Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Comarque
Comarque.
This refugee family, which sometimes spelt its name De Comarque or De Comarc, can be traced backwards to France by the help of Quick’s “Synodicon.” French names were not spelt by Quick with literal accuracy, but often with alterations, so as to give Englishmen an idea of the French pronunciation. In a list of ministers of the Reformed Church of France in 1637, he gives “John Comarc,” pasteur of Verteuill, Russet, and Castel-Renaud in the Colloquy of Angoumois. At the National Synod, which met at Alengon on 27th May 1637, one of the clerical deputies from the Provincial Synod of Xaintonge, was “John Commarc, pastor of the church of Verteuil.” Opposite his name Mr. Quick, writing in 1692, gives a marginal note, There be two of his sons ministers and exiles here in England. Here, however, I must leave a blank, and come to grandsons. Nichols informs us that there were two brothers (probably sons of one of the refugee ministers). He thus describes them:—
(1.) Rev. David Comarque, educated at Canterbury, entered Bene’t College, Cambridge, in 1717; B.A., 1720; M.A, 1726; Rector of West Halton, Lincolnshire, married, 23rd January 1723, a daughter of the late Peter Reneu, Esq. (See under Wandsworth in this chapter).
(2.) Reynald Comarque, student of physic at Cambridge, M.B. and M.D., 1728. (He is twice named among the subscribers to Laval’s History in 1737 as “Dr. De Comarc,” and “Mr. Comarques, M.D.,” and is evidently the same person as the Director of the French Protestant Hospital, “René de Comarque, M.D.,” elected on 5th April 1738).