France, vol. v.). The head of this branch was a French Protestant of the sixteenth century (there was a Pasteur de Cazenove at Defau in Languedoc in 1568). The pedigree of the English Cazenoves begins with Charles de Cazenove, born about the end of the sixteenth century, whose son, Pierre, married Elizabeth Gaussorge about 1633. Their son, Charles (born 1634), removed from Guienne to Anduze; it was he who dropped the aristocratic “de” from his surname on entering upon business. Charles Cazenove died in 1699; but before that date, his family having been scattered by the Edict of Nantes in 1685, his son, Pierre Cazenove, had become a refugee in Geneva. There, on 15th June 1697, he had married Marie Plantamar, of Chalons-sur-Saône. On 21st April 1703 Pierre Cazenove and his two sons, Jean and Philippe, were enrolled as burgesses of Geneva. The eldest son, Jean, is the head of the Cazenoves in America.
After 1703 M. Pierre Cazenove of Geneva had a third and a fourth son, named Theophile and David. Theophile married Marie, daughter of the illustrious Paul de Rapin, Seigneur de Thoyras, and founded the Cazenoves of Holland; his son Frederick, however, was naturalized in England in 1772. David, born at Geneva in 1711, married, in 1737, Charlotte Marie Faure, and had fifteen children, three of whom settled in England — John, Charles-Henry, and James. Only one of these brothers left descendants — namely, James (born at Geneva in 1744), who married Marianna Houssemayne Du Boulay, and had four sons, Henry (born 1792, died unmarried), James, John, and Philip. Of these, James married Miss Knapp, and had, with other children, Edward and Frederick; and Edward’s son, Edward Cazenove, Esq. (born 1856), is now the head of the Cazenoves in England.
John married Miss Gibson, and is represented by his son, Rev. John Gibson Cazenove, D.D., Chancellor of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Philip, born in London in 1799, was educated at the Charterhouse School. He commenced business in partnership with Mr. Menet. This Mr. Cazenove had a long and prosperous career as a stockbroker, and died 22nd January 1880 in his eighty-first year. He was distinguished for unflinching integrity and intelligent devotion to business, combined with a high tone of sentiment and feeling. His leisure time was occupied with works of benevolence and charity. He was forward and generous in subscriptions to Church Societies, to hospitals, and to beneficent undertakings generally. His large hearted and substantial liberality will long be remembered in many quarters, and especially in the Anglican Church. He married Miss Emma Knapp, and had a large family; his son Henry has served as high Sheriff of Buckinghamshire; another son is Rev. Arthur Cazenove (born 1832), Vicar of St. Mark’s, Reigate, and Rural Dean, Honorary Canon of Rochester.
XI. Menet.
The family of Menet was at an early date established in the domain of Royas, near Beauchastel in Le Vivarais; its members were staunch Protestants, who remained in France as members of the Church in the Wilderness (Eglises du desert). As to their pedigree, the first names on record are Nicolas Menet and Marguerite Besson, his wife, who had two sons, François and Pierre. On 20th April 1600 the Duc de Ventador granted to the elder son, Francois Menet, the domain of Royas by the tenure of a lease renewable for ever. Francois’ son was Charles Menet, who married Louise de Lhomme, and had three sons, the eldest of whom was the father of Jean Menet. Jean Menet married, on 3rd December 1708, Marie Torras of Riou-de-bel, near Beauchastel, and was the father of Jean-François, François, Isabeau, and Jeanne (the latter was born in 1720).
Isabeau became the wife of François de Fiales. The devoted couple were worshipping with a congregation in the desert on 29th March 1735 when they were surprised and arrested by a company of dragoons; the husband was condemned to the galleys for life; Isabeau was imprisoned in the dismal Tower of Constance, where she was kept in durance for fifteen years. Jeanne was also arrested, but escaped to Geneva where, in the course of years, she was married to François Augustin Lombard. (Some of her letters are preserved, addressed to refugee correspondents in England — to her cousin, Pierre and Jean Gaussen; to Colonel Marc Antoine Saurin, condoling on the death of Rev. Louis Saurin, Dean of St. Patrick; to M. Saint-Féreol of Dublin; to M. Pelletreau, French pasteur of Dublin; and especially to her cousin, Francoise Portal, a refugee lady in Ireland. A volume was privately printed at Geneva in 1873, entitled Isabeau Menet, prisonnière à la Tour de Constance, 1735-1750).
Isabeau’s brothers founded the firm of Francois Menet et Cie., silk manufacturers
