred Lord Jerrayn, the Governor, from negociating its sale to that
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power. He thus had the honour of being the tlilrd De Carteret to whom must
bo attributed the preservation of Jersey to EngHsh rule, with all its concomitant
advantages. Sir George entertained, with a prodigal liljerality, Charles II. when
Prince of "Wales, during his visits to the island,* together with his large and
brilliant suite ; and on the death of Charles I. boldly caused his son to be proclaimed,
with all his titles. During the Civil War, Sir George harassed, to an extreme
degree, the ships of the Protector, and from this source, and from the French shipping,
which also suffered severely fi'om his vigilance in the Channel, he accumulated the large sum
of £80,000 in prize money. Upon His Majesty's restoration, Sir George had the honour of
riding with the King, in his triumphal entry into London, 29th May, 1660, and the day after
His Majesty named him Vice-Chamberlain of his Household, and he was sworn a Member of
the Privy Council. He was also constituted Treasurer of the Navy, and at the King's coro-
nation was appointed Almoner of the day. In the first Parliament of Charles II., May,
1661, Sir George was elected Member for Portsmouth, and appeai-ed as an active member of
the House. When the Duke of York resigned the office of High Admiral, Sir George was
constituted one of the Commissioners of the Admiralty, and in 1676 was appointed one of
the Lords of the Committee of Trade. He was also Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, and Treasurer
of the Military Forces there. Nor were his honours wholly English, for his grateful
monarch granted him several seigneuries in his native island, besides some other Crown lands,
together with the great tythes of S. Helier.f He died 13-4 January, 1679, and was
buried at Hawnes, co. Bedford, the manor and estate of which he had purchased of the
Winch family. I He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip De Carteret, Kt.,
and by her had issue, among other children,
* For detailed and most interesting accounts of the King's visits, vide " Charles II. in the Channel Islands," by
S, EUiott Hoskins, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., F.E..C.P.
t Although family tradition states that Sir George personally visited the American colonics, it may safely be
asserted that he delegated that duty to his kinsman, Philip De Carteret, Seigneur of La Hougue, and did not himself
make that voyage. On the 24th June, 1664, the Duke of York executed deeds to John Baron Berkeley, of Stratton,
and to Sir George Carteret, described as of Saltrum, co. Devon, granting to them, their heirs and assigns, certain
large tracts of lauds in North America, to be henceforth called by the name or names of New Csesarea, or New
Jersey. Philip De Carteret, supposed by the Americans to have been a brother, but who was a distant cousin of Sir
George (^vide Pedigree of De Carteret of La Hougue), received a commission, 10th February, 1664-5, as Governor of
the province, and, setting sail, landed at Elizabeth Port in August, naming his spot of debarkation in honour of the
lady of the Jersey grantee. During some disturbances that shortly afterwards prevailed concerning their local rights
as proprietors, the citizens chose James Carteret (an illegitimate son of Sir George) to present their complaints to
Government. To such lengths was their resistance carried that the Governor left for England, and by his representa-
tions the King, by an autograph letter, dated 13th June, 1674, confirmed the title and power of Sir George in East
Jersey, so named in contradistinction to the portion of the province consigned to Lord Berkeley, which was called
West Jersey. Governor Philip De Carteret remained in England until after the occupancy of New Jersey by the
Dutch, who, from war having been recently declared by France and England, took the territory in June, 1673 ; but,
upon his kinsman obtaining the confirmation just referred to, and New Jersey having been restored to the English at
X Hawnes Manor passed from the Newdegates, by purchase, to the Lukes of Cople, then to Sir Humphrey
Winch, by whom it was sold to Sir George.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 115
Sir PniLir Carteret, who perished with his father-in-law, the Earl of Sandwich, in the
lioyal James, at the great sea-fight with the Dutch in Solebay, off Yarmouth, May 28,
1G72. He married Lady Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward, first Earl of Sandwich,
K.Gr., and left issue, among others,
George Carteret, first Lord Carteret, who was created a peer in 1681, in fulfilment of the
King's intention towards his gi'andfather, who died during the preparation of the patent, but
whose wife and daughters by Royal warrant enjoyed the precedence which would have been
due to them, had it not been for the death of Sir George. He married, at the early age of ten
years, Lady Grace Granville, herself but eight years old, youngest daughter of John
Granville, Earl of Bath ; their respective parents, being staunch loyalists, were desirous of
seeing their families united during their lifetime, and thus married tliis infant pair, who
were afterwards sent to school for some years. By her Lord Carteret had issue, among
other sons,
John Carteret, second Lord Carteret, who, in the right of his mother. Lady Grace
Granville (who was created, in 1714, Viscountess Carteret and Countess Granville, vdt\\
limitation of these honours to John, her son), became Earl Granville. His mother derived her
the Peace, lie was again commissioned as Governor, Jul}' Bl, 167-1. On liis return he engaged in several disputes with
regard to his rights with Edmund Andros, Governor of New York, in which he displayed all the vigour and determina-
tion that had heen so long hnked with the name of his family. He lived at Elizahothtown, where he had a house
erected for him, and married there in 1G81 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of Smithstown, Long Island, and
relict of William Lawrence, of Tews Neck. He possessed in the province 2,000 acres of land, given him by
Sir George, besides several other tracts that he purchased. His will is dated Elizabethtown, Province of East New
Jersey, 10th December, 1682. By it " he bequeaths to his most dear and loving wife aU his houses, tenements, and
hereditaments within the province aforesaid, also his goods and chattels, all his negroes and other servants, excepting
Black Jack, whom he sets free from and after the day of his bm-ial ; and to his mother, widow Rachel Carteret, if
she be yet living, his Manor House (of La Hougue), edifices, and buildings, with all his lands, tenements, and here-
ditaments, within the island of Jersey, in the Kingdom of England, for and during her natural life, and after her
death to be divided equally amongst his brothers and sisters, children of his said mother. He also \n\\% that there
shall be paid for ever, out of his said estate in the island of Jersey, two quarters of wheat-rent to the poor of the
parish of S. Peter." This rent is now paid by Philip Le Feuvre, Esq., of La Hougue, due upon the estate in fulfil-
ment of this will. The seal of Governor De Carteret displays his ancestral escutcheon, with supporters, surmounted
with a knight's helmet.
At Sir George's death, in 1679, his will left his widow executrix of the estate and guardian of his grandson and
heir, and devised to Edward, Earl of Sandwich ; John, Earl of Bath ; the Honourable Bernard Granville, brother to
the Earl of Bath ; Sir Thomas Crew, Knight ; Sir Robert Atkyns, K.B. ; and Edward Atkyns, Esq., one of the
Bai-ons of the Exchequer, and to their hei)-s, among other property, all his lands and rights in East Jersey, in trust
for his creditors. These conveyed the Province to Thomas Cremer and Thomas Pocock, which conveyance was not,
for some reason, completed ; so, being again offered for sale, William Penn, with eleven Quaker associates, became its
]iurchasers for £3,400. The deeds of lease and release are dated 1st and 2nd February, 1681-2.
From what is believed to be a unique impression of the first great seal of the Province, it appears to display four
shields in cross, similar to those on the modern florin, the first and third being the arms of Carteret, the second and
fourth those of Berkeley. Between the shields in chief are the letters B, in base, two C's, interlaced. Legend,
" SiGiLLUM PROTiifciiE CiESAEEiE Nov^." On a coin of the province, with date 1786, appears, on the reverse, a
plough ; above, on a wreath, a horse's head, looking sinister-wise, with the legend, Nova Cajsarea : on the obverse are
the arms and motto of the United States.
IIG AN AItM01!IAI; OF JERSEY.
descent from the Courtneys, Earls of Devousliire ; the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford ; and
thus from King Bdwai'd I. ; as also from the Beaumonts ; the Lords Bonville ; the Gorges ;
the S. Legers ; and many other noble and ancient families ; and by the death of her
nephew, the Eai'l of Bath, her ladyship became one of the co-heirs to her father's
great estates in Devonshire and Cornwall, where her ancestors possessed Bideford, and
other manors, from the time of Richard II. He also became Seignem- of S. Ouen on
the death of his kinsman, Sir Charles De Carteret. This illustrions statesman, the ornament
both of his age and country, was twice Secretary of State in the reign of George I., and
(hiring some months chief, indeed sole, Minister ; Ambassador to the Courts of France,
Sweden, and Germany ; twice Viceroy of Ireland ; and Knight of the Garter. His genius
and talents, whether in public or private life, were so extraordinary as to deserve the
following notice of them from the powerful and eloquent pen of the great modern historian,
the late Lord Macaiday, in the Critical and Historical Essays of that brilliant writer : — " The
colleagues of Walpole had, after his retreat, admitted some of the chiefs of the Opposition
into the Government. They soon found themselves compelled to submit to the ascendancy
of one of their new allies. This was Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl Granville. No public
man of that age had greater courage, greater ambition, greater activity, greater talents for
debate or for declamation. No public man had such profound or extensive learning. He
was familiar with the ancient writers, and loved to sit up till midnight discussing philological
and metrical questions with Bentley. His knowledge of modern languages was prodigious.
The Privy Council, when he was present, needed no interpreter. He spoke and wrote
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and even Swedish. He had pushed his
researches into the most obscure nooks of literatiire. He was as familiar with the canonists
and schoolmen as with orators and poets. He had read all that the Universities of Saxony
and Holland had produced on the most intricate questions of public law." Hoste, in his
preface to the second edition of his History of Gustavus Adolphus, bears a remarkable
testimony to the extent and accuracy of Lord Carteret's knowledge : — " It was my good
fortune or prudence to keep the main body of my army (or, in other words, my matters of
fact) safe and entire. The late Earl of Granville was pleased to declare himself of this
opinion, especially when he found that I had made Clementius one of my principal guides ;
for his Lordship was apprehensive I might not have seen that valuable and authentic book,
which is extremely scarce. I thought myself happy to have contented his lordship, even in
the lowest degree ; for he understood the German and Swedish histories to the highest
perfection." His lordship married, firstly, Frances, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas
Worsley, Bart., by whom he had issue, among others, Robert Carteret, Earl Granville, who
died unmarried in 17 70, and Lady Louisa Carteret, who married Thomas Thynne, second
Viscount Weymouth, of whose second son Henry Frederick presently. He married, secondly,
the Lady Sophia Fermor, eldest daughter of the Earl of Pomfret, by whom he had one
daughter. Lady Sophia Carteret, wife of William, Earl of Shelburne, afterwards created
Marquis of Lansdowne, in 1784.
AN AK5I0RIAL OF JERSEY. 117
Heney-Fredeeick Thynne succeeded to tlie estates of liis grandfather upon the death
of his uncle Eobert, last Earl Granville. He was created Lord Carteret, of Hawnes, in the
county of Bedford, January 29, 1784, with remainder, in failure of issue male, to his
nephews in succession, younger sons of his only brother Thomas, first Marquis of Bath.
He filled the offices successively of Master of the Household and of Postmaster-General
of Ireland. He died in 182G, and was succeeded in liis title and estates by his nephew,*
George Thynne, second Lord Carteret, who married the second daughter of William,
second Viscount Courtney. Dying without issue in 1838, his brother,
John Thynne, succeeded him as thitxl Lord Carteret. He was representative in
Parliament of the City of Bath from 179G to 1831, and filled the office of Vice-Chamberlain
to George III. from 1804 to 1820. He married Mary Anne, daughter of Thomas Masters,
Esq., of the Abbey, Cirencester, and, dying in 1849 without issue, was succeeded in
his estates by his nephew.
The Rev. Lord John Thynne, D.D., Canon and Sub-Dean of Westminster, who is
the present representative of the baronial line of this ancient family, and second son
of Thomas, second Marquis of Bath. He officiated as Dean of Westminster, for Dean
Ireland, at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838, and wore on that occasion
the ancient cope of the Deans of Westminster. His lordship married Anne-Constantia,
third daughter of the Rev. Charles Cobbe-Beresford (Waterford), and has issue eight
children, of whom seven survive.
* From 1626 to 1826, with but nine years' cessation, during the Protectorate, the family of De Carteret liad
held the office of Bailly of Jersey. It was originally vested in the house of S. Ouen, and descended from Sir Philip
De Carteret, of loyal renown, to his illustrious nephew. Sir George, from whom it descended to this its last possessor
of that house.
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iN common with, most families of mediaeval importauce, tlie variations of spelling
in the name of this one are numerous. Its name lias been written, at different
epochs, De Groschie, De Grochie, De Grouchy, De Gruchy, and Gruchy.* The
patronymic is of such early occurrence in Norman annals that, to use the words
of the Revue Generale Blographlque, the origin of the family " is lost in the night of time."
Among the followers of William the Conqueror to England was a Grouchy, while another
member of the family fought in the Holy Land in the first Crusade. Among the soldiers in
that of 1296 was Henri De Grouchy, whose arms are blazoned among those which decorate
the ceiling of one of the chambers of the Palace of Versailles. The French branch
received a confirmation of nolnlity at Rouen, 7th of Januaiy, 1407.
The present General Count De Grouchy, son of the celebrated Marshal of that name,
and Commandant of Division at Strasburg, writing on the snbject in 1855, says, " I
have heai'd from my father that two branches of our family were obliged to expatriate
themselves after the conquest of Normandy by Philip-Augustus. One settled in Jersey,
and engaged in commerce there, Avliile the other sought refuge in England, where its
descendants remained until they emigrated to America, in consequence of their religious
opinions, which were opposed to the Puritan principles of Cromwell. This branch is
now, I think, extinct, for I met its last member at Philadelphia in 1817, and who bore
the same arms as myself ; he was sixty years of age, and, although married, had no
issue. "t
The Jersey branch has various traditions respecting its exodus from the Cotentin,
where several places still bear its name, as shown liy the maps of that district. It
settled in the parish of S. Trinity in that island in the latter part of the twelfth, or
commencement of the thirteenth century, where it acquired considerable landed property,
and gave its name to the fiefs De Grochy and De Gruchetterie. This last is now
possessed by the Seigneur of Rozel, who holds the court of the fief in the house pointed
out as the original residence of the fomily.
Several of its insular members have been in orders. Sire John Grouchy was
Rector of S. Mary in 1557 ; in 1G07 the Rev. Olivier Groschie was Rector of S. Clement.
The Rev. Daniel Grouchie, M.A., who married Catherine De Carteret, sister of the
Seigneur of Trinity, was Rector successively of S. Peter and S. Mary. The Rev. Philip
* Among the various contracts or lethal deeds in the possession of tlie family is one dated 13G2, in wliieh the
name is spelt De Grouchie; another, dated 1120, where it ai)pears as De Grouchy; and in one of l(ji)5, as
De Gruchy.
t Lettre adrcssi'e par le General de Division Conite de Grouchy h ]\I. le Comte de Malortic.
J:>ltilili ( Ijtilinnll.l )i\[m C>nr^cMnum%
A'y u//i'/// l/iix /'/,/// /x Prrsi/i/rt/ fc ///) llrr/i-
AN AKMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 121
Grucliy was Rector of S. Laurence in 1 730, and one of tlie last Eomau Catholic RectoKS
of S. Trinity was also of this family.*
Many branches derived fi-om the same source have, from a very remote period,
relinquished the prefix de. Its members are very numerous : in one vingtaine in the
parish of S. Trinity there are no less than sixteen individuals named Phihp De Gruchy,
besides many others in various parts of the island. Although the Jersey family has
increased to such an extent, the French branches have been less fortunate, and aic
soon likely to become extinct, as its present members have no male issue.
The late Marshal de Grouchy, being acquainted with the fact that a portion of his
family had settled in Jersey, -sasited the island some few years before his death, formally
acknowledged the relationship, and presented one of its members \\4th his portrait,
which is treasured as a valued heirloom.
It is represented by Me. Philip De Grughy, of the parish of S. Trinity, who, about
fifteen years ago, sold the family estate to another De Gruchy, of a younger branch.
The house on this property stands, curiously enough, on the five fiefs of Diclament, De
Gruchetterie, Saval, Petit Rozel, and Vanaise.
Aems. Or, frettv azure. t
i^OR a very long period, the family of De La Garde has been of consequence
in Jersey. The French Barons of that name have repeatedly claimed it as
a branch of their house — a house distinguished for its courage, ability, and
Huguenot principles. Concurrent dates, with various other circumstances, com-
bine to render the common origin of these two families highly probable ; but the con-
nexion has not been indubitably established, owing to the loss of early documents
relating to the history of the Jersey branch. |
* A biography of Matthew De Gruchy, a Roman Catholic priest, native of this island, living in the eighteenth
century, of amiable manners and irreproachable life, is given in the Pafrie of 1st February, 1851.
t The Marshal Grouchy bore ou an escutcheon of pretension over these arms, argent, three trefoils, vert. These
are the arms of Gruchi, of Normandy, Escuyers, Seigneurs of Robertot, Grenj-, and Bressy. The former arms are
also borne by the Lords Willougbby d'Eresby, of Parnham, and Barons Middleton.
X About sixty years since the then Baron de La Garde came over to claim kindred with the Jersey branch oi
his family. His statement of its descent was to this effect, that a branch of his fiimily had emigrated — it may be pre-
sumed during the Reformation — from political .and religious motives, to Holland, where it exists to this day ; that a
member of this branch had subsequently removed to Jersey (a well-known place of resort for the early Reformers),
and there settled. This person, there is every reason to suppose, was the Jean De La Garde whose death is recorded
in the earliest register of the parish of GrouviUe which lias been preserved. Whether he married in Jersey, or was
already married when he arri\'ed, cannot, apparently, now be ascertained, as neither his marriage, nor the death of his
wife, is included in the parochial register. The family of Dr. Paul de Lagarde, the eminent Greek and Syriac critic
of Berlin, emigrated from Lon-aine about a century later. The difficulty of finding suitable employment in France
for the cadets of this Protestant house may explain these repeated emigrations.
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122 AN AEJIOKIAL Oi'' JERSEY.
The family formerly possessed an estate at Gorey, in the parish of Grouville, and
is represented by Colonel Charles De La Garde, who married Mary, daughter of Bi-un
Benest, Esq., by whom he has issue sis daughters.
A branch settled in England in the person of the Rev. Philip De La Garde,
sometime Rector of S. Martin, Jersey, who married Sai'ah, second surviving daughter
and co-heiress of Jonathan Chilwell, Esq., of Westerham, and Hadlow, co. Kent (who
was the son of William Chilwell, Esq., of Vauxhall, by Mary, only daughter and
heiress of John Bailing, Esq., of Westerham, and who was allied to the families of
Barstone, Pratt, and Mawbey, of Surrey, and that of Daulinge or Balling, of Kent,
Surrey, and Suflblk), by Maria, only surviving daughter and heiress of John Balling,
Esq., of London, merchant.* The Rev. PhiUp De La Garde died at Chelsea, in 1798,
and was buried in the parish church of Westerham,
Tills branch is represented by his only child, PiiiLir-CiiiLWELL De La Garde, Esq.,
of Exeter, of which city he was Sheriff in 1832 and Mayor in 1834, and where he
holds several public appointments. He has written a work on Cataract, and various
papers in the Arclia?ologia, Exeter Bioc. Arch. Trans. ; Trans. Inst. Civ. Eng. (which
obtained the Telford Medal) ; Med. Chir. Trans. ; Prov. Med. Surg. Journ. ; Medical
Gazette, &c. He married Susan, second daughter of the Rev. John Lempriere, B.B., by
whom he has issue five children.
Another member of this family, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Charles Be La Garde,
Rector of GrouviUe, was of considerable literary attainments. She wrote " The Candid
Friend," and other works of no small merit, but was chiefly engaged as a contributor
to the English Reviews of her time.
Martin Be La Garde, the author of a poem of considerable beauty, entitled " An
Essay on Real Felicity," to which is prefixed a complimentary epistle, in verse, by
John Hill, was probably of this family, but nothing is known of him save that he
published his essay in 1736.
Arms. (As borne by Philip-Chilwell Be La Garde, Esq.) Argent : a bend, gules,
charged in chief with a cross patee, or, between six mullets of the first; quartering,
Argent, a palm-tree, vert, within a bordure, gules, for Herault ; Azure, a chevron
between three arrows, or, for Chilwell ; and Ermine, on a bend, or, three acorns,
ppr., for Balling. Impaling, gules, three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for differ-
ence, for Lempriere.
Crest. A deer hound, or, collared and ringed, gules.
* Vide Hasted, History of Keut ; will of John Bailing, Prerogative Court of Canterbury ; and nioinimeiits in
the parish churches of Lamhoth and AVcstcrhani, and Christchurch, Southwark.
AN A]fM(,»l;TAL OF .lEIiSEY.
123
^rtiigvfc of Wt Ha Sartre.
William Hooper, said to have been the brother Joiix De La Garde, d. 1598.=
of John Hooper, Hoper, or Houper, |_
Bishop of Gloucester.
Philip Ue La Garde^Mary, d. of . . . Triguel.
m. 1607, d. 1614. i
John.
Hugh Hooper.*
T
Clement Hooper.
T
Clement Hooper.
. Jane. d. of . . .
Philip. De La Garde, b. lG09.=Mary, d. & eventual co-h
of John Herault.
Pliilip De La Garde
Jane.
Susan Hooper or Houper, only d. & h.,=George De La Garde, Mary, b. 1647.
I I.
Francis.
m. 1674.
b. 1643.
Philip Collas, of the Philip,
Maison de S. Martin. o. s. p.
George De La Garde, Constable or Mayor of ^ Ann, d. of Elias Pipon, Seig. of
the parish of S. Martin, b. 1676.
Noirmont.
Mil
Susan.
Elizabeth.
Ann.
Mary,
o. s. p.
I I
Rev. Charles De La Garde, of Gorey, ^ Mary, d. of John Le Hardy, George,
for 50 years Rector of Grouville, " ' | Jmat R.C., m. 1737. b. 1699.
b. 1698. I
Peter Patriarche.= Ann.
b. 1701.
I I I I
Charles De La Garde, Esq., = Mary, d. of Capt. George, Rev. Philip, = Sarah, d. and Thomas, Mary,
Jm-at R.C., b. 1744,
d. 1820.
George Bernard. b. 1746. Rector of S. ' co-h. of b. 1748. b. 1752,
Martin, b. j Jonathan d. at
1747, d. 1798. , Chilwell, Esq. Clifton.
Charles De La Garde, Esq.,
Col. R.J.M.
Mary, d. of Brun Benest, Esq.f
Philip-Chilwell De La Garde, Esq.. = Susan, 2nd d. of the Rev. John
F.R.C.S., b. 1797. | Lempriere, D.D.
..I I
Philip, b. 1828, John-Lempriere De La
d. 1833. Garde, Esq., M.B., Loud.,
F.R.C.S,, b. 1833.
Jessy- Williamson,
b. 1827.
Elizabeth-Miller,
b. 1836, d. 1857.
Richard A. Becher, Esq.
Katharine,
b. 1838.
Marv-Ann De La Garde,
b. 1809.
Rev. Clement Le Hardy,
Rector of S. Peter.
Louisa-Jane, b. 1810. Elizabeth, b. 1812. Sarah, b. 1813. Jane, Susan,
b. 1815, b. 1817,
Capt. Thos. P. Le Hardy, Rev. Chas. Sevmour. Dr. Sharkey. d. 1S41. d. 1840.
R.N.
Provost of Tuam.
* Hugh Hoopei-, fitz William, for the houfe and grounds of the forfeiture of Mourant Befnard, to carry the King's
wheat 3 quarters. I cabot.
Hugh Hooper for William Hooper for the forfeiture of Mourant and Rofuerd, which he holdeth of the King in fee for
ever x fous. — Vide Extente, 1607.
t The family of Benest has been settled in the parish of S. Brelade for several generations, where one of
its branches is represented by Geoege-Philip Benest, Esq., for several years Constable or Mayor of his
native parish.
2 1.
AN AKMOKIAL OF JERSEY.
iUrtigrrc of ISfncst.
JosnrA Benest. ==..., youngest d. of Jolni Le Febvre, Seig. of S, John La Hougue Boete.
Raulin Benest. = Sarah, d. of . . . Bailhache.
Raulm Benest. = Appolinc, d. of . . . Corbet.
Aaron, d. 1709,
Eaulin Benest.
Aaron.
Philip, li. 1706. George.
Rachel, d. of
Riuilin, o. s. p.
Joshua, Elizabeth, eventual
o. s. p. heiress.
Fallot.
Philip Benest.
Elizabeth, d. of
— Mausrer.
Sarah. Mary.
Rev. Andre Daniel
Migault, Hamon.
Rector of S.
Saviour, Guernsey.
John, d. 1759.
Sarah, d. of —
Marett.
Mary, d. of -
Monamy.
Brun Benest.
Jane, d. of Philip
D'Auvergne.
- ..I I I I
I'liiHp Benest, George. Sarah, Jane, d. at
d. 176-1. d. at Chester, Youghal,
— 1816. Ireland.
Jane, d. of ■
Hamon.
Major Charles Shireff.
Brun Benest, George, Philip,
b. 17-10. Deputy- Vicomte ob.jiiv.
or Sheriff of
Elizabeth, d. of Jersey, and Col.
— Godfray. 4th Regt. R.J.M,
Mary -Jane.
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, d. of
Hamon.
Philip Benest, Esq., Andre,
d. 1804.
Elizabeth-Catherine,
d. of — Mauger.
I.
Harriet.
Peter Cotter, Esq.,
H. M. 58th Eegt.
Mary Elizabeth.
Benest.
Colonel
De La Garde.
Harriet Benest,
b. 1797.
John-Joshua
(Jabourel.
Elizabeth,
b. 1797, ob.juv.
George-Philip
Benest, Jurat
R.C.
Elizabeth, d. of
Philip Winter.
Elizabeth, ob.juv.
Philip, Lieut.
R.J.M.
Susan, d. of —
Le Beir, of the
Island of Guernsey.
Jane.
George Neel.
Elizabeth.
George-Philip Benest, Esq., Constable of S. Brelade.
Ellen-Campbell, d. of Capt. John Fitzwalter, H.E.I.C.S.
Harriet.
George-Philip.
Ranlin-Fitzwalter.
Anthony-Philip-Georgc.
Ellen-Georgina.
.\R,\rs. A chevron between two roses, slipped, in chief, and a heart in base.
AN AEMOKIAI, OF JERSEY.
125
He la DIace,
HE insular founder of this family was the Reverend Peter De La Place, a member
of the ancient and honourable family of this name, of the province of Angouleme.
He, Avitli his wife, fled from France on account of his rehgious opinions, and
settled in the parish of S. Ouen,* as appears by a formal document given by the
Bailly, Philip De Carteret, and a quorum of Jurats, to the Rev. Blias De La Place, son of
Peter, as a proof of his descent. This deed is dated 1st October, 1641.
Elias De La Place became possessed of the fiefs of Anneville, Everat, and Lempriere,
by purchase, from his Majesty's Commissioners, in 1649. These fiefs are held by Knight's
service, and owe the maintenance of a horseman equipped and ready for service, with arms
and other requisites, at all times when the enemy shall assail or be near the island ; these
fiefs are also to remain impartable in the male, or collateral, line for ever.f
The estates were afterwards held by Philip De Carteret, Esq., Bailly of Jersey, by his
marriage with Mary De La Place, Lady of Anneville, the last member of the elder branch
of the family, a most estimable person, who, as says the Parish Register, " fut regTette du
peuple, de ses tenants, et des pauvi-es, auxquels eUe faisoit beaucoup d'aum6nes."|
Branches of the family, now extinct, are represented by the families of Le Hardy and
Le Maistre of S. Ouen.
Aems. (Of De La Place of France.) Azure, three midlets, or.
^rtiigrcc of Mz 3La ^lare.
2. Elizabeth, d. of=REV. Petek De La Place, a native of Angouleme, afterwards=
John Dumaresq.
A daughter.
Rector of S. Ouen.
Le Ruez.
:1. Michelle, d. of . . . .
Girard,§ of the ancient Nor-
man family of that name.
Rev. Samuel De La
Place, Pastor in the
island of Guernsey.
Peter, j Settled
— I in
David, ' Britany.
I
2. Jane, d.^Rev. Elias De La Place,
of . . . . Rector successively of S.
Dubosc. Martin and Grouville,
and Sei'j-. of Anneville.
B
=1. Jane d. .To.shua, settled
of Noble- at Saumur.
homme Julian
Dagobert, Seig. of La
Hayrie, in Normandy.
* Where he gave his name to the property which he purchased, to this day called La Place,
t Vide Extente of 1668. J Tide Register of Burials, parish of Martin.
§ Asms op Giraed of Normandy, Gyronny, of six, or and azure ; a chief, or.
II The ftimily of Le Ruez is descended from a gentleman of that name, a native of the province of Languedoc, wlio
settled in Jersey at a very remote period. He was the lineal ancestor of
Nicholas Le Ruez of S. Ouen.
I
A
1
12G
AN ArwMOKlAL OF JERSEY.
B
I
Eev. Joshua De
La Place, Rector
of S. Trinity and
S. Laurence.
Samuel.
Thomas.
Genette. Elizabeth. Mary De La Place,=Philip De Carteret, Esq.,
Esther. Ansrel.
Mary De La Place,
b. 1663.
Eev. John De La I'lace,
Rect. of S. Mary.
vSarah, dau. of Benjamin Bisson, Esq.
sole d. and h., m.
16-i2, in S. George's
Chapel, Mont Or-
gueil Castle, d. 1676.
Bailly of Jersej', brother
of Sir (Jeorge Carteret,
Bart. (J'ide Ped. of De
Carteret, Baronial
Branch.)
Sarah De La Place, d. 1755, aged 95 years.
John Le Brun, o. s. p.
Mt la Castf.
EAN DE LA TASTE, tlie first settler of tliis name in Jersey, was one of the
victims of tlie persecutions which followed the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. Having fled from his native place, Saintes, near Bordeaux, he settled
first in Spain, iDut finally retired to Jersey, where he married Marie-Susanne Souze,
liy whom he had a numerous family.
The parent stock still exists in Trance, where, at the end of the last century, it was
represented by Monsieur Jean-Jacques De La Taste, Seigneur du Chatelet, President de
I'Election de Saintonge, who, by Dame Catheruae Dangibeaud d'Averton, his wife, left
issue two sons and three daughters, one of which latter became the wife of the Comte Pierre
de Bremond d'Ars, and another that of the Chevalier de Maureville. Its present head is
Monsieur Aristides De La Taste, Receveur des Contributions directs a Neufchatel.
In Jersey the family is represented in the male line by Frederick De La Taste, Esq.
Arms : Gules, a plain cross, humette, between three doves, argent.
Crest : a dove, ppr.
Motto : Virtus, Pietas, et Fidelitas.
Philip Lc Rucz, of S. Oiun, o. s. p.
B
. . . Lc Broeq. =^ Susan.
Amliv Le Erocq, Esq., tlie present veprescntalive of this
braneh of the family.
Arms op Le Ruez, Gules, three arrows in fease, or, points downward.
Crest. A lion rampant, gules.
Motto. Vi et Virtute.
Dt la Tm
MalU,
Bilfarani?
AN AEMORTAL OP JERSEY.
127
13ctiigrfc of 33c 3La Ea^tt.
Jean De La Taste. = Marie Gamier, oh. at Saintes.
Jean De La Taste, settled in Jersey. = Marie Susanne, d. of Jean Souze. Marie.
Mane. )
Sara. )
oh. at Saintes.
Edward, ) | Eacliel.
■ o.s.p. JeanDe La Taste. = Sarah, d. of William Matthews.
Frederick,
I I I
Marie-Susanne,
Thos. Williams, Marie-Deborah,
of Alderney. —
Susanne,
ol. jtiv-
Jean De La Taste. = Judith, d. of John Mellish, of Guernsey.
I
Sara,
ob.juv.
John De Edward, ^ Jane, d. of John Hooper, Frederick, Thomas-Eugene. Mellish.
La Taste, Lt.-Col. of GrouvUle.
oh.Juv. R.J.M.
Elise, d. of Margaret of Mary-Jane, d. of
James Grellier. Poole Giffard Edward Renouf.
Jane.
Clara-Eliza.
I I
Leonora.
Loms Poignard.
Sarah.
Leonora-Maria. H. C. Ber-
— tram,
Amelia.
Eliza.
Wm. Anley-
Three sons and ___^___
two daughters, | till
of whom the Thomas-Francis Charles. John. Twodaus.
eldest, James De La Taste,
H. De La Taste, Capt. R.J.M. Mary-Ann,
Esq. d. of Ph. Pelher.
Louisa Ann, d.
Isabella, d. of of Capt. Bayfield.
T. E. De La
Taste.
Mellish De La Taste,
Capt. & Adj. R.J.M. A.
ob. 1859.
I ' M M
Edward, Philip-Matthew, Mary,
Capt. R.J.M. — —
• John-James. Jane-
JuKa, d. of Honorine.
the late N. both ob.
Le Quesne,
Jurat E.G.
Mc ©ucttfbille.
HIS family lias been settled from a very early period in the eastern parisli
of S. Martin, of wliich one of its members was Constable or Mayor about 1330,
Its name is very probably derived fi'om the village of Quetteville, in
Xormandy ; and the fief of Quetivel, in Jersey, received the name of this
family, who were probably its first proprietors.
128 AN AEMOEIAL fiF JERSEY.
In 1331, Andrieii De Quetteville appeal's as one of the jury empanelled to ascer-
tain the King's dues in the parish of S. Martin, and in 154G John De Quetteville was
one of the procureurs of the same jiarish. The family has continued to reside in its
old ancestral house, and is now represented there by Francis De Quetteville, Esq.
Another branch also residing in S. Martin is represented by JosnuA-DuMAEESQ De
Quettea^lle, Esq., descended maternally from the ancient families of Mallet and Dumaresq
of Samares.
Among its principal members was the late Philip Do Quetteville, Es(i., Colonel
R.J.M.A., which l:)rancli is represented by his son, David De Quetteville, Esq., Jurat
of the Royal Court and President of the Chamber of Commerce of Jersey.
A branch of the family apjiears to have settled at an early period in Guernsey.
Jolm De Quetteville was Bailly of that island in 1631, and his namesake was elected
Jurat of its Royal Court in 1053.
Aems. Or, a saltire, azure, dentelle, sable.
J3t &it. (tvoix.
HIS family has been settled in the island from a very early date, for in a
confirmation of lands to the monks of S. Mary of Bellozauue by King
John in 1200, the name of Robert De Sancta Cruce is mentioned as a
trustee.*
One branch of this house, still holding land on tlie fief of Bellozanne, on an estate
known as the " Pied du Cotil," is now represented by the eldest son of the late
G-AUTiEii De Ste. Croix, Esq., and by Feanois-Gautiee De Ste. Croix, Esq., who, with
Durell Lerrier, Esq., also represent the distinguished Norman family of De Gascoing,
Seigneurs of several important and extensive fiefs in that Duchy.
Another branch is represented by Philip De Ste. Croix, Esq., Jurat of the Royal
Court of Jersey, son of the late Aaron De Ste. Croix, Esq., who was also a Jurat.
His l)rother, Francis De Ste. Croix, Esq., married Amelia, daughter of the late Charles
D'Auvergne, Esq., of Guernsey, and is thus connected with some of the most distinguished
families of that island.
Arms. (As borne by Francis-Gautiee De Ste. Croix, Esq.) Argent, a lion rampant,
sable : quartering. Argent, three spear-heads radiating from the fesse point, l)etween as
many mullets of six points, pierced, gules, for Dj-: Gascoing ; and Azure, a gi-iffin, segreant,
* Vide Rot. Cliart., 1 Joliii, 1200. Touching the uiituiuity of the name as a patronymic, M. About, in his
recent sparkling worlc on ]\ome, incidentally states in his remarks upon the llonian nobility, that the family
of Sancta-Croce had representatives in the days of Livy.
;)Pr,in:rb (§aittm' Jf §fc €r#i^, f.0j.i|irtm
By n/ir'?» //i?s P/,i/, is 7'/y\i/i/ti/ fr- f/i, ll'> lA: .
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
129
or, for LoiTVEL. Impaling, gules, on a mount, vert, two lions, rampant, supporting a
tower, argent, for Kelly.
Crest. A dexter arm, embowecl in armour, ppr., holding in the hand a cross passion.
Another : A cubit arm, vested, holding a plain cross.
Motto. In Deo confido.
iPrtigrff of 3if ^tf. (Sxoix.
BRANCH OF PIED-DU-COTIL HOUSE.
Abeaham De Ste. Croix.
Abraham De Ste. Croix, d. 1707. = Margaret, d. of . . . . Poingdestre.
Abraham De Ste. Croix.
Margaret, d. of — Luce.
Joshua De Ste. CroLx,
b. 1707.
Magdalen, d. of Samuel Passem.
Rachel, m. 1728.
Philip Bechervaise
1. Eachel, d. of = Thomas De Ste. Croix. = 2. Ann, d. of Samuel.
— Le Breton.
Sorel.
Magdalen
De Ste. Croix.
Thos. Du Jardin.
I I
Rachel. Margaret De Ste.
— Crois.
Mary.
Philip Ahier.
Magdalen. Esther. Mary.
Nicholas James George
Boudier. Ereaut. Sohier.
Joshua De Ste.
Croix, oh.juv.
John, died a
pi'isoner of war
in France.
Abraham De Ste. Croix.
Joshua De Ste. Croix.
I .
Francis.
Mary, d. of — Collas.
Esther.
Joshua,
b. 1740, d. 1820.
Magdalen, d. of
Thomas Luce.
Elizabeth, oh.juv. Ehzabeth.
Magdalen. Francis Hamptonne.
PhiHp.
Margaret.
Henry De Ste. Croix.
Francis De Ste. Croix. Marv.
Elizabeth, d. of — De
Ste. Croix.
Rachel. Francis De Ste. Croix. Henry.
PhUip De Ste. Croix.
PhUip.
Peter.
Rachel, d. of — De |
Ste. Croix. Peter.
I John.
Francis De Ste. Croix, Lieut. Ehzabeth. Philip De Ste. CroLx. Rachel.
R.J.M.
John. PhUip.
Jane, d. of — Gautier.
Philip Payn. Susan, d. of — Ahier. Philip Bichard. Ehzabeth, d. Susan.
= of — Dyment.
B
130
AN AinK'iRIAL OP JERSEY.
B
Anne De Ste. Croix.
Edward IJenize, of La
Eoussetterie, S. Laurence,
Capt. R..T.M.
Gautier De Ste. Croix, Esq. Francis-Gautier.
Ann, d. of the late Henry
Biggs, Esq., Rifle Brigade.
Susan, d. of the
late Captain Kelly,
E.N.
Mary-Ann.
Louisa.
Francis De Ste. Croix.
Henry-Biggs.
Gautier.
Edith.
Alice.
Phoebe.
.John De Ste. Croix.
Jane, d. of — Duehemin.
The representatives of
this branch have settled
in the United States.
Jane.
John Le Cronier.
Ann.
Isabel.
Grace.
Be ^. ilflartin.
OR many generations this family, long since extinct, possessed the Fief Hubert
of Trinity.
Thomas De S. Martin, the last Seigneiu' of Trinity, -was accused after his
death of ha\dng participated in the attempt to deliver the island to the
French, during the Governorship of John Nanfant. This charge probably derived an
air of possibility from the fact that Guille De S. Martin, brother of Thomas, had been
Attorney-General of Jersey under the Count de Maulevrier, the French commander. It was
Tuade use of, in the reign of Henry VIII., by Sir Hugh Vaughan, the then Governor,
as a pretext for endeavouring to wrest the estate from Drouet Lempriere, nephew and heir
of the aforesaid Thomas. The allegation, however, was proved to be false, and the rapacious
claims of Vaughan were, to the honour of the BaiUy, Holier De Carteret, disallowed by the
Court.* Durell, in his notes to Falle's history, mentions that John, Guillot, Ralph, and
Guy de 8. Martin (probably cousins of Thomas) were also implicated in the accusation. f
The family is represented by the Seigneurs of Trinity and of S. John La Hougue
Boete.
* ride p. 78.
t Laurence De S. Martin was Bishop of Eochester from 1251 to 1274. Whether he was, as is probable, of this
family, records fail to show. His arms were — Sable, six lionccls, 3, 2, 1, or. Vide the Blazon of Episcopacy.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 131
^rtiigrrr of S«. Ittartin.
JoEDAN De S. Martin, mentioned in a confirmation of lands by King Jolin to the Monies of S. Marv of
Hellozanne, 1 Johan., A.D. 1200, from whom descended,
Henry De S. Martin, Bailly of Jersey in 1318, Scig. of Trinity.
Iticliard De S. Martin, Seig. of Trinity, Bailly Geoffroy, Lieut. -Governor of Jersey John, Bailly of Jersey 136R.
of Jersey 13G7. 1371 (i)j(/e Rymer's Fccdera). '=
Richard De S. Martin, Seig. of Trinity.
John De S. Martin.
John De S. Martin,
bur. at S. Saviour,
Thomas De S. Martin, Seig. Guille, Attorney-Gen. of Gideon. ^Mabel, d. 1462.
of Trinity, Usher to Henry Jersey 1463. of ... . =
VIII. when Prince of Wales, La Cloche. |
living 1497.
John. Guillot. Ralph. Guy.
Thomasse, sole d. and h.,=George Lempriere, of Rozel.
Lady of Trinity. (Tide Fed. of Lempriere.)
Aem.s. Gules, nine billets, argent. (When the Manor of Trinity became possessed by
the family of Lempriere, the tinctures were altered to azure and or.) The ancient arms of
the family were a fesse between three mullets . . . ., as appears from a seal of
Richard De S. Martin, Bailly, appendant to a deed dated 1367.*
Bt VanmovtL
Pw PHILIP DE VAUMORBL, the first of that name in Jersey, married
Constance-Charlotte Le Hardy, daughter of the Attorney-General of that island,
by whom he had John, M.D., and Philip, Colonel H.B.I.C.S. This latter served
in India with much eclaf, and was present at the siege of Seringapatam ; a
sword taken at the sacking of the town, and a portrait of the veteran, are in the pos-
session of F. Gme. CoUas, Esq. Neither leaving issue, the family became extinct, in tlic
male hne, in the second generation of its insular existence.!
Arms. Barry of eight, ermines and argent, over all, a lion rampant, or ; on a chief of
the second, three owls, ppr.
Crest. On a wreath, an esquire's helmet, ppr.
MoTTO. Loyal Devoir.
* Vide p. 63.
t The representation of the family devolved, on the death of Col. Vaumorel, in 1820, upon the descendants of
one of his sisters, the wife of .... Le Sauvage.
132
AN ARMORIAL OP JEB.SEY.
I3u!jcaume.
HE date of the first settlement of this family in the island has not been
ascertained.
Its eldest branch possessed lands in the parish of S. Ouen, where, becoming
extinct, it is now represented by John-Daniel Chevalier, Esq., who possesses,
among other objects of vertu formerly belonging to the family, an antiqvie tortoise-shell
l)rooch, upon which are carved its armorial bearings.
A junior branch has long been settled at Les Augerez, in the parish of S. Peter, and is
represented by the Rev. William Ddheaume, M.A., Rector of S. Trinity.
Arms. Cheeky, argent and vert, on a bend of the first, a leopard's head, cabossed,
between two annulets, sable ; a canton ermine.
Crest. A dexter hand issuant fi'om clouds, holding a sprig of three roses, all ppr.
^rtiigrrr of JDuljcaumr.
RlCHAHD DunEAUME, of the parisli of S. Peter, living 1600, from whom descended
Peter Duheaume, a junior scion of Duheaume of Les Augerez. = Sarah, d. of Leonard Lc Grand, of La Vallee.
Peter Duheaume. = Susan, d. of Drouet Gallichan, of la Maison de la Chasse, S. Trinity.
I
Peter Duheaume. = Sarah, d. of Abraham Bertram of S. Martin, by Sarah De Carteret.
I
I I . .1 I
Peter Duheaume, o. s. p. Philip, o. s. p. William. ^= .Jane, 3rd d. of Rev. George Duheaume, = Elizabeth, only
the Eev. Richard M. A., of Pembroke
I Le Feuvre, Coll., Oxon., Rector of S.
William Duheaume, M.D., = Caroline, d. of CTement Rector of S. Peter. Laurence.
Surgeon 84th Regt.
Bailhache, Jurat R.C.
d. .t h. of
Daniel
Poingdestre.
Rev. George
William, M.R.C.S.
Sarah.
Ann. p]liza.
Duheaume, M.A.,
Fellow of Pembroke
Lam-a-Caroline,
John Fallo,
Philip, Willian
Coll., Oson.,
d. of William
of S. Peter.
eld. son of Le Couteur
0. s. p. 1S37.
Duheaume, M.D.
Advocate of Hamp-
1
Le Couteur, tonne
of Hamptonne House.
Elizabeth-Caroline.
House.
Laura- Jane.
George-Philip.
William-Leighton.
Sarah-Ann.
Alice.
/1\ II /j/ //I //av /'/,//, /.-.■ />j.;sy ///>>//- ///f- II /!/■/,' .
AN AEMOKIAL OF JERSEY.
133
Rev. William Duheaume,
M.A., of Jesus Coll,
Cambs, liector of S.
Trinity,
: Mary- Ann. only d.
of the Rev.
Edward Le Vavasseur-
dit-Doi'ell, Rector
of S. Saviour,
William-Charles, b. 1857.
Mary-Mildred, b. 1858.
Laura-Caroline. Delicia, o s, p.
Wm. Duheaume,
M.R.C.S.
IBumarcsq,
EW families in .(;
Jersey can boast
a more length-
ened lineage or
more distins-uished mem-
bers tban tbat of Duma-
resq. It is one of the few
patrician bouses of the
island, the representatives
of which have, from the
earliest historic period,
held offices of trust and
distinction in the public
service of Jersey. Falle,
the historian, makes special
mention of its rank and
antiquity, and congratu-
lates himself upon his con-
nection with it.
The first insular settler
of the name is stated to
have been of a Norman
family, and to have mi-
grated in the suite of
certain ecclesiastics who
visited Jersey for the pur-
pose of dedicating one of
the parish chiirches, in the
early part of the thirteenth
century. The earliest offi-
ABMS AXD SUPPORTERS OF DrilAUKSQ,
SCULPTUEED ON THE SOUTH WALL OF S
TEINITT CHURCH.
cial mention of the name occurs in a roll of the Exchequer, 21 Edward I., recording assizes
held in Jersey, 23rd November, 1292, in which Jordan Du Maresq appears as a Jurat of the
Royal Coiirt of the island.
The name has been variously spelt De Marisco, De Marais, Dumateys, and Dumaresq ;
a name which was not, at one period, peculiar to the island; for in 1217 John De Marisco
held the See of Dm-ham, and in 1272 Wilbam De Mareys held lands in Oxford. There exists,
however, no evidence to prove the common origin of the Jersey and English families.*
* ViiJe the Abbreviatio Placitorum, the Inquisitiones post Mortem, &c. The Testa de Neville also mentions
individuals named Marisco, Maresco, Le Mareys, and De Marej's. By a privately printed history of the family
of Montmorency, written by Henry de Montmorency-Morres, and published in Paris in 1817, it appears that a branch
of this house was formerly styled De Marisco, since corrupted into Morres.
84 AN AEMOEIAL OF JEESBT.
That of Jersey appears primarily to have been established in the parish of S. Brelade,
where it held the estate of La Hanle. So early as the reign of Edward II., William Dmnaresq
was Attorney-General of the island, and is justly remembered with admiration on account of
his successful and able defence of the liberties and ^Drivileges of his countrymen before John
de Fressingfield, Drogo De Barentine, and John De Button, the Commissioners appointed by
the King to inquire into the legislative and jurisdictive state of the island. From this
liranch the late Sir John Dumaresq, Knight, derived his descent, of whom the following
obituary notice is translated from a local journal : —
" Gifted with a lively imagination and with superior genius, Sir John Dumaresq directed,
at an early period of his life, his attention to the study of jurisprudence, and at the age of
twenty-one was nominated an advocate of the Royal Court. Here his natural energy and
stirring eloquence, supported by his logical style of pleading, his excellent delivery, and
his sound judgment, soon predicted his ultimate success. Successively called, by public
approval and by the choice of Government, to fill various administrative, financial, military,
and judicial functions, he became Constable (Mayor) of his parish ; one of the Receivers of
His Majesty's Revenues ; Colonel of the N.W. Regiment R.J.M. ; Attorney- General of the
island in 1801 ; and finally its Lieutenant-Bailly in 1802. He eminently comprehended the
insular laws and constitution ; and it was undoubtedly owing to this valuable advantage,
combined Avith his other qualifications, that he was deputed on no less than twenty-one
occasions to represent the States of Jersey before His Majesty in Coimcil. He terminated
his long honourable career on the 19th March, 1819, aged sixty-nine. More than one
thousand individuals, among whom were members of the most distinguished families of the
island, assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to their beloved and talented
countryman."* In S. Peter's Church exists an elegant mural tablet to his memory, and
to that of his wife, the daughter of John Le Mesurier, Esq., hereditary Governor of
Alderney. In the same church there is also one to that of his eldest son John Dumaresq,
Esq., Attorney-General of Jersey, and another to that of his youngest son, Thomas Dumaresq,
Esq., Deputy- Assistant Commissary-General, who served in Egypt, in the Mediterranean,
and in the Peninsula, and had charge of the Army of Occupation in Paris in 1815.
This section of the family is represented by Geoege Duiiakesq,, Esq., of Seafield,
S. Lam-ence.
From La Hanle a branch settled at Vincheles de Bas, of which fief it obtained the
Seigncurie in 1486 ; whence, about 1500, John, son of Thomas Dumaresq, Seigneur of
Vincheles de Bas and of Gorge, by his marriage with Mabel Payn, the lady of Samaras,
removed to that Fief Haubert, which remained in the possession of his descendants for
eight generations. Of this Itranch, Henry Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samares, was con-
spicuous for the support he gave to the Republican cause at the period of the Great
* Vide Gazette de lisle de Jersey, March 27, 1819.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
l;3i
Rebellion, when lie was one of the Rebel Commissioners, and for his friendship for Michael
Lempriere, the Parliamentarian Bailly of Jersey. His son Pliilip, however, appears to
have held opposite views, for he figures as a Jurat of the Royal Court very shortly
after the Restoration. He was born about 1650, and entered at an early age the Royal
Navy, where he rose to Post rank. He is well known as the author of a Survey of
Jersey, which he presented to James II. in 1685. The original MS. is preserved at the
British Museum. His only daughter Deborah, avIio conveyed the Seigneurie of Samaras
to the Seale family, died without issue. One of the junior sections of this branch is repre-
sented by John Dumaeesq, Esq.
AEilS AND QUAETEHI^GS OF DUMAEESQ OF SAMAHES, S. CLEilEXT S CUrECH.
On the south side of S. Clement's Church is an altar-monument, surmounted by the
arms depicted above. It records the death of John Dumaresq, Jui'at R.C., and Esther
Dumaresq, his wife. Lady of Samares. This latter, vnih. her sister Sarah, the wife of
Heher De Carteret, were remarkable for their patriotism, in voluntarily resigning their
joint seigneurial rights to the Mont de la Vihe (upon which is erected Fort Regent),
which is situated on a dependency of Samaras, in order that so commanding a site might
be fortified for the protection of the town and harbour of S. Heher. The idea, tln.'n
suggested, was not carried out until many years afterwards.
In the interior of the same church is a slate tablet recording the extinction of one
of the branches of this family, on which are inscribed the following quaint lines, which,
fi^om their pathos, deserve repetition here : — (See page 136.)
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AN AKMORIAL OF JEKSEY.
Ici reposent les coqis d'Hclier
Dumaresq, Gentilhomme, qui
Deceda le 2 2 May 1 7 1 6, et dt-
Demoiselle Esther Dumaresq sa fiUe,
Qui deceda le lyme
Avril 1717.
Ester Le Geyt sensiblement touchee de la mon de son
Fidele epoux et de sa chere fiUe, leur a fait dresser
Cet epitaph pour estre un monument peipetuel de son souvenir.
J'etois encore inconsolable
Apres le trepas d'un mari
Que j'avois tendrement cheri
Lors que la mort inexorable
Mettant le comble a mes douleurs
Fit de nouveau coulei' mes pleurs,
Et m'enleva ma chere fille,
Tu le scais 6 mon Dieu c'estoit
H(51as ! tous ce qui me restoit
D'une assez nombreuse famille.
Seule sans enEins, sans epoux
Q u'heureuse pour moy sera I'heure
Oft je les pouray joindre en ta sainte demeure
Et gouter dans ton sein les plaisirs les plus doux.
Arms.
From the family at Samares sprang the various branches of Ddmakesq du Morin,
Dumaresq des Augres, with others settled in various parts of the island.
The estate of Morin derives its name fi'ora a family once of some note in the island,
but now extinct. Perrez Moryn was Lieutenaut-Bailly to Sir John Bernard in 1431,
and Nicholas Morin was Bailly under the Count de Maulevrier in 1467.* This branch
of Dumaresq, now quite extinct, was allied by marriage to some of the best famihes of the
island.
The fief of les Augres was acquired by this family by the marriage of Richard
Dumaresq with CoUette Larbalestier, its heiress. The family of Larbalestier is one of
very early settlement in Jersey, and is said to have derived its patronymic from the fact
of an ancestor having held the post of bow-bearer to the Conqueror. Of this branch
was the Rev. Daniel Dumaresq, D.D., F.R.S., Canon of Salisbury; Prebendaiy of
Netherbury-iu-Bcclesia ; Rector of Yeovilton, Somerset ; Pi'ebendary of Wells ; and honorary
member of the Academy of Sciences at S. Petersburgh. He was educated in his native
island at the school of S. Manelier, afterwards entered Pembroke College, Oxford, and
* Ahms (as borne by Pekrez Morxn) : A pike, naiant, in chief; in base, waves, ondee. Motto : Fortune le
veut. The seal used by Nicholas Morin had for device a sprig, leaved and fructed, hut this probably was not
intended as an armorial bearing. Anils of Morix of Normandy : Or, a cross, engrailed, sable.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 137
finally became a Fellow of Exeter College in 1740. He was some time Chaplain to the
British Factory at S. Petersburgh, and, while there, was honoured with the special notice of
the Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II. of Russia. Upon the application of Stanislaus,
the last King of Poland, for some Englishman of talent to superintend the scheme, he
was considered the fittest person to conduct the establishment of schools, which the King-
had determined to open throughout his dominions. Entering into his task -with much taste
for the employment. Dr. Dumaresq succeeded in carrjdng out this educational plan to the
admiration of every one concerned. On his departure from Poland the grateful monarch
was solicitous to present the leai^ned doctor with some adequate mark of his good--wil].
Dr. Dumaresq, however, refused both honours and money, and would accept nothing save
the watch that the King wore, and which he took simply as a gage cVamitlc* Upon
his arrival in England he retired to his small living near Bath, which no promises of
preferment made him by his personal friends, George III. and William Pitt,t were
sufficiently powerful to induce him to leave ; for, had it not been for his genuine love
of repose and tranquillity, he might imdoubtedly have arrived at the dignity of a mitre.
" Perhaps the uniform conduct of no one man," says Hutchins, in his History of Dor.set,
"in this or any other coTuitry came nearer to that of the primitive Chinstians in the
apostohc age, than that of this venerable divine during his very long life."t At his dcatli,
which occurred at Bath, October 28, 1805, in his ninety-fifth year, he generously left liis
books to the Public Library of Jersey, which nearly doubled the original gift of Falle. A
characteristic portrait of Dr. Dumaresq is in the possession of Madame de Vincheles
de Bas, who is descended from his sister EHzabeth. This branch is represented by the
families of ]\Iallet, De Carteret, and Vibert.
Another branch, several of the members of which are settled in England, is represented
by the descendants of Lieutenant-Colonel John Dumaresq and of Phihp Dumaresq, Esq.,
late President of the Council at Cape Breton. Its insular, no less than its Enghsh, aUiances,
* This watch is still m existence in Jersey, having been given by a female relative of Dr. Dumaresq to
her legal adviser, some few years ago.
t Several interesting anecdotes are extant respecting this good and erudite man. It is said that when Pitt
could steal a few days from his sterner duties, he would go and visit his friend, and, in his humble but snug parlour,
the haughtv and eloquent Premier would resuscitate his earlier days by discussing with his learned friend some
disputed classical passage, or bv relating, with much interest, on difs touching their early companions, many of whom
were among the most prominent characters of the day. Dr. Dumaresq was formally introduced to George III. by
Pitt himseff, at a levee, when the King was delighted at the Doctor's combined modesty and erudition. Some time
after this introduction, as the King with some of his suite were stroUing ou the Weymouth esplanade, the latter
were surprised to see His Majesty accost, -with much cordiality, a tall, ungainly, travel-stained ecclesiastic, who liad
just landed from a vessel. Their astonishment was not diminished when the King, evidently warming with the
"conversation, took the stranger's arm, and. in a paroxysm of delight, fairly clapped him on the back. When the
unknown had departed, after an animated interview of above an hour, they crowded round to inquire who and what
he was. " That, gentlemen," said the King, '■ is Dr. Dumaresq. one of the most worthy and most disinterested men
in my dominions."
+ Tide Hutchins's Dorset, vol. iv., p. 369.
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138
AN AKMORIAL OF JEESEY,
together witli its social position, render it the most prominent portion of this famous
house.
Arms. (As borne Ijy John Dumaresq, Esq.) Grules, three escallops, or ; a martlet for
difference.* Quartering — Ermines, a cross-bow di-a-\vn, charged ^^^th an arrow, all argent,
for Laebalestier :t Gules, three escallops, or, a crescent for difference, for Dtmaresq :
* The Jersiaias followed a custom, ouce prevalent wliei-ever arms were borue, that of bearing maternal armorial
ensigns, in default of their possessing paternal ones. If the following extract from a very old MS. be worthy of
credence, it would appear that an instance of this practice occui's in the fiimily of Dumaresq. Another ancient
heraldic peculiarity may be observed in the seals of its various members, that of dividing the various coats of arms,
and giving portions only of the charges of each on one shield. This custom has, from its confusion, been long and
wisely disused.
" Les Dumaa-fqs portent S., trois dauphinets, argent, conime principal chef defcendu de Jean de Bagot, Seigneur du
tief de Gorge."
'• Item, gueules trois vaneaux, or ; comme principal chef defcendu de Michel Le Febvre, .Seigneur de Vincheles de
Bas, &ca."
" Item, A. trois Treyeuillets, fable, comme Seigneur du Manoir et lieu de Saraares."
" Item, Ermines, une Arbaleftre bande, comme chef defcendu d'Anthoine Larbaleftier, Seigneur des Augres, en la
paroifle de la Trinite, le tout en I'ifle de Jerfey."
In most of the medi;eval signatures of the Samares Dumaresqs. one observes the trefoil introduced as flourishes —
a striking instance of the pride this branch took in its descent from the house of Payn.
The trefoils, arms of the Payn family, were looked upon by the Dumaresq Seigneurs of Samares more as manorial
than ancestral ensigns, and generally preceded their own coat. A cm-ious variation of the Dumaresq arms occurs on
a pew-door in S. Peter's Church. In this, which appears on a quartered shield bearing De Carteret on the 1 and
■1 quarters, the escallops are reversed, and have a bend sinister separating the one in chief from the two in base.
The families of De Soussay, of Britany, and of Chamberlayne, Pale, and Palmer, of England, all bear gules, three
escallops, or.
t Although the lief des Augres became alienated at a very early jieriod from the family of Larbalestier, it is not
extinct to this day. John Larbalestier, Rector of the parishes of S. Trinity and S. Petei', was appointed Vice-Dean
of the island in 1531, by the Vicar-General of the Diocese of Coutauces. (Vide the Ilegisters of that See.) Until very
lately a family of the name lived in their original parish of S. Trinity, in a dwelling appropriately named Cross-Bow
House. And the celebrated Puilippe Laebalestier, the Parina of Jersey, comes from the same source.
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
139
Sable, three dolpliins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : I Argent, three trefoils, sable, for
Patn : and Gules, four fusils in fesse, argent ; an annulet in base, or, for difference, for De
Caeteeet.
^rtiigrrr of IDumnrrsq of Ha l^aulc.
GuiLLE DuMAEESQ, Seig. of La Haule, Judge-Delegate, and Lieut. -Bailly of Jersey, living 1407.
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Thomas Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
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A Daughter.
John Payn, Seig. of Samares.
I . Jacquet Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
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John Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
Thomas Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule, Jurat E.C. in 1519.
A Daughter.
Parrot Nicolas, of
Guernsey.
2. Thomas.
Jcanette. only d. & h. of
John de Bagot, Seig. of Gorge.
( Vide Fed. of Dumaresq of
Samares and of Vinchelt5s de Bas.)
Edward Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule, Judge-Delegate of Jersey.
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Helier Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
Martha, d. of Nicholas De SouUemont.
Thomas.
Eichard Dumaresq.
John Dumaresq.
Edward.
This branch is represented by
George Dumaresq, Esq., of Seafield.
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Elizabeth.
Hugh Lempriere,
Seisr. of Dielament.
Jane.
Gilles Lempriere,
Seig. of Trinity.
Elias Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
Martha, d. & co-h. of Nicholas
Lempriere.
Elizabeth.
Clement Dumaresq,
of S. Clement's.
Jane.
Benjamin La Cloche,
Seiff. of Longueville.
Sarah, m. 1587.
Helier Lempriere.
Elias Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule,
d. from a gunshot wound, and was
bm'ied in S. Brelade's Church,
• 24.th Sept., IGll, s. p.
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Edward, d. 1635,
s.p.
1. John Dumaresq, = Susan, Lady of La HaiUe,
Seig. of and h. to her brothers.
Vincheles de Bas.
2. Elias Marett.
{Vide Pedigree of Marett.)
J The family of De Bagot, long extinct, has left its name to a suburb of S. Helier's. Little or nothing is known
of the insular history of this house or that of Gorge, with which it would appear to have been uitimatel3' connected.
It is far from improbable that scions of these two great English families, whose ancestors entered England with the
Conqueror, were settled in Jersey at a very early date, although the connexion cannot definitely be traced.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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^Drlrfffrff of JDumarrgq of ^amaifS, mxh of 6iouijiUr.
Thomas Ddmare^q. seconrl son of Thomas Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule-
Jeanette, only d. and h. of John De Bagot, Seig. of Gorge.
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John Dumaresq, the elder, Seigneur of Vinchelfe Je Bas, and of Gorge = Mabel, only d. and h. of Philip Payn, Seig. of Samaras.
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John Dumaresq, the younger, Seig. of
Samares.
Jane, d. of Thomas Lempriere, Bailly of
Jersey.
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Clement Dumaresq, Seig. of SamaiiiS,
Margaret, only d. and h. of HelierDe
Carteret, Bailly of Jersey.
Richard, Seig. of Vinchel6s de Bas.
Jane
Catherine.
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Collette.
Collette, d. and co-h. of .Anthony Nicholas Lempriere, Richard Mallet, Nicholas Journeaulx.
Larhalestier, Seig. des Augres. Jurat, R.C. Jurat, R C. Jurat, R.C.
( Vidi' Ped. of Dumaresq of Vin-
cheles de Bas.)
Henry Dumaresq, Seig. of SamariSs.
Mary, d. of Philip Lempriere.
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Collette.
Jane.
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Elizabeth.
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Mabel.
John Dumaresq, Bailly of Jersey. 1. Richard Le Brocq. Nicholas Lempriere. Richard .Messervy.
2. John De Carteret,
Seig. of Vincheles de H.
J . Esther Dumaresq, Lady of Samares, m. 1580, d. 1597. == John Dumaresq, Jurat, R.C., eldest
son of John Dumaresq, Bailly of
Jersey, d. 1606.
2. Sarah.
Holier De Carteret, Seig. of La Hague,
Jurat, R.C.
Daniel Dumaresq, Seig. of Samaras, d. 1634.
Elizabeth, d. of Peter De Carteret, of S. Peter.
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Joshua, o.s.p.
Clement Dumaresq, of S. Clement.
Elizabeth, d. of Helier Dumaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
Henry Dumaresq, Seig. of John. Elias "I
Samar(5s, Jurat R.C. ( TUe Ped. Du- —
niaresqofthe Elizabeth J
Helier Dumaresq.
Clement, of Grouville.
Elizabeth.
o.s.p.
Margaret.onlyd. of Abraham Colombiers.)
Herault, of S Helier.
Jane, d. of . . . Janibart. Agnes, d. of ... Gevain. Joshua Lempriere.
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Philip Dumaresq, Seig. of Samares
Jurat, R.C, Capt. R.N.
Deborah, sister of Sir Wm. Trum-
ball, Rt., Secretary to William UL
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Henry.
Margaret.
Esther.
o.s p.
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Helier Dumaresq.
Clement.
Jane.
Deborah Dumaresq, Lady of Samares^ Philip, son of Benjamin
only d. and h., o.s.p. Dumaresq, a junior scion
of Dumaresq iles Augres.
Esther, d. of . . . Le Geyt. Mary, d. of . . . Philip Filleul.
-= De Carteret.
Esther Dumaresq. |
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Helifi Dumaresq.
Jane, li. ol John Collas.
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Jane. ra. 17 JO.
Amice de Carteret.
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Philip Dumaresq, o.s./).
Jane, Lady of the fief Elie.
Philip Nicolle.
Deborah = John Dumaresq, eldest son of the
I Seig. des AugrJs.
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Deborah Dumare?q, til>. innupl.
Jane.
Elias Le Maistre.
\. Susan, d. of... Hamon, m. 1692 = James Dumaresq, b. ltj-47 = 2. Dorothy, d. of ... Heher, m. 1673.
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Susan Dumaresq, b. 1669. |
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James Dumaresq, oh.juv. James, b. 1679.
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Clement.
I Susan, d. of John Hooper,
John Dumaresq, o.s p. m. IfiyS.
Agnes, b. 1677, m. 1691.
James Roissier.
Clement, b. 1651.
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Elizabeth, b. 1681.
1. Charles Le Boutillier.
2. Hugh Hooper.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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Charles Dumaresq, b. 169G, m. 1722.
Mary, il. of . . . Labey.
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Clement Dumaresq, b. 1729. Charles, o.j.p. Elizabeth, b. 1723.
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William, b. 1701, m. 1736.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Roissicr.
Elizabeth.
Susan.
1. Mary, d. of . . . Payn = James Dumaresq = 2. Mary, d. of
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Roissier.
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b. 1737.
...Filleul.
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Rev. Clement. Dumaresq, M.A.,
Rector of S. Mary, d. 1837.
Klizabeth, d. of Niaholas Mallet.
Elizabeth.
George INIallet.
John.
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Elizabeth jMallet.
Joshua De Quetteville.
George Dumaresq, b. 1771,
killed in attempting to es-
cape from a French prison. Jane, d. of .
Pirouet.
Helier Dumaresq. Mary, b. 1781.
b. 1788.
John LeFeavre.
I. I I
Clement.
Thomas.
Jane.
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Elizabeth.
Marv.
Anne.
Capt. Geo. Peirson. Daniel Dumaresq, . . . Le Couteur. JohnLeBiun.
of theColornbiers.
George-Shaffner.
William-Bromley.
o.s.p.
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Helier Dumaresq.
Jane, d. of . . . Bertram.
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John.
Jame?:
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George.
Mary.
Jane, d. of Philip Gaudin. Elizabeth, d. of
. . . Le Couteur.
Clement De Venlle.
Jane, oh.
Mary-Jane.
Elizal'eth.
Emma.
John Dumaresq.
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Jane.
Mary.
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Emma.
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James-Le Couteur.
Elizabeth-Jane.
Albert- James.
Julia, oh. juv.
prtiicjrff of IBumnrfsiti of t\)t Colombitr^.
John DuniARnsQ, second son of Daniel Dumaresq, Seig. of Samares = Rachel, d. of . . . Le Feuvre.
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John Dumaresq, of the Colombiers = Rachel, d. of . . . Bosquet.
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Marv.
Rachel.
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.lolin Dumaresq, of thu Colombiers.
1. Elizabeth, <1. of Amice De Carteret. Philip Vibert. Nicholas Le Marqnand.
Seie. of Vincheli^s de Bas.
2. Jane, d. of John La Cloche, and
widow of Abraham Richardson.
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Philip.
Peter.
Elizabeth.
o.s p.
Elizabeth.
Rev. Peter De I.a Place.
Johii-Helier Dumaresq, o.s.p.
Susan, eld. d. of Abraham
Bisson, Dame of the Fief
l,uce-de-Carteret.
Philip.
Rachel, d. of
. . . Hooper.
Philip Dumaresq. John.
o.s.p.
.Mary, d. of . . .
Prouings.
Daniel.
Flias.
Sarah, o s p.
Rachel, d. of
Amice. Margaret,
Susan, (1. of Anne, d. of John Allez.
James Langlois. Thos. Pipon.
Le Cerf, of S. Ouen.
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John Dumaresq, Capt. R.J i\l.
Susan, d. of . . . .Alexandre.
Elizabeth.
John De La Perelle.
Klizabeth. b. 17G3,
m. 1783.
Nicholas Le Bas.
Capt R J.M.
0) . fill luiav^ ( ]\] iwU^i Hxmaw^ - 1) umavfc.q .
K^rJlCHl Of" p 5YLV'E^TEF\ of f^OpiE OF I^ABFLL/\ |HE d/lTHOLlC OF pP^I^|-.S^ Of f f p/iUI^ICt 8^ if^7f.f\U^ OF piEDf^ON
j5V n/ii III f/iix riiitt iW /'/iviV/Ui/ /' t/i, 111 iH
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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Philip Dumaresq.
Mary, sister of the
Rev. John Vibert.
Philip Dumaresq.
of theColombiers,
Esther, d. of . . .
Prouings.
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John.
Thomas.
Daniel.
Amice.
Mary.
Susan.
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John-Arthur. Mary. Susan.
Dumaresq. — —
Esther. Jane.
Daniel Dumaresq.
Anne Dumaresq,
eld. d. andco-h.
Francis Valpy.
Mary.
o.s.p.
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Amelia-Carteret Dumaresq. only <\. and h.
Charles-Anthoine-Maiie-Gabriel Armand.
Edouard-Charles Armand, b. 1826. Assumed the name and arms of
Dumaresq. pursuant to Letters Patent granted by H.I.M. Napoleon
III , 1R5S.»
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Daniel Dumaresq.
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Philip, Capt R.J M.
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Elizabeth.
Ann.
Mary.
Elizabeth, d. of the Rev. Susan, d. of . . . Le Cerf.
Clement Dumaresq, Ree- =
tor of S. Mary. 1
Syvret.
Philip Dumaresq =: (I of .- . Fruing.
Susan.
John Le Feuvre.
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William Dumaresq.
Walter.
Philip.
Clarence.
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Clement.
Elias.
George.
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Philip.
Elizabeth.
Mary-Ann, d. of . . . Tostevin, of Guernsey.
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Daniel, b. 184G ; Susan, b. 1848.
Jane, d. of Delphine, d. Jane-Ellen, d.
. . . Langlois. of . . . Despr^s. of . . . Coffin.
John. Philip de Quesne.
Frederick.
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Susan.
John Vibert. Philip Ab. Duprfe. James
Syvret.
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Jane.
Esther.
Susan.
* This clistinguislied artist, who holds as high a position iu France as does his countryman,
MiUais, in England, was born in 1826, and studied under his father and Thomas Couture.
He first exhibited at the annual Exhibition in Paris of 1850, a dead Christ, eventually purchased
by the Minister of the Interior for the church of Dole. In 1853, he executed for the Minister
of State an important picture representing the martyrdom of S. Peter, Avhich was placed in the
Abbey Churcli of Caen. About the same period, be painted -a chapel for Pope Pius IX., which gave
such satisfaction to His Holiness, that he decorated M. Armand-Dumaresq with the insignia of
the Papal Order of S. Sylvester. In 1855, he exhibited at the Rvposif inn Gcnernlc a composition
representing the death of General Korgener, and iu 1857 was des])atched by the ^linister of War
to Africa, where he made a part of the campaign of Kabyhi. By the present French adminis-
tration, he was subsequently directed to paint all the uniforms of the Imperial Guard and of
the entire army of France ; a most important and lengthened commission, upon which he is now
( 1861) employed. In 185!), M. Armand-Dumaresq exhibited a picture illustrative of the death
of General Bizot, who was killed in the Crimea, which has been deemed worthy a place in the
historical iMuseum of Versailles. In the same year, he was attached, as painter of the ^klinister
of War, to the staff" of Major-General ]\Iarshal Vaillant, and thus took part in the great
campaign of Italy ; and received from Victor-Emanuel, King of Italy, the insignia of SS.
Maurice and Lazarus, of Piedmont, for services rendered to the Italian cause. In illustration of
this campaign, M. Armand-Dumaresq has just completed a large ])icture of some eighteen feet
in length, describing an episode in the battle of Solferino. In further recognition of his eminent
services, he has had the honour of receiving from the Queen of Spain the order of Isabelhv the
Catholic, of Spain, having been engaged, as painter to the Minister of War, in designing the
uniforms of the Spanish army.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Arms (as borne by Moasieur Edouard-Charles Armand-Dumaresq*) : Quarterly, 1 and 4,
Gules, three escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis for difference : 2 and 3, Azure, three helmets, argent, for
Armand. Quartering — Ermines, a cross-bow, drawn, charged with an arrow, all argent, for
Larbalestier : Gules, three escallops, or, a crescent for difference, for Dumaresq : Sable, three
dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : Argent, three trefoils, sable, for Payn : and Gules,
four fusils in fesse, argent, an annulet in base, or, for difference, for De Carteret.
Motto: Toujours le mesme.
^SfUigife of JDumaresiq Urd :3u0rrs-
Abraham Ddmaresq, second son of John Dumaresq, Seigneur of V. de B., settled at his father's house in S. Trinity, d. 1G31.
Snsan, d. of Philip De Carteret, Seig. of S. Ouen, d. li;58.
Elias Dumaresq, Seig. des
Augres, Jurat, R. C, 1645,
had a grant of his (ief from
King Charles II., 5th Feb.
1B49, d. 1G77.
Jane, d. of the Rev. Thomas
Payn, Rector of S Laurence.
Benjamin,
Jurat, R.C.,
b. 1B2B, d. 1680.
Elizabeth, d. of
Philip De Carteret,
Bailiv of Jersey,
b. 1647.
Gideon.
Amiee,
gave, by
will, a
silver dish
to the
Church of
S.Trinity,
n.s p.
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John. Receiver
of the King's
revenues in
Jersey.
Mary, d. of
. . . Dumaresq,
of the Jlesnage
d'Allain.
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Francis, b. liJl7-».
Sarah, b. 1616-7.
o.s.p.
Anne, b. 1627, m. 1649,
d. 170U.
Sir Philip De Carteret,
Kt., Seig. of S. Ouen,
Serk, and Rozel.
John Dumaresq, Jurat R. C.and Capt. R. J. M. = Jane, d. of . . . Corbet
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George, Capt. H.M.
Service, and Dept.
Governor of Jersey,
1714.
John Dumaresq, Capt. R. J. M., and ConstableofS. Helier, Philip.
Anne, d. of . . . Lafosse Chastry. George.
I III
Magdalen. Elizabeth.
Edward Gold, Jane.
Lieut, H M. —
Service. Elizabeth.
o.s.p.
Philip Dumaresq, Seig. of Anneville, in right of his mother.
Jurat, R. C, and Col. E. Regiment, R. J.M., b. 1671.
Deborah Dumaresq, only d. and h. of the Seigneur of Samares,
o.s.p.
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Benjamin.
Ann, d. of . , . Hilgrove.
Mary, Lady of Anneville. b. 1678,
d. 1734.
Clement Chevalier.
' " Ministere *' NAPOLEON, Par la Grace de Diea, et la Volont6 Nationale, Empereur des Fram.^ais. A tons presents et avenir, Salut.
de la Justice." Sur le rapport de nntre Garde des Sceaux, Ministre Secretaire d'Etat au departement de la Justice. Le conseil d'Etat
— entendu. Avons d^cret^ et d^cretons ce qui suit."
■' Direction "Art. 1. Le Sieur Armand (Charles-Edouard) peintre en miniature ne le 1 Janvier 1826, a Paris (Seine), y de-
des meurant, est autorise a ajouter a son nom patronyiniqne celui de Dumaresq, et a s'appeler a Tavenir Armand-Dumarestj."
Affaires Civiles " Art. 2. Le Sieur Armand ne pourra se pourvoir devant les tribunaux pour faire operer sur les registres de I'Etat-
et du Sceau." Civile 'e changement resulrant du present d6cret qu'apres Texpiration du delai fixe par la loi du 1 1 Germinal, An XL. et
— en jnstifiant qu'ancune opposition n'a ete fiirmee devant le Conseil d'Etat."
"2 Bureau." "Notre Garde des Sceaux, Ministre Secretaire d'Etat, au departement de la Justice, est charge de I'execution
( ^ 1 du present d^cret, qui sera publie et insere au Bulletin des lois."
' iNo. 77ll.X^-" *' Fsklt au palais des Tuileries, le vingt-quatre fevrier, mil-huit cent cinquante huit."
(Signe) " NAPOLEON."
" Le Garde des Sceaux. Ministre Secretaire, 1 . r-< n ..
au departement de la Justice. (Signe) /
Pour copie conforme.
' Le Secretaire Gtmerale Ministre dela
Justice." (Signt;)
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14.^
Elizabeth Dumaresq,
only ci. ami h , b. 1708,
ni. 1734.
James Pipon, Seig.
of Noirmont.
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Clement Deborah. Elizabeth,
Chevalier, b. 16G8, d. 1701.
Seig. of
Anneville, Joshua Pipon.
o.s.p. Lieut. -Bailly of
Jer.sey, 1715.
Elias Dumaresq, Selg.
lies Augrtis, Jurat,
R.C., b. lG4S,d. 1731.
Frances, eldest d. and
co-h. of Francis De
Carteret, eventual heir
ofthemanorand honor
of S. Oucn.
Philip.
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Edward, Lt. R.N.
Sarah, d. Benjamin, b. 1 655.
of Benest — •
LeGros. Amice, b. 165'J.
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John Anne, b. Ifi53. Susan.
Greffier,
R.C. John Durell, ]. Joshua Le Boutillier.
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Jane.b. Ifi58. Elizabeth, b. IGGy.
Lifut. -Bailly
Berry.
Ann, d. of of Jersey.
. . . Bockam,
from whom
descend
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2. Francis Grouchy.
Matthew Le Geyt.
Licut.-C(d.,R.J.M.
William DuTiiaresq.
Thomas,
Admiial, R.N.
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Ann.
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Ehzabeth.
Lieut. Button.
A (lau. ^= William Dumaresq.
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Funny Dumaresq = Admiral George O. Lempriere.
Philip Dumaresq.
Lieut. R.N.
Edward.
Ann, d. of
John De
Carteret.
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Abraham.
Capt H.E.I.C.S.
d. of Sir John
Reynell.
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John.
Ann,
o.s p.
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Elizabeth.
1.
Masurier.
2. Robert
Slowly.
Margaret.
. . . Guerin.
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Edward Dumaresq.
John.
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Rachel.
Ann.
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Magfialen.
I
Elizabeth.
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Sarah.
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Elias Dumaresq, Seig.
des .^ugrJs, Jurat, R.C,
and Col. R.J.M., b.
1652, d. 1754.
Elizabeth, d. of John
De Carteret, Seig. of
V. de H. =
Philip.
Susan, d. of
. . . Perry, of
Havre de
Grace.
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John, Capt. R.N. Anne, m. 1705. Frances.
Elias Le Jlaistre,
Seig. of Quetivel.
Ed ward
Le Cras.
Magdalen.
b. 1095.
Thomas Wroe,
of CO. Yorkshire.
Carolii
Alice.
Frances.
Caroline.
Douce.
Elizabeth.
ob.juv.
Philip Dumaresq.
oO. jiw.
Philip.
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Susan.
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Douce.
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Elizabeth.
Ann.
George Bandinel.
Nicholas JIallet.
John Dumaresq,
Jurat, R.C, b.
1705, d. 1747.
Deborah, eldest
d. of Helier Du-
maresq, of S.
Clement.
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Michael,
b. 1706.
Philip,
b. 17U8.
Edward,
b. 1710.
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Rev. Daniel,
D.D.,F.R S ,
Rect. of Yeo-
vilton.b. 1712,
d. 1805.
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Elias, b. 1715.
George, b. 1719.
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William,
b. 1720, d. 1740.
Mary,d. of Thos.
Robert.
Elizabeth, b. 1713.
m. 1739.
John De Carteret,
Seig. of v. de Bas.
Rachel,
b. 1717.
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Frances,
m. 1745,
d. 1754.
George Duma
resq, of Pon
terrin.
William Dumaresq.
Rachel, d. of Philip
Le Montais, of Leo-
ville.
Philip.
Mary, d.
of . . . Le
Montais.
George Dumaresq,
b. 1747, o.s.p.
Mary, d. of Clement
Richardson.
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Richard, oi).y«D. Frances, b. 1750.
Jane.
Thomas Le Hardy. Matthew
La Cloche.
Margaret Dumaresq,
eld. d. and co-h.
Amice Vautier.
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Elizabeth.
Philip Vibert.
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Anne.
Jane Dumaresq, only d. and heir.
Philip Vibert, of La Fontaine, S. Ouen.
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Carterette Vibert, only d. and h.
John Collas.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Jane-Ann Daniaresq, eld. d and co-h.. became lady of S. Oucn on the death of
Robert, Earl of Granville, in ri^ht of her great grandmother, Frances, eldest d.
and co-h. of Francis De Carteret, of S. Guen, b. 1733, m. 1756, d. 1806.
Elias Le Maistre, Seig. of Quefivel. {Vidp peds. of De Carteret, of S. Guen,
Lo Maistre, and Mallet.)
Deborah,
b. 1744, d. 1802,
inniipl.
\itXiiQrtt of IDumarrsq tm iRorm, miH tit la €\)n\h,
CiEMF-NT Dumahesq, a junior son of Richard Dnmaiesq, Seig. of V'incheles de Bas, SL'ttled at La Cbenee. the estate of his wife.
Margaret, eld. d. and co-h. of John Messervy, of S. Martin.
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Hugh Dumiresq, Richard, m. 1597
drowned in return-
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Edward, John,
m. 1601, m. 1606
Mary,
^ Elizabeth, d. of
Collette.d.of John | d of . . . Humphry
Journeaulx. Abigail Duniaresq. Nicolle. Godfray.
ing from Guernsey Mary, d. and co-h. of d. 1626.
1595. Nicholas Lempriere.
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Elizabeth,
m. 1594.
John De
Quetteville.
I
Clement Duniaresq.
Mai'garet, d. and h. of Edward Crafford.
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Sarah, d. 1659.
Mary, d. 1645.
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Susan, d. 1652.
Nicholas Richardson.
from whom descends
Nicholas Ralph Richardson.
1. Richard DeCartcrct, Nicholas Mallet. 1. Abraham Messervy.
ni. 1597.
2. Philip Mallet, m.
ICM.
?. Jo'in Nicnllp. 111. Ii;i2
Clement Dumarcsq,
b. 1604.
Richard, b 1615.
m. 1641.
Elizabeth, d. of
Peter Laurens.
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Elizabeth.
Margaret.
oh. niv.
Rachel.
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Sarah, b. 1603. Mary, b. 1609.
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Elizabeth, b. 1611.
Clement Le
Bastard.
Thomas Machon. Abraham Hamlvn.
Margaret Dumaresq, b. 1642.
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Ann, b. 1645, oh. jur.
1 . Sarah, d. of . . . Payn = Philip Dumaresq = 2. Elizabeth, d. of
m. 1620. I du Morin. John Le Hardy.
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Philip Dumaresq. Elias. Margaret. Jane.
nb.juv. d. 1626. d. 1623.
Cleinerit, d. 1613.
Sarah, d. of Ed.
Risson, ni. 1610.
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Elizabeth, m. 1608.
Elias de Carteret,
(FiUf Ped. De Car-
teret, Baronial Brach.)
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Collette, m. 1595-
Germain Le Febvre.
Clement Dumaresq, b. 1611, m. 1637.
Ann, d. of the Very Rev. D. Bandinel,
Dean of Jersev, d. 1655.
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Collette, b. 1613.
1. Edward Hubert, m. 1637
2. Thomas Falle, m. 1646.
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Elizabeth, b. 1630.
Philip Dumaresq = Susan, d. of Hugh, b. 1633.
b. 1632, Solicitor | Benjamin — —
General of Jersey. . Frott^, Seig. Francis, b. 1635. Collette, b. 1634.
de Vieux- —
Fonts, Nor- Abraham, b. 1638. John De Carteret,
mandy.* _ Constable of S.
George, b. 1647. Saviour.
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Elizabeth Dumaresq, Sarah, b. 1643. Collette, b. 1647
b. 1638. d. 1655.
Philip Messervy,
of -Anneville.
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Philip Dumare.^q, b- 1659. Charles, b. HJIJO.
Elizabeth, <1. of John Messervy.
uf Baent.
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Benjamin, b. 1('.(;2. George, b. 16()4. Elizabeth, b. 1665. Elizabeth, b. 1667
ub. jiiV. —
Susan, b 1668.
* When this lady left S. Lo for Portbail, en route for Jersey, on her marriage with Philip Dumares^q, she was escorted thither by a numerous
and siilendid cavalcaile of her relatives and friends. An interesting genealogy of the De Frotte family, recording its alliances with several noble
Prench families, is in the possession of one of the descendants of this family. Arms of De Frottb; Azure, a chevron, between two mullet<
in chief, or, and a plate in b:ise.
/ivtl)uv ( liavlco Fit.ron^Shimarroii.f oiiuirr.
J!y
iv/ii's, />n/tir/i ,////! /■;,/, iiVi ////s /'/,!// ,s/in.s;7i/^'/ /' //', II rr/.:
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Philip Duraaresq, b. 1683. Sarah, b. 1697. Rachel, b. 1701.
Rachel, d. and h. of Thomas Falle. John Godfrey, of S. Laurence.
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Philip Dumaresq, b. 1701 ^ Ann, d. of Elias Le Maistre.
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Philip Dumaresq, b. 1725, Charles, b. 1729. Douce, b. 1747 (twins) Susan, b. 1747. Frances, b. 1749.
uli.juv.
George, b. 1733. Abraham De Ste. Croix, John Falle. John Collas.
— of S. Laurence.*
Daniel, b. 1734.
Philip, b. 1744.
o.x.p.
©innaresq, of Cnglanti*
HE principal repveseutation of tliis euiineut branch devolved upon Arthur-Charles-
FiTZROY Dumaresq, Esq., upon the death of his fother, Colonel Henry Dumaresq, of
Avhoni a brief sketch appears beloAV. It is also represented in a junior .section l)y
the sons of Philip Dumaresq, Esq., of Cape Breton, whose father, John Dumarescj,
was no less esteemed in private life for his amiability of temper, refined taste and feelings,
than for his literary attainments, and was, perhaps, the most accomplislied mathematician
Jersey ever produced. Among these, the eldest. Perry Dumaresq, Esq., entered the Royal
Navy as a midshipman, on board the " Magicienne," in 180^5. He served as Sub-Lieutenant of
the " Hawke," in 1806: as acting-Lieutenant of the " Epei'vier," 1807, and as Lieutenant in the
" Savage," 1809. While in command of the " Paz," in 1811, on the Nortli American Station,
he captured the American vessels, the " Revenge," the " jNIontcsquieu," and the " !Massasoit.'"
His brother, William-Grant Dumaresq, Esq., is a distinguished officer (retired) of II.jNI. Civil
Service, and known as an insular reformer, to whose eflForts Jersej^ is mainly indebted for tlu-
boon of a paid police.
But by far the most prominent name of which this branch has to boast, is that of the late Colonel
Henry Dumaresq, its late eldest representative. He joined the 9th Regiment from the Royal
Military College, at the age of sixteen, and as detailed in the official record of his services at the
Horse-Guards, " served in eight campaigns, of which six were in the Peninsula, one in Canada,
and the last, that of Waterloo." He was present in the thirteen battles for which medaLs were
bestowed, besides many affairs of out-posts, of advance and of rear guards, also at the sieges ui'
Badajos and Burgos, and at the assault of the Forts of Salamanca; on the two former occa.sions
he served with the Engineers as a volunteer, and on the latter (again a volunteer) being the
foremost person in the assault of that redoubt, he received from the officer in command of tlie
Victoria convent the terms of his capitulation, which document he delivered to the Duke of
AVellington. He attained the rank of Lieut. -Colonel after nine years' service, and was gazetted
* Now represented by Charles De Ste. Croix, Lieut. -Col. R.J.M., and ex-Grellier of the Royal Court of Jersey.
148 AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
to tbat grade iu June, 1817, for services in the field. He was employed on the staff uj^wards
of eighteen years, and out of twenty-six years' service, he was employed more than twenty-two
aljroad, and had been twice dangerously wounded. At the battle of Waterloo, he was on the
staff of Lieut.-General Sir John 13yng (afterwards Lord Stratford), and Avas shot through the
lungs at Hougoumont, but being at the time charged with a message for tlie Duke, he, in spite
of his wound, reached him, and delivered the despatch before he fell.* In the obituary notice
of this officer, which appeared in the United Service Journal^ the following tribute of respect is
jiaid to his memory : — " We have to record, with unfeigned regret, the death of Lieut. -Colonel
Henry Dumaresq, an old and much valued associate, one of the survivors of Waterloo, who
from his years might have expected to see many adtlitional anniversaries of that great victory ;
Init the severe wound he received on that memorable occasion, though temporarily subdued,
eventually by inducing paralysis, carried him off at the age of forty-six, at the establishment
of the Australian Agricultural Company, in N. S. Wales, in the management of whose large
concern as Chief Commissioner, he succeeded a most distinguished member of the sister
profession — Captain Sir Edward Parry, R.N. — and for his able and zealous conduct in the
superintendence of their affairs, repeatedly received the thanks of the Directors of the Company."
Among the many officers of distinguished talent that the Peninsular war, so fertile in heroes,
produced, perhaj^s none were of superior merit to Colonel Dumaresq; in proof of which, it is
only necessary to refer to the rapid promotion w'ith Avhich his services wei'e rewarded, and to
the very flattering testimonial received by him in 1834, on his retirement from the army.
" No one is more sensible than Lord Hill of the value of your services, and of the zeal and
gallantry which you have applied to the discharge of your duty, whenever an opportunity has
been afforded you of displaying those qualities." In private life his talents, his varied merits
and acquirements, and his many endearing qualities won for him the regard and esteem of a
very numerous circle of friends, and secured the affections of his iunnediate connections.
His brother, William-Juhn Dumaresq, Esq , late Captain Poyal Staff Corps, is also
an officer who lias eminently served his country in both military and civil capacities. He
joined tlio army from the Poyal Military College at Great Marlow, in June, 1809. Li
1811, he proceeded to join the army in the Peninsula, and continued with it until the
close of the war in 1814; principally employed, as belonging to the Quartermaster-General's
Denartment 'in Ilecomioissances, and in the Char2;e of Bridiies. For his services he received
the Peninsula medal with four clasps — Ciudad llodrigo, Padajos, Nivelle, and Pyrennees. In
1815, he was employed with the British Army in Belgium, in reconnoissances, and in the
construction of Hope Bridges at Antwerp, to provide for forward movement of the ti-oops.
^^'llen with the British Army in Paris, he was entrusted by the Emperor of Austria to super-
intend the removal of the Venetian Horses from the Place de Carrousel, and the Lion from
the Invalides, and was presented with a gold snuff-box, with cypher in brilliants, on the occasion.
In 1819, he proceeded to Canada, and was there engaged in the construction of the Ottawa
Canal. In 182.'), he removed with his company to Sydney, N. S. Wales, and was ])laced in
* Tliis incident is grapliically related by Scott in I'aiii'.s Letters to his Kinsfolk : and Colonel I)uniares(| is also
Imnourablv mentioned by Booth in his Anecdotes oi' the Field of Waterloo.
Ian- Qlnpraiii lumul ^laff (ilnrpi-..
/i'l ii//f'/// //,/s /'/irfr fx J'/rxi/if,,/ /f //i,- Jr,'t7r
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
149
cliiirge of the Public Works, Roads, and Bridges. He retired from tlie service iu 1829, to settle
in that colony, where he was elected to sit in its first Parliament.*
Arms (as borne by Arthur-Fitzroy-Charles Dumaresq, Esq.) : Gules, three escallops, or;
an annulet for difference. Quartering : Sable, three dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot :
Argent, three trefoils, sable, for Payn : Or, iu the dexter chief, a round shield, azure, charged
with a kniglit in full career, spear in rest, argent, for Bandinel : Gules, three escallops, in bend,
argent; on a chief of a second, a martlet, sable, for Stalling: and Or, three cherries, gules,
stalked vert, for Messervy.
Crest : A bull passant, guardant, ppr.f
Motto : Dum vivo spero. J
Supporters: Two greyhounds, reguardaut, argent, collared and ringed, gules. §
Arms (as borne by William- John Dumaresq, Esq.) : Same as preceding. Impaling : Argent,
on a chevron, gules, between three stags' heads, erased, ppr., a falcon's head, erased, between two
salmon, haurient, of the field ; on a chief, azure, an anchor between two garbes, or, for Macleay.
THE LESSER GATE, MANOR OF VINCHELES DE BAS. SURMOUNTED BY THE ARMS AND SUPPORTERS OF DnMARESQ.Jl
* It is curious the only Norman-looking name that appears on what is said to be the original Round Table of
King Arthur, which is preserved in Winchester Castle, should be that of Sir Ector Demarys, one wliich is a common
mediaeval rendering of Dumaresq.
t Captain Henry Dumaresq, R.N., bears as crest : Out of a mural crown, argent, a lion ppr., holding a flag.
J Mottoes variously borne by Sir John Dumaresq : In utranique paratus, L'Enquete et la loi. By Captain H.
Dumaresq, R.N. : Loyaute sans tache.
§ The three families of De Carteret, Dumaresq, and Lempriere have, for a very long period, borne supporters. Their
use as applied to Commoners is limited, but quoting the following authoritv. I think that its <le(l action will show their con-
tinuance, as applied to the families mentioned, is legitimate. " It is confessed there is little or nothing in precedent to direct
the use of supporters. I suppose since custom and practice hath reduced the use of bearing supporters to the major nobility .
no inferior degree may now assume them, nor may Garter assign them to the lesser nobility. But these families whose
ancestors have used supporters, whose monuments are accomplished with them, whose houses are adorned with them, and
whose pious foundations continue them, the churches, chapels, and religious places whereof they were patrons, founders,
and benefactors that render memorials of them, have such a possessory right to them, that they cannot be suppressed or
alienated, but may safely and justly continue." (MSS. Wingfield, York Herald, Coll: Arms. Vide also Dallaway's
Inquiry. Montagu's Heraldry — Appendix, &c.) The first of this family who bore supporters was, I am informed, Henry
Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samares, circa 1540.
II The woodcuts that ornament this lineage are the gift of the family of Dumaresq, of England.
150
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
^fiitgrft of 23umaife!q of (SncjIanU.
Guii.LE DuMABESQ, Scig. of La Haule, Judge D^elegate and Lieut. -Bailly of Jersey, living 1407.
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Thomas Duniaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
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Two daughters.
Jacques Dumaresq.
Thomas = Jeanette, only d. and h. of John De Bagot, Seig. of Gorge.
John Dumaresq the elder, Seig. of Vinehel(^s de Bas, and of Gorge = Mabel, eld. d. and co.-h. of Philip Payn, Seig. of Samares.
John Dumaresq, Seig. of Samarfe.
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Richard, Seig. of V. de B., and of Gorge.
Collette, d. and co-h. of Anthony Larbalestier, Seig.
des Augres.
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Other children.
I
Other children.
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Helier, younger son of the Seig. of V. de B. and of Gorge, Vicomte of Jersey.
Frances, d. of Laurens Hamptonne, Jurat. R.C.
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I III
1 . Sarah, d. of John Dumaresq, Bailly = John Dumaresq, Lieut. -Bailly, Capt. of the = 2. Elizabeth, d. of Sephora, Sarah. Susan.
1 parish of S. Helier, and Colonel E. Regt. I Edward Bisson. of age in 1591, and
I R.J.M. I living in London.
Elias Dumaresq, o.s.p. i ' ^^ i i i T
1. Elizabeth, d. of Nathaniel Le Goupil = John Dumaresq, Capt. of the parish of S. Helier, = 2. Catherine, d. John. Abraham.
1669, and Major E. Regiment, R.J M.
j cf . . . Varin.
Martha Dumaresq = Philip Chantelou.
Edward. Benjamin,
o.s.p.
John Dumaresq, Major R.J.M. = Henriette, only d. and h. of Messire Renay du Boiiays,* Abraham = Jane, d. of Edward.
Chevalier, Seigneur of Saiigerre, Britany.
. . . Guille.
John Dumaresq.
Rene.
Ann.d. of . .. Horton. Mary-Margaret, d.
= of . . . Poingdestre.
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Augustus Duniaresq.
Capt. 3Hth Foot, 17G7. —.
Philip-Amory, Abraham Dumaresq. Abraham.
o.s.p.
I
Catherine.
Elizabeth,
o.s.p.
Jane.
Elizabeth, d. of ... Fallot. John. Peter Lisson, Surgeon. William Godfray.
T
Abraham Dumaresq.
Horatia-Elizabeth, d.
of . . . Bentley.
John Dumaresq, b. 1731-2, d. at Southampton = Rachel, second d. and eventual Rene,
co-h. of Philip Bandinel, Seig. lost at sea.
of Melesches.
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Elias.
Philip.
nh.jitv.
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.Augustus Dumaresq, .Ann-Horatia, John Dumaresq, Philip, President of the Charles, Mary. Esther. Elizabeth.
b. in London, 1786. b. at South- Lieut. -Col. H.M. Army. Council, and Collector lostatsea.
ampton, 1798. of H.M. Customs, F.Anlcy, 1.... Grant. 1. Philip Bandinel.
Ann, d. of . . . Jones. Cape Breton.
R. Marines.
Jerusha, d. of . . . Perry.
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2. VV. Birch. 2. Henry Wright,
ofWanstead. Collector H.M.
Customs, New
Brunswick.
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Perry Dumaresq, Esq., William-Grant Dumaresq, Esq , H.M.C.S. Several other
Lieut. R.N. children, set-
Ann-Wonlward, d. of John Henderson, Esq., tied in Ame-
and 2nd cousin of the late Viscountess Nelson, rica.
' Jean, rds de Jean Dumaresq, gentilhomm", et de dame Henriette du Bnays, fille de Messire Renay du Boays, Chevallier, Seigr. de la
Sauu-erre, et de la Corbiere-Nosmille et Callion-Losnay, et la Besalois, et autres lieux. ct de dame Marguerite du Perrier. Le sus-dit enfant fut
baptise le diiuzii5me jour du mois de Janvier, niillc six cents, qiiatre-vingt six ; Philip Le Geyt. gentilhomme, Lieutenant-BaiUy, avcc Noble
Dame Mari'ueritte Dumas, vefve de Messire I.ouis de Montgomniery, Chevalier, Seigr. -Comtc de Ducc, Couchf , Chenanc^, Chaunay, et autres
terres et seigneuries, parrain et marraine du dit enfant.— /Jcg-iS/^-r of Jlirthf, S. Helier's Parish.
UAmtMhi Bftri l>m>fllB..I,
Ih' >i'7iom dasFlaie zs presented txi ^n work
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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Henry Dumaresq,
Lieut -Col. H.AL Army.
Elizabttli-Sophia, li. of
the Him. Augustus
Butler Danvers.
William-John, late Capt. Edward.
Royal Staff Corps.
■ Frances-
Blanche,
d. of . . .
Legge.
Christ lanne-Susan,
d. of Alexander
Macleay, F.R.S.,
F.L.S., Colonial
Sec, N.S.Wales.
Marianne.
The Rev.
P. Boissier,
M.A.
I
Elizabeth.
General Sir
Ralph Darling,
G.C.B., late
Governor ami
Cora. -in-Chief,
N. S. Wales.
I
Amelia.
John-D'Auvergno Du
Collector H. M. Cu
maresq, Esq.,
toms, Deal.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Weed.
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Herbert-Nisbet Dumaresq. John-D'Auvergne.
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Edward Dumaresq.
Henry.
Alfred.
Blanche-Marianne.
Rev. S. B. Windsor, M.A.
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Elizabeth.
Amelia.
Cornelia.
William-Alexander Dumaresq, Alexander-Macleay, Elizabeth-Ann,
B.A., Cambs. Capt. G3rd Regt.' uli.juv.
Susan-Sophia-Frances. Eliza-Henrietta.
Hon. Louis Hope, son of
.lohn, fourth Earl of Hope-
tuun, and late Capt. Cold-
stream Guaids,
Artliur-Fitzroy-Charles Algernon-Edward. Henry-Hart-Davis,
Dumaresq, Efq., Lieut., Capt. R. E,
R.N.
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Louisa-Susan. Harriette-Maria-Amelia. Priscilla- Cornelia-Charlotte
Isabella-
Major Inglis, late Rowland Winn, of .Ap- Laura.
5th Dragoon pleby Hall, York.
Guards.
Henry Strickland,
of Wassand, second
son of Sir Geo.
Siricklanil, Bart.
3BurelL
(originally le vavasseuk-dit-durell.)
jMONGST others, the name of this family presents relics of a custom peculiar to the
Channel Islands — that of havins; an additional surname affixed to tlie orioiual
patronymic. From notes appended to a Pedigree of the family, compiled in 1765,
it appears that " the ancient name was Le Vavasseur only, which is an old word of
feudal jurisprudence, of which the derivation is far from certain. Camden .states that in England
it was a dignity ranking immediately after Barons ; and it is classed by IJracton, before
Knights. Some derive the word ' a iialois — quasi ohllgatus sit adstare ad vulvas domiiii, vel diynus
sit cas infrare.' Menage, quoting Cujas, says that the word comes from the Latin vass/is — formed
from 'gesse,' an ancient Gallic word siguifyiug a companion-at-arms. T)u Cange remarks that
there are two kinds of Vavassours; the greater, called Valvassores, created by the King, as
Earls and Barons; and the lesser, called Valvassini, created by these last."
" The lamily of Vavassour of England came into that coniitry with tlio Conqueror ; and
those settled in Jersey have been located there nearly as long a time, for the name appears in
the E.vte life of 1331. It appears that about the commencement of the sixteenth century, the
name of Durell was added to that of Le A'avasseur, possibly for distinction, as the family had
at that time several branches, and undoubtedly on account of some alliance with that of
Durell, and which is of French origin."*
* So far the .Jersey commentators. But it is more probable that the origin of the Durell.'; is to be found in the
English lamilv of Davrell, the more so as I cannot find tliat Durell is a French surname, and this supposition is favoured
u2
152 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
The family of Le Vavasseur-dit-Durell, as from that time it Mas called, and -which in
some branches still bears both names, ordinarily used but the last, until Thomas Durell, of the
eldest branch of the family, having omitted by error to style himself Le Vavasseur in his first
patent of Vicomte (High-Sheriff) of Jersey in 1742, his family has since entirely discontinued
tlie use of the former.*
Among the many eminent members of this fjimily, Dr. John Durell, or Durel, as he spelt his
name, stands very prominent. He was boi-n at S. Helier, in 1G25, and was entered at Merton
College, Oxford, about 1640; after remaining there two years, he retired to France, on account
of that city being beseiged by the Parliamentarians. While there, he studied at Caen, and took
his degree as M.A., in the Sylvanian College of that place, in July 1G44; from Caen, he went
to Saumur, whei'e he studied divinity under the famous Moses Amiraux, divinity reader of
that University. In 1647, he returned to Jersey, and was Chaplain of Elizabeth Castle in
1651 ; he was also an envoy from Sir Geoi-ge Carteret to King Charles H., in France. Ipon the
expulsion of the Royalists, he left the island, and shortly after received episcopal ordination in
Paris, from the Bishop of Cxalloway, at the ^Embassador's Chapel. From Paris, he went to
S. Malo; and while there, was invited to Caen to succeed the learned Bochart, who was about
to visit Sweden. About the same time the Landgrave of Hesse, having applied to the Ministers
of Paris to send him a Protestant who could preach in the French language, Mr. Durel was
recommended as a fit person ; however, from private reasons, he declined both appointments;
and afterwards became chaplain to the Duke de la Force, with whom he remained eight
years. At the Restoration, he came to England, where he was greatly instrumental in
establishing the episcopal French church in the Savoy, Strand, under the jurisdiction of the
Bishop of London; in wdiich he performed the first service, July 14, 1661, assisted by the Rev.
;Mr. Le Couteur, another Jerseyman. He officiated here some years, highly to the satisfaction
of his congi-egation. About this time he was appointed Chaplain in ordinary to the King;
and in 166o, he was preferred to a prebend's stall in the Cathedral of Salisbury, and
in the following year was made a canon of Windsor — which several preferments show the
King's esteem and regard for his faithful and talented adherent. In July, 1668, he was installed
a prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Durham, and at the same time had a rich donative
conferred on him. In 1669, he took his degree as Doctor of Divinity by creation; and in 1677,
(.'harles II. gave him the Deanerv of Windsor, in which he was installed July 27, of that year.
liv the possessors of the latter patroniyinic. Hasted, in liis " History of Kent," (vol. iii., p. 224,) says that the Dayrells
are descended from one of the name of Darcll, who is mentioned in the Roll of Battel Abbey, as may be seen by Fuller's
" Church History." A descendant of whom, William Darell, son and heir of William, was of Sesay, co. York, in King
Henry the Third's time, who bore for his arms, azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned or, membered gules: from whom
come all the dift.rent branches of Darell or Dayrdi in this kingdom. The great-grandson of this last. Sir John Darell, of
Calehill, co. Kent, Knight, was so great a promoter of the interest of the Ear! of Richmond, that King Richard HI.
declared him a rebel and traitor, and seized all his lands, comprising no less than thirteen manors, which were, however,
restored to him by King Henry VH., to whom he was Squire of the body, Captain of Lancers in that part of Kent, and in
the seventh of this reign. Sheriff of his County. His eldest son, Sir James Darell, Knight, was Governor of Guisnes and
Hann'S Castles, near Calais. His great-grandson, Nathaniel, was Governor of (Juernsey, levip. Charles H., and married
Anne De Beauvoir of that island.
* It appears a branch of the family settled at Poole, for Hutchings, in his " History of Dorset," mentions one Aaron
Durell, who was fined Jb'20 for refusing to serve as water-bailiff of that town, 2? July, ,'f (Jeorge I.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 153
He died in June, 1683, and was buried in tlie Collegiate Chapel at Windsor, where is erected a
marble tablet with a Latin inscription to his memory. He is described not only as a learned
man, but as possessing the rare combination of being at once erudite and a man of the world.
He wi'ote, among other works, " A View of the Government'and Public Worship of God, in the
Reformed Churches beyond the seas, wherein is showed their conformity and agreement witli
the Church of England, as it is by law established." In another able work also, " The Liturgy
of the Church of England Vindicated," his orthodoxy and allegiance to the Church is shown in
a very favourable light. He translated the Book of Common Prayer into French and Latin,
and the Whole Duty of Man into French ; in the execution of which last, he was efficiently
assisted by his wife. In his general character, firm and stanch loyalty is perhaps the pre-
dominating principle, but his orthodox sentiments are beyond all praise, tending as they did to
" maintain the honour of the Church of England, when in its lowest and most deplorable
condition."*
Of this family also was Dr. David Durell, who was born in 1728, and was entered at
Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1753, where he took the degree of M.A. He was afterwards
elected Fellow of Hertford College, and on the resignation of Dr. Sharp, succeeded him as
Principal. He then became Regius Professor of Greek at the University, and Rector of East
Hampstead, in Berkshire. In April, 1760, Mr. Durell took his B.D. degree, and in J7(J4
that of D.D. In 17G7 he succeeded Dr. Potter as prebendary of Canterbury, and at the
latter period of his life, he was possessed of the Vicarage of Sysehurst— the last preferment he
had. Dr. Durell was Vice-Chaucellor of the University of Oxford in 1765, and the two
following years, and while he held that high and honourable office, a circumstance occurred in
which the Rev. Doctor's complicity is scarcely known. But from the anti-collegiate irregu-
larities of some of the students of Edmund Hall, who, upon complaints made to Dr. Durell as
Vice-Chancellor, were expelled, arose the schism so well known from the names of its chief
promoters, Whitefield and Wesley. Among other works. Dr. Durell wrote " The Hebrew Text
of the Parallel Prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the Twelve Tribes, etc., with the
Samaritan and Arabic Versions," and " Critical Remarks on the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and
Canticles," and in the preface to which latter he moots a subject that has been of late very
freely canvassed — that of a new translation of the Bible. He had also projected a work on
the Prophetical Scriptures, which was never completed, and which was, after his death, sent
with other ISISS. to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth. Dr. Durell died at Oxford in
1775, in the 47th year of his age.
Several of the family distinguished themselves in the profession of arms. Among them may
be noticed Captain Thomas Durell, R.N., who died in 1741; Captain John Durell, R.N., who
died in 1748; Captain George Durell; and Rear- Admiral Philip Durell, who assisted in Wolfe's
glorious capture of Quebec in the Princess Amelia, 80,and Avho died at Halifax in 1766.
Solomon Durell, Esq., was Gentleman of the Horse and Equerry to the Princess of Wales
in 1743. He appears also as one of the esquires, and has his arms recorded as such, of the
Earl of Leicester, created K.B. in 1725.
* Vide Caesarea; Biog. Brit.; Chalmer's Biog. Diet., etc.
154 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Prouiinent amoug the talented Jevseymen of the present ceutury, stands the Rev.
Edward Durell, M.A., sometime Rector of S. Saviour. He was born 20 December, 1781,
and e(hicated at Peml^roke College, Oxford. Upon his taking duty in his native island, he
consulted at once his scholarly industry and his antiquarian tastes, by devoting himself
to collect materials to illustrate its history. In this he was very fortunate, and among
other discoveries of ancient MSS. that he made, Avas the valuable one of Chevalier's Record
of the Insular affairs during part of the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II. It is much to
lie regretted that the design did not occur to him of entirely rewriting a liistory of Jersey,
instead of merely commentating vipon Falle's feeble and meagre work ; for with his talents
and the opportunities he possessed for the task, there is no room left for doubt but that
such a woi-k from his pen would have been a most valuable contribution to the literature
of his native island. Rare as is the combination, Mr. Durell followed the example of his
talented countryman, Wace, and was at once a poet and an historian; and was as favourably
known in the former as in the latter capacity. Although many of his poems were published at
various times, yet by far the most important still exist in MS. in the possession of his son-in-
law, the Rev. William Duheaume, Rector of S. Trinity. These poems are entitled the " Heroic
Legends of Jersey," and l}y the brilliancy and aptness of their imagery, their fluency of
description, their simple pathos and pure idiom, remind the reader of Scott's happiest style.
It is to be hoped that ere long their publication will give the reading world the opportunity of
perusing this version of those romantic h/sforicttes with which tlie island teems. Mv. Durell
died in 1848, from causes induced by domestic affliction, leaving behind him a reputation for
scholarship and talent, rarely, if ever equalled among his countrymen, and undoubtedly never
surpassed.
The family of Le Vavasseur-dit-Durell is represented by David-Vavasouk Durell, Esq. ;
tliat of Durell, by tlie Rev. John-Durell Durell, B.A., of jNIarchwood Parsonage, South-
ampton.
Arms of Le Vavasseur-dit-Durell: Or, a fesse, dancette, sable.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, a gazelle's head, sable, attired, oi-.
Motto : Dos est magna parentum virtus.
Arms of Durell (as borne by the Rev. John-Durell Durell) : Azure, a lion rampant,
crminois, ducally crowned, or. (jjuartering : Argent, a saltire, gules; on a chief of the last,
three mullets of the field, for Stables : Impaling : 1 and 4 : Ermine, on a fesse, sal^le, tln'ee
mullets, or, for Lister; 2 and 3, Or, on a bend between six crosses crosslet, ;izure, three garbs
of the field, for Bancroft.
Crests: 1. Out of a ducal coronet, a Sai-acen's head, full-faced, ppr., wreatlied around tlie
head, or and azure, for Durell: 2. A demi-lion, gules, holding between the paws, a nudlet
argent, for Stables.
Motto : Fidelis et generosus.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
155
^Srliicjite of ?Cr 2iJatia£(siriu--liit--QurrIK
SENIOR BRANCH.
Heliei Le Vavasseur, and Guille Le Vavasseur, of S. Martin.
Geoffrey Le Vavasseur, of S. Peter. Fide Extenle, 1331.
Catherine, d. of . . . Lempriere = John Le Vavassrur-dit-Durell, b. 1497 = Ann. d. of . . . Messervy.
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1 homas Le V.-dit-Darell = Judith, d. of . . . Poingdestre. Nicholas = Jane, d. of . . . Malzard.
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Thomas Le V.-dit-Durell = Louisa, d. of . . . Dumaresq.
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Abraham Le V.-dit-Durell, m. 1610 = Jane, d. of . . . Duhamel.* Andr^ = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Pitre. John
I
Abraham le V.-dit-Durell = Sarah, d. of . . . Poulain.f of Caen, Normandy.
I n
Abraham Le V.-dit-Durell. Margaret, d. of David Bandinel, Seig. of Bagot = Thomas, b. 1654 = Mary, d. of . . . De La Douepe, Joshua.
of Poitou. —
Jadith.
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Rev. Daniel Le V.-dit-Dnrell, M.A. ^ Susan, d. of the Rev. . . . Powell, George. Margaret.
Rector of Coychurch, Preb. of Llandalf. I of co. Glamorgan. —
Mary- Ann.
Susan Le V.-dit-Durell = John Franklin, of Lanthangale,
Joseph. E. Syvret. John Hamptonne,
Jurat, R.C.
Thomas Le V.-dit-Durell, b. 1683, d. 1736 = Mary, sister of Charles Hilgrove, Jurat, R.C.
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John.
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Joshua.
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George.
Henry. David.
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1. Mary, d. of John Aubin, Denunciator, R.C, and niece = Thomas Le V.-dit-Durell = 2. Elizabeth, d. of George David, D.D., Principal
of the Rev. Philip Falle, m. 1717.
I Bandinel, Vicomte of Jersey, of Hertford Coll., Oxon..
and Canon of Canter-
Henry Le V.-dit-Durell.
I
Elizabeth.
James Hilgrove.
bury, b. 1789.
Thomas Le V.-dit-Durell, David. Rector of Mongewell,
b. 1759. and Preb. of Durham.
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John, o.s.p.
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Anne. Mary. Margaret. Rachel. Jane.
1. Jane, d of N. Fiott, of Ann, d. of Philip Robin, of S.
1. Mary, d. of Ph. Robin. N. Cotes. Charles M. Gosset. J.L.Ham- Thomas
mond. Hammond.
La Hougue.
Aubin.
2. Ann, d. of Ph. Lerrier.
Le Maistre.
2. Ann, d. of Major Hull,
m. 1819.
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David-Vavasour Durell.
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Thomas-Vavasour, o.s.p.
Maria, d. of Wm. Le Breton. Harriet, d. of Rev. James Adams.
1
Philip-Vavasour. Ann-Vavasour.
Jane-Vavasour.
Mary- Vavasour.
II III II-
David-John-Vavasour Durell. John-Vavasour. Ann-Maria- Vavasour. Emily- Vavasour. Elizabeth-Vavasour.
James-Philip- Vavasour. Jane-Louisa. Louisa- Vavasour. Margaret-Vavasour.
Elizabeth-Charlotte.
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Thomas-Vavasour Durell, b. 1787, o.s.p. David, b. 1797 o.s.p. Jane-Ann, b. 1788. Rose-Mary.
Louisa-Carteret.
Eliza, b. 1790. Ann-Peyton. Rev. Charles Marett, Rector of
— — S. Clement.
Mary, b. 1791. Sarah.
Louisa.
♦ Arms of Duhamei., of Champagne : .\rgent, a chevron, gules.
f Arms of Poulain, of Britany : Argent, a holly tree, vert ; on a canton, gules, a cross engrailed, argent.
156
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
f cDigite of 2Ce ^•abassnir-tnt-JBurdL
JUNIOR BRANCH.
Nicholas Le Vavasseur-dit-Durell = Jane, d. of . . . Malzard {Vide preceding Ped.)
Nicholas Le V.-dit-Dureli. Moyse, d. 1644.
Jolin.
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Andrew. Henry. Laurent. Rachel. Jane. Felicia.
Martha, d. of . . . Janvrin.
Moyse Le V.-dit-Durell. John, d. 1C31 = Jane, d. of . . . Beaugie. Aaron.
Nicholas.
Noel.
Jane.
Mary, d. of . . . Luce.
Judith, d. of ... Durell. Abigail, d. of ... Durell. Helier Cabot.
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Nicholas Le V.-dit-Durell, b. IfilS = Rachel, d. of . . . Chevalier. Moyse.
Thomas.
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Judith.
Esther.
Jane, d. of . . . Durell. Oliver Estienne.*
1. {Name unknown) = Nicholas Le V.-dit-Durell = 2. Elizabeth, d. of . . . Mollet.
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Edward Le V.-dit-Durell = Mary, d. of . . . Le Maistre. 1 . (Name unknotcn) = Amice = 2. Jane, d. of . . . Le Maistre.
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Thomas, and several other children.
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Amice Le V.-dit-Durell.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Sueur.
Nicholas = Frances, d. of . . . Bazin.f
Edward.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Esnouf.
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Amice, Le V.-dit-Durell, b. 1730. Gideon, b. 1737. Philip, b. 1751 = Ann, d. of ... John. Frances.
Nicholas.
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Philip Le V.-dit-Durell, Major R.J.M. = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Mennell.J James, R.N. = Eliz.-Mary, d. of John. Elizabeth.
I Charles Pinel.
I i Ph. Le Maistre,
Ann-Charlotte Le V.-dit-Durell = Edward Gibaut, Jun. Elizabeth. S\ir&X, R.C.
I
Philip Le V.dit-Durell
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Edward.
Charles.
Carteret.
John.
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Elizabeth.
1. Capt. Sweeny.
2. Capt. llderton.
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Julia-Esther.
. . . Barnes.
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Ann.
.. Hil
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Eleonora.
1. Thomasse, d. of .. . Anley = Amice Le V.-dit-Durell = 3. Mary, d. of Edward, b. 1714.
Susan.
I
b. 1706.
2. Jane, d. of . . . Dolbel.
. . Cabot.
I
Mary.
Rachel.
Rachel, d. of . . . Romeril. Elias-John
= Le Gros.
Three sons and three daughters.
Amice Norman. §
Henry Le V^dit-Durell.
T
Henry Le V.-dit-Durell.
George.
I
Frederick.
Edward Le V.-dit-Durell, b. 1738 = Elizabeth, d. of Philip Le Breton, and of Eliz. De Carteret, his wife. John, b. 1740.
The Rev. Edward Le V.-dit-Durell, M.A., Rector of S. Saviour = Mary, d. of Thomas Anthoine.
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Edward Le V.dit-Durell, Esq. Charles-Rouse, M.R.C.S., ot.. Carteret-Philip, ob. Alfred, B. A., John-Tindal, LL.B., Mary-Ann.
Trin. Coll. S. Peter's Coll.,
Cambs. Cambs.
Amice Le V.-dit-Durell, b. 1735 = Rachel, d. of . . . Voisin.
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I
Nicholas.
Amice Le V.-dit-Durell = Margaret, d. of ... Amy.
Amice Le V.-dit-Durell, Esq., of Mont au Pretre.
Edward.
Rev.Wra.Du-
heaume,M..A.,
Jesus College,
Cambs., Rec-
tor of S.
Trinity.
• Arms of Estienne, or Stkvens, of Guernsey: Per pale, or and vert, a chevron between three Curnish choughs, counterchanged.
Crest: On a rock, ppr., a salmon, in fessc, argent; in the mouth a rose, gules leaved and stemmed vert.
t Arms of Bazin : Azure, three ducal coronets, or. J Arms of Mennel: Vairy, argent anil aable.
§ The family of Noiiman of Jersey is said to be a branch of that of Sussex. Arms: Gules, on the waves of the sea, a ship of three masts,
all ppr. ; in chief three mullets, argent. Motto; Deus dabit vela.
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157
^ftrigrrc of ©lufll.
John Le Vavasseur-dit-Durkll, b. 1497. = Ann, (i. of . . . Messervy.
Thomas Le V.-dit-Durell.
Nicholas, Elder of the Church of S. Helier. d. IGIG, aged circa 80.
Jane, d. of . . . Malzard.
T
Nicholas Le V.-dit-Durell.
Moyse Le V.-dit-Durell,
b. 1635.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . LeGallais.
II I
Thomas = Jane La Cloche, d. of the John, Greffier, R.C. = Martha, d. of . . . Janvrin. Other
Seig. of Longueville. I children.
L Jane, d. of . . . Hailhache = Thos. Durell, Constable = 2. Madeline, d. Nicholas. Martha. Mary.
of S. Heher.
I Charles Durell, b. 1G31, o.s.p.
John Le V.-dit-Durell. b. 1(15).
of . . . Guilleaume.*
John Dumaresq. Sarah.
Ann.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Bouton.
T
John Le V.-dit-Durell, b. 1G83.
Ann, d. of . . . Le Geyt.
T
I i
Jane.
Martha ' ' III
John Durell, Lieut.-BaiUy of Nicholas, Advocate- Thomas.
Jersey, b. 1642. General of Jersey. —
Elias.
Ann, d. of Elias Dumaresq, Judith, d. of .. . —
Seig. des Augr^s. Foubert. + Madelaine.
T
I I I MINI
I John Durell, Advo- Philip, Seig. Thomas, b. 1685. Charles. Madelaine. Jane. Ann
PhilipLe V.-dit-Durell, b. 1717. Other cate-General of of Grainville. — b. l(;"4,m
^ . -. . r u I f'na
children. Jersey, b. 1678.
Mary, d.of . . . Robin.
T
Philii) Le V.-dit-Durell, of Sans
Souci.
Elizabeth, d.of .
Corbet.
Anne, d.of . ..Bulkeley. Nicholas. 1694 Elizabeth. Matthew
= de Saus-
I Sir Ed. De marez.of
Magdelaine Duiell, b. 1713. Carteret. Guernsey.
I
John Durell, Advocate-General of Jersey, b. 1705-
Ann, only d. and h. of Amiuu La Cloche, Seig. of Longueville. 1 . Madelaine, d. of , . . Sausmarez,
o.s.p. Sophia, d. of H. Weld.
I
I II I II
John-Thomas Durell, Philip. Madelaine-Ann, Ann.
Seig. of Longueville, — b. 1728, eventual —
Advocate-General of George, heiress of Lou- Elizabeth. I
Jersey, b. 1733, o.s.p. gueville.
I I 11 I
Philip, Rear-Admiral, b. 1707. Thomas Durell, Capt. R.N., Robert.
b.l717. —
Charles.
George-Charles.
2. . .
. d. of .
Skey.
3 widow of . . . Taylor, u.sp.
T
Ann Durell, only d. and h.
George Biirrard,
Es(|., of Lyming-
ton, Hants.
Rev. Thos. Warwick.
I
Sophia.
Ann.
I
Eliza Durell.
J
Ann-Sophia.
Thomas- Philip Durell.
Anne.d.of John Roberts, of 1. James Alexander. Keene-Zachary Stables, Esq., of
Kingsgate, L of Thanet. Bread Green Lodge, co. Surrey.
= 2. George Ellis. =
I I
Durell Durell, Esq., assumed his mother's name, by S. M., in 1833.
John Blaki>, Capt. R. Ma_\o Anthony Blake, Caot 13th Regt.
Mditia.
Anne, third d. of Joseph Hamer, of Demarara.
I
The Rev. John-Durell Durell, B.A., of Southampton.
Florence-Arabella, third d. of Matthew-Henry Lister, Esq.,
of Burwell Park, co. Lincoln |
I,,
Fredericii.- 1 hoinas.
Anne.
Marv-
* Arms of GuiLT.AUME, of Britany : Gules, a lion, argent, crowned and langued, or.
f Arms of Foubkrt, of Normandy : Argent, on a fesse, azure, a lion, passant, guardant, or.
J The family of Lister, of Burwell Park, forms the senior existing line of the ancient family of Lister of Yorkshire, of which was Sir Martin
Lister, the celebrated physician, temp. Charles L Bv the marriage of Mattht^w Lister, Esq., of Burwell. with Eleanor, daughter, and eveotual
co-heiress of Sir Cliarles Dynioke, ot Scrivelshy, Knight, Cham|.ion at the Coronation of James IL, this family became one of the co-heirs to
the ancient barony of Kyme. Lord Ribblesdale descends from a junior branch of this house.
158 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
jTilleuL
jHOMAS LE FILLEUL, of the parish of Pirou, Vicouite of Coutances, settled iu
Jersey circa 1430, from whom descend all of this name in the island. This
Thomas, in 1435, sold his French estates to his brother, John Le Filleul, and thus
ceased to liave any connection with the Duchy of Normandy.
The family is an offshoot from the family of Filleul, Seigneurs of Freneuse, in Normandy,
from which source also spring the Seigneurs de Chesnets and other branches of the same name,
noticed by French genealogists. The first of the branch of Freneuse, Duraud Filleul, was, as
several of his descendants subsequently became. Mayor of Rouen in 1268, and was at this
early period, certified as belonging to an ancient and considerable family of that city. Amauri
Filleul, Seigneur of Freneuse in 1353, was, with John Mustel, sent into England as hostage for
the deliverance of King John of France, where both died in exile.
The influential family of Filiol, of Woodlands, Dorsetshire, now extinct, is generally given
an identical origin with the foregoing.* Hutchins, in his great work on that county, who gives
a detailed pedigree of this house, says " The family of Filiol took its name from Filiolus, in
French, Filleul^ — Godson, as appears by a seal appendant to a grant of William Filiol to Coge-
sliale (Coggeshall) Abbe}^, in Essex, which has a representation of a font— a king on one side,
and a bishop on the other, holding a child, as in the ceremony of baj^tism ; so that the surname
seems given by some King of England, to one of their ancestors at the time of baptism. Their
name occurs in some of the Rolls of Battel Abbey, among those who came iu Avith the
Conqueror."
Among several branches of the fiimily, the most important, that of S. Clement, is repre-
sented by the Rev. Philip Filleul, M.A., Vice-Dean of Jersey, and Rector of S. Holier.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Philip Filleul) : Argent, on a bend, gules, three escallops,
or. Impaling: argent, a digamma, sable, for Valpy.
Crest : An anchor, or, cabled jipr.
Motto: Facta non verba.
^3ftiig:rtr of jTillfuI of ^. Clrnifiit.
John Filleul, living 1520 = Jeanette, d. of John Averty.
I \ i \ \ ^1
Francis Filleul = Martha, <i. of . . . Canivet.-f Thomas, Magdelaine. Jeanette. Thomasse. Mary.
I from whom
j I descends the
John Filleul, Deacon of = Mary, d. of .. . Clement. branch of
S. Clement. I Le Baillif.J Fdleul of
I Jane, d. of Grouvdie.
A . . . Le Baillif.
* Arms of Filiol, of Woodlands : Vaire, a canton, gules.
f Ar.ms of Canivet, of Normandy : Azure, three penknives, argent, liafted, or.
{ Arms of Le Baillif, of Britany : Argent, a palm-tree, arraehe, vert, frueted, or.
^luauwrriib 'piiilip rillnil. .^P..X.
yiy ii//r'j/i l//ixj'/<i/r tx />n:-!Klif'-<f l<> thfiiirk.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
159
I III
Philip FiUeul, m. 1G44 = Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Godfray. John. Jane. Margaret = Thomas Ahier.
Philip FiUeul, b. 1649 = Jane, d. of Helier Dumaresq.
John.
I
Elizabeth == Aaron Noel.
John.
Jane.
I
Philip Filleul, b. 1690, Lieut., R.J.M. = Sarah, d. of Thomas Godfray.
^1
I I I Mary, d. of... Stephen Clement
Philip Filleul, Constable of S. Clement, John, b. 1739. Sarah. DeQuetteville. Mourant. Mattinglcy.
Capt., E. Regt., R.J. M., b. 1736. ='
Esther, d. of ... _J
I
Elizabeth. Rachel. Esther.
John Touzel,
Constable of S.
Clement.
Deborah, d. of John Touzel.
Touet.
T
John Filleul, b. 1725. Aaron = Elizabeth, d. of John Touzel. Jane.
I Sarah, d. of Clement I
I
John Filleul, b. 1776. Esther. Mary. Mattingley. Aaron Filleul, o.s.p. Sohn, o.s.p. Esther, d. and h.
■ T
Mary, d. of John Touzel. John Le
= Neveu.
Ph.-J. Le Neveu.
I
Philip Filleul, Constable of S. Clement =■ Esther-Elizabeth, d. of Other
George Laurens. children, o.s.p.
Esther-Elizabeth Filleul, only d. and h. = John Janvrin.
I I I
John Filleul. Elizabeth = John Le Jeune. Mary =^ Ph. Vivi;in.
I
Nancv-
I III
Philip Filleul, Lieut., E. Regt., R.J.M., b. 1764 = Ann, d. of Joshua Mourant. Esther = Aaron Ahier. Elizabeth = Ph. Touzel. Deborah.
i ' i i ' i
The Rev. Philip Filleul, M.A., successively Vice-Dean of Jersey, Rector of Ann-Elizabeth. Elizabeth-Deborah. Marv-Elizabeth.
S. Brelade, S. Peter, S. Saviour, and S. Helier, b. 1793.
Catherine-Elizabeth-Blanehe, d. of Dr. Valpy, of Reading.
Ph. Nicolle.
Isaac Malzard.
The Rev. Philip-Valpy-Mourant
Filleul, M.A., Rector of Biddi-
shani, CO. Somerset, formerly
Warden of Christ's College,
Tasmania.
Marianne, d. of Saml. Girdlestone.
7
I
William-Valpy, oh. juv.
Philip-William Filleul.
I
Samuel-Edward.
I
William-Gabriel, of
Papakaio, Otago,
New Zealand.
I
Richard-Anthony,
of New Zealand,
who, with his
brother, William-
Louisa, second d. of Gabriel, was one of
R. S. Belcher, of the earlier settlers
Burton-on-Trent. in the province of
of Otago.
Mary-Jane. Ann-Penelope.
F. J. Henslev,
.M.D.
fiott
m HE family of Fyot, Fiot, or Fiott, appears to have existed in Jersey for some centuries,
^ where it has always held a respectable social position. It may be supposed, owing
to the identity of surname and similarity of coat-armour, a branch of the distin-
guished house of Fyot de la Marche, one of the most eminent of the Duchy of
Burgundy. Two branches of this latter bear titles of nobility; one, that of the IMarqui.sate de
la ]\Iarche, and the other, that of the Marquisatc de Mimeure. The parent stock is traced
to Guillaume Fyot, who represented the fiiniily in 1382.1
* Arms of Alexandre, of Normandy : Paly azure and gules, a fesse, argent : in chief a crescent, or, in base a trefoil
of the third.
t For detailed notices of this family, vide Palliot. Hist, du Parlement de Bourgogne, and its continuation, by Petitot :
x2
160 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
The brnncli of Jersey settled in tlie parish of S. Saviour, whence a section removed to
8. Holier, and in the person of Nicholas Fiott, Esq. ( who was buried in the churchyard of that
parish, where a handsome monument exists to his memory) became possessed of the Fief
Ilaubert of Melesches A collateral descendant of this Nicholas, John Fiott, Esq., D.C.L.,
F.R A.S., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., F.G.FI.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., representative of the family in
England, assumed by Sign-Manual in Octoljer, 1815, the surname and arms of Lee, pursuant
to the will of his maternal uncle, William Lee-Antonie, Esq., of Ilartwell, Bucks.*
A branch of the same fomily is located in the parish of S. Brelade, and is there repre-
sented by Mr. John Fiott.
Another settled in Guernsey in the seventeenth century, but is now extinct.f
Arms : Azure, on a chevron between three lozenges, or, an anchor erect, cabled, sable.
Crest: A demi-horse, argent, charged on the shoulder with a fleur-delis, sable.
Motto : Malgre I'injustice.
|Y some authorities this family is said to be derived from a French source, but by
others, to be identical with that of Gabriel, of England. .
The ancestor of the existing branch, represented by John Gabourel, Esq., of
La Coloinberie, is supposed to have been a seventh son, who, absent on a voyage,
escaped the fate of his six elder brothers, who fell victims to. the plague which ravaged the
island about the year 1526. These brothers were buried hi the graveyard of the now demo-
lished feudal chapel of S. George, at Vincheles de Bas, where the tomb erected to their
memory is still remembered by some of the patriarchs of S. Ouen.
G<;liot's Ann. ( ii ii : Coutume do Bouigogue, by President -BouLier: the Perc Anselmc : Gallia Christiana, vol. IV: Catalogue
di'S Gcntilshommes du Duche de Bourgogne : Du Chesnay-des-Bois : etc., etc. Arms of Fyot de la Marche : Azure, a
chevron hctwccn three lozenges, or.
* Vic/e pedigree and history of the family of Lee, and an incomplete and imperfect pedigree of Fiott, in Lipscomhe's
History of Buckinghamshire. A lengthened and erudite history of the ancient house of Lee, of Hartwell, its mansion
:ind manor, appears in the ^des Hartwellianee, by Admiral W. H. Smyth, K.S.F., D.C.L., F.R.S., 1851.
t Arms of Fiott of Guernsey : Or, three hends, azure : a canton ermine. The discrepancy between the arms of the
.Jersey and Guernsey families is thus ingeniously explained by a learned antiquary of the latter island. The last-named
arms are blazoned on a monument in the church of S. Peter Port, to the memory of John Fiott, who died in 174-1. In
(he same church is a monument in memory of Mary, wife of .lohn Broughton, Captain of Invalids, son of Sir Thomas
Broughton, Bart., of co. Stafford, who died in 1722. The arms on it are Broughton, impaling in chief— or, a chevron
azure, between three mascles gules (a comprehansible variation of the true Fiott coat) and in base — or, three bends
sinister, azure; a canlon, also sinister, ermine, for Charty. The conclusion very naturally to be arrived at, is that Captain
Rroughton's first wife was a Fiott, and that the chief impale (allowing for the incompetence of a provincial artist) represents
the bearings of that family— but from some unexplained cause the Fiotts of Guernsey subsequently mistook the base
impale for their own arms.
By w/ii'//i I/iI.< /'/ii/t' Af PreseiUet/ to Uie Jihrk .
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
161
Arms (as borne by John Gabourel, 1''sq.) : Argeut, an ancbor erect, azure; on a cbief ot
the last, three roses of the field. Quartering : Argent, a chevron between two roses slipped in
chief, and a heart in base, all gules, for Benest.
Crest : A greyhound's head, couped, argent, collared and chained, or.
^rliigrft of (Sabouid.
Pasquerel Gabourel, living 1582.
John Gabourel, living 1612 = Mabel, d. of . . . Le Brocq.
I
Thomas Gabourel, living 1G45.
Thomas Gabourel, d. 1678 = Elizabeth, d. of Michael Journeaulx.
Thomas Gabourel, d. 168&.
Sarah, d, of Edmund Falle,
of S. Saviour.
John, d. 1702 = Margaret, d. of . . . Le Quesne.
I
Elizabeth.
Thomas Gabourel, b. 1654.
Catherine, d. of . . . Alexandre,
of S. Brelade.
I
Fhomas Gabourel, d. 1691.
1. Judith, d. of ... Le Gros.
2. Magdalene, d. of . . . Le
Vesconte.
I I
George, b. 1658. Philip.
I
Elizabeth.
Rachel, d. of
Simeon Syvret.
I I
George Gabourel. Susan.
I
John Gabourel, b. 1679.
1
Judith.
Abraham Le Marquand.
John.
I
Joshua, b. 1669.
1. (Name unknown.)
= 2. Sarah, d. of
Michael Perchard.
3 Susan I.e Grand,
widow of Raulin Ball
o.s.p.
I
Nicholas.
I
Sarah.
I
Elizabeth.
1
Katherine.
1. Jane, d. of . . . Dolbel, o.s.p.
2. Jane, d. of . . . Le Brocq.
T
I III
Jane Gabourel. Mary. Magdalen.
I
Charles Gabourel.
I I
Ann. Sarah.
Sarah.
> twins.
Rachel.
I
Thomas Gabourel, of Portinfer. Joshua. Amice. John. Catherine. Sarah. Jane
I Joshua Gabourel, b. at Southampton.
Ann Durell, o.s.p.
Catherine, d. Philip,
of . . . Balleine.
1. Su.*an, (]. of Philip Le Bailly.
2. Margaret, d. of . . . Bayles, o.s.p.
Amice Gabourel.
.\nn.
1
Catherine.
Mary, d. of . . . De La Perelle. Nicholas Le Bas. Henry Le Vavasseur-dit-Durell.
I
John-Joshua Gabourel.
Mary Gabourel, clil. d. Jane.
and CO. h. •
Philip D'Auvergue.
John Perchard, of Les Jurat, R.C.
Augres.
I I I I
Amice.
Michael.
Philip.
Thomas.
Joshua Gabourel, b. at Southanipton.
Hannah, d. of . . . Bick, m. 174T.
I I
Joshua Gabourel, b. 1761. Susannah.
I
Sarah.
I I
Ann. Marv.
Elizabeth, d. of James- Chas. Durell
Louis Guillet.
Lauchlan Ph. Hamon.
Mc Lean,
M.D.,
settled in
N. America.
162 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSET.
I I II
Joshua Gabourel, b. 1787, John-Joshua, b. 1796, d. 1854. Elizabeth.
oh. juv.
Harriet, d. and h. of Philip Susannah.
Benest, of S. Brelade.
I ^ III I I I I I I I
John Gabourel, Esq., R.J.M.A., Joshua. ") Harriet. Ann. Amelia- Susannah.
only surviving son. — | — Catherine.
John. y oh. juv. Elizabeth. Francis-Shortt John-Wheler
— I — Arnott, M.D., Robert-Crossing Cnllington,
Charles. J Mary-Ann. C.B., H.E.l.C.S. Thorpe, M.D., Capt. R.A.
H.E.I.C.S.
Louisa.
I FIE family of Gervaise lias long held a biglily respectable position in its native parish,
where, for some generations, it possessed the Franc-fief of S. Brelade.*
D'Hozier, in his Armorial General^ Regcstre II., mentions a Peter Gervaise, who
was Secretary to Henry VIII. of England, and who, by tradition, was supposed to
have been a member of a family of that name settled at S. Malo, in Britany. It is far more
probable, however, that this Peter Gervaise was a Jerseyman, and belonged to the family in
this island; for among the muniments now in the possession of its descendants, is the oriqinal
of a curious letter addressed by the Dean and Jurats of Jersey to Cardinal Wolsey, complaining
of the mal-practices of their Bailly, Holier Do Carteret. It appears impossible to account for the
preservation of this document in a quarter so remote, except on the ground that the then secre-
tary, being a native of the island, should naturally lie consulted on insular affairs, and thus
obtain possession, officially, of so interesting an instrument. Nor would such an appointment
l>e without precedent, for, if I am correctly informed, it was very usual until the close of the
last century, to attach natives of the Channel Islands to the service of the Houses of Parliament
as Secretaries, in consequence of their familiarity with both English and French.
Arms : Argent, a chevron, gules, between three escallops, sable.
^fljisiff of 6nbai£(f.
R.VNrLPinjs Gervasy, mentioned among the Secttaores Curia? as Seigneur of the Franc-iief of S. Brelade in 1331,
from whom descended
Nieholas Gervaise, Jurat, R.C., in llftS,
from whom descended
Thomas Gervaise.
Nicholas Gervaise, Seigneur of the Franc-fief of S. Brelade, in 154.,).
Vide Lineage of Lauglois.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
163
Thomas Gervaise, d. 15!)0.
Philip, o. $. p. = Collette, d. of . . Lo Marquand.
Nicholas, b. 1566'.
1. Catherine, d. of . . Bequet.
2. Jane, d. of . . Herault.
I I I I I
Thomas Gervaise = Mary, d. of Richard. James. Stephen, b. JIary, b. 15U4.
. . Becquet. 157i,o.s.p.
Peter Picquet.*
I
Jane Gervaise, only d. and h., b. 1C05.
1. Jolm Goupil.
Philip Gervaise, m. 1627. Toussaint,
o.s.p.
Mary, d. of . . Alexandre.
2. David Bandinel.
Philip Gervaise, b. 1631 = Elizabeth, d. of .. Le Marquand. John. Toussaint. Thomas. Elias. Mary.
Philip Gervaise, d. 1721- = Jane, d. of Philip Messervy of Anneville, m. ITOC. Jane, ni. 1703.
Thomas Jean.t
Philip Gervaise, d. 17-19 = Jane, d. of . . Robert, m. 1739. John. Edward.
Rachel.
1
Jane.
Philip Gervaise, I). 17^0 r= Mary, d. of . . Marguerite.! Jane.
Anne Gervaise, only d. and h., d. 185-1 = Philip Le Bas, of Les Niesmes. §■
* Arjis of Picquet, of Picardy : Azure, on a bend, gules, three vases, or, between three trefoils of the last.
t Arms of Jean of Normandy : Azure, three acorns, or.
I Marguerie, ilarguerye, or ^larguerite, one of the most ancient of the aucienne noblesse of Normandy. Abms: Gules,
three field daisies, argent,
§ Le Bas. — Normandy is the province whence this family draws its origin, and it has been settled in the island for
centuries. The name appears in documents of the thirteenth century, existing in the archives of S. Lo, which relate
to the possessions held by the monks of S. Michael in Jersey.
The family possesses several branches, settled principally in the parishes of S. Peter and S. Brelade, which, however,
owing to the absence of evidence, cannot be traced to a common origin. Of these, the principal are those of Les Niesmes
and La Presse, in the Parish of S. Peter, and that of S. Brelade, now represented by Mr. Nicholas Le Bas, of Jlont de
Tigne. This latter Ijranch is of great antiquity in its parish, the present representative lieing the ticcntieth of the name
in lineal descent.
That of Les Niesmes has been in possession of this estate for, at least, sixteen generations, when bj' the marriage of
Ann, only daughter and heiress of Nicholas Le Bas, Ef^q., with Philip Le Feuvre, Esq., it passed into the possession of
the last-named family. The only brother of this Nicholas, Philip Le Bas, having married Anne, onlj' daughter and
heiress of Philip Gervaise, of S. Brelade, settled on the paternal estate of that very ancient family, which is now in the
possession of his eldest son, Mr. Philip Le Bas.
The branch of La Presse came originally from S. Laurence, where it held a considerable estate, known to this day as
La Ville-au-Bas. It became possessed of La Presse by its marriage with the heiress of the Bechervaise family. Its present
bead is Henry-Philip Le Bas, Esq., who also represents a section of the ancient Norman family of Mace, the first
insular settler of which was a victim of the French Revolution of 17S0. Arms of Maci; : Gules, three clubs, argent.
Arms : The sculptured stone on which the arms and quarterings of the family were pictured, was unfortunately
lost in the repair or rebuilding of the house, but the branch of Les Niesmes bear the coat borne by the late Professor
Le Bas, of Haileybury, whose source is strongly suspected to be identical with the insular family.
164 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
MIGRATING at the commencement of the fifteenth century from Fhmders, this femily
settled in the parish of S. Laurence, where its representative still lives.* Nicholas
Gibaut, or Gybault, as the name was then spelt, was Rector of the parish of S.
Saviour so early as 1497. Louis Gybault was Vice-Dean of Jersey in 1514. And
a namesake and collateral relative, another Louis Gybault, possessed the living of S Clement
in 1.567.
From this ecclesiastic, who was born about 1.530, the existing family of the name directly
tiescend. Its chief representatives are Mr. Abraham Gibaut, of La Vallee, Colonel Moses
Gibaut, R..J.M., Philip Gibaut, Esq., Constable of S. John, and Moses Gibaut, Esq., of
Mainland. The junior branch descended from a second son of the Rev. Louis Gybault, of
S. Clement, is extinct.
The estate of La Vallee, in the jjarish of S. Laurence, comprised at one period four
hundred vergees of land, and has been held by the ancestors of its present possessor for at least
i'our hundred and fifty years. The house, jjerhaps one of the most antique in the island, still
stands, being now used as an outhouse.
Arms (as borne by Moses Gibaut, Esq., Colonel, R.J.M.): Azure, a tower, or, maconn^,
sable. Quartering: Azure, a fesse between three stags, trippaut, argent, for Le Cerf; Per
fesse, argent and or; in chief, a dexter-hand, clenched, ppr., cutfed of the second; in base a
mullet of the first, for Poingdestre.
Crest : A tower, as in the arms.
Arms (as borne by Moses Gibaut, Esq., of IMainland) : The same Arms and Crest.
Quartering : Azure, a fesse, between three stags trippant, argent, for Le Cerf ; Or, three cherries,
gules, stalked, vert, for Messervy; Or, three leaves, vert, for Anquetil; Gules, four fusils
conjoined in fesse. Argent, a mullet for ditt'erence, for De Carteret ; argent, on a chevron between
three martlets, sable, as many fleurs-de-lis of the field, for Falle; and Gules, three mullets,
pierced, or, fur Hamptonne. Impaling: Gules a plain cross, humette, between three doves,
argent, a crescent for diff'ereuce, for De la Taste ; and. Argent, a bend wavy, sable, a crescent
for difference, for Wallop.
^3ftii5rff of (0il).^ut.
The Rev. Louis GyBAUi.T, Rector of S. Clement, 1567.
T
I
Nicholas Gybault, b. 1556. Louis, b. 1568.
I T
I I Philip Gybault = Catherine Le Goupil,
Abraham Gyhault, il. 1661 = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Bisson. Ehas, d. 1666. I '"'' Guppy.
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* A family named Gir.oT, which demonstrated its nobility in the years 1GG7, 1097, and 17U', was formerly settled
in the province of Anjou. Arms : Argent, a lion, sahle.
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Mainland.
Jh' whfiii !hif F/'ii/i' is /)risr/ilii/ h> ihf Urric:
AN AKMOKIAL OF JERSEY.
165
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Nicholas Gybault, m. 1680 = Mary, d. of ... Laurens. I'hilip, d. 1690 = Judith, rf. of ... LeGoupil. Louis Gybault. Philip. Margaret.
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Nicholas Gybault, m. 1687.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Laurens.
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Jane.
Moses Gybault, b. 1684.
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Nicholas Gibaut= Ann, d. of ... Abraham. Mary.
I De La Cour. . —
I Elias.
Edward Gibaut.
Catherine. Elizabeth, d. of . . . Payn.
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Moses Gibault, b. 1706.
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Abraham Gibaut.
Elizabeth.
Catherine.
Sarah.
Margaret.
Mary, d. and h. of
Philip Le Cerf.
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Philip.
John.
Abraham.
Nicholas.
Thomas.
Philip Gybault.
Mary.
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Moses Gibaut, b. 1732 = Ann, d. of . .. Payn. Nicholas, b. 1734, o.t.p.
Abraham Gibaut, o.s.p. John.
Philip.
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Abraham Gibaut, Ann Gibaut,
of La Valine. only d. and h.
Moses Gibaut, Constable of S. John.
Ann, d. and co-h. of Philip Poingdestre.
Philip.
Elizabeth, d. and h. of John
Dean.
Devize
Moses Gibaut, Esq., Col., R.J.M. Philip,
Constable of
Elizabeth, d. of John Perchard, of S. John.
Lea Augriis.
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Harriet.
Ann.
Elizabeth, d. of
. . . Gruchy.
Elizabeth Gibaut.
John Le Gallais, of
Surville.
Thus. Falla. John
Orange.
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Philip Gibaut. Moses, Deputy
for S. Laurence,
Elizabeth, d. of and Major,
. . . Langlois. R.J.M.
Ann.
John
Godtray.
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Mary. Elizabeth.
ob.
Edward
Gibaut.
1. Mary, d. of
Mellish De La
'I'aste, o.x.p.
2. Henrietta, d.
of William Wal-
lop, grandson of
E. ot Ports-
mouth, 0.1. p.
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John Gibaut, Esq., Advocate, R.C. Philip, Capt., Walter-Moses, James, Capt. Alfred, Lt, H.M. Clifford, Ann. Ellen.
H.M. 73rd Assist. -Surgeon, and Adjutant, 74th Regt., killed H.M. 20th
Uegt. H.M. 17th R.J.M. at Lucknow, Regt. E. C. Jeaf- F. Steriker.
Regt. 1857. freson.
<2^irautiot»
T is supposed, by its existing members, that this family settled in Jersey soon after
the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
A. family bearing arms almost identical with the one in question, named
Girardot, is mentioned by Dcs Bois; of whom Prudent Girardot, Seigneur de la
Roche, was Councillor of the Parliament of Dijon in the seventceiitli century.
The family in the island is represented by Mr. Francis Giraudot, of S. Peter.
1G6 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSFA'.
^etntjiff of (Sirauliot.
Francis Giraudot, first of the name settled in Jersey = Susan, d. of . . Dolbel.
Fraucis-Peter Giraudot := JIary, d. of . . Renouf. Susan.
Francis Giraudot = Jane, d. of . . Le Yavasseuv-dit-Noel. Elizabeth-Jane. Mary.
P. J. Simon. J. B. Wadsworth.
Francis-Noel Giraudot. Matilda-Jane. Elizabeth-Jane.
Arms: (^unrterh', 1 aud 4; Argent, a lion, rampant, sable, armed and langued, gules;
2 aud 3 ; Gules, a chevron, argent.
Crest : A lion, rampant, sable.
Motto: Nil desperandum.
HIS family settled in Jersey some time previous to 1600, in tbe person of Drouet
Godfray. His son, Humpbrey Godfray, as appears by family tradition, based on
documentary evidence, baving sold some landed property in the county of
Northumberland (whence bis father bad emigrated), purchased an estate in the
parish of S. ^lartin, near S. Catherine's Bay. Thence, in the middle of tbe last century, the
representative of the elder branch of the fomily, Philip Godfray, removed to Anneville, ou bis
marriage with Sarah, daughter aud eventual heiress of George Messervy. Their eldest son,
Philip Godfray, on the death of bis mother, inherited this estate, and in 1773 married Frances,
the daughter and heiress of Francis Fauvel, a member of a wealthy insular flimily. The
eldest sou of this marriage, Philip Godfray, was for several years Constable of S. Martin.
The other son, the late Francis Godfray, Seigneur of Anueville, was Grefher of the Royal
Court, and Treasurer of the States of the Island for upwai-ds of thirty yeai's.*
* Upon the death of this gentleman in ] 84.6, the States, to mark the high sense they entertained of the services he
had rendered to the island during his long and arduous career as a public servant, unanimously voted the following act of
condolence, which was transmitted to his son, authenticated by the broad seal of the island : —
" Aux Etats de I'Ifle de Jersey."
" L'an mil huit cent quarante fix, le trentieme jour de Novembre. Francois Godfray, ecuier, ayant 6te enlev^ par unc
mort inopinee aux fonftions de Greffier de la Cour Royale, et de Treforier des Etats — les Etats ont a I'unanimit^ refolu de donnef
a fa famille ce temoignagc public de leur regret, ct de leur approbation de la haute integrity, du zele, et de I'infatigable induftrie
(ju'll apporta pendant un grand nombre d'annecs, dans Tcxercife de ses fonftions importantcs et laborieufcs, dont il f'acquitta,
jufqu'au dernier moment dc fa vie, k I'entifere fatisfadtion de cette aflemblee, et du public de cette ifle."
"Les Etats ont en meme temps prie Monfr. Le Prefident de tranfmettre le prclent Adte a Jacques Godfray ^cr. fils du dit
defunt."
SEICI^EUP^ 0F/(1\(|^e/iLLE.
Jir u/i,'/)i //ii'x /'/<//, /.■■■ J'nwn/,,/ fc r7i>- lli'd:
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LBK.38.IEa G0©I^RAT,]eSQm3a.E.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 167
The family is now represented by riiiLipCriARLES Godfray, Esq., of S. Oueu; and in
junior branches by James Godfray, Esq., Seigneur of Anneville, Deputy for S. Martin, and
late Advocate of the Royal Court; l)y Hugh Godfray, Esq., of Woodlands, Deputy for
Grouville; by John Godfray, Esq., Capt., R.J.M. ; by Philip Godfray, Esq., Lieut. -Colonel,
R.J.M. ; and by Francis Godfray, Esq., Advocate of the Royal Court, and Deputy for S.
Saviour; by William Godfray, Esq.; by Hugh-Charles Godfray, Esq.; by Hugh Godfray,
Esq., M.A., one of the Esquire Bedells of the University of Cambridge; and by Walter-
Bertram Godfray, Esq., M.A., Advocate of the Royal Court.
•
Arms (as borne by James Godfray, Esq. ) : Argent, a griffin, segreant, sable, charged with
a ci'escent, argent, for difference, between eight bezants. Quartering : Or, three cherries, gules,
stalked vert for ]\Iesservy : Gules, three escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis for difference, for Dujiaresq :
Sable, three dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : Argent, three trefoils, slipped, sable, for
Payn: Ermines, a cross-bow drawn, charged with an arrow, all argent, for I;ARBALESTIer : Or,
three cherries, gules, stalked vert, for Messervy : and. Azure, a winged hind, statant, or, for
Fauvel. On an escutcheon of pretension : Argent, a cross gules, between four eagles, displayed,
sable, for Ingouville.*
Crest : A demi-griffin, or.
Motto : Deus est pax.
Arms (as borne by Lerriee Godfray, Esq.): Argent, a griffin, segreant, sable, charged
with a martlet, argent, for diflerence, between eight bezants. Quartering : Or, three cherries,
gules, stalked vert, for Messervy; Gules, three escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis for difference, for
DuMARESQ : Ermines, a cross-bow drawn", charged with an arrow, all argent, for Larbalestier :
Gules, three escallops, or, a crescent for difference, for Dumaresq; Sable, three dolphins,
embowed, argent, for De Bagot: Argent, three trefoils, slipped, sable, for Payn: Or, three
leaves, vert, for Anquetil : Gules, three mullets, pierced, or, for Hajlptonne : Gules, four fusils
in fesse, argent, a mullet in chief, for difterence, for De Carteret: Argent, a fesse, sable; in
chief the sun in splendour between two crosses patee sable ; in base, a cottage ppr. ; the whole
within a bordure, engrailed, azure, for Lerrier.' Impaling: Argent, a griffin segreant, sable,
charged with a crescent for difference, for Godfray.
Crest and Motto : As the preceding.
* This family, of Norman origin, has for upwards of three centuries been located in Jersey, where it settled previous
to 1535, in S. Saviour's, in the persons of Jean d'lngouville and his two sisters, Jeanne and Marie.
Crest of Ingouville, or d'Ingouville : A lion, rampant, ppr.
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168
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
^Sftiisrcf of iMrsisnbj) of (^nntbille ; antj of t<?otifrap.
John Messehvy, m. IG15 = Jane. d. of James Jeune.
1 Margaret, d. of Philip Mallet, m. IR.IO = John Messervy. b, 1619 = 2. Sarah, d. of Aaron Stocall, Advocate-General of Jersey,
° I I /emp. Cromwell, m. 1617.*
Philip Messervy, b. 1642 = Collette, youngest d. and co-h. Elizabeth, b. 1644. |
of Clement Dumaresq. {Fidf Aaron Messervy, oi.juu
Ped. Dumaresq du Morin.) Michael Payn.
James.
Aaron.
Mary.
Philip Messervy, b. 1677 = Rachel, d. of Clement Machon.
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Marv, b. 1674.
Jane, b. 1679 = Philip Gervaise, of S. Brelade.
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Philip Messervy, b. 1699, ub. mmipl. George, b. 1701 = Sarah, d. of . . . Germain. Clement. Rachel.
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Ann. Sarah.
Philip Messervy, b. 1726, = Martha, d. of . . . Collas. Sarah, eld. d. and co.-h., = Philip Godfray.
0.4- ^•''2^-
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Ann.b. 1728.
John Aubin, of La Tourelle.
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Philip Godfray = Frances, d. and h. of Francis Fauvel. John.
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Francis,
o.s p.
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HuRh.
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George.
Elizabeth-Mary, d. Jane, d. of
and co-h. of John Daniel Pellier.
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Elizabeth.
Philip Marett.
Philip Godfray. Con- Francis, Seig. of Anne- Elizabeth. Frances-Ehzabeth. Tocque.+ (ric/e Ped.
^b^eofS^^Iartin. ^e^r_e^er^E^ ^-j-^ clement Ingouville. """r"'-VhilipGodfiU Jane, d.of ... LeBrocq.
Mary, d. of Thos. Mary, d. of . . . Le I I
Gallichan, Deputy- Gallais. I |
Vicomte. =
Hugh-Charles Godfray.
Adelaide- Esther, d. of
Amy Le Boutillier.
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Philip.
John.
ob.
Jane.
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Louisa.
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Eliza-Ann.
Hubert Bowring.
Alfred-Hugh Godfray. Charles-Everard.
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Adelina-Esther.
Ellen-Rachel.
Alice-Ann.
Hugh Godfray. Esq.,
of Woodlands.
Elizabeth, il. and co. h.
of Thomas Lerrier.
William-Francis. John. Capt., R.J.M. Philip, Lieut. Col., R.J.M. Francis, Advocate, R C,
Seig. of Melesches, etc.
Charles.
o.s. p.
Ann, d. of Ph Gibaut. Harriette, d. and eo.-h. of
= Thomas Lerrier,
I = .
Mary-Elizabelh. d. and h.
of Ellas Le Vesconte.
I II II
Francis-Arairaux Godfray. Charles. M.R.C.S. Amiraux.
Robert, oh.
Rnsel.
Mary.
Joshua Falls.
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Albina.
Clara.
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Edwaril-Lerrier Godfray, Esq., Thomas-Lerrier. Henry-Lerrier. Maria-Henrietta. Honrietta-Delicii
Capt., R.J.M. A. — — —
Philip-Lerrier. Walter-Lerrier. James Potter. Amelia-I.ouisa.
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The Rev. Frederick Godfray, D.C.L = Eliza, d. of Nich. Le Quesne, Jurat, R.C. Charles. Capt., R.J.M. A
Mary, d. of John Langlois.
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Chailes-John Godfrav, ob. Henry-Nicolle.
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Charles-Moscs
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Frederic-James.
* Arms of St.icali. : Ermine, on a bend, sable, three pheons, argent.
t Arms of Toke, or Tocqde : Per chevron sable and argent, three griffins' heads counterchanged.
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Lerrier Godfray, Esq.,
Major, R.J.M.,A.D.C.
to the Lieut. Governor.
Harriet, d. of the late F.
Godfray, Greffier, R.C.
John-WiUiam, Denunciator,
R.C, and Capt., R.J.M.A.
Matilda, (1. of Ph. Le Gal-
iais. Jurat, R.C.
John.
Ehzabeth.
Capt. Bamber,
R.N.
Ann.
Deiicia.
Laura.
W. Mackisson, A. Leigh. M
Barrister-at-law.
.D.
James Godfray, Esq., Seig. of Anneville,
and Capt. R.J.M.A.
Albina, eld. d. of G. Ingouville, of La
Fr^gonniere, S. Saviour.
Albina-Mary-d'Anneville, b. 1860.
Mary Lucretia.
Fanny.
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Emma-Margaret. Harriet. Jane.
Moreau Amy. A.C.Saunders, David-Frederick
of Snoaton Castle, Du Perrut.
Ireland.
Lerrier
Godfray.
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Eleonore.
J. H. Rohrs,
late fellow of
S. John'?
Coll., C.imhf.
Philip-Charles Godfray.
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Thomas.
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Alfred, M.R.C.S.
Mary.
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Amelia.
Eleonora-Sophia, d. of Margaret, d. of . . . Mollet. Harriet, d. of Fr. Pirouet. Thomas Lafolley.
.. . Salmon. = . =
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William-Charles Godfray. Louisa-Ann. Alfred-Charles Godfray. Edwin. Stanley. Mortimer. Herbert.
Philip Godfray.
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Francis.
Eleonora.
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Fanny.
Louisa.
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Charlotte.
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Harriet-Amelia.
OSSELIN is a name of very early occuiTence in Norman annals, and a family so called
still exists at Boismontel in that Ducliy.* The name appears in the Extcnte of
1331, as belonging to freeholders in Jersey, of the parishes of S. Helier, S. Clement,
S. Peter, and S. Brelade.
Robert Gosselin greatly distinguished himself in the rescue of the Castle of Mout-Orgueil
from the French, in the reign of Edward III., and in consequence, according to family tradition,
was appointed Governor of that fortress, and received from the King, July 3, 1339, a docquet
of the armorial ensigns still borne by his descendants, viz. : Gules, a cbevi-on between three
crescents ermine. By the evidence of a member of the family, a stone bearing a chevron
between three crescents, appears to have existed over the gateway of this castle, but which has
for some years been removed.
Thomas Gosselin, a descendant of Bobert, was a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey, in
* In the Ba3eux inquest it appears as a pre-nomen. " Gosellinus de Corcella feodum v mil in Corcella et in
Berneiiis." Vide Taylor's " Chronicle of the Conquest," p. 2-30. Arms of Gosselin, of Normandy : Argent, a chevron,
azure, charged with seven bezants; in chief two mullets, and in base a double-headed eagle, displayed, sable.
1 70 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
l.')21. William Gosseliu was also a Jurat in the same island in 1541, and subsequently became
its Lieutenaut-Bailly in 1552.
His son, Helier Gosseliu, settling iu Guernsey, was sworn Attorney- General for that island
in Seiitember, 1546, and became its BaililF for a period extending over the reigns of Henry VIH.,
Edward VI., IMary, and Elizabeth.
His son, Nicholas Gosselin, was one of the Clerks of the Council, tonp. Elizabeth, and was
elected, in 15G5, a Jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey. Ele married Peronelle, daughter of
Thomas Lempriere, Lieuteuant-Bailly of Jersey. By a deed, dated October 10, 1567, the estate
of Beauregard, and a tract of land iu the vicinity of Havre Gosselin, both in the Island of
Serk, were granted by Helier De Carteret, Seigneur of S. Oueu in Jersey, and of the Island of
Serk, " to his dear friend, Nicholas Gosselin, of Guernsey, and to Peronelle Lempriere, his wife,"
at a nominal rent of fifty-four sols sterling, per annum.
Although it appears the Jersey branch existed for a lengthened period after the establish-
ment of its principal members in the sister island, (of which William and Nicholas Gosselin are
mentioned by the Chronicler of S. Ouen, as being prominently instrumental in introducing the
reformed faith into their native island,) yet it is now extinct, and its three existing branches are
represented by Thomas- William Gosselin, Esq., Jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey, of
Springfield; and Joshua- Carteret Gosselin, Esq., Captain, R.N., of Beaulieu, both in the
Island of Guernsey.
By Martin-Hadsley Gosselin Esq., of the Priory, Ware, co. Herts., a Magistrate, and
High-Sheriff of his county in 1859; only son of the late Admiral Gosselin, who died at his
seat, Bengeo Hall, iu the same county, iu 1857, being senior Admiral on the list of the British
Navy.
And by Gerarb-Lipyeatt Gosselin, Esq., and George Gosselin, Esq., late Captain
H.M. 29th Regt., sons of the late General Gerard Gosselin, of Mount Ospringe, near Fever-
sham, CO. Kent, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of his county.
Arms (as borne by Thomas- William Gosselin, Esq.): Gules, a chevron between three
crescents, ermine. Impaling: Azure, a chevi'on, or, between three owls, argent, beaked and
membered of the second, for Le Marchant : and, Per pale, azure and gules, an eagle displayed
argent, for De Jersey.
Crest : A negro's head, in profile, ppr.
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REAR ADMIRAIi HRHRY GOSSKT,
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 171
<3omtt
OHN GOSSET, a member of aii influential French family, settled in Jersey, shortly
after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and founded a fixmily now existing in
various branches, both in that island and in England.
Among its many noteworthy members may be mentioned Matthew Gosset, Esrj..
of Bagot, who, during the first French Revolution, was conspicuously active in his oftbrts to
ameliorate the svifFerings of the many noble and other refugees who sought an asylum in
Jersey. The exiles were so sensible of his disinterested kindness, that they presented him as
a token of their grateful appreciation of his services, with a gold snuflf-box, now in the
possession of his descendants.
Another eminent member of the family, the late Major-General Sir William Gosset, K.C.B..
was for some years Sergeant-at-Arms of the Flouse of Commons, at whose death the members
of which passed a resolution expressive of the high sense the House entertained of his services.
The Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S., of Exeter College, Oxford, was a well-known Greek
scholar, and was especially famous as a collector and judge of books.
His sou, the Rev. Isaac Gosset, M.A., also of Exeter College, was for thirty-eight years
Rector of Datchet, and for thirty-four years Vicar of New Windsor, both in Buckinghamsliire.
In May, 1818, he was appointed Chaplain at Windsor Castle, an appointment Avhich he held
during four reigns, until his death.
The family is represented by Rear- Admiral Henry Gosset; by Philip Gosset, Esq., of
Bagot, Jersey; and the Rev. Isaac-Henry Gosset, M.A., of Northam, Devonshire.
Arms (as borne by Rear- Admiral Henry Gosset) : Azure, a bean-wreath, or, leaved and
fructed; on a chief, argent, an eagle, displayed, sable.
Crest : A greyhound's head, erased, argent, collared gules, ringed and garnished, or.
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(iuertjaitt.
WITZERLAND is traditionally assigned as the country whence this family emigrated
to Jersey. Dr. Denis Guerdain, probably the first settler in the island, was a firm
adherent of the Royal Cause at the jjeriod of the Rebellion. Indeed, it was here
that the ever spendthrift and careless Prince Charles, during his visit in 1646, "fist
battre de la monnaye, a la niaison de jNIousr. Denis Guerdain Ti la Trinite," no doubt to defray
expenses that even the enthusiastic and loyal Jerseymen refused to incur.*
Another of its members married a member of the local familv of Richardson, who havine;
survived her husband, erected a monument to liis memory in the Pavish Church of S. Trinity,
adorned with the arms of both tamiHes.
That of Guci'dain has been extinct for some period.
Arms: A cross calvary.
F Guernsey origin, this family owes its settlement in Jersey to an episode in the
French occupation of Guernsey, in the fourteenth centur}'. In 13.38, when Guernsey
was attacked under the able leadership! of Evan de Galles,t a renegade of much
skill and daring, a truce was agreed on between Edward III. and Phihp of France,
by the articles of which the island remained in the possession of its enemies. Smarting under
a foreign yoke, some patriotic inhabitants ( prominent among whom were the ancestors of the
families of Guille and Le Cornu) determined to exert themselves to rid Guernsey of the French.
Their efforts, howevei', were unavailing against superior force, and the little band of adventurers,
retiring to Jersey, settled in the parish of S. Ouen.
According to Duncan, in his " History of Guernsey," an old family record, preserved among
the S. Ouen muniments, states that King Charles II. offered to Paul Guille, descendant of James
Guille (the first of the name in the island), a Baronetcy, in grateful remembrance of the hospi-
tality and services rendered by the family to himself, and his royal ancestors. When Paul
refused the proffered honour, as inconsistent with his moderate fortune, the King was pleased
* This insular niiut, however, has been, by tlic industrious and exhaustive researches of Dr. Hoskins, discovered to
have been a mere bubltle — a small South Sea scheme, iu fact. It is unnecessary to add that specimens of the Jersey
coinage may be looked for in vain.
■(■ Villaret says that this Evan was called the Poursuivant d' Amour, and that he \vas the son (descendant ?) of the last
of the ancient sovereigns of AVales, who was beheaded liy King Edward. He had been brought up at the court of Philip
de Valois, as page of honour to his chamber. In time of peace, when holding for the Duke of Lancaster the castle of
Beaufort, near Chalons, he deserted to the service of the French king. His melancholy end is pathetically described by
Froissart in his Chronicles, vol. ii., chap. 79.
Dy iiliri/i tills J'/iil, IS pr<siriti-i/ /<• /Jit lt,d
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
175
to command that his estate, " La Ville au Neveu," should be freed from the payment of tithes
in perpetuity.
In Guernsey, the original family still exists, where its members have filled the highest
offices in the Church and States of the island.
In Jersey, it is represented by the Eev. Philip Guille, M.A., Rector of S. Martin; and by
the Rev. Edward Guille, B.A., Incumbent of the extra- parochial church of S. Luke.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Philip Guille) : Azure, a chevron between three stars of seven
points, or. Quartering : Ermine, a fesse between three lozenges in chief, and as many lions in
base, all sable, for Giffard.
Crest : A star as in the arms.
Motto : E cgelo lux mea.
prDigiff of #uille.
Paul Guille, of " La Ville au Neveu," in the parish of S. Ouen, was the receiver of the Seigneur of that Fief in the
island of Serk, in 1608.
Taul Guille, m. 1644. = CoUette, d. of . . Grault.
Philip, o.s.p.
Joshua, o.s.p.
Paul Guille, ni. 1683 = Marv, d. and h. of Nicholas Giifard.
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Esther.
Paul Guille, b. 1684 = Susan, d. of . . Le Cerf.
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John.
Philip.
Philip Guille = Ann, d. of . . Gasnier.
Edward.
Elias.
Mary.
John.
Margaret.
Catherine.
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Mary.
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Georgiana-Hall, d. of John- Laiiig, Esq., of
Lucie Smith, Esq., of Denierara. Haddo, N.B.
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Susannah, d. of John of S. Peter. Clapin. Carteret.
Janr.
The Rev. Philip Guille, M.A., Rev. Edward, B.A., Ann. Susan. Sophia. Rachel.
Rector of S. j\Iary, and after- Incumbent of S. Luke. — —
wards of S. Martin. J. Falle, Andre Chas. De Elizabeth. 1. Rev. W. Lc
Lievre, B.A.,
of Guernsey.
"2. Ph. Le Feuvrf.
of La Hougu*'.
Philip-Maclaurin Guille, | I I I I
b. 1834, Lieut., R.A., ob. Edward-Laiug Guille, b. 1835. Carey-William. James-Maude. Isabella-Jane. JLiry-Ann.
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176
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
ARIOUSLY spelling its name, Hamou,* and more lately Hammond, this family has
been located in Jersey from a very early date ; and by family tradition, but perhaps
without sufficient authority, is considered identical with that powerful baronial house
of Hamon of Normandy, one of whose members, William Hamon, founded the
famous Abbey of S. Heliei'.f
(3ne of the members of the insular fixmily, Nicholas Hammond, Esq., filled successively the
office of Secretary to II. B. M. Embassy at Portugal, and of Secretary to the Governor of the
Windward and Leeward Islands. Settling in America, he married, firstly, Mary Cantwell, relict
of Colonel Lowe, and secondly, Mary Dijre. His only son, Nicholas Hannnond, Esq., of Penn-
sylvania, migrated to his ancestral island, Jersey, where he married iMargaret, daughter of
James Lempi'iere, Esq., and had issue two sons, Nicholas and James. The eldest of these sons
went to America, resided on his patrimonial estate there, and died in Maryland. This senior
branch is rej^resented by Nicholas Hammond, Esq., Barrister-at-law, of Annapolis, and Charles-
HowSE Hammond, Esq., Banker, of Baltimore, U.S. In Jersey the family is represented by
John Hammond, Esq., Bailly of Jersey.
James- John Hammond, Esq., late of Samares, is descended from a younger branch of the family,
and is the grandson of John-James Hammond, Esq., younger brother of Nicholas Hammond,
Esq., who first settled in America in 1726.
Arms : Azure, a lion, rampant, guardant, or.
Crest : A lion, as in the arms.
Motto : En tout Lloyal.
* Old drawings in the possession of Dr. Duret, Le Bas of S. Brclade, and Le Neveu of S. Clement, prove the arms
l)orne by Hamon of Jersey to be — Or, a lion rampant, gules,
t Vide " Neustria Pia in St. Helerio," p. 712.
ARMS OF IIAMI'IONNK ON A HUrrUI>S TO THE N.E. OF 8. LAI RENCK CHURCH.
/j\ \v/u>f/i !h/s I'/,i/i ,'i'fus ttr/ii<>n,i/ f'uiruiii.^ tiwf /ii//ith ns/iimri isnn-.onfnf/iif/it- ii <>/•/,•
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
177
ilamptonne, of i^amptonne.
1499.
THE COFFER, OR C.AKDE-ROBE, AND THE PILASTERS OF THE
BED USED BY CHARLES II. ON HIS VISITS TO THE RESIDENCE OF
THE HAMPTONNE FAMILY; NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF ONE OF
ITS REPRESENTATIVES S. ELLIOTT HOSKINS, ESQ., M.D., F.R.S..
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF GUERNSEY.
HE patronymic of this family indicates an English origin, Init it has been located in
Jersey from a very early date. Its supposed insular founder, Thomas De Ilanip-
tonne, was Keeper or Governor of the Norman Isles in 1343. William De Hamp-
tonue was Lieutenant-Bailly of Jersey in 1470, and again filled the same office in
This William was Seigneur of the fiefs es Hastains, Godelierc, and Luce-l)e-Carteret, on
which former was the original home of the family.* In 1602, however, this estate became
possessed by the house of Bisson, when the Hamptonnes migrated to an estate formerly
possessed by Richard Langlois, which they called after their own nanie.f In 1.') 10, Nicholas
De Hamptonne was Lieutenant-Bailly of the island. In the same century, his brother, Sire
Louis Hamptonne, erected an additional chapel to his j)arish church of S. Laurence, vvliere in
the bosses of the roof his armorial ensigns still exist. This same individual gave two (piarters
of wheat rent for ever, the proceeds to be applied to the repair of the roads of the same parish;
and effected so much of good for the island generally, as to deserve a well-merited eulogium
from Chevalier the Chronicler.
But the high and palmy days of Hamptonne and its owners, were when Charles II., then
Prince of Wales, accepted and enjoyed the hosj)itality of Laurens llamjitonne, Vicomte of
Jersey, and of Edward Hamptonne, his son. Whether from the official position of the former.
* " 1490, Mars 27. GuiLLE DE Hamptonne etait S'. du fief es Haftains, contient le melnage dudit Hamptonne, le C\os
de Herman, le Val Hubaut, et les Monts Secr^es, avec les Prays, Vaux, et Collils, Commcncant au Vivier de cy au Doiit du Moulin
que feit Raul Payn, et finiflant devant le moulin Vicart."
t Vide Langlois.
1 78 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
as Sheriff' of Jersey, or fi'om a kindred spirit that the young and deboiinair Prince discovered
in his liosts, they were indebted for the honour of the personal friendship and the famiHar com-
panionship of tlieir future King, no contemporary writer lias informed us. But true it is, that
perhaps no other insular family could boast of more intercourse with, and devotion to, the
Royal Refugee from avowed enemies and faithless friends, than the denizens of Hamptonne.
Relics of his stay are still religiously preserved by the chief representative of the family, and
tlie present owner of its house. Here are still various articles of the monarch's clothing, and
a ])air of his silver spurs; the bed on which he slept, and the embroidered quilt tliat covered
liim; the carved oak table and chair which he used; and a seal on which are the Hamptonne
ai-nis, which the King is said personally to have presented to his entertainers. But by far the
most important of these Loyalist mementoes, is the original draught of the document which
proclaimed C'harles H., King of Great Britain, on the reception of the news of the execution of
liis father. It cannot be doubted but that the enthusiasm engendered by his personal friendship
for the King, led Laurens Hamptonne to canvass the friends of the Stuart dynasty, and to obtain
their signatures to this document: a labour and a risk which he lost no time in consummating
by formally proclaiming Charles H., in his capacity as Vicomte, at the Cross in the Market
Place of S. Helier.* The heroism and steadfostness of the men v.'ho .signed this Proclamation
disclaims comment : for at this period, specie, never plentiful in Jersey, was particularly scarce,
owing to the exigencies of the struggle then pending; therefore its subscribers, by this confes-
sion of faith, not only exposed their property to confiscation, themselves and their families to
ignominy, and jierhaps to death, but in addition, were well aware that they could neither sell
their local property, nor, in most cases, even procure the money necessary for their escape from
the island.
The male eldest branch of the family is extinct, and is represented by George Syvret, Esq.,
of Hamptonne, au estate entailed by Patent, and held by Knight's service ; by the families of
PoiNGPESTRE, of Graiuville, Patriarciie, and La Cloche; and by Dr. Hoskins, of Guernsey.
Another branch of the family long located at Hamptonne, in the parish of S. Peter, is also
extinct, and is represented by the descendants of Elizabeth, wife of Philiji Falle, and by those
of Margaret, wife of Amice Alexandre, eventual co-heiresses of John Hamptonne, and sisters of
John Hamptonne, Esq., Jurat, R.C.
A third branch, which has not been traced to its source, is represented by the Le Hardy
family.
A junior branch of the original family of S. Laurence is represented by Francis-
Hamptonne Barreau, Esq., M.R.C.S.
Arms: Gules, three mullets, pierced, or.
* I have hecn enabled fo present my readers witli a fac-simile of this document through the kindness of the Rev.
the Lord John Thynne, Colonel Le Couteur, the Seigneur de S. Jean, Mrs. Colonel Dumaresq, Dr. Hoskins, William
Hardy, Esq., F.S.A., John La Cloche, Esq., and John Mallet, Esq.
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181
^aeDi'tjitt of $)amptonnf, of M>, ^Ortrr.
Helier Hamptosne, Procureuv of the parish of S. Peter, 15.53, and supposed son of Nicholas Hamptonne, of Haraptonnc.
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John Hamptonne, <1. 1G58 = Collette, d. of . . . .
William Hamptonne, of Hamptonne House, S. Peter, m. 1645 = Martha, d. of . . Tocque.
Helier Hamptonne, ob. 1009, inmipt. John, b. 1G49, d. 1707 = Elizabeth, d. of Philip Anlcy, and aunt of Philip
Anlcy, Jurat, R.C.
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John Hamptonne, Jurat, E.G., Elias, sold Hamptonne House, in 1759, Amice,
b. 1()78. to Philip Le Couteur, o.s.p. o.s.p.
Elizabeth.
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Mary- Ann, d. of Thos. Durell.
Philip Falle. Amice Alexandre.
John Falle, o.s.p.
Rachel.
Elizabeth.
Thos. Messervy {vide Pedigree of Auquetil.) John Remon.
ACOB HEMERY, of the parish of Vidouville, Bishopric of Bayeux, Xormandy,
settled in Jersey at the period of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was
traditionally supposed to have descended from the Seigneurs of Villiers.
In the attack made upon Jersey by the French, under the Baron RuUecourt,*
in 1781, Capt. Clement Hemery, of the Town Battery of Artillery, R.J.M., particularly dis-
tinguished himself by his zeal and bravery in the proceedings that led to the final defeat and
expulsion of the enemy. Some of the female and youthful members of this family are immor-
talized in Copley's picture of the battle that ensued, in the Royal Square of S. Helier, on that
occasion, by being represented in the foreground, as taking refuge in tlieir house, adjacent to
the scene of action.
The late Very Rev. James Hemery, Dean of Jersey, was a meml)er of the fomily, to whom
a memorial window is erected in the extra-parochial church of S. Luke.
Its present representative, Clement Hemery, Esq., is the Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
the S. Helier Battalion, R. J.M,, and is Deputy for the same parish in the States of Jersey.
* Arms of the Baron Rullecoubt : Or, a palm tree, ppr. Crest : A fleur-de-lis, or, between two palm trees, ppr.
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182 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Arms (as borne by INIrs. Clement Hemery) : Sable, a crescent between five mullets of six
points, pierced, or, 2, 2, 1. On an escutcheon of pretension: Azure, a lion, rampant, erminois,
ducally crowned, or, for Durell.
Crest of Hemery : A stag's head, argent.
Motto : Flecti, non fraugi.
f^eraiilt.
i,0 early as 1331 this name is found appertaining to a landowner of tlie parish of S.
Mary, Avhose dues to the King are enumerated in the Exfcutc of that year. The
family, however, does not appear ever to have been a rich or even an important
one ; and having been long extinct, its members, and ])erhaps even its name, would
.slumber in oblivion, save for the memory of John Herault, sometime Bailly of Jersey.
He was previously Greffier, or Registrar, of the Royal Court, and was connected by the
marriages of various members of liis family with some of the best insular houses. He was
specially recommended to the notice of the Royal Commissioners, Gardiner and Hussey, as the
one most fitted, by his extensive local and legal knowledge, to assist them in compiling the
Ed'tente drawn up under their superintendence.
He was preferred to tlie ofiice of Bailly in 1611, and soon after his appointment rendered
himself conspicuous by a spirited resistance to the encroachments of tlie Governor, Sir John
Peyton, of which the histories of Dui'ell and Le Quesne contain full accounts.* In the various
struggles for superiority that ensued, the civic defender was always victorious over his military
antagonist; and during the proceedings that terminated the dispute, being obliged to repair to
London to protect liis interests, and to claim the good ofiices of James I. (to whom, it appears,
he was personally known), he was received in triumph on liis successful return by a congratu-
latory deputation from the States of tlie island.
The cause of tlie disagreement between these two heads of departments may be summed
up in a few words. From the known adherence of Sir John Peyton to the Church " as by law
established," and fi'om his suavity and courtesy of uiauner, he was entrusted with the govern-
ment of Jersey, mainly to correct the vagaries of the strong Calvinist }Kirty in the island. His
zeal for reform, however, carried him beyond the limits of his ofiSce, and among other encroach-
ments, he was desirous of being recognised as patron of the post of Bailly. This Herault
energetically resisted, and the grand result of this dispute was efi'ectually to curtail the jurisdic-
tion of future Governors within the bounds provided by the ordinances of Henry YH.
* Sir John Peyton, Kt., of DoilJingtoii, Camljs., was the son of Sir John Peyton, Kt., of Knowlton. Kent, and was, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Governor of the Tower, and one of tlie Queen's Privy Couneil. In the reign of James I. lie
was appointed Governor of Jersey. Although bred in the enervating atmosphere of the Court, his temperance and
abstemiousness were such, that he lived to the advanced age of ninety-nine, in robust health until his death. The MS.
2ii2, in the Sloane Collection, bears for title : A Colleftion of ieverall inllrutlions and directions given to divers AmbafTadors
and other Commiffioners, etc., and alfo fome things concerning the ifland of Jerfey, etc., made by Sir John Peyton, Kt., fome
ycares Liettenant ot the Tower, and afterwards Govcrnour of Jerfey; and now tendred to his moft Sacred Majcllie Charles II.,
by the Grace of God, etc., by Algernon Peyton, grand-child of the faid Sir John, D.D., Rcdor of Doddington, in the ifland of
Eley and county of Cambridge."
Arms of Puvton : Sable, a cross, engrailed, or : a crescent for ditt'erence.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 183
Herault, althougli lifiuglity and overbearing in character, was conscientious in the discharge
of his duty, and won not only the respect of his contemporaries, but the lasting gratitude of
his countrymen, for the spirited manner in which he defended his official prerogatives; pride
was perhaps his weakest point, a failing ludicrously exhibited by his assuming the title of
Monsr. de S. Sauveur, from a small patrimony he held in that pai'ish, (but which, it should
be stated in justice to himself, Heyliu, without quoting his authority, says was conferred on
him by the King.)
During the rebellion, Abraham Herault rendered himself particularly obnoxious by his
partiality for the Republican cause, and to him, Michael Lemprierc, and Henry Dumaresq is
ascribed the joint authorship of a pamphlet, entitled " Pseudo-Mastix," intended as a refutation
of the " Lyar Confounded," of the famous William Pryune, both works founded on the state of
insular politics at that period.
The name occurs in the parochial registers until about a century later, when it appears to
have become quite extinct.*
Arms : Argent, on a mound, a palm-tree, vert ; a bordure, gules.
* Herault— Harold— Herald— signifying a courageous person. In old French documents, the name of King Harold,
slain at Hastings, is ahvays spelt Herault, as is exemplified in the following curious inscription. In the year 1522, a
Cardinal, attended by an Archbishop and several dignified ecclesiastics, visiting the town of Caen, was prompted by a
strong curiosity to see the body of the Conqueror. Having for that purpose obtained permission from Peter de Martigny,
Bishop of Castres, at that time Abbot of S. Stephen, they caused the tomb to be opened. Upon removing the cover-stone,
the body, which was corpulent, and in stature greatly exceeded the tallest man then known, appeared as entire as ^vlu■Il
first buried. Within the tomi) lay a copper plate gilt, on which was engraved the same epitaph as on its exterior, and
beneath it the following lines in old French : —
" Je Guillen urn e tres magnanime.
Due de Neuftrie pareil a Charlemaigne
Paffay le mer par un doux vent de Suji
Pour Conquefter la Grand Bretaigne
Puis deploy er fs tnainte noble enjeigne
Et drejjer tentei et pavilions de guerre
Et on drier fis comrtie fil d'airaigne
Neuf cents grands nefzft toft qui euzpied a terre
Et puis en armes de la partis granderre
Pour coups recent es au doubt e roy Herault
Dont come preux teux toute la defer re
Non pas fans dur et marveilleux affault
Pour bein joufter le dij loyal ribault
Je mis a mort et Soixante et fept mille
Neuf cents dix huits et par atnfi d'un fault
Fu% Roy d'Anglois tenant toute leur ife
Or n'est il mie t ant foit fort et habile
^i quant c' eft fait apres ne fe repofe
Mort 111 a deffait que fuis il cendre vile
De toute chofes on jouit une pofe."
The coffin being again closed, was left undisturbed until 1562, when the Calvinists, in senseless fury, opened it in
order to discover treasure. Finding only his bones, they scattered them about the church, and entirely destroyed th«
monument. — Vide Ducarel's Anglo-Norman Antiquities.
A A 2
1 84 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
NOWN originally as Valpy-dit-Jauvrin (a duplicate mode of uomeuclature far from
uncommon in the island, but of very uncertain origin), this fjimily has been settled in
the parish of S. Brelade for several generations.* In the church of that parish
exists an elaborate mural monument, with medallion bust, to the memory of Francis
Valpy-dit-Jauvrin, Esq., Jurat of the Royal Court, and in the churchyard is the vault of the
family, where the deaths of several of its members are recorded.
A small islet in Portelet Bay, near Noirmont Point, is named Tlslet Janrriii, from the
following melancholy incident. A member of the family arriving in his ship from an infected
port, was obliged, with his crew, to perform quarantine in the bay, and being there attacked
with the plague, died within sight of his home, without one interview with his wife, children, or
friends. f
Frederick Janvrin, Esq., of Bath, is the present representative of the fomily.
Arms (as borne by Frederick Janvrin, Esq.): Azure, a chevron, argent, between two
bezants in chief, and a fleur-de-lis, of the second, in base. On an escutcheon of pretension :
Azure, a chevron, argent, between two bezants in chief, and a fleur-de-lis of the second, in base,
a crescent for diiFerence, for Janvrin. Quartering : Azure, three escallops or, for Mallet : Per
chevron, gules and or, in chief two mullets, argent, for Pipon : and Argent, on a chief sable,
three lions' heads, erased, or, for Richardson.
Crest : A griffin's head, between two eagles' wings. (Another) A dolphin embowed, ppr.
Motto: Labor ipse Voluptas. (Another) Pour mon Roy.
^actiirrite of Sanfarm.
Daniel Valpy-dit-Janvrin.
T
Brelade Valpy-dit-Janvrio = Elizabeth, d. of . . . De Lecq.
\
I I I I I I I
Brelade Valpy-dit-Janvrin, Francis, Jurat R.C. Philip. John. Peter. Elizabeth. Ann.
O.S.J)
Elizabeth, d. of Elizabeth, Esther-Elizabeth, Philip Hamon. Philip Marett,
Hannibal Sheppard. d. of John d. of Ph. Filleul, of La Haule.
^= Dolbel, of Le Haguais.
I Constable =
of S. Heller.
T
* In 1S2C, upon petition of several members of the family, Uoyal License was obtained to retain the name of Janvrin
only, instead of Valpy-dit-Janvrin.
f " Monsieur Philippe Janvrin revonaut de Nantes, et etaut oblige dc fairc quarantaine dans le havre de Belle
( 'rouette, mourut au bout de deux jours, a boi'd de son batiment ; et les Messieurs de Justice, eu presence dc Monsieur
li" Lieutenant-Governeur, ordonnerent cju'il serait entcrre sur une ile dont la mer fait le tour, appi'llec I'isle au Giierdain.
et ainsi fut le dit Jauvrin enterre, le 27 Septembrc, 1721." — Ejctrail du Registre de la paroisse de S. Brelade, Jersey.
T
'•'n
* 'U
iliI!W.
_fiv iiA'OT tJdsPlat^ is presented to the MWk .
Utral iilomimrnt to tijc fHtmon) of dTraiiciS TTalpit,-l)it.3>aiUuiii, iEsqutrt,
in tljc pan'Sl) Cfjurcl) of ^. JJrclalJc.
Thii PLitc is Prefcntcd to the M'ork by FieJerick Jn/ivriri, Efq.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
185
I
John Janvrin.
... rt. of .. .
Jean.
George-Frederick.
Sarah-Amelia, d. of
Edward Sellon.
Peter.
I
Maria-EMza.
Philip Marett,
of La Haule.
I I
Amelia.
Ellen.
I
Selina.
I
Esther-Elizabeth.
T. B. W. Potts, Philip Marett,
M.D. of S. Laurence.
Esther-Fillenl Janvrin.
Selina-Potts.
I
Philip Janvrin.
Elizabeth, d. of
Clement Hemery.
I
1. Ann, d. of Philip Marett = Daniel = 2. Louisa, d. of
I
Francis.
of La Haule.
Francis Janvrin.
I
John-Louis.
Edward Janvrin,
o.s.p.
I
Ann-Elizabeth.
Robert Pipon.
Daniel
Janvrin.
I
Louisa.
1. Letitia,d.of Julia, d. ofElias Durell.
. . . Goslin, o.s.p. =
I
2. Sara, d. of .
George Charlton. Pope.
I
Juiia-Mary
Janvrin, e!d.
(1. ami co-h.,
n.x.p.
I
Elizabeth.
Chas. Robin.
Rev. James Janvrin.
Kate, d. of . .. Scriven.
Ann-Susan.
Henry Dumaresq,
Capt. R.N.
Frederick-William Janvrin.
Julia, d. of . . . Wood.
T
Hubert-Small.
I
Ann-Letitia.
I
Eliza-Mary.
Thomas Dickson, W.H.White.
I
Herbert-John Janvrin.
I
.lulia.
Francis Janvrin.
Harriet, d. of Sir
John Dumaresq,
Bailly of Jersey.
Daniel = Mary Elizabeth, d. and h.
of Peter Mallet.
I
Elizabeth.
IVIary.
Jane.
Frederick de Lisle. John Dumaresq, William-Peter Price.
Solicitor-General
of Jersey.
Henry-Edward Janvrin,
o.s.p.
I I
William, Francis Frederick,
o.s.p. 4th Light Dragoons,
AD.C. to Sir C. Halkett,
Com. in Chief, Bombay.
o.s.p.
Jane, only surviving child, and co-representative
of the families of Pipon, Poingdestre, and
Richardson.
Frederick Janvrin.
I
Frederick Janvrin, Esq. = Jane, d. of Daniel Janvrin.
I
Harriet.
Colonel Le Couteur,
Q.A.D.C, F.R.S.
I
Louisa-Mary.
Daniel Janvrin.
I
Adolphus-Frederick Janvrin, b. 1831.
I
Francis-William, clerk, b. 1833.
fersej).
CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ARMS.
T does uot appear that the Island of Jersey has ever possessed any armorial hearing or
device peculiar to itself. It can hardly he douhted that the three lions passant
guardaut in pale, used as the arms of Jersey and of Guernsey on their pubhc seals
and special coinage, are, in fact, the lions of England. In all probability they
appeared on the Seal (which superseded in all writs or contracts requiring authentication
the Great Seal of England), presented to the islands by Edward I., in the seventh year
18() AN ARMOraAL OF JERSEY.
of his reigii, 1279: tliougli from the absence of a descriptiou of the seal in the Letters Patent
which accompanied it, and finding no sealed document as early as this grant, I am unable
positively to assei't this to have been the case. There is extant, however, a seal bearing the
shield with the three lions, appended to an instrument dated 1286, and preserved in the archives
of S. Lo, in Normandy,* which I am disposed to think is an impression from King Edward's
Seal. This document purports to be " given under our" (that is, of Reginald Suelle [alias
D'Ayswelle] Bailiflf and Attorney of Otho de Grandison, in the islands of Gersey and Guernsey),
" seal, which seal is of our Lord the King of England of the bailiwick of the said islands," and
the legend round the seal runs ♦*^*. 23alhblt CnSblaitin pro lUcjf 2nq\lt)^** We have here
then, a seal common to both islands, at that time included in one bailiwick ; and the language of
Edward L's Patent shows, both that the King in fact sent but one seal to the islands, and
that in 1279 also, one bailiff only existed: for the Patent is addressed thus — ^'- Rex, ballivo fuo
infularum de Gere/eye et Gernfeye, falutem" using the singular number; and throughout that
document mention is made of a seal, also in the singular number.f Thus it will be seen that
the S. Lo impression (only nine years later than the King's grant) tallies with what we might,
a priori, expect to find in the seal of 1279.
It may here be added, that the present brass seal used by the Royal Court of Jersey,
cannot, at all events, lay claim to be the one transmitted by Edward I. In general design and
character, it is much the same as the seal above described, but the legend surrounding the shield
{^** Balllbir I-nSblr 'at Irrs'rj'r) indicates that it belongs to a time when the baihwicks were
distinct, wliicli, as we have seen, was not the case in 1279. The administrative change seems
to have taken place between 1291 and 1315, of which year there exists an instrument (also at
8. Lo) under the seals of each bailiwick, the Jersey seal appearing identical with that now in use.
Appended to a third of this series of documents, dated l;-)32, is another distinct seal for Jersey
alone, very slightly varying from the last. How one supplanted the other, and the earlier seal
came again into use, the evidence at present within my reach fails to explain. De Havilland, in
his " Remarks on the Constitution of Guernsey," quotes a deed in which the men of that place
complain to the Crown of the great hurt and prejudice sustained by a certain seal which Otlio
de Grandison, then Governor, caused to be made, calling it, and using it as the seal of the
Imillivvick. And a fourth is figured by D'Anisy,J as having been used during the Governor-
ship of Thomas de Grandison, by John de Semblen^ay, his Lieutenant, which exhibits the three
lions crowned, and the shield encircled with two sprigs of laurel. §
The decanal seal of Jersey has also changed with the times. From old charters existing
at S. Lo in Normandy, to which the Dean's seal is appended, it appears tliat the original one
* I have copies and casts of seals ajipeiidaiit to this and two other similar instruments in the same custody, mentioned
presently. All relate to certain aliliey lands in -Jersey.
f These points are clear from a recent examination of the enrolment of the Patent in the Record Office. The printed
versions are inaccurate in several respects.
I Vide " Extraits des Chartes, etc., dans Ics Archives de Calvados," vol. ii., p. 178.
§ For suggestions that form the basis of the foregoing remarks, I must own myself indebted to C-harles Spencer
J'erccval, Esij., LL.D., F.S.A., Secretary to the Royal Commission of 1859-tiO.
(0^' .Jolju I(a (iloclir fequirr
y/r w/ii III //lis I'/iif, IS /'nsiii/,,/ A //i, lli'/A-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 187
was rouud, and bore the sign of Pisces, with a connecting line from the mouth of eacli fish, and
the legend ** ^, ©frnuatUSi kSfrSOll," This may have been typical of the finny wealth, or of
the fertility of the island, for
" When in the Zodiac the fish wheel round,
They loose the floods and irrigate the ground."*
At a later period, and before the Reformation, the Deans used a seal, on which was a shield
bearing three bends, probably being the private insignia of the ecclesiastic who first used them
officially. Later, a larger and oval-shaped seal was employed, combining the charges of the
two former; the fish were separated b}^ a column, with weaves in base, in chief, a shield Avith
the three bends. Since the period of Dean Philip Le Couteur, the bends have been impaled
with the armorial ensigns of each Dean, and used as his official seal.f
The maritime ensign of Jersey displays, Argent, a S. Andrew's cross, gules.
5la €lot\)u
0 long has this family been located in Jersey, that the names of its first members
have not I'eached us.
It possessed at one time all the mills in the Valley of It's Clraiids VaiLv — no
inconsiderable patrimony; and among other estates, one of its branches became
possessed, by marriage, of the manor of Lougueville, in the parish of S. Saviour. J
* At the E. end of Canterbury Cathedral, in a chapel near Beeket's crown, are considerahle remains of encaustic
pavement, rudely executed, which hear the figures of the Zodiac, in circular compartments. That of the sign Pisces is
identical with the design on this seal. — Vide Moule's Heraldry of Fish.
t These bends have been generally supposed to be the private arms of Dean Slabon. That they hare a higher
antiquity is proved by a will, in Latin, of Drocus Amy, of the parish of S. j\Iartin, of Grouville, dated 28th of October,
1519, and signed by Dean Thomas ftlalet, whicli will is now in the possession of the family of the testator, and has the
seal, with the bends, still appendant. Mabon did not succeed JIalet until the 22nd of December of the same year, and
differenced his seal bv the addition of a pastoral staff placed, in pale, at the liack of the escutcheon.
X The following valuable testimony of the late Bishop of S. Malo, who during a lengthened residence in the island
chiefly devoted himself to his favourite study of Genealogy, was presented by this ecclesiastic to the then rejiresentative of
the family of La Cloche : —
" Nous sous-signe, Charles-Simeon de Grimouville-Labciiant, des anciens Barons de ce nom, ancien Vicaire-
General et Chanoine de I'eglise Cathedrale de Lisieux, Prieur-Commandatoire du prieure Royal de S. Celerin, etc., etc.,
presentement Vicairc-General des Isles de Jersey, Guernesey, etc.
" Certifions ([u'ayant eii occasion, pendant une residence de plus de vingt-et-trois aus dans cette Isle de .Jersey, d'examiner
beaucoup de titres anciens des meilleures maisons du pays, pour faire des Genealogies ou autres raisons ; et plus, aides par
la tradition des gens honngtes et marquans du pays, nous avons remarque constamment que la famille des La Cloche est
I'une des plus ancieunes et des plus nobles en -Jersey; que quelquefois ils signaient — De La Cloche, ct plus souvent (et
surtout depuis environ 153 ans) ils signaient et signent — La Cloche. Qu'aucun membre n'a ccsse d'etre qualifie d'Escuyer
188 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Some centuries ago, the cliurcli of S. Helier was endowed with lands by a La Cloche, in
order to participate in the then coveted privilege of being bui'ied in its precincts.
The Eev. Stephen La Cloche was Eector of S. Ouen at the period of the Rebellion, and
the bosom friend of Sir Philip De Carteret, whose dying request was, that next to having an
interview with his wife, he might be consoled by the ministrations of his reverend friend. This
request, however, to the lasting disgrace of the local Republicans, was sternly refused.
The family is represented by John La Cloche, Esq. ; by Thomas La Cloche, Esq., M.D.,
of Mont-au-Pretre; and by John La Cloche, Jun., Esq., of La Colomberie.
Arms (as borne by John La Cloche, Esq.): Azure, three church bells, or. Quartering:
Azure, three spur-shafts, rowelled, argent, for Patriarche : Gules, three mullets, pierced, or, for
Hamptonne : and Azure, a chevron, or, between three cinquefoils, argent, for De Beauvoir.*
ou de Geiitilhomrae. Qu'ils ont occupes a diiferents temps, les premieres places de I'lsle, daus lesquelles ils se sont toujours
comportes en braves et loyaux gentilshommes. Et qu'ils possedent encore uue terre duns cctte Isle qui atteste leur
anciennete. En foi de quoi, et pour servir et valoir ce que de raison, nous avous ecrits et signes la presente attestation
sur du papier ordinaire, et y avons ajjposes le sceau ordinaire de nos armes."
(Locus SiffiUi.) A Jersey, le 19 Janvier, 1816.
Arms of de CtRmorviLLE, Seigneur de Larcbant, d'Auteuil, et de la Boulais. Quarterly, 1 and 1 ; Azure, tbree
mullets, argent ; 2 and 3, azure, a lion rampant, or. bolding between tbe paws a mace. — Vide Registre de I'ordre du S. Esprit.
Paris, 1057-
* It is a disputed point wbetber the family of De Beauvoir firstly settled in Jersey or in Guernsey; certain it is,
however, that by for the greater part of its insular existence was passed in the latter island. In the Extente of Jersey, of
1331, in a list of the mills (then feudal perquisites) existing in the island, appears Beauvoir mill, which would go far to
prove a very early settlement there. Later the family was connected with that of Le Feljvre of Vincheles de Bas, in the
person of John De Beauvoir, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Michael Le Febvre, Seigneur of that fief.
The authentic pedigree of the Guernsey family commences with Peter De Beauvoir, living in 1331. His descendant,
AVilliam De Beauvoir, Bailly of Guernsey in 1572, settled in England, and purchased, it is believed, a considerable estate in
Berkshire. From his brother, Peter, descended the family of Beauvoir, of Balmes, Hackney, Middlesex, and of Do^vnham
Hall, Essex, from ^vhoni the late Richard-Benyon-De Beauvoir, of Englefield House. Berks, and the wife of Sir J. De
Beauvoir, Bart., of Johnstown, Dublin, are, maternally derived. Otherwise the name is extinct in Guernsey (since 1810),
Jersey, and England, although some families of Beavor, Bevoi', Beevor, in England assume an identical origin. Another
pedigree of this family, fabricated circa temp. James I., by one Hamlet Saukye or Sankye, causes members of the house to
possess Belvoir Castle, gives them honours and dignities in France, and contains several other fictions, equally transparent
and clumsy. It has been, traditionally, held by all branches of the family that its representative accompanied the
Conqueror into England, but no conclusive evidence can be arrived at upon this point. True it is, that one Bevois or
Bevais played a conspicuous part during the reign of William I., and then obtained the Earldom of Southampton ; whose
son, the famous Sir Bevis of Hampton, is too well known by his fobulous exploits to need a lengthened mention here.
This being the only family of the name known in England at the period, renders any connection between it .and the
insular one vei-y problematical, since Brooke, in his " Catalogue of Honour," says Sir Bevis died without heirs. As the
name is very common and frequent in Normandy, it does not appear unlikely that the family may have migrated directly
thence to one of the Channel Islands. Branches of the house of De Beauvoir are represented in Jersey by those of
La Cloche and Le Hardy.
Tile arms of the family, as borne in Guernsey, were: Azure, a chevron, or, between three cinquefoils, argent. The
branches settled in England changed the tinctures to : Argent, a chevron between three cinquefoils (another quatrefoils),
gules. These, however, do not appear to he the original arms, since the seal of Nicholas de Beauver, Seneschal of the
Court of S. Michel du Valle, Guernsey, in 1470, l)ears a chevron between three escallops; a bearing most probably
i^^ATERNiTATI.
Dans cttte chapelle ancienne place
DES SEPVaCHBES DES SEIGNEVRS BE LONG^'EVILLE
REPOSi: 50VS CE TOMBEAV LE CORPS.
D'HONNETE ETBE PIEVS TERSONNAGE
GEO^&E Ia cloche . GENTIL-HOMME,
LE QVATRIEMEDE SA FAMILLE.
S? DE LON&VEVILI-E
ILATOrr POVEPJERE CARTKB£T LA CLOCHE,
POVR MERE LA.EILLE DE S"-l0HM" PAWLET.
PO-V3^ AIEVE BE>aAMIlsr LA C-LOCHE,
EOTO/AlE\XI.EI.Ai'lLiEDvSEI(?:nE SAINT 0\-EN
POVR BISAIEVL BENIAMIN LA CLOCHE
POVKBISAlEyiXElAElIIXD'JJOSTES NlCOLLE,aiILI.r,
ET SEiG*DE LONGVEVILLE.
ILS OHT TDVS.PoS.5FK^ HANS LA POIICE
)XT DANS lA-MILICE LES CHABGES-
qVZ SONT DES PLVS HONpKABLES EE CETTE ISLE
ILS LES ONT EXERCEES SANS REPROCBE
as soNT Toviovas DEMEVRES PIDELES ALEVRPRIKCE
AfECTIONIoJs AV SERVICE DE LEVrPaTRIE :
ILS SONT-'MORTS EKEXNEN VERITABLESCheeTIENS
APBES AVOIR TAII PAROITBE DE IA. IVSTICE^
ET IE l'hOMNETETE DANS LETB? M0E^'R5.
cist ce qv'on pevi dire en partic\xier,
deCeiatdont le corps est bentermeenceliev,
qVI XST MORT Adrf KE 37 ANS,
LE S'^IQVB.-aV MOIS d'oCTOBBE AKNO DOMINI 16B1
ETAKT KEVETVDE LA CHARGE DE IVSTICiER.
DE LA COVR SMALE DE IeRSEY,
ETDK CEllE DE MAIDR DV EEGIMENT DE L'EST,
DONT-IL AREMPLl TOVS LE S DEVOIRS
AVEd BEATOOVP DE PROBITE ET d'hONNEVR
QE QVr ik MH MSKETEKJIE CEVS <JVI IE CONNOISSOIENT
JX
fHural JMoiiumfiit to tl)t IHcmoij? of ©cofgt ILa Clocl)c, lEsiquiic, ^ngiuur of ILonguffaillt,
in ti)£ interior of tijt parislfj Cljurcl) of ^. ^abiour.
Tl;ii Plate is Prejented to the Work by John Ln Ctoehe, Ejq.
AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 189
^UelJigrtf of Sa Clorlje.
Stephen De La Cloche, living 1320 = .... d. of the Seig. de Carbonnel, Normamly.
Stephen La Cloche, living 1378 = Jane, d. of . . . De Lecq. Clement, had a large estate, N. Mabel.
of the Chapel of S. Manelier.
Thomas La Cloche = Mabel, d. of . . . . = Gideon DeS. Martin, son of the Seig. of S. Trinity.
I I I I I II
Thomas La Cloche. William. Rev. Sebastian, Peter. Clement La Cloche = Blanched, of ... Des Roger. Jeanin.
Rector of S.
Jeanette,d. of . . . . Catherine, Helier, d. 1554. Catherine, d. ' Thomasse, d.of
= d. of . . . . of ... De La ... Hamptonne.
I = Rocque.
I = Benjamin La Cloche = Collette, d of John Nicolle, Seig. of Longue
Collette La Cloche. | '
• Thomasse La Cloche.
Viviers, of Normandy.
William Gosselin,
Jurat, R.C. Peter Faultra.
ville, and h. to her brother, Hostes Nicolle,
Bailly of Jersey.
I I I
1. Jane, d. of Helier Duraaresq, of La Haule = Benjamin La Cloche = 2. RacheI.eld.d. of Sir Ph. De Carteret. Rachel. Jane.
I Seig. of Longueville
Jurat, R.C.
I
Jane La Cloche.
1. John Duraaresq.
2 Thomas Durell.
Richard Duraaresq. | III
Carteret La Cloche, Seig. of Longueville, Jurat, R.C. Rachel. Jane. Collette.
Ann, d. and h. of Sir John Poulett. Helier De Carteret, Ph. Falle. Maximillian Mes-
= Seig. of La Hougue. servy, Jurat, R.C.
\
I I I
George La Cloche, Seig. of Longueville, Jurat, R.C, Major, R.J. M. = Jane, d. of Ph. De Carteret, Seig. of V. de. H. Charles. Another
I child.
I II II
George La Cloche, Jurat, R.C, 0. .«./;. Philip, o.s./j. Benjamin, Constable of S. Saviour. Amice, Seig. of Longueville, Jane.
h. of his brothers.
Jane, d. of . . . Le Couteur.
Ann Seale, d. of the Seig nf Samares
T
George La Cloche, h. 1707, d. 1713, inntipt. Anne, Lady of Longueville, ra. 1727 = John Durell, Advocate-Gen. of Jersey.
John-Thomas Durell, Advocate-Gen. of Jersey, Seig. of Longueville, ob. injiupl. Mary, h. to her brother. Lady of Longueville.
George Burrard, Esq.
Stephen La Cloche = Blanche Le Bastard, Lady of Riondole. Clement, Advocate-General of Jer.scy. Thoma.sse ^ Edward De Soullement.
i — \ \ \ I ^1
1, Jane, d. of ... Le Geyt = Edward La Cloche = 2. Elizabeth, d. of Jane. Mary. Catherine. 1 homasse. Blanche.
= . . . Le Gallais, of
I Surville. T. Poingdestre, Rev. Francis Ed. De John Le Breton.
of S. Saviour. Grochie. Quetteville.
diffeieiiceJ from tliose of Le Febvre of Yinclieles de Bas (of wliich family a De Beauvoir was co-heir ; vide p. 00), owing
to the pernicious but common insuUir custom of assuming maternal arms. Their subsequent armorial ensigns were,
undoubtedly, in the same manner, derived from those of the Guernsey family of Carticr, -whose estate the representative
of the eldest branch of that of De Beauvoir inherited by marriage with its heiress — Jeaurtte, only child of John Cartier,
Jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey late in the fifteenth century. For the seal of William, fjither of the above John,
hears a chevron between the quatrefoils pierced (spur-rowels ?) The arms borne by Richard-Benyon-De Beauvoir, >vere :
Argent, a chevron, gules, between two cinquefoils in chief, and an eagle, displayed, in base, sable. Crest : A griffin's head
and neck, with wings, addorsed and couped, argent, holding in the beak a branch of woodbine, ppr.
B V,
190
AN ARJIORIAL OF JERSEY.
I I
Thomas La Cloclie, ob. Ifi49, innupt. Rev.Stephen, Rector of S.Laurence.
Ann.
Mary.
Martha.
Jane.
Esther, d. of . , . Planson.
Philip Aubin. John Chevalier. John Le 1. Ph. Lempriere.
Goupi!.
2. Nicholas Da Pont.
I I I
John La Cloche, Jurat, R.C., Colonel, R.J.M. = Margaret De Carteret, d. Jane = Philip Le Geyt. Rachel = Helier De Carteret, of
I of the Seig. of Trinity. S. Saviour.
I
John La Cloche, Capt., H.B.M. Army.
Maria-Classina, d. of Admiral Van
Gangelt.
I I
Edward, Amice,
Advocate, R.C., Capt., H.E LC.S.
b. 1660. =
I I I
Margaret Jane-De Carteret. Elizabeth, ob. in London,
• bur. at Great Hillingdon,
1. Peter Marett. Lieut. -Gen. Peter Middlesex.
Duiand, of E. Bar-
2. Hugh Duma- net, Herts,
resq, Seig. of
Di^laraent.
Francis La Cloche, settled in England, and assumed the name of Bell. Another child.
I
John La Cloche.
Matthevf = Deborah, d. of John Le Breton.
I
.lane.
Martha.
1. Ab. Richardson, Jurat, R.C.
2. John Dumaresq.
E. Bishop, Capt.,
H.M. Service.
Matthew La Cloche, Capt., R.J.M. = Jane, d. and co-h. of George Dumaresq. Rev. John, Rector of S. Trinity. Jane. Deborah.
Jane La Cloche.
Ed. Ricard,
Capt., 73rd Regt.
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Elizabeth.
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Ten children, ob. juv.
Esther, d. and co.-h. of David
Patriarche, Jurat, R.C.
Ed. -Thompson Dickson,
Surgeon.
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John La Cloche, Esq., George, Capt., R.J.M. Philip, R.N.
aged 92 years.
Mary, d. of . . . Le Montais. Esther, d. of . . . Noel.
T
Thomas, M.D.,
Possessor of the ancestral residence.
Margaret, d. of. . . Le Breton.
Esther.
Hugh de Carteret.
Mary La Cloche,
Mary i^a *jiocne, |
b. 1825, d. 1854. Rev. Philip La Cloche = Jane, d. of ... Langfc. Jane. Julia-Maria. Elizabeth
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John La Cloche, Esq. ^ Jane, d. of John Le Cronier
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Elvina-Jane La Cloche, b. 1860.
Thomas-De Beauvoir, ob. 1849.
Matilda-Jane, oh. 1856.
John-Frs. De Carteret, Esq.
ilattgloifi.
|HIS family is of very early settlement in Jersey. In 1331, Philip Langlois was a
Jurat of the Royal Court. The name has been variously spelt Lenglez, Lenglois,
Langloys, L'Anglois, and Langlois, Init that the source of individuals thus differently
termed is one, is proved by documentary evidence.
In 1445, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Lord, or Governor of the Channel Islands, by
Letters-Patent under his own seal, granted to Richard Lenglez permission to erect on his estate
situated in the pai'ish of S. Laurence, and in the vicinity of his house there, a square Colo»)biet\
JSj w/umi ///i-'^- P/tite us- J^esefilr^i //> //ir Wor/c
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 191
01' dove-cot — tlieu a coveted feudal appurtenance.* More than two centuries later, in 1G49,
Laurens Hamptonne, wbo had purchased from the descendants of this Richard Loiglez^ the
house and a part of the land attached to it, obtained from Charles II. a renewal of the right to
rebuild the ColomMcr " on the lands of Langlois, as had been formerly allowed to Richard
Lanr/lois" one proof among many of the various renderings of this name.f Of this Richard
little is known, save that by tradition he is said to have been of the household of the Duke ;
but his family continued in possession of the estate until 1638, when it was sold to Laurens
Hamptonne by the grand-children of Frances, daughter of John Langloys, in whose person her
branch of the family became extinct. She inherited from her uncle, Sire Philip [Langlois] (or
Dom. Philippo, as he is also styled), the Franc-Fief of S. Brelade, and manned, firstly, Hugh
Lempriere, leaving issue two sons and some daughters ; and secondly, John Ilerault.
From the absence of documents relatina; to this extinct eldest branch, and from tlie
impossibility of obtaining access to those referring to the elder section of the second line, much
of the earlier history of this interesting family remains in obscurity. Its remaining eldest
branch has become extinct by the faiku'c of issue male of the late John Langlois, Esq.,
* "A Tous ceulx qui ces piitcs Ires verront orront Regnaud de Carteret Baillif nre S'"^ Ic Roy d'Engletcrrc cii I'lde dc
Jerley, Salut. S''avoir faiibns que Fan de grace mill quattre cents xlviij. le jour du Samedy fcftc Saint Bertholomcy Apoftre, fe
comparut en droit a Saint Oucn p. devant nous cell aflav^ Richard Lenglez lequci Rvchard nous monftra unes Ires patentes
faines et cntierres non cancelleys vicies ne corrompues en aulcune ptie dycelles fcclleyes en Rouge eyre du Seel darmes dc Trefnoblc
pnce HuMFREY nagueres Duk de Glouceftrc que dieu abfoille contenant la forme qui cnfuit. Humfrey fils frere et oncle de Roys
Duk de Glouceftre conte de Pembrok Grand Chambrelain D'Engleterre et Seigneur dcs Ides de Jerfey Guerniey ct aultres Ifles a
ycelles adjoinftes. A rous ceulx qui ceftes noz Ires v''ront ou orront Salutz: S'avoir faifons no" av'' donne et grainte et p ces
pntes donnons et graintons a nrc bicn Ame Rychard Lenglez demourent en nre ditc Ifle de Jerfey congie et Licence de Ediner ou
faire Edifier une maifon de Colombicr quarri pour av' et nourir coulonbs en quelque place que il luy plaira en to' son olTtel ct
mefnage feant en la proefle de S'' Laurens en nre dite Ifle a avoir et tenir ledit Co/umLier gi/iirre c\\ temps a advenir en fin de heritage
Et en Resjoir de par nous luy et fes hers coiue de fon propre heritage franchement et quitement p nous faire Annuellcment et a
nos hers et fuccefleurs ung Chapon de Rente p. chacun an a la fefte et la nativitev de Noel. Parquoy nous mandons et chargeons
a tous noz Justiciers et ofEciers qui font ou qui po'- le temps feront que eulx fouffrcnt et leflent Le d'- Richard Lenglez et fcs
hers Resjoir plainement et paifiblement dud'' Columbier come dit eft joufte et felon nre dit Don ct ottroy contenu en ces piites
que remifles nous plaift eftre fait. En tefmoing de ce nous avons fait mettre nre feel a ces piites Ires. Donne en nre Chaftel de
Gourroy Le xij''' jour du mois de Septembre Lan de grace mill quattre cents quarante et chincq. Donne p copie soubz le (eel dc
nre baillye piits ad ce michiel Leffeyvre ct Nicholas morin jurcts de la cour de nre dit Si" le Roy.
" Cefte piite a efte coUationn^e de mot a mot fur le vray original deubement autenticq' fous le fceau de la baillye de lad'* Ifle et
trouv^e conforme a yceluy p devant mons' le Lieut, de mens''- le Baillv et les jurets fous fign(;s ce quinz'jor du mois de Dccembre
Lan de grace mille six cents trente huit.
E. De Carteret, Lieutenant.
H. De Carteret, x
P. DUMARESQ, f
J. Herault, >Jurets."
M. Lempriere, '
I " Et outre nous avons donne et octroye et de notre plus ample puiflance et autorit^ Royale, donnons et octroyons par ces
prefentes audit Laurens Hamptonne, fes hers et fuccefleurs on ayant caufe, pouvoir et autorit^ de relever et rebaftir le colomhier
tomb6 en ruine et decadence, sur les dites terres de Langlois ; et le faire re-edifier en telle lieu et place fur les dites terrcs qu'i!
trouvera le plus propre et convenable (nous payant et k nos fuccefleurs un chapon de rente annuelle, au jour de Noel par chacun
an :) Selon qu' autrefois avait ete permis a Richard Langlois par Humfrey due de Gloucefter, Seigneur des Ifles, et accordant
I'oftroy au dit Seigneur portant date du 1 2"- jour du mois de Septempre, I'an de grace, 1 4+5, de la maison et tenement du quel
Richard Langlois le dit Hamptonne jouift ct eft en poflefiion paifible "
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
on whose death its representation devolved upon his younger brother, Philip Langlois,
Esq., M.R.C.S.
Arms (as borne by Philip Langlois, Esq., M.R.C.S.): Azure, a chevron, or, between
three crescents, argent; on a chief, gules, as many stars of six points of the second, pierced.
Quartering : Argent, a cherry-tree, fructed, ppr., for Estur.
Crest : A rock, ppr.
^fiiigrrf of ?!.angIoi6«
Raulln Langlois = Guillemine, d. of .
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, . Langlois.
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John.
Jeanette, living 1504 ^ Edmund Le Gallais, of Sui-ville.
Sire Philip Lan(;lois, purchased in 1516 the franc
fief of S. Brelade, from Nicholas Gervaise.
Richard = Catherine, d. of Thomas Lempriere, Seig. of Catherine, widow in 1659.
La Hougue Boete, and Bailly of Jersey.
Richard Estur.
John Langlois, d 1560.
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Raulin.
Richard,
Frances Langlois, only d. and h.. Lady of the Fief of S. Brelade, which she Raulin Langlois, living 1596 = Ysabel, d. of . . . Le Cras.
sold to Helier Dumaresq, of La Haule. H. also to her uncle Dom. Ph. |
Langlois, who possessed the house afterwards known as Hamptonne.
Hugh Lempriere, Jurat, R.C.
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Plirlip Lempriere. Elias = Elizabeth, d. of Daughters.
= N. Hamptonne.
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Raulin Langlois, d. 1675.
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Raulin Langlois. Matthew. Elizabeth
Centenierof
S. Laurence, m.
1682, d. 1724.
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Helier.
Elizabeth, d. of H;stienne
Le Bas, of S. Peter.
John,
o.s.p.
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Elizabeth Lempriere,
eld. d. and co.-h.
Daniel Sarre.
Susan.
John Le Geyt.
Mary.
John Payn.
Mary. d. of Philip
Dumaresq.
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John, Raulin. Ysabel. Elizabeth.
m.l672.
Edward
Le Gros.
Ann,d. of
... Gibaut.
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Elizabeth Sarre, only d. and h.
.Abraham Payn. of S. Martin,
who sold Hamptonne to Lau-
rens Hamptonne, in 1638.
Philip Langlois, b. 1686. Helier Langlois = Mary, eld. d. and co.-h. of
Louys Estur, of S. Laurence.*
Sarah De Rue, relict of
Michael Giffard. .
• This is a junior branch of the Guernsey family of Estur, in the parish of Notre Dame du Castel. The Jersey family settled in the
parish of S. Laurence, circa 1412, whence sections established themselves in those of S. Mary and S. Saviour, in which latter it possesses the
estate of Le Jardeiy. It is now (piite extinct, and in this island is represented by the families of Langlois, Bisson, Anthoine, and Aubin.
One branch appears to have se^ttled in Havant, co, Hants, temp. Elizabeth, in the person of Peter Estur, the son of Richard, and nephew of
Honjifste-personne Mychaell Estur, tutor to Lord William Gray. These facts are elicited by documents referring to property of this last named
individual, sealed by the then mayor of Southampton, now in the possession of Philip Langlois, Esq.
Alois of Estur; Argent, a cherry-tree fructed, ppr.
^ciJigift of lEiiwx.
GuH.i.E, Ami of John Estur, of the parish of Notre Dame du Castel, Guernsey, living 141 1.
Phyn. Estur.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
193
I
Philip Langlois.
I
Francis, b. 1741.
Ann, d. of . . . Pipon.
Helier Langlois, b. 1673, m. 1701.
I
Jane Langlois, only d. and h. = Joshua Falle.
Jane, d. of Peter Laurens, of S.
Laurence.
Mary.
Thomas Poitevin-
dit-Le Roux.
Helier Langlois, b. 1703. Philip, b. 1705, John, b. 1712. Mary, b. 1702. Susan, b. 1707. Elizabeth, b. 1719.
oh. innupt.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Manger,
of S. Laurence.
Elizabeth, d. of I.John Cabot. Elias Le Gros. Nicholas La Boutillier,
. . . Laurens, of of S. Peter.
S. Helier. 2. Daniel Bisson.
I
Philip Langlois, of the Maison de Bas, b. 1747, m. 1767.
Mary, d. of Francis Luce.
John Langlois, Major, R.J.M., and
Constable of S. Laurence.
Mary, d. of . . . De Ste. Croix.
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Helier, Capt., R.J.M. Philip.
1. Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Margaret, d.
Gallais. of . . . Ahier.
Helier, b. 1749, of the Maison de Haut.
1. Mary, d. of Joshua Mourant.
2. Elizabeth, d. of . . . Poingdestre,
o.s.p.
Francis,
ob. imiupl.
I
Francis Langlois.
Helier.
Mary,
2. Esther-Jane. d. of . .
Luce.
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Philip Langlois.
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Esther.
Jane.
Ann, d. of . . . Vibert. Ann, d. of Joshua Edward Le
= Mourant. Rossignol.
I
George Messervy. Philip Binet.
Helier Langlois, o.i./). Ann. Mary.
John Estur, living 1473 = Perotte, d. of . . . Regnault. Estienne, of S. Mary. Jeanette = Guille Allayn.
John Estur = Guyllemyne, d. of Peter, sister of Sire John Le Jarderay, and widow of John Ahier. Collette = Philip Amy.
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Clement Estur. Richard = Katherine, d. of R. Langlois. Edward = Johanne, d. of ... Gibault. Sire Mychaell, Barbe. Collette.
I "Tutor of ye
Mary, d. of Peter | I | Lorde Willyam John Hubert. John Sarre.
Guilie, ot b. Mary. Peter Estur, settled at Havant, ciVca 1571. Richard. Mabel. Graye."
Temple Chevalier, of the Menage du Rocher, S. Trinity.
Louys Estur, living 1568. John, o.*.j), Collette.
Agnes, d. of Michael LeCousteur. Germain Seale.
Dame Peronelle de I'Espine, of an ancient French family
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Abraham Estur. Catherine
Mary.
I
Jane.
Mauricette, d.of Peter LeGros. N.Norman. John Le Boutillier.
. . . Gibault.
Temple Chevalier, Catherine, = John, s. of Peter De La Rocque,
b.lGOl. b. 1594-5. I Attorney-General of Jersey.
John De La Rocque, of the Manage du Rocher, b. 1618.
Magdalen, d. of the Rev, Joshua Slowly, Rector of S. Trinity.*
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Louys Estur, d. 1683. Abraham. Elias. Clement, d. 1690 = Catherine De La Rocque, only d. and h.
Mary, d. of . . . Benest. Nicholas.
Mary Estur, b. 1661.
I
Catherine, m. 1678-9.
Abiaham Bisson, of S. Laurence.
Mary Estur, eld. d, and co.-h. = Helier Langlois. Mauricette. Susan.
• Akms of Slowlv : Argent, on a bend, gules, three mullets of the field; in chief, a martlet, sable, for difference.
194
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
1
John Langlois,
Capt., R.J.M.
Ann, d. of Henry
1
Phihp, M.R.C.S.
1
Elizabeth.
Jane-Mary.
Francis-Ed. Luce.
Mary-Gallais.
Ph. Gibaut.
Philip Simon.
Nicolle.
Helier Langlois.
Philip
Lieut.,
1
o.s.p.y Ann.
RIM
1
Elize.
Jane, d. of . . . Vincent
Ph. Pirouet.
Ph. Pirouet.
Marv.
Henry Langlois, ob. juv.
Ann, oh. juv.
Mary = Charles Godfray, Capt. R.J. A.
Jane.
THIS, near the small town of Conde-sur-Noireau, in Normandy, was the original
place of settlement of this family, now rejo resented by Joshua Le Bailly, Esq.,
Jurat of the Royal Coui-t.
Possessed there of considerable landed j^roperty, its representative formed one
among the numberless Huguenot fugitives, who in couseqvience of the Revocation of the Edict
of Nantes, and in spite of the merciless statute to the contrary, hazarded their lives and
sacrificed their wealth by flight, in order to enjoy even in a foreign land, in jioverty, and amid
strangers, that priceless boon — liberty of conscience. In common with a large majority of these
refugees, both in England and in Jersey, the sojourn of this family in its new home has been
marked by prosperity ; a circvimstance the more worthy of note, when it is considered that,
unaided by connections, and crippled, in many instances, by abject poverty, the French Pro-
testants owe their worldly success chiefly to those virtues, the exercise of which places wealtli
and position within the ultimate reach of all.
This fixmily must not be confounded Avith an aboriginal Jersey one, of almost similar
cognomen, settled from time immemorial in the parish of S. Trinity, the name of which,
originally written Le Baillif, has been corrupted or changed to a spelling identical with the
foregoing.
Arms (as borne by Joshua Le Bailly, Esq.): Azure, a fortress, argent, maconne, sable.
Impaling: Gules, three pears, argent; on a chief of the last, a demi-Iion issuant, sable, for
Perrot.
Crest : A demi-lion, ppr.
Motto : Deus fortissima turris.
£r w/„m, ////s /'/,,/. /.^- /Ws,v,/,;/ /- //-• Jl^r/.-.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
195
^t BoutilUer*
ROM a very early Norman period this family has existed in Jersey, and its name
frequently occurs in the history of its native island.
In its ancestral parish of S. Trinity, its members have filled municipal offices for
centuries. A curious and pleasing instance of liljerality exists in the record of a
gift by one of this family, some centuries ago, of the annual sum of twelve g^'os (groats) to
furnish with ink and paper the parochial school of S. Trinity, for the use of poor scholars.
The same family also made an annual donation to the same parish of a bushel of wheat to be
made into bread for the Holy Communion. Its estate is taxed with the gifts to this day. One
of its branches is represented by George Le Boutillier, Esq., of Cincinnati, U.S.
Another branch located at S. John, is represented by Amy Le Boutillier, Esq. S. Ouen
is the place of settlement of another section of this numerous family.
At Grouville, a branch has been settled for a very elongated period ; one of whose junior
representatives is Mr. George Le Boutillier, of S. Holier.
Arms (as borne by Mr. George Le Boutillier): Azure, seven chevronnels, argent; in
base a stag, trippant, of the second. Quartering : Argent, three birds, gules, for Drieu : and
Or, on a chief, embattled, sable, three mullets, argent, a crescent for difference, for Amy.
Crest : A cubit arm, gules, cuffed argent, holding in the hand a sprig of oak, fructed, ppr.
Motto : Pro Rege.
^eUigree of ae 33outintn-, of (groubi'IIr,
Helier Le Boutillier, m. 1611 = Damaris, d. and h. of Roger Drieu, a member of the ancient
I Norman family of that name.
Francis Amy, of Grouville.
Jane, d. of John Le Ray, of Faldouet.
Elias Le Boutillier, b. 1614.
Mary, d. of John Mollet.
Henry,
b. 1620.
John,
b. 1624.
Parmenas,
b. 1628.
Mary,
b. 1612.
Ill I
Other children, o.s.p. Jane Amy, d. and co-h. Philip Le Boutillier, I. Pauline, d. of = Elias, b. 1649 = 2. Pauline, d. of John,
b. 1668. b. 1648. Thomas Le I I . . . Ahier. b. 1654.
Cauraais. | |
j Clement Le Boutillier, b. 1683.
Edward Baudains.
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Susan Baudains, d. and h.
Francis Baudains.
Charles Le Boutillier.
b. 1681, m. 1703.
Elizabeth, d. of James
Dumaresq.
Marv, b. 1678.
Charles Le Boutillier, b. 1705, m. 1726.
Catherine, d. of Thomas Godfray.
Elizabeth, b. 1704.
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AN ARMORIAL OP JERSEY.
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Two other daughters. 2. Elizabeth Baudains, d. and co.-h. = Philip Le Boutillier = 3. Rachel, d. of . . . Morris. Charles, b. 1727.
I b. 1733. I
Mary, d. of . . . Bree.
George Le Boutillier = Elizabeth, d. of John Filleul.
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George Le Boutillier. Philip.
1. Susan, d. of
Clement Mallet,
ni. 1760.
Elizabeth-Susan.
Ann, d. of Joshua Mourant.
James Le Templier.
Charles Le Boutillier
1. Ann, d. of . . . Godeaux.
2. Mary, d. of . . . Gaudin.
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Jane.
Elias Hubert.
I
John Le Boutillier.
Elizabeth, d. of . . .
Gaudin.
John Le Boutillier.
Jane. (i. of R. Roissier.
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Francis,
Ehas. Philip, ob. Elizabeth, Charles Le Bout.llier.
ob.
Frances, Elizabeth, George, ob.
d. of... d. of...
Messervy. Laverty.
Rachel, d. of John Fauvel.
AilVed-
Philip.
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Francis. Adolphus.
Ann, d. of
George Lar-
balestier.
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Francis Le Boutillier.
b. 1859.
pttrigrrc of %t 33outinifr, of ^Imrrira.
Philip Le Boutillier, of the parish of S. Trinity = Mary, d. of . . . De Ste Croix.
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John Le Boutillier ^ Rachel, d. of . . . Le Geyt.
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George Le Boutillier, Esq., settled in America = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Maistre.
George Le Boutillier.
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Charles.
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Thomas.
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James.
I
Eliza.
I
Mary.
Ann.
ile Breton.
T is supposed that this family is derived from Britany, although the arms borne by it,
differ but slightly from those of Le Breton, of Normandy.*
One of its early members is reputed to have given to the parish church of
S. Brelade, its service of connnunion plate. In 1283, Philip Le Breton, "I'homme
du Mont S. Michel," held the franc-fief of Noirmont, the fief es Guarauz, and the fief Burnouf.f
* Arms of Le Breton of Normandy : Argent, two clievronnfls l)ct\vcr'n three eseallops, gules. Motto : Moriainur
pro rege nostro.
t From documents in the archives of S. Lo, it appears that ahout the year 1291, certain disputes arose between the
al)bRt and monks of Mont S. A[icliel in Normandy, and the Prior of S. Ch^meiit, Jersey, and Philip Le Breton, Seigneur
of Noinnont, Viho held certain lands and fiefs in the parish of S. Clement, concerning their relative rights. A decree
exists whereby the rights of the Clmrcli are acknowledged. Li 1332, a final setllement of these claims appears to have
been made, with a solemn confirmation before William de S. Remy, Peter d'Arcy, and Radulpbus Odo, Justices in Eyre,
.lusticcs, who at that period, apparently periodically visited the islands for the purpose of hearing and deciding ai>peals.
Jbilip hcMcry k BretoN. Esouirc
Jlr w/ii'f/i t//ts J'li/li- I.--- pnffnlid tr tfie Wcr/c.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 197
111 1370, William Le Breton was a Jurat of the Royal Court. The family formerly possessed
much land in the parish of S. Clement.
It has given to the Island three Deans and two Baillies. Of the former, the Very Rev.
Thomas Le Breton was Rector of S. ]\Iary and Dean of Jersey in 1714; the Very Rev. Francis
Le Breton, Rector of S. Saviour and Dean in 1775; and the Very Rev. William-Corbet Le
Breton, INI.A., who at present holds the two last-named preferments.
Of the latter. Sir Thomas Le Breton, Kt., Avas the eldest son of Dean Francis Le Breton,
and was born in 1763. He received his early education at Winchester College, whence he
removed to Pembroke College, Oxford ; and while there obtained the Chancellor's prize. He
was elected a Fellow in 1786, but declining to take orders, returned to Jersey to prosecute his
studies for the insular bar. In 1799, he was sworn an advocate of the Royal Court, where he
soon became eminent. He was appointed Attorney-General of the Island in 1802, and
Lieutcnant-Bailly to Lord Carteret in 1816. In 1824, he was deputed by the States of Jersey
to plead the cause of the Islanders before the English Government in resistance of the encroach-
ments of the French on the local ovster fishing limits : on this occasion, Mr. Le Breton had
conferred on him the honour of knighthood. On the death of Lord Carteret in 1826, the patronage
of the office of Bailly, long held by his family in hereditary succession, reverted to the Crown,
and Sir Thomas succeeded to the vacant chair. He died in 1838. His portrait, by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, is in the possession of the family, and has been engraved.
His eldest son, also named Thomas, was for many years Attorney-General, and afterwards
Bailly of the Island. He was born in 1790, and studied jui'isprudence at Caen, in Normandy;
and whilst thei-e was presented to Napoleon I., on the occasion of the Emperor visiting that
city. Subsequently, he became a member of the Jersey bar, Vice-Consul for France in Jersey,
and a Receiver of the King's dues in the Island. He had, before this, entered the S. Ilelier's
Battalion of the jNIilitia, in which he rose to the command in 1820; and on the auspicious visit
of her INIajesty to the Island in September, 1846, the whole of the insular troops being under
the command of Colonel Le Breton, Her Majesty conferred on him the honour of knighthood.
In July, 1848, Sir Thomas succeeded the late Sir John De Veulle as Bailly of Jersey — a post
which he held until his death in November, 1857.
The family is represented, amongst others, by Francis Le Breton, Esq. ; by the Very
Rev. William-Corbet Le Breton, M.A. ; and by Philip-Hemery Le Breton, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.
Ar:\is (as borne by Philip-Hemery Le Breton, Esq. ) : Azure, two chevronels, or ; a mullet
for difference. Impaling : Argent, an oak-tree, ppr. ; on a chief, gules, three mullets of the
field, for AiKiN.
Crest : A rose, gules, slipped and leaved, vert.*
* A John Le Breton, Esq., of Jersey, is mentioned in tlie EncycloptBdia Londinensis, and his Anns given as — Azure,
a bend between sis mullets pierced, or. Crest : A lion's gamb, erased, azure, charged mth a chevron, or, between three
billets, argent.
C C
198
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
pelrisrte of %.t asretom
Thomas Le Breton.
David Le Breton.
Mary, d. of .. . Dapin.
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John, o.s.p.
Edward.
Jane.
I
Elizabeth.
Thomas Lempriere.
I
Esther.
Denis Noel.
Ann.
John Nicolie.
The Very Rev. Thomas Le Breton, M.A., Exeter College, Oxon, Rector of S. Mary = Mary, d. of Raulin Robin,
and Dean of Jersey, b. 1697, d. 1728. I
Thomas Le Breton, Seig. of La Hague, b. 1707, d. 1760 = Alice, d. of Philip Anley, m. 1729.
Thomas Le Breton,
Seig. of La Hague, b. 1730.
Jane, d. of Amice Marett,
Jurat, R.C.
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Jane Le Breton, only d. and h.
Thomas Pipon.
Philip, b. 1733.
John, b. 1735.
Very Rev. Francis, Rector of S. Saviour
and Dean of Jersey.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Penrose.
Joshua, b. 1741.
Hannah, d. of . . .
Ward.
Susan, b. 1744.
Rev. M. Youngson.
1. Ann, d. of John = Sir Thomas Le Breton, = 2. Margaret, d. William.
Hue, and sister of Kt., Bailly of Jersey. of Clement
Dean Hue. Hemery. Jane, d. of
John Hue.
I
Rev. Philip,
Rector of
S. Saviour.
Susan, d. of
Clement Hemery.
Francis,
Lieut. R.N.
John.
Edward.
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Mary.
Esther.
Elizabeth.
John Dolbel.
Clement Le Breton = Dona Con-
of Buenos Ayres. I ception di
I Sola.
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Clement Le Breton. Thomas.
I
Eliza-Margaret.
Lieut. -Col. Ed.-
Kent-Strathern
Butler, of Mar-
tock. Nova Scotia.
William-Corbet
Le Breton, Clerk,
M.A.. Dean of Jer-
sey, Rector of S.
Saviour.
Erailie-Davis,d. of
W. Martin.
I
Maria.
David-Vavasour
Durell, of Ox-
ford.
I
Jane-Penrose.
John HanimonJ,
Esq., Bailly of
Jersey.
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Anne-Louisa.
Julia-Charlotte.
Philip-Hemery Le Breton, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law, King's Bench
Walk, Temple, and Milford
House, Hampstead.
Anna-Letitia, d. of Charles-
Rochemont Aikin.
I
James- Edward.
Ellen, d. of ...
Dickenson.
I
Mary-Ann.
H.W. Busk,
Barrister-at-Law.
Henrietta.
Edward-Hemery Le Breton.
Philip-Henry.
Philip-Aikin Le Breton.
Arthur-Hemery.
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Anna-Letitia.
Lucy.
Susannah.
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Rosa.
Katherine-Henrielta.
Mary.
Edith.
Ellen.
Sir Thomas Le Breton, Kt., Bailly of Jersey, = Frances, d. of Thos.-
Colonel R.J.M., ob. 1858, s.p. Jekyll Rawson, of Oake-
over Hall, Stafford.
I
Francis, of Crosby Square =
and Sussex Place, Regent's
Park, London.
... d. of
George
Struve,
.M.D.
.\nn-Corbet.
Major George,
Simmons,
late Riile Brigade.
/ / //
/h n/i, ,/, f/iis P/,i/, IS /Wsi-iitii/ to f/lf nl'li.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 199
3le Couteur, of 3$ellebue»
EEIVING its descent from a Norman source, this family has held a most respectable
position in Jersey for centuries. By the Extente of 1331, it appears that Eobeil Le
Couteur, of the parish of S. Brelade, owed to the King eight sols for a bouvee, or
ox"gate, of land.* However, from the non-existence of parochial records and the
want of family archives, a connected pedigree of the family can only he traced to the sixteenth
century. And although from these causes the precise connection between Julian Le Couteur,
living in 1598, and Jacques Le Couteur, hviug in 1604, and the founder of the branch of S.
John, La Hougue Boete, cannot be ascertained ; yet there are no sufficient grounds for doubting
the common origin of both families.
From the testimony of the late Sir Isambard-Kingdom Brunei, himself born on the patri-
monial estate of the family, it seems that those of Jersey are an offshoot from the house of Le
Couteur of Gisors, Department de I'Eure, where the parent stock still exists, represented by a
Colonel in the French army.
In the parish church of S. Brelade exist tablets to the memory of General Le Couteur,
and to that of his wife, the eldest daughter of Sir John Dumaresq ; her memory is deservedly
respected, not only from her private vii'tues, but also from the fact of her having been the
foundress of the Jersey branch of the Ladies' Bible Society. The epitajjh of the former contains
so succinct an account of his long and honourable career, together with so fjivourable an insight
into his private character, as to deserve perpetuation here.f
The original estate of this family was Les Butfes, which, cmiously enough, was exchanged
by its owner for its present residence, in a friendly controversy, as to their relative value, with a
member of the De Carteret fixmily, to whom the latter previously belonged. The name of
* An ox-gate — as much land as one os could till. The following tahle will show its relative value : — 40 Perches = 1
Vcrgee ; 4 Yergees = 1 Acre ; 5 Acres = 1 Bouvee. The Vergee forms the general integer for the computation of
Jersey land.
I "To the memory of Lieutenant-General John Le Couteur, born at Les Buttes, in the parish of St. John, 2Gth August,
\1C\Q ; died at Bellovue, St. Brelado's Parish, 'i.'jrd April, 1835, aged seventj'-four years. He served his country from his
youth as Captain in the first Regiment of Militia ; he then obtained his first commission in His Majesty's 95th Regiment,
and served with it in the glorious capture, in this Island, of Rullecourt's force, 6th January, 1781. He served against
Tippoo Sahib in India, in the 100th Regiment, was made prisoner, and kept in chains eleven months, fed on rice and
water; all his superior officers were poisoned, but the Lord preserved him. In 1790, he was elected, ivithout oppo-
sition, a Jurat of the Royal Court ; he acted as Brigade-Major to the Militia ; and, in 1798, received the thanks of the
States for his unwearied zeal. In 1798, he was appointed Inspector of Militia. He performed the duties of Quartermaster-
General, and conducted the secret service during the French Revolution, with Georges Pichegru and La Roche- Jacquelin.
He instituted the system of boy's drill, founded on the ancient 31ilitia laws ; and carried it on for eleven years to the
applause of all. In 1800, he again received the thanks of the States; and, in 1811, being raised to the rank of
Major-General, he, for the third time, received their thanks, together with a piece of plate. He commanded a
brigade in Jamaica till 1813, when he was named Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Islands of
Curagoa, Bonair, and Amha, Dutch Colonies, where he administered the laws with so much wisdom, mildness, and
firmness, that on the Restoration of the Islands to the Dutch, 4th March, 1815, he received affectionate addresses from
the superior and inferior Councils, the Merchants, the Freeholders, and the Spanish Refugees ; the negroes and the slaves
C C 2
200 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Les Biittes^ or the Butts (which also occurs in other parishes), proves Archery to have been
cultivated with assiduity by Jersey men; and, undoubtedly, had tlie necessary records descended
to our day, we should find that, as feudal x'etainers, they had worthily laid the foundation of
that fame which they have so gloriously earned since their incorporation into a regular
Mihtia.
The present representative of the family, Colonel John Le Couteur, Q.A.D.C, F.R.S.,
Viconite of Jersey and Adjutant-General, R.J.M., has, with much concern for the welfare of
his native island, turned his attention to its improved agriculture; and is the author of an
erudite work on the cultivation and varieties of wheat, which, with one on Rifle-Drill, is well
and fiivourably known; while another, now in preparation, on the "History of the Royal Jersey
Militia," will, doubtless, tlu'ow much light on this interesting subject, and will be looked for
with the more interest, since the corps is indebted for much of its efficiency to the family of its
historian.
Arms (as borne by Colonel John Le Couteur) : Argent, three bends, azure. Quartering:
<;)r, on a mount, vert, a holly-bush, ppr. ; a bordure, sal:)le, eutoyre of eight mullets, of six
])oints, pierced, of the first, for Bisson; and Gules, four fusils in fesse, argent, a fleur-de-lis for
difi^erence, for De Carteret. Impaling: Azure, a chevron, argent, between two bezants in
chief, and a fleur-de-lis, of the second, in base, for Janvrin.
Crests: 1. A dove, holding in its beak an olive branch, all ppr., for Le Couteur (ancient).
2. A sword and a sprig of laurel, in saltire, ppr., for Le Couteur. 3. A blackbird, ppr., for
Bisson.
Motto : Toujours prest.
ptDi'ffrrf of %.t Cciitfur of Brllrbur,
Nicholas Le Couteur, and Mabel, his wife.
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Julian Lb Couteur, m. 1598 = Catherine, d. of . . . Queree. Thomas. Andrew. Juliana.
.shed bitter tears on the departure of their ' Massa Father.' On liis return to Jersey, in 181(), God blessed him ^vitli many
years of health, peace, and contentment, which he devoted chiefly to the study of the Scriptures. At seventy years of
age, he committed the Gospels and Epistles to memory. He was a man meek and lowly in his heart, waiting with ardent
faith and huralile hope for the coming of the Lord. This epitajdi is erected to his memory by his only son, Colonel John
Le Couteur, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen."
Obituary notices of the gallant General apjiear in the United Service Junrtwl and Annual Biogropliy ond Ohituari/
for 183C. In 1790, John ]Murray published a translation of "Letters from India," by General Le Couteur, which,
among other subjects, contain interesting descriptions of the religion, manners, and customs of the inliabitants of
Hindostan.
©ntiu^ 0-)riirj.\i^]lc Ci^ul'nir 6I.iH|iiirt\
<r:
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t^iW/i'/y/^ r/,_y. G^/fPi4 /?.') ■ y!yu///^'^. -<^w.k:-,-^-^/7 yy7-'U(///e'\_y0or/€:
Jfv t'.'/i<}/>;
M prescTzteil to i^wMrA:.
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Philip Le Couteur, born 1601 = Lucasse, sole d. and heiress of Leonard Bisson. Abraham, b. 1602.
Phihp Le Couteur, b. 1632, m. 1667. Juhn, ob.juv. Catherine. Lucasse. Jane. Mary. Priscilla.
oh. jiiv.
Andrte, d. and co-h. of Heher De Carteret. 1. Rev. C. Guerant. G. La Cloche, R. Picot.
= Seig. of Longueville.
I 2. Thomas Dulbel.
John Le Couteur, b. 1661 , m. 1689 = Esther, d. of John Arthur, of S. Mary. Andree, b 1665 = Helier Le Qucsne.
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John Le Couteur, b. 1691 = Mary, d. of J. Poingdestre. Amice, b. 1694. Joshua, b. 1G96. Esther, b. 1G90 = John Querte.
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John Le Couteur, b. 1717, oA. (■««!//;/. John. (Twins) Philip. Amice. Mary. Elizabeth, oS./h!). Elizabeth.
Mary.d. of . .. Ber- Jane, d. of . . . Joshua. Esther. J. Le Couteur, of
fault. Filleul. S. Mary.
1
1
Aniice Le Couteur, b. 1758.
1 1
Clement.
Joshua, n.s.p.
II 1 1
Philip. Araice, Clement, o.s/j.
1 1
Jane. Esther.
.... d. of ... De Carteret, of the
Island of Serk.
T
John, n.s.p. Marianne, d. of
. . . Bishop.
1 Helier father charles Ahier.
of Creii. I ouzel.
2. . . . Aubin.
Amice Le Couteur, of Serk.
1
John
^ Elizabeth, d. of . . . Poitevin-dit-Le Roul.\.
1
Elizabeth.
R
;v. G. Balleine, Rector of S. Martin
I
John Le Couteur, Esq., b. 1760, d. 1835, Lieut.-Gen. H.M. Service = Mary, eld. d. of Sir J. Duraaresq, Kt., by Mary, Mary. Jane.
j d. of . . . Le Mesurier, Governor of Alderney.
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John Le Couteur, Esq., b. 1794, Col. R.J.M., Q.A.D.C., F.R.S., V icomte of Jersey := Harriet, eld. d. of Francis Gordon-'l'liomas, oh.juv.
I Janvrin, Esq., m. 1818.
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John Le Couteur, b. 1820, o!).,/uu. John-Halkett, b. 1826, Lieut.-Col. Cold- Harriet, b. ISI 9. Mary, b. 1822. Sophia, b. 1832,
stream Guards, Order of Medjidee. uh juv.
Mary, d. of Alexander Low, Esq., of Sumner, eld. s. of
Craigievar, N. B. Lord Bishop of
Rev. John-Maunoir
mner, eld. s
.ord Bishop o
Winchester.
Ee Couteur of g*. f oj)U's iHanor f^ouse, ila f^ouguc Boete,
T what period the founder of the family of Le Couteur settled iu the island is not
known; but the fact of the name being found in the Extente of 1331, proves it to
have existed here from an early Norman period.
The first of this branch, of Avhom records are preserved iu family documents, was
a clergyman, living tern}). Elizabeth, who had the honour (no inconsiderable one in those
days) of preaching before the Queen. The original MS. of this sermon was until recently in the
possession of his descendants, together with very interesting memoirs of Jacques Le Couteur,
the Receiver of the King's Dues.
202 AN AKMORIAL OF JERSEY.
The family numbers among its members two Deans of Jersey, besides others who have
held high positions in the local Church and State.
The Very Rev. Philip Le Couteur enjoyed a wide reputation as a divine and a man of
letters; a very valuable collection of autograph letters written between the years 1659-62,
exists at the Manor, addressed to him by several eminent ladies of the Court of Louis XIV.,
the Marechalle de Turenne, the Princess de Bouillon de la Tour d'Auvergne, with many others.
These letters are couched in terms of the warmest fi-iendship, and esteem for his talents and
character.
Another eminent man was the Rev. Francis Le Couteur. He first entered Jesus College,
Oxford, wliei'e he obtained an exhibition, and afterwards was elected Fellow of Exeter College.
He resided some time at Oxford, but after taking orders, he accepted a curacy at Shrewsbury
for a fcAV years. His taste for travelling had led liim to decide upon making the tour of
Europe with a young gentleman, a design which was frustrated by the fi-acture of his thigh ; he
therefore returned to Jersey, where he was preferred to the living of S. INLartin, which he
afterwards exchanged for that of Grouville. One of the most stirrina; incidents in his life was
the share he took in rei^elling the Livasion of the French under the Baron Rullecourt in 178L
As he did not reside at S. Helier, he had not the opportunity of joining those who nobly
refused to sign the capitulation of tlie Island, but by his decided conduct and contempt for
" red-tapeism," he mainly contributed to the recovery of the battery of Platte Rocque, which
the enemy had surprised en j^assanf. Placing two guns, his own property, in position on the
l)each, he simk two of the enemy's ships, and incited the lieutenant commanding a detachment
of His jNIajesty's troops immediately to attack the battery, and disregard the articles of the
capitulation, of which notice had by this time been received. The officer remonstrated, and
alleged that his commission would be forfeited, should he act in disobedience to his commanding
officer. " Then I myself will indemnify you for its loss," said the patriot, and the battery was
taken forthwith. This conduct was not the less brave, when it is considered that had Rullecourt
held the island, his treatment of a Protestant clergyman, active in resisting his invasion, jirobably
would not have served as a model of lenity. "With him also originated the plan of the excellent
military roads, which now intersect the Island, although the chief credit of this improvement is
popularly given to Lieutenant-General George Don, who adopted and carried out J\Ir. Le
Couteur's suggestions. To him, again, is due by his scientific experiments, the merit of having
made the cider of the Island, at one time the staple article of home consumption, very superior
in point of manufacture to what it previously was; a labour to which, with other improve-
ments in local agriculture, he devoted, amid other and pressing duties, more than thirty years
of his life. He published, in 1801, a work on the subject, which he dedicated to Sir J. Sinclair;
one which has since been translated into English, and which may be met with in the early
editions of " Pitt's Survey of Worcestershire."
His son, Francis-John Le Couteur, Esq., who was liorn in 1773, received an academical
education under the Rev. John Dupre, whom he left to visit Paris, for the purpose of studying
jurisprudence. While there, he was a spectator of the horrors of the Reign of Terror, and
relying upon the fact of his being a British subject, he still remained in the French capital, even
after the reception of several warnings. He was finally, therefore, made prisoner, and confined
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
203
with other victims of Rohespierre. After experiencing continued and increasing severity, he
ultimately was exposed to the imminent peril of appearing before thfit Tribunal, the only fiat of
which was death. However, in the interim, Robespierre died, and Mr. Le Couteur was set at
liberty, but not before his constitution had received, fi-om the perils he had undergone, a shock
from which he never recovered. After his arrival in Jersey, he published a detailed and affecting
account of his sufterings, and with it some very pleasing pieces of poetry, composed during his
captivity. He subsequently became a distinguished and eloquent member of the Jersey bar,
and was, in 1817, appointed Solicitor-General of the Island, an office which he held until 1823,
when ill health compelled its resignation. As is remarked above, Mr. Le Couteur was eminent
as a poet, to which he added an extensive and critical acquaintance with English and French
literature, and to which his retentive memory led him to refer, and to quote with a taste and
pathos as rare as it was delightful. Polished and courtly in manner, and disinterested in friend-
ship, his memory is still held in veneration by those who had the privilege of knowing him.*
The family is now represented by his twin sons, Edward-George Le Couteur, Esq.,
Seigneur of S. John's Manor, La Hougue Botite, Colonel, R. J.M. ; and Francis-Joiin Le
Couteur, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel, R.J.M.
iMANOR HOUSE OF S. JOHN, LA IIOLHUE HOETE.
* Vide " Caesarea ; or, an account of the Island of Jcrsev," etc.
204 AN ARMOKIAL OF JERSEY.
The ]\Iaiior House, wliicli is approached through a long and stately avenue of firs, is built in
the Italian style, with the aimis of its present and former owners ornamenting the fa9ade, and is
])leasantly situated in the midst of the pleasure grounds, which are, in style and extent,
unequalled in Jersey. At one time it is supposed to have been ornamented on the Xortli with
a large piece of water ; for the water-gate still exists, and tradition speaks of the time when the
transit to the parish church was made in a boat. The estate probably derives its name from a
family named Boet or Boiste, which held property in the parish anterior to 1331, as appears by
the Extcnto of that year, and in which the name is feminized to Boistel. In support of this
supposition it may be remarked, that at a short distance from the house, stands a Hougue or
Tumulus, that still belongs to the estate, although the surrounding land has long been alienated,
and which is still called in the vernacular, "La Tetc du F/cf."* The Manor has descended
successively tln-ough the fomilies of De Barentine, Lempriere, Journeaulx, Le Febvre, De
Carteret of Trinity, and Le Maistre, to its present possessor, as the annexed Pedigree will
show.f
* Thesci Hougues, Tumuli, Mottes, or Mounds, from tlu'ir number, formed at one time an important feature in Jersey
landscape. Tliey have been attributed to a Celtic perioil, but tbey more probably belong to a later age. and may have
been used to mark the spot of family sepulture, in tlie days when private chapels were the only religious edifices in
the island. Although Poingdcstre, in his MS. history of Jersey, mistakes them for SpecuUe, or watch-hills (erections
whicli tlie undulating surface of the island renders unnecessary), they are now, by common consent, classed, like the
Pyramids of Egj-pt, the Cairns of Scotland, the Barrows of England, and the funeral mounds existing in almost every
known portion of the globe, among sepulchral remains. That one, so celebrated as La Ilougue 'Die, or La Hougue
Hamhie, has, by tradition, a distinct monumental cause assigned for its construction {vide p. 58) ; and very probably,
\vere these mounds carefully examined, traces of their purpose might be found in the shape of stone coffins, images,
and the like. That the practice of burying images, etc., was not unknown in Jersey in the earlier days of Christianity,
is proved by the following extract from a paper read before the Philosophical Society, by J. Ward, in 1748: — " Li
pulling down a very old house in Jersey, in 1748, a small brass image was found deposited in a hollow of the wall,
near the foundation. It is said to have represented St. Roc ; it h<ld a Ixdl in its hand, and was supported on a
jiedestal." (Vide Additional MSS., Brit. Mus., C230.) — These erections are also sometimes termed Mottes, which, as the
learned Le Boeuf remarks, is their generic appellation in France. A small semi-isolated, verdure-capped rock, on the
south-east coast of the island, is designated La Motte, and has given its name to one of the suburbs of S. Helier. (For
details of these interesting structures, vide Additional MSS., Brit. Mus., Plut. clxxxiv. a. ; Sir R. Colt Hoare's Tumuli
il'iltunses ; Dr. Duncan Macpherson's Antiquities of Kertch ; Hall's Ireland, Sec, &c.)
t iSoll of tijc ^ctguciics of ^. 3)oIju'g iBnnor, ita fcoiigtic Jjoctr.
Philip De Barentine in 1300.
Raoul
Gu
Drouet Lempriere in 1397, when the estates of De Barentine being divided between himself and Guille Pavn. the
Manor was apportioned to the former.
Raoul Lempriere 1 ■ • ,i ■ ,„.„
ri -11 T) r lomtly in 13(i7.
Guille Pavn J
John Lempriere in 1434.
AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 205
Arms (as borne by Edward-George Le Couteub, Esq.): Argent, ■ three owls, sable:
Quartering : Argent, three trefoils, sable, a crescent for difference, for Payn : Sable, a lion,
rampant, argent, a crescent for difference, for Stvret: Argent, a chevron, giiles ; on a chief,
azure, three estoiles, or, a mullet for difference, for Le Maistre : Gules, foiu' fusils, conjoined in
fesse, argent, a martlet for difference, for De Carteret : Gules, four fusils, conjoined in fesse,
argent, for D'Albini : Sable, two shin-bones, in saltire, argent, the dexter surmounted of the
Thomas Lempriere in 14C0.
Nicholas JourneaiJx, Jurat, R.C., 1549.
Thomas Lempriere in 1300.
CoUette, d. of John Dumaresq, Seig. of Samares.
Thomas Lempriere in 1550 = CoUette, d. of Michael Larbalestier. j
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Thomasse Lempriere, d. and h., m. circa 1571 = Clement Joumeaulx, Lieut.- John.
I Bailly of Jersey. =
Abraham Journeauls, o.s.p., sold the Manor (vide Acts of the Royal CoUette Joumeaulx, = Germain Le Febvre.
Court) to John Le Feb^Te, eldest son of Germain Le Febvre, by CoUette only d. and h.
Joumeaulx, his wife, who was also his first cousin.
John Le Febvre, Seig. of S. John. := Jane d. of . . . Payn. Mary = John Payn, Jurat, R.C. Judith.
I I Francis De Carteret,
Jane Le Febvre, eld. d. and co.-h. = Joshua De Carteret, A daughter. A daughter Seig. of La Hague.
of Trinity.
John Dumaresq. Joshua Benest.
Abraham De Carteret, Seig. = Ann, d. of Amice De Carteret, Jane. Elizabeth.
of S. John, b. 1G50.
Seig. of Trinity.
Dean Clement Le Couteur. John De Carteret, Seig.
of V. de H.
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Edward De Carteret, ^ Esther, d. of Dean Abraham, Ann, h. to her brother, Lady of S. John. Elizabeth.
Seig. of S. John, Clement Le Cou- ob.juv.
o.s.p. ■ teur. John Le Maistre, of Alva, S. Peter.
John Le Maistre, oh. innupt. Edward Le Maistre = Mary, d. of . . . De Rue.
Edward Le Maistre, became Seig. of S. John at the = Florence, d. of . . . Patriarche. John, o.s.p. Ann = . . . Dupre.
demise of his grandmother, Ann Le JIaistre. I
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Florence Le Maistre, eld. d. and co.-h., b. 1746 = George Syvret. Ann, b. 1749.
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Elizabeth Syvret, only d. and h.=: Francis- John Le Couteur, Esq., of Les Pres, Grouville.
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Edward-George Le Couteur, Esq., became Seig. of S. John on the death of bis Francis-John. Philip.
great-grandfather, Edward Le Maistre, Esq,
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206
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
sinister, for Newton : Azure, three lions, rampant, or ; a bordure, saljle, for De Caux : Argent, a
saltire, gules, between four fleurs-de-lis, azure, for Harleston: Gules, two bars, ermine; in
chief, three martlets, or, for Sarre: Gules, four fusils, conjoined in fesse, argent; in base an
annulet, or, for difference, for De Carteret : Gules, three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for
diff'erence, for Lempriere: Azui-e, nine billets, or, for De S. Martin: Gules, three escallops,
or, a label of three points, argent, in chief, for Le Febvre : Azure, a lobster, in fesse, or, for
.louRNEAULX: and, Gules, three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for diff'erence, for Lempriere.
Impaling : Sable, on a bend, argent, three lozenges of the field, for Carrington.
Crest : On an ivy wreath, erect, or, an owl, sable.
Mottoes: La Vita il fin e'l di loda la sera; (over the Crest) Boui virtutis amore.
^arUigrce of Se Coutfur, of J', 3oI)n*s! iiftauor, 3la ?i}oii5i!e Mkt,
Bernabbt Lb Couteor = Marion, d. of John, anJ sister of Simon Sarre.
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John Le Couteur = Peryneile, d. of John Hue, of S. Mary.
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Philip Le Couteur = Collette, d. of Richard De Carteret, Seig.of V. de H.
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Collette = Peter Guille.
Michael.
Rose.
Catherine.
John Le Couteur = Priscilla, d. of Ed. Messervy,
Solicitor-General of Jersey.
Nicholas, ancestor of the branches of Le Couteur, of
S. Mary, and of Hamptonne, and supposed source of
the branch of Le Couteur, of Belle-Vue.
Jacquette =^ John Pipon.
Philip Le Couteur. This (the
eldest) branch became ex-
tinct in the fourth genera-
tion from this Philip.
Jacques, Receiver of the King's
Revenues in Jersey.
■■ Esther, d. of . . . Botterel.
Jane.
Laurence
Le Couteur
Mary.
Edward
Journeaulx.
I
Sarah.
John
Luce.
I
Joshua Le Couteur,
Constable of Trinity,
Capt. R.J.M., oh.
1682.
Mary-Rachel, d. of . . .
Romeril, of S. Trinity.
I
The Very Rev. Philip,
Rector of S. Martin,
Dean of Jersey, oh.
1671.
Genevieve, d. of Maxi-
milian De L'Anele.
Rev. Francis, M.A.,
Rector of S. Helier.
Sarah, d. of ... Dumaresq.
T
Joshua Le Couteur, Jun.
Jane.
Margaret, d. of the Rev. Fran- Rev. Francis Le
CIS Le Couteur, Rector of S. Couteur, Rect.
Martin. of S. Martin.
Jane Le Couteur, only d. and h.
Rev. F. Le Couteur, Jun., Rec-
tor of S. Martin.
I
The Very Rev. Clement,
M.A., Rector of S. John,
Dean of Jersey.
Jane, d. of Joshua De
Carteret, Seig. of S. John,
La Hougue BoOte.
I
I
Elizabeth.
1 . . . . Le Montais.
2. Elias Hue.
I
Aaron Le
Couteur.
o.s.p.
I I
Philip.
Joshua
o.s.p.
Jane.
Chas. De Car-
teret, Jurat,
R.C.
I
Elizabeth.
Ann.
I
Esther.
Charles De Car- Amice DeCar- 1. JoshuaLempriere.
teret, Seig. of teret, Seig. of
Trinity, 1683. V. de B. 2. Ed. De Carteret,
Seig. of S. John,
La Hougue Boete.
Rev. Francis Le Couteur,
Sen., Rector of S. Martin.
John.
Philip, d.a
prisoner of
war in
France.
Sarah.
Genevieve.
Martha.
Esther. Mary.
Margaret.
J. Le Cou-
teur.
Elizabeth.
Peter
Anthoine.
N. Nicolle.
Thos. Syvret.
Francis J. Poingdestre.
Luce.
David De
Quetteville.
Jane, d. of Joshua Le Cou-
teur, Sen.
Jiliijii €t €mmtxM^^^^'
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
207
Rev. Francis Lc Couteur, M.A., Jun., John = Elizabeth, d. and h. of Francis Payn, of
Rector of S. Martin.
I
Philip, b. 1695.
James, b. 1695.
Jane, only d. and h. of Joshua Le Cou-
teur, Jun.
Grouville, and h. of her niece, Jane, wife of
the Rev. . . . Jones, M.A., and only d. and Mary, d. of Cabot.
h.of the Very Rev. F. Payn, Dean of Jersey.
Francis Le Couteur,
b. 1723, ob. innupt.
I
Francis.
I
Elizabeth.
Charles De Carteret,
Seig. of Trinity.
j Rev. Francis Le Couteur, Rector successively of S.
Jane. Martin and Grouville, oh. 1808.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Perochon.
T
Jane.
Francis'John Le Cou- = Elizabeth, only d. and h. of James = Bennett, d. of . . . Wood. Elizabeth = Chas. Le Hardy, Col., K.J. M.
teur, Solicitor-General of I George Syvret, Esq. j
Jersey, b. 1773, d. 1824. I I
I I ■
James Le Couteur. = Jane-Sippings, d. of . .
Glandfield, co. Kent.
I I
James-Francis.
George-James.
ob.
I
Francis,
ob.
I I I
Emily-Bennett.
Caroline.
Elizabeth-Mary.
I I I I I I II
James- Wood Le Couteur. Francis, ob. Harcombe-Caff. Emily-Ann. Mary-Jane. Caroline-Elizabeth. Ellen-Sophia. Ann-Edith.
^ ^ I
Edward-George Le Couteur, Esq., Seig. of S. John, } twins S Francis-George, Lieut. -Colonel, R.J. M. Philip, Capt.
La Hougue Boete, Colonel R.J.M. — ■ 31stRegt.,d.
Frances, 6th d. of Sir C.-Edraund Carrington, Kt. in India.
Elizabeth-Maria, 2nd d. of Sir C. -Edmund Car- =
rington, Kt., and of Paulina Belli, his wife. 1
I
Paulina-Mary-Isabelle Le Couteur.
I I
Ada-Paulina-Frances Le Couteur. Florence-Elizabeth-Mary.
ile Cromer.
HIS is one of the numerous families wliich owes its settlement in the island to the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. It is represented by John Le Cronier,
Esq., M.D.
Arms (as borne by John Le Cronier, Esq.) : Or, a chevron, azure, between three mullets
of seven points, sable. Impaling : Argent, three bai's, wavy, azure, for Browning.
Crest : A mastiff, ppr.
Motto : Je garde ma foy.
^Srtiigier of Sc Cronier.
Pierre Le Cronier = Susanne, d. of . . . Barbey.
I I II
George Le Cronier, b. 1693. 1. Jane, d. of . ..Stroud, d. 1731. = Philip = 2. Marv,d. of George Messervy. Susan, b. 1695. Abigail, b. 1699.
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A B
DD 2
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Philip Le Cronier, b. 1727. Peter = Elizabeth, d. of George Susan. Thomas Le Cronier, b. 1734. George, b. 1735.
I ...Anbin.
Jane, d. of . .. Le Geyt, j j
d.l783. Peter Le Cronier. b. 1753. Elizabeth, b. 1757.
I II I I I I I I I I
Philip Le = Elizabeth, d. of Peter. George, b. 1766. Joseph, John, Ehzabeth. Susan. Margaret. Anne. Mary. Jane.
Cronier.
Joshua Le
Quesne
b. 1769. b. 1772.
I Margaret, d. of
Elizabeth Le John Lang4e.
Cronier, only d. & h.
James John Du . . . Sauvage. Philip James John
Elizabeth Le Gallie. Camonun. Dolbel. Jolin. Nicolle.
Touzel.
Ph. Thoreau.
I II II
Philip-Joshua Peter, b. 1783. John, b. 1800.
Le Cronier, — —
b. 1782. Peter, b. 1786. Elizabeth, b. 1785.
Elizabeth-Susan Le Cronier.
George Le Cronier. = Susan, d. of John Le Brocq.
John, b. 1800.
Philip.
I
Margaret.
Jane, d. of Francis Charlotte-Helen, d. Francis
De Ste. Croix. of T. B. Campbell. Anquetil.
John Le Cronier.
George-Francis.
Margaret.
I
Jane. = John La Cloche.
I
Charlotte-Helen-Jane-Campbell Le Cronier.
Caroline-Maria-Blayney-Campbell.
Thnraasine-Isabella-Mary-Campbell.
I
I
John Le Cronier, Esq., M.D.
George-Lewis.
Susannah.
Jane.
Harriet-Alice.
Ann-Elizabeth.
Sarah, d. of William-
Hardwick Browning.
Laura, d. of . . . Seer.
T
James
Browning.
William-Locke
Lancaster.
George
Le Cronier.
1
Annie-Laura.
Hardwick Le Cronier.
Ernest.
I
Janette.
ile jFeubre.
OTHING," says de la Chesnaye des Bois, iu his great aiid comprehensive '•'■ Armorial
of France" " is more common than the name of Le Fevre, in the various provinces
of the Kingdom. That of Normandy furnishes several, for besides others, are
chronicled the names, pedigrees, and arms of Le Fevre of Argentan, Valognes,
Carentan, and Rouen."
The name is Latinized Faher, i.e., Smith; and it seems to answer, by its frequency in
France, to our own most familiar English patronymic.
In Jersey, this name occurs from a vciy early period, being mentioned in official
instruments of the XIIL century. A liranch of the femily appears to have settled at
Southampton, in the XVIL century, John Le Feyvre, of that town, then being the
representative of this section.
Bv »'/ii>/n dux p/tUe is presfnled h? f/ie Tl hr/c.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 209
The name has, at various periods, and in various localities, been spelt Faber, Febure,
Febvre, Feubvre, Feyvre, and so on, as far as the ingenious rules of permutation and
combination can go. In Jersey, the same peculiarity of accent that has corrupted Morant
into Mourant, Coutance into Coutanche, Ranulfus into Renouf, etc., has rendered its most usual
orthography, Le Feuvre.
Of the various insular families of this name, one for some centuries located in the parish
of S. Peter, is the most important. It numbers among its members a Jurat of the Royal
Court, temjj. Cromwell. The Rev. George Le Fevre belongs also to this family. He passed
his academical career at Pembroke College, Oxford, with distinction, and subsequently
performed the duties of Chaplain to the British Embassy at Paris, for many years. Here, his
self-denying labours, and benevolejice, endeared him to a large cii'cle of our countrymen
resident in or visiting the French capital. His son, Sir George- WiUiam Le Fevre, chiefly
resided on the continent, and filled, for fifteen years, the post of Physician to the British
Embassy at S. Petersburgh. On his return to England, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, and received the honour of knighthood. Of his wanderings in Europe,
he has left an interesting and clever souvenir in his " Diary of a Travelling Physician," to whicii
literary labour he added others of a professional nature. Obituary notices of Sir G. W. Le
Fevre appear in the various medical serials of 1846. His brother, Dr. Henry-Belfield Le
Fevre, for some time practised in Paris, where he was well known in literary and scientific
circles, and is the author of several valuable communications to the Academy of Sciences of
that city.
In Jersey, the family is represented by Philip Le Feuvre, Esq., of La Hougue, and by
George-William Le Feuvre, Esq., of Les Niesmes, both in the parish of S. Peter. In
England, by Henry-Belfield Le Fevre, Esq., of Exeter. And in America, by the Rev.
Clement- Fall Le Fevre, of Hazlewood, Mil wanker, Wisconsin, U.S.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Philip- Alfred Le Feuvre, M.A.): Argent, a chevrou,
gules, between three mullets, pierced, sable ; * a label of three points, for difference.
Quartering : Sable, on a chief, indented, argent, three martlets of the field, for Le Bas : Or, a
gonfalon of three pendants, gules, fringed vert, for D' Auvergne : Per fesse argent and or ; in
chief a dexter hand issuant, ppr., cuffed of the second; in base a mullet of the first, for
PoiNGDESTRE : Argent, a lion, rampant, sable, armed and langued, gules, for Balleine : Sable,
a chevron between three eagles, displayed, argent ; on a chief, or, a rose between two fleui's-de-
lis, gules, for Remon : and, Azure, a chevron between three escallops, or, for Le Miere.
Crest : A triple-eared stem of corn, ppr.
* Chevrons and mullets, with variations of tincture and number, form the staple charges in the arms of the families
of Le Fevre of all parts of France. Of these, several exist, or have existed, in Normandy, Artois, and the Boulonnais.
Of the last-named family, the famous Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, the Luther of France, was a member, and is claimed as
coming from the same source as the Le Feuvres of Jersey.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
petiigm of Se #nibre of ^. ^3ftfr.
Phimp Le Fedvre = Susan, d. of . . . D'Auvergne.
I
Peter Le Feuvre, m. IG45. = Frances, d. of . . . Le Brun.
Simon Le Feuvre, b. 1G52, d. 1735. = Susan, d. of . . . Mauger.
I
Philip Le Feuvre = Jane, d. of . . . Carrel.
Peter Le Feuvre, b. 1724, d. 1781. = Mary, d. of Nicholas Poin^destre.
Peter Le Feuvre,
b. 17fi2, oli.s.p.
I
Philip, b. 17G4, d. 1855.
Ann, only d. and h. of
Nicholas Le Bas,
R.J.M.A. of Les
Niesmes.
T
Rev. George [Le Fevre], M.A., Oxon, b. 1771, d. 1848. Jane, b. 1759.
Phcebe, d. of William Bayley, of Tring, co. Herts., Sur- W. Le Brocq.
peon, heir of her maternal uncle, the Rev. H. Belfield,
Lord of the Manors of Studham and Barworth. *
Sir George-William Le Fevre, Kt., M.D., b. 1796. d. 184G.
Frederika, d. of Col. Fraser, H.E.LC.S.
Four Children, all ob.juv.
Rev. Clement-Fall,
of Wisconsin, U.S.
Mary, d. uf . . . Clowes.
Henry-Belfield, M.D.
Anastasia, d. of . . . Reid.
I I I
Annie.
Frances.
Emma.
o.s.p.
I
George Le Fevre, Esq.
Emma, d. of Lieut. -Governor
Beale, of Wisconsin.
Henry-Belfield Le Fevre.
I
Francis.
I
William.
I
Edward.
Mary.
Ellen-R b. at
Sherbrook, Canada, 1823.
John-C. Coleman, of
Montreal.
1. Ann-Elizabeth, only d. = Philip Le Feuvre, Esq., of La Hougue, = 2. Jane, d. of . . .Guille, and
and h. of Francis Balleine, | b. 1795. Widow of the Rev. Wm. Le
b. 1804, d. 1848. | Lievre, B.A., o.s.p_
George-William = Jane, d. of John
of Les Niesmes, | Le Brocq, of La
b. 1801. I Fontaine.
I
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George-William Le Feuvre, Esq., m. 1858 ^ Helen-Margaret, youngest d. of Ph. Le
Capt. R.J.M.A. Gallais, Jurat, R.C.
Henry-John,
Lieut. R.J.M.A.
The Rev. Philip-Alfred Le Feuvre,
M.A., Wadham College, Oxford.
II II II
Charles-William, oh. Charles-William. Alfred-George, oh.
Francis- Clement.
William- Henry. George-Edward.
Ann-Eliza. Louisa-Maria.
Ellen-Mary. Jane-Emily.
%.t Gallais,
HIS family, which is supposed to have migrated hither from Britany, has been
naturalized in the island from a very remote period.
It is divided into sevei'al branches, which, although the connection between
them is not precisely ascertained, are universally allowed to derive from one com-
luou source. One of the.se is represented by Matthew Le Gallais, Esq., Seigneur of Surville.
• The family of Belfield, of Hertfordshire, is now extinct, and was a junior scion of that of Belfield, of Clegge-in-Rochdale, co. Lancaster.
It was one of much consideration in the former county, where it possessed the manors of Studham and Barworth. as aforesaid. Its pedigree
exists at the College of Arms, and is given at length in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. i., p. 497. By the nmrri,igc of Ellen Belfield, the
eventual heiress of her family, with VVilliam Bayley, Esq., of Tring, its representation became vested in her descendants, of whom three (her
daughters Eleanor, Harriet, and PhiEbi) married, curiously enough, into as many Jersey lamilies — those of Dupre, Fade, and Le Fevre.
Arms of Bklfiulo, of Studham : Krmine, a mullet, gules, on a chief of the last, a label of five points, argent.
Crest: A demi tiger, argent, armed and tufted, or, pierced through the body with the binKeu stalf of a Hag, the latter hanging between
his fore paws, and party per fesse, argent and azure.
(I)att(|em h? (|a((aiCK (\cqinrp.
p E I C rJ E U l\ OF ^Uf^\/lLLE.
£v whom. tJus PltzM IS presented^ to the. Work
FlIJLIF M miaM^^. IStMlIE.
fly n7wni tlxi-sJIodt is presented U'tiu v,;
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
211
Another, now settled at La Moye, in the parish of S. Brelade, formerly possessed an estate
at Rouge Bouillon, in the parish of S. Helier ; an estate which, as stated by the two Extenies, or
Royal Rent Rolls of the XVIIth century, owed to the Crown the somewhat fanciful dues of two
cabots of wheat rent, two capons, two hens, and fourteen eggs. This branch is represented by
Philip Le Gallais, Esq., Jurat of the Royal Court, and Stipendiary Magistrate of the Police Court
A third is represented by Mr. John Le Gallais, sou of Nicholas Le Gallais, who, through
his mother, Elizabeth, daughter and eventual heiress of Thomas De Gruchy, of S. Trinity,
represents also a branch of that family.*
Arms (as boi-ne by Matthew Le Gallais, Esq. ) : Gules, a crescent, between six roses, or,
three in chief and three in base. Quartering : Argent, three trefoils, sable, for Payn : Gules,
four fusils, conjoined, in fesse, argent ; a crescent, in base, for difference, for De Carteret : and.
Per fesse, argent and or; in chief, a dexter hand, clenched, ppr., cuffed of the second; in ba.sf,
a mullet of the first, for Poingdestre. Impaling : Azure, three crescents, or, for Nicolle.
Crest : A cock, statant, ppr., the dexter foot uplifted.
Motto : Jamais chancelant.
Arms (as borne by Philip Le Gallais, Esq.) : Same Arms, Crest, and Motto. Impaling
Or, on a chief, embattled, sable, three mullets, argent, a crescent for difference, for Amy.
Arms (as borne by John Le Gallais, Gent.): Same Arms and Crest. Quartering: Or,
fi-etty azure, for De Gruchy.
Motto : Semper Fidelis.
ISeliigrec of %t aallai's of turbine, anti of Sa iHoye*
Ec (SaOatS of ^urfaillc.
Symon Le Gales, living 1400.
Ec (SallaW of Jta iHotir.
Fkancis Le Galles.
I
John Le Gales.
Guiile, purchased the fief
des Hamonets, in 1475.
I
Symon Le Gailes.
T
I
Edmond.
John Le
Galles.
I
Edmond.
John Le Galles.
A daughter.
Colin Langre.
Syre Mathew, pbr.
Jeanette, d. of . . . Langlois.
John Le Gallais, mentioned in the Extente of 1607, in mn-
nection with his property at Rouge Bouillon.
Margaret, d. of Henry Le Cras.
Peter Le Gallez,
m. 1G26.
Sarah, d. of John
Le Febvre.
I 1
Elias.
John.
I I I
Mary.
I
Mabel.
Elizabeth. Margaret.
Thomasse. Collette.
* The brother of Elizabeth De Gruchy, another Thomas, was formally recognised by Marshal Grouchy, on his visit
to Jersey, as a descendant of the De Grouchy family, a branch of which, many centuries since, settled in the island.
Among other tokens of countenance and favour bestowed by the Marshal on his newly-discovered kinsman, were a long
correspondence, couched in most friendly terms ; portraits of himself and wife ; and a gold seal, bearing the arms of the
family. The annexed fac-simile of the signature of that great general is full of interest.
212
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
I
John Le Gall^s.
Thomvne.
Margaret, Dame de la Rondiole, youngest d. &
co.-h. of Philip Payn.Seig. of Samares, and of
Thomasse, his wife, d. and eventual heiress of
Regnault De Carteret, Seig. of Longuevilie.
Hugh Le Bastard.
Francis Le Gallays, ni. 1650, d. 1663.
Elizabeth, d. of Ph. Vivian, of S. Sa-
viour, mentioned in the Entente of
1668. in connection with her husband's
property at Rouge Boudlon.
I
1. Jane, d. of John = Francis Le Gallais, = 2. Judith, d. of
Le Sueur. I m. 1679, d. 1712 I Jonas Roraeril.
Edmond Le Gallt's.
Symone, d. of Noel De Ste. Croix.
Katherine.
Nicholas Le Sebirel.
Mary.
Peter Le Couteur.
Francis Le Gal- Ann.
lais, b. 1689.
I
I
Jane. Rachel.
Edmond Le Gallays,
Seig. of the fief des
Hamonets.
Cullette, d. of ...
Le Geyt.
Hugh, Seig. of the = Margaret, d.
fief de Hfirupe. | of Matthew
I Le Montais.
I
Katherine,
Dame de la
Rondiole.
I III
John Le Gallais, b. 1693, m. 1722. Francis.
Jane, d. of John Alexandre.
I i
Peter Le Gallays. No6.
I
Jane.
Helier Mahault.
Edward.
I Philip.
Philip Le Gallais, b. 1726.
Susan.
Margaret.
Ann.
John LeGeyt.
I
Matthew Le Gallays.
I
John.
Jane.
Mary, d. of Daniel Simon.
I
1. Esther, d. of John De Carteret,
Seig. of V. de H., and relict of
Abraham Poulett, m. 1611.
2. Katherine, d. of Guille Martel.
T
Nicholas Benest.
Philip Le Gallais, Esq.,
Jurat R.C., b. 1794.
Mary.
I
Matthew Le Gallays.
Edmond.
Mary-Margaret, d. of
Ph. Amy.
Francis Godfray, Greffier, R.C.
Edmond Le Gallais.
Richarde, d. of He-
lier Le Poitevin-dit-
Le Roulx.
I
Helier.
I
Elizabeth.
I John LeGeyt.
John Le Gallais.
John Le Gallais.
Ann.
Ph. Bisson.
Jane.
Mary.
Moses Luce.
I
Philip Le
Gallais
o.s.p.
Alfred, Capt., H.M.
Indian Array.
Mary- Anna-Frances,
d. of Richard Brounc-
ker, of Boveridge, co.
Somerset, d. 1860.
Matthew Le Gallais.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Bisson.
I
Edmond.
Collette.
Edmund, C.E.
Leonie.d.ofthe
lateChas.Metz,
President of the
Legislative As-
sembly, Grand
Duchy of Lux-
emburg.
I I I
Albert. Mary-Ann.
Jane-
Eliza.
Matilda-
Henrietta.
i \ i I I I
Matthew Le Gallais. Edmond. John. Richarde. Jane, Esther.
Seig. of the fief Surville. = o-«-P
I Sarah, d. of Amice Nor-
Catherine, d. of John | . .. Bailhache. man.
1745. Moses De
Ste. Croix.
Charles, Wm.-Vesconte
R.E.,d. Le Quesne,
at Ja- Capt. R.J.M.
maica.
I
Helen-Mar-
garet.
John-Wm. G.-W. Le
Godfray, Feuvre of
Capt. R J, A. Les Niesmes.
Capt. R.J. A.
Le Cras.
Edmond Le Gallais.
Abraham.
Matthew Le Gallais,
Seig. of Surville.
John.
Philip.
Elizabeth, d. of John Poingdestre.
T
Matthew Le Gallais, Seig. of Surville.
I
Elizabeth.
Charles De Ste.
Croix.
Mary, d. of Abraham Poingdestre.
T
I
Matthew Le Gallais, Seig. of Surville.
Mary, d. and co.-h. of Philip Poingdestre.
I
John.
Mary.
Magdalen, d. of . . . Laurens.
I
Philip Ahier.
Matthew Le Gallais.
. . d. of . . . Richardson.
Mary-Ann.
Charles Renouf.
•7s;
h\\\m\ ijm[\[' Lr (mit, t . B.
/?j- K'^'W //-•/.V /"/./A' /.J- Prr.^-r/rftvl/^' fkr 11' //
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
213
Matthew Le Gallais, Esq., Seig. of Surville.
Jane, d. of John Nicollc.
John = Elizabeth, only d. and h. of Philip
Gibaut, Constable of S. John.
Mary.
Elizabeth.
John Laurens. J. Le Bran.
Edmund-Matthew
Le Gallais.
I I III I
John Le Gallais. Emma. Lydia. Alice. Elise. Mary-Wright.
I I
Johii-NicoIIe.
Alfred-John.
I I
John-Matthew.
James-Poinsrdestre.
Jane-Noel. Eliza-Gibaut.
I
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Emma-Jane. Adela-Eliza.
I
Rachel.
P. Bichard.
Victoria.
Maria-Louisa.
%t (Bt^t
ONCLUSIVE evidence of the antiquity of tliis family exists by the mention of its
name in the Extente of 1331. It appears also in various official documents of the
Island, showing that its ownei's held positions of trust and emolument, at different
periods, in their native island.
Philip Le Geyt, Esq., Jurat of the Eoyal Court, was one of those brave and devoted men,
who, forsaking property and em'iiloyment in the service of their exiled and then powerless king,
Charles II., retired in defence of his crown to one of the last strongholds left him in all his
dominions — Elizabeth Castle. His son, the eminent legal commentator, speaking of this event,
says, " I can add, upon good authority, that my late father retired to Elizabeth Castle in the
King's service, when the island was captured in 1651 by the Parliamentary forces of England;
that, during the siege of the Castle, my father's residence was sacked, thus involving the loss of
all his furniture ; and further, that, by the articles of the reduction of the Castle, he was obliged
to pay two years' value of his income."
His son, Philip Le Geyt, Esq., was born in 1636, and is well and deservedly known for his
able comments upon the Laws and Customs of Jersey; indeed their value is so justly
appreciated, that, in 1846, they were published at the expense of the States of the Island.
His biography, written by M. Sorsoleil, was elegantly translated by Dr. Shebbeare, and
prefaces the second volume of his critical and learned History of Jersey.* He was eventually
* Dr. John Shebbeare, well known in Jersey as the author of the work mentioned above, was born in 1710, at
Shebbeare-Towne, in the parish of Abbotsham, Devon. He studied physic, and took the degree of M.D. at Paris, in
1752. He married Susannah Cornish, by whom he had two children, the Rev. John Shebbeare, Rector of Horndon,
Essex — who died without i.ssue — and Elizabeth, the wife of Capt. Charles Le Geyt, H.JNI. C3rd Regt. (in which he fought
at the battle of Jlinden). It was in this island, while on a visit to his daughter, that its history was written by him.
The family, which has been settled for centuries in Devonshire, in which exist a parish and hundred of the name, claims
descent from the aucient Earls of Bridgcwater, and from Bishop Hooper, the Martyr. Dr. Shebbeare was chiefly known
as a political writer, and commenced his labours in that direction with a novel called " The JMan-iage Act," which, from
its attacks on the Ministry, procured his imprisonment. In the follov\-ing year, 1755, he published his " Practice of
Phvsic," in two volumes. In the same year, appeared the best of his performances, " Letters on the English Nation, by
Battista Angeloni, a Jesuit," in two volumes. But what rendered him the most popular, was a series of " Letters to the
People of England," begun in 1755, and continued to 1758. They were so eagerly read by the people, and so obnoxious
to the men in power, that on the publication of the Third Letter, in 1756, warrants were issued for the arrest of both
author and publisher ; this, however, came to nothing until January, 1758, when, by virtue of a warrant from the
Secretary of State, all copies of a Seventh Letter were seized at the printer's, and a prosecution commenced against the
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214 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
sworn Lieutenant-Bailly of the island, a post which he filled with equal honour and dignity.
He was, says his biographer, "a man of the ancient stamp of virtue; uniform in his different
phases of life, and always equal to himself. In him, knowledge, politeness, and probity, were
the inseparable companions of the love of religion and zeal for justice." He died on the 31st
of January, 1716, aged eighty.
Philip Le Geyt, Esq., the nephew of the preceding, was, shortly after his uncle's death,
appointed Lieutenant-Bailly of the island.
The grand-nephew of the first Lieutenant-Bailly, Philip Le Geyt, and grandson of the last-
named — Robert Le Geyt, Esq., was for some years Wood-reeve to the Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury, aud was first-cousin of the late Vice-Admiral Philip D'Auvergne, Prince of
Bouillon. He married Jane, daughter of the Rev. William Burch, Rector of S. Mary, Dover,
and of Mongeham, Kent.
His son, Vice-Admiral George Le Geyt, C.B., is the present representative of the
family. He married, in 1812, Rose-Marie, daughter of the late Rear- Admiral Heatli (two of
whose brothers, and their brother-in-law, Dr. Drury, were successively Head JNListers of Eton
and Harrow, during the interesting period of the education there of Lord Byron, Sir Robert
Peel, and other celebrated characters), and by whom he has had issue eleven children. An
ancestor of the mother of Admiral Le Geyt, whose name was Dejovas, came over as a volunteer
with William HL, was with him in all his battles, and was wounded at the battle of the Boyne.*
author. Tried, and found guilty, the Doctor received sentence to pay a fine of £5, to stand in the pillory at Charing
("ross, December 5th, to be confined three years, and to give security for his good behaviour. lie duly stood in the pillory,
amidst an immense concourse of people, none attempting to injure him, and, lieing a friend of Mr. Beardmore, the Under
Sherifl", was permitted to stand unconfined, attended by a servant in livery, holding an nmbrella over him. Beardmore,
for this courtesy, was fined ,£50, and imprisoned for two months. During Shebbeare's term of imprisonment, which
lasted the full time of the sentence, and during which he was treated with much severity, he pxiblished projjosals for a
" History of England," which never appeared. Soon after his release, he received a pension of dE200, procured from the
King by Sir -John Philips. About the same time. Dr. Johnson (his friend, and whose names are frequently associated)
was pensioned in the same sum, upon ^vhich a wag observed, that the King had pensioned a He-Hear and a S/(e-Bear.
An acquaintance says, " In attacking his opponents he was pointed and severe, and his warmth of temper sometimes
hurried him beyond the bounds of liberal argumentation. He was no inconsiderable proficient in the use of irony and
ridicule ; his style was flowing, animated, and nervous, his diction equally spirited and forcible. My knowledge of the
Doctor for a series of years, authorises me to assert that in the several duties of father, husband, brother, relation, and
master, his behaviour was worthy of imitation." After writing several other works than those mentioned above, he died
at his residence, in Eaton Street, Pimlico, in August 1788, at the ripe age of 78. The family is represented in England
by Charles-Joiin SiiEBisEARE, EsQ., Barristcr-at-Law, of Surbiton Hill, Kingston, Surrey.
Arms of Sheubeare : Vaire, azure and argent; a chief, or ; over all, on a bend argent, three mullets, sable.
Crest : A lion, rampant, ppr., holding, in the dexter gaml>, a laurel wreath.
* The following record of the gallant Admiral's services is extracted from O'Bynie's Naval Biography : — " He
entered the Navy in March, 1791, on board the ' Colossus,' 7-1', Capt. Henry Harvey, lying at Spithead. Being-
discharged in the following August, he next, in March, 1792, joined the 'Hussar,' 28, Capt. Rupert George, and sailed
for the Halifax Station, where he assisted at the capture of two privateers, ' Republicaine ' and ' Jou-jou.' On the former
of those vessels being brought into the Service, and named the ' Prince Fjdward,' and the command given to Lieut. .John-
<T. Savillc, Mr. Le Geyt was appointed master's mate, and in that capacity witnessed, on the 7th of i\Iay, 1795, the
cajiture, by a force \inder the orders of Capt. the Hon. Alexander Cochrane, of two French ships, ' La Prevoyantc,' of 24,
and ' La liaison,' of 18 guns. After their surrender, he went on board ' La Prevoyante,' aud aided in fitting lier with jury
masts. That frigate being subsequently added to the British Navy, Mr. Le Geyt continued in her, under the command
of Capt. John P. Beresford, \inlil the spring of 179(i ; and was twice sent into port in charge of detained vessels. Ho
then removed to the ' Resolution,' 74-, bearing the flag of Yice-Adniiral George Jlurray, under whom be was further
present, 28th August, 1790, at the captiire of the French frigate ' Elisabeth.' On the 5lh of the following November, Jlr.
Bv whmi this Plate uprtsented, tc tkr- wcrk
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Arms (as borne by Vice- Admiral George Le Geyt, C.B.) : Ermine, a lion, rampant, gules.
Impaling: Per chevron, sable and argent; in chief, two mullets of the second, in base a
heathcock, ppr., for Heath.
Crest : A lion's head, couped, ppr.
Motto : Quo fata vocant.
HIS name shares the antiquity common to all cognomens derived from personal
accessories, and occurs very early in the annals of the Channel Islands. It
frequently appears in the official Records of Guernsey of the XIII. century. In
1204, John Le Gros was a Jurat of the Royal Court of that island; and in 1248,
Le Geyt was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the ' Rover,' 16, Capt. George Irvine, in which vessel (being confirmed to
her the 27th of January, 1797) he remained (assisting intermediately at the taking of ' Le Jean Bart,' a noted privateer)
until wrecked in a fog in the Gulf of S. Lawrence, in August, 1798. On his return, immediately afterwards, to England,
in the ' Resolution,' Capt. William Lechmere, our officer, who had then been for upwards of six years on the Halifax
Station, was at once, at the request of Capt. John Holloway, of the ' St. George,' 98, appointed to that ship. Removing,
as Second-Lieutenant, in March, 1799, to the ' Tamar,' of 4-0 guns, and 281 men, Capt. Thomas Western, he proceeded
soon with the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour to the AVest Indies, where,, besides contributing to the reduction of Surinam,
he served at the capture, among numerous other vessels, of ' La Repulilicaine,' French national corvette, of 32 guns, and
175 men (after a close action of about ten minutes, a loss to the enemy of nine killed and twelve wounded, and to the
British of only two wounded) ; also of that of ' Le General Massena,' ship privateer of 16 guns (pierced for 18), and 150
men ; and of a schooner privateer of 10 guns and 50 men. Towards the close of 1801 (having been, the last year and a
half, First-Lieutenant of the ' Tamar '), Mr. Le Geyt joined the ' Leviathan,' 74, bearing the flag, at Jamaica, of Sir John
Thomas Duckworth, who promoted him, on the 28th of May, 180.3, to the command of the 'Stork,' 18 — an act which
the Admiralty approved. While in that sloop, in which he continued upwards of nine years, Capt. Le Geyt received a
public Letter of Thanks from the Governor of New Providence, for conduct during an expected attack on the Island, and
sul)sequently a Vote of Thanks from the Chamber of Commerce : he efl^'ected also the capture, on the 21th of February,
180-t, of the French national schooner ' Coquette,' of 2 guns and 95 men, after a chase of 265 miles {Vide ' Gazette,'
180+, p. 518), and, on the SOth of the ensuing month, of ' L'Hirondelle,' privateer, of .3 guns, and 44 men. On the 23rd'
of March, 1805, he cut out, from Cape Roxo Cula, the Dutch privateer, ' Antelope,' of 5 guns, and 54 men. In August,
1806, he was sent with a small squadron, consisting, besides his own vessel, of the ' Superieure,' sloop, and the ' Flying
Fish ' and ' Pike,' schooners, to attack a number of small vessels located at Batahano, in the Island of Cuba. Although
the ' Stork,' from her draught of water, was unable to approach within 30 leagues of the place, the objects of the
expedition were nevertheless fully accomplished liy the other vessels, aided by her boats, under the command of Capt.
Edward Rushworth. In 1807, Capt. Le Geyt was ordered with convoy to England, whence, in 1808, after he had been
for some months employed on the Guernsey station, he took out the Pope's Nuncio to the Brazils. Returning next to
the West Indies, he united in the blockade of Martinique, and was so employed until its surrender. While ofi" that
Island, on the 12th of December, 1808, he co-operated with the ' Circe,' 32, Capt. Francis-Augustus Collier, and the
' Morue Fortuntfe ' gun-brig, and displayed much coolness and intrepidity in silencing the fire of two batteries, and of a
body of troops which protected an enemy's schooner, aground between the Pearl Rock and Town of St. Pierre ; and he
then, in company with the ' Circe,' and ' Express ' schooner, commenced an action with four adjoining batteries, under
which lay two other vessels, one of which, ' Le Cygne,' corvette, 16 guns, was in the end destroyed. In April, 1809,
being on a cruise with the ' Circe,' then commanded by Capt. Edward Woollcombe, the ' Stork ' fell in with a French
squadron of three line-of-battle ships and two frigates, steering for the Saintes. AVith the intelligence of this, she was
immediately despatched to the Commander-in-Chief, and the result was the capture of the 74 gun ship, ' D'Haupoult.'
On the 12th of August, 1812, Capt. Le Geyt, at that time on the Cork Station, was at length advanced to Post-rank.
The Vice- Admiral was nominated a C.B. on the 4th of July, 1840."
Since the above was written for press, the veteran has passed away from us, full of years and honours. Peace to his
manes !
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216 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Peter Le Gros, or Grosse, appears as one of the Inquisitors appointed to declare before the
Justices-Itinerant, the services, customs, and liberties, of its people.
In 1292, the name appears in Jersey, in an instrument dated on S. Clement's Day, in that
year. By the Extente of 1331, Guille Le Gros appears as one of the twelve sworn men called
upon to declare the King's rights and dues in the parish of S. John. In the latter part of the
XVI. century, a member of the fiimily settled in England, who is described, in a deed under
his hand and seal, concerning certain property which he held at Peckham, as Peter Le Grose,
Esq., late of Her Majesty's Isle of Jersey.
Another of the name settled in Serk, soon after its colonization by the Seigneur of S.
Ouen, and was possessed of one of the forty freeholds of that island. Several of his descendants
were " Juges et Capitaines de I'isle de Sere" ; one of whom, John Le Gros, was Judge there, and
married Elizabeth Le Pelley of Guernsey.* He left one son — who died without issue — and
three daughters : Mary, wife of Mr. Philip Slowley ; Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John De Jersey ;
and Susan, wife of Mr. Nicholas Le Pelley ; which latter subsequently purchased the Seigneurie
of Serk of the descendants of James Milner, Esq., of Weston Green, Surrey, who became its
possessor in 1721, by purchase of the trustees of Sir Charles Carteret, Bart.
In the churchyard of S. Saviour, is a cenotaph to the memory of Capt. John Le Gros,
R.N., an officer of no mean reputation; he married a sister of Admiral D'Auvergne, Prince of
Bouillon, and left an only daughter, who died unmarried.
Among the various branches of this Avidely diffused family is one which settled, in the
beginning of the XVH. century, in the parish of S. Holier, in the person of Elias Le Gros,
who enjoyed a small estate there, m right of his Avife, Mary Dumaresq. From him descends
Gervais Le Gros Esq., M. A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, the Grcffier of Jersey.
Another branch has been located for several centuries in the parish of S. Trinity; one of
whose sections is represented by John Le Gros, Esq., M.R.C.S., Eng., L.R.C.P., Edin.
John Le Gros, Esq., Constable of S. Laurence, represents a third branch of the family.
Arms (as borne by Gervais Le Gros, Esq., M.A.): x\zure, three lions, rampant, or; a
chief, argent. Impaling: Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a mullet for difterence, for Le Quesne.
Crest : A dexter arm, embowed, ppr., vested gules, holding by the blade a sword, point
downwards, argent, hilted, or.
MoTTO : In Deo confido.
Arms (as borne by John Le Gros, Esq., of Clare Street) : Same Arms, Crest, and Motto
as the preceding. Quartering : Gules, an escarbuucle, or, for Joubidre : and Argent, a hind,
trippant, sable, on a mound, vert, for Robichon. On an escutcheon of pretension : Paly of six,
or and gules, a bend, sable, guttee d'eau, for Britton.
* In 1()j9, Capt. Waterliouse, Lioutonant-Govei'iior of Guernsey, liids " bis respected friend, Mr. .Jolm Le Gros, Judge
of Sarke Isle, take care of tlie militia, and keep the said isle for his Highness, the Lord Protector of England." — Vide
" Scrambles in Serk," London, 1801.
LIEU^ Ck)LONEL CHARLES FRANCIJ^ LE MAKDV
H . jA . 1 f^ D lyM^ /\l\M Y-
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Pftn'tyrfe of %t ©rosf, of ^, Cn'ni'tp, noU) of Clare Mvttt.
Robin Le Gros = Mary, d. of . . . Mauger.
I
Joha Le Gros = Mary, d. of . . . Le Ber.
James Le Gros = Mary, d. of Drouet Lempriere, Seig. of Trinity. Thomas.
Mabel Le Gros, only d. and h., o.s.p. = Peter Le Boutillier. Richard Le Gros, settled in England.
I i ~~ ' ^1
Clement Le Gros. A son, from whom descended BenestLe Gros = Sarah, d. of ... Le Massurier Other children
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Philip Le Gros = Judith, d. of . . . De La Place, m. 1691. Sarah = Philip Dumaresq, of the Angris branch.
1. Jane, d. and co.-h. of the Rev. Peter JouWre, Rector of S. Trinity = Philip Le Gros, Capt., R.J.M. = 2. Rachel, d. of . . . Le Cornu, o.s.o
!
Philip Le Gros, Capt., = Mary, d. and eventual h. of Edward Joshua, Lieut., John, Lieut., George. Lieut., Susan = Hugh Dn Ann
R.J.M. i Robichon, Major, R.J.M. R.J.M. R.J.M. R.J.M. Pont. —
j ^ j-^ ^ ^ ^ 1 M_ary.
Philip Le Gros, Capt., R.J.M. John, Surgeon, R.J.M. Charles. Ann. Mary. Su.san. Rachel. q ,
1. Mary, d. of Daniel Pellier, o.s.p. Mary-Magdalen, d. of Daniel. Peter Renouf. Charles Binet. John Poing- John Touzel. t
'■ . . . Dorey. o.s.p. destre.
2. Rachel, d. of ... Valpy. =f
Rachel Le Gros, only d. and h. John LeGro3,Esq.,M.R.C.S., Eng.,L.R.C.P., Edin. Elizabeth. Margaret. Rachel.
Philip Amy. Ellen, only d. and h. of John Britton, M.D., and of Mary- John Le Cornu, James Currie, M.D. Isaac Falla.
Chtnnery, his wife, d. and co.-h. of Joseph Folingsby.and
of Eleanor, his wife, third d. of SirBrodrick Chinnery, Bart.
A daughter, b. 1862.
plISTOPiICAL mentiou of tliis family occurs very shortly after the disjunction of
Normandy from the English crown.* It was then represented by two brothers, who
appear to have suffered largely for their allegiance to England, by the loss of their
possessions in the Duchy. But this, their descendants soon repaired, by the
acquisition of lands and social importance in Jersey, where most of the highest judicial ofBces
have, at various periods, been filled by members of the house of Le Hardy.
One of these, Clement Le Hardy, was constituted Lieutenant-Governor and Bailly of the
island by Henry VH., as a reward for most important and seasonable services he had rendered
that monarch when Earl of Richmond, after his first and unsuccessful attempt to possess
himself of the crown of England. Henry, being separated from the rest of his fleet by a storm,
landed privately in Jersey, with the intention of staying there until permitted by the French
King to reside in his dominions. He was here sheltered at tlie house of Clement Le Hardy,
who protected him, and subsequently conveyed him safely to Normandy at the hazard of his
own life, and notwthstandiug a proclamation issued by Richard HI., for apprehending the Earl,
had been promulgated in the island. f
* Arms of Le Hardy, of Normandy. Gules, a chevron, brise, between four lions, assis, argent ; two in chief, and
two in base.
t The house in which the Earl of Richmond received such opportune shelter was situated at S. JIartin. It was sold
218 AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
Many of its later members liiglily distinguished tliemselves in the British Army and Navy,
anion"- whom was Sir Thomas Hardy. He entered the Navy under the patronage of Admiral
Cluu'chill, who procm-ed for him a Lieutenant's commission. He successively served off
Guernsey and Norway, and soon after the accession of Queen Anne, commanded the "Pembroke,"
of 60 guns. After the flxilure of the expedition to Cadiz, whither he accompanied Sir George
Rooke, he happily, through the vigilance and tact of his chaplain, Mr. Beauvoir, became the
jirincipal cause of the important success at Vigo, at which Sir G. Rooke was so highly pleased
that he chose him to be the beai'er of the despatches concerning it to England, and in
consequence of which he was knighted, received a reward of one thousand pounds, and was
promoted to the " Bedford," of 70 guns, in which he accompanied Sir Cloudesley Shovel to the
Mediterranean, and the next year was in the expedition under Sir G. Rooke, in which he
distinguished himself at the battle off Malaga. In the early part of 1706, he served under Sir
Stafford Fairbarae, whom he attended in his expedition to the River Charente, and afterwards
in the more successful one against Ostend. In the latter part of the same year. Sir Thomas
was appointed as Commodore in command of a small squadron to protect our Channel trade,
where he was fortunate enough to capture a very mischievous privateer, of 20 guns. In the
July of the next year, he was ordered to escort to a given latitude, and under certain
restrictions, the outward bound Lisbon fleet. His conduct in the execution of these orders
excited against him much popular clamour, which, however, did not in the smallest degree
affect his reputation. He was subsequently employed in various commands, and was promoted,
in 1710-11, to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and continued in active service until 1715. after
which he does not appear to have been in command, but died in retirement in 1732. A
monument to his memory exists on the S. side of the great entrance in Westminster Abbey,
and is here engraved by gift of the Rev. Clement Le Hardy, M.A., Rector of S, Peter.*
by Sir Thomas Hardy, and demolished by its new possessor, in tlie licginning of the present century. It was a fair
specimen of a Jersey house of the better kind, in the oldon time. To frustrate the attacks of the Norman freebooters,
who occasionally, in war time, made a razzia upon the projierty of the islanders, all its windows were secured by iron
gratings. The doors, which were of immense thickness, were studded with huge nails, aiid the outer ones were double.
* Inscription on the Monument erected to the Memory of Sir Thomas Hardy, in Westminster Abbey. " Near the
West door of the Choir, lieth interr'd the body of Sir Thomas Hardy, Kt., who died the 16th of August, 1732, in the
67th year of his age; and, according to the directions of his will, was liuricd in the same grave with his wife, who died
the 28th of April, 1720.
" He was born in -Jersey, and descended from Clement Le Hardy, \vho removed from France and settled in that island
and was made a .Justice (commoidy call'd there a Jurat) in 1381, and was succeeded in the same oflico by his son and
grandson. His great grandson, Clement, was made a Lieutenant-Governor, and had the office of Bailiff" (or Chief
Magistrate of the island), with the Seigneurie de Meleche, conferr'd upon him for life by Henry VII., as a reward for the
most important service he had rendered him when Earl of Richmond, after the disap[iointmcnt he had met witli in his
first att(Mnpt upon England, when, being separated from the rest of his Fleet by a storm, he landed privately in Jersey,
intending to stay there till he could obtain leave from the French King to come into his dominions, and was shelter 'd at
the house of the said Clement, who protected him, and convey 'd him safely to Normandy, at the hazanl of his own Life,
notwithstanding a Proclamation from Richard HI., for apprehending the said Earl, had been publish 'd in the island.
His Descendants have on all occasions distinguish 'd themselves to the utmost of their jiower liy their loyalty and lidclity
to the ('rown.
"Sir Thomas Hardy, to whose Memory this Monument is Erected, was bred in the Royal Navy from liis youth, aiul
was made a Captiiin in 161)3. In the ex])edition to Cadiz, under Sir (ieorge Rook, he commanded the ' I'embrook,' and
wlicn the Fleet left the Coast of Spain to return to England, he was ordcr'd to La'^os Bay, where he got Intelligence of
the Spanish (ialleons being arrived in the Harbour of Vigo, under convoy of 17 French Men-of-War, commanded by
Moiis. Chateau Urnuud, upon which he sailM immediately in <|uest of the English Fleet, and notwithstanding he had
iHoinimnit to tijt IMemorp of ^h Cljomasf ?l?arUi), lit.,
on 0)1 nsi)t of tfjt MItst, or grindpal, iSntvaiut to MrStminsttr 9bbci).
2^/:r P/flrt w Prejentedto the Work by the Rev. Clement Le Hnrdy, M.A.
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY. 21!)
The Right-Hon. Sir Charles Hardy commenced his Naval career with services in the German
Ocean, the West Indies, and the Baltic. After which, he was stationed in the Mediterranean,
in command of the " Stirling Castle," under Admiral Hopson and Sir Charles Wager. He
returned to England with the latter, in April, 1728, and was, in the same month, in 1742,
promoted to be Rear- Admiral of the Blue, just befoi'e which promotion he received the lionoui-
of knighthood. In December, 1743, he was further promoted to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue,
and, in the same month, was appointed one of the Conmiissioners of the Admiralty. Early in
1744, he was sent to command a squadron of eleven ships of the line, ordered to the
Mediterranean, to convoy a considerable number of victuallers and store ships for the relief of
the fleet in that sea. From contrary winds, however, they were detained at Lisbon, where they
were blockaded by the French, until relieved in July by Admiral Batchen, who proceeded with
him to Gibraltar. During his absence, in June, 1744, he was advanced to the rank of Vice-
Admiral of the Red, which promotion he did not long survive, dying in November in the same
year, with the universal reputation of being a truly honourable and just man.*
Sir Charles Hardy, Kt., eldest son of the above, having I'endered distinguished services to
his country during a long naval careei', was honoiu-ed with the command of the Channel Fleet in
the year 1779, being then Admiral of the White. He died in the following year.
The English branch of the family is represented by Thomas-Duffus Hardy, Esq., F.S.A.,
Her Majesty's Depvity-Keeper of the Public Records; and that of Jersey by Lieut.-Colonel
Charles-Francis Le Hardy, H.M. Indian Army.
Arms (as borne by Lieut.-Colonel Le Hardy) : Sable, on a chevron between three
escallops, or, as many griffins' heads of the Held. Quartering : Azure, a chevron, or, between
three cinquefoils, argent, for De Beauvoir : Gules, three escallops, or, a crescent for difference,
for Dumaresq: and Gules, three escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis, for difference, for Dumaresq.
Impaling : Argent, three leaves, vert, for Irving.
Crest : A dexter arm, embowed, in armour, gauntlet, ppr., garnished, or, holding a griffin's
head, as in the arms.
Mottoes: Sic Donec.f (Above the Crest), Le hardy ne quei-re pas querelle.
l)cen several days separated from it, by his gieat Diligence and judgment he joyn'd it, and gave the Admiral that
intelligence ^vhich engag'd him to make the best of his way to Vigo, where all the forementioued Galleons and !Men-of-
War, were either taken or destroyed. After the success of that Action, the Admiral sent him with an account of it to
the Queen, who order'd him a considerable Present, and Knighted him ; some years afterwards he was made a Reur-
Admiral, and receiv'd several other marks of Favour and Esteem from Her Majesty and from her Royal Consort, Prince
George of Denmark, Lord High Admiral of England.
" He married Constance, daughter of Colonel Hook, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth, a lady of great virtue and
merit, by whom he had several children, three of which surviv'd him — a son and two daughters ; the eldest married to
George Chamberlayne, of Wardington, in the County of Oxford, Esq. ; the son and youngest daughter unmarried."
* Vide Charuock's " Biog. Naval." A portrait of the Admiral, with those of Sir Thomas Hardy, his brother, .John
Le Hardy, Esq., Advocate, R.C., John Le Hardy, Esq., Attorney-General of Jersey, in 1729, Thomas Le Hardy, Es<i.,
Lieut.-Colonel CSth Regt., and some female members of the family, eminent for their beauty, are in the possession of J.-
Jervoisc-Le V. Collas, Esq.
t The family holds a tradition that these words were spoken by the Earl of Richmond, upon leaving Clement Le
Hardy upon the French beach. Giving his staunch and brave retainer a ring, as an earnest of future favours, he said —
" Thus — until," — a promise and a prophecy both subsequently amply fulfilled.
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TIE family of this name is of very ancient settlement in tlie island, and altliough, in
the opinion of tlie best-informed of its existing members, it has no connection with
an aboriginal house of Le Maistre, one of whose representatives, Colin Le Maistre,
appears as a laud owner of the parish of S. Peter, in the Extenfe of 1331, its
founder is supposed to have migrated from France so early as the latter part of the XVI.
century. For deeds, dated 1526, relating to the property of one Peter Le Maistre, are still
extant.
To the famous family of Montl'herri is given tlie credit of producing the father of the
Jersey stock — a family whose foimder was Gautier le Maistre, prevost of Paris in 1245, and to
which belonged the celebrated Gilles le INIaistre, president of the parliament, and de Saci, the
French translator of the Bible. Des Bois speaks of the sons of Jacques le Maistre, brotlicr of
this Gilles, as among the earliest French Reformers, and of their consequent persecution ))y
their powerful relative.* One of the brothers migrated to Provence, and there founded the
family, which, upon its elevation to a Marquisate, assumed the name of " De " Maistre.^
The Mercure de France^ of August, 1773, says of this house that it is of "ancienue
Noblesse de Robe," and one that has ever retained its fidelity to the Crown, even in the midst
of the greatest revolutions. The same publication records the list of its worthies, during
the reigns of twenty-two Monarchs, and among the men we find those of high rank, in law,
statecraft, and the army, while the women shine in tlie only career then open for them —
religion.
Felibien speaks of several other members of this family, who, taking an active part in the
civil and religious struggles which convulsed their native country, were compelled to emigrate,
and so were entirely lost sight of. From some of these, we may reasonably suppose the
English families of jMaister and Master derive their origin. The opinion that the insular
branch derives its descent from the same source is much strengthened by the fact that other
sections of the same family, found in several of the then separate provinces of Fi'auce, bear
arms almost identical with those borne by Le Maistre of Jersey.
On the occasion of Her Majesty's visit to Jersey in 1846, Miss Mary Le Maistre, daughter
of the then Seigneur of S. Ouen, had the honour of being appointed, as his representative,
by a Committee of the States of Jersey, to receive the Queen on her lauding.
The career of the house iu the island has been a prosperous one; members of it have, at
various periods, been Seigneurs of S. Ouen, La Hougue Boiite, and Quetivel.
The family is represeuted in its eldest branch (that of S. Ouen and Quetivel), by Edward-
* " Les revolutions ai-iivees dans I'etat par suite des erreurs de Calvin, et qui commencaient dejk a se faire sentir, les
desunirent d'avec Gilles, leur oncle, et cette ditierence de religion en fit deux families qui ne se reconnurent plus." Vide
Des Bois, vol. ii.
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0 family traditions indicate the spot whence this house migrated to the island, where
tliey have been located for some centuries.
In 24 Henry VIII., 1533, John Le Montais served among forty-eight other men
of the island, four from each parish, to inquire into the state of the defences of
Jersey. This John was chosen as one of the representatives of the parish of S. ISIary.
Clement Le Montais, who lived at the period of the Great Rebellion, was an ardent
Royalist, and assisted Sir Philip De Carteret to convey Charles II. and Hyde, Earl of
Clarendon, to France, besides supplying his prodigal monarch most liberally from his private
purse.* His son,
Elias Le Montais, of the parish of S. Peter, Jurat of the Royal Court, served on a Royal
Commission with Sir Christopher Lewknor and Sir Edmund Walker, Knights, and Edmund
Wyndam, Thomas Coke, and William Loving, Esquires, who were appointed by Letters Patent
1 Charles II., to dispose of part of the Government Revenues in the island. Pie was also
specially commissioned, in 166G, " to be Storekeeper of Prizes and Prize Goods within His
Majesty's Island of Jersey." He purchased from his uncle. Sir George Carteret, Bart., an
estate at Mont de Vigne, in the parish of S. Peter, on the 10th of October, 1666, which has,
ever since, continued in the possession of his descendants.
The family is now represented by John-De Jersey Le Montais, Esq., of Mont de Vigne,
and by Francis-John Le Montais, Esq., of Les Augc^rez, both in the parish of S. Peter.
Arms (as borne by Francis- John Le Montais, Esq.): Sable, four fusils, in fesse, or; in
chief an increscent of the last. Quartering: Per pale, azure and gules, an eagle displayed
argent, for De Jersey. Ou an escutcheon of pretension : Argent, three laurel leaves, vert, for
Rondel.
* " The people" (of Jersey) "in support of the Royal Cause, were not only prodigal of their lives, but of their fortunes.
They lent large sums for the support of the King here, and afterwards in his exile in France. And yet, Gentlemen, our
present Lieutenant-Bailly tells us, forsooth, that our ancestors were poor. My respected friend, who sits hy me, Mr. Le
Montais, now possesses in his family account-book, entries of sums of money lent at this period to the King by his
ancestors, a debt which it is his pride shall over remain uncancelled. One of his forefathers accompanied the King from
hence to Franco, and in an open boat — all the remains of the Royal Navy of England. With a faithful De Carteret still the
fidus Achates at the helm, and Le Montais at the prow, and with the great Lord Clarendon by his side, the monarch
sought a refuge in foreign climes." Vide Observations of Edward Allen, Esq., Barrister-at-law, before the Royal Com-
missioners in ISl], p. 55. Unfortunately for the learned counsel's knowledge of history, neither Lord Clarendon nor De
Carteret accompanied the Prince (not monarch then) on the occasion in question. The former remained behind the Prince,
when he left for France in 10 1(!, resided in .Jersey two years afterwards, and was on the Continent the entire period of th<^
second visit paid by the Prince of Wales to the island. Vide "Life of Clarendon," State Papers of the period, and Dr.
Hoskins' " Charles II. in the Channel Islands."
228
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^aeiiiSite of ^t i¥lontai£i.
Francis Le Montais.
T
Helier Le Montais.
Clement Le Montais, Jurat, R.C., d. 1650 = Rachel, d. of Elias De Carteret, sister of Sir George
Carteret, Bart.
Mary.
Philip Lempriere, Seig. of DiiJlament.
Elias Le Montais, Jurat, R.C.,=: Elizabeth, d. of John NicoUe, Clement,
of Mont de Vigne, S. Peter. I of S. Peter. ob. juv.
Elizabeth,
oh. juv.
Rachel.
I
Ann.
John D'Auvergne. Philip Pinel, of Trinity.
Clement Le Montais, of Mont de Vigne = Elizabeth, d. of . .. Nicolle. Several other children.
I
Clement Le Montais^ Ann, d. of Edward Marett, of La Haule.
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Several children.
Clement Le Montais, =: Elizabeth, d. of Admiral Rawlin,
nf Mont de Vigne. I vH Raline.
Edward.
Jane, d. of Nicholas Chevalier, of S. Peter.
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Clement Le Montais, Francis, of Mont de Elizabeth, I
of Mont de Vigne, Vigne, Capt. R.N. , ob.mm/pl. Edward Le Montais, h. of Mont de Vigne.
perished in a hurri-
cane in 1786, ob. Ann, d. of . . . Dupre, of S. Helier.
inmtpt. =^
A son , ob. juv.
Elias.
Elizabeth, d. of N.
Chevalier.
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Philip Le Montais.
John Le Montais, of Mont de Vigne ^ Elizabeth, eld. d. and co.-h. of Thomas
De Jersey, Esq., proprietor of the
Island of Herm.
John.
Elizabeth, d. of
. . . Bertaut. of
S. Laurence.
Francis = Susannah, d. and co.-h. of Thomas De Jersey.
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John-De Jersey Le Montais, i= Elizabeth, d. of James Four daughters,
of Mont de Vigne. | Balleine, of S. Peter.
John-De Jersey Le Montais, Esq., of Mont de Vigne.
I
Elizabeth.
Francis-John Le Montais, Esq., Attorney
of the Royal Court, of Les Augfirfa, S.
Peter.
Hijloise, d. and h. of Thomas Rondel, of S. Mary.
Other children.
HeloiseLe Montais = Adolphus-Chevalier Anaise. Christabel = Fredk. -Arnold Bailhache, Emmeline. Almeria. Athenaise.
eld. d. and co.-h. Du Bois. Lieut. R.J.M.
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^nnprtere*
N the earliest i-ecords preserved to us of the Normanfi, after they had acquh-ed a local
habitation and a name, the patronymic of this family finds a frequent place. It has
not escaped the mutations in orthography common to surnames in use at this
remote period, and it is found variously chronicled as I'Empereur, Lempreur,
Lemprere, de Lemperiei'e, de Lempriere, and Lempriere; and, in Latin, Imperator, from which
imperial designate all the other renderings, no doubt, resolve themselves. In this, its earliest
form, the name, althougli very rare, exists in England; in the Times of January 12, 1861, the
death of one John Emperor is recorded. An innovation in spelling this name, affected by some
branches of the family — that of placing a grave accent over the penultimate e — gives an
erroneous notion of the root of the word, and is falsified by this derivation.
With regard to the derivative, a fanciful tradition makes the source of the family the very
chieftain to whom RoUo delegated the disagreeable duty of saluting the foot of Charles the
Simple, when he was formally admitted into his dukedom; and the legend infers that the
haughty clumsiness of the Scandinavian warrior, in upsetting the king, earned for him the
soubriqvet borne by himself and his descendants. But, be this as it may, the early Xorman
historians bear ample testimony to the rank and possessions of the family.
It undoubtedly takes its rise from the same source as the house of I'Empereur de Morfon-
taine, of the provinces of Champagne and Brie. D'Hozier, in his " Refjistre 11." mentions that
Michael I'Empereur, Seigneur of Morfontaine, and an officer in the Light-Horse of the King's
Guard in Ordinary, proved the nobility of his family by documents that carried the name back
to the middle of the fourteenth century, the owners of which were dignified Ijy posts in the
state only given to the most talented as well as the most influential of the aristocracy. Des
Bois also concurs in bearing witness that this house possessed, from a very early period, the
attributes of ancient nobility, and instances in support of his assertion that from the fourteeutli
century its members were permitted the use of a seal — a certain mark of antique uolilesse.
Jacques I'Empereur, who was, between the years 1356 and 1360, " Treforier des Guerres du
Roy, et du Due de Normandie," gave several receipts to the Treasurer- General of the Revenues
of Languedoc, to which were attached his seal, which represented a shield — Gyronny of twelve
pieces; on a chief, a double-headed eagle, displayed. In 1364, this same Jacques I'Empereur,
in the quality of Treasurer of the Duke of Berry and of Auvergne, " charge pour ce Prince des
cinq cens francs d'or, que le roi Jehan avoit ordonne par fes lettres a prendre chacun mois par ledit
Seigneur Due ou fon certain mandement pour foutenir son etat en Angleterre, ou il etoit oflager."
Among the descendants of this eminent person, who remained in France, are found the names of
Renaud, INIichael, Nicholas, and others most in use by the members of the Jersey family.
In the middle of the last century, Thomas Lempriere, Esq., Seigneur of Chesnel, an
Advocate of the Ro3'al Court of Jersey, and Commissary of Musters of H.]\I. Forces iu Jersey
and Guernsey — a man of much erudition, of antiquarian tastes, and of vast industry — compiled
a voluminous MS. tome, containing genealogical and biographical memoirs of his family from
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230 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
the earliest period of its history, illustrated with copious extracts from Norman aud Jersey State
papers. In this he was assisted by the researches of a learned French antiquary, M. de Lcm-
periere, of Reunes, Britany, who supplied him with important memoranda relative to the pre-
insular history of the Lemprieres. To these labours were added those of the erudite Dr.
Lempriere, of Exeter, who succeeded in tracing the ancestors of the family for some six
generations higher than had been done by his predecessors.
From the information thus collected is learned that the family of de Lempriere possessed in
the Duchy of Normandy the extensive seigneuries and lands of Lempriere, Pontrilly, Gourbes-
ville, Rauville, Quierqueville, la Carpenterie, Croville, Belle-Fontaine, Cauquigny, S. Refeire,
Bois-Gingant, Durrelle, Courseville, Duiteville, la Grandiere, aud others. In Jersey, besides
the estates hereafter mentioned, which Raoul Lempriere and his brother-in-law, Guille Payn,
purchased of the De Bareutine family, various branches of the name have held the fiefs of
(i^odeaux, Ilerupe, Ecoucqueville, Bouteville, Buisson, Surville, Houguette, Lempriere, Covey,
Mau&nt, Chesnel, des Pres in S. John's parish, Petit Rozel in S. Saviour's parish, with Morville,
Robilliard, and de Lecq in S. Oueu's parish.
According to the genealogies referred to —
EvERARD DE Lejipriere, or l'Empereur, was born in Normandy, circa 970, and was sent
by Robert, King of France, son of Hugh Capet (the founder of the Capetian dynasty), Avith
other French barons, in 1026, to treat with the chiefs of Lorraine, concerning the annexation of
that province to the kingdom of France. His son,
Otho de Lempriere, born circa 1015, distinguished himself with other Norman nobles in
the wars of Italy. He was present at the storming of Beneventura, June 18, 10.53, when Pope
Leo X. was taken prisoner. William of Normandy (the Conqueror) rewarded his various
services in statecraft and in the field, by a grant of lands in the Cotentin. He died in 1060.
His son,
RoDOLPii de Lempriere, born circa 1050, was engaged in the First Crusade under Peter
Gautier, better known as Peter the Hermit, in 1096. He remained several years serving in the
wars in the Holy Land, and died soon after his return to his native country, in 1110. His son,
Philip de Lempriere, born circa 1072, married Claudia de la Riviere, a daughter of an
illustrious Norman house, derived by Ordericus Vitalis, Le Boeuf, and other historians, fi'om
Rudolph, son of Robert, Count of Evreux, by Herlue, his legitimate wife.* This Robert was
great-grandson of Rollo. His son,
Theobald de Lempriere, born circa 1099, appears as one of the courtiei's of Louis VII.,
Kmg of France, who succeeded to the sole sovereignty in 1137. His son,
Guy de Lempriere, born 1121, was the father of the famous
John de Lempriere, born 1142, who was Seigneur of Pontrilly and numerous other
seigneuries in Normandy. In 1163, upon his coming of age, he was constituted Vicomte of
Valognes.f He was one of the barons of the Third Crusade, under Richard Coeur de Lion,
* Arms of de la Rivieee, of Noniianily : Argent, three pellets.
t From an Arret de la Cour des Aides, of Normandy, dated 11G3, we learn that "John de Lempriere, Vicomte of
Valognes and Seigneur of Pontrilly, was considered and acknowledged noble, living nobly, aud serving in the wars."
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 231
and was present at the memorable seige and surrender of Aci'c, iu the Holy Laud, m 1191. He
married Alice, daughter of the Seigueur de ToUevast, and by her had issue,
Eaoul de Lempriere, so named after his ancestor Rollo, or Raoul, Duke of Normandy,
was born circa 1170, and succeeded his father in his estates in Normandy. He married a
daughter of the Baron de Sottevast, and left issue,
John de Lempriere, Seigneur of Pontrilly, born cw-m 1202; married Florence des Riviers,
daughter of Zachariah, Seigueur of Amfreville. He was killed at the seige of Avignon, in
France, in 1227, while serving in the army of Louis VIII. of France. He had three sons.
Nicholas, the eldest, who married Jane Lucas, of a Norman Seigneurial house ; Oudard, who
was a priest, and Cur^ de Valognes ; and —
Raoul Lempriere, said to have founded the great insular family of his name in Jersey, by
setthng in the island about the year 1270. LI ere he obtained a fief named after himself, as Avell
as another, that of Covey, situated at Rouge Bouillon. In 1309, John de Fresingfield and
Drogo De Barentine, Justices Itinerant in the Island of Jersey, called upon this Raoul, who had
reached a patriarchal age, to compound for having erected a Colomhicr^ or dove-cote, without
license of the King. His son,
Thomas Lempriere, was Seigueur of Lempriere and Covey, By the Extenfe of 1331, it
appears that this Thomas owed a rent termed Grcvcrie to the King, and that the fine inflicted
on his father for the dove-cote was levied also on him.* His son,
Raoul Lempriere, was the first of his name conspicuous in insular history. The fact
of the family possessing a fief of its own name, as well as that most cherished and imjDortant
feudal privilege of rank — a Colomhicr — argues a social position which justifies, and accounts
for, the brilliant career of this Raoul. The Extente of Guernsey, also, of 1331, mentions
"fieu h Lempriere" as a Crown escheat; and this would seem to certify an ancient as
well as an important connection of this family with both islands. In 13G0, Raoul
Lempriere purchased, jointly with Guille Payn, the whole of the Seigneuries and estates held
by Philip de Barentine, consisting of the Manors of Rozel, Samares, Dielameut, les Augres,
Lougueville, S. John la Hougue Boiite, with others of minor importance. In 1353, he became
a Jurat of the Royal Court — a judicial function which has uuiuterruptedly been filled by one or
more of his direct descendants for the elongated period of fourteen generations — a circumstaiice
* " S. Helier. Thos. Lempriere por le fieu es Lempriere qu'il tient, c'eft aflavoir trente acres de terre avec fcs appartenances,
doit ancienne rente appellee Griverie, a la fcfte S. Paul. Par an 40 fols.
" Derechef ycelui meme Lempriere por. le fieu Covey, avec fes appartenances at avec fes parchon'rs, doit a la feste S. Paul
femblable rente 10 fols.
" Thomas Lejnpriere por, un Colomhicr a Rente au pere dud't. Thos. par Jean Fresijtgfield et fes compagnons Jufticiers.
" Itimant parce qu'il avoit fais fairc fans liccnfe de Nostre Sire le Ray, comme led't. Co/omiier foit maintenant trebuche
en bas. Et doit a la feile S. Michel par an, un livre de Poivre.
"Le fieu es Lempriere que Thos. Lempriere tient maintenant, doit demy relief quand le cas advient, et doit trente fols
tournois."
Vide I'Extente faite en I'Ifle de Jcrfey de fes deutez et appartenances a Noftre Sire le Roy. par Inquifition faite
pardevante Robert de Nortonne, et Guille De La Cour, par le Commande de Notre Souverain le Roy, par Lettres Patentes
fignees de fon Signe Manuel, en I'an de I'lncarnation de Noftre Seigneur Jesus Christ, 133 i, et en annee du Reigne du
Roy Edward IIL la Troifieme.
G G 2
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perhaps without parallel in Jersey family history. The Lemprieres have given to the island
one Governor, one Lieutenant-Governor, five Baillies, three Lieuteuant-Baillies, two Attorneys-
General, four Solicitors- General, and twenty-five Jurats. In 1362, this Eaoul was preferred to
the then important and onerous post of Bailly of Jersey, an office then of very high dignity
and power, and one which had but been just separated from the sole higher and more
j^owerful preferment of Governor or Warden of the island. Dr. Lenipriere states that fi'om
this time the family discontinued the prefix de before its name, and that also it abandoned the
arms peculiar to the Norman branch, and adopted, with a change of tincture, those of De
Barentine. That manorial arms ever existed in Jersey, or that they were adopted, in this
instance, for the reason assigned, is difficult to imagine; although it is just possible these
arras appeared ou a broad seal
passed before the feudal courts,
power ; and were thus adopted,
is interesting to note that, from
family of I'Empereur, of Nor-
the eagle, and it is not pushing
imperial symbol was originally
imperial cognomen. On the signet
ajopears a fox courant, a badge
SEAL OF RAOnL LEMPRIERE,
13G7.
used to authenticate documents
then of much consequence and
officially, by the new Seigneur. It
their earliest known history, the
mandy, has borne for cognizance
supposition too far to suppose the
adopted to keep pace with an
used by Baoul Lempriere in 1367,
never assumed l)y his descend-
ants.* His sou,
Drouet Lempriere, was Seigneur of Eozel, Dielament, S. John, la Hougue Boete, les
Augres, and other fiefs, and was one of the Jurats of the Royal Court in 1409. Ui'ged by
patriotic zeal to recover the Island of Guernsey from the French, who then held it, he assisted
to raise the almost incredible sum of six thousand four hundred marks, to which he himself
liberally contributed, accompanied his followers to the assault of the island, and was killed in
the moment of victory. A huge two-handed sword, still preserved in the manor-house of Rozel,
is said to have been his. His sister, Jeanette, married Peter Le Marchant, of Guernsey,
an ancestor of the present Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart., of Chobham Place, Surrey. f His
son,
John Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel and other fiefs, was Receiver-General of the King's
Revenues in Jersey and Guernsey, under John, Duke of Bedford, during the minority of Henry
VI. J He Avas afterwards Bailly of the island.§ His son,
Renaud Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel, when the French, by the supine treason of the
Governor of the Island, John Nanfan, gained possession of Mont-Orgueil Castle for Pierre de
Breze, Count de Maulevrier, was conspicuously active in harassing the invaders, which he was
enabled to do with the more success, owing to the proximity of his estate to the hcad-cpiarters
* Vide deeds passed before the Royal Court, dated Saturday after the feast of SS. Simon and Judu, 1353, and
Wednesday before the Nativity of our Lady, 13G2.
f Vide Pedigree of Le i\Iarcliant, College of Arms.
X According to an instrument dated 1 September, I-ISO.
§ According to a deed of the Royal Court, dated the Tuesday after the feast of S. Lucia, 1 131.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 23
o
of the enemy.* Aud in the grand attack, by which the expulsion of tlie enemy was trium-
phantly effected, under the united leadership of Richard Harleston, and Philip De Carteret,
Seigneur of S. Ouen, he fell gallantly fighting at the head of his contingent. His son,
John Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel, was Governor of Jersey, by Patent, in 1500, a Jurat
of the Royal Court in 1504, and Judge-Delegate (or temporary chief magistrate, on the death
of the Bailly, until his successor is appointed) in 1524. In 24 Henry VHI., 1533, Com-
missioners were appointed by the King to inquire into the state of the government and of tlie
defences of the island : these were " John Lemperour, R. Ffoster, Robert Kyrke, and John
Dummarke " (Dumaresq) " or three or two of them."f His services were rewarded by Hemy
Vin., by a grant of part of the government revenues of the island, that escheated to the crown
on the dissolution of religious houses, whose patrons held the great tythes. Dying without
issue, in 1534, Rozel, its manor and dependencies, devolved upon his only sister,
Catherine Lempriere, Lady of Rozel, who married Dominic Perrin, a member of a
Guernsey family, whose descendants became seigneurs of Rozel for four generations. The fief
was then sold to Sir Philip de Carteret by Abraham Perrin, in 1625, and after a tenure of the
estate of some years by this former family, it was sold to a member of the house of Corbet, a
branch of which ancient English house had settled and become naturalized in the island. J
* The following quotation from an Issue Roll, 30 Henry VI. (1452), will show that it was not for want of means or
money that the castle was lost, and that the character for treachery he has gained in local records was fully deserved.
" To John Nanfan, Efq., whom the Lord the King ordered and appointed to be the Keeper and Governor of the Illands
of Jerfey and Guernfey, with the appurtenances, and of the caftles and other places within the fame, retained in the King's
Service, by indenture made between the faid Lord the King, and the faid John, for him to have continually in the faid
iflands, caftles and places, 130 archers, well and fufhciently arrayed, as to them doth belong; for and during the time and
term of half a year, to begin on the day of the mufter of the archers made hy the faid John ; viz., the 9th of Auguft. in
the thirtieth year of the prefent King, etc., for the firft quarter of the faid half year. By writ, etc., £2^^ iS-^" The family
of Nanfan is of great antiquity in Cornwall, whence the}' afterwards removed to Worcestershire. John Nanfan, above
mentioned, was a person of great consequence in his day ; he was lord of Brutes-Morton and Berrow, in Worcestershire ;
an esquire of the King's body ; Governor of Jersey, Captain and Commander of the Castle of Conciue, in Normandy,
and the Seigneurie thereto appertaining ; and Keeper of Cardiff Castle, in AVales. He had besides four manors in
Cornwall and largo revenues in Wales, and lands in Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire. These estates have no^v
descended to the Earl of Bellamont. One of the Nanfan family is said to have been mainly instrumental in the rise of
Cardinal Wolsey. Arms : Sable, a chevron ermine, between three wings displayed argent.
t Vide Bib. Cott., British Museum, Titus B. viii. 14.
t The family of Perrin was formerly one of rank and influence in Guernsey, but at present the name is found oidy
among some humble fishermen of the island.
3Pct(i3Kt al 33trrtn, of ©utrnscn, aixK of 3&o\t\, StrrSci).
John Perin, Jm-at, R.C., of Guernsey, 1461.
T
Dominic Perin, Jurat, R.C., of Guernsey = Catherine, d. and h. of Renaud Lempriere, Seig. of Rozel.
I
I I I I I I . .
Edmund Perin, Seig. = Jane, d. of ... John. Nicholas. James. Isabel. Mary = James Guille, Bailly
of Rozel, Jurat,
R.C., of Jersey.
Holland, of of Guernsey.
Dartmouth.
234
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Finally, and as if by poetic justice, Rozel eventually returned to a younger branch of the
Leniprieres by the marriage of one of its members with the heiress of James Corbet, the owner
and seigneur of the state. With Catherine Lempriere expired the eldest branch of this family, the
deeds of the members of which had shed lustre not only on themselves but on their native island.
The representation of the family in the male line was continued by George Lempriere,
who, by his marriage with the sister and lieiress of William De S. Martin, founded the branch
of Lempriere of Trinity. And by his brother, Raulin Lempriere, the Seigneur of S. John, la
Hougue Boete. Both these persons were uncles of Catherine Lempriere.
The fief haubert of Trinity dejiarted from the branch that held it, as soon as that of Rozel
did fi'om the eldest section of the family, for the great-great-granddaughter of George Lempriere,
Catherine, the only child and heiress of Gilles Lempriere, Seigneur of Trinity, by her marriage
with Amice de Carteret, carried her estates to that branch of this powerful family. In junior
sections, however, members of this house still exist ; the eldest of which is represented, amongst
other brothers, l:)y the Rev. Daniel-Matthew Lempriere, B.A., Chaplain to the hospital and
prison of Jersey. To a younger division of the same branch belonged the Rev. John
Lempriere, D.D., by far the best known of his name in England. He was born in 1765, at
the family estate of Les Monts Noirons, at Mont-au-Pretre. He left Jersey at the age of nineteen,
with only as much classical learning as the village schoolmaster could teach, and with about as
I
1. Mary, 2ncl d. of = Hugli revrin, = 2. Jane, d. of Margaret. Catherine.
Clement Leniprieix'.
Seig. of Rozel.
John Perrin, Soig. of Rozel.
A. 1C20.
Mary, only d. and h. of Peter
De Beauvoir, of Guernsey,
and widow of John Eft'ard,
Jurat, R.C., of that island.
Jane.
Guillebert.
Peter Han-is, Thomas Le
of Guernsey. Hardy.
1. Dorothy, d. of = Hugh Perrin = 2. Elizabeth,
Georjje Poulett. d. of ... Saun-
ders.
Isabel.
Elizabeth.
1. Nicholas De 1. John Eflfard.
Beauvoir.
2. Hoste Nicolle,
2. John Duma- Bailly of Jersey.
resc|, Bailly of
Jersey. .3. George Pou-
lett, Bailly of
Jersey,
Philip Perrin, b. 1641.
Edmund, b. lC-15.
Cecilia, b. 1C37.
1. Susan, d. of
Helier Duma-
restj, of La
Haule, d. 1011.
Abraham Perrin, Seig. of Rozel, := 2. Jacqueline de
d. in Mont Orgeuil Castle, 1G.30. Gourfalleux. d.
Sold the Manor of Rozel to Sir of the Seig. of
Philip dc Carteret in l(i2.5. Bonfosse, in
Normandy.
Jane Perrin, only d. and h. = Henry de la Marche.
John, of jNIary, m. Sarah, m. Susan, d.
the Morin. 1601. 1G09. 1619.
John Le Noel Le
Febvre. Geyt.
Arms of Perrin (according to the Pedigree of Guille, of Guernsey) : Gules, three greyhounds, in pale, argent.
Arms op Effard, of Guernsey : Vert, three birds, argent.
Arms of Gourfallf-UX : Azure, a castle, ma(;onne sable, surmounted with two pennons, argent.
This Henry de la Marche, by his marriage with the heiress of Abraham Perrin, made some claim to the Scigneurie
of Rozel, and was severely censured by an Act of the Royal Court of Jersey, November 24., 1668, for having a.spcrsed
the character of Sir P. De Carteret, in no measured terms, in order the better to ground his pretensions. The family of
de la Marche was of Guernsey origin, where they were ardent Republicans during the Rebellion. It is now extinct.
Arms op db la Marche : Barry of twelve, argent and azure, over all, a lion rampant, gules.
/ir ll'/jfW //>/.-< /'/ri^f IS /'r>-s,//riy/ /V> f/>r V'^rA-.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
235
much broken English as the Island could then supply, and yet, within four years of this period,
he had published his " Classical Dictionary," a work that will ever embalm his name among the
learned. And while earning a reputatiou with the pen instead of the sword, yet displaying a
degree of talent, energy, and perseverance which proved him no unworthy descendant of his
race. He subsequently completed his education with Dr. Valpy of Reading, to whose advice
and kindness he always expressed himself deeply indebted. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he
further prosecuted his studies, and, graduating gradually, became D.D. in 1803. He was
successively Head Master of the Grammar Schools of Bolton, of Abingdon (a Crown Living, to
whicli he was appointed in 1800), and of Exeter. In 1792, he published the first volume of
his " History of Herodotus, translated fi-om the Greek, with Notes," but Mr. Beloe having
issued an entire edition of the Father of Flistory, that reason is supposed to have determined
the learned doctor to discontinue his own version. In 1808, he issued his "Universal Biography"
in quarto, and in the same year an abridgement of it in octavo. In 1811 he was presented
to the Rectory of Meeth, N. Devon, now held by his son, the Rev. Everard Lempriere, and.
in 1824, ended a useful, erudite, and benevolent career, to the grief not only of his personal
friends, but of that large circle to which his works had made his name familiar. This branch
is represented by Dr. Lempriere's sons, the eldest surviving of whom is the Rev. Francis-
Drocus Lempriere, Rector of Newton-Petrock, Devon.
The section of LEJrpRiERE of S. John, La Hougue Boiste, founded by Raulin Lempriere,
became extinct in its eldest branch by the marriage of his great-granddaughter, Thomasse
Lempriere, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Lempriere, and Lady of S. John, with
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GOLD MEDAL PRESENTED BY QUEEN ANNE TO CAPT. JAMES LEMPRIERE, R.N. (ACTUAL SIZE.)
Clement Journeaulx, Jurat of the Royal Court, and Lieutenant-Bailly of Jersey, through whom
the representation has devolved upon Edward-George Le Couteur, Esq., the present seigneur.
236 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
In younger branches it is represented by tbc families of Payn, Hammond, and Anley. To the
section represented by Capt. Anley, of Maitland, S. Clement, belonged Capt. James Lempriere,
R.N., a most distinguished officer of the reign of Queen Anne. For his services against the
French he was presented by the Queen with a magnificent gold medal (weighing forty
sovereigns) and a chain, and honoured with a letter of instructions signed by her majesty.*
The medal, which on the obverse has an effigy of the Queen, and on the reverse the arms of,
and an eulogy on, the recipient, together with a characteristic portrait of the veteran, are
now at Maitland in the possession of Capt. Anley, having descended, by the marriage of
Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Lempriere, with Philip NicoUe, of S. Clement, to their present
possessor.
From Thomas, a younger son of Drouet Lempriere, Seigneur of Trinity, to whom the
Seigneurie of Dielament had descended as a patrimony, is derived the branch of Lempriere of
RozEL. The grandson of this Thomas was the famous Michael Lempriere, the Piepublican
Bailly and Champion, and the Seigneur of Maufont. His lot was cast in dark and troublous
times, in Avhicli his courage and straightforwardness stood him in good stead. Participating in
the feeling tlien generally prevalent in the island, that the De Carteret fixmily possessed too
large a sliare of insular official appointments and emoluments, he was induced, as a reformer,
mainly by this reason, to espouse the republican cause ; opposition to, and defiance of, a local
rival for fame, and not disloyalty to the king, being his mainspring of action. In these views,
once adopted, he was firm and unwavering ; and forsaken, in the moment of trial, by almost all
his colleagues, he was the only one who dared, alone, to ti-averse by his presence and argu-
ments, the united force of his opponents, and to beard the powerful Sir Philip De Carteret in his
own peculiar domain, the Eoyal Court House. Although the leaders of the rebel party in
Jersey have never been looked upon with that condonation and indulgence extended to their
more fortunate coadjutors in England (a favour which, as a whole, their motives little deserved),
yet even his enemies admitted, on all hands, that in weal or woe, Michael Lempriere did, to the
best of his power, his duty both to himself and his countrymen. Indeed, he may with much
pi'opriety be called " the Hampden of Jersey " ; for when a weak compliance with the order of
the day would at once have secured to him personal immunity and the enjoyment of his estates,
he preferred honourable exile to the adoption of views foreign to his conscience. During his
official rule as Bailly (a preferment given by Charles I. and continued by Cromwellf ), too much
commendation cannot be given him for the unexceptionable justice shown in the judgments of
his Courts,! and he has earned the gratitude of every local antiquary from his rule of keeping
the public records in a systematic manner, and of having them transcribed legibly. As a proof
of the estimation in which his genuine worth of character was held by the king, it may be
stated that although he had been the very heart and soul of the Nonconformist party, he was
fully and freely pardoned by Royal Proclaniation,§ when others of his colleagues, by no means
* Vide London Gazette.
t Vide Deed of the lloyal Court, of Sept. 9, 1G43, in wliich Miduul Lempriere is styled " Bailly of Jersey, under our
Sovereign Lord, Charles I."
t Vide Durell's " Falle. History of Jersey." § Vide Hoskins' " Charles II. in the Channel Islands."
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 237
conspicuous for rampant republicanism, were excepted by name. Nor ought another trait in
his character to pass unrecorded. Having much interest with the Protector, and being perfectly
acquainted Avith the laws and customs of his country, he exerted all his influence to mitigate the
rigour of the military occupation which threatened the island after its subjugation by the
republicans; and he had the generosity to so far conquer private feeling as to obtain from
Cromwell, for all the small, and consequently needy, proprietors an entire exemption from the
impost levied on the estates of loyalists. The benevolence that dictated this intercession reflects
as much credit on his character as a man as its success does on his talents as a diplomatist.
The son of this Michael Lempriere, another Michael, who represented but a junior branch
of his section of the fomily, became its heir-general, and Seigneur of Dielament, by the successive
deaths of two of his cousins without heirs. From him descended three generations, all
distinguished by their positions in the Royal Court and Militia of the island, and by gifts and
talents which seemed almost hereditary. The English Government recognised, by highly
flattering letters, and the States of Jersey, by Acts of the Court, the services rendered by these
members of the family, and their staunch loyalty during the French war. And it increased in
wealth, if not in consequence, by the recent acquisition, by marriage, fi-om the Corbet family,
of the Seigneurie of Rozel, and fi'om the same heiress a fourth share of the large S. Ouen estates.
Of these, Charles Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel, Chief Magistrate and President of the
States of Jersey for upwards of thirty years, was esteemed the representative Jerseyman of his
day. The bare enumeration of the offices he filled in connection with his native island would
fill pages, and a detailed account of his career, volumes. His public actions bore chiefly on the
great necessity of the times — the protection of Jersey fi'om French invasion. He is found in
London as a Deputy, procuring arms and artillery for the militia, of which he was subsequently
the great disciplinarian. Then as establishing, at his own sole expense, a system of secret intel-
ligence in France, whereby information of the greatest moment was obtained, regarding the
forces and intentions of the enemy at Cancale Bay, Brest, S. Malo, and Havre-de-Grace. He
procured, for all the operations of the British Navy that required them, pilots for the French
coast, and, in 1758, he subsidized the shipping of Jersey from his private purse, and organized
an expedition to the island of Chausey (now again being fortified, to the dismay of the English
press, by Napoleon HL) under Lord (then Commodore) Howe, when the existing fortifications
were entirely destroyed, and the Channel swept clear of French cruisers. Honoured with the
friendship and approbation of the Earl Granville, the Marquesses of Bath and of Laudsdowne,
and of the Privy Councillors of his time, and with the gratitude and respect of his countrymen,
death closed his memorable and patriotic exertions, in the ninety-fifth year of his age.
His son, William-Charles Lempriere, who succeeded his father in his estates and the
greater part of his public employments, injured a delicate constitution by a too rigorous fulfil-
ment of military duties, in almost daily inspecting the fortifications then in course of progress
throughout the island. He died at Penzenas, in Languedoc, in 178.3, in the flower of his age.
His son, the late Philip-Raoul Lempriere, Esq., Seigneur of Rozel, was a Jurat of the Royal
Court from 1819 to 1835, and was Colonel of the N. Regiment of Militia. In early life he thought
of settling permanently in England, and to that end purchased the estate of Clere Park, Hants, but
subsequently sold it and returned to Jersey, busying himself in improvements in his Seigneurie,
H H
238 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
and in the cultivation of polite literature, to which he was much addicted. He mamed
Elizabeth, daughter of John Poingdestre, Jurat of the Royal Court, by whom he had seven
children. Charles, a Major in H.M. 53rd Regiment, who died at Madeira in 1855. William, of
whom presently. Henry, of the Royal Artillery. Philip, died young. Emily, who died in
1833. Helen, who mamed the Rev. Augustus- James Brine, of Boldre, Lymington, Hants (who,
Jidy 30, 1860, assumed the surname and arms of Knapton, as descended from Anne, sister and
co-heiress of William Knapton, of the family of Knapton, of Brockenhurst, Hants*). And Maria.
The Rev. William Lempriere, M.A., is the present Seigneur of the fair domain of
Rozel. He has shown great interest in restoring all the objects of antiquity on his estate,
and is the President of a Society devoted to Constitutional Reforms in the Laws of, and their
Administration in, Jersey. He married Julia- Anne, daughter of Thomas-Moore Wayne, Esq.,
of South Waruborough, Hants, by whom he has issue five children.
The late Captain William Lempriere, R. H. Artillery, was a brother of the late Seigneur of
Rozel ; and after his retirement from the service, settled at Ewell, Epsom. " He served the
campaign under Sir John Moore, including the actions at Sahagun and Benevente, and the famous
retreat to Corunna. In 1814, he served in the South of France, and was present at the battle
of Thoulouse; after which he served in the American War, and assisted in the battle of
Bladusberg, capture of Washington, and in the operations with the army in the Chesapeake,
and before New Orleans. In 1815, he served in the Netherlands, and was attached to the
Prussian army, in reducing the fortresses on that frontier." f He married Harriet, daughter of
Sir Thomas Reid, Bart., by whom he had thirteen children, the eldest surviving of whom, and
the representative of this section of the family, is Captain George-Reid Lempriere, R.E., who
has seen service in the Crimea and the Circassian Coast, and who married Jane-Hannah-
Morgan, daughter of Colonel Anderson, and has issue four children.
The great-uncle of the present Seigneur of Rozel, and the only brother of William-
Charles Lempriere, Seigneur of Rozel, Jurat of the Royal Court, Lieutenant-Bailly of
Jersey, and Colonel of the North Regiment of Militia, was Thomas Lempriere, who was
Commissary -General of Musters of H.M. Forces in Jersey and Guernsey, and who was also an
Advocate of the Royal Court, and the successor of his brother as Colonel of the North
* The family of Knapton was settled, and resided, for many generations at Brockenhurst, in the county of
Southampton, as recorded iu the several Visitations of Hampshire. The Manor of Roydon, in this parish, with other
manors and lands in South and North Hants, was held by it. Of this house were James, and his sons, John and Paul
Knapton, the eminent publishers and booksellers of London, and also George Knapton, painter to the Society of Dilettanti,
and Surveyor and Keeper of the King's paintings, in the reign of George II. (Vide Horace AValpole's "Anecdotes of
Painting.") It was connected by marriage with the families of De Bitton (otherwise Button), Burrard, and others in the
vicinity of Lymington. { F/rfp the Pedigrees of Button and Burrard — Berry's " County Genealogies," Hants.) Several
members of the family filled the office of Jlayor of the Borough of Lymington, and the name frequently occurs on the
roll of its burgesses. (Vide Records of the Borough of New Lymington, by Charles S. Barbe.) AVilliam Knapton, only
son and heir of Odber Knapton, Mayor of Lymington, in 1727 and 172S, and grandson of William Knapton of Brockenhurst,
perished in tlie prison of Calcutta, commonly known as the Black Hole, in -June, 1751!. His sister Anne, who, with others,
thus became his co-heiress, married William Dansey, Esq., of Blandford, whose daughter and co-heiress, JMartha-JIaria,
became the wife of Rear-Admiral Augustus Brine. The only issue of this marriage, the Rev. Augustus-James Brine,
M.A. Oxon, and J. P. for the county of Southampton, assumed, as stated above, the name of Knapton, in consequence of
his co-repr(!sentatiou of this family.
t Vide Harls' Army List.
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239
Regiment of Militia. He was Seigneur of Chesnel, Pesnel, or Paynel — ^a fief so called fi'om
its first probable owners, members of the family of Paynel. His eldest son, Vice-Admiral
George-Oury Lemprieee, married Frances, only daughter and heiress of William Dumaresq,
of Pelham, Hants, where he is now located, and is the representative of this portion of the
family. He entered the Navy in 1797, served under Lord Nelson at the battle of Copenhagen,
and was afterwards promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In the " Loire " he was subsequently
engaged in various single actions with French frigates and other craft. He was present at the
taking of Guadaloupe under Sir Alexander Cochrane. He was nominated Commander in 1813,
and in the following year was selected by Sir Herbert Sawyer as his Flag-Captain on the Cork
Station. He was promoted to the ranks of Post-Captain in 1825, Eear-Admiral in 1854, and
Vice-Admiral in 1858. Among other ships, the Admiral has served in the " Russell," the
"S. Joseph," the "Africa," the "Trent," and the "Ganymede." By his wife. Admiral
Lempriere has issue four children. Audley, who at nineteen was Captain in H.M. 77th
Regiment, and who, under the loving soubriquet of the " Boy Captain," won, by his gallant
bearing, his high-bred courtesy, and kindness of heart, the affections of his brother-officers and
of his men. It was a sad day for his regiment, when he laid down his life for his country in
the trenches before Sevastopol; and I depict below all that remains (save his memory in the
hearts of his friends, and those were all who knew him) to show Audley Lempriere was
once among us. " Those whom the gods love, die young." Algernon-Thomas, M.A.,
of Trinity College, Oxford, Barrister-at-law ; and two daughters, Ellen and Harriet.
MANUK lIOrsE or ROZEL.
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240 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
The Manor House of Rozel, which has been thrice rebuilt, is most pleasantly situated in
the parish of S. Martin, overlooking the sea and the opposite coast of France. To the sea-
ward the grounds are laid out as a park, and are studded with timber as tine as any in the
island, which is not, by the way, celebrated for the large growth of its trees. Towards the land,
the chapel, with its quaint belfry, stands in a sheltered nook, in front of gay pailerres, and a
smoothly-shaven lawn, which is bounded by a vivier or fish-pond. The stream from this
pond flows through a beautiftd valley, the cotils, or hUl-sides, of which are thickly covered with
sapUngs. These manifold changes of scenery give an indescribable charm to the grounds, and
make them appear of far larger extent than they really are. The house itself is a square,
battlemented structure, surmounted l)y a tower; and close at hand is the outward and visible
sign of feudal prosperity in the shape of the Colmnbier^ or dove-cote, which, as usual, is round,
with a pointed roof, and like the keep of an ancient castle, mounts guard over the stables, which
are built in a hollow, on the site of the ancient manor-house, erected in common with all ancient
Jersey dwellings, on the lowest level, jmur Vahri.
The manorial chapel is dedicated to S. Ann, and was, after the Reformation, like all similar
structures, degraded to the base uses of a barn. The late Seigneur restored the edifice in very
correct taste, beneficed a chaplain, and caused service to be regularly performed there. In his
memory, a window to the West has been inserted, after a design by Winston. It is composed of
three medallions, one above the other. Above and below each, are angels holding scrolls, on
which are inscribed the beatitudes. On the upper medallion is represented the " Sermon on
the Mount " ; on the centre one, " Christ blessing little Children " ; while the third porti'ays
" Christ washing the Disciples' feet." Beneath this window is a brass, bearing the following
inscription, in old Roman characters usual in the eleventh century (tlie probable date of the
ei'ection of the Chapel) : —
"En mrmomm Ufjtitppi Kaoul iLrmprirrr, (jut annts axvEF fjonoratr prrffftis tl) "bit
iloDrml)ri0, la.SD. ifMDdTtfiCiHi.v, mortaUtatrm rxiut. ?i?or garrllum ali i^^o rrfrrtttin rt
U0ui CTijiistiano rr&Oitum, ocriticntaU frnrstra roajux iiuririiji ornanHum ruiatoit."
Rozel is one of the five Fiefs Haubert of the island, and " is held by Knight's fervice, ward-
fhip, and homage ; and for the which fief and manor is owed 60 Jols, i denier of relief, with the
grand-fergeantry of afting as the King's Butler, during the ftay of our Lord the King in the
ifland, and for the which the holder of the faid fief fhall receive the emoluments due to the King's
Butler aforefaid ; furthermore, he is bound by the tenure of the faid fief to meet the King, horfed,
fo far in the fea as the water may reach to the girths of his faddle, and fo likewife to take him at his
departure ; and he oweth fuit to the King's Court at every opening of the fame, at the three
Chief and Principal Pleas of the year."*
* Vide the various Extentes of the island. In 1846, on the occasion of Her Majesty's visit to Jersey, Philip-Raoul
Ijompricrc, Esq., as Seigneur of Rozel, claimed the right of performing the homage above mentioned to the Queen,
whenever she might he pleased to revisit the island. His right ^vas graciously admitted, and confirmed in a letter
addressed to him, dated Windsor Castle, September 29th, 1846, and signed G. W. Anson.
Perhaps this fief may derive its appellation from some connection of a former possessor ^vith the village of Rosel, in
Normandy. There is also a considerable fief in Guernsey of the same name. In that island a family of dc Rozel was
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
241
Arms (as borne by the Rev. William Lempriere, M.A.) : Gules, three eagles, displayed,
or ; a martlet for difference. Quartering : Azure, nine bQlets, or, for De S. Martin : Or, a
raven,^ sable, for Corbet : Gules, four fusils conjoined in fesse, argent, for De Carteret : Gules,
a chevron between three towers, triple-towered, or, for S. Ouen: Gules, four fusils, conjoined in
fesse, argent, for D' Albini : Sable, two shin-bones in saltire, argent, the dexter surmounted of
the sinister, for Newton: Azure, three lions, rampant, or; a bordure sable, for De Caux:
Argent, a saltire, gules, between four fleurs-de-lis, azure, for Harleston: Gules, two bars,
ermine; in chief three martlets, or, for Sarre: Gules, four fusils conjoined in fesse, argent; in
base, an annulet, or, for difference, for De Carteret : Sable, three swords in pile, argent, points
downwards, hilts and pomels, or ; two mullets in chief for difference, for Poulett : Argent, two
wings, conjoined, ermine, for Raynez : Azure, six mascles, argent, three and three, for Credie :
Party per fesse, gules and azure, tkree crescents, argent, for Aumeral : Barry of eight, argent
and gules, over all a bend, sable, for Bourton: Argent, a chevron, gules, between three garbs,
vert, for Bosco : Azure, on a chief, argent, a demi-lion, couped, gules, for Deniband : Argent,
three chevrons, sal)le, for Archdeacon : Gules, a cross, fleury, or, charged with seven roundels,
sable, for Latimer: Gules, a wyvern, with wmgs erect, argent, for Le Brent: Gules, three
lions passant, in pale, argent ; over all, a label of three points, sable, for Giefard : Argent, a
fesse between three cinquefoils, gules, for Poutrell : and Argent, a fesse between three wolves'
heads, erased, sable, a crescent for diflFerence, for Seale.
Crests: 1. An eagle, rising, ppr., for Lempriere. 2. On a mound, vert, a squiiTel, sejant,
cracking a nut, ppr., for De Carteret. 3. An elephant, argent, armed, gold, on his buck a
castle, triple-towered, of the last, trappings, or and sable, for Corbet.
Motto : Timor Dei Nobilitas.
Supporters : Two knights, fully armed, visors raised, ppr.*
once numerous, and only became extinct at the close of the last century. Rosel as a patronjinic, is also known in
England, the representatives of which have long been settled at Ratcliffe, Nottinghamshire.
Arms of de Rosel, of Guernsey : Argent, three roses, gules, barbed and seeded, ppr.
Arms of Rosel of Ratcliffe : Argent, on a bend, vert, three roses, or. Vide Collectanea Topographia et Genealogiea.
Vol. S, pp. 327—345.
ARMS BORNE BY VARIOtJS BRANCHES OP THE LEMPRIERE FAMILY IN FRANCE.
* It may easily be supposed that in a family of such antiquity as that of Lempriere, its various members in France
and Jersey have made, at various times, considerable changes in their armorial bearings. The original arms of the family
are those in the first shield of the illustration : Gyi-onny of twelve, argent and gules ; on a chief azure, a double-headed
eagle, displayed, argent, placed to the dexter. These arms, according to the Armories of BeiTy and Burke, appear to have
been borne by a fiimily named Lempreu, or Lempreur, in England. The next shield bears the arms of Lempereur, Seigneurs
de Cantiere in the seventeenth century : Or, a double-headed eagle, displayed, sable ; in chief, a sun, in its splendour,
gules. The third escutcheon represents the bearings of Lempereur, of Portbail, and also of Lemperiere, Seigneurs of
242
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Arms (as borne by Capt. George-Reid Lempriere, R.E.): The same Arms (an anmilet
for difference), Crests, and Motto. Impaling: Argent, on a chevron, vert, between three hawks'
heads, erased, sable, as many thistles, slipped and leaved, of the first ; on a canton of the third
three martlets, argent, for Anderson.
Arms (as borne by Capt. Arthur-Reid Lempriere, R.E.) : The same Arms (an annnlet for
difference). Crests, and Motto. On an escutcheon of pretension : Argent, a griffin's head, erased,
sable, a crescent for difference, for Gardner. Quartering: Ermine, on a fesse, sable, three
pheons, argent, for Atkinson.
Arms (as borne by Vice- Admiral George-Oury Lempriere) : The same Arms (a fleur-de-
Querqueville, in 1540 : Gules, a two-handled vase, and issuant therefrom three roses, argent, leaved and stemmed, vert.
The fourth shield presents the arms of L'Empereur, of Blorfontaine : Azure, a double-headed eagle, displayed, argent,
debruised of a bend, gules ; in base, a cross of six points, suspended by a red ribbon. The arms of Lamperiere, of Mon-
tigny, in Nonnandy, are : Azure, two vases, argent, in chief, and issuant therefrom, flames, ppr. ; in base, a lion passant,
or. A family of L'Emperiere (the ancient form of L'Imperatrice), now extinct, bore three crowns (colours not indicated).
The seal of John Lemperere, of May, Normandy, engraved in D'Anisy's " Chartes de Calvados," bears a tree, but this, no
doubt, was intended rather as a personal device, than as an heraldic charge.
Upon comparing the arms given above wth the fac-similes of the seals here presented of various of the members of the
Jersey family, it will be oliserved that the eagle is evidently the predominating charge, and that the bearings of the con-
tinental and the insular families coincide in a manner which bespeaks, strongly enough, their common origin.
^J^jAtT^dbpAJ.
SEAL OP THOMAS LEMPRIERE, BAILLY OP JERSEY IN 1497 5 SEAL AND AUTOGRAPH OF HUGH LEMPRIERE, JUDGE-DELEGATE
IN 1614 ; AND .SEAL OF THOMAS LEMPRIERE, JUDGE-DELEGATE IN 1581. (ACTUAL SIZES.)
On a buttress to the N.W. of S. Saviour's Church, exists the oldest sculpture of the arms of the Jersey branch. The
three eagles are still sufficiently distinct, although much mutilated by time, and the stone on which they appear evidently
formed portion of a far more ancient structure than the present. On the Ijell of the parish church of S. Trinity, east in
the seventeenth century, are the arms, crest, and motto of the Lemprieres. The crest differs from the one at present in use,
being an eagle dis]ilayed, as in the arms. By a seal at present in the possession of Capt. Aniey, who represents a branch
of the house descended from Capt. James Lempriere, R.N., it appears this branch bore for cre.st — a demi-eagle displayed.
In other descriptions of the crest, a dove, rising, supplants the eagle. The charges of the shield have not escaped a varia-
tion of tincture, for while they are most generally, and most properly borne, or, some Ijranchcs of the family emblazon
them as argent.
Capt. James Lempriere l)ore on his medal the characteristic motto—" True to my Trust ;" on the seal of liis family
appears — Non Oenerant Aquila: Columbas. It is almost superfluous to observe that the motto liurnc liy the iiozol branch
is the original one.
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243
lis foi' difference), Crests, and Motto. On an escutclaeon of pretension : Gules, three escallops, or, a
mullet for difference, for Dumaresq : Gules, three escallops, or, a mullet for difference, for Ddma-
RESQ : Sable, three dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : Argent, three trefoils, slipped, sable,
for Payn : and Ermines, a cross-bow, drawn, charged with an arrow, all argent, for Larbalestier.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Everard Lempriere, M.A.): Gules, three eagles, displayed,
or; a crescent for difference. Quartering: Azure, nine billets, or, for De S. Martin: and. Per
pale, azure and gules, three bees, or, for Doret. Impaling : Gules, three boars' heads, erased,
in pale, argent, for Foulkes.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Augustus- James Knapton, M.A.): Gules, a fesse, dancette
ermine, between three chaplets of roses, or. Impaling : The arms of Lempriere of Rozel.
Crest : A spear erect, ppr., therefrom pendent by a ribbon, or, a chaplet, gvdes, adorned
with four roses, gold.
Motto: Pretium Victoribus Coronse.*
* Vide Virgil, " ^neid," Liv. v., 1. 110—" Viridesque corona et ^shax, pretium victoribus."
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In Memory ot
AOTLEY LEMPRIEKE,
S„a of R»r.i>tairal G. O. Lempnore. of Polham
thi9 parieta,
Russian Rifle Pl^^,
On the 19th of April, 18W,
Ased 20 yean. , .
„„ p..ont w,th Z H...»e- ^*»- 7™'"'"
From .he commencement of '\^^'' „
And wa. o«..8-i '•> "" B.u.e. of Al-» -^ ^^:™ „
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MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF CAPT. AUDLEY LEMPRIEEE, IN
NEWTON-VALENCE ClIURCU, NEAR ALTON, HANTS.
244 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSET.
^fbi'sree of iLnnpn'trf, of Iaok^
EvERARD DE Lempehiere, Or L'sMPEREUH, bom circa 970.
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Otho de Lerapriere, d. 1060.
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Rodolph de Lerapriere, d. 1110.
Philip de Lerapriere = Claudia de la Riviere.
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Theobald de Lempriere.
Guy de Lerapriere, b. 1121.
John de Lerapriere = Alice, d. of the Seig. de Tollevast.
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Raoul de Lerapriere, b. 1170 = .... d. of the Seig. de Sottevast.
John de Lerapriere = Florence, d. of Zachariah de Rivieres, Seig. d'Amfreville.
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Nicholas de Lerapriere. Ouda.rd, Cure de Valognes. Raoul. settled in Jersey 1270.
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Thomas Lerapriere, Seig. of Lerapriere and Covey, in Jersey, living 1331.
Raoul Lerapriere, Bailly of Jersey in 1362, Seig. of Rozel, etc., by purchase, 1367 = .... d. of Geoffry Bras-de-Fer.
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Drouet Lerapriere, Seig. of Rozel, Jurat, R.C. Jeanette = Peter Le Marchant, of Guernsey.
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John Lerapriere, Seig. of Rozel, Receiver of the King's Revenues in Jersey, 1st Sept., 1430, Bailly of Jersey, 1434.
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Renaud Lempriere, Seig. of Rozel, George, Seig. of Di^lamenl, Jurat, R.C. Raulin, Jurat, R.C, Seig. of S. John.
killed at the Seige of Mont Or- La Hougue Botte. (rit/e Ped. of ■
gueil Castle, Corpus Christi Thomasse, sister and h. of William De Lempriere, of S. John, La Hougue
Eve, 1467. S. Martin, Seig. of S. Trinity. Boete.)
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John Lerapriere, Seig. of Rozel, Governor of Jersey, by Pat. 3 Dec, 1500, Catherine, h. to her brother, and Lady of Rozel.
Jurat, R.C, o.s.p., 1534. —
Dominic Perrin, of Guernsey.
Drouet Lempriere, Seig. of Trinity, Jurat, R.C, = Mabel, d. of Ph. De Carteret, Jeanette. Guillemette.
from 1507 to 1527.
Seig. of S. Ouen.
Nich. Herivell. George Payn, of S. Laurence.
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John Lerapriere, Seig. of Trinity. Thomas, Seig. of Dielaraent, Jurat, R.C, for 50 years. Mary. Mabel.
{Vide Ped. of Lerapriere, of
Trinity.) . . . . d. of .. . De La Rocque. James Le Gros. Edw. Payn, of S. Ouen.
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Michael Lempriere, Seig. of Dielaraent, Attorney-General of = Mabel, d. of Richard Dumaiesq, Seig. of V. de B., and relict of
Jersey, 1570. I John Messervy.
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1. Elizabeth, d. of = Hugh Lempriere, Seig. of =
Edward Dumaresq, Dielament, Advocate, R C,
ofLaHaule. 1575, Solicitor-General,
1580, Jurat, R.C., 1592,
Lieut. -Bailly, 1601, and
Judge-Delegate of Jersey,
1614 and 1621, Captain of
the Train Band of S.
Trinity.
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Joshua Lempriere.
: 2. Jane, d. of
. . . Herault,
and sister of
the Bailly.
Thomas, Jurat, R.C., purchased
the Seigneurie of les Augr^s.
Rachel, only d. of Ed. Sarre, of
S. John.
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Sarah.
Martin Roraeril,
Constable of S.
Trinity.
Esther.
Francis Amy.
Benjamin, Seig. of les
Augr^s, Jurat, R.C.
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Mary. Rachel. Sarah. Esther. Elizabeth. Douce.
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Philip Lempriere, Seig.
of Dielament, Jurat,
R.C, 1621.
Mary, d. of
HelierLe
Montais.
Michael, Seig. of Maufant, = Sarah, d. of
Jurat, R.C, 1637, and
Bailly of Jersey under Chas.
L, 1643, and under Crom-
well, 1655.
Francis De
Carteret, of
La Hague.
Joshua,
fettled at
S. John.
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M.D., ob.
1661.
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John
Herault.
Elizabeth.
Aaron Stocall,
Sol. -Gen. of
Jersey.
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Philip Lempriere,
Seig. of Dielament,
oh. innupt.
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Hugh, h. to his brother, Seig. of
Dielament, o.s.p., 1698, when the
Seigneurie tievolved on his cousin,
Michael Lempriere.
Michael Lempriere, Seig. :
of Dielament, Jurat, R.C,
Col., E. Regt., R.J.M.
Margaret, d. of . . . La Cloche.
■ Frances, d. of
Francis De
Carteret, of La
Hougue.
Philip,
o.sp.
Mary.
Joan.
Henry De John Le
Carteret, of Geyt.
La Hague.
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Michael Lempriere, Seig. of Dielament and Saval, Jurat, R.C, Col., = Jane, d. of James Corbet.
E. Regt., R.J.M.
Marv.
John Le Hardy, Constable of Grouville.
Charles Lempriere, Seig. of Dielament, Sol. -Gen. 1741, Jurat,
R.C, 1750, and Lieut.-Bailly of Jersey, 1755, Judge-Delegate
1763 and 1776, Col., N. Regt., R.J.M.
Elizabeth, d. and h. of James Corbet, Seig. of Rozel, and co- re-
presentative of De Carteret of S. Ouen, in right of her grand-
mother, Anne, d. of Francis De Carteret, and who upon
the death of Robert, Earl Granville, s.^., became entitled to one
quarter of the S. Ouen estates.
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Philip, Seig. of Chesnel, Commissary-Gen. of
Jersey and Guernsey, Receiver of the King's
Revenues, 1749. Attorney-General of Jersey,
Col., N. Regt., R.J.M., o s.p.
1. Julia de Varignon, eld. d. of Brig.-Gen.
d'Apremont.
2. Mary, d. of . . . Weeks.
Jane.
Ed. Rieard,
Jurat, R.C.
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Ann.
Thomas
Pipon.
Charles Lempriere, University,
Oxford, Commissary-Gen. for
Jersey and Guernsey, Capt.,
R.J.M., ob. itmupl. v. p.
William-Charles, Seig. of
Dielament and Saval,
Advocate and Jurat,
R.C, Lieut. -Badly
of Jersey, and Col., N.
Regt , R. J. INL, Commis-
sary-Gen. of Jersey and
Guernsey, o.v.p.
I
Elizabeth, d. Thomas. Seig. of Chesnel, ;
nf Matthew Commissary-General of
Gosset. Jersey and Guernsey, in
succession to liis brothers.
Advocate, R.C, Col., N.
Regt., R.J.M., was
wouncled in the Battle of
Jersey, 1781.
Elizabeth-Charity,
d. and h. of the Rev.
Samuel Beuzeville,
& h. of Admiral G.
Oury, m. 1783.
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Philip. Sophia.
George-Oury Lempriere,
Vice-Admiral, Seig. of
Chesnel.
Frances, d. and h. of Wm.
Dumaresq, of Pelhara, Hants.
I
Charles, H.M.
service, served
in the Penin-
sula, 'jb.
Thomas,
Lieut.,
R.E,d.
at Alicant.
Samuel,
R.N.,ob.
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Elizabeth-Sophia.
Mary-Julia.
Anne-Oury.
Caroline-Charity.
Amelia.
Marianne.
Chas. Pipon. Hon. Algernon
Herbert, son of
the Earl of
Caernarvon.
Jane.
Major
Lewis,
R.E.
Audley Lempriere, Capt., 77tb Regt., killed
in the trenches before Sevastopol.
Algernon-Thomas, M.A., of Trinity College,
Oxon, Barrister-at-Law.
Ellen.
Harriet.
Philip-Raoul Lempriere, Esq , Seigneur of Rozel, Jurat, R.C
Col., N. Regt., R.J.M.. ob.
Elizabeth, d. of John Poingdestre, Jurat, R.C.
T
William, Capt., R. H. Artillery,
of Ewell, Epsom, ob. 1858.
Harriet, d. of Sir Thomas Reid, Bart.
I
Elizabeth.
Mary.
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AN AKMORIAL OF JERSEY.
William-Reid Lempriere, George-Reid, Capt., R.E. Henry-Reid. Arthur-Reid, R.E. Harriet. Mary. Emily. Isabella.
oh. 1857.
Jane-Hannali-Morgan,d. Herbert-Reid. Anne-Hawksham, Elizabeth. Fanny. Emma-Helen,
of Col. Anderson. — 2nd d. and co.-h. of
= Percy-Reid. Wm. -Atkinson Gard-
I ner, of Gonston House, Herts,
j and of Newnham, Tasmania.
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George-Beresford Lempriere. Eva-Lfetitia. Alice-Harriet.
Geraldine-Isabel.
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Charles Lempriere, Major William, M. A., Clerk, Seig. Henry, R. A. Philip, ob.juii. Emily, ob. 1833. Helen.
b^rd Regt., ob. Vila patris, of Rozel and dependencies.
1855. Imogine, d. of The Rev. A.-J.
Julia-Anne, d. and h. of
T. M. Wayne.
. . . Tylden.
T
I
Everard Lempriere.
Alice.
Ada.
Reginald-Raoul Lempriere.
Mabel.
Eleanor-Ireue.
I
Agnes-Emilie.
Knapton, M.A.
Edith.
I
Helen-Maud.
Maria.
^3rlri(j:itf of Srmpn'trf, of ^. Crinit}).
George Lebiprirre, Seig. of Dielament, Jurat, R.C.= Tliomasse, sister and h. of William De S. Martin, Seig. of Trinity.
{Fide Pedigree of Lempriere, of Rozel.) I
Drouet Lempriere, Seig. of Trinity, Jurat, R.C.= Mabel, d. of Philip De Carteret, Seig. of S. Ouen.
Jeannelte.
GuiUemette.
Nich. Herivell. George Payn, of
S. Laurence.
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John Lempriere, Seig. of Trinity, Jurat, R C. from 1527 to 1670, Thomas, Seig. of Dielament. Mary. Mabel.
Lieut. -Bailly, and Judge-Delegate under Sir R. Mabon. {Fide Ped. of Lempriere, of . •
Rozel.) James Ed_ Payn,
Elizabeth, d. of . . . De Carteret.
LeGros. of S. Ouen.
Gilles Lempriere, Seig. of Trinity, Jurat, R C, 1570, Vicomte, Oct. 12, 15B9, Helier, Seig. of les Augres, Vieomte and Solicitor-General
and Lieut.-Governor of Jersey, 1576, d. 1601. of Jersey, 1570, Jurat, R.C., 1584, d. 1601.
Jane, d. of Edward Dumaresq, (5f la Haule.
Catherine Lempriere, only d. and h., Lady of Trinity.
Amias De Carteret, Bailliff of Guernsey.
Jane, d. of . . . Gilbert, d. 1607.
T
I
Philip.
John Lempriere, Seig. of les Augres,
sold this fief to his cousin Thomas, ••
son of Michael, o.s.p. Elizabeth, d. of Edward La Cloche.
T
Daniel.
I
1. Jane, d. of John Durell = Hugh Lempriere, Jurat, R.C., 1657 = 2. Mary, d. of . . . Aubin.
Rev. John Lempriere, Rector of Grouville, d. 1720 = Rachel, d. of Ph. Le Hardy.
John Lempriere, b. 1706. Thomas, b. 1715. Philip, d. in England, Mary, b. 1712.
— Capt. R.N. 1783, s.p. —
Charles, b. 1707. Judith, b. 1720.
Daniel = Ann, d. of Matthew Le Geyt.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
247
Daniel Lempriere, o.s.p.
Hugh = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Brohier. Margaret.
Ann.
I
Madelaine-ElizabeUi.
Susan, ci. of . . . Cabot. Elizabeth Lempriere, only d. and h.
Philip De Carteret.
George Le Feuvre. Gabriel Dupont. Charles DeSte.Croix,
Capt. R.J.M.
Helier Lempriere = Elizabeth, d. and h. of Matthew Dorey, Receiver of the King's Revenues in Jersey, h. to La Longue Paroi He
I
Helier Lempriere = Esther, d. of . . . Le Gros.
I
John Lempriere.
Rachel, d. of ...
Alexandre, of S.
Saviour.
Esther.
I
Jane.
Mary.
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John = Mary, d. of . . . Esnouf. Hugh, o.s.ji.
John Lempriere = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Larbalestier.
I
John Soudel. Michael Bisson. Charles Giffard.
I
Charles Lempriere
1. Mary.d. of . . . De Ste. Croix, o.s.p.
3. Mary, d. of . . . Ricard, o.s.p.
= 2. Mary, d. of. .
Aubin.
Charles Lempriere = Susan, d. of . . . Collas.
I
I
Elizabeth.
1. Lucy, only d. and h. = Rev. John, D.D.,= 2. Elizabeth, d. of
of Francis Willince. | Rector of Meeth.
I
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Charles- John Lempriere, John Charles, Mary-Elizabeth,
d. 1803, o.s.p. R.N. , o.s.p.
3. Ann, d. of Ed-
ward Colling-
wood, o.s.p.
John Deane, of
Reading.
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John-Deane Lempriere, Charles, b. 1818, D.C.L., Ann, b. 1718.
b. 1815, d. 1816. Barrister-at-law, Fellow
of S. John'sCollegcOxon. Charles Thomson.
I
John-Francis
Lempriere, b.
andd. 1793.
Rev. Francis-Drocus,
b. 1794.
Sarah, d. of... Boutcher.
Rev. Everard, b. 1800,
Rector of Meeth , Devon.
Lucy-Maria, d. of S.
B. Foulkes.
Helier, b.
&d.l806.
Everard-James Lempriere,
b. 1829, d. 1852.
Frederick-Peter,
b. 1832.
'fhomas-Charles-
Leaver, b. 1836.
I
Louisa,
b.l796,
d. 18:^7.
Wm.-
Bury
Moore,
of Spray'
down
House,
Devon.
I
Susan, b.
1798.
Philip-
Chdwell
De La
Garde, of
Exeter.
.1 II I
Augusta, Caroline, Jane, Catherine
b. 1801,
d. 18.55.
Col.
Deane.
C.B.
b. 1803, b. &d. b. 1804.
d. 1829. 1304.
Rev. Jno.-
Bathurst
Deane,
Rector of
S. jNIartin-
Outwich.
Rev. Peter-
Davy
Foulkei^,
Vicar of
Shelibearc',
Devon.
John Lempriere = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Breton.
Magdelaine = John Poingdestre.
Daniel Lempriere = Sarah, d. of . . . De Rue.
I
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Elizabeth = Francis Le Couteur.
I
Rachel =: John Marett.
John Lempriere = Elizabeth-Rachel, d. of .. . De Gruchy.
Daniel-Francis.
I
Charles-William.
Philip.
John-Daniel Lempriere.
I
Charles-William.
Rev. Daniel-Matthew, M.A.,
Pembroke Coll., Oxon.
Maria-Jane, d. of George Collas.
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Elizabeth. Mary-Ann.
^aftiigrrt of iCempiinf, of ^. 36&n, 2.a ?l)ougi«- 23o'fte, anli of ^. f}t\m\
1. Jeanetto, d. of . . . Nicolle = Raulin Lempriere, Seigneur of S. John, La Hougue Boete, and of the = 2. Simone, d. of John Hallos.
Manor of S. Helier, since termed of 'I'ehy, sold the latter to Perrotin
Tehy.in 1476, Jurat, R.C., d. 1492 {Fide Ped. of Lempriere of Rozel.)
Thomas Lempriere, Seig. of S.John, La Hougue Boete, Jurat, R.C., 1492, Bailly of Jersey in 1495 = Jeanette.d. of Guille Hampton ne. Jurat, R.C
* This family appears to have flourished in England, in the counties of Cornwall, Devonshire, and Wiltshire, as Dore or Doore; in Jersey
as Dorey ; and in Frnnce as Dore, possibly identical with that ancient house chronicled by Des Bois as revelling in the various patronymics of
Aurat, Daurat, Doras, Durat, and D'Oria, and always latinized Auratm or Dauralm.
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248
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Thomas Lempriere, Seig. of
S. John, La Hougue Boiite.
Collette, d. of Michael Lar-
balestier.
Thomasse Isabelle.
Lempriere, eld.
rl. & co.-h., Lady John Mallet,
of S. John, La Seig. of La
Hougue Boiite. Malletiere.
I
Clement, of S. Saviour,
Jurat, R.C., Bailly of
Jersey in 1528.
Jeanette, only d. and h.
of Guille Le Roulx, son
of Nicholas, and of
Jeanette, his wife, eld.
d. of Nicholas Morin,
Bailly of Jersey.
Nicholas, Jurat,
R.Cfrora 1537
to 1551.
Jane, d.of John
Duniaresq, Seig.
of Samares.
Catherine =
2. Clement
Messervy.
3. Thomas
Poingdestre,
of S. Saviour.
1. Richard Langlois,
brother of Sire Phi-
lipot Langlois.
Peronelle.
Jane.
I
John Langlois.
Nicholas
Gosselin,
Jurat, R.C. Seig. of
ofGuernsey. Samaras,
John Dq-
maresq,
I Rachel Langlois, only d. & h. = Hugh Lempriere.
Nicholas Lempriere. Jurat, R.C, 1567 to 1609, Keeper = Elizabeth, d. of Clement Du-
of the Records of Jersey, by appointment, 1600. I niaresq, Seig. of Samares.
Clement Journeaulx.
{I'ide Lineage of Le
Couteur.)
Philip Lempriere, Sol'citor-Gene-
ral, 1541, Jurat, R.C, in 1551.
I
Jane Lempriere.
Thomas De
Suulleraont.
Mary.
Hugh Perrin,
. . d. & co.-h. of Simon Sarre, and Seig. of Rozel.
sister of the Lady of S. Ouen.
I
Elizabeth.
]. Edward Bisson.
2. Edward Herault, his
eventual heiress, Jane, in.
Joshua De Carteret, Seig.
of Trinity.
Mary.
Richard
Dumaresq.
I
Rachel.
I
Martha.
Solomon Elias Duraaresq,
Journeaulx. Seig. of La Haule.
Hugh Lempriere, = Frances, d. and h. of John Langlois.
Jurat, R.C. i (J'ide Ped. of Langlois.)
I
Clement.
I
Thomas.
T
Elizabeth.
Philip Lempriere = Mary, d. of Elias = Elizabeth, d. of Niclio- Mary = John Martha = Robert Brans-
I ...Amy. las Hamptonne. Amy. man.
Mary
Henry Dumaresq,
Seig. of Samaras.
James Lempriere.
Judith, d. of John
Girard, ra. 1612.
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Elizabeth Lempriere, eld. d. and co.-h., d. 1619 = Daniel Sarre. Susan = John Le Geyt. Mary = John Payn. |
Elizabeth Sarre, only d. and h., b. 1618 = Abraham Payn, of S. Martin, possessor of the house of Dom. Phiiipot |
Langlois. (Vide Peds. of Langlois and Payn.) |
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Clement Lempriere, = Elizabeth, d. of Rev. James Ban- Thomas, = Elizabeth, d. of James, b. 1626. Collette, = Thomas Judith,
b. 1616, m. 1653. j dinel. Rector of S. Mary. b. 1624. I ...Le Breton. — b. 1618. Bandinel. b. 1621.
^1 I John, b. 1629.
I
Thomas Lempriere, Constable
ofS. Martin, m. 1691.
Mary, d. of John Le Manquais,
and relict of David Bandinel.
I
James.
Elizabeth, d.of
. . . Mapringle.
I
Esthe
I
Judith.
I
Elizabeth.
Mary.
Thomas Bandinel. Thomas Hilgrove. Thomas Britten.
James Lempriere,
oh. i?ijiupt.
1. George Bandinel = Elizabeth, eld. = 2. Thomas Lempriere.
d. and co.-h.
Ann = Thomas Lempriere,
of Grouville.
Mary Lempriere, eld. i
and co.-h., b. 1692.
John Lempriere.
1. Thomas = Rachel, b. 1693, = 2. Sir John Hamilton, Bart., Elizabeth,
Hilgrove. d. 1749. Lieut, of Col. VVardour's b. 1695.
Regt. of Invalids.
I I I
Mailelaine, b. 1698. Judith.
Charles Hilgrove. Eliza.
Capt. James Lempriere,
R.N., b. 1654.
Ann, d. of . . . Durell.
T
I
Thomas, b. 1657.
Joan, il. of . . .
Beach.
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Clement, b. John = Mary, d. of Thos. David.
I(i60, d. at I Lempriere. drowned
Lisbon. I at sea.
Margaret := Nicholas Judith.
Hammond.
Thomas Lempriere, o.s.p,
Mary, d. of . . . Tilmas.
I
James.
Sarah d. of . . .
Whithurst.
Clemetit,
b. 1682.
Mary.
Roger
Turner.
Elizabeth.
Edward Le
Breton.
Margaret.
Thomas
Boot.
Joan.
Susan.
I I I I I I
James Lempriere. Thomas. Sarah. Elizabeth = James Friend. Mary = J. J. Hammoml. Margaret = Nicholas Hammond.
\^ii'ltulao Lf l|H>psMr,lspin-t
A; n/,t'/,) //ii.y /'/'rff /s /jrcxr/z/if/ /(• /lir ll'fr/r.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
249
Elizabeth, d. of James Lempriere,
and widow of George Bandinel.
John Lempriere
John Lempriere H.B.M. Consul at Faro, Portugal.
Ann-Elizabeth, d. of George Bandinel.
Thomas = Mary, d. of . . . Gar-
I naut, of Lisbon.
Mary = Edward Marett, Seig,
of La Haule.
Thomas Lempriere. James.
T
A Son and Three Daughtera.
William, Physician-General of H.B.M.
Army, of the L of Wight.
John Lempriere, H.B.M.
Consul at Pernambuco.
George, Lieut., R.N.
I I
Thomas.
I I
Catherine.
I I
Matilda.
I
Ann, d. of Charles D'Auvergne, and
sister of the Duke of Bouillon.
Samuel. Margaret. Elizabeth.
I I
Ann. Amelia,
— d. 1860,
Rachel, set. 86.
James Lempriere, Jurat, ^ Magdalen, d. of
R.C., Constable of | Amice D'Au-
S. Helier. | vergne.
I
I
John, ^ Elizabeth
o.s.p. Le Moigne.
I I
George.
Clement,
ob. innupt.
I
Clement.
Elizabeth = Philip Nicolle of S.
Clement. (Vide
Ped. of Aniey.)
I II I !
James-Amice Lempriere, = Jane, d. of Francis-W. Le Maistre, John, George, b. 1746, o.«. " A rich merchant Ann, b. 1732. Mary-Mag-
b. J740, Jurat, R.C., 1789. I Attorney-Gen. of Jersey. o.u. who in London did dwell," afterwards of o.u. dalen, o.«.
I Rotherham, co. York.
I
James-Amice Lempriere, Thomas, George ^ Sarah, d. of Jane = John Allez, Mary-Ann, Elizabeth-Ma- = Francis Jour-
b. 1767. o.s.p. I John Taylor, b. 1764. Jun., M.D. o.s.p delaine, b. 1771. neaux.
I
Jane-Eliza Lempriere, eld. d. and co.-h. = Francis Pirouet.
I
Maria-Margaretta = Wenman-L. Woodford, late of co. Northampton,
now of Upton House, S. Trinity.
%.t d^uesne.
HE old Norman foinily, ov rather families, of Caineto, Kaiueto, or Quesneto, have
existed from a very early period both in England and Jersey. Raoid de Kaineto
Avas at Hastings with the Conqueror, and his grandson, William, is said to have
made prisoner King Stephen, at Lincoln. From this source spring the various
English houses of Chesney, Kaines, and others of less note. A fief, named after this family,
existed in Normandy in the time of Philip-Augustus, for in the roll of his fiefs it appears that
" Domina de Quesneto tenet Ouesnetum per servicium unius militls." Sir Edmund de Chesney
was Governor of the Channel Islands in 1366, where his fiimily flourished for some
generations.
The Jersey house of Le Quesue had settled in the island, and had attained social
importance there, long prior to this date, for, in 1318, at the Pleas held at S. Helier on the
Tuesday after the feast of S. Denis, Gautier Le Qiien appears as one of the Jurats of the Royal
Court, and in the Ecctente of 1331, Colin Le Quesue is recorded as one of the Surveyors of the
King's Dues in the parish of S. John, at that time styled S. John de Caisnibus*
* Vide the Archives preserved at S. Lo, Normandy.
250 -A-N ARMORIAL OV JERSEY.
At tlie period of tlie Rebelliou, John Le Quesiie, of the parish of S. John, suffered for his
kiyalty by paying the impost levied on the Royalists by the Republicans, as appears by an
instrument dated November 26, 1655, and signed by Colonel Robert Gibbon, Governor, and
i\Iichael Lempriere, Bailly, of Jersey, under the Protector.
Several members of the family settled in London during the last century. The burial of
j\Irs. Elizabeth Le Quesne occurs in the Registers of the parish of S. Benet Fink. In 1739,
Sir John Le Quesne, Knight, was an Alderman of London, and in the Registers of S. Peter
le Poor, is noted his marriage, by the Bishop of Norwich, with ]\Iiss Mary Knight, of
Hampshire, a lady with a dowry of twenty thousand pounds.* He died in 1741. In the
latter Registers are also noted the deaths of David Le (Quesne, in 1753, and of Mrs. Susanna
Le Que.snc, in 1760.t
The eldest branch of the family is represented by John Le Quesne, of Mont a I'Abbe,
and a second by Nicholas Le Quesne, Esq., Jurat of the Royal Court, of Rouge Bouillon.
To a younger branch belonged the late Nicholas Le (Quesne, Esq., Jurat of the Royal
Court, who died in 1847. The late Charles Le Quesne, Esq., Jurat of the Royal Court, and
President of the Chamber of Commerce, was his eldest son. He was the author of " A
Constitutional History of Jersey," and other works connected with the island, and was an active
and intelligent member of the States.
Arms (as borne by Nicholas Le Quesne, Esq.): Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a
crescent for difference. Impaling : Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a mullet for difference, for
Le Quesne.
Motto : Suis ducibus ubique fidelis.
Arms (as borne by Giefard-Nicholas Le Quesne, Esq.): Argent, a lion, passant, gules,
a mullet for difference. Impaling : Per fesse, or and sable, a pale couiiterchanged ; in chief
an ermine-spot of the first, between two trefoils, slipped, of the second ; in base a like trefoil
between two like ermine-spots, a crescent for difference, for Simeon.
Motto : Suis ducibus ubique fidelis.
Arms (as borne by James Le Quesne, Esq.): Same Arms, Motto, and Impale, as borne
l)y Giffard-Nicholas Le Quesne, Esq.
^Jrtiityrff of iic ©ursnr.
Clement Le Quksne, living 1470.
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I III
Colin Le Quesne, living 1500. John. Thomas. Raulin.
I
John Le Quesne = Jeanette, il. of ... Bisson. Tliomas. Clement. Joshua. Raulin. Elias
Vide " Gentleman's Magazine," April and May, 1738. f Vide " Notes and Queries," January 12, ISCl.
By li/l,m //irx /•/„/,■ ,s J'r,x,/Ut(/ /p //u- TlorA-.
^^
James Le Queshe, Esquire
y/r w/fi'/n //ii.^- /-//<•//■ /■•' ///>:<.■/■ ///t;/ /,■ ///>■ H'/'rA-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
251
I
Colin Le Quesne.
I
= Clement Le Quesne.
I
Jeanette Le Quesne, d. and h. i
Clement Le Quesne,
Nicholas Richardson. o.s.p.
Joshua.
I I I I I
John Le Quesne, Joshua. Charles. Ellas. Esther = Francis
died in London. Aubin
John Le Quesne = Beneste, d. of . . . Le Cerf.
I
Jeanette = Henry Chevalier.
Leonard Le Quesne, living IGOO = Margaret, d. of . . . Hocquard.
I
Elizabeth = Philip Hocquard. Jane = Helier Mauger.
I I I I 1
Philip Le Quesne = Mary, d. of . . . Le Gallais. Peter. Elizabeth = Peter Le Bailly. Mary = Nicholas Blarapied. Sarah.
John Le Quesne, living 1650 = Elizabeth, d. of William De Carteret. John Esnouf.
I
I II I I I I
Leonard Le Quesne, = Jeanette, d. of Philip. Nicholas. John. Mary = Clement Romeril. Elizabeth = John Mahier.
living 1700.
, Anley.
William.
John Le Quesne = Susan, d. of . . . Le Maistre.
Elizabeth.
John Le Quesne, oh. inmipt. Philip := Jane, d. of . . . Mahier. Susan = Henry de Jersey, of Guernsey
John Le Quesne, ob. innupt. Abraham, ob. innupt. Elizabeth, eventual heiress = John Langlois.
John Le Quesne — Ann, d. of . . . Poingdestre.
Mary = John Renaut.
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John Le Quesne = Margaret, d. of . . . CoUas. Charles, oh. innupt. Joshua = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Esnouf. Nicholas = Elizabeth d. of
I I . . . Le Feuvre.
1
John Le Quesne.
I
Nicholas.
Margaret.
Elizabeth, d. of... Laurens. Ann, d. of .. .Laurens. Philip
== = Nicolle.
Nicholas Le Quesne = Francis, d. of .. . Neel. John, Capt., R J.M.
I I
Nicholas Le Quesne = Mary, d. of . . . Perchard. Margaret = John Neel.
Nicholas Le Quesne, Jurat, R.C. = Esther, d. of . . . Le Vesconte.
i I I i 1 —
Charles Le Quesne, Jurat, R.C. William-Vesconte. GitFard-Nicholas, Lt.-Col. R.J.M.A. James, Capt. R.J.M.A., Harriet.
Kate, d. of Col. English.
T
Mary-Ann, d. of Augusta, d. of Admiral Simeon. Henrietta, d. of Admiral
Philip Le Gallais. Simeon.
Ten Children.
I
Maria.
Eliza.
Julia.
I
Louisa.
Matilda.
Nicholas Le Quesne,
Jurat, R.C.
Rev. Dr. Godfray.
Edward De La
Taste.
Gervais Le Gios,
M.A.
Edward Mourant,
M.A.
r i I III
John Le = Elizabeth, d. Philip = Jane, d. of ... Abler. Nicholas, Jurat, = Mana. d. of Elizabeth. Ann. Margaret.
Quesne,
iivinfj
1785.
of...DeSte.
Croix. Four Children.
R.C. of Rouge
Bouillon.
Nicholas Le
Quesne. James Vibert.
Geo. Gaudin.
John-Charles Le Quesne, Lieut. 12th Lancers.
I I
Henry. Maria-Esther = J. F. De Carteret.
Amelia.
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John Le Quesne, = ... d. of ... Philip =... d. of .. . William = .. .d. of .. . George. Nicholas. Elizabeth. Mary. Ann. Margaret,
living 1800. Poingdestre. Le Gallais. Le Neveu.
Frs. Gaudin.
Geo. .4splet.
252 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
S.erner,
jN the province of Anjou, few, if any, Sirauth have a greater antiquity than that of
Lorricr.
Among the partizans of the Duke of Orleans in the struggles for pre-eminence,
terminated by the decisive battle of S. Aubindu-Cormier, so fatal to the pretensions
of the Duke, was Joseph-Marie Desouches, Escuyer, Seigneur of Lerrier, Vaucoulers, and other
fiefs. In the cliarge that caused the final rout of the Bretons, three of his sons sealed their
convictions with tlieir blood; and the Seigneur of Len-ier, seeing naught save laithless
persecution awaiting the advocates of the losing side, took ship at a neighbouring port,
and set sail for Jersey. He was accompanied by his wife, and an only surviving and
infont son.
Here, by the sale of some fomily jewels, he purchased, in 1495, an estate at S. Saviour,
leaving for confiscation all his rich manors in France. This estate remained, for several
generations, in the possession of his descendants.
The family which, in two branches, represents the very ancient Norman house of de
Gascoing, Seigneurs of Ver, Valencey, Launcey, de la Motte, and Jere,* is represented by
John-Francis Lerrier, Esq.; and in a junior branch by Durell Lerrier, Esq., Jurat of the
Royal Court of Jersey, whose varied and extensive acquirements, impartiality in the adminis-
tration of justice, and private virtues, justify the respect and confidence with whieh he is
regarded by all classes of his countrymen.
Arms (as borne by Durell Lerrier, Esq.): Argent, a fesse, sable; in chief, the sun in
splendour, or, between two crosses, patee, vert ; in base, a cottage, ppr. ; the whole within a bordure,
* From M. De Gerville's " Ancient Castles of La Manche " is learnt the following jiavticulars of the Gascoing family.
Between Brt'hal and Gavray, near the junction of the rivers Sienne and Airou, is the parish of Ver, which has given at
least one follower of Duke William in his victorious campaign in England. Forty years before the Conquest, Yer formed
a portion of the Ducal domain ; it is named among the lands given in dowry to the daughter of King Robert, hy Richard
III., Duke of Normandy. By the mention of the river Sienne, it is evident that it could not have been the other spot of
the same name, with which it is sometimes confounded. But it is sometimes urged that Ver, in the Diocese of Bayeux,
has perhaps as good a right to figure as the cradle of a family (Vebe) which, from the Conquest to the commencement of
the XVIII. century, formed one of the most illustrious houses of England. But, by the " Red Book of the Exchequer,"
w(! find that, in the reign of Henry II., Raoul de Ver owed knight's service, and if this left any doubt between the
Arrondissement of Coutances and that of Bayeux, it would be decided l)y the " Register of the Fiefs of the Election
of Coutances," drawn up in 1327 by the Grand Bailly of the Cotentin, and by the "Book of the Fiefs of Philip-
Augustus," compiled about 1208. By the statement of Fiefs of the Election of Coutances, it appears that in 1327, the
family of Louvel had replaced at Ver, that of the ancient Seigneurs ; that it was a Grand Fief-IIaubert ; and that in war
time, it owed service at the Castle of Gavray. After the family of Louvel, the fief of Ver was held by another
equally ancient — that of de Gascoing. These two families have equally distinguished themselves in England and
Normanily. Tiir iulripid judge, who had the courage to arrest and imprison the future Conqueror of Agiucourt,
was himself descended from the same family as that of Gascoing of Ver. This family continued there until a few
years b -fore the Revolution, when its heiress married M. le Forestier-de Mobec, whose son (by another wife) is the present
jiroprietor.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
253
engrailed, azure. Quartering : Azure, a star of five points, or ; in chief a label of three points
of the last, for De La Place : Ai'gent, three trefoils, slipped, sable, an annulet for difference, for
Payn : Or, a fesse, dancette, sable, a crescent for difference, for Le Yavasseur-dit-Durell :
Azure, a chevron, or, between three swords, in pale, argent, hilted of the first, for Gautier :
Argent, three spears-heads radiating from the fesse point, between as many mullets of six points,
pierced, gules, for De Gascoing : Azure, a griffin, segreant, or, for Louvel : and. Gules, a crescent
between six roses, or, three in chief, and three in base, a crescent for difference, for Le Gallais.
Crest : A chapel ppr.
Mottoes : Pugne pro aris. Bonus, Justus, et utilis.
^rtiiffirf of ilniirr.
Joseph-Mame Desouches, Seig. of Lekriek = Constance, d. and h. of ... De La Place, and
co-representative of the family of Payn.
from whom descended
I
And
Joh]
b
rew Lerrier
= Perrotine,
1
d. of ...
Richard, d. 15
61
Genette, d. 1544.
1
a Lerrier,
1542.
1
Andrew,
b. 1545.
1
Peter,
b. 1561.
i 1
Mary, Jane,
b. 1541. b. 1556.
1
Anne,
b. 1557.
Perronelle,
b. 1559.
Catherine,
d. of Peter
Peter Noah Le
Valpy. Mailler.
1. Richard Mourant,
m. 1593.
of
St. Peter,
m. 1567.
T
2. John Tourgis,
m. 1603.*
1
Andrew Lerrier,
b. 1575.
1
Rachel, b. 1572,
m. 1603.
/
1. Martha,
d. of ... Dorey.
2. Martha,
d. of...Neel
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Thomas Mourant.
lUPKESSIONS OF SEALS OF DE GASCOING, IN THE
POSSESSION or JUDGE lERBIER (aC'TUAI, SIZES.)
^ttilgrcc sI)oluing tlic tonncclian ti( tlic (amilits
of Sc'fflascotng anS l^oubcl luiii) il;at of llcrricr.
Messire James De Gascoing, b. 1667, Seig.
of La Halle.t
Gabrielle, d. and h. of
T
Louvel.
I 111.
William-Leonard Charlotte- Mary- Louisa-
De Gascoing, Seig. Jane. Susan. PetroniUe.
of La Halle.
Louisa- Frances,
d. of ... leTresor.
John-
Baptist
Ascelin,
0. s. p.
vb.
innvpt. Francis
Gautier.
* The family of Tourgis ha.s been
Cliannel Islands. Richard Tourgis
selected from the optimates patrice by
of the islanders to the English Crown.
Court of Jersey, xxviij. Edward I.
in 1330. Members of the family appear
during the compilations of the Extentes
Tourgy is now fortified by the modern
Turgis are to be found as names of
Arms of Turgis of Normandy :
azure, three escallops of the field.
t The Seigneurie of Valencey,
a Barony, on which were dependent
Monumentale et Historique de I'Arron-
SEAL of KADL'LPHUS lOIJUUlS, BAILLV
OF JEKSKY (aCTITAL SIZE).
settled from time immemorial in the
(Turgis) was one of the Jersey hostages
King John, as a pledge of the allegiance
Nicholas Turgys was Jurat of the Royal
Radulphus Tourgys was Bailly of Jersey
on the juries of parishes in both islands
of 1331. A locality in Alderney termed
name of Fort Tourgie. Turgeis and
English families bearing arms.
Or, on a bend, between three mullets,
possessed also by this gentleman, was
several minor fiefs. — Vide La Revue
dissement de Coutances.
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254
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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I
Andrew Lerrier,
1). 1601,
Deacon of St.
Saviour.
Ann,
d. of . . . Adverty,
m. 1627.
T
John, b. 1606.
Janod. of ...
Fiott,
m. 1636.
T
Gideon,
b. 1611.
Tboma.s,
b. 1627.
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Martha,
b. 1602.
Susan,
b. 1601.
Eachel,
b. leio.
Joliu Le
Tubelin.*
Mary,
b. 1612.
PhiHp De
Bos.
John Lerrier, b. 1638.
I
Esther, b. 1652.
Louisa-Leouora-Henrietta De
Gascoing, only d. and h., o.5.j).
1. Mossire Charles- A nthoine
Le Forestier-de Muneville.
2. ... le Porestier-de Mobec, to
whom his wife bequeathed
her large estates.f
I
Andrew Lerrier, b. lC2y.
Martha, d. of Isaac
H«rault.
Philip, b. 1634,
0. s. p.
1. Martha,
d. of ... Vibert.
2. Mary,
d. of ... Nicolle.
Ricliard, b. 1639. Martha, b. 1644.
Philip Le Couteur.
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Andrew Lerrier, Philip, b. 16',)3 = 1. Mary, d. of Philip Ann,
b. 1687, o.s./). Payn, and reUct of b. 168,5.
2. Jane, d. of Francis Plulip Le Moigne,
Amy, of Grouville, m. 1718, o. s.p. Henry
111. 1720. Hebert.
Jane Lerrier, only d. and h. == Richard Du Parcq.
John Lerrier, b. 1.56S = Frances, d. of ...
\
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Francis Gautier,
Maiy, d. and
eventual h. of
Philip Le Gallais.
Mary, Martha, b. 1693,
b. 1690. ftwin with Philip).
Charles Tanquerel,
m. 1732.
Clement Lerrier,
b. 1590.
Catherine, d. of
Kaulin Langlois,
m. 1627.
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Edward, John, b. 1600. Jane, Esther Jane. Sophia. Eight other children,
b. 1598. b. 1595. Gautier, o. s. j).
Rachel, d. of . . .
Priscilla, d. of Poingdostre,
... Dolbcl, m. 1629.
m. 1631.
d. and co-li. Francis John
do Lerrier.
Joshua Ste. Croix.
Lerrier.
Noah,
Mary, d. of . . .
Le Vavasseur-
dit-Durell.
T
Mary Gautier,
only d. and h.
Christopher
Baylee.
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John Lerrier, b. 1631. Mary, b. 1639 = Francis Filleul.
John Cli-mcnt, J ane,
Lerrier, b. 1629. b. 1632. | | , i |
b. 1627. — Jolin Lerrier, Henry, Edward, b. 1640 = Margaret, d. of John Le Gallais, m. 1662. Rachel, Elizabeth,
Elizabeth, b. 1632. b. 1635.
b. 1634.
b. 1638. b. 1643.
Edward Lerrier. h. 1 668 = Jane, d. of Peter Caillet, of S. John. John, EUzabeth, Frances, b.l666 = Edward Valpy, of S. John. Margaret,
I b. 1673. b. 1665. b. 1668.
Edward Len-ier, m. 1723 = Ann, d. and eventual h. of Philip Payn, of Grouvdle.
I
Margaret.
Edward Lemer, b. 1725, o.s.p. j PhUip, b. 172S = Mary, d. and h. of Charles MoUot of Guernsey, and Mary, liis Ann, b. 1731.
I wife, d. and eventual h. of Abraliam Le Vavaaaour-dit-DureU.
1. Philip Chepmell.
2. WiUiain Forgusson,
M.D., of Dundee.
* The family of Le Tubelin was formeily located in the Parish of S. ISaviour, where several of its members were
important landowners, and where a district still retains the name of La Ville ea Tuhlins.
f Akms of FouESTiER-DE MoBEc, of Maubec and Ozeville, in Carentan : Argent, a lion, sable, armed, laugued,
crowned, or.
\ This gentleman was a man of remarkable energy and moral conrage, which was nobly displayed in the rescue of
his nephew and ward, William Chepmell, from the fangs of the proselyting French Government. Interesting in the
course of his suit the celebrated David Hume, the Duke of Richmond, of the English Embassy, M. de Miromcsnil,
afterwards Garde dcs Sceaux de France, and oven Louis XV., Mr. Lerrier had, after many most vexatious delays, the
satisfaction of delivering his youthfid and orphan relative from the machinations of the monks of the " House for New
Tlir HriuTciiii i^clTrnliiiin 'he Snnir.
ReCTOF\ of df^OUVILLE.
By wJioni thisPUiU isP/rstn'/rt tr r/ir Work-.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
255
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Philip Lerrier, M.D., Charles,
b. 1755.* b. 1756.
John,
b. 1703.
Delicia, d. of
Aubin.
Edward, Susan,
b. 1759. d. of John
Thoreau.
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Edward-
Abrah;im,
b. 1765.
William-
Moromeuil,
b. 1767.
Thomas-Louis,
b. 1768, Deputy-
Vicomte of
Jersey.
Elizabeth, d. of
Thomas Le Cras.
I I III
Joshua, b. 1770. William, Mary, b. 1758.
■ b. 1773. —
Esther, d. and o.a.p. Ann, b. and d.
co-h. of Francis 1761.
Gautier, and co-
ropresentative of
the families of De
Gascoing, Louvel
and Le Gallais.
Jane, b. 1775.
James Grellier.
Ann,
b. 1778.
John
Durell,
H.M.
Customs.
Susan
Lerrier.
I
III I I . I III I I I I I
DeHcia. John Charles. Durell. Thomas Edward. EKzabeth. Mary- Deli- Harriet. Durell Peter. Joshua. Henry. Louisa,
Lerrier. o.s.p. oh.juv. Lerrier. . Anne, cia. Lerrier, Esq., o.s.p. oh.juv.
Major
James George Sophia,
Hammond Charlton, d. and
of R.A. co-h. of
Fantasie. Francis
Gautier.
Mary,
d. of ..
Hamou.
Hugh a. 1860.
Godfray, of
Woodlands.
Philip Constable of
Godfray, Grouville,and
Lt.- Col. afterwards
R. J. M. Jurat R. C.
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John- Francis Lerrier, Esq. = Ehzabeth, d. of John Aubin. Daniel, ob. ruv. Sophia-Catherine = Edward-John Thoreau, Capt. R.J.M.
I
I
John-Francis Lerrier.
. I
Elizabetli.
ilt ^uctir.
ES BOIS, in his great Ai-morial of France, says of this name that it belongs to a
" faniille tres ancienne en Normandie, qui s'est, dans tons les temps, comme
aujourd'hni, conciliee I'estime generale de tons les nobles et gens de distinction de
son canton. EUe ne s'est alliee qu'a des maisons nobles. "|
The advent of the local branch into Jersey was probably caused by one of the earlier
political or religious disturbances in France, which di-ove many members of ancient French
families to seek an asylum in the island. Here it became connected with many of the best
houses of Jersey, and amongst others, with those of Le Hardy, Poingdestre, Pipon, Hilgrove,
Dumaresq, Messervy, and Gibaut.
One of its most noteworthy members, was the late Peter Le Sueur, Esq., constable of S.
Helier, whose public services and energetic patriotism were so fully recognised by his country-
men, as to cause them to erect to his memory the only monument existing in the island, to
record its obligations to the unremitting exertions of a public servant. This monument, a
plain obelisk, in the Eg}q)tian style, was erected in 1857, in one of the principal thoroughfares
of S. Helier.
Converts," at Caen, where the lad, at that time about ten years of age, was pursuing his education, and into which house
he had been surreptftiously inveigled.^i^a;. mf. the Eev. Havilland-Le Mesurier Chepmell, D.D.
* The Baron de KuUecourt died after his defeat, 6th January, 1781, in Dr. Lerrier's house, Eoyal Square, close to the
scene of action.
t Vide Dictionnaire de la Noblesse de France, par Des Bois, vol. xii. p. 567.
KK 2
256 AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
Branches of the family are represented by the Rev. Abraham Le Sueur, Rector of the
parish of Groiiville, and by Joshua-Philip Le Sueur, Esq., of H. M. Customs.
Arms (as borne by the Rev. Abraham Le Sueur) : Azure, a che\Ton between two
crescents, in chief, and a rose in base, or. Impaling : Or, a cross, formee, between four eagles,
displayed, sable, for Dixon.
Crest : A bezant, charged with a rose, gtiles.
Motto : Sure.
Arms (as borne by Philip-Joshua Le Sueur, Esq.) : The same Ai'ms, Crest, and Motto.
HE family of Le Touzel adds one to the long roll of those which the French
religious dissensions of the seventeenth century forced to seek toleration in
Jersey. It is in no way connected with a family named Touzel, which is of much
earlier settlement in the island, and which belongs to the humbler class.
The original name of the family now noticed was Le Touzey, and its members possessed
from time immemorial the Seigneurie of Maillot, in the Parish of Ste. Croix-Grantonne, between
Bayeux and Caen. Des Bois, in his great Genealogical History of the French Nobility, records
that Denis Le Touzey, Seigneur of Maillot, was recorded "nolle d'anciennc race" in 1463, by
Commissary Montfault. Oliver Le Touzey, Seigneur of Maillot, changed his name, '^ par
Lettrcx du Prince," in the seventeenth century, and adopted that of his fief. He and his
brother, James Le Touzey-de Maillot, were engaged in the compilation of the Visitation of the
Nobility of Normandy in 1660, under M. Chamillart or Chamillard, Intendant of the Generality
of Caen. '' Another branch of the same family, residing in the parish of TenqueroUes, Sergeantry
of Preaux, in the Election of Caen, and from which the Jersey branch is derived, are also recorded
in the same work, and their connection with the parent stock demonstrated.
The arms borne by all sections of the family are remarkable, being a combination of the
roses of England with the lilies of France ; and these no doubt were conferred on one of its
Norman members for successful military or diplomatic service. -\
* A MS. copy of tliis laborious worl;; is in the library of the author.
t Although unrecorded, some such romantic history may be attached to those arms, as appertains to those of the
family of do Goulaine, one of the most ancient Seigneurial houses of Britany. Alphonsus de Goulaine having, in 1091,
succeeded in concluding a pacific treaty between Philip I. of France, and William II. of England, these kings, in
perpetual memory of the share he took in this important and auspicious event, permitted the Sire de Goulaine to be.ar the
arms of l)oth kingdoms dimidiated, with the motto — " A cctuy-ci a cctuy-la j'accordc des couronnes." The badge borne
by the Jersey branch of Le Touzel is emblematic of the persecution endured by the Huguenot members of the family from
their Roman Catholic relatives : and of the worldly success and ju'osperity accorded to the descendants of those who
resigned all for conscience sake. The Bible, of Calvin's edition, the sole companion of the first settlers in Jersey of this
family, is still a cherished heirloom in the house of the eldest branch.
JoshuaJohn Le Jouzel. Esquire
Lieut. Colone l, R.J M A
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11? Jawws
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
257
The family is now represented by Joshua-John Le Touzel, Esq., Lieut. -Colonel E.J.M.A. ;
and by Esther, only daughter and heu-ess of John Le Touzel, Esq., and ■nife of Major James
Campbell.
Arms (as borne by Joshua-John Le Touzel Esq.) : Gules, a fesse, or, between three roses,
argent ; on a chief, azure, three fleurs-de-lis of the first.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, a demi rose, gules, and a demi fleur-de-lis, or, conjoined.
Badge : On a table between two foxes, sejant, collared and chained, a loaf and thereon a
cock, statant, all ppr., the latter having in his beak a label bearing the —
Motto : Deus ab inimicis me defendit.
Arms (as borne by Mrs. James Campbell) : Gyi'onny of eight, or and sable, for Campbell.
Quartering : Or, a fesse chequy argent and azure, for Stuart : and, Ai-gent, a lymphad sable,
oars in motion, flags, flpng, giiles, for Lorn. On an escutcheon of pretension: Gules, a fesse,
or, between three roses argent ; on a chief, azure, three fleurs-de-lis of the fii'st ; a crescent
for difference, for Le Touzel. Quartering : Per fesse, argent and or, in chief a dexter hand,
clenched, issuant, vested azure, cuffed or ; in base, a mullet of the first, for Poingdestre.
^ftiigm of Sf CoinrU
Andre Le Touzey, Ecuyer, of the ProTiuce of Nonnandy, living 1686.
Jolin Le Touzel, settled in Jersey with his brother Jacob, on aeeonnt of his Protestant tendencies. He
purchased an estate in the Parish of S. Brelade, circa 1708.
Mary, d. of = . . . Le Touzey.
John Le Touzel.
1
Mary.
1
A daughter.
Marie-EHzabeth, d. of Daniel Le Touzej
and of Mary Hardeley, his wife.
1. Rachel, d. of ... = Josliua Le Touzel =
Giifard, o. s. p.
... Bosdet.
= 3. Esther, d. of ...
Landhatherland.
... Vincent.
John Le Touzel, Adjutant R. J. M., d. 1859.
Esther, d. of Edward NicoU
and Advocate of the Ecc
Court of Jersey.
1
e. Solicitor,
lesiastical
Jacob, settled in the Parish of S.
Saviour, on the estate of his wife.
Jane, eld. d. and co-h. of George
Poingdestre.
T
John Le Touzel, Major R.J.M.,d.l7'Jl.
Elizabeth, d. of Richard Duparccj, and
sister of the Rev. John Duparcq,
B.A., Oxon., Rector of S. Ouen,
who gallantly signalized himself in
the preparation of means to repel
the demonstration of the French,
under the Prince of Nassau, in 1779.
Charles, Rector of S. Martin.
Mary, d. of Nicholas Barhen-
son. Judge of the Court of
the Ishmd of AJderney.
258
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Charles-Philip
Le Touzel.
John,
I I
0.€.p.
Nicholas,
settled in
Australia.
Thomas.
Elizabeth,
d. of Philip
Payn.
Henry.
oh. Jut:
Henry -
Augustus.
Mary -Ann,
d. of
Lieut. Manson.
Mary,
Charlotte -
Amelia.
ob. juv.
Amelia-
Charlotte.
oh. juv.
Harriet.
Philip
Hubert.
Elizabeth-
Margaret.
John
MoUet.
Caroline.
John
Hubert.
Ann-
Matilda.
John-E8t€
Vibert.
Adolphua Le Touzel.
I
Henry -Nicholas.
William -Alexander.
I
Charles-Dumaresq.
I I
Selina-Ami.
Amelia-Matilda.
Esther Le Touzel, only d. and h.
James Campbell, Esq., Major 6th Scotch Grenadier Regiment of the British Auxiliary Legion of Spain ; son of Lieut. Alesa.nder
Campbell, of the Scotch Brigade ; brother of Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, Stafl'-ofEoer of Pensioners at Perth ; and grandson of
Colonel Donald Robertson, of Woodshiel, who commanded the Clan Robertson at the battle of Culloden, in 1746.
I
Joshua- John Le Touzel, 1.
Esq., Lieut.-Colonel
R. J. M. A.
Gybbon-Monypenny
Le Touzel, b. 1844.
Elizabeth, d. of Thomas-
Gybbon Monypenny,
d. 1848.
Francis-Thomas,
Capt. Cape Mounted
Rifles, b. 1816.
2. Emily-Georgina, second d. of Col.
John-Edward Jones, R.A.,
Assist.-Adjutant General.
Esther.
1. Thomas Duhamel.
Collins.
Franeis-S. Denis,
b. 1845.
I
Charles-
Edward,
b. 1847.
iward-Jobn-de S.
1 .
Madelaine-
Naomi.
1
Havise-
1
Maude-
Denis, b. 1851.
Blanche-
Susan-
Eugenie-
Eugenie-
Marie.
EHzabeth,
Ren6e,
Beatrice
b. 1853.
b. 1854. ol.
ol.
b. 1857
i.o\u.
S will be seen on reference to the pedigree, this family, of Scotch extraction, has
been settled in the island for two generations. Although of so recent establishment
here, its alliances with, and co-representation of, several local famihes, fairly
entitle it to a place on the roll of Jersey gentiy.
Its present representative is Alexander Low, Esq., M.D., Surgeon of the V. Regiment,
Mechcal Inspector-General, R. J. M., and the first Deputy to the States for the parish of
S. Brelade.
-Arms (as borne by Alexander Low, Esq.) : Vert, three wolves, rampant, argent. Quar-
tering : Argent, a lion, passant, sable, for De Villeneufve : Per chevi-on, gules and or; in chief,
two mullets, argent, for Pipon ; and, Argent, on a chief, sable, three lions' heads, erased, or, for
Richardson. Impaling : Paly, azure and gules, a fesse, argent, between a crescent, or, in
chief, and a trefoil, slipped, of the third, in base, for Alexandre.
Crest : Out of a mural crown, argent, a dexter arm, holding a dart in bend, ppr.
Motto : Fortitudine ct fide.
exA^'oePv J/ord , Ssq (i i i\e .
/iv w//(i>fi ///If /'/ii/r IS /yrsif//)// /f /7ir ll'i'r/<
FRANCIS EDWARD LUCE. ESQUIRE,
liv wIkiih l/ii's J'/ii// I's jJir.fiii/i,/ //> ///f ll'"r/,:
AN AKMORIAL OF JERSEY.
259
PrUigree of itolu,
James Low, of Loadon-Urquliart and Orclievie, was originally of ArmfioUl, all in Fifeshire, >'.B.
: T
DaTid Low,
d. in
Jamaica.
John, surgeon, of
Leaden-Urquhart,
settled at S.
Brelade.
Elizabeth, d. and
eventual h. of John
De Yilleneufvo, and
co-repreaentative
of the families of
Pipon and
Eiehardson.
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Alexander.
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..., a physi-
cian at
Edinburgh.
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Elizabeth.
I
Helen.
I
Keith Low.
I
James, Col.
H.E.I.C.S., Resident
(GoTemor) of Penang.
I
Marguerite.
General
BoUngall.
I
Jolin, Major, R.A.
... d. of . . . Haro,
and grand-d. of the
late Lord Listowel.
T
Rachel,
d. 1860.
Ann.
, Hood, author of
the History of
Australia.
Alexander Low, Capt., Ist Royals.
Agnes-Maria.
Alexander Low, Esq.,
M.D., b. 1800.
Henrietta, d. of Francis
Alexandre, of the Franc-
fief, S. Brelade.
I
John.
James.
William.
... d. of...
Grey, Esq.,
of Montreal.
I
Henry,
B.D., Fellow
of Exeter
College,
Oxford.
I
David.
Grey Low.
PhiHp, Q.C.,
Barrister-at-Law,
Clerk of the Peace,
and Mayor of
Picton, Canada W.
... d. of ... Grey,
of Montreal.
VilleneuiVe.
George.
I I
Janet.
Helen.
VUleneufve.
Rosa.
J. Cameron.
Alexander-James Low.
Augusta.
I
Harriet-Helen.
Rev. G.-J. Le Maistre, M.A.,
Incumbent of S. Aubin.
ilute.
HE family of Lnce, settled in the parish of S. Lawrence prior to 1500, claims to
have migrated from Wales, and to be a branch of the famous Norman house of Lucy,
or Lucie, settled in England since the Conquest.
This house represents a branch of the family of Le Brocq, and that of Le Bailly,
of S. Mary, to which latter belonged the philanthropic " Jeanne Le Bailly," the ^vife of Thomas
Denton, Esq., of S. Aubin, whose benefactions to the poor of the island, and to the parochial
hospital of S. Brelade, has rendered her name sacred among her countiymen.
The present representative of the family is Francis-Edward Luce, Esq., of S. Laurence.
Abms (as borne by Francis-Edward Luce, Esq.) : Azure, a crescent, argent. Quartering :
Azure, a fleur-de-lis, or ; on a chief, argent, a lion, passant, guardant, gules, for Le Brocq ; and
Azure, fretty of tilting- spears, or, for Le Bailly. Impaling : Azure, a chevi-on, or, between three
crescents, argent ; on a chief, gules, as many stars of six points, pierced, of the second, for
Langlois : and. Or, a bugle-horn, stringed and viroUed, gules, for Orange.
Crest : An eagle with wings displayed, reguardant, holding in the dexter claw a sword erect,
all ppr.
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jHalct.
HIS Norman name is among the earliest to be foimd in the Anglo-Norman records
connected with the island, and in the island itself; like that of the house of
Harcourt, with which that of Malet-de Graville has been allied in early Norman
times, it is one of the oldest Norse names on record, and has been wTitten 3Iald
and Mallet indifferently f and is found associated with events of historical importance and
interest, in England and France, which are comprised between the eleventh and sixteenth
centuries. Its first bearer was one of those hardy freebooters, who quitted the North with
Eollo,f and, as one of his chief captains, obtained large grants of land in Normandy ; whose
immediate descendants, becoming lords of the great and powerful SirauU dc GraviUe,l near
Harfleur, founded one of the great Norman houses, which became distinguished in both
England and France. § According to the ancient tradition of the family now treated of, one of
its junior branches also flourished in the insular portion of the duchy, in Jersey, in the eastern
parish of Grou\dlle, (or, as it was anciently written, Groville,) where it held lands and a Seigneurie
fi'om the earliest times, on many portions of which it bestowed the hereditary patronymic, which
is still retained, after the lapse of many centuries.
" The Manor-House, from the first period to the commencement of the seventeenth centuiy,
* A branch of this iamily, whose surname in latter times was written Mallet, has, by poll-deed executed under the
hands and seals of the two surviving sons and of the eldest grandson of the late Rev. John Mallet, Rector of the parish of
Granville, enrolled in Chancery and also enrolled in the Royal Court of Jersey, reverted to the earlier manner of spelling.
•f Vide '^ Histoire lie la niaison d'Harcourt," vol. I , p. 826.
J Vide " Notice historique et ge'ne'aloijiqne sur le maison de M(det,'" p. 376.
§ In England, in addition to William Malet, who led a third part of the Conqueror's army at Hastings, Robert, his
descendant, was Chamberlain to Henry I., and held two hundred and sixty-seven lordships and manors, which immense
possessions were confiscated by this sovereign for the attachment of that baron to the claims and fortunes of Robert
Courte-heuse, Duke of Normandy ; and with them those, still more considerable, of the Earl of Mortain, the king's uncle, who
had likewise espoused the same cause, were bestowed as a rich appanage on Stephen, Earl of Blois, afterwards King of
England ; Malet's great baronial residence was at Eye, Co. Suffolk, remains of which are still said to exist. William Malet,
lord of Shepton- Mallet, and other lordships also bearing his name, in Somersetshire, was one of the twenty-five great
barons who signed Magna-Charta, and Robert Malet was named one of its conservators in the reign of John. And in the
present day Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., of Wilbury House, Co. Wilts, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister-Plenipotentiary
at Frankfort, perpetuates the descent of the English branch, which has been genealogically treated by Sir William Betham, of
Dubhn, and which has produced members alike remarkable and distinguished for their brilliant talents in diplomacy and other
branches of the public service. Whilst in Normandy, William Malet, second of that name, Sire de Graville, joined the
first great crusade led by Godfroi de Bouillon and Robert, Duke of Normandy, in 109G. Robert Malet, second of that
name, fought at the battle of Bouvines, 1214, and married Allix, daughter of Robert, third Comte d'Alen9on, and of Adele
of Burgundy, thus descending in the female line from the royal house of France. Robert Malet, third of that name. Sire
de Graville, Ivnight- Banneret, Baron de Graville, sold to Philip-Augustus his rights and claims to a portion of the Comte
d'Alenfon by contract passed in January 1220, and from this period dates the annexation of this province to the Fi-ench
crown; in 1226, he was summoned with Richard d'Harcourt to the death-bed of Louis VIII., and was one of the state-
witnesses of the coronation of his son, Saint-Louis. Guy Malet, Sire de Graville, fought at the battle of Rosebecq, and
was knighted on the field for his valour; in 1415, he also fought at the battle of Agincourt with Geoffroy de Boucicault
and the Sire de La Tremoille. John Malet, sixth of that name. Sire de Graville, Lord of Marcoussis, Montaigu, Bois-
Malherbes, Ambourville, and Tournefuge, and Chamberlain to the Dauphin, married JIarie de Montanhan, daughter of
Bonne Visconti, of the ducal house of Milan, and was made prisoner in England, having joined the large body of forces
raised by Pierre de Breze, Comte de Maulevrier, Hereditary Seneschal of Normandy, to assist the fallen fortunes of
L L
262
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
bore the name of the Maison de Mallet,* and, among other compounds of the surname, may be
mentioned the Moiilm de Malet,f an early dependency of this Seigneurie, situated at the foot of
the Mont Malet, which forms the western extremity of the short range of hills extending to
Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., after the loss of the bloody aiul fiercely contested battle of Towton, in Yorkshire,
which took place in 1461. Louis Malet, Sire de Graville, Lord of Seez, Bernay, Montaigu, Marcoussis, Governor of the
provinces of Normandy, Picardy, etc., was one of the most distinguished men of his age, and the friend and minister
of three successive kings, Louis XL, Charles VIII. and Louis XII. ; his talents and services, in the cabinet and in the
field, raised him to posts of the highest importance and distinction in the state, whicli he retained to his death ; lie took
a prominent part in the celebrated battle of S. Aubin-du-Cormier, near Renncs, gained by the illustrious Sire de
Slrma iLuBouid tic
©rauillfl flrdjiinaitnt dTranctf.
La Tremoille, in which the Duke of
made prisoner; and was created Admiral
Brest, led by the Marechal de Rieux,
combined fleets of England and Britany,
Charles VIII. to Naples, and assisted
largely from his own private fortune ;
successor, Louis XII., the domains of
Paris, were conferred upon him by
1513 ; but he munificently refused these
his last wishes with the following request
es bailliages les plus greves de son
vingt-dix-niille livres tournoys, a fin que
pour moi." He died at his Chateau de
buried in the church of the Cordeliers,
his history of Charles VIII., says,
roi," and Philip de Commines, in his
derating influence in this king's councils.
de Graville forms part of the celebrated
of France in the j^alacc of Versailles.
Malet, Dame de Graville, who married
Chartres, Prince de Chabannais, Grand
Malet, who married, firstly, Charles
Marechal, Amiral, et Grand-Maitrc
d'llliers ; — and Anne JNIalct, Dame du
Balsac, Seigneur d'Entragues. The
Sires de Graville became extinct ; a younger branch is now represented by the Marquis Olivier de Malet, fourth lineal
descendant of the branch of de La Garde, ibunded in 1G95 by the marriage of its heiress by Anthony de Malet, a younger
son of the branch of La Jorie, in Limousin, established in the latter part of the fourteenth century by William Malet, after
the death of his elder brother, John III. Malet, Sire de Graville, who was beheaded at Rouen, 5 April, 1356, with the
Comte d'Harcourt and other lords, by John, King of France, for having abetted the death of Charles de Lacerda, of the
royal house of Castillo, Grand Constable of France.
* " Item, les deferts de la maison de Mallet, a f9avoir, tout le clos de Bourbon, cxcepte le champ au long des jardins," etc.
— Vide Terrier of the parijh of Grouvi/k, vingtiiine des Marais ; drawn up in l6oi, in the baillyfhip of Sir George Poulett.
t " Et fimilitcr dicit, Willielmtis des Mtire'fs, quod compertum eft per prefcntamentum juratorum parochis de Gro\-illc quod
ille rcdditus quinquigcnta folidorum datus fuit domino regi, per ilium qui fuit dominus molendini Malet, per fie quod homines
domini regis qui vcllcnt molcrc poni-nt ad molcndinum illud, et non poteft didici ct rcdditus illc non continctur in predict.^ carta
domini regis Ricardi ; petit judicium ut prius fi clamare polTmt ab antiquo." — Plaeita de quo Warranto de iiijula de Jerefey,
atmo 2 Ed. II.
Tills rent of 50 sols, due on the Moulin-de-Malot, affords a remarkable instance of the extreme antiquity of some
of the insular crown dues; it was conferred, with others in the island, by the Conqueror and his spouse, Matilda, on the
Abbey of La Trinite, at Caen, built by the latter, and also known as the " Abbaye-aux-dames," and was claimed in 1180
from Robert Malet, Seigneur of La Malletiere. At the Reformation it was transferred to the Crown, to which it is still due,
and is, perhaps, an unique case of a money-rent continuously paid, during eight centuries, on a property, unchanged
in any particular, save that of proprietorship.— T7(/c " Slaplctoti s liotuU Scaccarii Nonnanniivf vol. 1. p. 76.
Orleans, afterwards Louis XII., was
of France in 1489 ; and at the siege of
with five-and-twenty ships defeated the
consisting of sixty sail ; he accompanied
that monarch, during that expedition,
and for another considerable loan to his
Melun, Corbeil, and Dourdan, near
Letters-P.atent given at Blois, 8 May,
eonsideralile grants, and accompanied
to the king : — " Qu'il lui plaise diminuer
royaulme la dite somme de quatre-
le povre peuple prie Dieu pour lui et
Marcoussis, October .30, 151G, and was
which he had founded. S. Gelais, in
" Qu'il estoit le plus fort du conseil du
memoirs, also alludes to his prejion-
The portrait of this great and last Sire
collection of the Admirals and Marshals
As he left three daughters only, Louise
Jacques de Vendome, Vidam? de
Maitre des Eaux et Forcts ; — Jeanne
d'Aniboise, Seigneur de Chaumont,
ARMS OF LOUIS MALET, SIRE DE GRAVILLE. de Fraiice, sccoudly, Rcue, Seigneur
(FACSIMILED FROM A coNTEMPoiiANEous Bois-Malhcrbcs, who married Pierre de
elder branch of the noljle and illustrious
Hec funt arma quibus celo fere inclyta toHit
Nobilitas generis o lodoice tui.
illustkation
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 263
the neighbouring -sdllage of Gorey, and still retains its original name of La Malletiere," the
corruption, most probably, of Mallet-Terre or Terre-de-Mallet.
" The fief, held in capite. of the Dukes of Normandy, likewise still bears fi-om this family,
for which it was created, the name of Fief de Mallet, or de La Malletiere, and was held in 1170
by Robert Malet,f from whom the present branch derives its descent.
" Wace, the insular poet, records at length the prowess of William Mallet, whose braveiy
contributed greatly to the victory of Hastings, and whose services were rewarded with immense
grants of lands and manors taken from the vanquished Saxons :
' Guillame ke Ten dit Mallet, Quant vint 11 Sire de Montfort,
Hardiement entrels fe met ; Et Datn Willame de Vez-Pont ;
Od I'efpee ki resflambie ; Od granz maifnies ke il ont,
As Engleiz rent dure efcremie ; Le refcontrent hardiement.
Mais fon efcu lui eftroerent, Muh i perdirent de lor gent ;
Et fon cheval foz lui toerent, Mallet firent monter maneiz,
Et il meifme euflent mort, Sor un deftrier tot freiz.' •
Roman de Rou.
" After the loss of the Duchy of Normandy, in 1203, hostages were ordered to be taken by
John from the Channel Islands, as a measure of precaution, and to enforce the adhesion of the
inhabitants of these slender remains of this great domain to his crowoi and government ; and
among those chosen from the chief families of Jersey, was William Malet, son of the before-
named Robert, who fulfilled this condition on behalf of his father, who appears to have been
incapacitated, by age or sickness probably, from discharging this honourable and onerous duty.
He was detained six years in England, and was placed, alone, under the charge and safeguard
of Henry Blond, mitred abbot of the great and wealthy monastic house of Benedictines,]: at
Gloucester, dedicated to S. Peter.
* " Item, les \ieux deierts, a l^avoir, la piece ibus les cotils de La Malletiere, dcpuis le bout de I'ouert du Honimet de^a
a une blanche pierre qui fepare la dite piece de la piece de Jean du Pare," kc. — Same terrier, fame -uingtaine. Vide Extente
of 1 607, parifli of Grouville
t Vide " Stapleton's Macjni RotiiU Scaccarii Normannice Sub regihus Angliw" p. 7G.
Some claim appears to have been made upon this early seigneur connected with his property or feudal service, the
precise nature of which it is now impossible to determine, but which would seem to have involved him in some temporary
difficulty, as this fief has been classed among i\i& forfaitures, or escheats to the Crown, not unfrequent at this period, in
consequence of the return of Jersey seigneurs to French allegiance and interests, resulting from the final separation of the
Channel Islands from their parent duchy. "Whatever may have been the nature of this difficulty, it is certain that the
period of its occurrence was nearly twenty-five years anterior to the Echet des Nonnands ; that Eobert Malet held his fief
and lands in the reign of John ; and that they were possessed by the elder branch in the seventeenth century.
" In the Extente of 1331, Guille de La Hougue is mentioned as holding the fief de La Maletiere; but the probability
is that he was a Malet who also held the adjoining fief and had assumed the name of La Hougue. Such changes in
surnames were far from uncommon in ancient times ; of which two instances connected with the name of Malet may be
cited. Ogerus de Pugeys, one of the four knights of the Lord Malet, lord of the honour of Eye, in Suffolk, received
from this Norman Baron, after the Conquest, the manor of Bedingfield, in consequence of which he assumed the name of
Bedinrjfield, of Bedingfield. And Sir John Peyton, Knt., Governor of Jersey temp. James I., was also the lineal
descendant of the same William Malet, whose ancestor, becoming possessed of the manor of Peyton Hall, in Suffolk,
assumed that surname."
X " The cathedral of S. Peter was formerly the minster of the mitred Abbey of Benedictines, and its patronage was
changed to that of the Holy Trinity, on the creation of the see, September 3, 1541 ; the building was begun in 1047,
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264 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
" The liberation* of these insuhxr hostages, who had repaired to England in 1208, took
place in 1214. But, on his return to Jersey, William Malet found his father dead and his lands and
Seigneurie under seizure l)y the Bailly of the island, Hasculfus de Suleny.f He, therefore, peti-
tioned the Crown, as one of its tenants in chief, and Henry III., (who, during the course of his long
reign, manifested an extreme desire to preserve the Channel Islands by encouraging the good- will
and attachment of their inhabitants, and spared no pains, whether by large and repeated grants
of supplies of arms and munitions for their defence, or by lending a ready ear to the complaints
and petitions for redress laid before him by them,) ordered a Commission of Inquiryj to be issued
under Philip de Albini, Warden of the islands, and, on proof of irregularity of procedure,
immediate restitution to be made.
" Fifty years after, this Seigneurie, (as appears from an enumeration of fiefs and their
reliefs made by the Jurats of the then recently instituted Eoyal Court to the King's commis-
sioners, Wiger and Broghton, ii. Edward I.,) is thus designated; 'Item, dicunt quod feodum
Malet debet dimidium relevium.'
" Many t)f the earlier Christian names of the insular branch were identical and contempora-
neous with those borne by the parent-stock ; those of Robert and William are found in Jersey
aud enlarged at subsequent laeriods ; tlie eastern window is said to be the largest in England, containing 8,927 square
feet of glass ; the cloisters, a paradise of architecture, and for extent and tracery unsurpassed, are on the north side, and
during the civil wars, were used as stables by the Parliamentarians ; in the south alley is the lavatory ; and the ' carols,'
or recesses, where the monks wrote and illuminated missals and chronicles, remain perfect as when first erected. The
chapter-houso was built in 1088." — Vide a ^^Description of Gloucester Cathedral^
* Rex Priori Wintoncnfi falutem. Sciatis quod propter fidelitatem et bonum servicium proborum hominum noftrorum de
infulis dc Gerefey et Gcrncfcic quietos eis clamavimus obfidcs coram, ita quod libere polhnt reverti in partes fuas. Et ideo
vobis mandamus quod Colinum Parvum obfidem fuum quern vobis committi fecimus cullodicndum libere abire permittatis. Et
in hujus, &c. ; Telle me-iplo apud Havering, anno regni noftri XVImo-
Eodem modo fcribitur Engclardo de Cygone de obfidibus infularum dc Gercfey et de Gcrnere, de Johanne ct Radulfo
obfidibus eorum ; et de Gernere de Henrico et Willielmo obfidibus corum, et vicecomiti Nottinghamenfi pro Ricardo
Baldwinenfi, Johanne, Ricardo, et Roberto obfidibus predictorum.
Eodem modo fcribitur Abbati Glouceftrenfi de Willielmo Malet obfide eorum ; Maiori Wintoncnfi ct probis hominibus
ejufdem ville de Colino Normanno, Ricardo Turgis, Ricardo Warino, ct Johanne obfidibus eorum ; priori et conventus Sti- Albani
de Radulfo Galittano, Abbati de Ramfeie de Roberto Hurmano. — Telle eodem, data eadem, anno eodem. — Rot. Pat. Johannis
A'^/o— 1224.
f This Bailly, although of Norman descent, appears to have been a member if not chief of one of the greatest of the
Breton feudal houses ; the Sulenys being, through an ancestress, Ysenlt, daughter of .Jean de Dol, Comtes de Combourg
and Dol. Several of the lords of this great house, which proudly ruled " Dei gratia,^' bore the same name and surname
anterior and subsequently to the period referred to in the text. The magnificent chateau fort of Combourg, still perfect
in all the attributes of feudal sti'ength, affords a striking proof of the exalted position of its ancient lords, and of the
impregnable character of the castles of the great nobles of those days. It became subsequently the property of the
ancient and noble house of Chateaubriand ; and the illustrious author of that name, who became its possessor by the death
of an elder brother, passed much of his early youth in this grand and gloomy fortalice, and sold it to a near relative of tlie
same name. — Vide Dom. Maurice, Jlistoire de Bretugnc.
X ( Rex Philippo de Albino falutem. Mandamus vobis quod diligcntcr inquiri faciatis per probos ct legales
Dc inquificione 1 homines de infula de Gerefey fi Robertus Malet faifitus fuit die quo obiit in dominico fuo ut de feodo
de terra fua quam tenuit in Gerefey dum Willielmus Malet filius fuus fuit pro eo obfes in Angliil ; et fi idem Willielmus
Malet propinquior hcrcs ejus inde fit, ct fi Hafculfus dc Sulcny tcrram illam (aifivit in manum nollram dum fuit ballivus de
Gerefey tola occafione mortis prcdifti Roherti, co quod tenuit de Domino Johanne Rcge, patrc noilro, in capite ; et fi
conilitcrit vobis per inquificioncm prcdiftam quad ita fit, tunc fine dilatiouc prefato Willielmo Malet de prcfata terra patris
i'ui plenam faifiuam habere faciatis. — Tcfte Henrico, apud Wejimonajierium, &;c. V"' die Junii. Rot. Clam, vif Henrici III.
1223.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 265
in the reigu of John ; they were also home in Normandy at the same period ; and Hkewise by
members of the branch which estabhshed itself in England at the Conquest. This branch, early
in the thirteenth centuiy, ceased to form part of the line of the Sires de Graville in Normandy,
since feudal possessions in England, and that duchy no longer continued to be held on equal terms
and tenure by Anglo-Norman barons after the battle of Bou\T.nes, which took place in 1214, and
established its final separation from England. But the Jersey family continued in possession
of the Seigneurie and the Maison de Mallet, which latter remained unchanged in name until
the beginning of the seventeenth centuiy, when it lost its ancient owners by the marriage of
Isabella,* the daughter and heir of Heniy Mallet, f Seigneur of La Malletiere, La Hague, |
and Les Esperons,§ who was the last representative of the elder branch.
" In 1602, Helier de Carteret[j became possessed, by purchase from this Isabella Mallet, of the
fiefs of La Hague and Les Esperons, which, from a declaration of dues and tenures made in 1489,
were at that time held by her ancestor, John Mallet, Seigneur of La Hague, La Malletiere, and Les
Esperons ; the two latter fiefs having been in the possession of this family upwards of a century.
" Anterior, however, to the extinction of the elder branch in the person of Isabella Mallet, a
second son, John, leaving the Maison de Mallet, now called les Prt'S,5[ established himself in
the neighbouring parish of S. Martin. From him descended lineaUy the late Eeverend John
Mallet, Kector of his original ancestral parish of Grouville during forty-eight years, who died
in 1851, aged 85, and was highly esteemed not only for his erudition, but respected for his
stern integrity, private and public worth. This gentleman was also a lineal descendant,
maternally, from the same Isabella Mallet above spoken of; and is now represented by the
heir of his eldest son, the Seigneur of S. Ouen, and by his two surviving younger sons, Eobert-
Philip, M.A., OxoN, whose eldest son, Adolphus-Eobert, Ensign H.M. 38th Eegt., died at
Lucknow, in 1858, shortly after the capture of that town by the late Lord Clyde ; and William-
Edmund, whose only son, Laureus-Matthews, Lieut. E.N., now senior Lieutenant of H.M.S.
"Assurance," entered the navy in 1850, and has served throughout the whole of the late
Crimean campaign, for which he has received the Order of the Medjidie and the Crimean and
Turkish medals. He also served in China, where, by the explosion of a Chinese junk, he was
blown up and very severely burnt ; for this semce he has also received the Chinese medal ; and
* "The fee of the Malletiere, which the heir and daughter of Henry Mallet now holdeth, 30 fols for half relief"
Fide ExTENTE of 1 607, parifh of Grouville.
I " John Journeaulx, in the right of his wife, daughter of Ijabclhi, the daughter and heir of Henry Mallet, for Renauii
Grault, 1 5 fols." — Ibid, parifh of Grouville.
X This seigneurie, which came into the possession of this family by the marriage of its heiress, was anciently held by
its tenure to provide a jail for the king's prisoners, and its seigneurs were responsible for their safeguard ; "Jean Mallet,
a caufe de fa femme, pour le fieu de Pierre de La Hague, doit plein relief, fjavoir, 60 fols, avec douze fols pour une paire
d'efperons et fuite de cour." — Vide " Chroniqties de Jerfe'j" p. 38.
§ This fief, which also bore the name of fief es Ricards, was held by the ancient and honourable tenure of the annual
presentation of a pair of spurs ; " John Journeaulx, in the right of Ijabella, the daughter of Henry Mallet, of Grouville, for
a pair of fpurs for theytv es Ricards." — Vide Extente of 1607, parifh of St. Peter.
II " Helier de Carteret, having the right of Ijabella, daughter of Henry Mallet, holdeth LX vergees of ground called the
fee oi La Hague, for the which he payeth, for the full relief, LX fols and fuit of court." — Ibid, parifh of S. Peter.
H TTie tract of meadow land in front of this manor house would appear to explain its present not inappropriate name,
which was bestowed upon it when it passed by marriage from the possession of the family whose name it originally bore ;
it was rebuilt in 16-31, and still retains a fine and massive specimen of a stone newel staircase of the first manor,
mentioned at p. 22 of the introduction.
2GG AN ARMOniAL OF JERSEY.
(luriuo- his service in H.M.S. "Falcon," on the West Coast of Africa, whilst repelling the attacks,
on the river Gambia, of a large body of natives, he received a gun-shot wound in the face ;
and, for enforcing the rights of the English and other merchants trading in that settlement, he
received their thanks, and those of the Governor of Sierra Leone, Col. Stephen J. Hill, C.B. "
" Several members of this Norman family appear to have made the church the siibject of
their peculiar choice in the olden time, among whom, in addition to the late Eector of Grouville,
Sire Thomas Mallet was Dean of Jersey in 1515 ; Sire Anthony Malet Vice-Dean, and Eector of
Grouville in 1519; and Sire Francis Mallet, Eector of St. Trinity in 1558. And Eichard
rt)a&l
AUTOGRAPH OF ANTONY MALET, VICE-DEAN AUTOGRAPH OF RICHARD MALLET,
OP JERSEY AND RECTOR OF GROUVILLE. JURAT R.C.
Mallet was Jurat of the Eoyal Court from 1524 to 1557 ; whilst, in the present century, it has
given six of its members to the naval and military services, evincing thus its attachment for " la
robe et I'epee." In its elder and younger branches it has also formed alliances by mamage
with some of the principal insular families, among which are those of La Hague, Dumaresq
in several branches, Lempriere of S. John, La Hougue-Boete, De Carteret, and the house of
St. Ouen. The celebrated Sir George de Carteret, Bart., of Hawnes, co. Bedford, one of the
most distinguished scions of that house, too, was the maternal great-grandson of Isabella
iMallet, Lady of La Mahetiere, La Hague, and Les Esperons ;f but, following the Norman
custom, it does not bear any quarterings of arms.
* (Cop}'.) " Government House, Sierra Leone, 2nd May, 1861.
" >SiR, — In acknowledging your letter dated last month, transmitting Lieut. Mallet's report of proceedings in the
lioom river, I have to express my obligations for the prompt and judicious manner in which your measures were taken for
the protection of British subjects and their property in the Sherboro'.
" May I request you will convey to Lieut. Mallet my deep sense of the spirit and ability he exercised in carrying out
your orders ; and I have no hesitation in stating the presence in the Sherboro' of the small force under Lieut. Mallet, and
tlie fearless and energetic manner in which he acted, will, for the future, tend to secure the safety of the persons and
]iroperty of our traders there.
" I have the honour to be. Sir,
" To Commander Heneage, H.M.S. ' Falcon,' " Your most obedient servant,
" Sierra Leone." (Signed) "Stephen J. Hill, C.B., Governor.
f Isabella Mallet=John Journeaulx
Collette Journeaulx, only daughter, m. firstly
Hugh Dumaresq, {]'ide I'ed. of Dumaresq du Morin.)
Elizabeth Dumaresq, m. 8 June, 1G08, in the Island of Serk.
Elias De Carteret, Attorney-General of Jersey.
Sir George Carteret, Kt. and Bart., Governor and Bailly of Jersey (17(?c Fed. of De Carteret, Baronial In-anch).
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY. 267
" The arms of the Norman house of Malet-cle Graville were recorded, m the list of Norman
barons dra^^Tl up in 1096* and deposited in the Cathecbal of Bayeux, by William Malet, second
of that name, Sire de Graville, whose name occurs after those of the Comtes d'Eu and
d'Harcourt. The supporters, two griffins, date at least fi'om 1355, ha\dng been borne by
John III. Malet, Sire de Graville, who married Eleonora, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, Comte
de S. Pol, Grand Butler of France, and of Mary of Britany, daughter of John II., Duke of
Britany, and of Beatrix of England, daughter of Henry III., as is attested by an existing
impression of his seal attached to a document,! dated June xxvi., 1355. They are still borne by
the Marquis de Malet, present head and representative of this ancient and noble house, who, in
a letter^ addressed to a member of this family, expresses in congratulatory terms the gratification
he has derived from the knowledge of the existence of so ancient a branch in Jersey. It is one
of the few in France which has constantly written its name without the prefix of the particle de,
* Imperial Library, Piiris, MSS. 9816 and 9816^
f At this early period, this name was written Mallet and Ualct, and the document alluded to in the text, which is
deposited in the Cabinet (Us Titres, in the Imperial Library, Paris, and is a receipt for payment from the state, bears
Malet ; whilst another similar document, also in the same collection, dated two years anterior to the first (1353), from
another member of the same house, also named John, whose seal bears three buckles and a label of three points, gives
Mallet.
The floor of the great Guard Chamber of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes, at Caen, was formerly paved with encaustic tiles,
of which there were originally an immense number; on them, however, were depicted but twenty-four coats-of-arms,
frequently repeated ; from which it may be inferred that none but the chief of the Norman houses received the honour of
having their armorial ensigns recorded in this celebrated and royal building, and, from their early date, it may also be
inferred that they composed the first tile-armorial on record. The arms are France ; Bertrand, Vicomtes de Ixoncheville et
Briquebec, etc.; Tancarville, Hereditary Chamberlains of Normandy ; Mallet-de-Graville ; Mathan, Seigneurs de JIathan,
etc. ; du Marche, Seigneurs d' Herman ville, etc. ; Harcourt ; Le Bray ; Lucy ; Malherbe aux Lions ; La Haye, du
Cotcntin ; Reviers, alias Vernon ; Barons de Creuly, of the race of the Dukes of Normandy ; de Briqueville ; de Tilli ;
Paynel, Seigneurs of Foutenay-Paynel ; de Tilli de S. Germain ; de Thieuville ; Molley-Bacon ; de MeulLant, Seigneurs
de Courseules ; de Ste. Marie; de Say, Seigneurs d'Aunay ; ancient arms of the town of Caen; and one unknown. —
Vide " Essais Historiques siir la Ville de Caen, par I'Altbe de La Sue, etc."
Among the achievements which adorn the Salles des Croisades of the palace of Versailles, due to the munificence of
the late king of the French, Louis-Philippe, the arms of the Norm.an house of Malet-de Graville are recorded ; they also
received, in the thirteenth century, the signal honour of being admitted among the armorial bearings which form part of
the decoration, in gold and enamel, of the celebrated Cassette de S. Louis, made to contain the scourge and hair shirt which
ministered to the austere discipline of that pious monarch. This valuable and rare specimen of medireval art had been
preserved in the church of Dammarie-les-Lys, near Melun, after the demolition, in 1793, of the abbey of Notre-Dame-la
royale-du-Lis, founded by S. Louis, and to which it had been presented, with its contents, as a precious relic of the
sainted king, by his grandson, Philippe Lc Bel ; it has recently been purchased by the state, and presented by the
Emperor Napoleon III. to the museum of the Louvre, and now forms part of the collection comprised in the Musee des
Eois ; on the lid and sides are the escucheons of the following sovereign and noble houses : — France ; Castille ; Jerusalem ;
Hugh IV., Duke of Burgundy ; Robert de Courtenay, Grand Butler of France; Amauri, Comte de Montfort, Grand
Constable of France; Robert III., Comte de Dreux ; Pierre de Dreux, sumamed Mauclerc, Duke of Britany; Baldwin
IX., Count of Flanders; Thibaut VI., Count of Champagne, King of Navarre; Robert I IL Malet, Sire de Graville;
Henry IL, Comte de Bar; Henry III., King of England; IMatthew II., de Montmorency, Constable of France;
Guilleaume de Beaumont, Marshal of France: Jean de Beaumont, Great Admiral and Chamberlain; Raoul, Sire de
Coney; Alphonse, Comte de Toulouse ; Philippe, Comte de Dampmartin ; Richard d'Harcourt ; one unknown coat; and
six wanting.
" Enfin cette liste de noms illustres inserits sur la cassette royale se complete par les blasons de Mallet, Sire de
Graville, et de Richard d'Harcourt, qui sernrent de temoins au couronnemcnt de S. Louis." — Vide La Cassette de S.
Louis, Edinond Ganneron. Paris, 185.5.
X In the original, the two modes of writing his name are underlined ; and, speaking of his arms, he says : — " ....
les miennes, comme celles de tons les Malet ou Mallet ayant pour berceau Graville, pres le Havre et Harfleur, et restes
268
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
assumed by the parent-house only since the latter part of the seventeenth century.* The name
itself is generally believed to have been bestowed upon an early Scandina\'ian member, on account
of his great personal strength and prowess in wielding the iron mace, a ponderous and formidable
weapon called Mall in the Norse tongue."
Arms (as borne by the late John Mallet, Esq.) : Gules, three buckles, or ; a crescent,
argent, in chief, for difference. On an escutcheon of pretension : Ai'gent, a che\Ton, gules ; on
a chief, azure, three estoiles, or ; in base, a thistle, slipped, ppr., for Le Maistre. Quartering:
Gules, three escallops, or, a mullet for difference, for Dumaresq : Gules, four fusils, conjoined,
in fesse, argent, for De Carteret : Gules, a chevron between three towers, triple-towered, or,
for S. Ouen : Gules, four fusils, conjoined in fesse, argent, for D'Albini : Sable, two shin-bones
in saltire, argent, the dexter surmounted of the sinister, for Newton : Azure, three lions,
rampant, or ; a bordure, sable, for De Caux : Ai'gent, a saltire, gules, between four fleurs-de-lis,
azure, for Harleston : Gules, two bars, ermine ; in chief, three martlets or, for Sarre : Gules,
four fusils, conjoined in fesse, argent ; in base, an annulet, or, for difference, for De Carteret :
Sable, three swords, in pile, argent, points downward, hilts and pomels, or ; between the former,
two mullets for difference, for Poulett : Argent, two wings, conjoined, ermine, for Eaynes :
Azure, six mascles, argent, three and three, for Credie : Party per fesse, gi;les and azure, three
crescents, argent, for Aumeral : Barry of eight, argent and gules, over all a band, sable, for
BouRTON : Ai'gent, a chevi'on, gules, between three garbs, vert, for Bosco : Azure, on a chief
argent, a demi-lion, couped, gules, for Denibaud : Argent, three chevrons, sable, for Archdeacon :
Gules, a cross, fleury, or, charged mth seven roimdles, sable, for Latimer : Gules, a wyvern,
with -svings erect, argent, for Le Brent : Gules, three lions passant, in pale, argent, over all a
label of three points, sable, for Giffard : Ai-gent, a fesse between three cinquefoils, gules, for
PouTRELL ; and Ai-gent, a fesse between three wolves' heads, erased, sable ; a crescent, for differ-
ence, for Seale.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, a cock, statant, ppr.
Motto : En Dieu affie.
Arms (as borne by Laurens-Matthews Malet, Esq., R.N.) : Same Arms, Crest, and Motto,
as the preceding.
oil revenus en Normandie, apres la conquete de I'Angleterre, sont bien de gueule a trois fermeaux, ou boucles, d'or, ainsi
qiie vous le verrez sur le cachet de cette lettre.
" . . . . Je serais beureux de vous recevoir, Monsieur, et de faire connaissanee avec un menibre de notre nombreuse
triliu, si un voyage vous amenait en France," etc. — Extract from letter of the Marquis de Malet, dated 8 Juli/, 1857.
* " La maison de Malet est du tres petit nombre de celles qui ont constamment conserve leur nom primitif et
Skal oi' .loH.N III. JIalkt,
Sire do Graville. 2Gth Ju.ve, lHo.5
2. Seal of Kohekt IV. Malet,
Sire ae Gnu-ille. IStii March, 13S0.
3. Seal of Wii.i.ia.m Malet,
Seigneur de Crasmcuil. 4tii JrNE,130'.'.
Laurens Matthews Malet. Esquire. R.N
/;,• »-////« ////.. /ill/, IS f>ns, !,/.•>/ />• f/ii- ll''/,
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
269
prtigm of iWaW.
Robert Malet held the lands ajid Seigneime of La MaHoti^re, in tlio Parish of GrouviUe, in capile, of the Dutes of Normandy, in 11 70.
William Malet, Seigneur of La Malleti^re, sent to England as a hostage for the Island, in the stead of his father, in 1208, and placed nuder the
charge of the Abbat of Gloucester; ho returned to Jersey in 1214. From whom descended —
William Malet, Seigneur of La MaUeti^re and La Hougue. From whom descended —
John Malet, Seigneur of La Malletiere, and, in right of his ivife. Seigneur of La Hague and Les Esperons in 1490. From whom descended —
Richard Mallet, Seigneur of La Malletiferp, La Hague, et Lea Esperons, = Catherine, d. of John Dumaresq, Seig. of Vincheles de Bas au<l
Jurat R.C. from 1524 to 15.57. I of Gorge.
John Mallet, Seigneur of La Malletidre, La Hague, and Les Esperons = Isabella, d. and co-h. of Thomas Lempriere, Seig. of S. John, La
Houg\ie Boete.
Henry Mallet, Seigneur of La Malletiere,
La Hague, and Les Esperons.
Catherine, d. of Drouet Amy.
I
Sire Francis Mallet, R.C.
Rector of Trinity.
John = . . d. of . . . Dumaresq.
Isabella MaUet, eld. d. and co-h., Lady
of La Malletiere, La Hague, and Les
Esperons, sold the two last-named
fiefs to Holier De Carteret in 1C03.
John Joumeaulx.
Ann.
Nicholas Romeril.
James Romeril.
Philip Malet, d. 1596 = Frances, d. of Nicholas
Baudains, d. 1599.
I
Catherine.
Nicholas Anlev.
John Anlev.
i
Henry.
patronymique sans y joindre la particule de aiitrement qtie comme indicative de possessions seigneuriales. — Vick "Notice
Historiqvc et Genmlogique sur la Maison de Malet," p. 450.
4. Se.\l op John V. M.ilet,
Sire De Graville, Grand Maltre
des Arbalestriers de France. —
15th Octobek, 1417.
5. Seal of Louis Malet, Sire de
Graville, Grand Aniiral de France. —
31sT Jl-lt, 1474.
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•270
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY,
John MaUet, d. 1G09
Mary Comet, d. and h. of ... Cornet, and
grand-niece of Sire Nicholas Comet.
I
Catherine, d. 16-16.
Collas Noel, Chef-
Sergent du Eoy.
I
James Halet.
I
John Mallet.
This branch is re-
presented by Philip
Mallet of Faldovet.
1. Susan, yoimg. d. and co-li. = Philip Mallet, b. 1595, m. 1614, = 3. Sarah, d. of
of Clement Dumaresq, of la
Chosnee, a co-representative
of the iiimUies of Do Bagot,
Payn, Larbalestier, Messerry,
Crafford, of S. Martin, and Le
Bastard, ob. 1550.
d. 1680.
3. Mary, d. of the Rev. Nicholas
Effard, Rector of S. Saviour,
widow of Thomas Poingdestre,
m. 1653, d. 1662, o.s.p.
Guyon Aliior,
m. 1663, o.s.p.
Frances,
m. 1619.
Richard
Grossier.
Mary.
John
Dufrcsue.
I
A daughter.
Richard Dolbel.
I
Catherine. Susan, m. 1619.
Richard Nicolle.
PhiHp MaUet,
b. 161-1.
ob. juv.
John, m. 1641.
Elizabeth, d.
of Philip
Gaudin.
Laurens, b. 1620,
m. 1644, d. 1690.
Catherine, eld. d. of
John Bra-ye.
1. Pauline, d. of ... = Clement, b. 1624, = 2. Rachel, d. of John
Guerdain, m. 1647, Capt. R.J.M. I Collas, m. 1654,
o.s.p. I d. 1693.
3. Jane, d. of ...
FiUeul, m. 1693.
PhiKp MaUet,
b. 1635.
Margaret,
b. 1618, m. 1640.
John Messervy,
of Anneville.
1
I
John MaUet, b. 1641.
Elizabeth, d. ...Noel,
and widow of Thomas Margaret, d. of MaUet.
Cabot. the Rev. Peter
= D'Assigny, Eec-
I tor of S. Helier,
EUzabeth, only d. and and subsequently
h., b. 1687. of S. Martin.
I i
PhiUp, b. 1643, Susan. Clement, Francis, b. 1657, b. 1649, m. 1685
m. 1681, d. 1682. — m. 1697, d. 1704. d. 1733.
Philip Mallet, Laurens, Susan,
b. 1657, b.l645,
d. 1690. m. 1669.
I I
Pauline, Catherine,
b. 1652, b. 1665,
ob. juv. d. 1719.
Philip Edward
Sarah, d. of Francis Susan, d. of .
Ann, Perchard. Jolm Mallet.
o.s.p. = =
I
Thomas
Noel.
Noe Nicolle.
(Vide Pedigree of
NicoUe.)
I
Margaret MaUet,
b. 1682, ob.juv.
Elizabeth MaUet,
b. 1699.
Susan,
b. 1702.
Clement MaUct,
b. 1720,
oh. juv.
Clement MaUet, b. 1694,
m. 1719.
Ann, d. of . . . Aubiu.
I
II II
PhUip, 1. EUzabeth, d. of= John, b. 1732, =2. EUzabeth, d. of EUzabeth, b. 1721. Susan, b. 1730.
ob. juv.
De Rue.
R.N.
... CoUas.
John FaUe. PhUip Le BoutiUicr.
John MaUct, Capt. R.J.M.,=Jane, d. of John Ann.
Constable of S. Martin.
I
Perchard.
Edward Noel.
PhiUp MaUet = Ann-EUzabeth, d. of John FaUc.
PhUip MaUet, o.s.p.
I I
1. Mary, old. d. of Edward Nicolle, 0.5.;). = John MaUet = 2. Elizabeth, d. of John-WUUam Hooper. Mary.
I
EUzabeth-Mary Mallet, b. 1861.
I ~r I
John Mallot, b. 1688, m. 1723, d. 1764 = Mary, d. of Hnlip CoUas. Elizabeth, b. lGS5 = PhiUp Nicolle. Susan, b. 1657=Jolm Messervy.
AN AEMOBIAL OF JERSEY.
271
Johu MaUet, b. 1724, John, b. 1725, Jolm, b. 1726, =Racliel, d. of PhiHp, b. 1731, Laurence, b. 1735, Mary, b. 1728,
oh.juv. ob.juv. m. 1764, d. 1797 I John Godfray. o.s.p, ob.juv. ob.Jiiv.
The Rev. John Mallet, b. 1766, m. 1793, d. 1851, Rector suecessively of = Elizabeth-Ann, sole d. and h. of John Marett, and widow of
S. John, S. Peter, and GrouviUe. , J -, Richard Babington.
John MaUet, H.E.l.C.S.
Jane, eld. d. and co-h. of
Philip Le Maistre, Seig.
of S. Ouen and Qufetivel.
T
I
Edward, Capt.
H.M. 61st
Rogt., o.s.p.
Robert-Philip MaUet,
now Malet, M.A., Oxon.
Ann, d. of Peter Simo-
net, of Radier, Lt, - C ol.
R.J.M., and Constable
of Grouville.
Wmiam-Edmund Mallet,
now Malet.
Ann-Elizabeth, d. and
co-h. of John Matthews,
Major R. J. M., d. 4th
August, 1863.
I
EUzabcth.
Mary.
Charles De Carteret, of
Vinchel^s de Bas, Major
H.E.l.C.S.
Phffip De QuetteviUe,
Lt.-Col. R. J. M. A.,
Constable of S. Holier.
Laurens-Matthewa Malet, b. 1838,
Lieut. R.N., Order of Medjidie,
Crimean, Turkish, and Chinese
Medals, m. August 27th, 1864.
Elizabeth-Margaret, second d. of the
late Pearse Crosbio, of BaUyheigue
Castle, Co. Kerry, Esq.
Eliza- Susanna, b. 1836.
Richard - Ramsay Armstrong,
Lieut. R.N., Legion of Honour,
Order of Medjithe, Crimean and
Turkish Medals.
Clara-Ann, b. 1840.
Robert-Philip Armstrong,
Capt. H.M. 23rd Regt.,
Royal Welsh Fusdeers,
Crimean Medal, oh. 1863.
Edith-
VUleneufve,
b. 1843.
Alice Spawforth,
b. 1844.
I
Adolpbus-Robert Malet, b. 1837,
Ensign H.M. 38th Regt., o.s.p.,
1838, Indian Medal.
Alfred-Simonet, Clerk in
Holy Orders, b. 1839.
Stanley-Edwin,
b. 1841.
Frederiek-De Carteret,
b. 1843.
Maxia-Octavia.
b. 1848.
I
John-Paington Mallet,
Seigneur of S. Ouen,
Lieut.H.M. 47th Regt.,
b. 1837, d. 1856,
innupt.
Edward-Charles Mallet, moic Malet, b. 1838, Seigneur of S. Ouen, late of H.M. 23th Regt.
Assumed by S.M., the name and arms of De Carteret, of S. Ouen. Indian Medal.
Elizabeth, sole d. and h. of Abraham Poingdestre.
T
Marie Malet-De Carteret, b. 1862.
I
Ba«hel,
d. 1855,
innupt.
J[ M
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
JHamitL
HE Spanish family of Manuel, one of the proudest of the Castilian nobility, carries
hack its pedigree to the father of Juan Sanchez Manuel, created Conde de Carrion
by Henry II. of Spain, in 1371. De Haro, the eminent Spanish genealogist, gives a
detailed history of this famous house, brought down to the begiiming of the
sixteenth century.*
A family of the same name has long been settled at Beziers, in Languedoc, whence, at the
commencement of the present century, or a little earlier, came Monsieur Matthew Manuel, who
settled and died in Jersey. The connections of his descendants are shewn by the following
Pedigree. The present representative of the family is Henry-Luce Manuel, Esq.
Arms (as borne by Henry-Luce Manuel, Esq.) : Gules, a hand, ppr., winged at the wrist,
or, holding a sword, in pale, argent, pomelled of the third; the whole within a bordure of the
last. Impaling : Argent, a lion, rampant, gules, ducaUy crowned, or, charged on the shoulder
with a heart of the first, for De Veulle.
|3ftri0iTr of illamu"!.
Matthew Manuel, of the town of Beziers, in Languedoc,
settled in Jersey, and died there, 1820.
Mary, d. of ... Henouf, uf Guernsey, m. 1780.
John Luce, R.N.
Elizabeth, d. of WiUiam
Matthews, of Bishop's
Walthani.
I
! I I
John Luce, Mary. Elizabeth = Capt. Thos.
Thomas Picstock.
Jane, d. of . . . Le Feuvre.
Capt. R.N.,
Picstock, R.N.t
I I I
John. James. Mary. Elizabeth.
Matthew- John-
Philip Louis,
Manuel, b. 1784,
b. 17S1. o.f.p.
1 I
Thomas-
Louis,
b. 1788.
Philip,
b. 17'J0.
Mary.
Heury, Thomas- George.
b. 1792. Jacob, —
b. 1788. Henrietta. BaronA.Rigault,
Receiver-General
JIary, at Bois-le-Duc,
d. of ... temp, the first
Mallet. Empire.
I I , I I
John Thomas-Philip, Ehzabeth, Bett^- Jenny,
Picstock, b. 1790. b. 1787. Jenny, b. 1793.
b. 179(i. b. 1789.
Mary, d. of
John Hooper
uf Grouville.
I
Henry-Luoe Manuel, Register of Births, etc., in Jersey.
Eliza, d. of John De Veulle.
Elizabeth-Jane.
* Vide " Nobiliario Genealogico do los Reyes y Titulos do Espaiia, por Alonso Lopez do Haro. Eu Madrid,
Ano Mpcxxii."
t " Capt. Thomas Picstock, a native of .lerscy, was descended from an ancient family, tlie possessors of Picstock's
Towiisliip, situated in tlie Parish of Edmond, in the Drayton division of the Hundred of Bradford, three miles north-west
of Newport, in Shropshire. Having, on one occasion, on entering the Bay of Naples, engaged tliree French privateers,
he beat off two, and suidc the third. On his return to England, 25t]i February, 1798, he was honoured with an interview
with the Duke of Sussex, who, in commemoration of the Captain's bravery, presented him with the sword he was then
accustomed to wear, and which bore the initials A. F. — Vide "The Jersey and Guernsey Magazine," January, 1837.
Arms of Picstock : Paly, argent and azure.
Bywhom-ffusPlaU uF^ssented to the- Wcr-k .
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 273
jHarctt.
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HIS family is probably of Norman, certaiuly of Freneb, origin, and is not, as is
sometimes supposed, a branch of the English family of Marriott, although the name
and arms of both are some-nhat analogous.
It has been settled in the island from a very remote period ; for, in 1295, Ranulph
Maret, priest, son of Peter Maret, was collated by Edward I. to the rectory of S. Helier, as a
recognition of, rather than a compensation for, the serious losses sustained by himself and
family on the occasion of an incursion of the French, sometime previous to that date.
By the Extcntc of 1331, it appears that Thomas Maret held the fief os Ferans, in the
parish of S. John, for which he owed, in the quaint language of this Record, " Vingt deniers,
une gueline, et un pain." There was also, at this early period, a fief termed Maret, in the
same parish.
Dom. Audrey Maret was Prior of S. Clement in 1363, and is mentioned in an Act of the
Royal Court, of the date of Tuesday before the Nativity of Our Lady, in that year.*
Denis Maret was Consteur of the Parish of S. John, as is shown by a deed dated 22
August, 1545.
Nicholas Maret was Rector of the Parish of S. John in the reign of Edward VI., and was
prominent among the earliest promoters of the Reformation in the island. On the accession of
Queen Mary, he sought a temporary refuge in France ; but, on her death, returned to Jersey,
and resumed his sacerdotal duties. He is supposed to have been the brother of Laurence, and
the uncle of Vincent Maret, the deacon of the same parish.
Philip Maret, who was Advocate-General of Jersey in 1608, afterwards became Solicitor-
General there. Owing to a dispute with the Bailly, John Herault, he was deprived of the latter
office in 1616. This did not, however, prevent his subsequent election to the office of Jurat of
the Royal Court, into which he was sworn on the 12 March, 1628. In May, 1632, he was
appointed by Sir Thomas Jerm}Ti, Lieutenant-Governor of the island, during the absence of
Captain Thomas Rainsford. He died in January, 1636-7, and was buried in the parish church
of S. Brelade.
Philip Maret, son of the preceding, was a victim of the parliamentary excesses in Jersey ; for,
ha\dng protested against the exactions and tyranny of the then Governor, Colonel Robert Gibbon,
was by him committed as a close prisoner to Mont Orgueil Castle. He contrived to obtain his
liberty on bail sometime afterwards, when he endeavoured, though unsuccessfully, to obtain
redress from the Protector. The Restoration, however, relieved Mr. Maret, with the Royalists
of Jersey generally, from the exactions and persecutions to which they were subjected by their
political antagonists. Philip Maret died without issue in 1675-6, leaving no inconsiderable
property, part of which was inherited by his paternal relatives, and the remainder, including
the estate of Avranche, a view of which is appended to this lineage, devolved upon his half-
sister, Susan Dumaresq, widow of Elias Maret. From this lady the seat has descended to
* Now in the Archives at S. Lo, Normaiidj'.
274 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Peter Maret, Esq., the present Seigneur. A characteristic portrait of PhiHp Maret is preserved
at Avranche.
Francis Marett (as, about this period, the surname was written) was Seigneur of Awanche,
and an Advocate of the Pioyal Court. He was afterwards preferred to the office of Eeceiver of
the I{jng's Pievenues in Jersey, and linally elected Jurat, a dignity he enjoyed until his death,
in 1762. His eldest son,
Francis Marett, Seigneur of A\Tanche, was sworn an Advocate of the Royal Court, in
January, 1765. He then became Jurat, and fulfilled the duties of that post for several years.
In early life he travelled through France, Switzerland, and Italy. He was a man of varied
information, and critical taste in science and art. He died in 1801, and, leading no issue, the
bulk of his property descended to his nephew,
Philip Marett, Seigneur of Avranche, who was successively Advocate, Jurat, and Lieu-
tenant Bailly of the Royal Court. As Constable of the parish of S. Lawrence, and as Jurat, he
was a member of the insular States for little less than half a century, and had the honour of
being deputed by that Assembly to defend the interests of the island, on several important
occasions. He was for many years Colonel of the S. Laurence battalion of the R. J.M. His son,
Peter Marett, Lieutenant-Colonel R.J.M., is the present Seigneur of A^Tanche, and the
representative of the eldest surviving branch of the family.
Peter-Daniel Marett, brother of Philip, entered the service of the Honourable East-India
Company in 1799, and obtained an ensigncy in 1st Madi-as Native Infantry. He was stationed
at Vellore in 1806, the scene of the first mutiny of the native troops, and narrowly escaped
being put to death by the revolters on that occasion. He attained the rank of major in 1817,
but from ill-health was compelled to retire shortly afterwards from the service. He returned
to his native island, where he continued to reside until his death in 1838. His son,
RoBERT-PiPON Marett, Esq., who represents a junior section of this family, is Advocate-
General of Jersey, and who during his period of office as Constable of S. Helier has done very
much to improve and beautify the chief town. He is also favourably known as the author of
a life of Le Gejt, the insular legist.
Arms (as borne by Peter Marett, Esq.) : Ai-gent, three bars, gules. Quartering : Ai-gent, a
cross, indented, sable, for Romeril : Gules, three escallops, or, for Dumaresq : Gules, three
eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for difference, for Lempbiere : Gules, an anchor, erect, or ; on
a chief of the second, three roses, of the first, a crescent for difference, for Mauger : and Azure,
a crescent, argent, for Luce. Impaling : Ai'gent, three trefoils, sable, a mullet for difference,
for Payn. . . ; . ,
Crest : A talbot, ppr.
Arms (as borne by Eobert-Pipon Marett, Esq.) : Ai-gent, three bars, gules, a mullet for
difference. Quartering : Ai-gent, a cross, indented, sable, for Romeril : Gules, three escallops,
or, for Dumaresq : Gules, three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for difference, for Lempriere :
and Per che\a-on, gules and or, in chief two muUets, argent, for Pipon.
Crest : A talbot, ppr.
CIggif pirOi lilEETT. SSQPitS
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
275
^3rtiig:rrr of iHnrrtt,
BRANCHES OF S. HELIER, LA HAULE, AND AVRANCHE.
Martin Maret, b. circa 14G0, was probably the father of —
Richard Maret, one of the " fimagcurs " of the Parish of S. John, in 1344, whose probable son-
Laurens Maret, b. circa 1540 = Pauline, d. of Peter Hamon.
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Peter. Vincent, settled at S. Martin, Deacon of the Parish of S. John = Servaise, d. and h. of
= 1 Clement Romeril.
Thomasse.
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Andria.
John Le Breton. CoUas Hamon.
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John Maret, m. 1612 = Jano, d. of Francis Gruchy, Elias Maret, b. lo9i, d. 1G6.5, Deacon of S. Martin = Mary, d. of Laurens. Sara.
I
of S. Trinity.
i
Francis Maret.
John,
"i
Luke. another son.
Horman.
Peter Maret. I |
Vincent Maret, b. 1614 = Katherine, d. of ... Bree. Elias b. 1624 = Susan, d. and h. of
EKas Dumaresq,
Seig. of La Haule,
and co-representa-
tive of the family
of Lempriere.
Servaise.
I.
Pauline.
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Elias Maret. John. Vincent. Philip. Augustin. EUas. Peter. Catherine.
Mary.
Thomas Le John John
Caumais. Perchard, of Perchard, of
La Vallee. La Ville Br^e.
Peter Maret, b. 1647,
Seig. of La Haule.
Margaret, d. of John
La Cloche, Jurat, R.C.
George = Jane, d. of ... Cotibi.
Philip, d. circa 1729 = Jane, youngest d. of
I Francis De Carteret,
I Seig. of Vincheles
de Haut.
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Edward, d. 1730.
Elizabeth, eld. d. of John Seale.
Amice Marett, Jurat R.C. = Margaret, d. of ... Le Gailais.
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Jane Marett, eld. d. and co-h. = Thos. Le Breton, Seig.
of La Hague.
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Peter.
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John.
I
Edward.
Margaret = William Patriarcbe.
Francis Marett, b. 1697, d. 1762 = Ann, d. of Daniel Tapin,* and niece of John Seale, Seig. of Samaras. Jane. Mary. Sarah.
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Francis Marett. PhiUp.
Juhn-
Fraucis.
1. Mary, d. of Peter
Mauger, Senior,
Advocate, R. C.
I
PhiUp, = 2. Jane - De
b. 1744,
d. 1791.
Carteret, d.
of Edward
Remon.
Daniel, d. at Jane- Ann. Mary.
Winchester Elizabeth.
College. • Philip Peter
Charles Payn. Mauger,
Hilgrove. Jurat, R.C.
Edward Marett, b. 1784 = Mary, sister of Admiral
I Charles Bertram.
Edward-George Marett.
Jane.
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Rev. Charles, M.A. Cambs.,Rector = Louisa-Carteret, James-Francis. Mary-Jane.
of S. Clement.
d. of Thomas Le
Vavasseur-dit- Catherine, d. of
Durell. ... Blayney.
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Two sons and three daughters.
Philip Marett,
b. 1773.
Ami, only d. and h.
of Peter Mauger,
Jurat R.C, and co-
representative of
the family of Luce.
T
Francis, b. 1776,
sometime De-
puty-Vicomte of
Jersey.
Jane, d. of ...
Bouton.
d. of ... Forbes.
1. Frances-Adams = Peter-Daniel, = 2. Mary- Ann,
Maior 1st eld. d. and
Regrt.M.N.L, co-h. of Thos.
b. 1778, Pipon, Jurat
d. 1838. and Lieut.-
BaiUy of Jer-
sey, d. 1851.
Daniel, George.
Mary,
b. 1779, —
b. 1771
settled at Ann.
New-
John
foundland.
Winter,
=
b. 1810,
1
d. 1852.
Daniel-PhUip Marett,
b. 1810, d. 1S52,
leaving a numerous
family.
' Arms of T.A.mN or Tapi.v : Argent, three stags' heads, cabossed, azure. Chest : A lion, rampant, or.
276
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Robert-Pipon Marett, Esq.,
b. 1820 ; Advocate R. C,
1840 ; Constable of S.Helier,
1856 ; and Solicitor-General
of Jersey, 185H.
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Peter-Daniel, b. 1825,
1st Lieut. Bombay
Artillery ; present at
siege and capture of
Moultan — medal and
clasp.
Joshua.
William.
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Mary-Ann.
Frances-Sophia.
Walter- Bertram
Godfray, Advo-
cate, R. C.
Elizabeth-
Ann.
Maria.
PhUip-Thomas Marett, Esq.,
b. at Tranquebar, 1809, d. at
Palaveram, 182S, Ensign 4th
Rest. N.I.
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Richard, b. at Pallamcottah,
1810, diowned ofl' the coast
of Mozambique, 1840.
.1
Sopliia-Forbes,
b. at Poudieiierry,
1807, d. 1825.
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Pliibp Marett = Esther, d. of John Janvrin.
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Two other children.
Several other childi-en.
Jauc.
Rev. Henry-De La Cour De Brisay.
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Peter Marett, Esq., b. 1805, Seig. of Avranche, = Julia-Auna, d. of Francis. Philip. Ann, b. 1800. Mary-Ann.
Lieut.-Gol. R. J. M. | Francis Payn. — —
Frederick. George. James Remon.
John. Francis.
I I I . ..
Peter Marett, of GronviUe. George, living 1826= Rachel, d. of ... Poingdestre, Benjamm, = Douce, d. of Peter Marett.
I o.s.p.
Elizabeth, d. of John P.ayn, m. 1710. Jane Marett, only d. and h. = Jolin Alexandre.
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Peter Marett, Denunciator, R.C., b. 1711, d. 1764. George, b. 1714, PhiUp, b. 1718. George, b. 1728. EUzabeth, b. 1723.
ob.juv.
Elizabeth, grand-d. of Daniel Messervy, King's Advocate.
I
Francis Marett, vh. innupt.
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Mary, d. 1784 = Dr. John WiUiams.
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Peter Marett. Edward, Jurat R.C., Seig. of La Haule. Phihp, emigrated to John-Theophilus. Margaret. Douce.
Boston, Massachusetts, —
Mary, d. of John Lempricre. living 17 5'J. Ann. Benjamin Marett.
Susan.
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Edward Marett, ob.juv. Philip, Seig. of La Haule, b. 1744 = Anu, d. of Brelade Yalpy-dit- Janvrin. Ann. EUzabeth. Mary.
De Gruchy. Esther.
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PhiUp Marett, Esq., Seig. of La Haule, Colonel R.J.M., b. 1798 = Mary, d. of John Janvrin, Esq. Ann.
Daniel Janvrin.
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A son, oh.juv. Ann. Letitia. Mary. Elizabeth. Julia.
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^arttgrrr of iHaiftt.
BRANCH OF S. TEINITY.
Chakles Maeett = Margaret, d. of ... Le Cerf.
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John Marett, Constable Phihp, Jurat E.G., Advocate-General = Martha, d. and co-h. of Nicholas Daniel, d. at Joshna. Elizabeth.
of S. Trinity. of Jersey, 1608. Lempriere, and relict of Elias Cambridge, ■
= Dumareeq. s.p. Abraham
I De Gruchie.
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Joshna Marett,
of S. Saviour.
Charles, Receiver of the
Crown Revenues of Jersey,
Umj}. Cromwell, d. 1666.
John, b. 1629.
Daniel, b. 1629.
T
Mary Marett, only d.
and h., b. 1649.
Mary.
Nicholas
Blampied.
Margaret.
Rachel, d. of ... Giffard.
T
Noah Vaudin
Catherine, d. of
... Cabot.
Amico Marett, b. 1663 = Elizabeth, d. and h. of Charles Hamelin. John, d. 1706, s.p. Sarah= Joshna Giffard.
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John Marett, b. 1698, m. 1728 = Mary, d. of Philip Pinel, b. 1705. Amice. Charles. Amice. Joshna.
Elizabeth-Maria Marett, b. 1731, m. 1751, eld. d. and co-h. = PhiUp Pinel. Mary = Philip Le Vesoonte.
I
Charles Marett, b. 1660-1.
John, Constable of S. Trinity. Joshua, o.d.p. Philip, o.s.p. Sarah. Catherine. Mary. Susan.
Charles Marett, b. 1686 = Eli2abeth, d. of ...
Guille, of C4tel
I
John Marett.
Parish, Guernsey. |
John Marett, of S. Saviour, living 1745.
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Charles Marett, Constable of S. = Ann, grand-d. of Daniel Messervy, Attorney- Philip, b. 1721, Susan. Elizabeth, m. 1752.
Trinity, 1744, Deputy-Vicomte,
1741.
General of Jersey.
settled in Southampton.
Mary. Henry De Carteret,
of Serk.
I
Charles Marett, Esq., Constable of S. Trinity, b. 1748, d. 1779, s.p.
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Elizabeth, oh. innupt
JHaiitjcr,
ALGEE, Mager, or Manger, is a name that occurs very early in the histories of both
Jersey and Guernsey. Tradition, handed down for several centuries, states that the
family owed its origin to Malgerius, Malger, or Mauger, Ai'chbishop of Rouen and
son of Eichard II., Duke of Normandy, who, for his evil life was refused the pallium
by the Pope, and for revolt against his nephew, William the Conqueror, was by him degraded
and exiled, and retired in 1055 to Guernsey, where he became enamoured of a damsel named
Gisella or Guille. From this amour, adds the same tradition, spring the two local families of
Mauger and Guille.'^''
In 1331 Eichard Mauger was a landholder in the parish of Gromille. f
In the reign of Henry V., Jacques Mauger, said to have been a Guernseyman, had con-
ferred on him the Seigneurie of Bosques, in Normandy, with the arms thereto belonging, for
* Vide Poingdestre's MS. ; Wace's " Eoman de Jiou;" Bulkeley's " Hougue Bie de Hambie," etc.
t f^iJe ExTENTE r/t' J'~''Jiy, 1331. 'o's-
" Richard Mauger pr. la Charruee es Mauger, doit a la fefte S. Michel 0120'
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278 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
successfully storming tlie Castle of Moutmartiii, ou tlie night of the 25 June, 1419, with his
men from the island. *
The family of Mauger of Jobourg, in Normandy, derives its source from Jersey, as will be
seen by the amiexed lineage, f
There are several families in England of similar name, and bearing the same arms. One
of these, represented by the late John-Pemberthy Magor, Esq., of Redruth, was settled in very
early times in North Wales, where it was sufficiently wealthy and important to give its name to
the to\\'n of Magor. Thence its members migrated, some to Ireland and others to Cornwall, in
which latter county the family possesses the important manor bearing its own name.
A younger branch of the house of Major, of Hursley, near Winchester, descended from
that of Mauger of Handois, in Jersey, is represented by the Eev. Seymour-Edward Major, B.A.
Branches of the insular family are represented by George Mauger, Esq., of S. Lawi'ence,
and by James-Marcus Mauger, Esq., Captain E.J.M., of S. Helier.
* "Jacques Mauger de Somerhuze, la Foreft S. Pierre, f'etablit a Bofques en Normandie, la Seigneurie du dit Bofques
lui etant conferee pour la prife du Chateau de Montmartin, pres Coutances, qu'il prit d'cfcalade la nuit de la S. Jean, I'an de
Grace, 141 9, etant arrive avec fcs gens par mer de Grcnfai au port de Hagon. En reconnaiflance du dit fait d'armes, le dit
Jacques fiit oftroye de porter dorenavant lui ct fes hoirs legitimes la croix du bienhcureux Chevalier S. George, au champ
d'argent, et de Coutances [d^-cartelcr ?) fes armes paternelles, c'eft a favoir, d'argent, a deux chevrons de i'able, de Mauger; au
deux ct trois, d'un lion, rampant de fable, qui eft de Bofques." This purports to be an extract from " ie Registi-c AFanusci-it
de la Catlwdralc de Coutances " in the British Museum, as quoted by Eurke in his " Landed Gentry," article — Colliugs; but
the only MS. in that library bearing the title is the Harleian MS., 4599, where the passage does not occur. At the
period mentioned in the extract, Henry V. was besieging Rouen ; and it is not improbable that this capture producing a
diversion, favoured the operations which gave the king possession of that city. Grensai is the way in which Guernsey is
pronounced by the inhabitants of the neighbouring coast of Nonnandy. No place called Somerhuze is known in the
present day in Guernsey. There is, however, in the Forest parish a watch-station, termed " La Someilleuse," — a
somewhat sinister title for a look-out. Hagon is evidently the sea-port of Agon at the mouth of the small river which
flows past Coutances.
t Extrait de la Gcnculogie de la fainille des Mauger, a 'Jobourg en Nor?nandie, au Cap la Hague. — " Le Due de Normandie,
nomme Guillaumc le Conquerant, elcva fon coufin d'Evreux, nomme Mauger, a I'Archeveche de Rouen, en la troifieme annee de
fon regne en Normandie. Lc Seigneur Archevequc menant une vie non conforme a fa dignite, attira lur lui la haine du Due, fon
bienfaitcur, qui le fit relegucr en File de Jerfey (Guernfey). II prit terrc en cc lieu avec fon frere Gaultier Mauger, fur la cote
et paroifl'e de S. Martin, et apres avoir pafle quclques annees en ce lieu, il tut peri au ras de Barfleur, apres avoir predit fa mort.
Son frere Gaultier Mauger cut plufieurs fils naturels, dont deux nommes Leopold et Theodore. Leopold epoufa Pauline de
Carteret, fille et feule heritiere de Samuel De Carteret, ccuyer, Seigneur du Cartel, et Theodore ne maria point, et laiffa deux fils
et une fille naturels, I'un nomme Paul, et I'autre nomme Rodolphe, et la fille nommee Cleotilde. Les deux fils furent maries,
I'un epoufa Sandircz Lampeirier, ou Lampereur, de Jerfey, et Rodolphe epoufa Marie Careye de Guernefey. Paul cut plufieurs
fils dont deux nommes Alexandre, et Gaultier, comme fon premier pere, lequel fut chafle de I'ile de Jerfey, avec deux des fils de
Rodolphe, qu'il avait eu de Marie Careye ; les autres enfans fortis de Rodolphe furent a Guernefey, demeurer fur I'heritage de
Icur mere en I'annee 1399. Gaultier fit plufieurs acquets a Jobourg a la Hague, ou il etablit fa dcmeure apres avoir quitte Jerfey,
ct fut marie ii une des filles de Pierre de Mary, Seigneur de Jobourg, en I'annee 14 18. Gaultier engendra Touflaint et Jacques ; le
dernier repafla a Guernefey pour prendre pofiefTion d'un heritage par fucceflion, et Touflaint rcfta a Jobourg ; de Touflaint nacquit
Fabien ; de Fabien nacquit Charles ; et Charles engendra Pierre; de Pierre, Charles qui vivoit encore en I'annee 1570. A
I'egard de Leopoldc, qui avoit epoufe Pauline De Carteret, nous n'avons point pour lc prefcnt de connoiifance de fa genealogie."
Compare with tlie foregoing, Ordcricus VHalis, Hist. Eccles., L. 5, C. 9, 43: " Malgerius juvenis fcdcm fufcepit honoris,
natali clarus, fed nullo nobilis actu. Hie filius Richardi II. duels ex secunda conjuge nomine Paphia natus eft, et XVII annis,
tempore dementis, Damafi et Lconis paparum, fine apoftolica bencdiftione et pallio, Rothomenfibus dominatus eft. \'oluptatibus
carnis mundanifque curls indccentcr inha-fit, filiuniquc nomine Michaelem probum militem et Icgitimum gcnuit, quern in Anglia
jam fcnem rex Henricus honorat ae diligit." The French genealogist cleverly saves the reputation of the church by the
invention of the Arehlnshop's brother. The marriages mentioned in the pedigree are unsupported by external evidence, but
they are within the bounds of probability. The family of Mauger is numerous at the present time in the [larish of S.
Martin, Guernsey.
RICHARD HENRY MAJOR, ESQUIRE
K.J.S. p.S.A. f. R .G.S . p.F\.S.L.
ETC ETC ETC.
AN ARMOEIAL OF JERSFA'.
270
Aems* (as borne by Richard-Henry Major, Esq., K.T.S., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., etc., of the
British Museum f) : Gules, an anchor, erect, in pale, argent; on a chief, or, three roses of the
first. Impaling : Per che\Ton, sable and argent, a chevron, between three mascles, counter-
changed, for Thorn.
Crest : A greyhound's head, erased, gules, collared and ringed, or.
Motto : Deus anchora major.
Arms (as borne by George Mauger) : Gules, an anchor, erect and cabled, or ; on a chief
of the second, three roses of the first.
Crest : A greyhound's head erased, gules, collared and ringed, or.
t3ftiig:m of iHnugrr, of ^Mnlioiei,
" JonD Maijok ah Majok, of the Parish of Uandway [estate of
HandoisJ in tie Isle of Jerse;/, descended from Sir Marcus
Major, who served in the warrcs of K. H. "t-X
T
John Maijor, sohue oj John.
T
Bonaventwe Maijor, sonnc of John Maijor.
T
John Maijor, Mayor and Alderman of Hampton.
Geokge Maugek, de Handois, dans la paroisse de S. Laurence,
transigea en 1565.
I
Jean Mauger.
T
Abraham Mauger.
Catherine Le Boutillier,
d. 1682.
I
Edouard.
Margueritte, fille de
Raulin GaUiehan.
Holier.
T
George Mauger.
John Maijor ^ = Anne, daur.
Mii'fOT and of John Serle,
Alderman oJ of Caii.^ham,
Hampton, in the Isle of
eldest Sonne. Wight.
Robert Maijor,
2 Sonne.
= Man/, daiir.
Katherine, 1.
of Mr. Peter,
—
Minister, of
Alice, 2.
Holy Rood
—
Cliurcli in
Joane, 3.
Hampton.
George Mauger, fils aiue.
Sara.
Thomas Anley.
Abraham Mauger, n. 1633,
m. 1655, d. 1675.
I III
Ric. Maijor, = Anne, da. Jane, da. Aatherme, Anne,
son and
heirc.
Dorotliy,
of Jo. of Jo. mari'^- to mar. to mar^' to
Kingswell, Maijor, Thos. Willm. W?n.
of the nw.r^\.Jo. Wolfreys, Wolijar, Laving-
Isle of Barton. Customer of ton, of
Wight. %yicholas of Havant. Wilttkire,
Pescod, Hampton. Counsellor
Aldei-md. of Law.
of
Hampton.
Ill I
John Robert. Anne.
Major. —
= Samuel.
I
Anthony Major.
T .
John Major.
Charity, d. of ...
Sara, fiUe de ... De Ste. Croix.
T
Helier, m. 1639.
I
Jean Mauger.
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Matthieu Abraham, n. 1567, Phihppe, George, n. and
Mauger, m. 1680. n. 1661, d. 1665.
n. 1655, m. 1689. —
m. 1680. Jeanne, f. of ... Sara, n. and
. Bertaxilt. $ Susanne, d. 1666.
Jeanne,
f. of ...
Lewis.
f. of ..
Neel.
Sara, n. 1674.
Jean Mauger,
n. 1676.
Jean, Jeanne,
n.l682. n.l684.
Catherine,
n. 1687.
* A very curious old arm chair, in the possession of a carpenter named Bisson, of S. John's Eoad, Jersey, bears on
the back an excellent carving of the Mauger arms, impaled, on the dexter, with — a wolfs head, erased, between three
mullets. Crest : A demi-wolf, bearing between the paws a mullet.
I For an account of Richard M.ijor, father-in-law of Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector, vide " Noble's Memoirs of
the House of Cromwell," vol. ii. p. 427. Ilutchins, in his " History of Dorsetshire," vol. iii. p. 285, mentions that the
lordship of Wotton-Glanvile had been in the possession of the family of Mauger beyond the memory of man. One of the
name is mentioned in the Inquisition of 5 Edward II. Sir Stephen JIauger, of Rudston, was an early benefactor to the
priory of Bridlington, as is recorded by Burton, " Monastimm £bo7-acum," pp. 149 and 238, and was the ancestor of Sir
John Major, Bart., of Worlingworth Hall, Suffolk, whose daughter and co-heiress Ann, by marriage with John
Hennikcr, Esq., carried the name and baronetcy of Major into the family of Lord Henniker- Major.
I The portion of this Pedigree in italics is extracted from the Visitation Book of the County of Hants in the Col-
lege of Arms (c. 19, fo. 101), and copied by York Herald, June 28, 18G1.
§ Akms of Bertault, of Britany : Or, on a fesse, sable, three plates, between three annulets, gules.
N N 2
280
AN ARMOllIAL OF JERSEY.
Dorothy, eldest dakr.y'i yeares Aune, 2iid daui:, Joseph Major = Elizabeth, d. of Sey- Philippe Mauger, Jean = Marie, f. do Jeanne,
oW, 1634. 4!/ta»suW,1634." I mour Tarrant. n. 1G82. n. 161)1 I ... Lesbirel. n. 1681.
Richard, third and only surviv-
ing sou of Oliver Ckomwell,
Lord Protector of England.
Kiohard Heury Major = Elizabeth, d. " 1. Jeanne, f. de=Philippe Manger, = 2. Elizabeth, £,
I of Thomas ... Laui'ens. I n. 1723. I de ... Maxett.
Edge.
The Rev. Seymour- Richard-Henry, K.T.S. ; F.S.A. (Council) ; F.R.G.S. ; F.R.S.L. ;
Edward Ma,jor, B. A., (Council), and late Hon. Sec. Hakluyt Soc. ; Memb. Arch. Inst.
b. July 19, 1817- Great Brit.ain and Ireland; Hon. Memb. Acad. Keal das Sciencias
de Lisboa ; Corres. Memb. Soc. Antiq. Normandy ; Hon, Memb.
Soc. Beaux Arts, Caen, b. Oct. 3, 1818.
Joanne Mauger. Philippe Manger, n. 1758,
m. 1781, d. 1845.
Jean Noel.
Anne, f. de Thomas Romeril,
n. 1758, d. 1856, agee de98an8.
Sarah-EHzaboth, d. of Hem-y Thorn.
Henri Mauger, Edouard,
quitta Jersey, 1798. n. 1794.
I
George, n. 1798.
Jeanne, f. de George Noel, n. 1807.
I
George Mauger.
Anne, Jeanne, Susanno, Marie,
n. 1784. n. 1790. n. 1790. n. 1796.
PhUippo Jean Jean Philippe
Haniou. Malzard. Malzard. Rumenl.
prtiitjrff of i%lniig:fr, of ^. Sniirntrf.
Jou.\ Maugek, of S. Laurence = Mary, d. of ... Le BaiUy.
Peter Mauger = Jane, d. of ... Durell.
I
Peter Mauger, m. April 21, 1700=Ann, d. of Peter De Ste. Croix, bapt. 17 October, 1677.
I
Peter Manger, bapt. 14 September, 1707, m. 1743=Mary, d. and co-h. of Francis Luce.
Peter Mauger, bapt. 14 August, 1746, Advocate R.C., Mary, bapt. 1744. Ann, bapt. 1750, o.s.p.
Constable of S. Laurence, Jnrat R.C.
Mary, d. of Francis Marett.
Philip Marett.
Joshua Le Geyt.
Peter Mauger, ob. innvpt.
Mary, eventual h.
Philip, son of Philip Marett, Seig. of Avranche.
^3ftiigiTr of iHaugrr, of ^. SoI)it.
Philip Mauger, of S. John, descended from Mauger of Handois, m. 1672 = Rachel, d. and h. of Thomas Anley.
I I
Plnhp Mauger, o.s.p. John = Sarah, d. of ... Aubin.
Mary Mauger, only d. and b. = John Rcnouf.
Hugh, b. 1687 = Mary, d. of ... Chovallier.
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PhiUp Mauger, b. 1718. David, b. 1720. James, b. 1723.
Rachel, d. of . . . Girard. Rachel, d. of . . Jane, d. of . . .
= Le Peltier. Le Gallais.
mmm mmum Miess^KVY mmi
/Jv v/ii;,> l/ii.s/'/,i/<' isPrr.^rri/or/ ff flu- Wffrh
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 281
I III I ...
Philip Mauger. John. James. Elizabeth. David Manger=Elizabeth, d. of William. Esther.
... Giffard.
Mary, d. of John Jane, d. of F. Gaudin. Edward Aubin.
Eenouf, b. 1753. =
PhiHp. Clem.NicoUe.
II I III
III I David Philip. Elizabeth. Catherine. Esther.
I John Manger, o.s.^. Eliza-Jane, o.s.^j. DeUcia, b. 1788=Jame3Luce. Mauger. • —
Mary, d. Philip Noah Mary.
I I Esther, d. of of Rich. Benest. Ganticr.
Philip Mauger,=Esther, d. of . . . Charles Matthew, b. 1783=Ann, d. of Thos. Aubin. Chas. Reuouf. Dnparoq. Harriet,
b. 1781. I De Ste. Croi^. | = =
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James-Marcus Mauger, Charles- Mary. Charles-Mauger, John. EHza. Jane. Mary- Anne, | | | |
Capt. R.J.M. Coddington. o.iqi. sole d. and h. PhUip Mauger. Frederick. Mary.
Elizabeth-Mary, d. of John Sorel. George Simon. Caroline, d. of Elizabeth. John
= ... Stark. Deslandee.
I
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WiUiam-James Mauger, Capt. R.J.M. Other children.
1
1
HIS is one of the aboriginal families of Jersey. According to one of its members the
name is formed from the obsolete Norman verb Messervyr, and consequently means
the " ill-used."
In 1331, John Messervy held land in the parish of S. Martin, and was also
Seigneur of the fief of Poteraux in that of Grouville.*
The important fief of Bagot came into the possession of this family by the marriage of
Richard Messervy with Mabel, the eldest daughter of Clement Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samares.
A family, named Messerwy, is settled in England, and is very probably derived from the
one now noticed, as both name and arms differ very slightly.-]-
Philip Messervy, Esq., and Thomas-William Messer\^, Esq., are the prmcipal repre-
sentatives of this ancient and highly respectable insular house.
Arms (as box-ne by Charles-Bertram Messervy, Esq.) : Or, three cherries, gules, stalked,
vert. Quartering : Ai-gent, on a chevron between three martlets, sable, as many fleurs-de-lis of
the field, for Falle ; and Or, three cherries, stalked, vert, a martlet for difi"erence, for
Messer\^.
Crest : A cherry-tree, ppr.
Motto : Au valeureus coeur rieu impossible.
Arms (as borne by Thomas-William Messer\'y, Esq.) : Or, three cherries, gules, stalked,
* /7(/t.' ExTENTE Je Jci'fey, paroijfe de S. Marti/!. s. d.
"Jean Meffervy et parchonrs. por. une bouvee, par an 211"
Item, paroi([e de Grouville.
"Jean Meflervy por. le fieu es Poteraux, doit a la telle S. Michel 12 o"
t Arms of Messerwy : Or, a cheTrou between three apples, gules, stalked of the second.
282
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
vert, a crescent for difference. Quartering : Gules, three escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis for
difference, for Dumaresq ; Sable, three dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot ; Ai'gent,
three trefoils, slipped, sable, for Payn ; Ermines, a cross-bow di-awn and charged with an
arrow, in pale, all argent, for Larbalestier ; Or, three cherries, gules, stalked, vert, for
Messervy ; and Or, on a chevron, vert, three hawks' heads, erased, of the field, for Crafford.
Crest : A cherry-tree ppr.
Motto: Au valeureux coeur rien impossible.
^arDicrrfr of iHfiSeifrbi).
John Messeevy, of S. Martin.
T
Sire Nicliolas Messervy, Curate
of S. Brclade.
WiUiam, Jurat B.C., U95 = A sister and co-li. of CoUette Falle.
Clement, settled at = CoUette, d. of
S. Saviour. ... Falle.
Clement Messervy, Jurat
R.C., 152G.
1. Perronelle, d. of Thomas
Lempriere, Bailly of
Jersey, o.s.p.
2. CoUette, d. of Jolin
Langlois.
I
Sire Edward, Curate Thomas Messervy, settled at
of S. John. Mont a I'Abb^.
Catherine.
PerroneUe.
= Michael Larbalestier. Hoste Hamptonne.
I
I I
1. I^Name 'unknown) = Nicholas Messervy = 2. {Ifame uninown). Noel.
I I
Isaac Messervy. | i I
John Messervy. Abraiam. Urie.
Clement Messervy, of S. Saviour. Edward, Jurat R.C.
CoUette.
Catherine, d. of Thomas Lem- 1. Catherine, d. of ... Toussaint De Rue.
priere, Bailly of Jersey, and relict
of Richard Langlois. 3. Margaret, d. ... Lem-
= priere, m. 1564.
Matthew Thomas. Noel.
Messervy.
I I
Susan. Jane.
Edward Messervy, Solicitor-
General of Jersey.
1. Margaret, d. of ...
2. Michele, d. of . . .
Edward, the younger,
of S. Martin.
Mary, d. of ... Marett (?)
I I
William, settled at Isabel.
S. John.
A dau.
A dau.
Bcrnabey Richard Estur. Clem. Herault.
Godfi'ay.
Abraham Messervy, m. 1601 = Susan, youngest d. and co-h. of Clement Dumaresq, and co-represen-
tative of Dimiaresq du Moriu, De Bagot, Payn, Larbalestier, Mes-
servy (eld. lirancli), and Crafford.
Clement Messervy,
b. 1G02.
Edward, b. 1603, m. 1633.
Mary. d. of John Cabot.
Abraham, b. 1605, m. 1634. d. 1686.
Mary, d. of Edmund Noel.
T
EUzabeth, b. 1608, m. 1635.
Edward NicoUe, of La VUle
a rEveque.
I III
Abraham Messervy, b. 1635. Noah, b. 1645. Susan, b. 1638. EUzabeth, b. 1640.
Abraham Messervy,
b. 1641.
George, b. = Mary d. of John Margaret, Jane b. = Clement De Elizabeth, Mary, b.
1643. I Perchard. b. 1633. 1634. QuettevUlo. b. 1638. 1646.
JhOMAS ^^/iLLIAM f^ESSEf\YY. QsQUIf^E.
Bv ir/ioni t/iis /inte is /Wsr/i/a/ ft? (Jic Worfc.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
283
I
II II
Edward Messervy, George, b. ICSl, = Mai-y, d. of Abraham, Clement, b. 1689, = Elizabeth, d. of Svisan, b. 1C70.
b. 1677. m. 1705. | John Dolbel. b. 1685. m. 1712. | Ph. Messervy.
Aaron Messervy.
m. 170G.
Ill I I Elizabeth Messervj',
George John, b. Thomas, = EUzabotb, d. Clement, = Margaret, Abraham, only (l-^aud h..
Messervy, 1710. b. 1714,
b. 1707. m. 1745.
of ... Valpy. b. 1717. d. of ... b. 1722.
Messervy.
b. 1712.
Aaron Messervy.
b. 1707.
I II I I II I
Thomas Messervy, John, b. 1748, Thomas, b. 1752, = EKzabeth, d. of John, b. 1764, =- Mary, d. of Mary. Elizabeth.
ob' juv.
ob. juv.
m. 1771. I Clement Messervy. m. 1789.
John Aubin.
Chas. Do Sarah.
Quetteville. —
Jano.
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John Messervy, b. 1790 = Ann, d. of ... Marett. Mary, b. 1794 = George Godfray. Delicia-EUzabeth, b. 1797 = EUa3 Renout.
Jane, b. 1786. Susan, b.
— 1792.
I I I III III
Thomas Messervy, — Mary-Elizabeth, d. George. Elizabeth, b. 1772. Ann, b. 1779.
b. 1795, Constable I of Philip LeVesconte, — — —
of S.Martin. | of S. Trinity. EUzabeth, Sarah, b. 1773. Jane, b. 1782, o6.>i). Frances, b. 1789.
I d. of John — —
I Bree. Mary, b. 1779. Jane, b. 1784, ob.juv.
\ I \ \ \ I
Thomas-Wmiam Messervy, Centeuier of S. Martin. Fhiiip, ob. juv. PhUip-JoUu. Mary-Elizabeth. Caroline-Aim. Amelia, oi.ji Mb.
Edward Messervy, Jurat = Judith, d. of ... A dau. = Michael Bisson. Catherine = Ph. De Carteret. PrisciUa = John Le Couteur.
E.G., d. 1617. 1 jViiley, d. 1634. of S. Mary.
Edward Messervy, Solicitor-General of Jersey.
I
Clement.
Edward Messervy.
John = Jane, d. of Abraham Beoquet.
Edward Messervy, b. 1662.
Mary, b. 1679.
Clement Messervy, m. 1560, d. 1578 = Collette, d. of John NicoUe, Seig. of LonguevUle, Solicitor-General of Jersey.
I
Margaret.
Aaron Messervy, Lieut.-Governor of Jersey, Jurat B.C., d. 1631. Abraham. Peter = Elizabeth, d. of ... Dolbel. Jane.
Mary, d. of . . . De Caen.
John Messervy, d. 1633-4 = Sarah, d. of Helier De Carteret, Seigneur of La Hague.
I
Ranlin De^a
Rocque.
I II I I
Maximilian Messervy, b. 1616, Francis, d. in London, John, settled at Mont-au-Pr^tre. Henry. Robert.
m. 1639, d. 1645. 1645.
Sarah, eld. d. of Francis Le Sueur. '
I .
Sarah, d. 1648.
CoUette, d. of Benjamin La Cloche,
Seig. of LongueviUe.
I
I
Daniel Messervy, Attorney- = De La Riviere, youngest d. and Francis.
I I General of Jersey, I eo-h. of Francis De Carteret,
Philip Messervy, b. 1641, Rachel, b. 1640. m. 1685. | and eventual co-h. to the
Deputy-Vicomte of Jersey. — I S. Ouen Estates.
I I
Aai'on. John.
Sarah, b. 1643.
Daniel Messervy, m. 1716 = Ann, d. of ... Pipon.
Philip.
Edward, b. 1694.
I II I
Daniel Messervy = Jane, d. of ... Valpy-dit-Janvrin. Francis. Ann, b. 1717, m. 1742 = Charles Marett. Elizabeth
Peter Marett.
I
Francis Messervy = Ann, d. of ... Gavey.
B
Daniel, o.s.p.
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AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
I
Francis Measervy, d. 1858. Daniel, o.s.p. — Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Pipon, and Jane, eventual h. to this branch ■■
rcUct of R. Crofton.
Burke.
I
Edward Messervy.
I
Margaret.
Peter De Soolcmont, the elder.
1. Jaue, d. of Clement=John Messervy=2. Mabel, d. of Richard Dumaresq, 1. ... d. of John=Richard=2. Mabel, eld. d. of Rich. A dau.
Lempriere. |
1 Seig. of VincheUs De Bas. CostU
Margaret Messervy,
eld. d. and co-U.
1 1
A dau., 2nd d. and co-h. Philippine.
Guille Hamptoime. John Robin.
Dumaresq., Seig. of
Samares. John Gardner.
(1st marriage.)
I I
Phihp Messervy, Seig of Bagot. George.
I
■John Messervy. Helier, m. 1577=Margaret, d. of ... Audrie=Honne8te-Honime John Rachel, d. of Thos. De Soulemont.
^ I Lempriere. Waden alias Waldon. =
I Andrie Messervy, only d. and h.=Peter De La Rocque. I
I I
Martin Messervy, John, m. 1G07.
d. 1613.
Jane, d. of John Le Febvre.
Philip Messervy, Seig. of Bagot=Mary, d. of James Pipon.
I I
George Messervy, Seig. of B.agot, Rachel, h. to her brother,=David Bandinel, Jurat R.C.
o.s.p. Lady of Bagot. (J'tt/c Pedigree of Bandinel.)
John Messervy. IleUer, b. 1608, d. 1658, a;t. 50 years and i months. Laurence.
\
I I
John Messervy, b. 1628, m. lG53=Elizabeth, d. of ... De Quetteville. Mary, d. 1627.
I _____^
I I I I i I
Amice Messervy, =Mai-y, d. of ... Elias, b. 1666, oh.juv. John, b. 1C72. EUas, b. 1677. EUzabeth, b. 1660. Mary, b. 1669.
b. 1657. I Messervy.
I I i i I
Amice Messervy, b. 1686, George, b. 1689,=Mary, d. of Thos. Anquetil, Amice, b. 1690. Mary, b. 1692. Rachel, b. 1693.
ol.Juv. m. 1705. I of S. Clement.
Ill I I
Holier Messervy, Amice, b. 1710, settled Thoma3=Rachel, d. of Ph. Falle. Philip, b. 1711, m. 1744. George, b. 1712, settled
b. 1706, o.s.p. in America. | iu Boston, N. America.
I
Mary Messervy, eld. d. Susan. Elizabeth. Deborah.
and co-h., b. 1773.
John Tocque. John Dean. 1. Ph. Ahier.
G. J. Labey.
2. John FiUeul.
Jane, d. of Thos. Lo Sauteur.
T
I I I
Philip Messervy, Thomas, Philip, b. 1751.
b. 1745, oh.juv. ob. juv.
Elizabeth, d. of ... Touzel.
T
PhiUp Messervy, b. 1773. m. 1800=Aim, d. of John Payu. George, b. 1777, oh. inniipt.
I
Philip Messervy= Elizabeth, d. of
I Clement LeNeveu.
George=Naucy, d. of Anne=AaronDe VeuUe. Mary=John Fdloul. Mary.
I George Touzel.
Ph. Pepin.
I I III I I I I. I T i-
Philip Messervy. George. Elizabeth. Ann. Mary-Ann. George-Touzel Messervy. John. Alfred. Adelina. Ann. Lydia.
Abraham Messervy, m. 1616, d. 1650=RacheI, d. and co-h. of Nicholas, and niece of Mary, m. lG07=Ph. Le Feuvre, of S. Saviour.
[ Laurens, Baudaius. —
I Jane, m. 1616=John Neel.
I \ [
John Messei-vy, b. 1616, m. 1643=Margaret, d. of Moses Hamelin. Rachel. Sarah.
I
\'''illiam -^jeiir
nim^
—\ (-» ,..- ■, I ■» T \
//I- uitrni ////.< /'/»/.■ is- />/ys,;.'/,;/ /,■ f/u' Hrr/.-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
285
i
Martin Messervy, b. 1644.
Clement, b. 1652, m. 1689=Frances, d. of Thomas Eichardson.
\ *__
I III
John Messervy, b. 1689, m. 1719=Susan, J. of Ph. Mallet. Philip, b. 1093. Clement, b. 1698. Susan, b. 1705.
John MesBerTy=Margaret, d. of ... Nicolle. Clement, of Blanc Pignon= Elizabeth, d. of John Cabot.
I I
I I I I I
John Messervy, b. 1757, Clement, of S. Trinity. George Messervy, EUzabeth,=Thomas Messervy. Sarah, b. 1755=Clement Messervy,
ob. juv.
Sarah, d. and li. of Clement
Messervy of Blauc-Pignon.
b. 1757, o.s.p. b. 1753.
of S. Trinity.
I I .. I , I 1
Clement Messervy ^ Susan, d. of ... Dn Feu. Philip^ Jane, d. of PliUip Bouton. Elizabeth. Susan. Ann-Margaret.
1 i I 1 \ I
PhUip Messervy. Francis-Bouton, 06. Daniel. Charles-Bertram. Edward-George. ThomaB-Eichardson.
JEtllats.
HE family of Millais has held, for centuries, a place among the lesser landholders of
Jersey. Of earliest Norman settlement in the island, there can he little doiiht
that the name of Millais existed here long prior to the Conquest of England.
Geoffray de Millay, according to some chroniclers, fought imder William I. at
Hastings, and possibly was the patriarch of the English families of Millet, Milles, and others of
similarly sounding names.
" Les Monts Millais," a bold range of hills to the north-east of the town of S. Helier, and
the " Cueillette de Millais," one of the " gatherings " or riiigtaines of the parish of S. Ouen, seem
to prove that in times beyond not only history, but even tradition, members of this family were
among the opulent and powerful " dwellers within the isle."
In 1331, the Extentc, or Royal Eent-EoU of Jersey, of that year, shews that Geoffray
Milayes owed to the Crown ten sols for a bouvee of land held by him in the parish of Grouville.
Annexed is a fac- simile of this most interesting entry, copied fi-om the original document,
preserved in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, London. ^'^
[fAC-SIMILE of the entry of the name of geoffray milayes, from the EXTESTe of JERSEY OF 1331.]
In 1381, the properties of John and Guille Millays were taxed by the Prior of S. Clement,
as appears by the subjoined extract from the Ai'chives of S. Lo, in Normandy.-]-
* By the kind permission of T. Duffas Hardy, Esq., P.S.A., Deputy-Keeper of tlie Rolls.
t Vide Rotulus frumentonim prior at ui de Sancto Clement e, imno iijc ct Ixxxi''
"Johannes Perchard per le mcfnage qui fuit Johannis Millays ...if.
"Maiiira Varenguet. Guille Millays ii cabots. I carchonnier, l anc. id. xx ova."
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•286 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
In 1402, various other memljers of the family, -which then apparently had its head-quarters
in this parish, owed several rents to the great Priory of S. Clement, as appears from another
extract from the same depositary. '^
About the middle of the fifteenth century, the head of this house, who always appears to
have been a John Millais, settled in S. Sa^dour's parish, and is recorded, in 14G9, in a MS.
register of Sire John Hue, curate of the parish, as owing half-a-pound of wax to the church. f
In 1527, Clement Myllais was Kector of the parish of S. Saviour.
About 1540, John Myllais, by his marriage with the heiress of the Le Jarderay family,
became possessed of the estate of Tapon, situated in S. Saviour's parish, of which a view is
annexed. This estate remained in the family until the beginning of the present century. It is
a dependency of the fief of Gorge or Bagot, and by its tenure the proprietor owed yearly to the
Seigneur a pair of white gloves, three hens, three loaves, and a capon.]: The court books of
this fief, as will be seen by the extracts below, shew that the Millais family were somewhat
troublesome tenants, and much opposed to the Seigneurial rights, which are, in the present
day, regarded with the utmost distaste. §
In 1629, at the period of Dr. Heylin's visit to Guernsey, one of the family, termed by the
learned Doctor, Millet, was a beneficed clergyman in the island, and was one of five ecclesiastics
who prayed for local Church and State reform. Of his interview with these local pundits,
Heyliu gives, in his journal, a very humorous and gi-aphic account. jj
In 1668, as appears by the Extente of that year, John Millais was a tenant of the Crown in
the parishes of Grouville and S. Clement. IT
This ancient family is represented by John-William Millais, Esq., and William-Henry
Millais, Esq., of Kingston, Surrey ; by John-Everett Millais, Esq., E.A., of Cromwell Place,
South Kensington; by Henry- William Millais, Esq., and by Thomas Millais, Esq., of
Jersey.
* Fide Rotulus frutncntorum prioratui tie Sancto Clementi, anno iiijc et ij°
" Radui.phus Millays vij cabotealx, iij carchonnicrs.
" RiCARDus Millays vij „ iij „
" GuiLLOT Millays i „ iij „
" RiCARDus Millays iiij camps."
t In the same document mention is made of " Lc clos Richard Miles, devers roltcl au Gcndrc."
\ Vide Court Rolls of the fief of Vinchek's de Bas, in the possession of Madame de Vinchek's, vol. I.
§ Vii/e Court Rolls of the fief of Gorge or Bagot, in the possession of Philip Gosset, Esq., vol. I.
" 1631. Jean Mylais, r^. »x., en default vers Aaron Amy.
'6.H- Jean Mylais, fn. ux., defobeiflant vers le Seigneur.
1638. Jean Mylais, defobcilTant vers lc Prevoll por. ung chapon, trois poules, trois pains, outre une paire de gants, le tout
de rente Seigneuriale.
1660. Jean Mylais en default vers le Seigneur pour la rente Seigneuriale.
1669. Mr. Jean Mylais condampne vers le Seigneur pour la rente Seigneuriale.
1682. Mr. Edouaro Millais en deffaut vers Mr. Jean Millais pour le confeiller en I'aflion que lui fait le Seigneur pour
la rente Seigneuriale.
II Vide Heylin's " Survey of the Estate of the Two I.slands of GueniEey and Jarsey. London, 1G5G."
^ T7rffl Extente of Jer.sey, 1G68.
Jean Millais, fils Jean, crt. 7/~/., fillc de Benjamin Bertran de Grouville 3 fols.
//(•///, en S. Clement, <v;. m~it. 15 fols.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
287
Arms (as borne by William-Henry Millais, Esq.) : Per bend, or and azure, a star of eight
points, counterclianged.* Quartering : Azure, a cross-passion, argent, surmounted of an
eastern crown, or, for Le Jarderay : Or, an orle, azure, for Bertram : Ai-gent, a palm-tree,
ppr., for Fallot : Ai'gent, a cock, statant, ppr., for Faultrart : Ai-gent, a cross, sable, between
a. maltese-cross, gules, in the first and fourth quarters, and a tent of the same in the second and
third, for Baudouin : Argent, on a chevron, sable, four eagles, of the field, between three
mullets, gules, for Morice-de la Eipaudiere : and Ermine, a lion, rampant, gules, for Le Geyt.
Impaling : Argent, on a canton, sable, a lion's gamb, erased, in bend, or, a crescent for differ-
ence, for Boothby.
Crest : A hand, gauntletted and apaume, in pale, gules.
Arms (as borne by John-Everett Millais, Esq.) : Arms and Quarterings as the preceding.
Impaling : Gules, a lion, rampant, within a bordm-e, engi'ailed, argent, a crescent for difference,
for Gray.
Crest : As the preceding.
Arms (as borne by the late George-Henry Millais, EsQ.f) Ai-ms and Quarterings as the
preceding. Impaling : Gules, on a chevron argent between three roses, or, as many trefoils,
slipped, vert ; on a chief of the third, a thistle, of the fourth, between two fleurs-de-lis, azure,
for Highland.
Crest : As the preceding.
• The star seems to be the prevailing charge in the shields of those families of continental origin bearing a similar
name. Prince Philibert Milet, Bishop of Maurienne, and afterwards Archbishop of Turin, together with Paul Milet, his
successor in the diocess of Maurieune, both kniglits of the Sardinian Order of the Annunciation, bore — Quarterly : Argent,
three bars, gules ; in chief a demi-lion issuant vert, armed and langued of the second : and, Argent, three bends, gules.
And over all, after the manner of foreign heralds, his paternal arms — viz., Azure, on a chevron, or, a crescent, gules,
between three STARS of the second. FzVZe Boisseau, " Promptnaire Armorial." Paris, 1G58.
"f This gentlemen died as these sheets were passing through the press.
THE OLD KEYSTONE OF THE GREAT ENTRANCE ARCH AT TAl'ON,
S. SAVIOUR.
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288
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Pflitffm of iHillaisi.
JoHiN" MlLLATS, living circa 1331.
T
John MiUays, a tenant of the Prior of S. Clement, living 138] .
John Millays, a tenant of the Prior of S. Clement, Hving 1400.
7
John MiDays, of the Parish of S. Clement.
John Millays, of the Parish of S. Clement, living 1430.
John Mill^s, of the parish of S. Saviour, debited in the Curate's
Register, dated 1469, with half-a-poimd of wax for
Mb parish church.
T
John Mm^s, living 1494.
T
I
John Mylays*= Penine, sole d. and h. of J. Le
Jarderay, who owed,
by her tenure, a pair
of white gloves to the
r / Seig. of Bagot.f
A dan.
Hostes Le TubeUn.
(Vide Act of the
Royal Court, dated
13G3.)
John Milays, b. 154!
Catherine, d. of
Falle.
Regnault,
b. 1545.
Mary, b. 1544,
oh. jut.
I
Mary, b. 1547.
Servais De Ste.
Croix.
I
John Mylais = Elizabeth, d. of . . . Poingdestre.
I
Other children.
I .
1. Mary, d. of Jolin = Jobu Milays = 2 Jane, cl. and h. of
Bisson, m. 1622. I I Beujamin Bertram,
j I wlio owed by teuure
. ^ ^^^ of wliite gloves
Edward Mylais, ob. juv. \ to tlio Seig. of Bagot.
I
Elizabeth.
MoNSiEUK GuitLEAUME MoRiCE, Seig. de la RipaudiJ^re, in the
Province of Anjou, settled in Jersey, circa 1360, and became
successively Rector of S. HeUer, and of S. Mary ; in the Church-
yard of -which latter parish he is buried.
DcmoiseUe Morice-de la Ripandiere, only d. and h.
The Rev. Nicholas Baudouin, of Rouen, Rector successively of
S. Peter Port, Guernsey, and of S. Mary, Jersey.
Martha Baudouin, only d. and h., d. 1621.
The Rev. Helier Paultrart, Rector of S. Martin for upwards of
half a century, d. 1628.
Jane Fanltrart, eld d. and co-h.,
b. 1586, m. 1613, d. 1670.
John Pallet, Regent of
S. ManneUer. ^
I
Esther.
Hugh Le
Manqnais.
Martha Le
Manquais.
John CoUas.
(r«;<!Ped. of
CoUas.)
Sarah.
1. EUas Le
Tubelin.
2. John
Hubert.
* John Mylays, as co -representing his parish, was one of the " certains gentz de bien des principaux en chacune poeffe. qui ont comparu par
ordre de Juftice et des Etats, ce 19 Octobre, 1542, pour aflifter et donner conleil enfcmble, pour faire p'vyfion neceflaire et requife pour le bien commun ct
saufegarde de cecte Isle."
t The family of Lo Jarderay was of early settlement in the Parish of S. Saviour, and was apparently of some considerable opulence.
J. Lo Jarderay signed as witness, in 1497, the deed in which Hue, Tehy, and Neel made a grant of lands and rents for the foundation of
Grammar Schools in Jersey.
i In France, the name of Dr. Pallot is famous as haviug introduced into the Phannacopoeia bark, or quinine. Having, by its means, cured
Louis XIV., when it was used as a secret remedy, the physician received 48,000 Uvres, 2,000 livres for life, and the grade of Chevalier. This
niedicino only found its way into England late in the seventeenth century. — Vide the Lancet, Jan. 2, 1864.
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The Rev. Joshua Fallot, Rector of S. Clement.
Margaret, d. of John Aubin.
i
Joshua Fallot,
b. 1647.
I
John,
b. 1649.
Helier.
b. 1651.
John,
Abraham
Millays,
b. 1632, Mary
d. 1664, Ricard
s.p. d.
I -" I III
b. 1641. 1. Margaret, d. and eventual = Edward = 2. Judith, d. aud Jane, Rachel. Mary.
Margaret, eventual h..
b. 1648, m. 1671.
Edward Millays.
h. of the Rev. Joshua Fallot, |
d. of... m. 1671.
m. 1605-0,
1091.
eventual h. of b. 1036,
I
John MiEos,
b. 1604, m. 1709.
0. s. p.
Martha, d. of . . .
Nicolle of
GrouvUle.
Edward,
b.l672.
I I
Mary, Jane,
b. 1604, b. 1073,
m. 1705,
d. 1706-7.
Amice Do Car-
teret, m. 2udly
James Filleul,
s.]i. by 1st
marriage.
o. s. p.
HeUer Fhilip
Godfray, Aubin.
of S.
Clement.
I I . I I I I
Edward MiUea, Joshua, 1. Margaret, d. = John, = 2. Elizabeth, Abraham, Jane, Margaret,
Edward.
Dumaresq.
b. 1672, m. 1696. b. 1676.
Mary, d. of John
Mourant, d.
1760.
of... Nicolle,
d. nil.
b.
1678.
I
d. of ..
Neel.
b. 1081.
George,
b. 1683.
b. 1675. m. 1090,
d. 1708.
I
Edward MiUes,
b, 1708-9, ob.jiiv.
Edward, b. 1710,
m. 1728.
Rachel, d. and h. of
... Le Geyt.
Joshua Millays,
ob. iiinujit. I
Rachel Milles,
i [ eld. d. and co-h.,
Margaret. Mary, b. 1702. t>- 172«.
Elizabeth,
b. 1731.
John
Mourant
n
Mary, b. 1733.
Joshua Mourant.
Edward Estur.
JoiLN DuPKE = Esther, d. of .
De Rue.
I
Edward Millais, b. 1729.
Elizabeth, d. of Edward
Palle, m. 1752.
I I I I I
Joshua, Abraham. Ann, Margaret, Ann,
d. 1745. d. 1743, b. andd. 17-i3. ob.juv.
juv.
I I
Ann, Mary = The Rev. John Dupre, Rector of
b. 1748. I S. Helier, and Commissary of
I of the Bishop of Winchester.
The Rev. John
Duprg, D.D.
Joshua,
b. 1754.
Michael,
b. 1754.
■ I II I I " I I
Edward Millais, Joshua, John, Capt. R.J.M., Abraham, Amy, Jane,
b. 1755, o.s.p. b. 1757. b. 1769. b. 1773. b. 1763. b. 1767.
GUILLE COUTANCES.
Elizabeth, d. of
John Robichon,
of S. Martin.
Richard,
b. 1766.
Sarah-Mai-y, d. of EUzabeth, Daniel Clement
WiUiam Matthews. d. of Philip Le Geyt. Godfray.
Labey.
Edward Cuutauche.
Edward, D.C.L.,
b. 1755, Rector
of S. Helier, and
Dean of Jersey.
Jlary, d. of
William Fatriarchc.
I
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John- William Duprd, Edward- Mary.
Attorney- General of Falle. —
Jersey. Eliza.
I III
Abraham-Maiais, Thomas. Betsey, Ann.
o.s.p. ob.
.. d. of ...
Benest.
Ill I
Jane God- Mary, Mar- = Charles Coutanche.
fray, eld. d. o.s.p. garet. |
and co-h. I
Jane, d. of James
Hemery, of Flaisance.
Jane.
Philip Godfray.
I II I
Jane. Margaret. Mary.
Edward-James Millais, ob. juv.
John- William.
Mary, d. of Richard Evermy,
and widow of Enoch
Hodgkinson.
John Coutanche, Esq. Charles,
oh. —
Augusta, d. of James innupt. Nicholas Elizabeth.
Arnold, of Guernsey. Dumaresq.
I
.Ajiua-Maria.
I I
George-Henry, ob. 1864. Mary -EUzabeth.
Mary-Maria, d. of
Highland.
John Benest. 1. William-Marvyn Everett.
2. George Donaldson.
290
AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY.
Henry-William George-Ernest.
Millais.
I
I
Ed ward- Walter, oh. JIary-Sarali. Edith-Laura, oh. Rosa-Ann.
I I
Henrietta-Maria.
Editli-Lanra.
Isabella-Kate.
Florence- Ada.
I
Willliam-Henry Millais.
I !
John-Everett, R.A. Emily-Mary.
Judith-Agnes, d. of the llev. Charles Boothby, Vicar of Sutterton,
Lincolnshire, Prebendary of SouthaU, Nottinghamshire, and
sou of Sir William Boothby, Bart., of Ashbura Hall, Derby-
shire, oh. 1802.*
Eupheniia-Chahuers,
d. of George Gray,
of Bowerswell,
Perth, N.B.
Jolm-Johnson
Wallack, of
New York.
I
EUen- Amelia,
oh. juv.
Mary-Elizabeth.
oh. jut.
I
I
Everett Millais.
Judith-Agnes Millais, b. 1862.
George-Gray.
Geoffroy.
Effie.
Mary-Hunt.
jHourant.
HE Marquis tie Maguy, in his " Lirrc d'or de la Nohlcsse de France," says " la famille de
Morant, de tres ancienne noblefle de Normandie, fell: repandue et a formee plufieurs
branches dans les provinces voifines."f In England, its antiquity and possessions were
equally famous ; for Hasted, in liis " History of Kent," records that "William, Jordan,
and Henry de Morant were possessed of the manor and lands of Morant's Court, near Sevenoaks,
in the xxi. Edward I. (1293).+
A member, it is supposed, of the English branch of the family migrated to Jersey in the
fifteenth century, probably at the period of the Wars of the Eoses, which then disturbed the
realm of England. The earlier registers of the parish of S. Saviour, temp. Henry VIII., shew
tliat the family was then numerous and influential in the island.
Jannyn Morant, who was Denunciator of the Eoyal Court from 1526 to 1543, married
Marion, the sister and sole heir of Sire Eichard Mabon, Dean of Jersey, This line became
extinct in the person of their son John.
From Helier Morant, son of Drouet, was directly descended the Eev. Philip Morant, M.A.,
* " Jlarcli 17, 17SI. The Gth Regiment, commanded by Sir William Boothby, emb.arked at Portsmouth for Jersey,
against which the French are said to be meditating another attack." — V/de " Gentleman's Magazine."
t Arms of Mouant, of Normandy : Gules, a bend, ermine.
I In the "History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the Middle Ages," by Thomas Wright, M. A.,
in engraved a seal of the thirteenth century attached to a Deed by -which William Moraunt grants to Peter Picard an acre of
land in the Parish of Otteford in Kent, which furnishes a representation of William Morant's Manor-house. It is a
small square building, witli a high pitched roof, as appears always to have been the case in the Early English houses, and
a chimney. The hall-door opens outwardly, which was the ancient Eoman manner of opening the outer door of the house.
It may be added that it was the custom to have the hall-door, or Jmis (ostium), always open by day as a sign of hospitality.
Jjj 11/1C//1 t/ii,v /'/nee iW /ir.ir/i/tf//<> r/ir Jlor/c.
^inariijyfiuiraut. ffoiiuirc. iH d
SEiq h/EU R OF Sai^^af^e^
///' will' III //ii.< I'liili- i< pii-.'^tiilril /i- Ihi W'lii-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 291
whose portrait is now possessed by George CoUas, Esq., of Pigueaux House, to whose grand-
mother it was presented by that learned ecclesiastic on the occasion of his last ^dsit to Jersey.
He was the son of Stephen Mourant, and was born at S. Saviour on the Gth of October, 1700.
He is well and deservedly known in England as a scholar and a careful autiquaiy ; he was
educated at Abingdon, and then entered Pembroke College, Oxford, and took a B.A. degree in
June, 1721. In August, 1722, he was nominated, at the recommendation of Queen Caroline,
to the office of preacher in the English Church at Amsterdam, a post he retained until 1734.
He proceeded M.A., in 1724, and took the same degree in Sidney College, Cambridge, in 1730,
He held successively the several benefices of Schellon-Bowels ; Broomfield ; Chicknel-Smeeley ;
S. Mary, Colchester ; Wickham-Bishops, and Aldham, all in the county of Essex ; which were
presented to him by Dr. Gibson, Bishop of London, his particular friend and patron. He
resided chiefly at Colchester, of which place he wi-ote a history, a work still esteemed for its
deep antiquarian research ; a class of study to which Mr. Morant was peculiarly attached. He
was elected F.S.A. in 1751 ; and, from that year until his death, was a constant correspondent
of the well-knoMii Mr. Bowyer and the erudite Dr. Ducarel, on literary subjects. From 1762 to
1766, he was employed in Amting his "History and Antiquities of Essex;" and in 1768, the
" History of Colchester " was republished, a work incorporated with the general History of the
County. As a native of Jersey, he was well-versed in Norman-French, which, in conjunction
mth his considerable antiquarian attainments, led to his employment in preparing for the press
a copy of the " Rolls of Parliament," in which engagement he succeeded, in 1768, Mr. Blyke ;
and these he continued from the period at which the labours of his predecessor ceased, until
the XVI. Henry IV. This task was necessarily an arduous one ; but he persevered in it till his
death. His connection with the Channel Islands led him to examine the arguments employed
by Selden in his " Mare Clausuin," to prove that England always had the possession of these
islands, because she has always maintained the dominion of the narrow seas. Mr. Morant,
admitting the former, denies the latter proposition, and states truly that they were part and
parcel of the Duchy of Normandy, and were incorporated in that Duchy under the Norman
Dukes : this tractate was published in the form of a letter to his early patron and firm friend
Mr. Falle, and is prefixed to the last edition of that di-\dne's " History of Jersey." Mr. Morant's
other literary labours were mostly translations and compilations in connection with English
History. He compared Rapin's " History of England " with Rymer's Foedera and Acta
Pubiica, and generally assisted the Rev. Nicholas Tindal, Vicar of Great "Waltham, Essex —
whose curate at one time he was — in his edition of that great work. He supplied Dr. Kippis with
several lives for the Biographia Britanniea, and these are distinguished by the mark C. A list
of some nineteen works was prepared from his owti notes by his son-in-law. In pursuit of his
Parliamentary labours he contracted a cold, which terminated fatally, 25th of November, 1770.
He was buried at Aldham Church, where a monument was erected to his memoiy by his only
child and her husband, Thomas Astle, Esq., which also records the death of his wife, a lady
descended from the ancient families of Stebbing and Creffeld.
It seems curious that two such extensive explorers of books as Mr. Morant and Mr. Falle
should have overlooked the frequent mention of the name of Morant in the histories of
England and France. In Jersey, the name is invariably spelled Mourant, and Mr. Philip
292 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Morant omitted the superfluous u, evidently without knowing the history of the family whence
he descended.''^
The manor of Samares, formerly of great extent, was endowed with many valuahle
privileges. If a Eoyal Grant, quoted by Jeune, in his history of -Jersey, may be credited as
authentic, this fief can claim a longer line of known Seigneurs than any other in the island.
By this Grant, the Manor of Sa Maresq appears to have been presented by William Rufus to
Eodolphe De S. Hilaire in 1095 : William De S. Hilaire, the descendant of Eodolphe, lost the
estate by his adherence to the Normans in the fourteenth century.f The lief was then granted
to Geoffrey Touzebi, who sold it to Sir John Maltravers. It was subsequently variously inherited
or purchased by members of the families of De Barentiue, Payn, Dumaresq, Seale, and
Hammond, from the representative of which last it was purchased by the present Seigneur. \
One of the larger fiefs of the island of Guernsey is named Saumarez, and probably, both
estates, at a very remote period, had one owner, from whom they derived a common appellation.
* In a letter written by the historian Falle to Mr. Morant, dated October 23, 1733, speaking of tlie title-page of
bis History of that year's edition, he says, " You'll fee I have erafcd the a in your name, which indeed I believe to have crept
in without reafon. Many names in the ifland I find disfigured in like manner, by adding or fubtrafiing a letter or too. And as
to yours, I have a confufod remembrance to have read Morant in fome hiftory. I think it was the name of a chancellor of
France. Perhaps I may meet with the place again." In another communication of November 2-1, in the same year, Falle
says, "Looking into the 27th vol. of Fleury, p. 520, I meet with this paflage — 'A Amiens, Jean Morand, Dofteur en Theologie
et Chanoine de la ditte villc, etc' This is certainly your name, though wrote with a d ; for, whether with a ^/ or a /, the pro-
nunciation is the fame."
The patronymic is indeed of very great antiquity, as is proved by its figuring in the famous ballad of " Tristram,"
supposed to have been written in the thirteenth century, and attributed to Thomas the Rhymer. ' ' This romance was one
of the most celebrated in the Middle Ages ; in what language or what country it first appeared seems impossible to be
determined. The exploits of the knight were commemorated in France, Italy, Germany, and even in Greece and Iceland;
and, after having been circulated throughout Christendom by the minstrels, was at length extended and modified into a
prose romance, written originally in French, and afterwards translated into Spanish and Italian ; while to the modern
English reader it is best known from Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of the Mortc (V Arthur. In this the giant Morant
or Moraunt " (for here the u creeps in, though in another place) " is brother to the Queen of Iceland, and is sent over to
Cornwall to levy the tribute exacted by the Milesian King, and is there slain by Tristram." — Vide Irving's History of
Scottish Poetry, reviewed in the Afhena'iim, October, 12, 18G1.
f Arms (as borne by Guille de S. Hilaire or Hillaire) : Gules, two mullets, in pale, or.
I Lcttre come: en I'an 1364, le jourdejeudy prochain avant la fefte S. Li/ciis, Evangelifte. Edmond De Cheney, Guardien
lies Ifles par le commandemt : du Roy d'Ang/cterre fill enquefte par bones : gens dignes de foy, por : quelle caufe k Magtier de
Samares avecqs les appartenances tres., tenemts., vindre en la main du Roy en /' Isle de Jersey, de la main de Guille. de
S. Hillaire. LefqucUes bones, gens par leurs ferments toiites d'un aflent rapporterent qu'il y avoit trent-un ans et plus en temps
de paix que Icdit Magner vint en la Main du Roy d'' Angktcrre, pr. dcffaut ^Homage, et en ufa nre. Sire le Roy jufqu'au temps
qu'il le delefla a Geoffroy Touzebi, a Heritage pr. payer au Roy, ou a fes Deputes %>ingt-et-quatre libs, par an. de monnave courant
au pays. Lequel Geoffroy ufa et efplcta dudit Magner, jufqu'au temps que MeJJire Jean Mautravers I'acquit de lui a Heritage,
lequel Mautravers ufa et efpleta dudit Magner, etc., jufqu' a cc que Phles. De Barentin I'acquit dudit Mautravers, et d'Agnes
fa femmc, lequel Philippe De Barentin tenoit audt. temps ledt. Magner et appartenances et I'efpleta a Heritage et paya au Roy
lefdts. vingt-quatrc libs. Item, ledit Magner 10s. au Prezwft du Ro-f, du Mourier. Item, doibt le ft. d. ad (//c) Magner homage
au Roy, quand il vicnt ou fuy, ct doibt raifie de la Coiir es Chefs Plaids de notre Sire le Row en la ditc I/e. Item, ledit Magner
doibt au Prevoft de Notre Sire le Roy, en Groi/ville, Ji.x deniers totirnois de fcrme. Leiquelles chofes nous tcflifions a tous a qui
il appartiendra ou pcult appartcnir, par ces prnts., Scclles de notre Scell, Fan et jour fus-dits. — Ex Mfio. antiq. in ciiftodid Dom.
Avranch.
Note. — Un Bailli du Cotentin en 1340, assigna 78 livres, 10 sols, 2 deniers de rente, sur la tcrre de R. de Carteret
pour iudemniser G. de S. Hilaire de la perte do ses biens, confisqucs a Jersey. — Vide " Aiuiales Civilcs, Militaires, et
Genealoyiques du Pays d 'Avranches, par Des lioches."
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An antiquary of the latter island shows, indeed, good cause for believing that prior to the
occupancy of the family of De S. Hilaire, the Jersey manor was possessed by a De Sausmarez ;
and, if this be correct, the Guernsey fief may have derived its title from its Jersey namesake.
The name is latinized De Saho Marisco and De Salinellis, terms which may indicate the marshy
and sea-invaded character of the larger portion of the Jersey estate. The manor of Sausmarez
in Guernsey, on the contrary, is on some of the highest land in the island, which would show
its nomenclature to be purely arbitrary. The name of the De Sausmarez family has been ren-
dered famous by the achievements of Admiral Sir James Saumarez, who descended from n
junior branch, and who was created a peer in 1831, by the title of Baron de Saumarez.
Samares is one of the five fiefs-haubert of Jersey, and is held in copite of the Crown by
knight's service : in feudal times the Seigneur had the right of " haute et basse justice," and owed
homage to the Sovereign, and suit of Court at the opening of the Chief Pleas.* Among the
duties due on account of the fief of Hommet,| a dependency of the fief of Samares, was the
curious one that, should the Seigneur reside on the former fief, the priest was obliged to
convey the Lady of the Manor to church on a white horse, " le jour qu'elle releve de gefyiie,"
as the Extente expresses it.
The principal members of the Jersey family are John Mourant, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Third Regiment E.J.M., and Edward Mourant, Esq., M.A., Oxford, Seigneur of
Samares. The branch which the Rev. Philip Morant represented, vests in Robert Hills,
Esq., of Colne Park, Halstead, Essex.
Arms (as borne by John Mourant, Esq.) : Gules, on a clie-\T.-on, argent, three talbots,
passant, sable. Quartering : Per fesse, argent and or ; in chief, a dexter hand, clenched, ppr.,
cuffed of the second ; in base, a mullet of the first, for Poingdestre : Azure, a crescent,
argent, for Luce : Azure, a fleur-de-lis, or ; on a chief, argent, a lion, passant, guardant, gules,
for Le Brocq : Azure, fretty of tilting-spears, or, for Le Bailly : and Sable, a fesse between
three escallops, or, for De La Perrelle. Impaling : Ai-gent, on a chief, sable, three lions'
heads, erased, or, for Richardson. On an escutcheon of pretension : Azure, three mullets of
six points, pierced, or, for Du Parcq.
Crest : A dove, ppr., holding in its mouth, a branch of olive, vert.
Motto : Je ne vis qu'en mourant.
Arms (as borne by Edward Mourant, Esq.) : Gules, on a chevron, argent, three talbots,
passant, sable, a mullet for difference. Quartering : Per fesse, argent and or ; in chief, a dexter
hand, clenched, ppr., cuffed of the second; in base, a mullet of the first, for Poingdestre:
* Vide Extente de Jersey, 1607.
f A brancli of tlie once powerful Norman Family of Du Hommet settled in Jersey in very early times, and gave its
name to this fief, wliicli reverted to the Crown, some centuries since, on the death, without heirs, of the last " Dame du
Hommet." The residence of the family was demolished about ninety years ago, and the materials employed for building
purposes in the town of Gorey. Another branch from the original source, settled at S. Lo, in Normandy, migrated to
England, and is mentioned in the " Eed Book of the Exchequer." Arms of Do Hommet: Argent, three fleurs-de-lis,
gules.
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Gules, tliree mullets, pierced, or, an annulet for difference, for Hamptonne : Ai-gent, a fesse
between three wolves' heads, erased, sable, a mullet for difference, for Seale : Per bend, or and
azure, a star of eight points, counterchauged, for Millais : Azure, a cross passion, argent,
surmounted of an eastern crown, or, for Le Jarderay : Or, an orle, azure, for Bertram : Ai-gent,
a palm-tree, ppr., for P.\llot : Ai'geut, a cock, statant, ppr., for Faultrart : Ai-gent, a cross,
sable, between a maltese-cross, gules, in the first and fourth quarters, and a tent of the same,
in the second and third, for Baudouin : Argent, on a che\Ton, sable, four eagles, of the field,
between three mullets, gules, for Morice-De La Ripaudiere : and, Azure, two bars, argent,
between six bezants, in fesse, for Coutanche. Impaling : Ai'gent, a lion, passant, gules, a
mullet for difference, for Le Quesne.
Crest : A crescent, or.
Motto ; Dieu et la religion.
Arms (as borne by Robert Hills, Esq.) : Ermine, on a fesse, sable, a castle, argent,
maQonne of the second ; in chief a label of three points, of the same. Quartering : Aziu'e, a
ciuquefoil, ermine ; in chief, a label of three points, or, for Astle ; Gules, on a fesse, argent,
three talbots, passant, sable, for Morant : and. Quarterly, or and gules ; over all, on a bend,
sable, three bezants, for Stebbing.
Crests: 1. A castle, as in the arms, for Hills. 2. On a cap of dignity, a ducal coronet,
out of which a plume of ostrich feathers, all ppr., for Astle.
^eliigife of iBourant.
Dkouet Mokamt, liraig circa 1500.
Helier Morant, b. 1546. Nicholas. William. Ann = Juin Durel.
Jannyn Morant, Denunciator E.G. in 152fi.
Marion, only sister and eventual h. of Sire Eiohard
Mabon, Dean of Jersey.
Jane, d. of Marye Canivet.
T
John Morant = Thomasse, d. of ... Lescaud^.
Peter Morant.
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Tymotliy Morant, m. 1599 = Mary, d. of ... Noel. Mary. Susan = Peter Renouf. I
I Helier Morant.
Tymotliy Morant = CoUette, d. of . . . Autlioiiic.
John.
Tymothy Morant.
Stephen, ni. 1647 = Mary, d. of John Aubin.
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Stephen Morant = Mary, d. of M. Fillenl, John = Martha, d. and co-h. of Peter Poingdestre, Tymothy. Mary. Elizabeth.
m. 1682.
m. 1C82.
and co-representative of the families of
Hamptonne and Seale. Susan, d. of Philip C. Le
... Anbin. Vivian.
Bastard.
1. Margaret, d. of Edward MiUaia = John Mourant = 2. Louisa, d. of ... Messervy.
I
I
Mary = Edward Millais.
John Moarant = Mary, d. of ... Falle, of S. Peter.
Mary, m. 1727 = John PelguS.
Jaiie = John Aubin.
Ro(u-vt HiU'.v. Etniuivf.
U a L N E PARK.
By ii/icm thin Flalc «> pii-^ciifrt/ lo tin- Ifcrk.
Elias Neel, Esquire
ar k/iojii t/m: I'la/r m /irar/i/n/ !i>r/i/- Kirk.
AK ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
295
Edward Mourant, Capt. R. J.M., = Ann, d. and co-h. of Francis
Constable of S. Saviour. I Luce, and co-represectative
of the families of Le Brocq
I and Le BaiUy.
I
Joshua = Mary, d. and co-h. of John Millais, and
co-representative of the families of Le
Jarderay, Bertram, Fallot, Faultrart,
Baudouin, and Morice.
Mary.
Charles Amy, of
Grouville.
I
Joshua Mourant,
Lt.-Col. R.J.M.
EHzabeth, d. of
Ph. De Rue.
I
John, settled in
England.
I
Edward = Jane, d. and h. of John Coutanche.
Edward Mourant, Esq., Seig. = Matilda, d. of Nicholas Le
of Samaras, M.A., Oxon. I Quesne, Jurat, R.C.
Lionel-Edward Mourant.
I
Mary.
Helyer
Langlois.
Esther.
Roulaud
La Lande.
Jane.
.. Le
Forestier.
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Joshua Mourant = Mary. d. of Amice Le Feuvre. Edward,
I
^1 Philip,
I
Joshua Mourant.
ward, ~\
— > o.s. p.
ilip, )
I
John.
Mary.
Aun.
I
Elizabeth.
Esther.
John.
I
Joshua Mourant = Jane, d. of Thos. Filleul.
I
Lydia-Jane Mourant.
Margaret, d. of Joshua EHas Helier Thomas Philip LeGros,
Le Boutillier. Falle. Langlois. Labey, of of La Blanche
= GronvUle. Pierre.
I
John.
I
Walter-Godfray.
Julia.
Clara.
James Filleul.
A.-F. D'Allain.
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The Rev. Edward Mourant, Rector of the Parishes John = Jane, d. and h. of J. De La
of la Foret and Torteval, Guernsey, o. s. p. I Perrelle, Constable of
S. Onen.
I
Ann.
I
Mary.
Ellas Bertram, of Grouville. John PelguS.
1. Julia, d. of ... Richardson =: John Mourant, Esq., Lt.-Col. = 2. Julia-Mary, d. and h. of ... Du Parcq.
I E. Regt., R.J.M. _J
I
Philip, Capt. R.J.M.
d. of . . . Le Sueur.
Julia Mourant.
Julius-John Mourant, b. 1859. Caroline-EUa, b. 1857-
I
Stephen Morant.
Jane, d. of PhiHp Filleul, m. 1718.
The Rev. Philip, M.A., Rector of S. Mary, Colchester, b. 1700.
Ann, d. and co-h. of Solomon Stebbing, of Pebmarsh, Essex.
Mary.
Philip Yivian.
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Phihp Mourant = Jane, d. of ... Estur. Anna-Maria Morant, only d. and h. = Thomas Astle, F.S.A., of Battersea-
I I Rise, Surrey.
1. George CoUa3,=Mary Mourant,=2. Elias Falle. j j j j j j j j \
of S. Martin. only d. and h. (2nd son) Philip Astle, assumed by = Frances d. of the Rev. 5 Sons. 3 Daughters.
S.M. the surname of Hills.
I
Thos. Bankes.
Robert Hills, Esq., of Colne Park, Halstead, Essex.
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Nine other children.
MONGST the chiefs who shared with WiUiam of Normandy the glorious fruits of the
\'ictory of Hastings, were more than one of the name of Nigel or Neel.
Neel de S. Sauveur, Viscount of Cotentin, was one of the powerful Norman barons
who revolted against William the Conqueror, and who, in addition to his large posses-
sions in continental Normandy, held a moiety of the island of Guernsey, in hcneficio, with the
patronage of sis of the parish chiirches of that island.
From the earliest historic period the name is found in Jersey. The Extente of 1331 con-
tains record of the names of Eichard Neel, a landowner in the Parish of S. Martin, and of
Peter Neel, who was Seigneur of the fief of Neaux, now known as les Niemes or Galenes, in
Grouville, in which parish he held, besides, a buuvee of land. Another Peter Neel was, at the
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AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
same period, one of the jurymen who assessed the lung's dues in the Parish of S. Clement.
Several members of the family of Neel were in the church. Sire Geoffroy and Sire John
Neel were Roman Catholic priests who flourished in Jersey in the middle of the sixteenth
century. The most eminent of these ecclesiastics, however, Avas Sire John Neel, a graduate of
the University of Paris, and subsequently Dean of Prince Ai-thur's Chapel, who is entitled to
the everlasting gratitude of his countrymen as the founder of the two Grammar Schools of
S. Magloire (Manelier) and S. Anastasius, in the Parish of SS. Saviour and Peter, Jersey. The
epitaph on his tomb, copied from Durell's edition of Falle's History of Jersey, is given below.*
This very ancient house is now represented in Jersey by Elias Neel, Esq., Jurat E.G.,
and in a younger branch by Elias-Andrews Neel, Esq.
Arms (as borne by Elias Neel, Esq.) ; Gules, semee of fleurs-de-lis and crosses-crosslet,
alternately, or, two pikes, in pale, embowed and addorsed, argent.
Crest : A lion's head, cabossed, ppr.
Motto : Nostre roy et nostre foy.
Arms (as borne by Elias-Andrews Neel, Esq.) : Gules, semee of fleurs-de-lis and crosses-
crosslet, alternately, or, two pikes, in pale, embowed and addorsed, argent. On an escutcheon
of pretension : Or, two lions, combattant, gules, collared, argent, for Touet. Quartering :
Azure, three crescents, or, for Nicolle.
Crest and Motto, as the preceding.
" OSSA JOHANNIS NeEL TENET HOC SUB
marmore tellus ;
Spiritui sedes qu^so sit EMPVREA.
GeRSEJE NATO (sEPTEM DEDIT ARTIBUS,)
ILLI
Jura Magistratus inclyta Parisiis.
Inde Thesaurius Rectorque domus
venerandi
PONTIFICIS WaINFLEET, HICQUE Ma-
GISTER ERAT.
Principis Arthur! post hjec, regit
ILLI SACELLUM
Sorte decanatus, cui bene carus
ERAT.
GvMNASIIS NATALE SOLUM SPLENDESCERE
FECIT
BiNIS, QUO DISCAS GRAMMATA PER-
PETUO.
M. SEMEL ET CenIOS* SI TRES TAMEN
EXCIPIOS ANNOS,
MaRTIA QUINTA dies TER SUA FATA
DOCET
Ergo pii celebrate pium precibusque
JUVATE
Quo DeUS jT.THEREA ponnat in arce
SUUM."
' Kvideutly an unclassical contraction for
(|umgonto8.
The following is an old translation
in French of the Epitaph.
NoTA QUOD Johannes Neel erat Collecii
Arundelli ubi sepultus est cu hoc Epi-
taphio.
" Dessoubs ce marbre icy sont de Jean
Neel les os
Et son ame est au ciel dans l'eternel
repos.
Estant ne dans Jersey, dans Paris la
grande ville
II APRINT les sept ARS AVEC LA LOY
CIVILLE
De l'Evesque Waneflet il se fist es-
TIMER
Comme Maistre et Recteur, et fut
SON Thresorier
Et puis du Prince Arthur il fut de
La chapelle
Et Recteur et Doyen q.ui luy fut
tres fidelle
Puis de quoy maintenir deux Escholles
donna
Ce que son pays natal grandement
honora
Et en mille ciNy cents excepte trois
annf.es
Le CINyUIEME DE MaRS SA VIE FUT ASSINEE.
English Translation, by the Rev.
Edward Durell.
Beneath this mauble tomb Neel's
ashes rest
Oh ! MAY HIS SPIRIT LIVE AMONG THE
BLEST !
A NATIVE SENT FROM JeRSEy's ROCKY
SHORE,
He drew FROM Paris learning's ample
STORE.
Then he dispens'd a bounteous Pre-
late's HOARD,
When Wainfleete was his patron
and his lord.
Till raised by princely Arthur,
Tudor's heir,
The Dean entrusted with his chapel's
CARE.
He FOUNDED WITH THE SAVINGS OF HIS
TOIL
Two schools that might adorn his
native isle,
When fifteen cent'ries nearly
roll'd around
His mortal progress reacii'd its
utmost bound.
Then praise this good man — may
your pray'rs be giv'n
Th.vt God may place him in the rest
OF heav'n !
Elias Andrews Neel. Esquire
By wlion, this J' /ate is Presrn.ttd to i/ielUrk
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PtDigrrt of ^ttL
Jambs Neel, living 1550.
James Neel, m. 1600, d. 1617 = Aim, d. of ... Cabot.
I
John Neel, b. 1601, d. 1686-7. 1 Margaret, d. of = James, b. 1606-7 = 2. Susan, d. of Richard, Nicholas,
b. 1612. b. 1614.
Elizabeth, d.of ... Aubin,m.l639.
T
FiUeul, d.
16-14.
3. (N'ame unknoi^Ti) .
I 4. Mary, d. of ...,
JamesNeel, b. 1639. d. 1603.
5. Rachel, d. of ...
Alexandre, m. 1663.
Richard
Badier, m.
1645.
Rachel, b. 1602-3.
Mary, b. 1609.
Elizabeth, b. 1017.
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Amice Neel, b. 1647. George, b. 1651-2. Helier, or Elias, b. 1659, m. 1690-1 = Frances, d. of Clement Pioquet. Mary, b. 1654.
I I
Elias Neel, b. 1691, m. 1720 = Esther, d. of John Le Geyt. Jean, b. 1698 = Margaret, d. of ... Huggins.
Frances.
John Neel, b. 1728, o.s. p.
Esther, b. 1722.
EUzabeth, b. 1724. Frances, b. 1727.
Mary, b. 1732.
1. Nicholas Fallot, of Guernsey.
2. Aaron De Ste. Croix.
Charles De Ste. Croix. John-James Condamine.
Elias Neel, b. 1720, m. 1745, d. 1765.
Elizabeth, d. of Philip Payn.
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John, b. 1726.
John, b. 1729, m. 1752.
Frances, b. 1724. Margaret, b. 1734.
John, b. 1727-8. Mary, d. of Nicholas De Ste George Eomeril.
iib. juv. Croix.
T
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John Neel, b. 1754, John, b. 1759, John, b. 1768, Mary, b. 1756, d. 1776. Margaret, Frances, b. 1765. EUzabeth, Elizabeth,
vh.juv. ob.juo. ob.juv. b. 1761, b. 1770, b. 1772.
George Manger. ob. juv. Nicholas Le Quesne. nb. Juv.
1. Ann, d. of = EUas Neel, = 2. EUzabeth, d. of Philip, b. 1753.
... Andrews.
b. 1751.
Chas. Matthews.
John, b. 1757.
I
Nicholas
Elizabeth, Frances, r, „£,„„"
,.-,.„' , ,,.,-0 Guernsey.
b. 1 i4o-6. b. 174i-8.
Ann, d. of Jas. EUzabeth, d. of Joshua Le Gros.
James Neel=... d. of ... Dolbel. Joslin. =
I = I
Two daughters, o.s.p. \ Elizabeth Neel, b. 1791.
I III I PhiUp Neel, ^ EUas, b. Mary. b.
EUas Neel, b. 1775, m. 1797. John, b. 1783. Ann. EUzabeth, EUzabeth, b. 1786. — ^ twins. 1783. 1777.
ob.juv. b. 1777, jVnne, b. 1780.;
Catherine, d. of John Perchard.
0. s. p.
PhiUp Payn.
I
EUas Neel, b. 1798.
II I I II
John, b. 1803. George, Charles, b. 1809. Eliza, b. 1801. Ann-Susan. Eleonora.
b. 1807.
Elizabeth, d. of PhUip Le TubUn. Mary, d. of ...
= Asplet.
Ann, d. of .
Esuouf.
Peter Guiton.
John Bazin.
EUas- Andrews Neel,
Capt. R.J.M.
Ann-Elizabeth, d. aud h. of Clement Touet, by
Elizabeth, d. and co-h. of Abraham NicoUe.
I
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EUas, ob. juv.
Thomas, ob.juv.
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Charles-Edmund. Frederick. Ann, ob.juv. Mary, 06. _/«»,•.
Edmund.
EUas-Clement Neel, ob.juv. EUas-Clement, ob.juv.
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Charles-Edward. Walter-PhiUp. Frederick-William. Edith-Jessie.
Elise-EIeonora.
298
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
John Neel, b. 1642, m. 1726 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Aubin, d. 1680-1. James, b. 164.5 = Mary, d. of .. Amy. Clement, Mary, b. 1644.
I I b. iri.-)9.
I
John Neel, b. 1677, m. 1702 = Ehzabeth, d. of ... Le Lievro.
James Neel, b. 1676, = Sarah, d. of .
m. 1703. Le Gros.
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Thomas, b. 1670. Mary.
— b. 1681.
Edward, b. 1682.
Edward Neel, b. 1703, m. 1731 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Le Rougetel.
John Neel, b. 1732 = Susannah, d. of ... Hubert.
I
Mary = Nicholas Poingdestre.
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1. Margaret, d. of ... Le Breton=EliaB Neel=2. Jaue, d. of Philip Aluer. John, Francis, o.s.p. Elizabeth, b. 1757. Mary. Sarah.
o.s.p.
Elizabeth, d. of John Coignard, Nicholas Philip Lc
... Vallord. of S. Saviour. Cabot. Maistre.
I
Margaret Neel^PhUip Ahier
EUas Neel.
John.
I
Jane.
Mary.
Mary, d. and co-h. of Philip Mourant. 1. Esther, d. of ... Machon. Philip Tourgia. George Mallet.
I 2. Esther, d. of ... Le Rnez.
I
EUas Noel, Jurat R.C.
Philip.
Francis.
I
John.
Mary. Jane.
Elizabetli.
I I
Ann. Margaret.
Ann, d. and h. of Frances, d. of .
Nicholas Le Bas. Auzidre.
Jane, d. of John Mary-Ann, d. of Philip Le
Le BoutiUier. George Mallet. Feuvre.
John Neel.
James.
Albert.
Emma.
Louisa.
Emily.
Ann.
I
EUas Neel.
Aunie-BIakely-Boyle,
d. of John Boyd.
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Samuel, oh.
Henry, oh.
Charles, oh.
Edward-Albert,
oh.
Lydia.
I.
Maria.
Emma,
ob.
Alice,
oh.
George Pascoe
Corderoy. Hoslrins.
EHas-Boyd Neel.
Henry.
James-Sloan.
James George David
Finnie. Gaudin. Fisher.
I I
Maria. Lydia.
Amelia,
oh.
JtitoUe.
HIS family lias no connection with the ancient Seigneurs of Longueville, of the same
name, but appears to have existed in the island from the period of the disjunction of
the Channel Islands from the Duchy of Normandy.
In 1331, Colin Nicolle held two houvics of land in the Parish of S. Martin, and
one iu that of S. Mary, while Thomas Nicolle held a houvce in S. Brelade's, as appears by the
Extentc of that year.
The name is found, too, at a remote period in Guernsey, one of the earliest Bailiffs of that
island being of this family. Hence springs the branch of NicoU of Penrose, county Cornwall,
as appears by Lysous, and also by a pedigree of the Cornish section exemplitied in the Har-
leian M8S., No. 1051.
The original branch of this house, so long settled in its ancestral Parish of S. Martin, and
F-EEPEifl£&C
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 299
co-representing most of the influential families of the island, is there represented by Edwin-
Henry NicoLLE, Esq., eldest survi\dng son of the late Frederick NicoUe, Esq., surgeon ; a
younger branch, descended from a member of the parent stock, who settled in Gromille, and
whose descendants were subsequently located for several generations in the Parish of S. John,
is represented by Edward Nicolle, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel, E. J.M., of Midvale, S. HeUer.
Arms (as borne by the late Frederick Nicolle, Esq.) : Azure, three crescents, or.
Quartering : Or, in the dexter chief a round shield, azure, charged with a knight on horseback,
spear in rest, in full career, all argent, for Bandinel : Gules, three escallops in bend, argent ;
on a chief of the second, a martlet, sable, for Stallenge : Azure, a bend, argent, between two
pelicans' heads, erased, or, for Horman : Azure, three crescents, or, a mullet for difference, for
Niqolle : Gules, three bucldes, or, in chief, a crescent, argent, charged Avith a label of three
points, for difference, for Mallet : Gules, a fesse, dancette, or, in chief, two roses, argent, for
Cornet : Gules, three escallops, or, a fleixr-de-lis for difference, for Dumaresq : Sable, three
dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : Argent, three trefoils, slipped, sable, for Payn :
Gules, four fusils, conjoined in fesse, a crescent in base, for difference, for De Carteret :
Ermines, a cross-bow, in pale, drawn and charged with an arrow, all argent, for Larbalestier :
Or, three cherries, gules, stalked, vert, for Messer\'y : Or, on a che\Ton, vert, three hawks'
heads, erased, of the field, for Crafford : Azure, a che\Ton between three eagles, argent ; a
chief, gules, fretty of the second, for Gaudin : Ai-gent, a double-headed eagle, displayed, wings
inverted, sable, armed, gules, a mullet for difference, for Collas. Impaling : Ai-gent, a beehive,
surrounded with bees, all ppr., for Beatty.
Crest : A falcon, belled, rising, ppr.
Motto : Essorant victorieux.
Arms (as borne by Edward Nicolle, Esq.) : Azure, a fesse between three Hons' heads,
erased, argent, charged with as many martlets, sable. On an escutcheon of pretension : Or, a
lion, rampant, sable, for Matthews.
Crest : A lion's head, erased, sable, charged with a fesse, argent, and thereon three
martlets, as in the arms.
Motto : Veritas.
Pflrigrfe of i^icoUr.
GuiLLE Nicolle, b. circa 1500. Thomas Nioolle=Mary, d. of John Dirvault.
I
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[ I Thomas Nicolle =Blesotte, a. of ... John. Jenette.
Nicholas NicoUe = Susan, d. of ... John. [
I I ^1 I Peter, son of
I I j i f Matthew Nicolle. Thomasse. Edmund Nicholas
Peter Nicolle. Mary. CoUette. Servaise. Margaret. NicoUe. NicoUe.
Thomasse, d. of Richard
Jenette, d. of Edmund Clement Roger Le Breton. Giifard.
Thomas NicoUe. Machon. Triguel. =
300
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Nicholas NicoUe, Clement.
m. 1597. =
Mary, d. of
PhUip Le Ray.
Peter NicoUe, Nicholas.
d. 1682.
Jane, d. of .
Hodou.
Richard.
Snsan, d. of
John Mallet.
I I ,
Thomas. Elizabeth.
Thomas NicoUe =Rachel, d, of Martin Morel of
I Grouville.
John
Godfray.
Margaret NicoUe, only d. and h., m. 1654.
1. Elizabeth, d. of = Thomas NicoUe=2. Mary, d. of ...
JuhnBrayeorBree. I I De Ste. Croix.
I
Richard.
I
a d. and h.
Thomaa
Bisson.
Rev. Peter D'Assigny, Rector successively 1. Mary, d. of Jacob=Henry NicoUe,= 2. Elizabeth, Mary NicoUe.
of S. Helier and S. Martin.
Poingdestre.
John Nicolle=Sarah, eld. d. and h. of Clement
Dumaresq, by Margaret, d. and h.
of Edward Crafford, or Crayford,
relict of Richard De Carteret.
b. 1636. d. of PhiUp
Laurens. 1. PhiUp Lerrier.
John NicoUe, Constable of S. Martin, m. 1634. Sarah. Margaret.
I
Henry NicoUe.
2. Nicholas Le Va-
vasseur-dit-DureU.
Thomas.
PhUip.
Mary.
Mary, d. of Nicholas Mallet.
T
Richard
Mallet.
Jane, d. of . . . Laurcng.
I Rachel, d. of Jolui
Henry ... Mauger. Romeril.
Nicolle.
Elizabeth.
John
Hughes.
I I I i I Henry Nicolle =Raehel, d. of Matthew Le Cras.
John Nicolle, b. 1644, m. 1681. Clement, Ann. Mary. Elizabeth, |
d. 1671.
b. 1G46.
Jaue, d. of Philip Le Bastard.
Henry Nicolle, =: Ann, d. and h. of Richard Le Feuvro,
Capt.R.J.M.A. 1 Seig. of the fief Luce De Carteret.
I
Rachel.
1. John Baudains.
John NicoUe, b. 1683,
m. 1706.
= Frances, d. of Clement
Machon.
I
Jane.
Martha,
b. 1689.
Anne NicoUe, only d. and h. ^John Langlois.
(Vide Ped. of
Langlois.)
2. Charles Gruchy.
I
1. Jane, d. of Hugh Hooper = John NicoUe, b. 1710=2. Sarah, d. of John Gallichan, b. 1722.
I
John NicoUe.
I
Clement.
I I
George. Francis, 1743.
Ann, d. of John Herman.
I
Ehzabeth NicoUe, b. 1765 = Clement Bailhache, Jurat R.C.
I
John NicoUe, b. 1779, Naval Cadet, H.M.S. " Bravo," oh. innupt.
Joshua, b. 1780, Naval Cadet, oh. innupl.
1. Mabel, d. of ... Romeril, = Philip NicoUe — 2. Mary, d. and eventual
d. 1675, J.p.
h. of Thomas Bandiuel,
and co-representative of
the fanuly of StaUenge.
I I I I I
Peter. Nicholas. Jane, Mary. Sarah,
b. 1634. b. 1637. b. 1638.
1,
Rachel Nicolle, d. and h., m. 1667-
I
Ehzabeth.
Clement Machon.
Philip NicoUe, b. and d. 1679. Philip, b. 16S0 = Mary, d. and h. of Abraham Herman. Mary, b. 1697 = Bartholomew Ahier, of S. Saviour.
I
I
Philip NicoUe, b. 1746, Capt. R.J.M., and = Eachel-EHzabeth, eld. d. and co-h. of PhiUp NicoUe of Les Mares, and co-
Constable of S. Martin.
representative of the families of MaUet, Cornet, Dumaresq du Morin,
De Bagot, Payn, De Carteret of LongueviUe, Larbalestier, Messervy,
and Crafford.
I
Mary, b. 1743.
Philip CoUas, of
Les Carriercs.
I
PhUip NicoUe, b. 1772,
Capt. H.M. 56th Regt..
d. at S. Domingo,
s.p.
I
John, b. 1775,
Capt. R.J.M.,
Constable of
S. Martin,
o.s.p.
Edward, b. 1784, M.R.C.S. Eng. Francis, Capt. R.J.M.
Mary, d. and h. of John Gaudin,
and co-representative of the famUy
of CoUas, of Les Carriferes.
Elizabeth, d. of Ehas
Bertram, o.s.p.
I
George, Capt.
R.J.M.
Susan, d. and
h. of ...
Dupont.
I
Rachel, b. 1777-
Philip Gaudin,
Constable of S.
Saviour.
i I I
Edward NicoUe, PhlUp, Frederick,
b. 1812, d. 1827. b. 1816, b. 1820,
ob. oh.
Frederick, M.R.C.S. Eng., b. 1824. Edwtird, Mary, b. 1814,
Laura, 2nd d. of the Rev. Frederick Beatty.
I
ob. Juv.
d. 1858.
Amelia,
b. 1818,
ob.
I
AmeUa.
John MaUet.
Francis-Charles
Gruchy, Capt. R.J.M.
I I ' I III II I
Frederick-Ernest Edwin-Henry. Ernest-S. John, Laura-Olivia, Mabel, Emily-Catherine, Florence, Claudia-Agatha, Constance,
NicoUe, b. 1848, d. 1850. b. 1851. " b. 1853. b. 1850. b. 1855. b. 1856. ob.juv. b. 1859. b. 1861.
©EOR^E ORftRGE. ESQUIRE .
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AN ABMOEIAL OF JERSEY. 301
(^rantje.
HE family of Orange has, for some centuries, enjoyed a respectable position in Jersey,
and has become connected, by marriage, with several of the best families in its native
island.
One of its most prominent living members is Geoege Orange, Esq., Deputy-
Greffier of Jersey, and Captain R. J. M.
Arms (as borne by George Orange, Esq.) : Or, a bugle-hom, stringed and wolled, gules.
Quartering : Per chevron, giiles and or ; in chief two mullets, argent, a crescent for difference,
for PiPON : Gules, a sand-glass, surmounted of a cross patce-fitchec, argent, between six mullets,
in pale, or, for Renouf : and, Azure, a fleur-de-lis, or ; on a chief, argent, a hon, passant,
guardant, gules, for Le Brocq.
Crest : A bugle-horn, as in the arms.
Motto : What God wylls.
^acliiffrcc of (I^raiige.
Richard Okange, ra. 1574 = Mary, d. of Giiille Bisson, d. 1583.
\
I I I
Mark Orange, b. 1577, d. 1637 = EHzabeth, d. of ..., d. 1C38. Philip, b. 1583. Jaue, b. 1580, m. 1006, d. 1661 = Thomas SeaW.
John Orajige, b. 1609, m. 1635 = Richarde, d. of Brelade Martel, d. 1671.*
I
I i ' I I
Thomas Orange, b. 1630, = Mary, d. of ... Le Mark, b. 10-10-1, = Sarah, d. of .. Le PhiHp, b. 1047, m. 1676. John, b. 1652, m. 1677.
m. 1677. I Cornn, d. 1726. m. 1670. | Bas. d. 1727-8.
I I I Ehzabeth, d. of ... Des- Thomasse, d. of ... Des-
JohnOrange,b. 1680, = Mary, d. of ... Mary, b. 1678. landes, d. 1737. landes, d. 1716.
m. 1719-20. I Da Feu. = =
Mary Orange, b. 1711. I 1
I I III
JohnOrange,b. 1679, o.s./). Phihp, b. 1680-1, 0.S.J9. EUzabeth, b. 1682, m. 1701. Mary, b. 1684. Jane, b. 1686.
Carteret Dean.f John Bensted,:j: John Meeservy,
m. 1714. b. 1709.
Philip Orange, John, b. Elizabeth, b. 1079 = Phihp Janyrin. Jane, b. 1687 = Edward Orange, Mary, b. = William Chepmell.
b. 1670. 1082. m. 1724-5. 1692.
Edward Orange, b. 1678, = Jane, d. of Philip John, b. 1687, = Mary, d. and h. of Mary, b. 1684-5. Ehzabeth, b. = John Guppy.
m. 1724-5. Orange. m. 1724-5. | Edward Pipon. 1689-90. m. 1711.
John Orange, = Margaret, d. and h. of John Renouf, and of Mary Eobichon, his wife, m. 1767. §
b. 1725-6. I
1 II 11
John Orange, b. 1768, = Ann, d. and h. of Edward, b. 1770, Ann, b. 1772 = Gamier de la Fosse, Mary, b. 1777. Margaret, b.
Constable of S. Brelade. Edward Le Brocq. o.s.p. of Alen<;on, France. 1780.
John ilerault.
0. s. p. James Bollciue.
* Ajims of Maktel, of Normandy : Or, three mallets, gules. Wilham Martel, Seigneur of BacqueviUe, was constituted hearer of the
Oriflamme of France, in 1414, and was killed at Agiuconrt, 1415.
t Arms of Dean : Argent, a fesse, dancctte, between three crescents, gules.
J Arms of Bensted : Argent, on a fesse, sable, a saltire between two martlets, or.
§ Arms of Robichon, of Alsace ; Argent, on a momid, vert, a doe, trippant, s;ible.
q q
302
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
I
II I III I I I I
John Orange, Edward, Rev. Thomas, b. 1801, Rector of S. Laureuce. Philip, b. 1805, d. 1810. George, b. 1810. Arm, Mary, Louisa,
b. irae. b. 1798. — b. irw. b.isu. b.i8i9.
1. Mary, d. and h, of John Le Poitevin-dit- James, b. 1807, d. 181.5. Mary, d. of
Ann, d. of Elizabeth, Le Rous. — Francis Peter Geo. Francis-
Moses Gibaut, d. and co-h. Charles, b. 1811, 06. j«i>. Pirouet. Briard. Balleine. Edward
Constable of of Daniel, 2. Esther- Jane, d. of John Luce, Constable
S. John. Hamou. of S. Lnurence, audrelict of HelierLanglois, s.p.
I
Lace.
I I. I I I I I I
Edwin Orange. Francis. James. Geffrard. Alice. Emma. Clara. Other children,
oh. juv.
Thomas Orauge, oh. Mary-Aiin, solo heir = Philip- Jour Jaiu Payn.
EUzabeth, oh.
I
Jauo, uh.
I
Edward Orange.
Daniel.
George, Commis-au-Greffe R.C., and Capt. R.J.M.
John Orange = Mary, d. of Andrew Le Brocq. Moses = Sophia, d. of Philip Le Ruez.
I
John-Herbert Orange.
I
CHfford.
I
PhiHp.
I
James.
Ami.
m.
-.— ^m— ' °fe.s**ry^
.MOLS OF rAV.V, U.V THE M.\N0K-HUU8E UF LES I'ltES, JER.SEV.
iERHAPS — nay certainly — this name is tlie most ancient kno-wn in Western Europe.
Long prior to the age of genealogical research, before the Saxons had invaded
]3ritain, and before the Scandinavians had occupied Neustria, families or septs
l)earing the generic name of pHrimii, descendants of the veterans of old Rome, aro
mentioned l)y classic writers. So early as a.d. 350, says the Abbe Fleury, in his "Eccle-
siastical History," the Emperor Constantine, when departing from Antioch against Maxentius,
assembled his troops, and designated by this title those soldiers of his army who had not
received baptism. The early Norman Eomaunts mention as I'aijani that sturdy remnant of the
Romans, which, preferring its owir picturesque mythological dogmas, held aloof from the
proselyting influence of the Catholic missionaries, whose sway the Scandinavians themselves
acknowledged so soon and so implicitly. The I'dijani, so termed from the pdiji, or villages, they
inhabited, were thus designated by the early Christian writers as those who, after Christianity
had become the prevailing religion of towns, still adhered to the old Roman faith. ^' The ihujI
Vide Ifidorus, viij. lo, ct Cod. ThcoJ. xvi. lo.
MiMCif^ ^iitis mill., (FSiiimo;
.y^.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 303
themselves were known as divisions among which the country-people of the Eoman nation
were divided as early as the time of Servius TuUius, b.c. 678, and continued to be so doNvn to
the latest period of the empire.* In France, and especially in Neustria, the dialect and
manners of the Pagani continued distinct to a much later time than is generally supposed.
They practised rites and celebrated festivals quite peculiar to themselves, the most famous of
the latter being the annual feast of the Pa(janalia.\ Dom. Ambroise Pelletier, one of the most
careful and intelligent genealogists of France, deduces the word (imtUhovimc from Pagan, for as
he says, " Quelques-uns difent que le mot vient de Gentil ou Payen, a caufe que les anciens Francois
qui conquirent la Gaule, qui etoit deja Chretienne, furent appelles Gentils par les originaires, parce
qu'ils etoient encore Payens."]: It would appear, doubtless, that the greatest personages and the
greatest feats of this ancient race lived and were performed before the days of historic record,
and that it was entering upon old age — hale and vigorous it may be, but still old age — when the
great houses of the feudal period were first acquiring a local habitation and a name.
From this origin, beside which the most pretentious Norman or Saxon pedigree dwarfs
into insignificance, came the Norman family of Payen. It may be imagined that the con-
servatism of this remnant of the Roman nation had gradually given way, and that its members,
by embracing the new faith, became eligible for the elevated positions their bravery and
intelligence demanded. In 1117, Thibaut Payen, afterwards Count of Gisors, was, by the
mutual consent of Louis VI. of France and Henry I. of England, entrusted with the guardian-
ship of that town, then the key of Normandy, as the most distinguished and trustworthy warrior
of the two nations. In 1118, Hugh de Payen, with Geoffrey d'Adhemar, founded the order of
Knights Templars. In 1170, Bertrand de Payen rendered homage to Louis VII., for seventy
fiefs which he held of that monarch. Another of the name, of the branch of Montmuse, was
the lieutenant of Pdchard Cceur-de-Lion. In the right aisle of the Chapelle du Tresor at Mont
S. Michel are sculptured the name and arms of one of the house, who, in 1400, defended this
fortress against the English. De la Chesnay-des Bois, from whose great armorial these facts,
among a multiplicity of others, are culled, says, " Les plus anciens Auteurs de Normandie font
mention des Seigneurs du nom de Payen, qui tous ont tenu le plus haut rang dans cette province."
Indeed, in the first visitation of nobility and arms made in France by the order of Louis XL,
in 1463, Jean Payen, Seigneur de Campagnolles, proved himself, conjointly with several of his
relatives, descended from the family of Vassy, an offshoot of the Ducal House of Normandy.
French genealogists reserve the superlatives of their flowery language to describe the antiquity,
the possessions, and the deeds of the Payens, and of the Paynels, who derive their origin from
an identical source.
* FiJe T)\ony^\as,\v. 15.
t " Baronius expliquant la signification de ce mot (Payen), dit que du temps des Empereurs Chretiens, ridoliitrie
commenyant a disparoitre, et meme n'etre pas plus permise dans les villes, les Gentils, opiniatres a ne point discontinuer
leurculte et leurs ceremonies, se retiroient dans leurs maisons ii la campagne, ou ils en fasoient une profession libre avec
les campagnards attaches a la superstition de leurs fetes, qu'ils appelloient Ffsta Paganalia, ou Fericf Paganicce,
desquelles Varron fait mention." — -Vide ^Foreri, vol. VII. p. 97.
X Vide L'Armorial general de la Lorraine et du Barrois, par k- R. P. Dom. Ambroifc Pclleticr, Religieux BenediiHn,
Nancy, 1763.
Q Q 2
304 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Besides the emineut position the house held in Normandy, there was scarcely a province
in France, or a French genealogical work written,* which did not contain a family of the name,
with local variations of spelling, such as Paganus, Pagan, Payan, Payen, Payeus, Paieu, PajTi,
Pain, and Pa}aiel, each equally remarkable for the length of its lineage, the valorous deeds of
its members, and their share in the policy and statecraft of each century. f
In Flanders, according to Palliot's edition of Geliot's " Indice Ai-morial," the family of
Paynes was one of the most celebrated in that country.|
In Spain, as well as in Portugal, the house of Payana held a prominent position among
the grandees of these countries, and was among the earliest and most eminent of the feudatories
of the Castilian kings. §
* For the histories and arms of the various branches of the Payen family in Franco, and on tlie continent generally,
i-('f/e Dcs Bois, " Dictionnaire de la Noblesse do France." Handiquot-de l!lancourt, " Nobiliare de Picardie." Laine,
" Archives Genealogiqnes et Histoire de la Noblesse de France." Marc Viilson, "la Science Heroi'que." Vallet de
Viriville, " Gestes des Nobles Franfoys." J. Chevillard, "Nobiliare de Normandie." Louis de la Roque, "Armorial
de la Noblesse de Languedoc." A. de Froidefont, " Amuiairo de la Noblesse du Perigord." Pithou-Curt, " Histoire
do la Noblesse du Comte Yenaissin." Caumartin, " Histoire de Champagne." Claude Fanehet, " Origines des
Chevaliers, Armoiries, et Hc'raults " J. B. Papon, " Histoire Generale de Provence." Waroquier, " Devices
Heraldiques." O'Gilvy, "Nobiliare de Guienne et de Gascoigne." J. B. Bouillet, "Nobiliare d'Auvergne."
L'Herniite-Souliors, " Inventaire de I'Histoire Genealogique de la Noblesse de Touraine." Palliot, "La Vraye et
parfaite Science des Armoiries." P. Moreau, "Tableau des Armoiries de France." T. Boisseau, " Proniptuaire
Armorial." Pelletier, "la Nourrituro de la Noblesse." H. de Bara, " le Blason des Armories." Siebmacher,
" Wappenbuch." Rietstap, "Armorial General de I'Europe." A. Favin, " Le Theatre d'Honneur." Viton de
S. Allais, " Armorial de la Noblesse de France." Moreri, " Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique." D. Blondel,
" GenealogiEe Francicse plenior assertio." A. Boudin, " Histoire Genealogique du Musee des Croisades." P.
Menestrier, " La nouvelle methode raisonnee de Blason." Nostradamus, " Histoire et Chronique de Provence."
f Arms of Pagan, of Languedoc : Azure, four bars, argent ; over all, two lions, passant, sable. Cue.st : A hare,
erect, ppr. Motto : Fortior pugnavi. Supporters : Two hares, ppr.
Arms of Pagany, of Florence : Or, two bars, azure.
Arms of Pagany, of Nivernais : Or, t^YO lions, affronte, azure, supporting with their fore paws, a helmet, full-
fronted, ppr., surmounted of a fleur-de-lis, gules.
Arms of Payan, of Provence : Azure, a chevron, or, between three estoiles, argent.
Arms of Payan, of Dauphine. As the preceding.
Arms of Payan, of Toulouse : Barry, or and azure ; a chief ermine ; the whole within a bordure of Aujou, Sicily,
and Jerusalem, of eight pieces.
Arms of Payen, of Normandy : Argent, three roundles, sable, the first charged with a rose, or. Crt.st : A Savage,
ppr. Motto : Li arduis fortior. Suitorters : Two Savages, ppr. These arms are borne with variations by the Houses
of Vassy, De La Riviere, and others derived from the Dukes of Normandy.
Arms of Payen, of Lorraine. Martin Payen was ennobled by Letters-Patent of Rene, King of Jerusalem and Sicily,
Dulcn of Aujou and Bar, in 1475. He bore, gyronny of four; in chief and base, barry, or and gules; in flanche,
azure. The bordure in the arms of Payan, of Toulouse, would seem to point to this grant.
Arms of Payen, of Champagne : Gules, a chevron, or ; in chief, two crescents, argent.
Arms of Payen, of Artois : Or, an eagle displayed, vert, membered and beaked, gules ; on a canton of the last,
three bars, vairy.
J Arms of Paynes, of Flanders : Or, five fusils in fesse, gules.
§ Vide " Nobilario (ienealogico de los Reyes y Titulos do Espana, por Alouso Lopez de Haro. Fu Madrid, ano
jiurxxii. \'iil<' Stenima R(>ginm Lusltanicum. Jac Wilhclm Luhuf, Amsterdaui, 170S.
Arms of Payana, of Spain : Barry, or, and azure.
Arms of Payana, of Portugal. The same arms ; on a canton, gules, a castle, triple-towered, or.
AN AEMOEIAL OF JERSEY. "05
In Italy, Lonis the Great, King of Hungary, conceded to the Chevaher Galeotto Pagana,
and to all his descendants, a shield, bearing as bordure the arms of France and Jerusalem.
This was a reward for the services rendered to that monarch when he invaded Italy to avenge
the murder of his brother Andrew, King of Naples. Galeotto Pagana, in the proofs of his
nobility rendered on this occasion, traced his descent from the great Norman source, and
included, among his lineal ancestors, the famous Pagano de Pagana, who settled in Italy from
Normandy, in 1084." The House of Pagini was inscribed in the Golden Book of the Nobles of
Milan, and the members of the family of Pagany are recorded among the most ancient of the
Florentine nobility, f
In the Netherlands, upon the authority of Boisseau, the family of Paisne is second to none
in all the requisites of nobility. I
In England, knights severally named Payns,§ Fitz-Payn, and Paynel,{| were with William
the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Several of the descendants of these warriors received
summons to Parliament, and became Peers of the Eealm ;ir though the issue of all these barons
is extinct in the male line. The barony of Fitz-Paj^n is vested in the Percy family, and its
bearings form one of the principal quarterings in the shield of that lordly house. As an
instance of the distinction and position enjoyed by the Pajiie family in Great Britain, it may
be noted that Berry, in his " Encyclopaedia Heraldica," records no less than forty -three coats-
of-arms boi'ne by various of its branches. This far exceeds the total number of armitjcri in
families bearing the commonest and most widely-spread English surnames.''*
* Vide L'Armi overo iusegne de' nobili Scritto dal Signer Giliberto Campanile. In Napoli, 1510. Vide Teatro
Ai-aldico da L. Tettoni E. F. Saladini, vol. VIII.
I Vide idem.
J Vide Boisseau, " Promptiiairc Ai'morial," Paris, 1658.
§ Vide " The Brompton Chronicle," quoted by Stow, Leland, and others.
II Vide Fuller's " Church History," and other authorities, in which occur a transcript of the so-called Battel Abbey Iioll.
^ Banks, in his " Dormant and Extinct Baronage," mentions the names of Fitzpayn, Paganel of Dudley and of
Bahuntune, Painell of Drax and of Hoo, Kent, with Paynel of Littleton, of Tracynton, and of Otteleye, all Barons of
Parliament.
** A humorous writer in "Notes and Queries," of January 10, 1863, thus soliloquizes on the variations in spelling
of this name : " The corruptions and contractions in all tongues are dreadfully puzzling to the uninitiated. And the
mediawal literati who could sign their names, and not simply put a x, were no great orthographers. In the numberless
passages of his ITistori/ of Dorset, where Hutchins mentions Fitzpaine, the name is never spelt twice the same. It is
much like the riddle of a wig — sometimes with a head, sometimes without a head ; sometimes with a tail, sometimes
without a tail ; and sometimes without either. So diversely were the letters placed to compose this word. The
' haughty English ' of medisevalism was somewhat improved after the Reformation. Henry VIII. wrote Payne. Pcnii
came in at the Restoration, with Charles II. The Augustan age in England varied the letters again. A courtly wit.
writing to a fair lady of this name, who hail sent to inquire for his health, answered —
C i
'Tis true I am ill, but I must not complain.
For he never knew pleasure that never knew Pain I'
This was in the reign of Queen Anne. The first two Georges were poor scribes, and their German text was illegible.
With third George came the French Revolution, and The Age of Reason of that notorious radical, Tom Paine. So he
spelt his name, and here I lay down my — pen. Qdeen's G.^rdess." (Rev. Richard Cutler.)
806 AN AKMOIilAL OF JERSEY.
Nor arc the deeds aud names of this family less celebrated on the western shores of the
Atlantic. In America, as will be seen by the annexed extracts from " The Paine Family
Register, " the name has been kuo^ii from the period of the first colonization of the States, and
there its members have been noted, as in Europe, for their loyalty and patriotism, have done
good service, and have acquired fame and wealth, both before and after the disjunction of these
colonies from the English Crown. '•'
In Jersey, amongst the primeval Norman settlers are found Seigneurs and other high officials,
* Vide " The Paine Family ricgister, or Gi^iiealoyioal Xutcs and Queries." Edited by Homy D. Paine, M.D.,
Albany, N.Y., 1857-9.
" All these names, viz., Payne, Payn, Paine, and Pain, may readily be traced to the same origin, and are doubtless
derived from the same Latin word — Paganus. Such, probably, is also the case with other names found in old English
Records, as Paynell, Paignell, Paynin, etc., but seldom seen now. The transition from Pagan to Payne or Paine, will
seem more probable when it is remembered that by old writers it is constantly written Paien or Payen, and also Painim,
us found in Chancer, Robert of Gloucester (Bodleian, Harleian, and Cottonian Collections), with other fathei's of
English literature." Part I.
" It has been stated that General .John Payne's mother (Miss .Jennings) had a brother and sister who came to this
country with her, all under the charge of some English nobleman (possibly Lord Fairfax, with whom it is said by some,
our ancestor, William Payne, came), and that a brother of theirs, left in England, died many years since, leaving' a large
fortune in the hands of trustees, until the principal and interest should amount to some forty or fifty millions of dollars,
when they were to advertise for his descendants, and those of his family who could be found. I heard that such advertise-
ment had been made, and am of opinion that if any of the Payne family have any claim to this legacy, it is the heirs of
this John Payne."
Colonel Devall Payne was born January 1, 1704, in the county of Fairfax, Virginia, within seven miles of
Alexandria. He was the son of William Payne, whose paternal ancestor accompanied Lord Fairfax from England, when
he came over to colonize his grant in Virginia. At the time General Washington was stationed in Alexandria, as the
colonel of a British Regiment, before the war of the Revolution, an altercation took ]")lace in the Court House yard, between
him and Mr. Payne, in which Mr. Payne knocked him (Washington) down. Great excitement prevailed, as Payne was
known to be firm, and stood high, and Washington was beloved by all. A night's reflection satisfied Washington,
however, that he was the aggressor, and in the wrong; and the next morning, he, like a true and magnauiniuus hero,
sought an interview with Payne, which resulted in an apology from Washington ; a warm and lasting friendship between
the two, formed on mutual esteem, was the result. During the revolutionary war, whilst General Washington was on a
visit to his family, Mr. Payne, with his son Devall, went to pay his respects to the great American chief; Washington
met him at some distance from the house, took him by the hand, and led him into the presence of Mrs. Washington, to
whom ho introduced Mr. Payne as follows : — " My dear, here is the little man of whom you have heard me often speak,
who had the courage to knock me down in the Court House yard, in Alexandria — bi(j as I am .'"
'• Timothy Paine and Sarah Chandler, his wife, not only feared God, but honoured the king. They belonged to
I'amilies often associated together in the remembrance of the ])resent generation, as having adhered through the wavering
fortunes and final success of the Revolution, devotedly and consistently to the British Crown. {President John Adams'
Diai-ii and Correspondence, ^-c. Lincoln's History of Worcester. Willard's Address to the Bar of Worcester Co.) The
- residence of this branch of the Paine family at Worcester, may perhaps be regarded as the patriarch of any now belonging
to the race. ' Hie illius arma, hie currus fuit,' and is to-day. The house was built long before the Revolution, and has
afforded shelter to five generations of the family. It has had, but has long outlived, the reputation of being haunted.
Higher up Lincoln-street, and north of the Lincoln Mansion, is ' The Oaks,' the fine old county seat of the Paine family.
My father told me it had never changed within his knowledge. It was Timothy Paine, if I remember rightly, who first
located himself there : he held various public offices, and before the Revolution was appointed Councillor to the Koyal
Governor. The people took a more patriotic view of the matter than he did, gathered around his house in great nundiers,
;in<l thus induced him to relinquish his appointment. My father said he never knew Mr. Paine, but that he knew his son,
l»r. \\ illiam Paine ; that he was in England when the war broke out, and for some reason, which I do not remember,
did not return home, but joined the British army in the capacity of surgeon. After the war was over, however, he
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whose names are written, indifferently Payeii, Paien, and Payn.* Hugh Payen, Yalvasor and
Jurat, is one of the first officers of the Royal Court of Jersey on record, and from that period to
AP.MS OF PAYX OS THE KEYSTOXE OF TriE CnEAT ARCH AT LES PUES ilANOR.
reUinicd home, and in some way regained possession of liis confiscated estate, wliich has been in the Paine family ever
since, a part of which is the splendid hill now covered with wood, wliich lies cast of the house, known as the Hermitage,
and which will, one day, be a fortune of itself." — Carl's Tour, Worci'sler Palhtdium. Part III.
" William, eldest of the ten children of Timothy Paine and Sarah Chandler, graduated at Harvard College, Cam-
bridge, in 17G8. His name stands the second in a class of more than forty, when they were arranged according to the
dignities of families." — Allen's Biograjihicnl Dktionarj of the most eminent persons deceased in X. America.
" Some recent Philadelphia papers announce that on the next anniversary of the declaration of Independence, the 4th of
July, a new order of knighthood, called the Order of Freedom, will be established, and the installation take place in
Philadelphia. Of this order, the Patron was S. Louis, the Chief the President (for the time being), and the
Genealogist, Mr. PAYyE."—MassacJiuseffs Spi/, June 12, 1783. Part IV.
" In the days when the degree of Esquire lent dignity to the title of Honourable ; when the Paines, attired in velvet
coats, black satin small-clothes, silver-buckled shoes, laced ruffles, and powdered perukes, sat in the Royal Council of
the Province (Worcester), endeavouring there to stem the tide of revolution, which was about to sweep away, for ever,
the ancient landmarks of aristocracy and monarchy, with which they were identified, and which they so much revered ;
when the Chancellors, robed in scarlet gowns, and crowned with flowing wigs, frowned from the supreme bench of the
judiciary, upon the first faint rising of the approaching storm, which was to send them forth, shorn of their ancient, and
now almost hereditary, dignities — exiles, and wanderers, to a foreign land ; in those days Worcester contained but two
thousand inhabitants instead of twenty-five thousand, as it does to-day, and only five carriages. The possession of the
latter was shared by the Paines with their kinsmen and allies, the Chandlers." — Part V.
" For explanation or apology for the poHtical course pursued by the Paine family, at the most interesting period in
their genealogy, and which entailed upon them obloquy and hatred, added to ultimate ruin, and that contempt which
invariably attends failure in an unpopular cause, we must refer, among other authorities, to the pages of the accomplished
historian of their political martyrdom, and the local annals of the town of Worcester. Though eloquently vindicating
their political sentiments, and claims to high personal regard, he nevertheless aflects to believe that their posterity would
blush to acknowledge such an ancestry, when, half-apologetically, he declares that ' it is not for the purpose of wantonly
drawing from oblivion those whose descendants have been among our worthiest citizens, that the names of the Royalists
are mentioned in the following narrative.' Proceeding then to chronicle events, in which the Paine family bore a pro-
minent part, and to ' place loyalty and patriotism in their just contrasts,' as if still willing to believe, in the emphatic
and unadorned phraseology of early patriotism, afterwards exchanged for language of a far more vehement and expressive
character, that ' Every fool icas not a Tory, but every Tory u-as afool." " — Boston Evening Post, August 19, 1777.
" We believe that the Paines of Worcester, acting in their individual case, according to the dictates of reason and
honour, sought to uphold that form of government which they supposed best secures the love of liberty, protected by law,
preserving its people alike from the servitude of despotism on the one hand, and the anarchy of unrestrained freedom on
the other, and, in the words of one of the great masters of the noblest of sciences (Blackstone), which he applied to the
people of his own country, that country itself the most splendid embodiment of the great truth he inculcates, that they
aimed to be ' loyal, yet free ; obedient, and yet independent.' " — Part VIII.
* A local historian, treating of the name, says, " Notons ici, en passant, que du mot latin Paganus, Paganelli,
traduit en Franrais, est venu celui de Payen, qu'on retroiive dans plusieurs documents de I'isle. En retranchant la lettre
e du mot Payen, on en fait Payx, qui est le nom que portent aujonrd'hui les descendans de cctte famille illustre. Des
Anglais ont transpose la kttre e a la fin, et ecrivent Payne.
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the last century, as the follo-sviug long and honourable lists will show, the family has neA'er
lacked representatives in the Chi;rch or State of its native island : —
MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF PAYN JVHO HAVE HELD SECULAR OFFICES IN JERSEK
John Pavn, Bailly of Jerfey 1446''
John Payn, Lieutenant-Bailly of Jerfey . . . . 151 5
Richard Pay N, Attorney-General of Jerfey . . 1532
John Payn, Seigneur of Quetivel, Vicomte of Jerfey 1542 ^^^^1^^.^
Hugh Payen, Valvafor and Jurat of the i.,v,ng Thomas Payn, Jurat of the Royal Court 1483
Royal Court 1200 Philip PaynI ,, 1484
Laurens Payen, Valvafor and Jurat R. C. 1269 Guille Payn, Seigneur ot Samares „ 1487
Ralph Payen ,, ,, . . . 1269 Philipot Payn ,, . . . ,, 1487
Richard Paien .... Jurat R. C. 1274 George Payn, Seigneur of Godeliere „ 1489
Thomas Paien ,, .... ,, 1292 Michael Payn, Seigneur of Ouetivel ,, 1519
Henry Paien ,, ....,, 1292 John Payn ,, 1524
Guille Payn ,, .... ,, 1318 Edward Payn „ 1531
JouRDAiN Payn, Seigneur of Godeliere ,, 1329 John Payn ,, 1533
Raulin Payn ...... ,, 1350 Richard Payn ,, I537
Guille Payn, Seigneur of Samares ,, ,, 1355 Philip Payn „ 1550
Raulin Payn ,, . . . ,, 1430 Edward Payn „ 1618
John Payn ,, . . . ,, 1442 John Payn, Seigneur of la Malletiere ,, 1620
Raulin Payn ,, . . . ,, 1442 Philip Payn ,, 1630
Philip Payn, Seigneur of Samares ,, ,, 1449 Philip Payn, Seigneur of la Mal-
Thomas Payn, ,, ■ ,, 1449 letiere and Sauteur .... ,, 1669
Guille Payn „ 1479 CharlesPayn, Seigneur of lesNiefmes,, 1788
MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF PAYN H'HO HAVE HELD OFFICES IN THE CHURCH. ^„^^^
Sire Guille Payn, Recftor of S. Peter living Sire Peter Payn, Redtor of S. Brelade 1367
(le Defert), Jerfey 1292 Sire Stephen Payn, chaplain and almoner
Sire Henry Payn, affifted at the "Pre- to Henry V.+ HH
cepte d'Aflife " in Guernfey .... 1331 Sire Peter Payn 1509
*SEAL OF JOHN PAYN,
r.AUJ.V OF JEE8EY.
(actual size.)
t " Admitted and ordained by y° Court, in y' caufe of worfhipful man, William Hareby, Bailly."
X Stephen Payn was one of tlio clerks or chaplains of Henry V. (who named and rebuilt
Mont-Orgucil Castle) in the beginning of his reign, and was by that monarch made his Almoner
by Letters-Patent, d.ated IC October, 11 Henry V. (^1414) granting to him all deodands by land or
water throughout the kingdom, and enabling him to collect them by himself or deputies. For
the appointment of these deputies an official seal was required, which is here engraved and des-
cribed. He appears to have accompanied King Henry V. in his expedition to France, and whilst
there was appointed one of the Commissioners to take musters in the city of Lisieux, etc., under
date 11 January, v. Henry V. (1418). He was a legatee under Henry V.'s will, and died 17
August, 1419. The seal, one of the most curious of its class, is vesica-shaped, two inches and
five-eighths high, the field occupied by a gothic canopy, beneath which stands an ecclesiastic,
supporting in his arms the navis ad demosinas (as on the present Lord Almoner's seal), vernacu-
larly termed a " nof," or ship, filled with money, and provided with low wheels, indicating it to
be an offertory vessel, to be passed about to gather contributions. Above the niche are the arms
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LIVING. IIVINC.
Sire Richard Payn, Redtor of S. Ouen 1533 Rev. Peter Payn, Redor of Grouville . 1647
Sire John Payn, fettled in England . . 1538 Rev. Edward Payn, B.A., Reftor of
Sire Ralph Payn ^SS'^ S. Ouen 1676
Rev. Philip Payn, B. A 1600 Very Rev. Francis Payn, M. A., Reftor
Rev. Thomas Payn, Redlor of S. Lau- of S. Martin, and Dean of Jerfey . . 1729
rence 1643 REv.THOMAsPAYN,Red;or of S. Helier . 1830
Rev. Philip Payn, Redor of S. Ouen, living 1839.
In the oldest record possessed of the King's tenants in Jersey, the Extente of 1331, several
entries occur of members of the Payn family, proving it to have then been of consequence and
wealth.* In the subsequent Exkntes, also, several landowners named Payn, are recorded.
The number of fiefs held at various times by members of this hoixse, is perhaps greater
than have ever been possessed by any other family in the island. At different periods they
have been seigneurs of Oulande, la Godeliere, Samares, le Hommet, la Fosse, Burey, Ponterrin,
Gmchy, Montfort, Dielament, les Cras, le Chastelet, GrainviUe, Quetivel, la Malletiere, Sauteur,
les Niesmes, the fief Pa}Ti in S. Helier,f the fief Joui'dain Pajii in S. Laurence, and the fief
Guille Payn in S. Martin, which last alone remains, of all these "extensive possessions," the
property of its ancient o^\aiers.
Abraham Payn, born IGIG, sometime Constable of S. Martin, emigrated with his son to the
neighbouring coast of Devonshire, from causes, it is supposed, connected with the poHtical
troubles of the period. From him descended a family which rendered itself conspicuous by the
zeal with which its members espoused the Eoyalist side at the time of the rebeUion, and to
which belonged Colonel Payne, who succoured, and was the host of, Charles II., after the battle
of Worcester.^ Its chief representative, in the early part of the last century, emigrated to S.
Christopher's, and there attaining wealtli and influence, was rewarded with a baronetcy, an
of Edward tlae Confessor ; somewliat lower, on the dexter side, are the arms of
S. George ; and on the sinister the Royal Arms of the I\jngdom. The bracket
supporting the figure has on it STEPH'S PAYN, and the verge of the seal is
inscribed SIGILLUM. OFFICII. ELEMOSINARIJ. REGIS. HENRICI.
QVINTI. ANGLIE. This seal is now used as the signet of Greatham Hospital.
Durham. — Vide " Journal of the British Archieological Association," vol. XVI..
p. 343. Rymer's " Fffidera," vol. IX.
* " Paroijfe de S. Sauveur. — Richard Payn por : une bouvee .... 8 fols.
Paroijfe de S. He/ier.—Le fief de Godeliere que Jourdain Payn tient main-
tenant, doit por : demy relief quand le cas efchet . . 30 fols tournois.
Paroijfe de S. Ouen. — Auffy notre Sire le Roy a en cette paroifTe d'ancienne
Efchelle des Normans, du temps de Ntre : Sire le Roy Jehan, un fieu appele
d'Oulande, duquel Jourdain Payn tient la moitie, et paye a notre Sire le
Roy d'ancienne Rente par an, appelee ferme, a la fefte S. Paul . 4 fols.
L'ExTENTE des Moulins, Raulin Payn "(entr'autres) jure et fermente dit par
Ton ferment touchant les Mouhns que Notre Sire le Roy a en cette Ifle de Jerfey, tant
en reparation qu'en valeur ainfy qu'il eft plus pleinement contenu ycy dedans, etc."
t The fief Payn extends from Halkett Place to Snow Hill, and from King
Street to Hilgrove Lane.
t F!VZ«"The Naval Chronicle," vol. III.— " After the battle of "Wor-
cester, Charles II. fled, vrith Colonel Payne, to a house on the coast, belong-
ing to the latter, at Ovingdeane, in Sussex; from which coast the King
escaped. The family of the Paynes, being Royalists, were then dispersed:
one branch went to the West Indies, and, settling at S. Christopher's, were instrumental in gaining over to the English
that part of the island, which had hitherto belonged to the French."
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SEAL OF STEPHEN PAYN, temp. HENEY V.
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AN ABMORIAL OF JERSEY.
honour which was repeated in the person of
eminent niemher of the same family became
The Very Reverend Francis
fordshire, and Dean of Jersey,
his countrymen during the last
piety, together with the influ-
Court, rendered his long life a
whom he came into contact, f
presented amongst other mem-
EsQ., of the Colombier, B. Lau-
Capt. R.J.M., and Constable of
another representative of this branch, while a third
a peer of the realm."
Payn, Rector of Swerford, Ox-
was one of the most notable of
century. His erudition and
ence he possessed at the English
pleasure and a benefit to all with
In Jersey the family is re-
bers, by Francis-Abbott Payn,
rence, and by Philip Payn, Esq.,
S. Ouen.
Arms (as borne by Francis-
three trefoils, slipped, sable, a
tering : Ai-gent, an eagle, dis-
slipped, sable, for Badier :
sable, a crescent for difference.
Franciscus Payn
Decanus Insulae de
JERSEY.
A FAC-SIMILE OK THE BOOK-I'LiTE OF
DEAN PAYN.
Abbott Payn, Esq.): Argent,
mullet for difference. :[ Quar-
played, between three trefoils,
Ai'gent, three trefoils, slipped,
for Payn : Sable, three eagles.
* Tlie document, by which this Abraham Payn proved his descent from the Jersey family, has been unfortunately
lost. A similar document, by which certain other members of the same f.amily asserted their insular origin, has been
given me by an insular antiqu.ary, and is here given as a literary curiosity of tlie period : —
" Omnes pntes Iras Infpe£turis Vifuris vel auditur'' Helerius decarteret fcutifer baillivus Infule de Jerfeyo fub
Illuflrifs. Diia Maria dei gra Anglic Francie et Hibernie Regina fidci Deft'f et in terra fub .... fupremo
capite faluP. Copuit corfi nobis apud fvm Heleri'? Nicollaus payn tarn jn fuo noTe ([, noie Yvonis payn fris ejs
nautorum i prefcntia mora trahentfi infra Regnu Anglic Supplicans Diiflus Nicollaus tarn in fuo noie q noie
Di6li Yvonis fris fui ut ex nro officio filie Iras nriis teftimoniales certificato . . largireiii quib3 Iris toties quoties
probare pofTet predic" Nicolau'i e'' Yvonum filios Helerii payn ac petroniUe . . . ej^ De parochia Divi Laurentii
nati e'? oriiidi jn ifula De Jerfeyo I Didfa prochia. Et poft aud. fua fupplicand carit .... filie coctfle . . ut quos
tefles hujufce rei cognofcendi gra corfi nobis adduccret huic eft qi^ predidlus Nicolhif payn et frater ei^ duodecem
vir . . . prdcc Infule cora nobis ut dicitur coparere fecit quofd parentes quoitl vicinos necnon amicos e? omnes
fide dignos SCI3 Dinn Ludovicu gybault Heleriu haniptonne Johannei eftur Nicollau benoeft Johom maugier
Radulphum giftart . . . bellee Philippfl blampie Servafium Le geyt ThoiTu-i? maugier Johem Luce e? Petrft
benoefl . . . teftes u6 fine afTenfu fufcriptorf juratorf ut moris eft examinati et jurati fuerunt iuper fcm Dei
evangeiiu Depoliierunt didos Nicollau S Yvonum payn natos et orGdos ciTc in eadf ifula baptifatos el
moratos jn predca proch .... Laurentiu et de legitlo matrimonio genitos. Jn cujs rei teflimonifl comune
figillu curie predide Jnfule pntib3 Iris Dignum Duximf appcndend. piitib3 giiof3 viris Laurentift Hamptonne e
Johe Hue predce curie Juratf et hie fubfcriptf Dat apud fcm Heleriu A" D . . milb qiigeno qiiquageo quarto
Die ultima menf3 martii. — Helyer Decarteret, Bally. L. Hamptonne. J. Hue."
t For an elaborate obituary notice of the wife of this divine, vide " Gentleman's Magazine," vol. LXVIII., 1798.
;{ It would apjirar thai llie arms borne by the branch of tlie I'a\ ne I'uuiily in England, deseciuled Ironi that of Jersey,
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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displayed, argent, beaked aud membered, or, for De Barentine : and Gules, four liisils con-
joined in fesse, argent, a crescent in base for difference, for De Carteret. Impaling : Ai-geut,
a chevron between three harrows, sable, for Harvey.
Crest : A woman's head, couped below the shoulders, vested azure, turned up argent,
face ppr., hair or, on her head an antiqi;e crown, of the last.
Arms (as borne by Philip Payn, Esq.) : Ai-gent, three trefoils, slipped, sable, a fleur-de-lis
for difference. Quartering : Argent, a chevi'on, gules, between three mullets, pierced, sable, a
crescent for difference, for Le Feuvre. On an escutcheon of pretension : Argent, three
lozenges, gules, for Arthur. Quai*tering : Gules, an hour-glass, surmounted of a cross-patee-
fitchee, argent, between six muUets, or, for Pienouf.
Crest : As the preceding.
ARMS OF PAYN, WITH OTHEIIS, UNKNOWN, ON A HOUSE AT GROUVILLE, IN WHICH THE ROTAL COURT WAS
HELD AT THE PERIOD OF THE PLAGUE.
were granted by the officers of the College of Arms as a token of their descent from the great Paganus som-ce. The
Hon. Robert Henniker, in his " Origin, Antiquity, and History of Norman Tiles Stained with Armorial Bearings,"
shows that the family of Payen bore a shield or, charged with two lions, passant, gules ; and adds that, this coat is found
in the Great Guard Chamber of William the Conqueror, in the precinct of the Abbey of S. Stephen at Caen, to whicli
the Charter of Henry II. proves members of the family to have been benefactors. Among one of the earhest examples
of private armorial seals which has come down to modern times, is one attached to a deed of the year 1187, and apper-
taining to Gervase De Paganel, which is charged with two lions passant. It is recorded by Dallaway in his " Inquiry
into the Origin of Heraldry," p. 13, section 1. FVom this origin the present Arms of the Payne family evidently are
derived.
SIGNATURES OF VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE PAIT.' FAMILY, ATTACHED TO DOCUMENTS PASSED BEFORE THE
ROYAL COURT OF JERSEY.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Pftiigrce of ^aj)n.
GuiLLE Pain, Jurat R.C., purchased, in conjunction with Eaonl Lem- Jordan Pai'en, or Payn, Jurat R.G., 1331, Seig. of Godelifere, and
priere, the extensive possessions of Philip De Barentine, in 1367. co-Seigneur of Oulaude.
... d. of Geoffrey Bras-de-Fer, Bailly of Jersey.
T
John Payn, Seig. of Samares, and other fiefs.
... d. of William Duniaresq, Seig. of La Haule.
I
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Raulin Payn, Jurat R.C., 1350, of = Mabel, d. and eventual represen-
the Maison du Colombier, S. I tative of William De Barentine,
Laurence. Seig. of Rozel.
Jordan Payn.
I
Sire Peter, Rector of S. Brelade, 1361.
I
Philip Payn, Seig. of Samaras.
Thomasse, d. of Regnauld De
Carteret, Seig. of LonguevUle.
I
John, Lieut. -Bailly of Jersey.
T
{Name iinknowii),
eld. son.
John Payn.
. only d. andh. of...
Raulin Payn, Jurat R.C., 1430.
T
Thomas Payn, living 1450.
T
Mabel Payn, eld. d. and co-h., Margaret, Lady
Lady of Samares. of Rondiole.
John Dumaresq, of Yinclielea- 1. Edward Payn.
de-Baa {Vide Peds. of Duma-
I
Bras-de-Fer, of George Payn, Jurat R.C., Seig.
GrouviUe. of La GodeU^re, in 1489.
Michael, Seig. of Queti-
vel, Jurat R.C., 1519.
resq, of Vincheles de Bas, and 2. John Le Gall^s
of Samaras) . of Surville.
I Guillemette, d. of George Lem-
{Name unknown^, priere, Seig. of Trinity,
only d. and h. —
Payn.
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Sire Ralph Payn. James. Anlbine, eventual h. of the Maison du Columbier.
Margaret.
I
Edward.
Margaret,
youngest d. Mabel, d. and h. of Reg-
and co-h. of na,nld De Carteret, Seig.
Philip Payn, of Longueville.
Seig. of =
Samaras.
I
Julianne.
John, son of Drouet Badier of S. Martin.
Andrew Pener. Robert Bagdale, Mer-
chant, of London.
Johu Payu, Yicomte of Jersey, 154'2, Seig. of Quetivel.
Philip.
Jane = Nicholas Hamptonne.
Catherine.
I
CoUette Payn, eld. d. and co-h., Lady of Quetivel = John Grardener, or Gardner.
( Vide Ped. of Le Maistre of
Quetivel.)
Isabelle = Jolin Le Hardy.
I
John Payn.
Philip Payn.
John Payn.
i
Edward, Jurat E.C., 1618 = Andrie, d. of ...
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Abraham Payn, Constable of S. Martin, m. 1601. John, Jurat R.C., m. 1610. Philip, in orders,
o.s.p.
Susan, d. of Michael Sarre, Seig. of the fief of Mary, d. and h. of Germain
GniUe Payn, in the parish of S. Martin. Le Febvre, Lady of La
= Malletidre.*
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Sarah.
Philip Dumaresq,
of the Morin.
Esther, m. 1605.
Clement Gallie, Con-
stable of S. Saviour.
Anne, m. 1606.
John Nicolle.
* The following marriage-contract given verbatim from the original, is curious — " En contratant alliance et p. mefie de marriage entre JtAN
Payn, fils Edouard, et Marye, fillc de Germayn le Febvre, defFunt, et CoUette Journeaulx, mere et tutrice de lad'» Marie et ce p. le bon confcil et advis
des p. chains parents et amys des DeuU p. ties. Ledit Edward Payn en confideration dud' mariage aincy accorde donna librement a fond' fils la feme et
nombre de mille cfcus foixante s. p.chcun efcu avecqs ung licft et a'p.tenances et authcs meubles qu'on a acouftume de doner en ung bon mariage. Et
quatrc veftes de veflure btrufs et chevaulx le tout a luy eftre bailie et delivre toutesfois et quantes ql en fera befoing. Partie devant la consoma™ du sus
dit mariage fi le cas le Requiert et felon la comodite ql fera necelTaire, et le refte touteffois ql en aura affaire. Aquoy foi'nir et delivrer foblige Icdt
Edouard Payn iur 1' obliga'™ et fournifture de tous fes biens meubles et h"rtaiges p-nts et advenir, faift et accorde le quatorzicme iour du moys de
febvrier. L'an de Grace mill fix cents neuf.
(Signe) " Edouard Payn.
" Richard Dumaresi^.
" CllLLETTE JOURNEAULX."
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
313
I
John Payn, Constable of 1. Sara, d. of = Philip, Jurat R.C.,= 2. Rachel, d.
Grouville, Seig. of
Ponterrin.
Laurens
Hamptonne.
I I
Francis Payn, b. 1678. Mary.
Colonel S. Regt., of HeUer Do
R.J.M. Carteret, Soli-
, citor - General
Rachel. Margaret. '' ' '^'
I
Francis = Elizabeth, d. of Mary, d. 1647.
... Dumaresq. ■
John Le Jeone,
of S. Clement.
I
John Payn = Susan, d. of .
I Bertram.
Elisabeth, d. of Ranlin Amice De Philip Collas, Elias
Robin. Carteret, of the Maison Bertram. I
= de S. Martin. Elizabeth Payn, d. and h. = Peter Marett.
Ann = John Touzel.
I
I
John Tonzel = ... d. of ...
I Falle.
The Very Rev. Francis Payn, M.A.,
Dean of Jersey, b. 1699.
I I
Elizabeth b. 1709. Elizabeth Touzel, only d. = Jordan Payn, of the Maison dn Colombier.
and h. (Kirfe Ped. of Payn of the Colombier.)
John Le Couteur.
Jane, d. of the Rev. Ralph Brideoake, ( Vide Fed. of Le
Archdeacon of Winchester. Couteur of S. John,
^ La Hougue Boete.)
Jane Payn, only d. and h., b. 1734 = The Rev. John Jones, M.A.
I
Abraham Payn, Constable Edward, Seig. of Philip, in orders, John. Ann, m. 1639. Susan, m. 1640. Elizabeth, m. 1644.
of S. Martin, b. 1616. the fief Payn. of the University
of Oxford. John Hamon, Thomas Cabot. John Noel.
Elizabeth, only d. and h. of Ann, d. of ... Cabot.
Daniel Sarre, and co-repre- =
sentative of the families of |
Lempriere, Langlois, and
of S. Ouen.
Le Roub:. (Vide Fed. of Michael Payn, Seig. of the fief Payn, Michael,) Philip, b. 1643.
Lempriere of S. John, La b. 1635, m. 1667. — [ob.juv. —
Hougue Boete.) Edward, } Sarali, d. of C. Machon. Edward.
= Elizabeth, d. of John Messervy, of |
I Anneville.
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Laurence. Andrie.
I
John Payn = Sara, d. of Augustin Le Manquais.
Edward Payn, Seig. of the fief Payn, b. 1668.
Susan, d. of . . . Dufresne.
Abraham, b. 1695.
Michael.
Elizabeth, d. of Lorans Le Bastard.
T
Michael Payn, b. 1696.
I I
Ann.
Elizabeth.
Sarah.
Rachel.
Michael Payn, Seig. of the fief Payn, b. 1702,
ob. innupt.
Edward, h. to his brother, Seig. of the fief Payn, b.
1706, m. 1744.
Elizabeth, d. of Nioolle, and widow of Henry Touzel.
T
Rachel, b. 1708.
John Collas, of the Maison.
dea Carridres.
Edward Payn, Seig. of the fief Payn, b. 1745 = Elizabeth, d. of Philip Nioolle.
I
Michael, b. 1749.
George, b. 1749.
I
Edward Payn, oh. juv.
I
Edward, Seig. of the fief Payn, Capt. R.J.M. = Jane, only d. and h. of Frs. Aubin.
I I M
Edward Payn, Capt. R.J.M., b. 1815. George-Francis, b. 1823, ob. John, b. 1827.
Jane-Elizabeth, ob.
George, b. 1828. EUzabeth-Rachel, b. 1824.
I I „
Frances, b. 1825.
Jane.
I
Abraham Payn, b. 1641, ob.juv. Abraham, b. 1642, tmfgratctt iDtt^ \)is fat^tt to Bcbonsfiitf, on Phihp, b. 1645. Andrea, b. 1635.
account of Ijis strong attachment to tlic Stuart tnjnasty,
anO became t!)c source of tfie famili; to ti)l)icl) bclongetr tfte famous fflolonel APni'ne, tfic fticnti anH I)ost of CTfjarles IE., anli from inftici)
Itcsetnlielj tf)e late malpl) ^aenc, XoxXi iLalitngton '^^ ; tf)c present Sir CTljarlcs^ffiillies ^aonc, Bart. [^ ; Sir aSBilliam ^apne=
ffialtoct, Bart., JW.'P-^SJ ; tjc Sutfjor of il)is motk; bcsiSes otijcr 13tancl;es Sctibet) from ti^c same source.
314
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Pfiiigrrr of papn, of tl)f Colombirr, ^. iLaurmrr, anU of ^. (Bum.
Eelieb Pain, alias Le Nepveu, eld. son of Collas Le Nepvea-dit-Pajii, and Marion liis wife.
Perronelle, d. of Gnille Le Bailly.
T
Nicholas Payn, liviiig 1538.
Philip.
Sire John, a Roman Catholic Priest, settled in England.
Philippine.
Gaillette, d. of
I
Susan Payn, only d. and h.
Nicholas Payn = Philippine, d. of HeUer Le Cras.
I
Jane = Servais Alexander,
1. Philipot Constances. Elias Payn, m. 1658=Jaiie, d. of Peter Laorens.
Nicholas.
Elizabeth.
Mary, m. 1657
■2. ... Gallays.
I John Manger.
Nicholas Payn, settled in London.
Peter Blampied.
I I I 11.11
Elias Payn, Capt. of S. Laurence Bnlwark, m. 1710. Nicholas, Phihp, Capt. Jersey Artillery. Phihppine. Jane. Ehaabeth. Snsan.
• 1). 1663. .
Catherine, eld. d. and co-h. of George Badier, reUct =
of Matthew Dupont, and heiress of the ColombUr, co- [
representatives of the famihes of Payne, De Baren- Mary
tine, and De Carteret of Longueville. Pavn.
Rachel, d. of . . . Le Maistre. Nicholas
= Le Gros.
Moees Charles
Gibaut. Manger.
Philip Payn, Capt. Jersey Artillery = Margaret, d. of ... Le Groa.
Rachel = Henry Le Fenvre,
Philip Payn, b. 1741 = Rachel, d. and h. of Henry Le Fentre.
EUaabeth= De Ste. Croii.
I
Jane = Elias Lnce.
1 III
Philip Payn = Mary, d. of . . . GuiUeatune. Nicholas. John. Elizabeth.
\ ■_
I III
The Rev. Phihp Payn, 35 years Rector of S. Oaen = Jaiie, d. of Daniel Le Geyt. John=Jane, d. of George = Jane, d. of ... Ann.
I I . , . Dorey. I Le Bourdon.
Thomas Pinel.
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Phihp Payn, Esq., Capt. B.J.M., = Mary- Ann, only d. and h. of Charles Arthur, Jane Payn. Ajin. George Payn. PhUip. Ann.
Constable of S. Ouen. | of La TiUe-au-Neven, Lady of le Castelet,
I and co-representatiTe of the family of Benonf.
Alice-Jane Payn, b. 1859.
Ellen-Mary, b. 1860.
I
Jonrdain Payn = Elizabeth, d. and h. of John Tonzel.
I
I
Jane = Edward Le Montais.
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1. Ann, d. of Edward Le Cras = PhLhp Payn, Capt. R.J.M. = 2. Ann, d. of ... Marett. Elizabeth = Charles De Ste. Croix. Ann = Moses Gibaut.
Ann Payn = Richard Le Francis Payn, Capt. = Jane, d. of .
Feuvre. R.J.M. Artillery. I Joumeanx.
Ellzabcth = John-Edward Luce. Mary = Matthew Le Vavasseor-dit-
Noel.
I I I I I I I III
Francis-Abbott Payn, Esq.,=Augnsta-Maria, PhiUp-Jourdain. William. Jane. Selina. Theresa-Elizabeth. Mary-Ann. Jnlia-Ann.
of the Colombier. I d. of . . . Harvey. — — •
I Mary-Ann, d. of Janet, d. of Thomas Ann. . . . Carpenter. Harriet. Peter-
J I Rev. T. Orange. ... Shaw. Harvey. Marett,
Augusta-Frances Payn.
Theresa-Louisa.
I
I
Seig. of
Avranche.
I
Two children, 1864.
Four children, 18G4.
John .^erchard. Esquire.
fiv whn, r/x.^- /'/<,/' /.- /i^.smtal t- Ih- V^rK
AN ABMORI.\L OF JERSEY. 315
HEN the family of Perchard settled in Jersey is uncertain, but the name occurs
among those of the early Norman inhabitants of the island.
Philip Perchard is recorded as one of the jurymen chosen in the parish of S.
Trinity to assess the king's dues therein, in 1331. In 1-142, Jannequin Perchard was
a Jurat of the Pioyal Court ; and in 1527, Michael Perchard was Picctor of S. Saviour.
About the period of the Pie formation, a branch of the family settled in Guernsey ; and, of
this, several members were in the Church. One of them, belonging to the household of
Queen Anne, contributed munificently towards the foundation of the Hospital of S. Peter-Port.
Some members of the Guernsey family settled in London, where Peter Perchard, the last of his
name in England, was Lord Mayor in 1804-5. It is extinct in Guernsey, as well as in London.
The family is represented by John Perchard, Esq., of les Augres.
Arms (as borne by John Perchard, Esq.) : Ai-gent, five lozenges conjoined in fesse, sable.
Quartering : Azure, a chevron, or, between three gillyflowers, ppr., for Robin : Ai-gent, three
lozenges, gules, for Arthur : Ai-gent, on a chief, sable, three lions' heads, erased, or, for
Richardson : Ai-geut, a chevron, gules, between, three mullets, pierced, sable, a crescent for
difference, for Le Feuvre : Azure, two bars, argent, between six bezants, for Coutanche : and.
Argent, an anchor, erect, azure ; on a chief of the last, thi'ee roses of the field, for Gabourel.
Impaling: Sable, a chevron, ermine, between three bulls' heads, cabossed, argent, for Saunders.
Crest : On a mound, vert, a pheasant, ppr.
Motto : En faisant bien.
PtUiffrcr of ^3rrri)aiti, of ^. iHaitiu mxH ^. Ciimti).
John Perchard, living circa 1500.
T
1 I
1. Guillemine, d. of ... = Gautier Perchard = 2. Thomasse, d. of Thomas Le Reposey. Marie = Thomas Moignard.'
CoUette Perchard. | III
Hugh Perchard. John. Elizaheth. Mary.
John Quyney, of London.f
(Kirfe a Deed of Procuration, dated 1594.) Katherine, d. of Julian Noel. t Robert Jenette, John
= of Guernsey. Bilot.
r ~ i i Ti
Thomas Perchard=Mary, d. of... De Quetteville. John, d. 1621=Francis, d. of ... Cabot, d. 1G34. Magdelene=CL Jonmeaulx. EUzabeth.
I 1
Mary.
j n \ I
1. Magdelene, d. of Edmund Godfray,=Thoma3 Perchard,=2.Jane, d. of Michael John, b. 1005. 1 Jane, b. lo99; Ann,
m. 1G13. . - - - . , .»„, , .„„
d. 1638. I Noel, m. 1636. — \ob.juv. d. 1692. b. 1602.
I Hugh. )
Francos Perchard, b. 1637. Andrew Badier.
* Arms of MoiGNARD vel Maignard, of Paris : AsJixe, on a bend, argent, three cinqnefoils, gules.
t Arms of QuiNEY : Argent, a fret, gules ; on a chief, azure, three fleurs-de-lia, or.
% Arms of Noel, of Caen : Azure, a lion, argent ; in chief, three estoilcs of the last.
316
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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John Perchard, 1). 1614, m. 1646, d. 1694^PaTjlyiie, d. of Elias Marett. Thomasse,
(Six crowns were distributed to the poor of I oh.juv.
the parish of S. Martin ou his burial day.) j
Mary,
oh. Juv.
John Perchard, b. 1G49, m. 1690, d. 1707=Esther, d. of No« Noel, d. 1738.
I
Aaron, b. 1053, d. 1876.
Thomasse, b. 1618.
Regnaud Badier.
I
Martha, b. 16-19,
Georfje Messervy.
John Perchard, h. 1691, m. in " God's House Chapel," = Martha, youngest d. and co-h. of Philip Le Feuvre, of Martha, h. 1696, m. 1729.
Southampton, 27 August, 17^6, d. 176S. I S. Martin, and co-representative of the families of
I Robin, Arthur, and Richardson. Philip Gaudin.
I II II
John Perchard, b. 1744. m. 1766. Martha, b. 1737, m. 1756. Esther, b. 1739,in. 1765. EUzabeth.b. 1742, m. 1767. Rachel, b. 1749,
d. 1768.
Mary,d. audco-h. of EUasCoutanche. Elias De Quetteville,
^ Constable of S. Martin.
George Noel, o.s.p.
Clement Mattingley.
John Perchard.
I I III!
Mary, b. 1768. Esther, b. 1770, m. 1794. Mary, b. 1772. Sophia, Elizabeth, Rachel,
b. 1774. b. 1778. b. 1778,
Nicholas Richardson. John Arthur, (th.Juv.
of S. Ouen.
Mary, eld. d. ajid co.-h. of Amice Gabourel.
I
John Perchard, Esq., of les Augris:=Thomasine, d. of William Mary^Nicholas Le Quesne,
I Saunders. Capt. R.J.M.
Elizabeth^Moses Gibant,
Col. R.J.M.
I
Sophia,
o6.
John Perchard.
. I
Emily, ob. juv.
I
Mary, n\. 1 863=^ Frederick Steriker.
1. Mary, d. of=Hugh Perchard=2. Sarah, d. of ... Hoeqnard. John, m. 1638=Mary, d. of Hugh Richardson,
John Badier. = ] d. 1G43.
I
CoUette.
Thomas Perchard,
b. 1638.
T
Blary Perchard, only d. and h.
John, b. 1043. George, b, 1643. CoUette, b. 1664. John Perchard, b. 1038. Pauline, b. 1640.
A dan.
Regnault
Badier.
Hoste Horman.
Nicholas Perchard.
I
Nicholas Perchard.
Abraham Messeiry.
IJANKS, in his "Extinct and Dormant Baronage," remarks that " tliis name is of very
eminent and ancient degree, being derived, according to the traditional account of the
family, from Sir Richard Pen'ot, Seigneur de Perot, in Britany, who came over mth
William the Conqueror, anno 10C6, and obtained some lands in Somersetshii-e, near
the river Perrot. In England, the name has been variously written — as, Perot, Pirot, Parrok,
and Parret."
The authentic record, called the Black Book of the Exchequer, shows that this family had
intimate and long connection with that of de Albini. Alan Pirot, held six knight's fees under
WilUam de Albiui, in Norfolk. Ralph Pirot, xii Hem-y II. (1145), upon the assessment of aid
for the marriage of Maud, the Iving's daughter, was named in the certificate of Robert de
Albini as holding of him five knight's fees, at which time also John Pirot similarly held
one knight's fee in Bedfordshire. The family of Albini was closely connected, about this
remote period, with Jersey ; and it is probable that the first settler of the name of Perrot in the
island was in its service.
If w^f Sffrilfmf
^ ip^Dwt €)M!imira.
£v who/// ////y P/ah- is ^>re-st'/?fiy/ tr ^/u JtrrA-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
317
It appears by the Extcnte of 1331 that Guille Perrot owed yearly to the Crown the sum of
fourteen sols, for a houvee of land held by him in the parish of Grouville.
The late Peter Perrot, Esq., in common with the present existing family, did not claim to
be descended from this source, but is said to have descended from Jeau Perrot, a Protestant
refugee, settled in Jersey in the early part of the last century. He was an eminent local
politician of the second quarter of the present century. He filled the offices of Constable of S.
Helier and of* Jurat of the Eoyal Court. His efforts for the improvement of the island and its
institutions are still gratefully remembered by his countrymen. His share in promoting the
erection of the splendid harbour of S. Helier was so great, that a service of plate marked
the sense the commercial community had of his imAvearied exertions.
This family is now represented by Mr. George-Frebout Perrot.
ARMsfas borne by George-Frebout Perrot, Gentleman) : Gules, three pears, argent ; on a
chief of the last, a demi-lion, issuant, sable. Impaling : Ai-gent, on a fesse, between three sable,
as many fleurs-de-lis of the field, for Falle.
Crest : A parrot, holding in the dexter claw a pear, all ppr.
Motto : Labor non me vincit.
PfljigiTt of lleriot.
John Pebhot, m. 1719 = Elizabeth, d. of Peter Jouguet, " refagi^ Protestant," b. 1697.
Peter Perrot, b. 1726 = Susan, d. of ... Harivel.
James, b. 1728,
oh. juv.
John, b. 1730, Henry, b. 1733. Esther, b. 1723. Ann.
ob. juv.
I ! I I I I
Francis Perrot = Elizabeth, d. of George Peter, b. 1768. Susan, b. 1764. Magdalen, Esther, b. Marianne = John De La
I Hooper, m. 1781. b. 1766. 1778. PerreUe.
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Francis Perrot, Philip, b. Rev. Clement, b. 1786, Peter, b. 1789, Jurat George, b. 1790. Esther, EUzabeth, b. 1792.
b. 1782. 17Si. sometime tutor to the R.C. ■ b. 1791.
Author of thig Work. Jane-Catherine, d. Elias-John Bertram,
Susan, d. of ... Charlotte, d. of John of ... Frebout.^ of Grouville.
Sharp.* JuUa, d. of ... Hamill.t Waters.^ =
III I
Peter-George Pen'ot. Clement-John. George-Frebout =: Mary-Harris, d. of Ph. FaUe. Charlotte-Mary-Ann.
I
George-Frebout Perrot, b. 1864.
Mary- Georgette, b. 1862.
William- George Turner.
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Francis Perrot. Clement- Eug^ne-HamiU. Julia-Hamill= William Beatson. Agnes = D. H. Van Leenwen, Clementine.
Hamill. M.D.
.1 III I
Francis Perrot, o.s.p. Clement, o.s.p. Mary, o.s.p. Susan, 06. = Joshua Le Bailly, Jurat R.C. Eliza-Sharp = John Le Bailly.
* Abms of Sharp ; Argent, a fesse, azure, between two crosses crosslet-fitchee in chief, sable, and a mullet, in base, gules.
f Arjis of Hamill, of Ireland : Azure, two bars, ermine. Crest : On a ducal coronet, a leopard, sejant, ppr.
\ Arms of Waters ; Paly of sis, argent and azure, a saltire, wavy, counterchanged.
§ Arms of Feebout : Or, a pale, gules.
S S
318 "• AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
N Normaud}', in early times, the family of Pinel rauked very high among the nobility
of that })rovince. In the Eecord, erected by M. Leoi)old Delisle, and placed in the
church of Dives, in Normandy, in August, 1862, of the names of the companions of
William I., that of Eaoul Pinel finds an honourable place.
In the Extcntc of 1331, several members of the family are mentioned as jur}Tiien or land-
holders in different parishes.* By the same record it appears that Thomas Pinel was Seigneur
of Melesches, in the reign of John, but that the estate lapsed to the Crown, by the adherence
of its o^\Tier to the Norman side, at the period of the disjunction of the Duchy from the English
monarchy.!
Among the French emigrant nobles Avho retired to Jersey at the time of the French
Revolution of 1789, was Charles Pinel, Chevalier, Seigneur-Comte du Chesnay, and Grand
Cross of S. Louis.
Charles Pinel, Esq., of the parish of S. Trinity, represents the family in Jersey.
Arms (as borne by Charles Pinel, Esq.) : Per pale, argent and or, an eagle displayed,
standing on a billet, raguly, azure. Quartering : Per fesse, argent and or ; in chief, a dexter-
hand clenched, issuant, ppr., cuffed, of the second ; in base, a mullet of the first, for Poingdestre :
Argent, three bars, gules, a martlet for difference, for Maeett : and, Gules, a lion, rampant,
ermine, ducally crowned, or, for Hamelin.
^fliigiff of ^imU
The Reverend John Pinel, Rector of GrouviUe, 1B98, d. 1620-l = SuBan, A. of ...
^1
1. Rachel, d. of ... RomerU, of La Fontaine = Jolm Pinel, b. IGOt, d. 1005 = 2. Jajie, A. of ... EffarJ, d. 1G72.
i ■ I
L Denize, d. of Philip Le Geyt, and sister = Philip Pmel, b. 1627, m. 1671, =2. Ann, d. of Clement Lo 1 |
of the Lieut.-BaiUy of that name, d. 1674. I d.lOSS, ConstableofS. Trinity. I Montais, d. 16U0. Joshua, d. 1650, Jane = Renaud
I I o.s.p. Constance.
A II
J J
* " ParoilTe de S. Sauveur.
GeofFray Pinel por. une bouvee, par an ......... 8 ibis.
Paroifle dc S. Pierre.
Robert Pinel d'ancienne rente por. ledt. ficu d'Orville, doit a la Nativite de Notre Seig-
neur J.C. ............. 6 cabots de Froment.
ParoilTe de S. Laurens.
Guille Pinel (entr' autres) dit par fon ferment comme les fermentes dc S. Martin derechcf difcnt que notre Sire le
Roy a des tenans en cettc Paroifle ainfi qu'il eft contenu a plein cy-dedans, etc."
t " Geoflray de Carteret por. le fieu de Melefchcs qu'il tient en ladte : paroifle et en plusieurs autres paroilTes en cette Ifle,
Icquel eft venu a notre Sire le Roy de I'Echefte de Thos. Pinel, comme dc I'Echefte dcs Normans au temps du Roy Jean, lequel
notre Sire le Roy Edouard a affiefe a Renault De Carteret, chevalier, pere dudit Geoffrov, par la lettre fous certaine forme, doit
a la feftc S. Michel ...,.'...... 40 livres, 10 fols, ct i ILvre de comin."
^
Charl£s Pimsl. CSOUIRC.
Br w/iom tJiis FlaU i_s presentxd Iv tJu Wrrk.
f ii©i]M ®illl|^ay||i£iijitii|
LAJE CApT" |5.^ DRAqOO^J QUAI^DS
By llV"f// r/iis /'/,//>■ i.^JWsr/iUdtorJuUhrh
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
319
A daughter, b. 1672, d. 1674, and
buried on the same day as her
mother.
PhiHp Pinel, b. 1676, m. 1698. John,
b. 1680.
Mary, d. of Charles Le Ilardy. ol.juv.
I \
PhUip Pinel. b. 1699, m. 1723, Constable of S. Trinity. Charles.
ilary, eld. d. and co.-h. of John Poingdestre, Seig. of le
tief Ss Poingdestres.
Clement, \ Rachel,
b. 1682. Settled in the b. 1675,
— rN. American oh.juv.
Thomas, Colonics,
b. 1684. '
Mary, b. 1705, m. 1728.
John, son of ^Vmice Marctt,
of La Porte, S. Trinity, by
Elizabeth his wife, d. and h.
of Charles Hamelin.
Rachel, b. 1713 =
m. 1730.
Rachel, b. 1678,
d. 1722. •
John Marett,
of 8. John.
Amice Coutanche.
I III
PhiUp Pinel, b. 1726, m. 1751, Constable of S. Trinity. Mary, Mary, Elizabeth-Mary Marett, b. 1731, only d and h
b. 1727. b. 1729.
I 6b. jnv. I
I "
Philip Pinel, b. 1752, Constable
of S. Trinity, Capt. R.J.M.,
ol). innupl.
John, R.N., b. 1755,
o.s.p.
Charles, b. 1758.
I
Elizabeth, b. 1754.
Mary, d. of ... Le
Vescoute.
— Elizabeth, d. of... Mattingley. Charles Gruchy.
I
Charles Pinel, Esq.
Elizabeth-Mary.
I
Charlotte.
I.
Amelia,
James Le Vavassour-dit-Durell, R.N.
I
Mary, b. 1757.
ROM a very early period tliis family lias held the Seigneiirie of La Moye, aud, more
lately, that of Noirmoiit," both iu the parish of S. Brelade.
The earliest mentiou fouud of its settlement in Jersey is in 1467, when John
Pipon was a Jurat of the Royal Court. In 1552, Sire Guille Pipon was one of the
* Elias Pipon purchased tliis manor, having obtained the customary permission by Letters-Patent, from Lord
Carteret in 1695. On this fief originally existed a priory which gave name to the estate, and which was subject to that
of S. Clement, and a coll to the Abbey of Mont S. Michel. In the fifteenth century the monks actioncd the tenants of
this fief, claiming the privileges of having their mill repaired, their tithes collected, and their wood and wine delivered by
their lay subordinates. The following Act of the Royal Court shows the modest claims of the Prior of S. Clement, and
the sturdy resistance of the tenantry. It is here inserted as a fair specimen of the Norman-French of the period : —
" Fayt I'an de grace Mil CCCC et j, le jour de Lundi prochain apres la fcfte Saint Mathie, furcnt prefens en droit a Saint
Helier, par devant nous, Colin le petit, luytenant de Giffre Brafdefer, ballif de S'- le Roy denglctcrrc, en lifle de Gcrfic. cell
afavoir frere Thomas Roufel, Priour de S'' Clement, d'une part, et Colin Jeullcin, homme refeant du fuy de Nermont d'autre,
Icquel Priour propofa vers Icdit Jeullein o Ics autres tenantz dudit fieu luy dcvoicnt faire fcrvice de porter et carier le boes, les
meubles du moullin dudit fuy, en cas que ledit Priour ou qui auroit cause dudit fieu, le voudroient faire effoutenir et maintcnir
fairure dudit moullin comme les hommes de nre S'' Le Roy font a fes moullins, et porter et carier les campars dudit fuy ou il
plaeroit a celluy qui auroit caufe dudit fieu et le prevoft dudit fieu affembler et rendre a compte de toutcs manieres de redevances
deues ou dit fieu, par quoy fe, le dit Jeullein, le confeflbit, ledit priour diflbit que ledit Jeullein o les autres tenants dudit fieu lui
devoient fervice de fein, de vin, et de buche, a qui auroit caufe dudit fieu dedans le fieu, et ledit Jeullein avoit eftey rcfufant de
apporter la buche audit priour dedans ledit fieu, parquoy fe ledit Jullein le confeflbit, le dit Priour vouloit que il en fuft amende, et
par confcqucnt paier le fervice dune carete denav, ledit Priour le vouloit prouver et ledit Jeullein luy denaia toute fon affirmative,
et ledit priour oftcir a prouver a foufiere. En tefmoing de ce nous avons fceellcy ces lettres du feal de la balhe de lifle defusditc,
contrefigncy du noftre, prefents a cc Drouet Lemperiere Clement Lc Hardi et J . . . la Hougue jurcz du Roy. Donne comme
DelTus."
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320
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
pxocurcurs of the parish of S. Peter, of which he was also, probably. Rector. Robert Pipon
collected and transcribed a large uumber of interesting local acts and charters, which are now
preserved in the Landsdowne Collection at the British Museum.
In the parish church of S. Brelade occur a large number of mural tablets to the memories
of members of both branches of the Pipon family, many of whom had attained rank in the
Ai-my and Navy.
The branch of La Moye is represented by Thomas-Ommanney Pipon, Esq., late Captain
1st Dragoon Guards, of Chaddleworth House, near Wantage, Berkshire. That of Noirmont by
Colonel James-Ivennard Pipon, Inspector-General of Militia, the Seigneur of Noirmont.
Arms (as borne by Thomas-Ommanney Pipon, Esq.): Per chevron, gules and or ; in chief,
two mullets, argent. Quartering : Azure, a lobster, in fesse, or, for Journeaulx : and Gules,
three eagles, displayed, or, a crescent for difference, for Lempriere. Impaling : Or, a fesse,
azure, surmounted of a bend, gules, for Elwes.
Crest : A demi-liou, argent, holding between the paws, a mullet, or. (Another) A squirrel,
sejant, ppr.
pfliigrrf of ^aipon, of Ea ^]]t.
Richard Pipon, livuig circa 1560.
Philippine, d. of WilKam GosseHn.
I
Thomas Pipon.
T
I, I
.John Pipon. James.
Simeon Pipon, d. IGIL
Jaequette. d. of ... Le Couteur.
I
I I.
James Pipon, d. circa 1604. Denize.
I I I
Jane. Elizabeth, Martha.
m. 1.593.
Elizabeth, d. of Peter De John Seale. Bastian Richard
Soulemont, Jurat R.C. Richard. Leonard Lesbirel.
= Bisson.
i. I III
Jolm Pipon. James. CoUette. Sarali. Eachel.
j Jane, t-l. uf JtJin John Philip
John Pipon. James Jean. Vibert. Du-
= Payn. lieaume.
I
John Pipon.
James Pipon. Thomas, Jurat R.C, b. circa, 1599, = Elizabeth, d. and co-h. of Abraham Journeaulx and Mary = Philip Messervy, Seig.
m. 1C2G. I co-rejjresentative of the family of Lempriere, of of Bagot.
I St. John, La Houp^e Boete.
I .
James Pipon.
Edward.
I
Solomon.
I I
I
Roohel.
Jane, d. of ... Le Brocq. Elizabeth, d. of the Jane, d. of
= Rev. Daniel Gruchy, ... Pipon. —
I Rector of S. Mary. PhiUp.
Thomas. Richard.
John. John Falle.
Elizabeth. Margaret.
I
1. Elizabeth, d. of Benjamin Dumaresq, Senr. = Joshua Pipon = 2. Elizabeth, d. of Elias Pipon, of Noirmont. Edward. Thomas.
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1 I I .III
John Pipon, o.s.;). Aime, m. 171 C = Daniel Messei-vy. Joshua Pipon, Jurat R.C. , Lieut. -Bailly of Jersey. James. Jane. Mary.
T
Thomas Pipon, Advocate R.C, Attorney-General and Lieut.-Bailly of Jersey = Jane, d. of Thomas Pipon.
' ^ ^^^/^/////^^j.Or /^
Crai nvi lle House .
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
321
I
1. Maria, d. of = Thomas = 2. Eliza, d. of
of... West.
Pipon.
... Earle, and
relict of Dr.
Corbin.
A son,
o.i.p.
Louisa.
TKomas-Le Breton
Pipon, Seig. of La
Hague.
George Pipon,
Colonel H.M.
Service.
Jane, d. of Thos.
Pipon.
I
Joshua,
Advocate-
General of
Jersey.
Charlotte-
Dorothea,
d. of...
West, o.s.p.
Philip,
Capt. R.N.
Elizabeth,
d. of Sir
John
Domaresq,
Kt.
Charles,
o.s.p.
1. Martha,
d. of
Sir John
Dumaresq,
Kt.
James,
Capt.
R.J.M.
Ann, d.
of
James
Pipon.
Edward
o.s.p
John,
Constable
of the Parish of
S. Peter.
Jane. Eliza.
Jane, only d. and
h. of Thomas Le
Breton, Seig. of
La Hagae.
Cham-
pion.
Ann.
Thomas
Seward.
I
EKza Pipon, only
' surviving d. and h.
Major Wliitty.
I
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Charlotte Pipon,
mas Lem- only d. and h., o.s.p.
priere.
Other
chUdreu,
o.s.p.
Robert Pipon. A son.
Anne, d. of Daniel
Janvrin.
Thomas-Le Breton Pipon, Seig.
of La Hague.
Louisa, d. and h. of Thomas Pipon.
Jane.
Matthew NoeL
I.
Mana.
I
I I I Thomas-Henry Pipon, Seig. John- Angusta.
James Pipon = Elizabetli, d. of Peter Thomas = Susan, d. of EUas Pipon, Elizabeth. of La Hague. Johnson.
I Le Brocq. | of Noirraont.
Elizabeth, only d. and h., o.s.p. Thomas Pipon, m. 1712 ^ Ann, d. of Michael Lem- Henrietta, d. of Dr. Haire.
I priere, Seig. of Diclament.
I
Thomas-Pipon, Lieut-BaUly of Jersey. Philip.
Jane. d. of William Dumaresq, of La Motte. Charles.
James, m. 1767.
Esther, sister of
Sir John Duma-
resq, Kt.
I
Anne.
1. Amias Dumaresq.
2. Edward Remon.
I
Susan.
James
Eemon.
Jane.
I
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Ann Pipon, eld. d. and co-h. = James Pipon. 1. Dr. H. Schooles = Elizabeth =2. ... Nesbit. Jane.
I
Thomas Pipon, Major 7th Hussars =Aime-Symon3, d. of Admiral Ommanney.
Jane.
Col. George Pipon, Dep.-Judge Advocate.
Tbomas-Ommanney Pipon, Esq., late Captains Margaret-Augusta, d. of Henry Elwes, of Manaton, late Captain 1st Dragoon Guards.
1st Dragoon Guards, of Chaddleworth House,
Wantage, Berks,
Colesbourue, co. Gloucester, and Portman
Square, London, by Susan, bis ^vife, 2nd d. of
-A-nthony Hamond, of Westacre. eo. Norfolk.
Anne, d. of the Hon. Robert Rodney,
Capt. R.N.
Arthur-Thomas-Manaton Pipon.
Alice-Lucy.
Emily-Margaret.
jO early as 1250 Geoffroy and Raoul Poiugdestre are mentioned as landowners in
Jersey, in certain documents preserved in the archives at S. Lo, in Normandy.
In 1424, John Poingdestre was Bailly of the island ; in 1452, his son, another
John, filled the same oflBce f and in 14C7, the grandson of the first-named, a third
John, occupied this honourable post. In 1485, John Poiugdestre was Lieutenant-Bailly, as
was his descendant, still named John, in 1669.
* Mr. Mark-Antony Lower, in his " Patroni/mica Bntaimka," quotes as to the signification of this surname a
passage from Talbot's " English Etymologies," under the head of Poindexter. " This name does not signify the right
hand, as might easily be imagined ; but it is au old Norman name, signifying Spur the Steed, and analogous to Hotspur.
322 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSFA'.
This family has, for several generations, possessed the fief of Grainville, in the parish of
R. Saviom-; and it has always held a high social position in its native island.
One of its eminent members was John Poingdestre, son of Edward, Avho was born in 1G09.
He became fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and was one of the first who paiiook of the benefit,
after their foundation, of the Jersey scholarships. He appears to have possessed eveiy quality
calculated to adorn public and private life, and these he exercised in the sphere of his eventful
career. He was esteemed one of the soundest Grecians of his day, in the penmanship of which
language he was an elegant adept. He prepared, for private use, emendations of the text of
several Greek poets, Avhich still exist in MS. He held an official appointment, the nature of
which has been forgotten, under Lord Digby, Secretary of State to Charles I. He was ejected
from his fellowship by the Parliamentarian visitors, when he retired to Jersey, and was with
Sir Philip De Carteret in Elizabeth Castle, during its siege by the Republicans. He had the
honour of being deputed by Sir George Carteret to proceed to France, there to confer with
Charles II., on the state of affairs in Jersey. After the ultimate expulsion of the Pioyalists
from the island, he went into voluntary exile, as an earnest of his loyalty, until the Restoration,
when he was rewarded by the office of Lieutenant-Bailly, under Sir Edward De Carteret, in
16G9. After some years, he retired from this appointment, owing to an alleged informality ;
but he retained his seat as Jurat until his death.
Among many other works in MS., Mr. Poingdestre left the framework of Falle's " History
of Jersey," a copy of which, in the author's writing, was presented to James II., and is now in the
Harleian Collection.* He also wTote a series of articles, not so well kno-ma, on the Grand Coiis-
tumicr de Konnaiidic, showing the variation of the Jersey laws from those of the parent Duchy.
This was a subject of which the author was perfectly master, and which rendered his judicial deci-
sions models of jiistice and impartiality. He is buried in the Church of S. Saviour, where a Latin
epita})li, penned by Falle, exists to his memory. His portrait is still preserved at Grainville.
For five successive generations, the head of this family sat as Jurat of the Royal Court of
the island, the last of whom died in 1831.
It comes from t\yo old words, ■wliicli Waco oftcu uses in the ' Eomaii de Run ;' tlie first meaning to
spvr, from the IjsXm jiiin/jo ; tlie second, a steed or lit courser — in French f/cs?;ve;', Italian (/es^nere." This
reasoning, however ingenious, is quite erroneous; 'to for, as will be seen by the annexed engraving of
the seal of .John Poingdestre, Bailly of Jersey in „-r*''^*^^fc^"X^ 1452, tlie arms are pui-lantes, and represent the
dexter fist. By this seal it would appear that a %: /^Kl^. '%. fesse formed originally one of the charges of tlie
sliield. On the outer wall of a house at Mont-au- ( "llrWTil "j Pretre, formerly possessed by a branch of the family,
another coat of arms is sculptured in bold relief — *^>$]2l5^b''^ viz., ... on a fesse, between three roses ..., a
mullet. CiiF.MT : a dexter hand, clenched. ^^.s*~^
* " The Harleian MSS. were the property of, /I and were munificently prcfcntcd to the nation by,
the Right Honourable Robert Harlcy, afterwards a Un peer of Great Britain, by the title of Earl of Oxford ;
a man who, by the grcatncfs of his knowledge in all branches of learning, and the vafl expenfc of his
noble family, colleftcd this immenfe variety of rare ^''^ °'' and valuable papers. He, that noble peer, who
always encouraged learning, and was the Mcca-nas of (acti:\l size.) learned men in his time ; whofc patent of creation ex-
tols him and ennobles him with the title of the Univer- fity of Oxford on that particular account ; and whofe
chicfcit dcliglu, in his leifiirc from the care he took of the good of the nation in general, was to be conftantly among his books,
by which iamiliarity he is laid to have acquired fo particular knowledge of them all, as to be able, without a catalogue, to go
immediately to the lealf of them all, upon hearing it named, though his library confifted of more than one hundred thoufand
different authors."— T'iV/c I'lvaniMi' to '• The reasons that induced His Majesty to create the Itight-Honourable Hobert
Harlcy, Esq., a Peer of the liealui."
iKEtPOfflEMWRELACESSlTl
aiurci ^inni\iic0tvc, ^■g^l]uil•f.
/?!' w/win t///.v /Vatr i.v /}rxrritcc/ It? ^ic itcrA'
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY. 323
The eldest brancli of the family is represented by Edward-Gibbs Poingdestre, Esq., of
GrainviUe House, and a junior branch by the Rev. George Poingdestre, of S. Anastasius.
Arms (as borne by Mrs. Poingdestre) : Per fosse, argent and or ; in chief a dexter hand,
clenched, ppr., cuffed of the second; in base a mullet of the first. Quartering: Gules, three
mullets, pierced, or, for Hamptonne : Gules, a fesse between three trefoils, couped, or, for
De La Eocque : Gules, two bars, ermine ; in chief, three martlets, or, for Sarre : and Or,
on a chief, embattled, sable, three mullets, argent, for Amy. Impaling : Ai-gent, on a bend,
between two lions, sable, a ^\yveru, extended, of the field, for Euding : Or, on two bars, gules,
three bezants, for Clerke : Sable, semee of crosses, or ; over all, three fleurs-de-lis, argent ;
a canton, ermine, for Waterceoft : Chequy, or and gules, on a bend, ermine, a fleur-de-lis,
gules, for difference, for Clifton : Argent, a chief, gules, for Worsley : Ai-gent, a chevron
between three stags, trippant, sable, for Skrymsher : and, Ai'gent, a che-\Ton between three
boar's heads, couped, sable, for Muschamp.
Motto : Nemo me impune lacessit.
Arms (as borne by James Poingdestre, Esq.) : The same Ai-ms (a crescent for difference),
and Quarterings, as the preceding.
Crest : An esquire's helmet, ppr.
Motto : As the preceding.
Arms (as borne by the Eev. George Poingdestre, M.A.) : The same Arms (a crescent for
difference) as the preceding. Impaling : Argent, a fesse, vert, between three hearts, gules, for
Smith : and, Ai'gent, a fesse, azure, between three mullets, gules, for Poore.
Crest : As the preceding.
Motto : Dextra fidei pignus.
^fliigm of ^oinglifsitrf, of <0rainbiUf.
George Poingdestke, Seigneur of the fief fes PoiBgdestres, d. 1544. Thomas Poingdestre.
Girette, niece of Sire Thomas Ahier. Thomosse, d. and co-h. of Hostes Hamptonne.
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John Poingdestre, Seig. of the fief 63 Poingdestres, d. 1583. Thomas, Constable of S. Saviour. Clement Poingdestre.
Catherine, d. of Thomas Lempriere, Elizabeth, d. and h.
widow of Richard Lanslois and of David Seale.
I I Clement Messervy. =
1. Margaret, d. of = Edward Poingdestre, = 2. Pauline, John. '= |
Clement Messervy, 1 Seig. of the fief es I d. of Guyon | i ' |
m. 1502. Poingdestres. I Ahier. Perrotine, j "~ 1 Peter Poingdestre, Martli,
1 I d. of Thomas Poingdestre, Benjamin. m. 1612.
Peter LaeU. b. 1544.
Susan, d. of ... FaUe.
I Jane, d. of Stephen La Cloche.
324 AN AKMORIAL OF JERSEY.
ADC ^
I I
Edward Poingdestrc.
Barbara, d. of Michael Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1571. Clement, b. 1576.
I I Peter Poingdestre, h. 161'J=Jane, d. of John Fallot.
Kegnault. | | | III
=; Magdalen, d. of Thos. (?) Durel. Peter Jane, Susan. Elizabeth. Martha. Sarah.
I = Poingdestre, eld. d. and
Peter Poingdestre. I o.s.p. co-h., ob. Edward Laurens John Thos.
1 I ; innupt. Poingdestre, Machon. Moiiraut. Le
I.Mary, d. of ... Filleul. Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1602. Jane. Blanche. Seig. of the Breton.
. fief es
2. Catherine, d. of Sarah, d. of ... Janvrin, m. 1625. Stephen Nicholas Poingdestres.
Gilles Dolbel. = Amy. Anthoine.
I M I I i I I
Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1633. James. \ Benjamin, Magdalen, Martha. Sarah. Susan.
= — J o.s.2>. u.s.p. o.s.p.
J John. ) Ab. Herault. EUas De John Martel.
I La Rocque.
I \ \ I
George Poingdestre, b. 1661, m. 1698 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Durell. Philip, o.s.p. Elizabeth=Robert Smith. Mary=George Pinel.
1 \ \ \ I
Ann Poingdestre, eld. d. and co.-h. Jane. Sarah. Magdalen. Martha.
Charles Marett, o.s.p. Jacob Le Touz4.
(ViiU Fed. of Le Touzel.)
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John Poingdestre, b. 1609, M.A., Fellow of Exeter=Ann, d. and co-h. of Thomas, b. 1613, Rector of S. Sariour. Edward, Mary.
College, Oxon., Lieut. -Bailly of Jersey. I Laurens Hamptonne, — ■ o.s.p.
I Vicomte of Jersey. Mary, d. and co-h. of James Pipou. Richard
I i = Anley,
Charles Poingdestre. Elizabeth, m. 1684. | o.>.p.
Ann, d. of ... Hilgrove, m. 1684. George Bandinel. John Poingdestre. Thomas. Pauline. Mary.
Susan, d. of John Seale. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas EUzabeth.
I 111111= Lonis Rondel, De Lecq. —
John Poingdestre, b. 1693. Collette. Susan. | Minister at Ann.
Plouer, Britany.
Jane. d. and co-h. of Philip Amy, of the Ann. . Jane. | Jane.
Castillon de Haut. — — j j j i
= Rachel. Elizabeth. John Poingdestre. Mary. Thomas. Edward.
I
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John Poingdestre, Jurat R.C. = Elizabeth, d. of James Pipon, Seig. of Noirmont. Philip = Margaret, d. of .. Gallichan.
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John Poingdestre, Jnrat, R.C. = Elizabeth, d. of Matthew Gosset. Jane Poingdestre, eld. d. and co-h. A daughter. Margaret,
I oh. innvpt.
I John De Carteret, Seig. of Vinchel^s-de-Bas. Germain Aubin.
I I I 1 I
1. Jane, d. of Clement Hemery = John Poingdestre = 2. Martha, d. of Clement James. Elizabetli. Ann. Jane.
I I Rudiug. • oh.
A daughter. Edward-Gibbs Poingdestre, Grace, d. of ... Laird, P.-R. Lem- John innupt.
of GraiuvUlo House, S. d. at S. Martin, 24th priere, Seig. Leigh.
Saviour. April, 1828, tet. 31 ofRozel.
■ years.
Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1581, Seig. of the fief es Poingdestres = Elizabeth, d. of... Efiard. L
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III I James Poingdestre, John, d. at Rozel A dau.
Philip Poingdestre, b. 1020, Seig. Jacob. George, settled in Virginia, N. A. Rachel. Esq., Clerk in the Manor, March 13,
of the fief ^s Poingdestres. = House of Commons. 1849, a;t. 23.
Sarah, d. of Rev. John Pinel.
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John Poingdestre. Thomas. Mary = G. Nicolle.
Edward Poingdestre, Seig. of the fief hs Poingdestres = Susan, second d. and co-h. of Peter Poingdestre. Philip. Sai'ah.
A
Jiv ii /lorn //us P/rt/e /.%• /'nsivi/^Y/ fo ///■ // or/-.
arlinV \a\ ([[orl^c I:\irar'b. f|,iVl]Iur^
/^r ir/ir/i/ f///'s /'/ii/,- IS- /'/v.NVV/Av/ //■ ///, [lr/-/,\
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 325
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John Poingdestre, b. 1671, Seig. of the = Mary, d. of the Rev. Francis Peter. Edward. Nicholas. Charles. Jane,
fief ia Poingdestres. I Le Coutevir. =
j ~ j j I Nichohis Poingdestre.
Mary Poingdestre, eld, d. and = Pliilip Pinel", of Jane, ~\ Sarah = Nicholas Le Bas, of =
co-h., Lady of the fief ^3 S^ Trinity. {Vide — >o.s.p. Les Ni^smes, S '
Ann, )
Poingdestres. Ped. of Pinel.) Ann, J Peter. | | |
Phihp Poingdestre. John. Mary.
I Peter Le
I j Feuvre, of
Ann Poingdestre, eld. d. and co-h. 1 = Mary = 2. Matthew, Le Grallais, of SmriUe. S.Peter.
Moses Gibaut. 3. Charles De Ste. Croix.
Pfliisrre of ^aomgtif^trt, of ^. prtn%
Thomas PoiNGDESTKE = Jeanette, d. of ... Baudains, m. 1641.
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Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1644=Mary, d. of ... Payn. James, b. 1650. Sarah, b. 1642.
Thomas Poingdestre, b. 1674, m. 1697^Mary, d. of ... Deslandes.
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Philip Poingdestre, Charles, b. 1708, = Jane, d. of Le Feuvre- Clement, b. 1709. Thomas, b. 1713, m. 1738-9. Elizabeth, b. 1715.
b. 1706. m. 1732.
dit-Filatre.
I
Thomas Poingdestre. Jane. Elizabeth.
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Charles Poingdestre, b. 1736, oh.juv. Philip, b. 1742. Henry, b. 1752. Jane, b. 1745. Mary. Susan. Elizabeth, b. 1747
Mary, d. of George lugouviUe.
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George Poingdestre, Lieut.-Col. R.J.M. Mary, o6. ;«». Ann. Elizabeth.
Ann-Catherine, d. and co-li. of Pliilip LesbireL Joshua Picot. Aaron De Ste. Croix.
The Rev George Poingdestre, M.A., Principal of the Grammar School of S. Anastasius, Parish of S. Peter, Jersey ; Incumbent of S. Matthew's
Chapel ; and Chaplain of the S.W. Regt. R.J.M.
Elizabeth, d. of Capt. WUUam Smith, R.N., by Sarah, d. and co.-h. of Robert Poore.
Georgiana-Elizabeth Poingdestre. EmHy-Franoes, b. August 29, d. October 8, 1856.
ICAED is a surname well known, both in England and France. Thomas Eicard was
a colonel in the army of Charles I., and was killed at the siege of Lichfield. His
son, Thomas Eicard, alias Eicketts, was a captain under Cromwell, and accompanied
the expedition, under Penn and Venabies, to the West Indies. Guillim, in his
"Display of Herakhie," edition 1660, gives the arms of Alderman Eicard, of London, which
differ but slightly from those borne by the Jersey family.
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326 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
lu France, Jacques Ricarcl, de Genouillac, was General of Artillery, and was killed at tlie
battle of S. Aubiu-du-Cormier, 28tli July, 1488. Of this family was Jean-Francois Eicard, de
Gourdon, Count de Vaillac, and Marquis de Eoulaye, wlio died in Paris in 1696. Francis I.
gave the command of the Castle of Madrid to Pierre Eicard, de la Chevalleraye, on account of
his signal services at the battle of Pavia.
In Jersey, the family has been settled for several centuries. In the parish of S. Peter
exists the fief es Eicards, formerly held by the yearly tender to the Crown of a pair of
white spurs.
The representative of the family is Charles-La Cloche Eicard, Esq., of S. Helier.
Arms (as borne by Charles-La Cloche Eicard, Esq.) : Azure, a chevron, argent, between
three roses, or. Quartering : Azure, three church-bells, or, for La Cloche : and, Gules, three
escallops, or, a fleur-de-lis for difference, for Dumaresq. Impaling : Ermine, a chief, azure,
over all, on a bend, gules, a sword, argent, point in chief, hilt or, for Gladwin.
Motto : Sapientia donum dei.
^^rtigiff of i\iraiU.
1. Elizabeth, d. of .. BottereI=PETER Ricard, of "la Maison de la Roboline," in the Parish of S. Ouen=2. Rachel, d. of ... Du Lan?.
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John liicard, Constable of St. Ouen. j j |
= ' Jolin Ricard, b. 1G56. Sarah. Kachel.
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Francis Ricard, b. IGJ-l, d. IfiSl = Judith, d. of HoHer De Carteret, Attomcj-Gcneral of Jer.scy, d. ICS-i. John Payn.
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Francis Ricard, Constable of S. Ouen, b. 1678, m. 1(596, d. 1729 = Rachel, d. of John D'Auvergne. Judith, b. 1081 = Charles De Carteret,
I Seig. of S. Trinity.
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Francis Ricard, B. A., Oxon, John, b. 17(16, Edward, b. 1709, Receiver Charles, b. 1714. Judith, b. 1700, EUzabeth, Rachel,
b. 1698, d. 1727. d. 1735. of the King's Revenues, d. 1734. b. 1703. b. 1716.
and Jurat R.C. Mary, d. of . . . Tocque.
Jane, d. of Michael Lem- |
priere, Seig. of Di^lanient.
T
Jane Ricard, only d. and h., m. 17')8 = Philip D'Auvcrgne.
Tlie Rev. Francis Ricard, Rector successively of Edward, Capt. H.M. 73rd Regt., b. 17.5(j. Rachel, b. 1749. Mary, b. 1754.
S. Peter and S. Ouen, b. 1751, d. 1823.
" Jane, eld. d. and co-h. of Matthew La
Jeanne, d. of ... Adeline, of Caen, Normandy, Cloche, of Rouge Boaillon, and co-repre-
m. 1774. sentative of the family of Dumaresq.
Charles Ricard, b. 1775, Peter, b. 1776, Jane, b. and Caroline-Harriet, b. 1779. Adeline- Blanche, Eliza-Frances, Harriet-
'1- 1780. d. 1777. d. 1778. ■ Mary, b. 1783. b. 1780, Mary,
Colonel Godley, H.M. 83rd b. 1782. .1.1795. b. 17SU.
Regiment.
(IlementChaulbs Richardson. EsQiiiiE^
//]• w/um //'i.sP/a/r t.< f)r:<entffl /^ h'tc H'rr/c
AN AEMORIAL OF JERSEY.
327
CliarleB-Li Cloche Ricard, Esq., Capt. Edward, Capt. H.M. Army. Jane-Mary. Mary-Ann-Harriet. Sophia.Julia. Eliza.
R.J.M. _
Harriet, d. of Francis-William-Ulric
Gladwin, of Derby.
Eliza, d. of Edward-T. Robert-Conway Thomas-Maode Jolin Matthew. Col. Jos^-M.
Dickson. Edmonds, South Galloway. • Pe Rodrignez,
= Petherton, of Astorias.
I Somerset.
I.
Edward-Dickson Ricard,
18th Royal Irish, d. in
the Crimea, aet. 18.
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Henry-Longfield.
William.
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Dudley-Phipps.
Ann-Le Feuvre.
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Eight chOdren,
alloi.
Charles-Moses-La Cloche Ricard, b. 1842, d. 1843.
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Francia-Charles, b. 18-iG, d. 1S52.
Dora-Lonisa, b. 1840.
ALPH EICHAEDSON, presumed to have been an officer in the army of Richard III.,
and a native of England, settled in Jersey in the early part of the sixteenth century,
and became a tenant of the Seigneur of Eozel. His descendants have flourished in,
and been alHed by marriage to some of the best famihes of, both Jersey and
Guernsey. In the latter island, the family, the name of which was corrupted, by local pro-
nunciation, into Reserson, is extinct. In Jersey, Clement-Charles Richardson, Esq., is the
head of this house.
Arms (as borne by Clement-Charles Richardson, Esq.) : Argent, on a- chief, sable, three
lions' heads, erased, or. Quartering: Or, a saltire, azure, dentelle, sable, for De Quetteville:
Ai-gent, on a chief, sable, three lions' heads erased, or ; a crescent for diiference, for Reserson :
and Argent, on a chewon, between three martlets, sable, as many fleur-de-lis of the field, for
Falle.
Crest : Out of a mural crown, or, a lion's head, erased, sable, surmounted of an earl's
coronet of the first.
— MS^ — •
^rliigift of lAidjaiUsoiu
Rali-u Richardson, migrated horn England, said to have been a Captain in the army of Richard III. He leased, in 1507, of John Lempriere,
Seig. of Rozel, certain lands held by ... Le Vuyellart, on the aforesaid fief, containing about 73 verg^es.
Jane. d. of John MychielL
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Thomas Richardson, heir to his father's property, circa 1520.
Edmund, lived on the property of his wife at Lower Rozel= Collette, d. of
William Soulas.
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Edmund Richardson.
Laureutia, d. of ... Gaudm.
John, settled in Guernsey, where his name was corrupted into Resekson.
Elizabeth, d. of Henry Douit, m. 1588,
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Ysebel.
George Gallichan.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Clement Reserson, of Guemsey= Rachel, d. of Peter Tramalier, m. 1625.
Edmund.
Jacob, o.s.p.
Peter Reserson, m. 1056=Margaret, d. of Nicholas La Perre.
I
I
John.
I
Edmund.
Thomas.
John Reserson, m. 1689= Mary, d. of Nicholas De Garis.
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Peter.
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Nicholas Reserson, m. 1723= Mary, d. of Peter Lo Mesurier.
John.
Peter. Jacquine, or Jacqueline.
Clement Richardson, of Jersey.
Nicholas Reserson, only son, jurat R.C. of Guernsey, m. 1752= Elizabeth, d. of the Rev. Thos. Fiott, Rector of S. Martin,
Guernsey, o..s.p.
Hugh Richardson, o.s.p., 161 7 = Maria-Jane, d. of ... Do Quetteville. Abraham. Thomas, settled in Guernsey, m. 1613=Susan, d. of Clement
= I Percbard.
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Abraham-Perchard Richardson , John Reserson. Susan.
o.s.p. •
Judith, d. of James Guille. John Roland.
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Hugh, d. 1598=Phihppine, eld. d. and h. of
I Michael De Quetteville.
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Edmund.
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Julian. Mary.
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John Richardson^Isabel, d. of Raulin Le Marquaud.
|~ ^1 . . I. .Ill Jol^n
Nicholas Richardson, Jane^John, son of Augustin Nicholas Richardson=Jeanette, d. of Richard John. Thomas, Thomas Briart.
b. 1571. CoUas. I Le Quesne, of S. John. o.s.p. Richardson.
John Richardson = Mary, d. of Helier Anquetil.
Nicholas, m. 1630, d. 1663= Abigail, d. of Richard Dumaresq.
I
Margaret=John De
Carteret.
I
Pliilip Richardson, Advocate
and Jurat R.C.
Martha, d. of Dr. Denis
Gnerdain, o.s.p.
Nicholas, b. 1633, Capt. of the I. of Serk.
Sarah, d. of Richard DuParcq.
Richard, b. 1635,
settled in Jamaica.
Mary, d. of ...
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John.
Clement.
Abraham.
I
Elizabeth.
Stephen
Anthoine.
Anne.
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Thomas Richardson, of Jamaica^ Ann, d. of ...
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Mary Richardson, sole d. and h., of. intinpL
A daughter.
Nicholas Richardson, Abraham, b. lC73, = Elizaheth, d. Clement,m. 1719-20, Ann. Mary. Sarah. Margaret. Abigail. Ann-Le
b. at Serk, 1665, Col. h. to the posses- ofNicholasDe d. 1752. Cousteur.
in Jamaica, d. in sions of bis nephew Carteret, m
London, and bur. at in Jamaica, killed on
Christchurch, Mid- bis return thence,
dleaex. by pirates, 170U.
Frances, d. of Ed-
ward Stanton, of S.
Thomas, W. I.
T
Nicholas Richardson,
ob. jiiv.
1.
at Guernsey, Jacquine, d. of John
Ehas Denis Daniel ... nepboume,
De Blampied. Pellier. of Jamaica. Philip
1701, lost at Reserson, of Guern- 2. John Quette- Caillot.
sea near the aey, eventual repre- Herault. ville.
Casquets, seutative of her
1744. branch of the family.
Abraham Richardson, b. 1701, Jurat R.C, d. in Jamaica, s.p.
Jane, d. of John La Cloche, m. secondly, John Dumaresq.
Nicholas, o.s.p.
Sarah.
Mary, d. of . . . Pike. Denis Gnerdain.
I
Clement Richardson, Lieut. R.N., of England and Sardinia, English
Consul at the latter place, ob. innupt. 1795.
Nicholas, d. 1789.
Mary.
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Ann. Sarah.
Jane, d. and h. of Edward Falle. Geo. Dumaresq,
of S. Saviour.
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Nicholas Rieh.grdson, Constable of S.Martin, 1790. Clement, Lieut. ?..N., Philip, Lieut. R.N., Thomas, Capt. R.J.M., Jane.
~ ~ ■ of Gros-Puits, o.s.p. woimded at the battle h. of Gros-Puits.
J!.8ther, d. of ^ohn Perohard. of the NUe, d. 1SU7, j.^). = Abraham
"T I Poingdestre.
pliiliu Roluii. Qoiimvc
n
y n/n;u //n. !'/,'/>■ /.v ///v-w/Av/ /.• //^r H''''
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 329
I III
I I Mary-Ann Richardson, eld. d. and oo-h. Julia. Ann. Jane.
Nioliolaa Riohardson=Elizabetli, d. of Elias Julia=Jolin Monrant, Lieut.-
I Bertram, of Grouville. Col., R.J.M. Thomas-ShacHorth Dickson, of Co. Lincoln.
Nicholas-Ralph Richardson, Capt. R.J.M., b. 1819=Esther, d. of Philip Gaudin.
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Nicholas-Ralph Richardson, oh.juv. Clement-Charles. Philip-Monrant. Esther- Elizabeth. Jane-Mary.
Ed.-John-Butler Brazier, H.M. Indian Navy.
HE family of Eobin is said by de la Chesnaye-des-Bois, iu his Ai-morial, to be
descended ex Comitibus Robini, of Eome, " Vivans dans le x fiecle avec eclat et
fplendeur."* Guy Robin, the founder of the family in France, accompanied Philip-
Augustus to the Holy Land. He was bui-ied at Vienne, in Dauphiue, in a costly
tomb, bearing the inscription : —
" Cy gyst LI PREux Chevalyer, Guy Robin, dit LI Italyen.
Priez pour l'asme de LI, 1223."
The Jersey branch of the family has been settled in the island from time immemorial. By
the Extcnte of 1331, it appears that Eaulin Eobin was a landowner in the Parish of S. Brelade, and
one of the jurymen thereof, deputed to ascertain the Crown dues in that parish : the same record
shows Eichard and Eaulin Eobin to have performed the like office in the Parish of S. Laurence.
In 1715, Eaulin Eobin was Lieutenant-Bailly of Jersey.
For several centuries this family has been located at S. Brelade, in the church of which
parish exist a number of monuments to the memoiy of its members.
On the south mng of the General Hospital of S. Helier are sculptured the arms of Eobin,
which was built at the cost of this house. It possesses large tracts of land at S. John,
in Newfoundland, ha\'ing been one of the earliest Jersey firms which developed the important
fisheries of that territory.
In Jersey the family is represented by James Eobin, Esq., of Petit-Menage ; and in England,
by John Eobin, Esq, of Grove Hill, West Kirby, Birkenhead.
Arms (as borne by John Eobin, Esq.) : Azure, a chevron, or, between three gilly-
flowers, ppr.f
* Arms of Robin, formerly of Rome : Barry of four, or and gules, over all three martlets, sable. Cbest : A key,
or. Motto : Piu forte nell' anversita. Supporters : Two s%vage men, ppr.
Arms of Robin, of Nantes, formerly of Poitou : Gules, three spear-heads, points in base, argent.
Ar.ms of Robin, de la Tremblaye, Poitou, and Anjou : Gules, two keys iu saltire, argent, between four escallops,
the one in chief, of the second, the others, or.
f By a pardonable error in representation, the gillyflowers are sometimes blazoned as thistles in this coat, which at
first sight they strongly resemble. A very ancient seal, in the possession of John Robin, Esq., and a painting of the
arms of Councillor John Robin, of the Parliament of Paris, elected 11 May, 1618, depicted in a MS. intituled " Catalogue
et Blazons de tons les Conseillers du Parlement de Paris, depuis i600 jusqu 'en 17i9" decide the point clearly. Some
branches of the .Jersey family bear for crest, a robin, ppr.
330 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
jO early as 1292, Robert Seelle, or Scale, of the Parish of S. Brelade, is mentioned in
a legal instrument, as a lando^oier and a " {icii de hien," and from that time fand
probably from a much earlier one) to the present, some members of this family have
been located in the same parish.
In the Extentc of 1331, Peter Scale is mentioned as the Seigneur of the fief an Prieur,
for which he owed to the Crown eighteen deniers. Richard Scale, on the authority of the same
document, owed eight sols for a honvi'c of land in the Parish of S. Brelade.
At the period of the Rebellion this family remained staunchly loyal. John Seale, Constable
of S. Brelade, was one of the subscribers to the Proclamation recognizing Charles II. as liing,
on the reception of the news of his father's execution.* A female member of the house shared
the dangers and privations of the siege of Elizabeth Castle, prior to its surrender by Sir George
Carteret.
During the tenure of office of Lord Cobham, the Governor, the Rev. Thomas Seale, then
Rector of S. Clement, strenuously and successfully opposed the unconstitutional desire of his
lordship to appoint, as Dean of Jersey, a native of France, who then held a benefice in the
island. Upon his return from London, whither he had gone the better to represent the hardship,
he was publicly thanked, and his expenses defrayed, by the States, for having so ably
defended the insular privileges.
The Scigneuric of Samares was presented by the heiress of the Dumaresqs to John Seale,
Esq., in whose family it remained for two generations, when it was transferred, by pm'chase,
to the Hammond family.
A branch settled at a very early period in the county of Northumberland; and to this
section were granted, by the learned Camden, 9 July, 1599, the arms, which, with variations,
are borne by every division of the family. f
* Vide a fac-simile of this document at p. IV'J.
t William Camden, the great topographer of Britain, was the son of a house-painter, and horn in the Old Bailey,
London, 2 May, 1.551. He was educated at S. Paul's School and at Oxford. In 1575, he obtained the place of second
master at Westminster School, and became head master in 1592-3. From his first appointment, ho occupied every
vacation in travelling, and, after ten years' labour, first published his " Britannica," in 1586. Having principally devoted
himself to antiquities and genealogy, he, in 1597, resigned his scholastic chair for the dignity of Clarencieux King-of-
Arms. In 1C09, he was apjiointed one of the two historians to the New College, Chelsea; and he afterwards founded, in
1(;22, the Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford. He died at his house at Chiselhurst, 9 November, 1G23, and was
buried with full liouours in Westminster Abbey. He was an ornament to his favourite pursuit, and a striking instance
111 an individual, tlirougli his own merits, rising to high station and importance, without family, riches, or interest.
Piilwliele, in his "History of Devon," quoted by f^ig Bernard Burke, slates tliat "the family of Sheale, or Seale,
early inhabited Northumberland, whose ancestors distinguished themselves by their loyal attachment to the Crown, as
well as by their w.-irlik<> achievements. ■ In 1-12(; liichard Sheale was a chief in the famous battle of Chevy Chase, and the
head of tliat memorable acti<pn. Tlieir arms were bestoweil upon Robert Seale for liis services in guard of the Queen's
person. On the death of Elizabeth the same Robert settled in .Tersey ; his only surviving son, Thomas, m.arryiug Ann,
fourth daugliter of Colonel Philip Carteret." A glance at the annexed tabular jiedigree (which has been carefully
compared, like the majority of the others iu tliis work, with family documents and parochial registers,) will show the
several errors of this account. Althongh, IVum the rarity of the name in England, it is more than probable that the
Nortbuiiiluiau Scales descended from those of .Jersey, it is absurd to suppose the present baronet comes of the former, as
7ir ir//r'ft/ f///s /'////'/• /.■; /y/y.Nvv/Av/ /<' /A,- /f/'/-/,'.
Br K/irm f/iisP/'i/r iiPrr.in,tf,i tf the Wnri.- .
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 331
Sir Henry-Paul Seale, Bart., of Mount-Boone, near Dartmoutli, Devonsliire, represents
one branch of the family : the Jersey branch is represented, among other members, by -John-
Alfred Seale, Esq., of S. Brelade : and anotlicr section is represented by Edward-Wilmot
Seale, Esq., of Malmesbury House, East Duhvich.
Arms (as borne by Sir Henry-Paul Seale, Bart.) : Or, two barrnlets, azure, between three
wolves' heads, erased, sable ; in the fesse point, a mural crown, gules. Quartering : Or, on a
fesse, azure, a rose, argent, seeded of the first, barbed, vert, between two plates ; in chief, a
greyhound, courant, sable, for Hayne : and. Ermines, a trefoil, slipped, or, between three round
buckles, the tongues pendant, argent, for Jodrell.
Crest : Out of a crown vallary, or, a wolfs head, argent, the neck encircled with a wreath
of oak, vert.
Arms (as borne by John-Alfred Seale, Esq.): Argent, a fesse l)etween three wolves'
heads, erased, sable, a mullet for difference. Quartering : Argent, a leopard's head, cabossed,
gules, between two flaunches, sable, each charged with a plate, a crescent for difference, for
Anthoine : Gules, a sand-glass, surmounted of a cross patee-fitchee, argent, between six mullets,
or, for Kenouf : Ai-gent, on a chevron, between three martlets, sable, as many fleur-de-lis of the
field, for Falle : Argent, a lion, rampant, gules, for Hamon : Gules, four fusils conjoined in
fesse, argent, a fleur-de-lis for difference, for De Carteret : Azure, a unicorn's head, erased,
argent ; on a chief of the last, three sinister wings, sable, for Chevalier : Sable, a lion,
rampant, argent, a crescent for (hfferenee, for Syveet : and. Gules, three hands, apaumc, argent,
for Le Goupil.
Crest : A wolfs head, erased, sable.
Motto : Loyal en tout.
Arms (as borne by Edward-Wilmot Seale, Esq.) : Or, a chevron, azure, between three
wolves' heads, erased, sable. Impaling : Or, a lion, rampant, guardant, gules, holding in the
dexter gamb a fleur-de-lis, azure, for Ducker : and. Or, eight shields in orle, sable, for Crook.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, a wolf's head, erased, argent.
Motto : Incepta persequor.
his family has, from the most remote period, been settled and possessed lands, and a prominent position, in its ancestral
parish of S. BrelaJe : an absence of documents alone prevents the pedigree from being traced up to the twelfth or thir-
teenth century.
332
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
^acUitjiff of ^fak.
Leonaed Seale, of S. Brelade, b. 14'25 = Carterette, d. of Richard ripon.
I
Jclm Seale, b. 1-150 = Catheriae, d. of ... Fiott.
Germain Seale, b. 1484 = Mary, d. of ... De Carteret.
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Carterette, b. l-i52.
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CoUas SeaJe, b. 1513 = Sarah, d. of Stepben Baadajn.
Guillemette, b. 1513.
Germaiu Seale, b. 1537 = CoUette, d. of Clement Estur, m. 15C3. Leonard, b. 153'J.
1
Laurens, b. 1541.
Catherine, b. 1544
John Ficqnet.
John Seale, = Denise, d. of Thomas
b. 1564.
Pipon, m. 159C.
Peter, b. 15C6 = Sarah, d. of . . Clement,
I m. 15'JS.
Thomas, Constable of
S. Brelade.
i
Abraham.
Mary, b.
1572.
Peter Seale, Sarah, b. 1605. Collette = Edward Anley. Jane, d. of Hichard
b. 1C08. m. 1623. Orange, m. 1606.
I
Germain Seale. 1. Susan d. = John, b. 1606, = 2. Elizabeth,
Jane, d. of
Bailhache.
Germaiu Seale,
b. 1624.
of James
Le Goupil,
m. 1635.
Constable of
S. Brelade.
d. of ...
Bailhache,
m. 1647.
Thomas, b. 1605,
Jurat R.C.
Ann, d. of Elias De
Carteret, m. 1635.
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Peter, b. 1610, Jane, b. 1604 = PIdlip
settled at m. 1630. Le
Sonthampton. Geyt.
Philippine, b.
1602.
Laurens
Hamptonne,
Vicomte of
Jersey.
Thomas Seale, b. 1643, o.s.p. George, 0.S.7). Elizabeth, b. 1640.
I
Amy, b. 1641.
Peter Seale, b. 1648 = Mary, d. of Francis De Carteret, Jane, 6b.jv.v.
I Jurat R.C, m. 1675.
Jane = Edward Hooper.
Francis De Carteret, Attorney-
General of Jersey, b. 1662.
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Peter Scale, b. 1076. John, b. 1681, Seig. of Samares.
Mary-De Carteret Seale,
only d. and h.
Frances, d. of ... Roussy.
T
John Godfray, m. 1740. James Seale. Sold Thomas.
Samaras to the Ham-
mond family.
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Thomas, Rector of S. Clement, Mary, b. 1678.
settled at Somerford, near
Malmesbury, Wilts. Rev. Daniel
Tapin, Rector
Elizabeth, d. of ... Dumaresq. of S. HeUer.
T
From whom descends Edward-Wilmot Seale, Estj.,
of Maknesbory House, East Dulwich.
Aim, b. 1683.
iVmice La Cloche,
Seig. of Longue-
ville.
John Seale, b. 1640 = EUzabeth, d. of Philip Benest, m. 1660.
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John Seale, b. 1667 = Jane, d. and h. of John Anthoiue. Thomas, b. 1069 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Pipon, Elizabeth, b. 1661. Susan.
I I m. 1692.
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Thomas Seale, b. 1702. 1 d. of Charles = John, b. 1705, purchased the estate =3. Maria, sister of Sir John Ann. Elizabeth.
Haynes, o.s.p. of Mount Boone, eo. Devon. Rogers, Bart, o.s.p.
2. Elizabeth, d. of John Fownes.
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John Seale, of Mount Boone = Sarah, d. and h. of Charles Hayne, m. 1775.
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Thomas.
Henry.
i
Elizabeth.
Charles Fanshawe, of Exeter.
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John-llonry Seale, of Mount Boone, M.P. for Dartmouth, Robert, Charles-Henry, Capt. R.N. Harriet-Anne. Elizabeth-Maria.
b. 1785, d. 1844, or. a Baronet. o.s.p. ■
Ebza, d. of Sir Wm. Twysden. Thomas Lister. George Kekeswick,
= Chief-Justice, Cape
I of Good Hope.
Paulina-Elizabeth, only d. and h. of Sir Paul Jodrell. Kt.,
m. 1S04.
I
Charles Seale.
Phcebe.
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1
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si
M
X'.fii.
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
333
Sir Henry-Paul Seale, Bart.,
of Mount Boone, b. 1806.
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Charlea-Hayne, Edward-Taylor, Thomaa-Pownes,
b. 1808, d. 18i2. b. 1811. Inorders. Capt. <J4th Regt.,
■ b. 1817.
Emily, youngest d. of Col. Louisa, d. of Amelia- Anne, d. of
Hartmami, Coldstream Guards. Richard Jennings. George Templer.
Charles-Hayne Seale, b. 1833.
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George- Frederick-Southcote, Elizabeth-
Augustus, E.A., b. 1827. Jane.
R.N.,
b. 1819, Harriet, d. of J. A.
d. 1844. Harvey, m. 1851.
John-Henry Seale, Esq., b. 1843.
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Lucy-Clara.
I
Jane-Josephine.
Emily-Paulina-Meyrick.
Another daughter.
Philip Seale, b. 1691 = Mary, d. of John Renouf, m. 1714.
I
Jane = John Hamou.
1. Mary, d. and h. of Matthew Renouf, and co- representative = John Seale = 2. Susan, d. of Joshua Le Goupil, o.s.p.
of the family of Falle. |
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John Seale, 1. Jane, d. of Philip Le= Thomas, = 2. Mary, d. and h. of James Scous, and co-representative of the families Mary.
b. 1755, o.s.p. Feuvre-dit-Fillatre, b. 1757. I of Hamon, De Carteret, Chevalier, Syvret, and Le Goupil.
o.s.p. I Daniel Hamon.
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Thomas Seale=Mary-Ann, d. of John 1. Esther, d. of John = John = 2. Elizabeth, d. of Daniel. Philip.
I Le BoutiUier. Le Boutillier. I John Le Bruu.
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Mary. Elizabeth.
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Thomas Seale. John. Mary-Ann. Elizabeth. Jane.
John-Alfred Seale.
Rachel, d. of . . . De La Haye.
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I
Philip Seale,
I
Daniel.
I
John.
I
Harriet.
^imonct,
HE family of Simonetta of Italy is one of those princely and magnificent houses
recorded in the sumptuous work of the Marquis Litta. It appears, by this book, that
from a very early period the family held a distinguished position in Calabria, as well
as in other parts of its fatherland, and has given many eminent members to both
Church and State.
The establishment of the name in France is due to the attachment of Guiot de Simonnet
to his august mistress, Valentine, Duchess of Milan, afterwards wife of the Duke of Orleans.
The Chevalier de Simonnet was premier esquire to this royal personage, and settled in France
in 1389. Certain of his descendants, of the province of Champagne, whose nobility was
questioned some centuries after, proved their connection with (4uiot de Simonnet, and their
right to the privileges and inmiunities of their rank.'
From the fact that more than one of the armigcri of Lorraine derived their right to the
* " Jacques-Maximilien et Nicolas de Simonnet, Sieurs de Singly et de la Lobbc, en Rethelois, a\-aient ete condamnes
contradiftoirement commc ufurpateurs dc noblelTe parjugement du 24 Mai, 1668, chacun a 500 livres d'amende, et taxes a
3 livres de taille. lis en appeleient an Confeil d'Etat, ou, fur la produdlion de leurs litres depuis Guiot de Simonnet,
premier ecuyer de Valentine, duchefle de Milan, qu' il fuivit en France lorfqu'elle vint epoufer le due d'Orleans, en
1389,113 furent maintenus [nobles] par arret du II Juin, 1671. Les Armes : De gueules, a trois cosurs d' argent, lurmontes
de trois eftoiles du meme." Hde Lalne, " Archives Genealogiques et Hiftoriques de la Nobleflc dc France," vol. vi., Nobiliaire
dc Champagne, p. 9 I.
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334 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
title of noble from their descent, in the female line, from this famil}-, it may be concluded that
the branch which settled in this province was of some consequence and wealth."
Another branch settled in Paris, where one of the name became a Councillor of the
Parliament of that city, as appears by a splendidly illuminated MS., now in the British
Museum. f Some of these families bore arms nearly identical with those assigned to the
Italian house of Simonetta ; while others, as is frequently the case in France, had arms granted
them totally distinct from those of the stock from which they descended.]:
The branch founded in Jersey nearly two centuries ago, was an offshoot of the Seigueurial
line of La Grossiniere, in Britany.§ Peter Simonet, having embraced the tenets of the Pieformed
faith, fled his country to avoid the disastrous consequences of the Pievocation of the Edict of
Nantes. j I
* " Nicolas Freminez, demeurant a Wraincourt-les-Clermont, fils de Gerard Freminez, qui en 1521 cut pcrmiffion de
lepraidre la nohleffe dc Marguerite S'wwmiet, fa mere, et d'en porter Ics ames. Porte — d'azur, au lion d'or, lanipafle de gueules,
tenant un baton noueux d'or, pofe en pal."
" Didier Simonin, Procure ur-General au bailliage de Clermont, obtint du due Charles III., des lettrcs expediees a Bar, le
2 Odobre, 1579, portant permiffion dc reprendre la noblefle et les armes de Jacqueline de Chappe, fa mere. Porte — d'azur, au
lion leoparde d'or, arme et lampafle de gueules, tenant un baton noueux d'or, en pal ; I'ecu furmonte d'un armet morne, orne de
fon bourlet, et lambrequin aux metail et couleurs du dit ecu. Lefquelles armcs etaient celles de Collette Simonet, femme dc Martin
de Chappe, qui etait bifaieiil de laditc Jacqueline." Vide " Armorial de Lorraine ct du Barrois, par Dom. Pelletier, fol.,
Paris, 1758," pp. 267, 752.
■j" /''/(/{•"Catalogue et blafons de tous les Confeillcrs du Parlcment de Paris, depuis 1600, jufqu'cn 1719." Additional
MS., 21434. Arms of Louis- Fhancois Simonet, Conucillor of the P.arliament of Paris, elected 30th January, 1G97 :
Argent, three martlets, two and one, surmounted of as many barrulets, all sable ; on a chief, gules, three mullets, or,
the centre adorned of an eastern crown, of the first.
\ Arms of Simonetta, of Calabria, Milan, and Parma: Azure, a lion, rampant, argent, crowned, or, holding a
cross-passion, gules. Vide " Famiglie Celebri d' Italia, Pompco Litta, Milan, 1819."
§ Vide an extrafl from " L'Armorial General de France," rcceuil manufcrit et officiel confcrve a la Bibliotheque Imperiale de
Paris, et dreffe par ordre du Roy, Louis XIV., de 1696 a 1710. — "Josue Simonet, ecuyer, Sieur de la Groffiniere, Lieutenant
des Vaiileaux du Roy, et Capitaine d'une Compagnie franchc dc la marine, portc — d'argcnt, au chevron d'azur, accompagne dc
trois grenades de finople, deux en chef, et une en pointe."
II In 1C.S.5, appeared the famous Ordonnance, very vaguely, and perhaps even incorrectly, known as the " Eevocation
of the Edict of N.antes." The Edict itself was totally untenable, organizing anarchy, and establishing one empire within
another. All these objection.ible and anarchic regulations were annulled by Richelieu, and nothing of it remained, save
the tolerance of the Huguenot religion, and that confined to certain towns and districts. The Ordonnance of 1G85 revoked
this tolerance ; forbade all assemblies for the exercise of the Reformed faith ; banished all its ecclesiastics from the
kingdom in fifteen days ; offered to such as would recant, their pensions, augmented by a third, which was to be continued
to their wives ; compelled the baptism of all children in the Catholic Church ; and condemned to the galleys all, except
the pastors, who should attempt to expatriate themselves. This, indeed, instead of being a revocation, was a new and cruel
enactment, and produced amplifications even more severe. In 1686, a Protestant pastor, French or foreign, was punished
with death if taken. Men who assisted or harboured them were sent to the galleys ; and women, shaved and kept in
confinemeut ; and the sum of five thousiind five hundred livres set on each of their heads. Death was the penalty for a
Protestant taken in an assemldy or act of public worship, which, with other cruelties, are given to the world by Catholic
writers, justly horror-stricken at their enormity. Noailles, in his Memoirs, relates that the fugitives who assembled on
the motmtains were pursued ; a premium was offered to each parish that would give up twelve, and three or four pistoles
to each soldier who brought in one. Battues were made through the country as though wild beasts, and not fellow-
creatures, was the prey sought; and the Catholics, in a manner most pitiful to their religious adversaries, made game of
those they could not otherwise convert. However, by ihis intolerance, wliich really had for its basis more of political
than religious animus, Louis XIV. lost 50,000 families of his best and most industrious subjects, of whom it is calculated
no less than 3,000 found, about this period, the refuge which the proximity of the Island of Jersey oflerod to the Pro-
testants of the North of France.
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PEUS
^X.M
one'^
J A m t'^ f 1} a II: li e tw ^^ Hi Ki u ti e 1 , 1' i o ij n i ti c.
COLON E L, R.J.M.
/i'w//r/>t //ii.<Phit/- u^ IWx'-iiU'i U- tlu Wrrk.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
335
In tliis island, the family of Simouet has, like those of the major portion of its co-
religionists, floiirished greatly. It has given, in each generation, officers to the mihtia of the
island, and has shomr a praiseworthy loyalty to the Cro\vn. The late John Simonet, Esq., was
one of the most talented financiers and speculators the island has ever produced ; indeed his ■
talents as a banker would, had they been exercised in a more extended sphere, no doubt have
realized a colossal fortune. As it was, he became possessed of much real and personal property,
was Seigneur of the fiefs Du Buisson and Debenaires, a Captain in the Militia, and, on the
subjects to which he had devoted his attention, was the best and most reliable authority in
his native island."
The principal member of the family is James-Matthews Simonet, Esq., Colonel R.J.M.,
of Queen's Eoad, S. Helier.
Arms (as borne by James-Matthews Simonet, Esq.) : Argent, a che\Ton, azure, between
three pomegranates, ppr. Quartering : Azure, three lozenges, argent ; on a chief of the last,
three roses, gules, for Le Pelletier. Impaling : Ermine, on a chief, indented, sable, t^o lions,
rampant, argent, for Burr. On an escutcheon of pretension : Azure, three stirrups, or, for
PuREFOY. Quartering : Argent, three pairs of hands, couped, in friendship, ppr., for Shireford.|
Motto : Deus si monet.
^Dfliigrff of Simonet.
PiEBBE, or Peter Simonet, a cadet of a noble Breton house, and
descended from the famous family of Simonetta, of Italy, tlirough
Guiot De Simounet, Esquire of Valentine, Ducliess of Milan, 1389.
Peter Simouet migrated to Jersey in consequence of the Revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, and was buried there, in 1757.
Catherine, d. of ... Thoreau.l
I I
Peter Simonet, = Elizabeth, eld. d. and James, b. 174S,
R.J.M.,
m. 1769.
co-h. of Aaron Le
Pelletier, b. 17-13,
d. 1S27.
d. 1818.
. d. of .,
Guillet.
Mary,
b. 1748,
d. 1753.
(twin with
James.)
Leonard Le Pelietiee.
Gideon Le Peltier, m. 16-'G, d. lGCO=Jane, d. of .
I
Marett.
Gideon Le
Pelletier.
i I
James.
David,
oh. juv.
I
Isaac.
Mary, d.
of ... Picot.
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John.
David.
Jane.
Solomon, b. 1640.
d. 166G.
Susan, d. of Aaron
Le Bailiff.
John Le Pelletier.
I
Aaron Le Pelletier, b. 1 G62 = Alice, d. of . . . Wilshere. Susan, b. 1 GOG.
* His father, Peter Simonet, as a mark of liis loyalty and liberality, presented to the local GoTernmcnt, both
ordnance and ammunition, as appears by the following : —
" Mr. Peter Simonet ofFer'd, and with my approbation gave up to the ufe of the ifland, two iron guns, fix-pounders, with
Ihip carriages and ncceilary implements, with feme ammunition, which were by my order placed in Battery, near St. Lawrence
Bulwark, St. Helier's Bay, to be ufed during the war.
"St. Helier, 13 Oft., 1779. (Signed) " H. S. Conway."
"The above-mentioned fix-pounders have, by my direftions, and with Mr. Simonct's confent, been removed to the fmall
battery of Rolelle Harbour.
"140a., 1793. (Signed) "J.H.Craig."
The originals of these documents are in the possession of the donor's grandson, Colonel Simonet, and were signed
respectively by Marshal Conway, then governor, and Colonel Craig, Commander-in-Chief, of Jersey.
t "William Purefoy, of Shireford, Hving in 1396, was the founder of this family, and married Margaret, daughter
and heiress of Thomas Sliireford, of Shireford. Some branches of the Purefoy family bear the Shireford arms as a
paternal bearing. Vide Burke's " General Armory."
t Arms of Thoreau : Azure, three bulls' heads, cabossed, or. Crest : A bull's head.
u u 2
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AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Aaron Lo Pelletier, b. 1684. = Elizabeth, J. of ... Pomeroy.
1
Susan, b. 10S3.
i
Margaret,
b. 1686. 1
1 1
Aaron Le Pelletier, m. 1743. = Elizabeth, d. of Clement Nicolle. Susan, b. 1708.
1
Catherine, b. 1718.
1
Elizabeth, b. 17
Elizabeth Le Pelletier, eld. d. and co-h. Esther,
b. 1747, d. 1837.
Peter Simonet.
T
Mary,
b. 16S9.
Peter Simonet,
Col. R..J.M.
I
1. Mary, d. of John^John, Capt. R.J.M., = 3. Charlotte, d. of .
I
Francis, Lieut.
I
Elizabeth.
I
Esther.
d. of ..
Gej-t.
Le
Matthews, formerly of
Bishop's Waltham,
Co. Hants.
Banker, d. 18-iO. Stanley, sister-in-law H.M. 63rd Regt.,
of General Grantham, d. iu Barbadoes. 1. ... Thoreau.
3. Ann-Laurence, d. and relict of Thomas
Gideon Dallaiu,
Constable of S.
of John Stead.'
Lihou, of Guernsey.^
2. Dr. Poingdestre. Laurence.
Colonel R.J.M.
John-Peter Simonet, M. A., late of Colomberle 1. Emma-Sophia, d. of = James-Matthews, = 2. Sidney, eld. d. and co-representative
of Colonel Thomas Purefoy, and widow
of Alexander Draper, of Crewkeme,
CO. Somerset, s.p.^
I
Emma-Maria-Ann-DorainicuB-Burr, only
surviving child and heir.
House, a Gentleman- Commoner of S. Ed- Professor George-D.
mund's Hall, Oxford, and Capt. R.J.M. Burr, of the R. M.
Coll., Sandhurst.
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Walter- Fitzjames-Dominieus Simonet, oh. juv. Cecil-Augastus-.John, oh. jvv.
Francis-.John Simonet, Major, R.J.M., of Radier, Grouville.
Charles.
I
Ann.
Eliza.
I .
Maria.
d. of . . . Gorle. §
R. P. Mallet, aotu
Malet.
Rev. ... Lee.
Philip Le Comu, Seig. of
Vinchel&-de-Haut.
I
Francis Simonet, oh. Juv.
Wfflii
John.
Mary.
Louisa.
ICCORDING to that maguificent and rare monogTaph, "La veritable origine de la tres-
ancienne et tres-illuftre maifon de Sohi^r," it appears that Peter de Vermandois was
descended directly from Charlemague through his gi'eat-graudsoii Pepin, the tirst
count of that name. Peter de Vermandois was descended from this Pepin, in the
sixth degree, and was surnamed Hohicr, which signifies the victorious, and from his grand-
nephew derived a family of the same name, settled in the Netherlands, which was represented
in 16G1, by Constantine 8ohier, Baron of the Holy Empire, and Seigneur of Warmeuhuysen,
Crabbendam, and Out-Poelgeest.
It appears from the remarks of the learned author of the above-quoted monograph, that
Sohier, variously written Siger, Zegher, Seicher, Sicher, and Seger, is derived from the old
German Zeger, which signifies the victorious, or according to Grammaye, modcstns hounr.
* Arms of Stead : Argent, a unicorn, segreant, sable,
t AuMS of Stanley : Ermine, a griflin, scgroant, gule.s, crowned, argent.
\ Colonel Thomas Purefoy married Eliza-Mary, eldest daughter of William-Hogg Lecky, Esq., of Londonderry,
who several times represented that city in Parliament, alternately with his wife's cousin, Sir George Hill, Bart.
§ Arms of Gori.e : Barry of eight, or and gules.
11 Par J. C. r». 1). A Loydcn, chez Francois Hache, lOGl. Imperial folio.
Jersey AND "Boston. N.A.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 337
The middle of the sixteenth century was a period rife with rehgious and poHtical persecu-
tion, which seems often to have scattered the house of Sohier. " Hugues Sohier," saj-s the
Leyden genealogist, " ne en Tan 1550, ne pouvant porter une confcience forcee, comme il vit que
le Due d'Alve voulait introduire, par force, la Religion Romaiue, trouva bon d'abandonner fa propre
patrle."
It would seem that political rather than ecclesiastical trouble brought the Sohier family to
Jersey, as its earliest settlers were of the Romanist faith. The first member, of whom local
record is found, is John Sohier, whose name appears in a roll of the Royal Court, dated 1525.
Sire John Sohier, Presbyter, is mentioned in a deed of 1547, as guardian to the children of his
brother, MarjTi Sohier. And in another document dated the same year, the names of Nicholas,
John, and Thomas Sohier occur, related undoubtedly to the family which has for centuries been
settled in the parish of S. Martin.
In the eighteenth century, the eldest branch of the Jersey family settled in America, which
is now represented by William-Davies Sohier, Esq., of Boston, U.S.
In Jersey, the head of the family is George Sohier, Esq., of S. Martin. A junior branch
is represented by the Rev. John Sohier, of Nantes, and another by Philip-Edward Sohier, of
S. Helier.
Arms : Gules, a star of five points, argent.
Crest : A cross, argent, between the attires of a stag, ppr.
Motto : Stella XPI duce.
^ttiigrfe of ^ol;ifr, oi Ser^ej), anli of i^orti) Slmnita.
Philip Sohier, living 1540.
\__
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Philip Soliier = Colette, d. of ... Baudains. Peter, m. lC08 = Mary, d. of Augustine Le Manquais.
JuUan Soliier, b. 1599 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Bree, m. 1620. [
I PhUipSohier, b, 1611.
I \ '\ I
Edward Sohier, b. 1621. Peter, b. 1622. Clement, b. 1634. Thomas, m. 1656 = Elizabeth, d. of ... Joumeanlx.
1. Mary, d. of ... Badier. Thomasse, d. of ... Badier.
2. Rachel, d. of Le Brun. |
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Peter Sohier, b. 1649. Peter, b. 1660, m. 1690. 3 sons.
I I I _ . I ,-.„ „L. „.l
Julian Sohier, Samuel, = Elizabeth, d. of ... John, Charles, b. 1668. Philip. Elizabeth, Rachel, Rachel, d. of ... Le Feuvre, 3 daus.
d. 1658. b. 1664.
Jeune, m. 1690. b. 1665. b. 1632. b. 1055. d. 1737.
Susan, d. of... Susan, d.
Le Maistre. of . . . Neel.
I III Elizabeth Sohier, only d. b. 1698.
Thomas Sohier, WUliani, Elizabeth, Rachel, and h., b. 1690.
b. 1696. b. 1703. b. 1691. b. 1701.
Peter Soliier, = Sarah, d. of John Le Boutillier,
of Mont-au-Pretre, m. 1728.
338
AX ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Edward Saliier, = Rachel, d. of ... Stille,
b. 1691. I or Steel.
Deuis, = Sai-ali, d. of ... John Sohier, Peter, h. 1735, Peter, b. 1748, 7 daughters,
b. leya. Alexandi-e. b. 1734, d. 180i. d. 1737-8. m. 1766.
Rachel, d. and eo.-h. of John Filleul.
T
Jane, d. and li. of ... Lamy.*
John Sohier, b. IV^G.
Auu, d. of ... llcbert, of Coude-sm'-Noircau.
I
other childi'en.
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Peter Sohier, John, b. 1779, John, b. 1785. Four sona and
b. 1767. ob.jt'v. two daus.
Mary, d. of
Clement Salmon.
Elizabeth, d. and
co.-h. of Nicholas
Alicette.
I
I
Eev. John Sohier, b. 1781, m. 1806. Peter, b. 1782. Charles, b. 1784.
Mary-Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Bailly .
T
Peter Sohier,
ob.juv.
Edward.
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Mary, ob.juv.
I I
Rev. Jolin Sohier, Eev. Herbert,
of Nantes. of Bolbec,
Seine-luferieure.
Ann, d. of Joshua
Le Bailly.
I
I
Philemon. Auu.
... d. of ... Elizabeth.
Brasford, relict —
of Thomas FaHe. Ann.
Mary,
b. 1796.
John
Alexandre.
Jane = Philip.
Sohier.
I
A daughter, oh.juv.
I
John, 0. s, p.
1. Elizabeth, d.
of ... Capeldu.
2. Elizabeth, d.
of ... De Faye.
I I
Philip-Edward Sohier, b. 1837. Lomsa-Jane.
I I I
Edward Sohier, b, 1724, d. 1794, = Susannah, d. of ... Brimmer, Philip,
settled at Boston, N. America.
and grand-d. of Andrew b. 1728.
Vigoureux and Mary Ger- —
maine, Protestant refugees. Charles, b. 1730.
1. Martha, d. of = Edward-John, = 2. Anne, d. of
.. Syvret.
b. 1732,
d. 1816.
Gallichan.
Elizabeth,
b. 1726.
I
Martin-Brimmer Sohier,
b. 1700, d. 1792, s.p.
An othcer in the U.S.
Army under Geueral St.
Clair.
I
Edward, b. 1702,
d. 1793.
Mary, d. of ...
Davies.
I
John-
Baker,
b. 1767,
d. ISOl,
s.2y.
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Edward Elizabeth.
Sohier,
0-S.2). Francis De
Quetteville.
I
I
1. Jane, =Thomas=3. Jane, Thomas, Edward,
d.of... Sohier. d.of... b. 1772. b. 1777.
Payn. = Fleui-y.
William-Davies Sohier, Esq-j^EUzabeth-Amory, d. of
b. 1787, m. 1S09. I ...Dexter.
I IT" n \' ' " III II
Edward George, b. 1815. Thomas, Ann, b. 1797. Mary, b. 1803. Esther,
Sohier, b.l817,oJ. — — b. 1811.
b. 1S09. Mary,d.of...Aubin. — Elizabeth,b. 1798. Jane, b. 1806. —
= Thomas, — — Susan,
] b. 1820. Rachel, b. 1801. Frances,!). 1807. b.l813.
I
George-Douglas Sohier, oh.jvv.
I
Wallace- Aubin.
John-Edward, oh.jvv.
Edward-Dexter Sohier, Esq.=Louisa, d. of ... Amory.
"I
William= Susan-Cabot, d. of George- Mary-Davies. Elizabeth-Brunmer.
t ... Lowel. Brimmer.
i I Waldo Higginson. Henry Bryant, M.D.
Elizabeth-Putnam Sohier. Susan. Alice.
I
Joseph-Foster Sohier, Esq.
Mai-tin. George-Dexter. Hannah. Louisa. Susan-Prescott. EUzabeth-Amory. Emily-Dexter.
AMILY tradition states that the member of this family who settled iu Jersej' was
almoner of the Church of Condu-sur-Noireau, in Normandy, and who, being-
converted to the Eeformed faith, and consequently necessitated to fly his native
coulitry, was conveyed to a place of safety in the basket in which the loaves were
distributed to the poor of his parish.
* Arms of Lamy : Azure, two dexter liamls, conjoineil in friemlsliip, between five sliarks, cnibowed (lamies) 2, 2, and
I , argent. Tliis coat afl'ords a remarkable instance of the armcs jiurUint&s, as both charges refer to the name of the
family. May not tlie fishes have been introduced into the arms at a later iieriod than the principal charge, and when
the term Liunia was given to one sjjccies of the shark tribe ?
( ) I {Aj
i
liy wliir/i f'fi/nih' ''.x />/trlf i.t /»;x,/a,;/ /,i fj„- «>.//•.
gjdirtn^ yatpH. Ii^'^l"i«'
/,\ w/wm //(/y P!<ih- />■ fW.-v/i/,W /r' //<,■ ]l'>rk
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 339
At the period of the Kevocation of the Edict of Nantes, when this incident occxirred, a
coUateral member of the same family reached England, and settled in Spitalfields, who has
representatives now living in the neighboiirhood of London.
In Jersey, the principal members of the family are, John Sorel, Esq., the actuary of the
Savings Bank; Clement Sorel, Esq., chief agent of the'Impot; and Philip Sorel, Esq.,
Captain and Adjutant of the E.J.M. Aiiillery.
Arms : Azure, a partridge, close, or ; in chief three esloiles, argent.
Crest : A partridge, as in the arms.
Motto : Une foy, une loy.
o^ggg^
I HE name of Valpy is of great antiquity in Jersey ; mention of the name is made more
than once in the E.vknte of that island, of 1331 ; and by local tradition the family
is said to be an offshoot from the House of Volpi, of Italy, a branch of which came to
Normandy on the return of the Normans from their Italian expedition, under Roger I.,
son of Tancred, in the latter half of the eleventh century. The name, in the local dialect, has
always been pronounced precisely as if written Volpi.
Des Bois, in his " Dictioiinaire de la Noblesse de Franee," bears witness to the antiquity of
the Italian and French branches of the family. It appears by this work that the family of Volpi
or Vulpelli was one of antique nobility, settled at Lucca before the memory of man, Avlieuce a
branch migrated to Florence in the thirteenth century, and assumed the prenomeu of Biliotti,
retaining, however, the original arms. The archives of Lucca, Florence, and Como, abound
with entries of the names of members of this family, who have filled the highest offices in the
secular and ecclesiastical government of their respective cities.
In Jersey, the original branch of the family settled in the parish of S. John, of which Dr.
Richard Valpy, Head-Master of Reading School, and his brother, the Rev. Edward Valpy,
Head-Master of Norwich School, were members. As sound scholars and as pious divines these
gentlemen are too well known in England to need more than a passing eulogy in these pages.
Richard Valpy, Esq., of the Council of Trade, and of Heathlands, Wimbledon, is the
chief of the English branch. And Francis Valpy, Esq., of S. Martin, Jersey, represents the
eldest section of a branch long settled in that parish.
Arms (as borne by Richard Valpy, Esq.) : Ai-gent, a digamma, sable. Quai-tering :
Counter-bendy of six, gules and argent, on a chief of the last, a fox, courant, holding in the
mouth a cock, both ppr., for Valpy (ancient). Impaling: Or, a lion, rampant, vert, between
three crosses-crosslet, sable, for Sutton.
Crest : A mountain, ppr.
Motto : Valet pietas.
340 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
Arms (as borne by Francis Valpy, Esq) : Couuter-beudy of six, gules and argent ; on a
chief of the last, a fox, courant, holding in the mouth a cock, both p})r. Quartering : Barry
azure and or, an anchor, erect, counter-changed for Le Bosquet : Ai'gent, three trefoils,
slipped, sable, a rose, for difference, for Payn, of Ponterrin : Gules, three escallops, or, a rose,
for difference, for Dumaresq : Sable, three dolphins, embowed, argent, for De Bagot : Ai'gent,
three trefoils, slipped, sable, for Payn : Ermines, a cross-bow, drawn, in pale, charged with an
arrow, all argent, for Larbalestier : And, Gules, four fusils, conjoined in fesse, argent, a
rose in chief, for difference, for De Carteret. Impaling: Sable, on a chief indented, argent,
three martlets of the field, for Le Bas.
Crest : A fox courant, argent.
Motto : Vulpes hand capitur laqueo.
^arUiffrff of ©aipp, of ^. Sioljn, anli of (0ng:lanlr.
TiioMELiN Valpy.
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Jehannet A''alpy, liviug 1517 --- Jehaiine, d. of Symon Bysoliart. James. Martha ^ Guille Picot.
Jolm Valpy — Collette, d. of Guillemin Le Moignau.
Michael Valpy, living 15G5.
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1. Collette, d. of . = Edward Valpy, = 2. Jane, d. of Richard John. Perronelle = Clement Estur, Elizabeth, m. 1590.
j Uving 1614. I Le Quesue. of S. Marv.
I Secille, d. of ... " John Galle, of S. Peter.
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John Valpy, b. 1609. Michael, h. 1612. |
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Michael Valpy, b. 1605. Abraham, b. 1606. John, b. 1610 = Katherine, d. of P. Gibaut, of S. Laurence.
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John Valpy, b. 1637. Katherine, b. 1632. Secille, b. 1634. Jane, b. 1639-40.
^ .
Abraham Valpy, of age, 1623 = Esther, d. of John Hamon. EUzabeth, b. 1599.
\
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Edward Valpy, = EUzabeth, d. of Abraham, John, b. 1628. Clement, b. PhUip. b. 1633-4. Conard, b. 1639-40. Esther, b.
b. 1623. I ... Giffard. b. 1626. 1630-1. 1636-7.
Rachel, d. of ... Contauclie.
Richard Valpy, m. 1692, d. 1738 = Ann, d. of John Le Gallais.
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Richard Valpy, b. 1696, m. 1725, d. 1774. John. Clement. Judith, b. 1693, m. 1721. Ann, m. 1725.
F.Uzaljeth, d. of .. Anley. Abraham. Jane. Clement Eomerd. John Hamon.
"l"
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Richard Valpv, b. 1726 —^ Catherine, d. of John ChevaUier. Josliua, b. 1728, oh. juv. Km\. b. 1732, ob.juv. Mari,'aret,
I _ ■ _ b. 1738.
I John, b. 1735. Jaiie, b. 1736, ob.jur.
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1. Mai-tha, d. of ...Carey, of Guernsey = Rev. Ricliard Valpy, D.D., Head-Master Abraham- Rev. Edward, B.D., Ann,
I of Reading School, b. 1754, d. 1836. Joshua, Head Master of Nor- b. 1759.
I — b. 1757. wich Grammar School.
Carteretta-GorneUa Valpy.
2. Mury, d. of the Rev. W. Benwell, M.A.
1. C. Straker.
2. W.-A. Cnlpeper.
— Francis
John, Anne, d. of ... Western. Le
b. 1702. ^= Montais.
I
Rev. Jolin-Westem Valpy, M.A.
Elizabeth,
b. 1766,
o.t.p.
... Bishop.
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Richard Abraham- Rev. Gabriel, M.A., Anthony-Blagrove, WilUam-
Valpy. John, M.A., Rector of Eucke- Gapt. R.N. Henry,
o.s.}). bury, Berks.
Phoebe, d.
Joshua Harriet, d. Martha, d. of
Rowe, of of the Rev. W. Graham, of
Torpoint, S. Wyld, of Newbury, Berks.
Cornwall. Harrington,
— Somerset.
Anna, d. of Ro-
bert Harris of
Reading.
H.E.I.C.C.S.
CaroUne, d.
S. Jeffreys.
Rev. Francis
Edward-
Jackson,
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Mary, Frances. Catherine- Penelope-
o.e.p. Elizabeth- Arabella.
J. -A. Shutcr, Blanche.
M..\., Rector Thomas of Lee
Rev. Pet«r
of Garvestone, Roworth,
Norfolk. of
Blagdon,
EUza, d. of Somer-
John Pullen, set.
of London.
I
House,
Kent.
Rev. Ph. French, of
Filleul, M.A., Burton-
Rector of S. on-Trent .
Helier, and
Vice-Dean of
Jersey-
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JuKus-John- WiUiam-Henry. Thomas- Gabriel-Charles-
Culpeper-Valpy. Roworth. Blandy.
Flora-Georgina,
d. of W. Walkinshaw.
Harriet, d. of G.-
W.-K. Potter, Se-
condary of London.
Anthony.
Bird.
Anna, d. of
... Manby,
of Suffolk.
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Henry- Eliza- Francis- John-
Valpot- Carteretta. Hopkins. Clay-
Francis. Wortlungton.
Richard
ElweU.
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WiUiam-Henry-Valpy. EUen-Penelope. CaroUne. Catherine. ArabeUa-Jeffreys. Juliet-Anna-Owen.
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Robert-Harris Valpy= Jane, d. of W.-Fuller Maitland, Park Place, Henley-on-Thames. Anna=Thoma8 Maitland.
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Richard Valpy, Esq., of Wimbledon, b. 1820=EmiIy-Anu, d. of D. Sutton, of Rev. J.-Montague, M.A., Leonard-Rowe. Mary. Valpy.
I Kensington, and Tring, Herts. of Nottingham.
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Richard- Sutton Valpy, b. and d. 1845. Ai-thixr-Sutton, b. 1819.
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Emily-Margaret. Adelaide-Frances.
Abraham- Valpy^Elizabeth, d. of Matthew Le Gallais.
I
Edward= Frances, d. of Edward Lerrier.
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Edward Valpy, b. 1690, d. 1728-9=Abigail, d. of Richard Durell. John, b. 1694, d. 1747=Susan, d. of ... Comden. Margaret, b. 1687.
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Edward-Valpy, b. 1711. Francis,
b. 1716.
Elizabeth, d. of . . . Le Feuvre.
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Charles, Abigail, Esther,
b. 1718-9. b. 1713-4. b. 1720.
John Valpy,
b. 1719.
Jane,
b. 1721-2.
George Valpy, b. 1743-4=Esther, d. of Philip Le Geyt, Jurat, R.C. Elizabeth, b. 1740.
George Valpy, Matthew, George-Nicholas, Philip, Edward, Ann, Elizabeth, b. 1766. Esther-Ann,
b. 1771. b. 1773. b. 1776. b. 1778. b. 1782. b. 1769. b. 1(80.
Charles De S. Croix.
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Edward Valpy, b. 1680, m. 1720, d. 1739. EKzabeth. Esther, b. 1683. Frances, b. 1686. Catherine. Jane, iVmi
. - oh. ja'\ b. 1691.
EUzabeth.d. of ...LeMaistre, of S.Trinity. James De Carteret. John Mauger. John Hamon. Nichohis Williams.
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Abraham A'alpy, b. 1721. Edward, b. 1730, d. lS03=Mary, d. of ... Le Feuvre. Margaret, b. 1720. EUzabeth, b. 1723. Jane. b. 1 (32.
I
Edward Valpy, b. 1765 = EUzabeth, d. of Daniel Carcaud.
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342 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
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Edward Valpy=Elizabetli-De Jersey, d. of John Le Moutais. Margaret, b. 1807=Joliii Baudains. Ann.
John Arthur.
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Eilw.aril Valpy. Francis. John-Mourant. Dnmaresq. Elizabeth. Marj'-Aim. Ann. Jane. MatilJa. Clara.
James Lo Couteur, GrefRer of the Ecclesiastical Court.
^3rtiigiff of L'aljpp, of *. iWartm.
CoL.is Y.\LF\ = a davA/htei- of John NicoUe.
I
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.Martin Valpy, b. circa 1500, .1. 101.5. John.
I I
Nicholas Valpy = Mary, d. of ... John.
II .11
Colas Valpy. William, m. 1644 = Mary, d. and co-h. of John Payn, Seig. of Ponterrin. John, b. 1613. Thomasse.
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John Valpy, b. 16i4, m. 1682, d. 1727 = Jane, d. of Matthew NicoUe. WilUam. ni. 1085, d. 1693=Mary, d. of Clement De QuetteviUe.
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John Valpy, b. 1084, d. 1715.* Guille, Francis, Martha, William Valpy, Frances, Susan, b. 108", m. 1715.
b. 1087. b. 1093. b. 1089. b. 1090. b. 1685.
Susan, d. of John Aubin. Philip Gaudin.
I
John Valpy, b. 1714, m. 1 1 38 = Rachel, d. of .-. Mouraut, of S. Savioiir.
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The Rev. Francis Valpy, Rector of S. Mary.t Joshiia, b. 1714, Elizabeth, b. 1747. Jane, b. 1749. Rachel, b. 1751. Ann, b. 1756.
m. 1776, o.s.p. ■
Mary, d. of Nicolas FaUc, of S. Saviour. Daniel Poingdestre. Edward Joune. I'hil. Honnan. Michael
= Ann, d. of... Cabot. Ikradaius.
1 ^
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Francis Valpy, b. 1744. Thomas, b. 1775. James, Jane-Elizabeth. Elizabeth.
Surgeou R.N.
Ann, eld. d. and co-h. of Amiee Dnmaresq, 1[.D., and co-representative Philip Le Couteur, Philip
of the families of De Bagot, Payn, Larbalestier, and De Carteret. Capt. R.J.M. Thoreau.
\
Francis Valpy, Esq. = Jane, d. of John Le Bas. Anno. Elizabeth-Susan. Jane. Mary, o6. Maria- Weeks. Esther.
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Henry-Francis \ alpy. Frank-Dumaresq. Duprf -Andrew. Annie-Jane.
* Leading the rescue of some drowning persons at La Roque, this gentlemau perished with the last boat-load that were being brought to
the shore, on the 20th June, 1715. The rock where this tragedy took place is still knowu by his name.
t The Rev. Francis Valpy was a jnirson of the old " three-bottle " school. Accosted one day by a female member of his flock, after liis
delivery of a very eloquent and impressive sermon, she remarked, " Ah ! sir, the gown hides many defects ! " " Does it, madam ; pray then let
me Ifiul it to you," said the unabashed and facetious pastor.
Jii' w/inm /JiisPtaic isPre.^-eii/ed lo f/zr Itn/.
osfimKs VAff^i/f. Ks<wm-
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
343
S^autitn^
seal of paul de vaci.dvn.
(actual size).
of Yaudiu, identical iu origin with
De Vauklyu d'luiecoui-t, des Loges,
Perrette de Verdaveyne, was settled
1292 ; for by an Exchequer Roll of
Vaudin of this parish sensed on a
Prior of Wenlock, Justices of our
written Vauldyn, De Vauldin, and
have been anglicized De Walden.
the jury sworn to ascertain the
Trinity, as appears by the Extente
Roman Catholic priest, fell in leading
T appears that the family
the Norman family of
des Malmaisons, and De
at S. Helier so early as
that date is learned that Ranulph
jury under Robert Lysset and the
Lord the King.
The name has been variously
Vaudin ; and it is by some said to
Geoffroy Vaudin was one of
king's revenues in the parish of S.
of 1331. Sire Michael Vaudin, a
his countrymen to repel an invasion of the French, who had landed in Bouley Bay, in 1549.'
The curious seal figured above was engraved for Paul De Vauldin by Peter Mallet, of the
Town Mills, in 1564, and cost eleven livres tournois, as is recorded in a diary kept by Edward
Vaudyn, in 1684. The matrix is unfortimately lost ; but the impressions still in existence
prove it to have been no mean specimen of the seal-cutter's art as practised in Jersey in the
sixteenth century.
A branch of the family has been settled for several centuries in Guernsey.
In Jersey the family is represented by Charles Vaudin, Esq., M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P. Ed.,
and, iu a junior branch, by John Vaudin, Esq., of La Houguettc, 8. Saviour.
Arms (as borne by Charles Vaudin, Esq.) : Or, an eagle, displayed, between three
estoiles of seven points, sable ; on a chief, azure, the sun in splendour. Quartering : Azure, a
lion, rampant, argent, gutte, gules, for Le Brun : Or, on a mound, vert, a holly-bush, ppr. ; a
bordure, sable, entoyre of eight mullets of six points, pierced, of the first, for Bisson : and,
Gules, a mullet, argent, for Sohier.
Crest : An eagle, displayed, as iu the Ai-ms.
Motto : Povr ma libertay, povr ma patree.
Arms (as borne by John Vaudin, Esq.) : The same x\rms, Crest, and Motto. Quartering :
Or, fretty of six pieces, azure, for De Gruchy.
* Vide the "Gossiping Guide to Jersey," p. 2i. "Among the flain on our fide was found a Popifh Pricft of thi?
Ifland, whofe love to the Englifli Government and the hberties of liis country prevailing above the difcontcnts which the change
of religion that was made in that reign wrought on men of his order, made him appear that day in the foremoft ranks. An
example to be recommended to thofe of that perluafion in England, who out of an unjuft averfion to the prcfcnt Eftablidiment
would call in the French and iubjcct their native country to a foreign power. The poor Jerfey prieft was much the honcllcr
man and the better patriot.— V/de " Falle's History of Jersey," London, IG'Ji, pp. 25-fi.
Hollingsbed, iu his "Chronicle," ad Annum 1549, page 1055, .also makes mention of this warrior priest. Sire
Mycliel Yandyu's bravery is also mentioned in " L' Histoire de Normandie," ch. 7, page 284: " Ce brave hommc etait
le premier dans la breche."
Less than a hundred years ago a gr.anite tablet, with a Latin inscription commemorating the qualities of Sire Mycliel
as a priest and soldier, existed in the church of S. Trinity on the right of the pulpit pavement, but it has now shared the
fate of most Jersey mediaeval relics. It is traditionally affirmed by some of his descendants, that besides his own coat.
which was cut on the stone as figured in his neijhew's seal, he quartered : Two bars, ... in chief three cinquefoils .... A
piece of plate of the fifteenth century, in the possession of a member of the family, bears the same device.
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344 AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
^3riii0irf of ^iJniiDm, of ^, ^t\m\
Ranulfus De Vauldin, living 12G0.
T
R;niulphu3 Vauldyn, living 1292.
T
Geoffroy Vauldyn, living 1331.
T
Pol Vauldyn, 1373.
T
Pol VaiUdj-u, 1401.
I
... VauldjTi, 1440.
T
Helyer Vauldin, 1483.
T
Paul Vaudyn, 1.504.
John Vaudin, b. circa 1.5.50.
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.John Vaudin, Capt. J.M. = Elizabeth, d. of Edward Hamon, b. 1G09. Philip.
^1 7 ;-
] Andrint?, d. of John Le Boiitillier (I'zWfiPed.
Edward Vaudin, b. lGlO-1 = CoUette, d. of Peter, sou of John De Gruchy, of Vaudin, of La Houguette).
I of La H^rupe, m. Ifi35,
Edward Vaudin, 1). 1639-40 = Jane, d. and eventual h. of Nicholas Le Brun, of S. Trinity.
\
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Nicholas Vaudin, b. 1G79, o.s.y). John, Capt. J.M., b. 1G82. Edward, m. 1714. Jane.
Susan, d. of ... Barbet, m. 1710. Sarah, d. and co-h. of ... Bisson JIary, d. of ... Le Bruu. James Grandin.
of S. Trinity.
I Edward Vaudin, b. 1714-5 = Elizabeth, d. of James Graudin.
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John Vaudin, = Ann, d. of Francis Philip, Ehzaboth, Elizabeth, | | i
b- 1733. I Pirouet. b. 1735. b. 1731, 6i.ja». b. 1737-8. Edward Vaudin, Elizabeth, = James Perchard. Mary.
I oh. innupt. b. 1748-9. b. 1751.
I I III II n ^1
John Vaudin, b. 17G3, John, b. 17G9, m. 1793. PhOip, Dumaresq-Uenry, Mary, b. 17C5. Jane, b. 17C7. Margaret-Mary, b. 1780.
vh.jitv. b. 1771. b. 1773. — — ^
Elizabeth, d. and co-h. — Elizabeth, b. 17GG. Ann, b. 1777. William Wallace, m. 1798.
of George Sohier. Francis, b. 1775.
II II
John Vaudin, b. 1795, oh. juv. George-Joshua, b. 1797 = Elizabeth-Mary, d. of John Valpy, R.N. John-Philip, b. 1798. Elizabeth, b. 1794.
I
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John-Le Gej-t Vaudin, b. 1819, Charles, b. 1829, M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P. EUzabeth-Mary, b. 1821 =Thomas Boyle, of Elvina,
o5. in}iui>t., 1850. Lower Canada. b. 1832.
Eliza-Gordon, d. of Keith Macalister, of
Glenbarr Abbey, Argyleshire.*
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Charles-Gcorge-Gordon Vaudin, b. 18G2. Henry-Boyle-Beauohamp-S. John, b. 1863. Mary-EUinor-CampbeU, b. 1SC4.
* Arms of Macalister, of Glenbarr : Quarterly. 1. Argent, a lion, rampant, gules. 2. Or, a hand, in annour, holding a cross-crosslet,
fitch5e, gules. 3. Or, a row galley, the sails furled, sable, flags flying, gules. 4. On the waves of the sea, vert, a salmon, uaiant, in fosse, ppr.
OuESTS: 1. A hand, in armour, lioldiug a cross-cr)sslet, fitcheo, gules. 2. A dexter arm, in armour, embowed and couped at the shoulder,
holding a broadsword in V)end, all p)pr.
Moi'io : Per mare, per terras.
//(- tv/iriii ////s /'/,//; /s /'r,s,'n/,;/ /r //n llrrf.'
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY. 345
|3ftngrrf of S^aiitiin, of 2La ?i)oii5Ufttf.
Philip Vaudin {VideVedi. of Vaudin, of S. Helicr).
Andrine, d. of Jolin Le BoutiUier.
T
Pliilip Vaudin, d. before 1639. Noah. John. Moses. Racliel. Appoline.
Elizabeth, d. of ... Romcril. James Grandin. John Le Biclu'.
T
Noah Vaudin, hving 1G75, Deacon of S. Trinity = Mary, d. of ... Mahicr, m. drca 1C50.
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Noah Vaudin, b. 1G40. Philip, b. 1658 = Ann, d. of ... Messervy, ni. 1082.
I
Noah Vaudin, living 1696 = Margaret, d. of John Marett, of S. Trinity.
I
Noah Vaudin, living 1727, Deacon of S. Trinity = Jane, d. of John Coutanche.
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Noah Vaudin, living ]742 = Sa3an, d. of ... Blampied, m. 1740.
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Noah Vaudin, d. circa 1781. Philip, Capt. R.J.M., ni. circa 17C2.
Anne, d. of Jolm Giffard, of S. Trinity. Douce, sole h. of ... De Gruchy, of Kozel, S. Trinity.
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John Vaudin, Jane. EUzabeth. Charles Vaudin, b. 17G7 = Ann-EHzaboth, d. of Philip Richardson, of S. Martin.
o.s.p.
Charles Bisson. Noali Arthur. 1 ~~ i 1
Charles Vaudin, b. 1806 = Ann-Elizabeth, d. of John Le Riche, Elizabeth. Ann.
I of Catel, S. Trinity.
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John Vaudin, Esq., of La Houguette, Lieut. R.J.M., b. 1842. Anu-Ehzabeth. Elizabeth.
HE family of Vibert, Wibert, or Wiberd, is said to be of Tyrolese extraction ; and a
family settled at the present day in Geneva, named Wiberd, bears the same aims as
the Jersey family of Vibert. The insular branch must, however, have been settled
in the island from a very remote period ; for so early as 1292, Peter Yibeii, of the
parish of S. Brelade, is recorded as member of a jury serving under Robert de Lysset and the
Prior of Wenlock, the Justices-Itinerant of the King of England.
Philip-Dumaresq Vibert, Esq., who represents the eldest branch of the family, has a
contingent claim to the Seigneurie of S. Ouen ; and John-Este Vibert, Esq., M.A., of Christ-
Church, Cambridge, the representative of the junior branch, co-represents, besides, those
340
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
families whose arms are figured in liis plate, branches of the houses of De Carteret, Dumaresq,
Larl)alestier, Payn, Bagot, Crafford, and Le Bastard.
Arms (as borne by John-Este Vibert, Esq., M.A.) : Ai-gent, a fesse, azure, between three
eagles, displayed, sable. Quartering : Barry, azure and or, over all, an anchor, erect, counter-
changed, for Le Bosquet ; Argent, three lozenges, gules, for Arthur ; Per fesse, argent and
or ; in chief, a dexter hand, clenched, ppr., cuffed of the second ; in base, a mullet of the first,
for PoiNGDESTRE ; and Ai'gent, three owls, sable, for Le Couteur.
Crest : An eagle, displayed, per pale, or and sable.
Motto : Vi et lisERTate.
|3rt(ia:iTc of Wibtvt.
Helier Vui£HT = CatlicTUie, d. and co-li. of Pliilip Lo Bosquet,
Helier Vibert, b. 1652, o. s.p.
Pbilip = Mary, d. of Jobn Dumaresq, of Les Colonibiers, S. Mary,
I
Pliilip Vibert = Jane, d. aud co-li. of Johu Arthiu-, and co-representative of the families of Poingtlestre and Le Contour.
I
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Philip Vibert = Jane, tl. of ... De La Perelle.
Helier = Jane, d. of ... Balleine.
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Helier Philip. John. 1. Julia, d. = Thomas = 2. Ann, d. Jane. Elizabeth. Nancy. Mary. Susan. Margaret.
Vibert.
of Geo.
Elizabeth, Margaret, Deslandes.*
Ann, d. d. of ... d. of .
of Ph. Pirouet. Arthur.
De La = =
Perrelle.
of George
Deslandes. Charles Ph. Peter John Geo. De Matthew
Arthur. Pirouet. De Caen. Beuest. Carteret, Le Vavasseur-
Vale Farm, dit-DureU.
S. Peter.
I III
Frederick-WiUiam Vibert. W.alter. Florence-Ann. Adela-
I III
Thomas-Deslaudes Vibert. George-Deslandes. Jolm-Aniy. Julia-Deslandes.
I
Philip-Vibert. Helier. Mary.
I II I I I I I
I John-Arthur Vibert. Helier. Sybil-Shaw. Ma,rgaret. Caroline. Mary -Ann. Ehza. Jane-Sarah.
Ann Vibert.
Mary.
Eliza.
I
Henrietta.
!
Louisa.
The Rev. Jobn Vibert, ChnjJaiu
to H.M. Troops, Alderuey.
Susanna-Mary, d. of Philip
NicoUo, of S. John.
Ainias, o.s.p.
I
PhUip.
I
James.
Helier, d. 18(il.
1. ... d. of ...
1. Maria,nue, Elizabeth, d. and co-h. of Elizabeth,
d. of Johu William Dumaresq, grand- d. of John
De La Perrelle. son of EUas Dumaresq, Le Quesno. 2. ... d. of
Seig. of Les Augres, and Dubois.
2. ... d. of... co-representative of the
Barber. House and alliances of De
Carteret, of S. Ouen.
T
Mary. Jane,
o.s.2t.
Philip
Dumaresq, Abraham
of Les Giilard.
Colombiers.
AuMs ol Desi,,\nde.s, of IreLind : Argent, a saltiro, azure. Chest: Two hands, coupcJ and conjoined, holding a
lieart, all ]ipr.
AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY.
347
I
Jolra-Est^ Vibert.
Pliilir.
iratikla, 5tli d. of the Rev. Cliarles
Lo Touzel, Rector of S. Martiu.
Elizabeth,
I.
Jano-Ellzabeth.
Abraham Poiugdestre,
Capt. R.J.M.
I
Philip-Dauiel Vibert = Rachel, d. of ... Le Brocq.
I
Philip-Dumarcsq Vibert, b. 1843.
Elizribflh. b. 1840.
John-Este Vibert, M.A., late Scholar of ChriBt-Church,
Cambridge, and tutor to the sou of Priuco Vladimir
Bariatinsky, of S. Petersburg.
Arthur- Anne- Jane- Mary- Florence-
Reginald. Matilda. Elizabeth. Georgiana. Edith.
Amelia-
Henrietta.
Catherine-
WjTinc.
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Establishment. Such Assurances may be effected in a great variety of ways, to suit the circumstances and convenience of the
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are divided at the expiration of every fifth year. These profits may be applied either in Reduction of the Yearly Premiums until
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Prospective Allowances are, at each Division, set apart for those Policy-holders who are not immediately entitled to
participate in the Profits, but who will have paid Five Yearly Premiums before the next ensuing Division ; thus affording to the
Assured all the advantages of an Annual Division of Profits.
Specimens of the Additions already made to Sums Assured, at
Participating Rates of Premium.
Date of Policy.
Age.
Sum
originally
Assured.
Additions.
Sum now
Assured.
July, 1840.
April, 1841.
March, 1843.
December, 1848.
August, 1853.
September, 1853.
45
35
40
39
43
50
£5000
1500
2000
2000
3000
2000
£1558
405
530
401
332
278
£0558
1905
2530
2401
3332
2278
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i>
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AND REMARKS ON THE MEDIAEVAL ANTIQUITIES OE THE ISLAND.
BY
J. BERTRAND PAYNE,
MEMBRB DE l"iSSTITUT HISTORIQDE DE PRANCE ;
FEILOW OF THE QENEALOGiCAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN; HONORARY FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTKJDARI Kb
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SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, ONE MILLION.
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S^ift ^tprinunt
This Institution adopts both the Proprietary afl'l Mutua.1 systems of Life Assurance, and the Policy-holders i.n both
BR.\NCHEs are fully protected by the large Subscribed Capital of the Company.
In the Proprietary Branch, Assurances are granted at the Lowest Rates of Premium consistent with the security of the
Establishment. Such assurances may be effected in a great variety of ways, to suit the circumstances and convenience of the
Assured. Among others, where the Policy is made payable " on the Assured attaining Sixty years of age, or at Death, '^ that
eevnt should happen previously," is particularly deserving of attention.
In the Mutual Branch of this institution, the Policy-holders are entitled to the Entire Piofits of the Branch, which
are divided at the expiration of every fifth year. These profits may be applied either in Reduction of the Yearly Premiums until
the ensuing period of division, or in Additions to the Sums Assured.
Prospective Allowances are at each division set apart for those Policy-holders who are not immediately entitled to par-
ticipate in the profits, but who will have paid five yearly premiums before the next ensuing division ; thus iiffording to the Assured
all the advantages of an Annual Division of Profits.
Specimens of the Additions already made to Sums Assured, at
Participating Rates of Premium.
Date of Policy.
Age.
Sum
originally
Assured.
Additions.
Sum now
Assured.
July, 1840.
45
£5,000
£1,558
£6,558
April, 1841.
35
1,500
405
1,905
March, 184..3.
40
2, COO
536
2,53G
December, 1848.
3!»
2,000
401
2,401
August, 1853.
4-3
3,000
332
3,332
September, 1858.
5G
2,000
278
2,278
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EDITORIAL NOTICE.
Part IV. will be iflued as foon as its Illuftrative Portion can be completed. The delay
that has attended the completion of the current inftalment, is explained by the unprecedented
number of its Illuftrations, and by the hefitation the Author has manifefted in fending to prefs
Lineages or Pedigrees, the minutiae of which feemed to require elucidation or corredlion.
The Book has grown in beauty, in a like ratio as its importance and hiftoric value have
made themfelves apparent to its Subfcribers, the Gentle Men of Jersey. This fad: has fug-
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AND REMARKS ON THE MEDIAEVAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE ISLAND.
BY
J. BERTRAND PAYNE,
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LONDON AND
GUEBJSEY AND JERSEY.
SHORTEST SEA PASSAGE.
DIRECT SERVICE
BY THE ROYAL MAIL PACKETS
Via
SOUTHAMPTON.
The LATEST TRAIN leaves WATERLOO BRIDGE STATION, for the MAIL PACKETS
At 8.30, p.m.
The Royal Mail Packets leave the Rotal Pikr, Southampton, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
at a Quarter before Twelve Midnight.
They return from Jersey at Seven morning every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, calling at Guernset
about one hour and a half afterwards.
Passengers (under ordinary circumstances) can reach London at Ten o'clock on the evenings of the same days that they
leave the Islands.
FARES AND RATES.
PONY
Fares Per Mail Packets.
1st
CLASS.
1
2nd
class.
3rd
CLASS.
4-wheel
carriage
2-WHEEL
CARRIAGE
HORSE
NOTES.
12 H.
DOGS.
s.
*. d.
S.
S.
S.
S.
S. d.
London and Guernsey or Jersey, or vice versd
31
21
. ,
70
55
60
50
7 6
Ditto, Double Journev, available for one month
45
35
, .
, ,
, ,
. .
Southampton and Guernsey or Jersey, or vice versd, .
18
12
. ,
•10
30
40
25
5 0
Ditto, Double Journey, available for one month
30
20
••
••
Fares from Weymouth, vid Southampton.
Weymouth and Guernsey or Jersey, or vice versd. . . .
18
12
, ,
. .
. .
. .
. .
Ditto, Double Journey, available for one month
30
20
. •
Fares per Atalanta.
21
33
16
26
11 6
••
••
••
••
••
Ditto, Double Journev Tickets, available for one month
Southampton and Jersey, or vice versd
16
11
, ,
, ,
. ,
, ,
, .
Ditto, Double Journey Tickets, available for one month
30
20
••
••
Passengers can book from Reading, Yeovil, Exeter, &c., to Guernsey or Jersey, or vice versd, at the same rates as
from London, by the Mail Packets ; also from Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and other principal Stations, on the
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Children under Two Years of Age, Free. Ditto, above Two and under Twelve, Half-price.
REGULATIONS AS TO TICKETS.
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Passengers, with any of the Company's Tickets between England and the islands may stop at Guernsey, and go on to
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5 per cent, additional for every week thereafter.
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Inward Southampton and London Tickets are issued on Board the Packets, and at the Agents' Offices in Jersey
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Carriages, Horses, and Dogs, from Jersey and Guernsey through to London, must be booked at the Agents' Offices.
Carriages and Horses should be sent from Waterloo Bridge Station not later than bv the 10.15 a.m. Train on the day
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Stewards' Fees, each way.
First Class, 2s. ; Second Class, Is. Children under Two Years of age, free; above Two and under Twelve, half fees.
**■* Provisions can be obtained on Board at Moderate Rates.
GENERAL HEGUI.ATIONS.
The Company are not liable for unavoidable delays, accidents, or sea-risks of anv kind whatsoever. The Company do not
undertake to carry Passengers or Goods bv any particular Vessel.
London to Paris, via Southampton, Havre, and Rouen.
The Companv's fast Steamers sail every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Fares to Paris, 28s. First Class, and 20s.
Second Class. Return Tickets, availalile for a Month, 50s. First Class, and 36's. Second Class. See Separate Bills.
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In consequence of the demand for the " Armorial of Jersey" having increased with
its progress, a number of Parts II. & ///., amounting to a surplus of one hundred and
fifty above that of Part /., has been printed. As the supply of the latter is nearly
exhausted, it is proposed to reprint it, in a thoroughly revised and corrected second
edition. The Introduction will be re-written, and much augmented, more illustrations
will be given, and all known errors of oftiission and commission repaired. The rule of
recording pedigrees only of such fatnilies as present Special Plates to the work, will be
strictly acted on, a fact which the members of those fatnilies therein represented, will
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It will be necessary to forward to the Author, without delay, all the materials for
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in this case, be increased by a scrupulous attention to accuracy in these minuti^.
An elegant and emblematic cover, of appropriate tint, is in preparation, a specimen
of which will be placed in the charge of Mr. Le Boutillier, so soon as completed, for
inspection and approval.
Numerous inquiries have reached the Author respecting paintings of the insular coats-
of-arms. He is happy to announce that he has made arrangements with an eminent
heraldic artist to execute in colours, scaled fac-similes of every size, of the engravings in
this book, on paper, vellum, or glass.
The Author regrets his obligation again to allude to the vexata quastio of the sub-
scriptions. So much trouble and delay, however, have hitherto attended their collection,
that it must be imperatively understood, for the future. Parts are only to be obtained
by APPLICATION, between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m., to Mr. George Le Boutillier,
No. 9, La Colomberie, and for PRESENT PAYMENT.
Part V.
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AN ACCOUNT. HERALDIC AND ANTIQUARIAN.
CHIEF NATIVE FAMILIES,
WITH PEDIGREES, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, AND
ILLUSTRATIVE DATA;
Til WHICH AHE APnEl),
^ Brief ^\%it^xy> of Jl^traltriT,
AND REMARKS ON THE MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE ISLAND.
J. BERTRAND PAYNE,
MEMBRE PE l'iNSTITUT HISTORIQ^UE DE FRANXE J
FELLOW OF THE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN J HONORARY FELLOW OF THF. SOCIETY OF ANTI<IUARIES OF
NORMANDVJ HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW JERSEY HISTURICAI. SOCIETY J CORRESPONPINC MEMBER OF THE HlbTORICO-
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND J MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, AND OF
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS.
WITH PLATES OF ARMS AND SEALS FROM DESIGNS BY THE AUTHOR,
ORIGINAL, OR COPIED FROM THE BEST EXISTING EXAMPLES.
jmuccclxv:
SUBSCRIBERS' PRI^JTE ISSUE.
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J. JONES'S
HOT-WATER APPARATUS.
Size of Houfe.jNo. 17. Price
20 by 10 feetj ^^900
30 „ 12 „ I 12 o o
50 „ 15 „ , 18 o o
70 „ 15 „ 22 o o
100 „ 15 „ 26 o o
Size of Houfe. No. 22. Price
20 by 10 feet j^ 1 5
30 „ 12 „ ! 21
50
100
J5
15
29
37
45
0
o
o
o
0
No. 21
.
Price
l^Z
0
0
30
0
0
42
10
0
56
0
0
70
0
0
J. JONES will be happy to fupply HOT- WATER APPARATUS for HOUSES
according to any of the above Plans, delivered Free to any Station in England at the prices
named, which will include ftrong CAST-IRON CYLINDER or SADDLE BOILER,
FURNACE DOORS, FIRE BARS, SOOT DOORS, CISTERN and DAMPER,
4-inch HOT- WATER PIPES and CONNECTIONS, all of the beft quality ; or he will
forward ESTIMATES for WORK erefted complete, with WROUGHT or CAST-IRON
BOILER, of any sort, at a fmall addition to the above prices.
*,," The Black Circles on Secfions of Hoit/es Jlwvo the arrangement of Pipes. Illuftrated Catalogues and
further particulars poflfree on application to
J. J O N E S,
IRON MERCHANT AND HORTICULTURAL ENGINEER,
6, B A N K S I D E, LONDON, S. E.
TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY.
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THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC and PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
(Photographers to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, and to the International Exhibition,
1862), keep special Artists for photographing Landscapes, Country Seats, Family Groups.
&c., 6cc. Their charge for sending out is jTj 5s. per day.
Mncimt €oKU of ^xm€
PHOTOGRAPHED.
Any Nobleman or Gentleman requiring photographic copies of old Drawings of
Arms can have them executed with the utmost precision and despatch by forwarding
the Drawings to the Company.
A L B U
supplied to order, with the Family Arms Photographed in a most superior style.
ALBUM PORTHAITS, 21 for £1.
Two positions, with choice from either proof.
JUST ISSUED.
In our Gallery of Carte de Vifite Portraits of Contemporary Celebrities will be found an
excellent vignette likenefs of Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Poet Laureate.
LONDON STEEEOSCOPIO and PHOTOGEAPHIC COMPANY,
54 & 53, Cheapside ^ no & 108, Regent Street.
37, <jKAL.ii,L-i-iUKt^n > 1 Kr.r, 1 , i^Kn\\j\jv\.
EDITORIAL NOTICE.
Condusion of tijt ©Slork.
Parts V. and VI. of this [Fork will be iflued within a few weeks of each other, and will thus complete
the " Armorial " proper. Although fo long a period has elapfed fince the appearance of the laft Part, the two
concluding ones have been put into type within a fortnight of the reception of the final Item of Information.
jrurt!)rr Cnfoimntion rrsprrtinti: Vot ^injplrmcnt.
The "Supplement," a feparate Profpeaus of which is annexed, will contain all Corre£iions, Alterations,
?LnA Emendations in Parts III. to VI.; and feveral additional Plates and Pedigrees relating to Jerfey Families,
hefides the other primary fubjects which will form the bulk of this concluding Portion of the Work.
g lUpimt of ^DartEi $, anti \\.
Parts I. and II. will be reprinted in a thoroughly revifed form, and a General Index will be compiled in
accordance with the Pagination of the Second Edition. Suhfcrihers will be at liberty to exchange the Old Edition
of thefe two Parts for the New, on the payment of half the Suhfcription Price.
Ixrtmrtton of ,:i>prrial |3Iatf£i,
The Author begs to direft the attention of his Suhfcrihers to the annexed Profpectus touching the ReduSiion
of Special Plates.
an (£mbIa5onfii Cobfr of i\)t ♦*annoriaL"
A Cover for the " Armorial," in Gold and Scarlett, from an original defign, drawn expreffly for this
object, by Lukp; Limner, Esq^, F.S.A., is in preparation, and a Specimen Copy will be lodged with Mr. George
Le Boutillier, for the hifpeution and Approval of Suhfcrihers.
^3ai!itingg of tl)t Coat.6--of-91nnei of Insular jramilirsi.
The Author has, in numerous inftances, been confulte'd regarding emblazoned fac-fimiles of the Special
Plates engraved in this work ; he has confequently made Arrangements with an eminent Heraldic Artist to produce
Paintings, of any fize, on Vellum, Glajs, or Panel, as may be defired, for fuipenfion in the Hall or Lihrary.
" Cartf '53c-2Fi£iitt " ^ovtraits! of tlK ^ubefcribtrs to tftt *♦ i^rmonaL"
A copy of the Work has been interleaved for the purpofe of including therein " Carte-de-Visite "
Portraits, and Autographs, of the Perfons, now living, whofe Lineages are recorded. The Author will feel much
and fincerely obliged to all of his Suhfcrihers who will kindly iupply him with both, in order that the CoUeifion
rrtay be rendered as complete as poffible.
aargr ^9apn- CoptfS of the ** !3[rmoriaI."
A limited Numhcr of Large Paper Copies of the IVork flill remain unfold.
|)oitraitsi of Jn^ular 2Mortftirsi.
It has been propofed, as a welcome addition to the Contents of the " Armorial of Jersey," to further
illuftrate the Work, through the medium of Photo-Lithography, with the Portraits of Local Celehrities, paft and
prefcnt. Thefe lUuJirations, photographed from family paintings and from life, will be reduced to the fize of the
Work, and will form appropriate and interefting mementoes of the irorthies of ferfey.
The Author congratulates his Suhfcrihers on the Completion of the main Portion of this IVork. Ten Tears
of continuous Lahour have been rewarded by the ColleSiion of a mafs of Material, which, it is diffidently hoped,
may not be quite ufelcfs to future Students of the Hijlory of the If and.
*x.* Copies of Parts V. and VI. may be had on application only to Mr. George Le Boutillier,
5, Royal Square.
IRON MERCHANTS AND HORTICULTURAL ENGINEERS,
6, BANKSIDE, LONDON, S. E.
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