Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Delmege
Delmege. — A prosperous and well-connected family in the county of Limerick, the heads of which have long resided in Rathkeale, descends from a Huguenot refugee of Alsace, who left France at the Revocation epoch. Their surname is variously spelt, Delmege, or Dolmage. The first on record is a grandson of the refugee, known as Adam Dolmage of Rathkeale; his eldest son Julius was born in 1772, and married Susanne, daughter of Monsieur de Gorrequer, a French emigrant at the period of the first French Revolution, said to be a descendant of the Comtes de Morlaix. The next chief of the family was Julius (son of Julius), born in 1800, married in 1833, and died in 1868, whose eldest son, Julius de Gorrequer Delmege, was a Colonel in the Persian Army, and knight of the Lion and Sun, but died unmarried. Thus the headship of the family devolved on the second son, Austin, born in 1838, who still survives and has several sons. Austin Dolmage, Esq., was formerly of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers; he subsequently, as a volunteer in the Italian army, earned the knighthoods of SS. Maurice and Lazard, and of the Corona of Italy. (The first on record, Adam, had younger sons, named Tobias, Christopher, James, and John, who have representatives; of these, John was rector of Bannagher and prebendary of Droughta, father of John Evans Dolmage of Montgraigue, and of Adam William Stafford Dolmage, barrister-at-law.)