Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Delacherois-Crommelin
Delacherois-Crommelin. — This family is genealogically De la Cherois and monumentally Crommelin. With regard to the De la Cherois ancestry, the reader must remember that we have disposed of only the eldest son of Samuel De la Cherois and Sara Cornière. There was a second son, Captain Nicholas De la Cherois, of the 9th Regiment, but he left no descendants. The third son, Samuel De la Cherois (born in 1744), is the ancestor of the Delacherois-Crommelins.
The necessity for a monument to the Crommelins arose from the failure of male representatives. Louis, the Royal Overseer, left no surviving son; his brother, Samuel Louis, married at St. Quentin, Judith, daughter of Daniel Truffet and Judith Coulliette, and had four sons, whom we shall account for in four columns:—
Samuel-Louis | Daniel | James | John (born 1689) |
married — first, Anne, daughter of Abraham Gillot and Jeanne Crommelin, and granddaughter of Louis Crommelin and Rachel Tacquelet; married — second, Henriette, daughter of Louis Mangin and Jeanne Crommelin, and granddaughter of Samuel Crommelin and Madelaine Testart. He left many daughters and three sons, Samuel, Abraham, and Alexander, all without male heirs. Alexander’s daughter Mary was the wife of Daniel De la Cherois. | married Marie Madelaine (born 1694), only daughter of Major Nicolas De la Cherois and Marie Crommelin, and had three sons, Nicolas, Daniel, and De la Cherois, the last surviving male heirs of the Crommelins, representing their grandfather, Samuel Louis, sen., and their maternal grandmother, Marie, sister of the great Crommelin. | married Esther, daughter of Abraham Gillot and Jeanne Crommelin, and had eight daughters. | (tutor to the Earl of Drogheda) married Esther, daughter of Elie Blaquiere and Catharina Crommelin, and granddaughter of Abraham Crommelin and Marie Boileau. He had three daughters and a son, Isaac. This family left Ireland and settled in Rotterdam. |
Of the Crommelins of last century, Daniel emigrated to New York, and his descendants to the East Indies. During the Indian mutiny the name was honourably represented among British officers. Of these I have no definite information; but I observe in the Army List Lieut-General William Arden Crommelin, C.B., of the Royal Engineers (late Bengal), and Lieut.-Col. J.A. Crommelin, officer of H.M. Indian Forces, retired on full pay; and of the young generation, Lieutenant Clarence Yule Crommelin.
The monument erected by Lady Mount-Alexander may be displayed thus:—
Jean Crommelin, Lord of Camas |
= | Marie de Semery, died 1644. |
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Jean Crommelin, died 1659. |
= | Rachel Jacquelet, died 1686. |
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Louis Crommelin, died 1669. |
= | Marie Mettayer. | Abraham Crommelin, died 1673. |
= | Marie Boileau, died 1711. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louis founder of the Linen Manufactory, his son died young. |
Samuel-Louis | = | Judith Truffet. | Marie | = | Major De la Cherois. | Marie Angelique died 1710. |
= | Daniel De la Cherois, late Governor of Pondicherry, died 1732. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marie Angelique Madeline, Countess of Mount-Alexander. |
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Daniel Crommelin. | = | Marie Madelaine De la Cherois, born 1694. | Marie Madelaine De la Cherois, born 1694. | = | Daniel Crommelin. | Daniel Crommelin. | = | Sara Corniere. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nicolas Crommelin of Carrowdore, died unmarried. |
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De la Cherois of Ballywilliam, &c. | Samuel De la Cherois, junior, succeeded Nicolas Crommelin of Carrowdore, whose surname he assumed, and became Samuel De la Cherois Crommelin, Esq. of Carrowdore. |