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Ann Colladon = Charles Montagu.
Rt. Hon. Frederick Montagu, of Papplewick,
born 4th January 1726, died 30th July 1800. A Lord of the Treasury in 1782 under the
Marquis of Rockingham, and in 1783 under the Duke of Portland. He was made a Privy Councillor on 14th April 1783.
Will proved at York, 5th Sept. 1800.
Anne Montagu born 1728, died 12th Sept., 1786. = Very Rev. John Fountayne, D.D., Dean of York, born 1714, died 1802.
Elizabeth Fountayne, born 1st April 1762, married 5th Feb. 1781, died 10th January 1786. = Richard Wilson of Rudding Hall, Yorkshire,
born 31st Dec. 1752, died 7th June 1787.
Richard Wilson, Esq., born 9th June 1782, died in 1847.
He was “of Ingmanthorpe and Melton on the Hill.”
Assumed the name of Fountayne
before Wilson, 20th July 1803.
= Sophia, daughter of George Osbaldeston, Esq., married 3d Oct. 1807.
Andrew Fountayne Wilson, Esq., third but eldest surviving son, born 12th June 1815. He dropped the surnames Fountayne and Wilson, and assumed the surname of Montagu only, by Royal License, dated 27th Feb. 1826, and is the present Andrew Montagu, Esq. of Papplewick, Melton Park, and Ingmanthorpe.

Collyer.

The ancient surname of this family was Cholar. They reappear as Walloon nobles, Barons de la Prée, and of the household of the Dukes of Hainault, with the surname of Le Carlier. In the days of Duke Alva there were two brothers, the elder of whom, having continued a Roman Catholic, was known as Thomas Le Carlier dit le Remy, Baron de la Prée. In 1572 he left his property to a younger brother, who had become a Protestant, on the condition that he recanted. The seat of the family was in the neighbourhood of Cambray. The Protestant brother, who refused to recant, dropped the prefix Le, and there were Protestant Carliers of Artois and Colliers of Picardy, believed to be of his stock. In the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, there is a census of Foreign Protestants in London, and under date 1567 there is entered a Walloon family residing in Cripplegate : —

“Jehan Collyer; Marie, his mother; Marie, his wife; Jehan, his son; Peter, his son; Abigaill, his daughter,” and four servants.

The official scribes in those days wrote y in preference to i — as Gabryell for Gabriel, Rychard for Richard, &c. It has been ascertained that the younger Jehan married, and had four daughters. Peter, also, has been identified; he was a member of the Grocers’ Company of London, and was buried at Camberwell. Jehan was an arras-weaver, and was in partnership with a Remy (a remarkable fact); and Strype, in his “Annals,” notes a Collyer of Artois and a Remy of Hainault. The next individual who comes to view is Nathaniel Cholier, yeoman of the Fishmongers’ Company, evidently recognized by that intelligent and powerful corporation as of Foreign Protestant descent, and (if so) probably a son, or grandson, of Peter Collyer, of the Lansdowne MS. He seems to have died at a comparatively early age in 1669 (his wife Ruth having survived till 1692), so that we conjecture him to be a grandson of the son Peter, of the Protestant Walloon refugee family of 1567. After Nathaniel Collier, or Cholier, all is clear. The following is an abridged pedigree:—