Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - Marescaux
Marescaux.
This is an established French surname, but is never spelt correctly in the French Registers. I observed one near approach to accuracy — viz., Marescau; also an error of redundancy, Marescaulx. The first of the name in England was naturalized as Peter Morisco, of Lisle, on 1st November 1663; it usually was spelt Marisco, or Maresco. This immigrant became a wealthy man, and is chiefly known as the father of two heiresses, Mary, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Le Keux, and Jane, wife of Edmund Jones. The latter seems to have had a son, Edmund Jones, who died unmarried, and a daughter and heiress with a fortune of £20,000, who assumed the name of Marescaux (or Marescoe, as the Historical Register spells it), and gave her hand, in July 1735, to Richard Arnold, Esq., attorney. As instances of the occurrence of the surname we quote the following announcements:—
Birth. 6th January 1868. — At Kingston, Jamaica, the wife of Oscar Mariscaux, Esq., General Inspector of the Colonial Bank, of a daughter.
Marriage. 31st December 1868. — At St. Peter’s, Eaton Square, London, by the Rev. Edward Carr Glyn, Captain Sidney Carr Glyn, Rifle Brigade, son of George Carr Glyn, Esq., to Fanny, youngest daughter of Mons. Adolphe Marescaux, of St. Omer, France.