Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 18 - Section X
X. Cazenove.
The noble family of De Cazenove is well known to genealogists. The Protestant refugee branch was recognised as such in 1790 by the undoubted chief of the house, M. Pierre De Cazenove, Seigneur de Pradines, resident at Marmaude on the Garonne, in the Province of Guienne (see D’Auriac and Acquier’s Armorial de la Noblesse de France, vol. v.). The head of this branch was a French Protestant of the sixteenth century (there was a Pasteur de Cazenove at Defau in Languedoc in 1568). The pedigree of the English Cazenoves begins with Charles de Cazenove, born about the end of the sixteenth century, whose son, Pierre, married Elizabeth Gaussorge about 1633. Their son, Charles (born 1634), removed from Guienne to Anduze; it was he who dropped the aristocratic “de” from his surname on entering upon business. Charles Cazenove died in 1699; but before that date, his family having been scattered by the Edict of Nantes in 1685, his son, Pierre Cazenove, had become a refugee in Geneva. There, on 15th June 1697, he had married Marie Plantamar, of Chalons-sur-Saône. On 21st April 1703 Pierre Cazenove and his two sons, Jean and Philippe, were enrolled as burgesses of Geneva. The eldest son, Jean, is the head of the Cazenoves in America.
After 1703 M. Pierre Cazenove of Geneva had a third and a fourth son, named Theophile and David. Theophile married Marie, daughter of the illustrious Paul de Rapin, Seigneur de Thoyras, and founded the Cazenoves of Holland; his son Frederick, however, was naturalized in England in 1772. David, born at Geneva in 1711, married, in 1737, Charlotte Marie Faure, and had fifteen children, three of whom settled in England — John, Charles-Henry, and James. Only one of these brothers left descendants — namely, James (born at Geneva in 1744), who married Marianna Houssemayne Du Boulay, and had four sons, Henry (born 1792, died unmarried), James, John, and Philip. Of these, James married Miss Knapp, and had, with other children, Edward and Frederick; and Edward’s son, Edward Cazenove, Esq. (born 1856), is now the head of the Cazenoves in England.
John married Miss Gibson, and is represented by his son, Rev. John Gibson Cazenove, D.D., Chancellor of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Philip, born in London in 1799, was educated at the Charterhouse School. He commenced business in partnership with Mr. Menet. This Mr. Cazenove had a long and prosperous career as a stockbroker, and died 22nd January 1880 in his eighty-first year. He was distinguished for unflinching integrity and intelligent devotion to business, combined with a high tone of sentiment and feeling. His leisure time was occupied with works of benevolence and charity. He was forward and generous in subscriptions to Church Societies, to hospitals, and to beneficent undertakings generally. His large hearted and substantial liberality will long be remembered in many quarters, and especially in the Anglican Church. He married Miss Emma Knapp, and had a large family; his son Henry has served as high Sheriff of Buckinghamshire; another son is Rev. Arthur Cazenove (born 1832), Vicar of St. Mark’s, Reigate, and Rural Dean, Honorary Canon of Rochester.