The Dumaresq family was a patrician family in the Channel Islands with a particularly strong presence in Jersey. The family held many offices and positions throughout the history of Jersey from the 13th century.[1][2]
Origins
editThe family is said to come from Norman origins where the original members of the family arrived in Jersey;[3] however, the family is first mentioned in Jersey during the year 1292 on the Exchequer, 21 Edward I, where it mentions a Jordan Du Maresq who was a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey.[4]
Titles
editThe Dumaresq family held the following titles:[5][6][7][8][9]
- Seigneur of Augres
- Seigneur of La Haule
- Seigneur of Samarès
- Seigneur of Vincheles de Bas
Notable members
edit- Rev. Daniel Dumaresq FRS[10]
- Rear-Admiral John Saumarez Dumaresq CB, CVO
- Elias Dumaresq, 5th Seigneur of Augres
- John Dumaresq, Seigneur of Vincheles de Bas
- Lieutenant Colonel John Dumaresq
- Elias Dumaresq, 3rd Seigneur des Augres
- Sir John Dumaresq
- Captain Philip Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samarès
- Captain Philip Dumaresq (Captain of HMS Victory)[11]
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dumaresq (1792–1838)
- Elizabeth Dumaresq (wife of Sir Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales)[12]
- Admiral Thomas Dumaresq (1729–1802)[13]
- Thomas Dumaresq, Seigneur of Vinchelez de Bas and of Gorge
- Henry Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samarès
- Charles Dumaresq, Lieutenant Bailiff of Jersey (1712–1713)
- Captain William John Dumaresq (1793–1868)
- Captain Edward Dumaresq (1802–1906)
- Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq KSS
- James Dumaresq
- Edward Dumaresq
- Dandelle Marie Dumaresq (1636–1694), mother of Rear Admiral Thomas Le Hardy and great-grandmother of Wenman Coke, ancestor of the Earls of Leicester, Sarah, Duchess of York, the Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, the Earls of Dartmouth and the Earls Howe.[14]
References
edit- ^ Payne, James Bertrand (1859–1865). Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediaeval antiquities of the island. University of California Libraries. [Jersey].
- ^ Hans, N. (1961). "Dumaresq, Brown and Some Early Educational Projects of Catherine II". The Slavonic and East European Review. 40 (94): 229–235. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4205333.
- ^ "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1863.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1868). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison.
- ^ Office, Great Britain Public Record (1895). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]. H.M. Stationery Office.
- ^ Quesne, Charles Le (1856). A Constitutional History of Jersey. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
- ^ Dumaresq, Samuel J. (1996). Our Story. Split Cedar Press.
- ^ Chappell, Liz (2017). "Searching for Saumarez". Australian Garden History. 29 (2): 8–11. ISSN 1033-3673. JSTOR 26391607.
- ^ Appleby, John H. (1990). "Daniel Dumaresq, D.D., F.R.S. (1712-1805) as a Promoter of Anglo-Russian Science and Culture". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 44 (1): 25–50. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1990.0003. ISSN 0035-9149. JSTOR 531584. S2CID 142992548.
- ^ "Philip Dumaresq (d.1819)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Woollacott, Angela (1 March 2015), "Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections", Settler Society in the Australian Colonies, Oxford University Press, pp. 12–36, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641802.003.0002, ISBN 978-0-19-964180-2, retrieved 22 October 2021
- ^ "Thomas Dumaresq". more than Nelson. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ "Lord Sherborne" ISBN 0615139248 by E.K. Vyhmeister
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