refugees. He not only kept up the family name, but also brought the blood of the noblesse into the family, by his marriage. He married, on the 17th Dec. 1595, Marie, daughter of Jacques de Semery, Seigneur de Camas; the Princess Catharine of France was present at the marriage, and the royal castle of Follembray was granted for the ceremony. John Crommelin had fifteen children, of whom two daughters and three sons survived. The daughters were Mary, wife of Peter Lombard of London, and Catherine, wife of Abraham Desdeuxvilles of London. The sons were Peter, John, and Adrien. Peter Crommelin (born 1596, died about 1680) married Marie Desormeaux of Cambray, and left seven children, one of whom, Samuel, by his wife, Madelaine Testart, had twenty-two or twenty-three children, the eldest daughter among these being named Anne. John Crommelin (born 19th March 1603) was the direct ancestor of our refugees. We pass from him in the meantime, to mention his younger brother Adrien, who married at Charenton, on the 11th August 1641, Susanne Doublet. He had two daughters, Marie and Jeanne; the former was married (in 1667 or 1668) to Jean Pigou of Amiens; she with her husband and family lived in that town till the Revocation, when they took refuge in England. Anselm Frederick Pigou, their son, married, in 1709, his cousin Catherine, daughter of John Camin. Jeanne Crommelin was married at Paris, about 1669, to Francis Ammonnet; this couple escaped into England with great wealth in 1681; the husband died, and their wealth was dissipated partly through the speculative mania of her second husband, James Dufay. We now return to John Crommelin.
John Crommelin married, in 1623, Rachel, daughter of Guilleaume Tacquelet of Castalet, and had fifteen children,[1] of whom I now mention only Anne, and Louis, the eldest son. Anne (born 1636) was married to Isaac Cousin of Meaux; both became refugees at Lisburn. Louis (born 1625, died 1669) married Marie, daughter of Jean Mettayer, one of the pasteurs of Haucourt, and their son was the great Louis Crommelin, the refugee, of whom at present we note only the fact, that he married his cousin, already named as one of the twenty-two or twenty-three brothers and sisters, Anne Crommelin of Haarlem. [One of Anne’s brothers, named Alexander, after a sojourn at Hamburg, settled in Lisburn. And a sister, Jeanne, was married there to Louis Mangin.]
Other children of John Crommelin and Rachel Tacquelet are worthy of some notice. William (born 25th April 1645) settled in Ireland. Jacob (born 26th May 1642) married Elizabeth Testart in 1663; he had a daughter, Marianne (who married James Courtonne of Alencon, refugee in London), and a son, Daniel, who in 1693 became a tutor in England to Mr. Vernon’s son, and having remained with him for three or four years, settled in Ireland without a profession. Daniel (born 28th December 1647), who married Anne Testart in 1674, was a refugee, first in England, finally in New York. Mary (born 5th March 1627) was married to Daniel de la Chambre of Haarlem, from whom descended John de la Chambre, refugee in London, the husband of a Miss Laurent. Catherine (born 20th June 1632) was married to Francis De Coninck of Antwerp; her daughter, Catherine, was the wife of John Camin of Rouen, and the mother of Captain Camin in the British army, and of Mrs Anselm Pigou (above-mentioned); her son, Frederick Coninck, married, in England, Mary Camin, daughter of Louis Camin of Abbeville. Rachel (born 21st July 1634) became, in 1656, the second wife of Pierre Testard, merchant in Saint-Quentin; her daughter, Susan, was married in 1686 to Daniel Robethon, a French refugee; and another daughter, Anne, was married in 1681 to Jean Benezet. [P. Testard married a third wife, Anne Baulier, and her daughter Marianne was married, first, to Francois Ribot (drowned in the passage from London to Rotterdam); secondly, to Monsieur de Rapin.]
Louis Crommelin, the distinguished refugee, had two sisters, Mary and Jane. Mary was married, first, to Isaac Testard of Blois, a refugee in London, and, secondly, to Major de la Cherois. Jane was married to Abraham Gillot of Alencon; this couple at the Revocation took refuge in Amsterdam, and ultimately settled at Lisburn. The brother of Louis was Samuel Louis Crommelin; he with Judith Truffet his wife resided at Saint-Quentin till the Revocation, when they retired to Amsterdam. He, being left a widower, came to Lisburn with his sons, and there married a second wife, Louise Adelaide, sister of Major-General Belcastel. The eldest son of Samuel-Louis married his first cousin, daughter of the above-named Abraham Gillot, and the second son, Daniel, married also a first cousin, daughter of the above-named Isaac Testard.
The patrimony of Louis Crommelin (as of each of his brothers) was £10,000.
- ↑ Jacob (born 26th May 1642), the author of the old pedigree, was the tenth child.
