| Jaques Chassereau | = | Marianne. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francois Chassereau born at Niort in 1698. | = | Anne Johannot of Eynsford. | Antoine Chassereau married 1727. | = | Esther Larcher. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francois Chassereau born 1729, died 1767. | = | Honor, 3rd dau. of Robert Williams, Esq. | Anne, bapt. at Le Temple, Soho, 12th April 1732, born 30th March. | Esther, born 1734. | = | Hugh Burgess, Esq. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francis Chassereau, born 1765, died 1834, left no heirs. | Anne Chassereau born 1755, married 1785, died 1804. | = | Captain Robert Pouncy, H.E.I.C. | Elizabeth Chassereau born 1758, married 1784, died 1829. | = | Rev. Thomas Coombe, D.D., Chaplain to Geo. III. and Prebendary of Canterbury. Born in Philadelphia in 1747. Came to England in 1778 as a loyalist refugee. Died 1822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anne Pouncy | = | Sir George Rose, b. 1782, d. 1873. Judge in the Court of Review, and Master in Chancery. | Rev. Thomas Coombe, M.A. Cantab. Rector of Girton, born 1796, married in 1818, Anne Maria, dau. of Melchior Henry Wagner, Esq., died 1876. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(See the Chassereau Pedigree, by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.)
Comarque.
This refugee family, which sometimes spelt its name De Comarque or De Comarc, can be traced backwards to France by the help of Quick’s “Synodicon.” French names were not spelt by Quick with literal accuracy, but often with alterations, so as to give Englishmen an idea of the French pronunciation. In a list of ministers of the Reformed Church of France in 1637, he gives “John Comarc,” pasteur of Verteuill, Russet, and Castel-Renaud in the Colloquy of Angoumois. At the National Synod, which met at Alengon on 27th May 1637, one of the clerical deputies from the Provincial Synod of Xaintonge, was “John Commarc, pastor of the church of Verteuil.” Opposite his name Mr. Quick, writing in 1692, gives a marginal note, There be two of his sons ministers and exiles here in England. Here, however, I must leave a blank, and come to grandsons. Nichols informs us that there were two brothers (probably sons of one of the refugee ministers). He thus describes them:—
(1.) Rev. David Comarque, educated at Canterbury, entered Bene’t College, Cambridge, in 1717; B.A., 1720; M.A, 1726; Rector of West Halton, Lincolnshire, married, 23rd January 1723, a daughter of the late Peter Reneu, Esq. (See under Wandsworth in this chapter).
(2.) Reynald Comarque, student of physic at Cambridge, M.B. and M.D., 1728. (He is twice named among the subscribers to Laval’s History in 1737 as “Dr. De Comarc,” and “Mr. Comarques, M.D.,” and is evidently the same person as the Director of the French Protestant Hospital, “René de Comarque, M.D.,” elected on 5th April 1738).
Debonnaire.
Jean Debonnaire was a refugee from St. Quentin in or about 1685 in London, as was his grown-up son, Pierre. The father appears in Threadneedle Street on 31st March 1688 as a widower, to be betrothed to Esther L’Epine, also of St. Quentin, whom he marries on April 16. His first wife’s name was Marie de la Cour; she was the mother of the above-named Pierre Debonnaire, a silk-weaver, who married in 1687 in the English Church, Esther Saint-Amand, a native of Paris, daughter of Matthieu St. Amand, silk-weaver, whose Will was proved at London, 18th July 1690. This couple were the parents of Marie, baptized in the beginning of 1688, and Ester in the following December, and of Pierre, baptized 24th May 1691; they had another son, John Debonnaire of Bromley, distiller, who died in 1747; and other two daughters, Esther, wife of Paul Nicholas Savignac, and Elizabeth, wife of Peter Lefebure. Pierre Debonnaire, the refugee, died in 1732. Pierre, born in London, became Peter Debonnaire, merchant in Lawrence Lane, and died 1733,
