Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - De la Condamine

2911421Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - De la CondamineDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew

De la Condamine. — Andre de la Condamine, Coseigneur de Serves (born 1560), left a son, Jean (born 1583), a lord of the bedchamber. Jean was the father of Gabriel and Antoine — from the latter descended the litterateur De la Condamine. Gabriel de la Condamine (born 1606) had a son, George, father of Andre and Charles-Antoine; the latter was Colonel of the Regiment de Piedmont, and he conformed to Romanism. André de la Condamine of Nismes (born 1665) continued a Huguenot. He married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Agerre de Fons; continuing to reside in France, they submitted for many years to much persecution, although they could not altogether elude some outward conformity to Romish worship, as they formally and humbly acknowledged in the year 1719. The fury of their adversaries, breaking out without restraint after the Peace of Utrecht, made them resolve to fly, along with their four sons and three daughters. The third son, Jean, was persuaded by his military uncle to remain with his regiment, and he founded a French Romanist family at the Chateau de Pouilly, near Metz; and his eldest brother, Pierre, afterwards returned to France, and also became a Roman Catholic. But, according to their resolve, the parents and six children fled in the year 1714; the two youngest were Jean Jacques (born 1711), and Marthe (born 1713). The fugitives set out from the family mansion, near Nismes, and experienced great sufferings and privations in their perilous journey, travelling by night, and concealing themselves by day, until they reached St. Malo, whence they crossed to Guernsey. In that island two sons and three daughters grew up as British subjects; of these, one son and two daughters died in London unmarried; Martha died in Guernsey in 1787, aged seventy-four, and Jean Jacques founded a family; it was in 1764 that he died, aged fifty-three, leaving by his wife (née Mary Neel, of Jersey) a daughter, Mary (Mrs. Bowden), and a son John (born 1763, died 1821), King’s Comptroller, or Advocate-General, and Colonel of the 1st or East Regiment of Guernsey Militia. Colonel de la Condamine, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Coutart, Esq. of Guernsey, was the father of five sons and two daughters, namely, John de la Condamine, Esq. (born 1792), William (born 1795, died 1854), Captain Thomas de la Condamine (born 1797), who married Miss Janet Mary Agnew of Cairn Castle, Robert Coutart de la Condamine, Esq. of Edinburgh (born 1800, died 1870), James (born 1803), Mary (born 1788, died 1840), wife of Captain David Carnegie, late of the 102nd Fusiliers, and Elizabeth (born 1790, died 1847).