Claude Fonnereau
Claude Fonnereau (22 March 1677,[1] La Rochelle – 5 April 1740, Hoddesdon) was a French Huguenot refugee who settled in England and became a prominent merchant.[1][2] He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in England.
In 1735 he purchased Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford.[3]
He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1738 to 1740.
Family life[]
Claude was the son of Zacharie Fonnereau and Marguerite Chataigner.[1] He married Elizabeth Bureau, also a Huguenot, the daughter of Anne Bureau, and had several children:[1][4]
- Thomas Fonnereau (1699–1779), a merchant and politician, who inherited his father's estates, including Christchurch Mansion
- Dr. Claude (or Claudius) Fonnereau (1701–1785), who inherited Christchurch Mansion on his elder brother's death
- Elizabeth Frances Fonnereau (born 1702), who married James (Jacques) Benezet, also from a Huguenot family, who had settled in London[5][4]
- Abel Fonnereau (1703–1753)[4]
- Anne Fonnereau (born 1704), who married Philip Champion de Crespigny (1704–1765),[6] also from a Huguenot family, who had settled in Camberwell,[7] and was the father of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 1st Baronet, and Philip Champion de Crespigny
- Zachary Philip Fonnereau (1706–1778), a merchant and politician who was the father of Philip Fonnereau and Martyn Fonnereau and grandfather of Thomas George Fonnereau
- Peter Fonnereau (1709–1743)
- Marie Anne (born 1711), who married John Martyn
- Elizabeth (born 1712), who married Mr. De Hauteville[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Agnew, Rev. David C. A. (David Carnegie Andrew) (1886). Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears. p. 400.
- ^ Namier, L.B. (October 1927). "Brice Fisher, M. P.: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Merchant and His Connexions". The English Historical Review. 42 (168): 514–532. doi:10.1093/ehr/XLII.CLXVIII.514. JSTOR 552412.
- ^ "History | Ipswich Borough Council".
- ^ a b c d Lart, Charles Edmund (1967). Huguenot Pedigrees. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-0207-2. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ "Benezet family papers 1729-1839". quod.lib.umich.edu. University of Michigan. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
- ^ Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Fonnereau
- ^ "Champion de Crespigny family". www.southlondonguide.co.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
Categories:
- 1677 births
- 1740 deaths
- Huguenots
- People from Ipswich
- French emigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain
- 18th-century English businesspeople
- People from La Rochelle
- People associated with the Bank of England