Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 10 - Section IV
IV. Carbonnel.
The pedigree of this family is in Heralds’ College, London, has been brought down to the year 1694, and continued to 1711. It might, I believe, be continued further, but being a Norman family, it is possible that its representatives may think that they “came with the Conqueror.” My impression is (as our facetious weekly visitor, Punch, would say) that they came by another boat.
The parent stem is designated Carbonnel, Signeur de Chassagia et de Souzdevae (Normandie). The first person named is Nicolas Carbonnel, Vicomte de Constantin, who, with Guillametta de Constantin, his wife, belonged to the parish of Marigni. His son was Thomas, merchant of Caen, who, by his wife, Marie, daughter of Jaques Carrel, a gentleman of Caen, was the father of three sons and six daughters. The sons were Jean, Guillaume, and Michel. Jean was for a time one of the secretaries to Louis XIV., and he had one son, Jaques, and one daughter, Marie; it is doubtful if he or his children were ever in England. The same may be said of Michel Carbonnel of Caen, merchant, who had four sons, all represented in the pedigree as having died unmarried, except the second, named Daniel.
Guillaume Carbonnel, however, was among the refugees and merchant strangers in London. He married in the parish church of St. Antholin, on 22d May 1654, Elizabeth, only daughter of Jean de Lillers and Anne Maurois. The five daughters of this respected couple died unmarried before 1694. But there were seven sons, six of whom grew up, and occupied good positions in life. The eldest son, John Carbonnel, of London, merchant, married Sarah, daughter of Edmund Sawyer of Haywood, Berkshire, who died 13th January 1702 (n.s.), leaving an only child, William, who was living in 1711. The marriage of the second son, Thomas, also a merchant in London, is recorded, to Mary, daughter and co-heir of Richard Ailey; he had two daughters, Mary and Frances — also an only son, Thomas, who, with his father, seems to have been alive in 1727; for the Historical Register notes, “1727, May 13, Thomas Carbonnel, jun., Esq., appointed Sword-Bearer of the City of London, in the room of Isaac Man, Esq., deceased.” William and Michael, the third and fourth sons of the elder Thomas were merchants, the latter at Cadiz. David Carbonnel, Esq., the fifth son, was, in 1694, one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to King William III. Peter, the sixth son, died young, before 1694. MrDelillers Carbonnel, the seventh son, seems to have been the most eminent member of the family; he was a merchant in London, and frequently elected a Director of the Bank of England; I have noted his election in the year 1722, 1723, 1724, and 1728. John Carbonnel, Esq., formerly Deputy of Aldgate Ward, died on 28th November 1729. In May 1734, Mr Carbonnel, Commissioner of the Salt Office, died.