Dumaresq family

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]}

Dumaresq arms

Origins

The 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

The 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

Rev. Daniel Dumaresq FRS

Notable members

• 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

Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq

Charles Dumaresq, Lieutenant Bailiff of Jersey

• 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

1. 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].
2. 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.
3. "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1863.
5. Burke, Bernard (1868). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison.
6. Office, Great Britain Public Record (1895). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]. H.M. Stationery Office.
7. Quesne, Charles Le (1856). A Constitutional History of Jersey. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
8. Dumaresq, Samuel J. (1996). Our Story. Split Cedar Press.
9. Chappell, Liz (2017). "Searching for Saumarez". Australian Garden History. 29 (2): 8–11. ISSN   1033-3673. JSTOR   26391607.
10. 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.
11. "Philip Dumaresq (d.1819)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
12. 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
13. "Thomas Dumaresq". more than Nelson. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
14. "Lord Sherborne" ISBN 0615139248 by E.K. Vyhmeister