Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Addée

2915603Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - AddéeDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew


Chapter XXVII.

GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS.

Addée.

Some notes on this family are in the new edition of La France Protestante, which has as yet proceeded over only the threshold of the alphabet. The first date is October 1627 — the time of the death of Emmanuel Addée, Sieur du Petit-Val; his widow, née Marie Berger (daughter of the Councillor Pierre Berger), died aged seventy, and was buried at Charenton on 30th August 1648. They had two sons, Louis and Samuel; the former was styled Le Sieur de Grand-Champ, and was the father of Anne Addée, baptized 2nd May 1649, who was married in 1769 to Lieut.-Colonel Isaac de Monceau de Melonière (as already stated); she had a sister, Susanna, baptized 3rd July 1660, who died a refugee in England in 1688.

There was also a Frederic Addée, of Metz, gentleman, born 1679, who came to London, received £22 from the Royal Bounty in 1721, and settled in Ireland. I find in the register of Hungerford French Church, London, the marriage, on 31st December 1695, of Daniel Addée, Esq., Captain in Miremont’s Dragoons; he became a Colonel in our army. Perhaps he is the same man as Daniel, born in Lorraine, son of Hillaire Addée, and naturalized by Act of Parliament in 1713.

I may here inform genealogists that in the Gleanings from Registers in my Historical Introduction, there is a great deal of material capable of being worked up, as to 1685 and nearly half a century thereafter. I noted, as far as visible, every military officer (one naval officer), every minister, and every medical man. As to other registers (i.e. not French), I noted some interesting entries which I cannot guarantee to belong to French refugee biography, although perhaps throwing some light upon it.